Producer Jonathan Morris said: "It's now three months since the Visitors arrived – and life has changed. There are petty criminals exploiting the shortages of food and medicine, like Elwyn Taylor. There are those willing to collaborate to preserve their social status, like chemical plant owner Eleanor Dupres.

"And there are even romances - Robin and the charming young Visitor officer Brian, and Harmony and the bumbling but well-meaning Visitor technician Willy. Not all these stories end well. Meanwhile, the resistance finally find out the Visitors’ real reason for coming to Earth...

"With these three episodes, the story moves into darker territory, as V UK explores the nature of those who choose to resist, and those who choose to collaborate."

Creator Kenneth Johnson added: "Jonathan Morris and his entire team of writers, actors, music and sound artists are doing a splendid job of capturing in their excellent audio productions the essence of what I created in the original four-hour miniseries.

"It's particularly delightful to have the character of Willy back onboard. Robert Englund, who originally played the character, has said repeatedly how Willy was pivotal in jump-starting his very successful career. Willy was one of my favourites and continues to be - courtesy of Big Finish."

Jack Myers, who plays Mike Donovan, said: "It was lovely to be back in this world. I had an absolute blast on the first three that we did, so to be able to come back for a second go of it is a joy.

"These three episodes are a little different to the first three – we're meeting Mike well into his journey of discovering who these Visitors are, and his story is now about finding his son. And this pursuit is driving him to a much darker space than we’ve seen him before. It’s interesting and a little bit scary, because a supposedly good man is drawn to doing quite dark things.

Jon Culshaw joins the cast as Willy, a fan-favourite character from the classic TV series. "I remember V on the television in the early 1980s," Culshaw said. "There was a flavour of Logan's Run to it, and of Quatermass. It was more unnerving, it psychologically set you on edge.

"Willy is very much on a voyage here. He starts out serving the overlord characters, these ruling alien creatures. But there’s a lot of empathy in Willy, and there is much that he has not liked, that he can’t honestly hold comfortably in his alien heart. And so we see these fractures."

Alan Cox, Abigail Cruttenden, George Naylor, Andrew James Spooner

Sam Stafford, Hannah Brown, Andrew James Spooner, Louise Faulkner, Annabel Baldwin

Tom Kiteley, Harriet Kershaw, Jason Forbes, Mark Elstob, Jon Culshaw