Republica (audio story)
Republica was the first audio in BBV Productions' Audio Adventures in Time & Space anthology series, and the first of the subseries The Time Travellers. Written by Mark Gatiss, adapting his cancelled BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel Cromwell's Dust, it was set in an alternate timeline which Gatiss had seeded in his other Past Doctor Adventure, The Roundheads, tying Republica to the licensed DWU.
Unable to use the actual character of the Doctor or any of his companions, the story introduced extremely close analogues to the Seventh Doctor and Ace: "the Professor and Ace", whose space-time machine was never featured directly. Worries that they were still too close to their BBC counterparts would result in later installments in The Time Travellers giving the Professor's true name as the Dominie and Ace's as Alice.
In 2021, the story was novelised by Micah K. Spurling. This book served as the first entry in the Novelisations in Time & Space series, much as the original Republica had been the original Audio Adventure in Time & Space.
Publisher's summary
The Professor and Ace arrive in present-day London to find the city strangely changed. England is a republic, ruled by an elderly Lord Protector more interested in a mysterious comet than the long-suppressed forces of revolution fomenting in his kingdom.
As political factions vie for power, the travellers become embroiled in the plans of King Charles XIV who stands poised to reclaim the throne. Can they discover who is behind the drastic alteration of history or will the Puritan cause triumph throughout eternity?
Plot
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Cast
- The Professor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Le Compte - John Wadmore
- Devlin - Andrew Fettes
- Somerset - Bryonie Pritchard
- Lambert - Michael Wade
- Charles XIV - George Telfer
- Equerry - John Ainsworth
Crew
- Writer - Mark Gatiss
- Director - Bill Baggs
- Post-Production and Music - [[Alistair Lock]
References
- The Professor describes himself as about 950 years old.
Notes
External links
- Official Republica page at bbvproductions.co.uk
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