The Dalek Conquests ( audio story ) The Dalek Conquests is a BBC Radio - produced retrospective on the Dalek s from their first appearance in TV : " The Daleks " in 1963 to their ( then ) most recent appearance in the television story " The Parting of the Ways " in 2005 . It was released by BBC Audio as a 2 - CD set in 2006 , with a running time of approximately 2 hours , 35 minutes . The documentary is narrated by Nicholas Briggs with audio clips taken from every televised Dalek story in both the classic and revived series ( except for incidental references and the 1996 TV movie ) up to the end of the 2005 season , which are used to summarise the events of the various stories ( this includes audio taken from several stories , including " Mission to the Unknown " , which do not exist in complete film / video form in the BBC Archives ( although most of the soundtracks have been released by BBC Radio and BBC Audio in the past ) ) . The documentary is presented in a partly in - universe style , as if the BBC have sent a crew to investigate Henry van Statten ' s now - sealed facility in Utah , the Vault , at some point after the year 2012 . The fiction of the production holds that the BBC is also aware of such events as the Last Great Time War , the Doctor ' s ability to regenerate , etc . Publisher ' s summary . The Daleks have a long and terrible history of aggression , and are among the most feared of all science fiction monsters . Ruthless , cunning , and utterly evil , they have no pity , no fear , and will stop at nothing to destroy all other forms of life . Now Nicholas Briggs - the voice of the Daleks in the BBC ' s " Doctor Who " TV series — goes deep underground to a deserted base in Utah to unearth the truth about the most nightmarish creatures in the universe . Packed with extracts from the Daleks ' many TV appearances , " The Dalek Conquests " finds out where they come from , why they are bent on universal domination , and what part they played in the Time Wars . Above , all it explores their epic struggles with their nemesis , the Time Lord known as the Doctor . Featuring clips from such classic stories as " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " , " Day of the Daleks " , " The Planet of the Daleks " [ " sic " ] , " Genesis of the Daleks " , and the 2005 episodes " Dalek " and " The Parting of the Ways " , this CD pieces together the mysterious jigsaw that is the history of the Daleks . This is essential listening for Dalek fans — and foes — new and old . Plot . In the mid - 2010s , a BBC Radio documentary crew visit the remains of an underground vault in Utah where a Dalek incursion took place several years earlier ( TV : " Dalek " ) . A narrator describes the scene and discusses past recorded encounters between the Daleks and a mysterious individual known as the Doctor . Cast . Nicholas Briggs narrates the documentary ( which also includes sound clips of him performing the Dalek voice from the revived series ) . Sound clips feature the following major cast members ( in approximate order of appearance ; list is not complete ) : Crew . " to be added " Notes . Clips featured . The documentary includes sound clips ( sometimes extensive ones ) from the following stories ( in order of first appearance as some stories are excerpted more than once throughout the production ) :