The Minister of Chance (series): Difference between revisions

The eponymous main character, the Minister of Chance, is portrayed and characterised consistently with his debut appearance in ''Death Comes to Time''. Although in this series he was played by [[Julian Wadham]] rather than [[Stephen Fry]], initial promotional material for the series explained this by describing him as a "defrocked [[Time Lord]]" "now in his second [[regeneration]]".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120222121719/http://ministerofchance.com/ '''''The Minister of Chance''''' website via the Wayback Machine]</ref> The events of ''Death Comes to Time'' are alluded to as a tragedy in the Minister's past, and following from the Seventh Doctor's revocation of his [[TARDIS]] in that story, the Minister travels through time and space by "the scientific [[formula for doors]]".

Now in [[Second Minister of Chance|his second regeneration]], defrocked [[Time Lord]] The [[Minister Of Chance]] finds himself saddled with '[[Kitty (The Broken World)|Kitty]]', an '[[assistant]]' he apparently cannot get rid of - and perilously entangled in the court intrigues and military [[politics]] of a [[Tanto|forest planet]] on the brink of [[war]]. [[Sylvester McCoy]], [[Paul McGann]] and [[Paul Darrow]] join [[Julian Wadham]] (''The Iron Lady'') and [[Lauren Crace]] (''[[EastEnders (series)|EastEnders]]'') in an audio adventure that will take you to a spectacular world where [[science]] is heresy and [[magic]] is law...