History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho074LIVE34

* CloningBlues: Technically, Jaeger is victim of this.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The entire audio adventure is done in NewsReel broadcasts.

* ASpotOfTea: And it got ''cold''.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Inside the radio's scrambling, a bit of the Creator/SylvesterMcCoy era intro is heard.

LIVE 34 broadcasts independent news on colony 34, all day, every day. Host Drew Shahan calmly describes the bombings that have taken place earlier. Government property has been destroyed, and there are reports of bodies found in the rubble. Charlotte Singh, on site, interviews Resident Doctor, the leader of the newly formed political party -- the FDP. Although non-approved parties are not allowed on 34, Resident Doctor plans to force elections and remove premier Jaeger from office. Elections have been illegal for five years -- all for safety reasons, of course, since resources are running out and the colony needs political stability. The Doctor refuses to claim responsibility for the bombings and points out that the dead bodies have not been independently confirmed. He just wishes that whoever was responsible would have ''waited'' just a while longer. He addresses Shahan directly and commends him on his independent journalism, adding that he ''knows'' Shahan wants to ask more probing questions about the current regime. In reaction to the bombing, Jaeger announces that people believed to have ties to LaResistance will be arrested and interrogated -- simply for the protection of the people, of course. Still, Jaeger can't stop the elections, much as he'd like to avoid political instability in this time of need.

* CallBack: Hex mentions having [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest been raised by his grandmother]].
** A certain other audio adventure released [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho073ThickerThanWater the same month]] sheds light on as to why.

* MythologyGag: The Doctor mentions that it's not usually the monsters "hiding behind the sofas". A phrase very commonly tied in with Series/DoctorWho is that kids would hide behind sofas because of scary monsters.

* MostAnnoyingSound: One of the scramblings ends on a single prolonged beep.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Colony 34 is very xenophobic, and team TARDIS faces quite a bit of discrimination and difficult questions for being off-worlders. Hex even moreso, because of his extremely thick Scouse accent (which the TARDIS' TranslatorMicrobes translate into a colony 48 accent, not something you'd want to be associated with on 34). As it turns out, the xenophobia was [[spoiler: instigated by the government, so that off-world workers wouldn't be welcome in the main city. If they lived on the outskirts, no one would notice they'd gone missing...]]

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Jaeger's double]].
* BigShutUp: The Doctor has to pull this REPEATEDLY on the EvilIsHammy [[spoiler: premier Jaeger]], who keeps trying to go on tyrades. Luckily Creator/SylvesterMcCoy is a LargeHam himself.
* [[spoiler:BoardToDeath]]
* BodyDouble: Jaeger has several. [[spoiler: The "real" Jaeger is one.]]

* [[spoiler: CloningBlues]]: Technically, Jaeger is victim of this.
* ContinuityNod: Ace mentions having met [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho036TheRapture her brother]].

* [[spoiler: HumanResources]]
* KnightInSourArmor: Charlotte Singh.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Audio example, after each broadcast segment. One of those moments is an agonising beeping sounds that goes on for ''much'' too long.
* LowerDeckEpisode: The entire story is told on the LIVE 34 radio channel, and we never find out what the perspective of team TARDIS is beyond what they tell the journalists. Even the theme song is missing, although a few notes from it can be very briefly heard in the radio static.
* MadBomber: Ace begins bombing just slightly sooner than the Doctor had anticipated... and is immediately followed by a number of bombings that ''did'' take lives, and which she's accused of also having been responsible for. She knows she's being framed, but accepts responsibility for having paved the way for that with her initial attack.

* SummonBiggerFish: [[spoiler: The Doctor makes good use of people thinking he's been assassinated. It gives him a chance to contact the interplanetary colony cops, arrange for new orders to be given to all of fake Jaeger's guards, and debrief Charlotte Singh and set her up as the interim leader. All long before TheDenouement]].

LIVE 34 reports that Charlotte Singh has been fired. The channel is under new regime, now more tightly controlled by the government to prevent senseless fearmongering. Shahan apologises for any distress that may have been caused by the "Live with..." segment some days prior. he reports on the weather and the increased political tension, as well as reactions to the accidental death of Resident Doctor two days before. Premier Jaeger won the election by a landslide -- over 80% -- and as the polls are drawing to a close, the colony is celebrating. Jaeger addresses his loyal voters and reveals his gift to them: the Rebel Queen herself, led before the people. Ace has given her confession and claimed responsibility for the bombings, sounding utterly broken. The crowd, cheering for Jaeger, decide to execute her right then and there. Ace tries to speak, but is almost too ill to make a sound. The few words she does utter, though, are so damning -- she's been drugged, Jaeger had her tortured -- that Jaeger slaps her across the face.

* MythologyGag: The Doctor mentions that it's not usually the monsters "hiding behind the sofas". A phrase very commonly tied in with DoctorWho is that kids would hide behind sofas because of scary monsters.

* BigShutUp: The Doctor has to pull this REPEATEDLY on the EvilIsHammy [[spoiler: premier Jaeger]], who keeps trying to go on tyrades. Luckily SylvesterMcCoy is a LargeHam himself.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Inside the radio's scrambling, a bit of the SylvesterMcCoy era intro is heard.

* ThisTropeIsBleep: When Ace gets interviewed, lots of her dialogue is bleeped out because it contains stuff Big Brother doesn't want people to know.