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Big Finish Productions audio play
The Beautiful People
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	4
Featuring	Romana II
Writer	Jonathan Morris
Director	Mark J Thompson
Production code	BFPDWCC04
Set between	Nightmare of Eden and The Horns of Nimon
Release date	5 February 2007

The Beautiful People is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The four Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.

Plot

The Doctor and Romana find themselves at The Vita Novus Health Spa in the 32nd century.

Cast

• Lalla Ward - Romana II
• Marcia Ashton - Karna

Notes

• This story, set during Doctor Who's 17th season, when Douglas Adams was the programme's script editor, contains several references to Adams' work: the Doctor claims that he and Romana are researchers for "a well-known guide for the space traveller on a budget", and saves the day with a towel.
• The Doctor's list of notable people who have attended Vita Novus includes "evolutionary biologists" and "tired TV producers". Lalla Ward, who plays Romana and reads this story, is married to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and "tired TV producers" were on the Golgafrincham B Ark in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
• An early Second Doctor serial had the working title The Beautiful People, but was later renamed The Dominators.

External links

• Big Finish Productions - The Beautiful People
• The Beautiful People at the Doctor Who Reference Guide