Hello, I’m the Doctor. And, if you can hear this, then one of us is going to die. Officially the last story of the David Tennant tenure, chosen as the best Doctor in the franchise by the fan community. Tennant tells the story all by his lonesome. Dead air is told as if it were coming from a tape that was found at the bottom of the ocean, in the wreckage of the ship that plays a central role in the story.
1966 is a time when youth culture caught up with the main stream, and many established (government owned) radio stations were not prepared to play their music. Young people were listening to pirate stations instead: illegal radio transmitters in the neighbourhood, run by your classmate. There was a constant battle between the authorities and these ever popping up stations. To get past the law, these pirates were increasingly broadcasting from ships just outside of the territorial waters. Countries bordering the sea were surrounded by these ships.