Dalek I Love You (radio)

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Dalek I Love You was a radio drama broadcast on the British digital radio station BBC 7. The half-hour-long play premiered on 11 February 2006. [1] It was written by Colin Sharpe and directed by Carrie Rooney.

Contents

The play follows Nigel English (David Raynor), a Doctor Who -obsessed young man who meets a strange woman named Isabella (Fiona Clarke) at a science fiction convention, and brings her home to meet his mother (Charlie Hardwick). [2]

The title is taken from the 1970s synthpop group Dalek I Love You, which itself is named in part after Doctor Who's Daleks.

On 22 March 2008, [3] a sequel, Dalek, I Love You Too was broadcast on BBC 7. [4] [5]

CD release

The story was released on audio CD on 4 September 2006, as part of a compilation of Doctor Who-inspired audio dramas entitled Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays.

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