'The Lady of Mercia' (4 Parts) by Paul Magrs

The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa to the University of Frodsham, close to where the warrior queen Æthelfrid fought a desperate and bloody rearguard action against the savage Danes. Over a thousand years later, in 1983, battle is still being raged, with student activists taking on savage funding cuts… and disrupting a conference about Æthelfrid convened by history professor John Bleak.

Meanwhile, over in the Physics Department, Dr Philippa Stone is working night and day on a top-secret project – but can her theoretical time machine really be the solution to the university's problems?

Present and past are about to collide – and the results, as the TARDIS crew is about to discover, will be far from academic!

Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka), Mark Strickson (Vislor Turlough), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Anthony Howell (Professor John Bleak), Abigail Thaw (Doctor Philippa Stone), Rachel Atkins (Queen Æthelfrid / Doctor Angeline Duchamp), Catherine Grose (Princess Ælfwynn / Molly Wright), Kieran Bew (Arthur Kettleson / Barry), Stephen Critchlow (Earl of Wessex / Professor Fester)

Directed by Ken Bentley

Release Date:
May 2013

Notes:
*Featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough

*A Big Finish Audio Production