Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, or simply Charley, is a fictional character played by India Fisher in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, many of which were broadcast on BBC Radio 7, based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A young woman from 1930s England, she is a companion of the Eighth Doctor. Charley's final story with the Eighth Doctor was in the play The Girl Who Never Was, however this play ended with the Sixth Doctor's version of the theme tune. The play The Condemned confirmed that Charley was rescued by the Sixth Doctor and she continued to travel with this incarnation until Blue Forgotten Planet. Big Finish continued the character's later traveling in her own audio series, Charlotte Pollard, which had two volumes released in 2014 and 2017. Character overview Charley was born on 15 April 1912, the day the Titanic sank, and first appears in the play Storm Warning (2001). Storm takes place in 1930, making her 18 years old at the time. She is born into a well-to-do family; her mother is Lady Louisa Pollard and two sisters, Margaret and Cecelia, are mentioned. Charley and her siblings grow up in a manor house in Hampshire, looked after by servants. However, Charley rebels against this existence and, styling herself an Edwardian adventuress, runs away from home seeking excitement. Making an appointment to meet a young man in Singapore on New Year's Day 1931, she stows away on board the Airship R101 disguised as a male member of the crew. There, she meets the Doctor and together they discover the secret mission the airship is on. At the conclusion of the story, she is rescued from the fated crash of the R101 by the Doctor and taken on board the TARDIS as his newest companion. There are consequences to the Doctor taking Charley on board, however. According to history, Charley was supposed to die in the R101 crash and the Doctor's rescue of her causes a temporal paradox. After a while, the Web of Time begins to break down as anachronisms seep into history and "anti-time" starts to infect the universe, with Charley as both focus and gateway. The Time Lords of Gallifrey take notice, and Lord President Romana gives orders to arrest Charley and the Doctor. Charley is willing to sacrifice herself to save the universe, but the Doctor is unable