Blood of the Time Lords (audio story)

Blood of the Time Lords
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Main enemy:	The Master
Main setting:	The Recusary
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Timothy X Atack
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Jamie Robertson
Cover by:	Ryan Aplin
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Release number:	11.1
Release date:	16 March 2022
Format:	2 CDs Download
Production code:	BFPTOMCD080
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-061-9 (digital)
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Blood of the Time Lords was the first story of the Fourth Doctor Adventures audio anthology Solo, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Timothy X Atack and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and James Dreyfus as the Master.

Publisher's summary

The book known as The Dischord Grimoire is an incredibly powerful tome, believed capable of altering the true passage of time itself. And the Doctor has it in the TARDIS.

Wanting to look into this mysterious opus further, he decides to take it to an old friend in The Recusary – a monastery-like retreat on a moon of Gallifrey.

But he’s chosen an inauspicious time to arrive. Something else is visiting the Recusary. And this something hasn’t brought a book with it...but death.

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Eminent Sedanya - Annette Badland
• Cobal Thark - Susan Kyd
• Ansillon - Adrian Lukis
• Honorable Loric - Christopher Naylor
• Elanora - Emma Noakes
• The Master - James Dreyfus

References

• The Doctor speculates that the Master is currently in his second or third regeneration.
• Gibbons are only native to Earth.
• The Recusary has grown extensively over the moon.
• In their youths, the Doctor and the Master removed their birth names from time, all but them two forgetting them.

Notes

Alternate cover.

• This story was recorded on 8 and 16 May 2017 at Audio Sorcery, several years before Big Finish severed ties with James Dreyfus due to controversial remarks Dreyfus had made on Twitter regarding trans rights.
• The Doctor says Ansillon has gone by many names and originally knew the Doctor when he lived as a hermit on a mountain, and Ansillon notes that he's familiar with the circumstances of the Doctor's previous regeneration, implying he is K'anpo Rimpoche and/or the Stranger on Mount Perdition. Ansillon also identifies himself as having been the guardian of the Caves of Perdition.

Continuity

• The Doctor calls out to Sarah Jane Smith (TV: The Hand of Fear) and mentions saving Gallifrey mere hours ago, (TV: The Deadly Assassin) noting it's not the first time he saved it. (TV: The Three Doctors)
• He remembers his last time in front of a Codal Office inquiry brought about regeneration and exile. (TV: The War Games)
• The death of a Time Lord is meant to be preceded by confessions in which they make their peace. (TV: The Witch's Familiar Hell Bent)

External links

• Official Blood of the Time Lords page at bigfinish.com