UNIT: The Coup

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Big Finish Productions audio play
Album cover
The Coup
Series UNIT
Release number Prologue
Writer Simon Guerrier
Director Ian Farrington
Producer(s) Ian Farrington
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Set between before UNIT: Time Heals

UNIT: The Coup is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It stars Nicholas Courtney reprising his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the former commander of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce). The Coup was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine #351 as a prologue to a four-part mini-series. The Coup occupies the first thirteen tracks on the CD, the thirteenth to twenty-first being occupied by Silver Lining, and the twenty-second to thity-third occupied by promotions for various Big Finish Productions Doctor Who and Bernice Summerfield audio plays.

[edit] Plot

(From the CD sleeve) As London faces the return of the Silurians, the UK branch of UNIT is preparing to shut down.

[edit] Cast

  • Colonel Emily Chaudhry - Siri O'Neal
  • The Brigadier - Nicholas Courtney
  • Silurian Ambassador - Matthew Brenher
  • Captain Andrea Winnington - Sara Carver
  • Sergeant French - Mark Wright
  • Corporal Ledger - Joseph Lidster
  • Scott Cartwright - Scott Andrews
  • Francis Currie - Micyhaekl Hobbs

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