UNIT: The Wasting

The Wasting

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	UNIT
Release no.	4
Written by	Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett
Directed by	Nicola Bryant
Produced by	Ian Farrington Jason Haigh-Ellery
Length	75 minutes
Preceded by	UNIT: The Longest Night

UNIT: The Wasting 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 Wasting" is the final play of a four-part mini-series.

Plot

As a mysterious plague threatens the world's population, UNIT faces its final battle with ICIS.

An introduction to the UNIT series, UNIT: The Coup was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine #351 and is currently available to download for free from the Big Finish website.
The series sees UNIT in an ongoing battle with its xenophobic rival, ICIS.
The short story "The Terror of the Darkness" in the collection Short Trips: A Day in the Life revealed that Chaudhry and Hoffman had previously travelled with the Sixth Doctor. Their adventures continued in "Incongruous Details" (Short Trips: The Centenarian).
Colonel Ross Brimmicombe-Wood also appears in Sympathy for the Devil. "The Wasting" was recorded shortly before David Tennant started filming as the Tenth Doctor.
The Wasting is directed by Nicola Bryant, best known for playing the Fifth and Sixth Doctor's companion, Peri Brown. In this audio drama, she plays Sergeant Willis under the pseudonym "Nora Brande".

Doctor Who: UNIT stories

Television

Second Doctor

Third Doctor

Fourth Doctor

Seventh Doctor

Tenth Doctor

Eleventh Doctor

Twelfth Doctor

Thirteenth Doctor

Fourteenth Doctor

Other appearances

Major	Enemy of the Bane Death of the Doctor
Minor	Colony in Space The Mutants The Time Warrior The Seeds of Doom The Five Doctors "Aliens of London" / "World War Three" "The Sound of Drums" / "Last of the Time Lords" "Fragments" "Turn Left" "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End" Children of Earth "The End of Time" "The Bells of Saint John" "The Magician's Apprentice" "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"

Spin-offs