Publisher's summary
"How much for just the planet?"
Gallifrey is ruined. The great and good of her once-mighty Capitol gather in disease-ridden shanty towns outside its walls. Her 'friends' in the temporal powers anticipate her total collapse and the beginning of a new galactic order.
The Time Lords' latest president has a drastic scheme to restore this world to its former glory -- but can a cure for all Gallifrey's ills really be found in the hands of entrepreneur, adventurer and self-confessed swine Mephistopheles Arkadian?
And what of the Lady Romana? Exield to her ancestral house of Heartshaven, she's about to uncover the greatest threat that Gallifrey has ever faced, one that might yet cause the Time Lord race to become extinct...
Plot
to be added
Cast
- Former Lord President Romana - Lalla Ward
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- K9 Mark II - John Leeson
- Irving Braxiatel - Miles Richardson
- Coordinator Narvin - Sean Carlsen
- Chancellor Valyes - Steven Wickham
- Lord President Matthias - Stephen Perring
- Mephistopheles Arkadian - Hugo Myatt
- Captain Henzil - John Dorney
- Acting-Castellan Annos - Dickon Tolson
- Commander Janartis - Charlie Ross
- Surgeon-Master Elbon - Paul Gruert
References
- Taranium is mentioned by Arkadian.
- Braxiatel takes Narvin, Romana and Leela to his collection using a Time Scoop.
- The Daleks are implied to be the real brains behind Free Time and the "big threat" to Gallifrey.
- Leela makes reference to the Time Lords having "thirteen lives".
Notes
- Arkadian's communicator device plays a variation of the iconic default Nokia ringtone; when questioned by Valyes, he claims it as an original composition.
Continuity
- Arkadin attempts to goad Narvin by remarking that he is "the only senior Time Lord who wasn't Lord President this week." This refers to the fact that the office had recently been held by Romana II, Pandora, Valyes (in an acting capacity), Romana again, Irving Braxiatel and finally Matthias in rapid succession. Furthermore, Romana, Matthias and Darkel were vying for the position before Braxiatel assumed the office and appointed Matthias as his successor. (AUDIO: Imperiatrix, AUDIO: Fractures, AUDIO: Warfare, AUDIO: Appropriation, AUDIO: Mindbomb)
External links
- Official Panacea page at bigfinish.com
- Panacea at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
