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The British Invasion was the seventh story of the seventh season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series.

Publisher's summary[]

A huge metal dome sits by the side of the river Thames, within it is a device that might change the entire future of humanity. The Doctor, Zoe and Jamie embark on a small act of kindness but the TARDIS seems oddly unwilling to help. It's as if it knows the truth. There is something waiting here, something adaptable and cunning, gathering its strength to conquer the stars.

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Worldbuilding[]

  • In 1951, the Festival of Britain is meant to cheer people up after World War II and look to the future.
  • The Doctor has various forms of money, including chocolate money.
  • Zoe was taken from the city as a child and trained away from her family and friends. Before meeting the Doctor and Jamie, she monitored radio waves and watched the stars.
  • The Doctor mentions George VI and George III. When Jamie met him, the Jacobites were fighting George II.
  • There are husky dogs at the Festival.
  • The radio telescope uses cathode ray tubes, but messages break up in the ionosphere. It's meant to let people bounce radio messages off of the Moon.
  • He thinks the TARDIS is trying to hide anachronisms from him.
  • Jamie uses a walkie-talkie.
  • The Vardan mentions the "ancestral hymn".
  • The vanguard admires British propaganda as "Vardan genius".
  • The trapped Vardan slowly bleeds out into noise and joins the ancestral hymn.

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