Wirrn Dawn (audio story)

 was the fourth story in the third series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Nicholas Briggs and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller.

This was the first Wirrn story since 2001's Race Memory.

Publisher's summary
“This is full scale war. Wirrn and humankind locked in a deadly struggle for survival. When did that happen?”

The Doctor and Lucie land right in the middle of one of the human race's bloodiest periods of history. Trying to make a difference here would be like standing up and calling for a cease-fire on the Somme. Certain death...

Or Worse.

Survival can be a messy business.

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
 * Trooper Salway - Colin Salmon
 * Delong - Daniel Anthony
 * Farroll - Liz Sutherland
 * Winslet - Ian Brooker
 * Queen - Beth Chalmers

Crew

 * Cover Art - Simon Holub
 * Writer & Director - Nicholas Briggs
 * Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
 * Music and Sound Design - Jamie Robertson
 * Producers - Barnaby Edwards and David Richardson
 * Script Editor - Alan Barnes
 * Wirrn created by Robert Holmes

Worldbuilding

 * Earth was abandoned centuries earlier.
 * The Doctor mentions extensive fighting on the Somme.
 * The Doctor compares the Wirrn to Ichneumon wasps.

Continuity

 * The Fourth Doctor first encountered the Wirrn on the Nerva Beacon in the television story The Ark in Space) whereas the Sixth Doctor encountered them on Loch Lomond off the coast of Scotland in 16127 during the audio drama Wirrn Isle) The Eighth Doctor also encountered the Wirrn on Micawber's World in July 3999 in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel
 * Lucie mentions that she used to be "great friends with a centipede", which occured in Sisters of the Flame / The Vengeance of Morbius.
 * Ichneumon Wasps were previously mentioned by Nyssa in AUDIO: The Mutant Phase.
 * The Doctor previously met GalSec colonists in the year 16087 in the television story The Sontaran Experiment.