The Lady of Mercia was the second story in the 2013 Fifth Doctor audio trilogy. This story was set in 1983, making it contemporous with the TV stories of this era.
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!
Plot[]
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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 - Peter Davison
Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
Vislor Turlough - Mark Strickson
Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
Professor John Bleak - Anthony Howell
Dr Philippa Stone - Abigail Thaw
Queen Æthelfrid/ Dr Angeline Duchamp - Rachel Atkins
Princess Ælfwynn/Molly Wright - Catherine Grose
Arthur Kettleson/Barry - Kieran Bew
Earl of Wessex/Professor Fester - Stephen Critchlow
References[]
Tegan notes that she and Professor Bleak are both from 1983.
Notes[]
This story was recorded on 7 and 8 January2013 at The Moat Studios.
Continuity[]
Turlough refers to Dr Sa Yy Findecker. (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane)
Turlough tells Barry that he went to Brendon Public School, not Eton. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
The Land of the Dead • Winter for the Adept • The Mutant Phase • Primeval • Spare Parts • Creatures of Beauty • The Game • Circular Time (Spring • Summer • Autumn • Winter) • Renaissance of the Daleks • Return to the Web Planet • Castle of Fear • The Eternal Summer • Plague of the Daleks • The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories (The Demons of Red Lodge • The Entropy Composition • Doing Time • Special Features) • 1001 Nights (1001 Nights, My Brother's Keeper, The Interplanetarian, Smuggling Tales) • 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men
Cobwebs • The Whispering Forest • The Cradle of the Snake • Heroes of Sontar • Kiss of Death • Rat Trap • The Emerald Tiger • The Jupiter Conjunction • The Butcher of Brisbane • Eldrad Must Die! • The Lady of Mercia • Prisoners of Fate • Mistfall • Equilibrium • The Entropy Plague
Turlough
Phantasmagoria • Loups-Garoux • Singularity
Peri
Red Dawn • Exotron • Urban Myths • Mission of the Viyrans
Peri Erimem
The Eye of the Scorpion • The Church and the Crown • Nekromanteia • The Axis of Insanity • The Roof of the World • Three's a Crowd • The Council of Nicaea • The Kingmaker • Son of the Dragon • The Mind's Eye • The Bride of Peladon
Amy
The Judgement of Isskar • The Destroyer of Delights • The Chaos Pool
Solo travels
The Sirens of Time • Omega • The Gathering • The Four Doctors • The Burning Prince • The Secret History • And You Will Obey Me
Sixth Doctor
Peri
Whispers of Terror • ...ish • Cryptobiosis • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • Recorded Time and Other Stories (Recorded Time • A Most Excellent Match • Question Marks • Paradoxicide) • 1963: The Space Race • Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories (Breaking Bubbles • Of Chaos Time The • An Eye For Murder • The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time) • The Widow's Assassin • Masters of Earth • The Rani Elite
Evelyn
The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor • The Apocalypse Element • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates • Project: Lazarus • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes • Pier Pressure • The Nowhere Place • 100 (100 BC • My Own Private Wolfgang • Bedtime Story • The 100 Days of the Doctor) • Assassin in the Limelight
Evelyn Brewster
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster • The Feast of Axos • Industrial Evolution
Frobisher
The Holy Terror • The Maltese Penguin
Charley
The Condemned • The Doomwood Curse • Brotherhood of the Daleks • Return of the Krotons • The Raincloud Man • Patient Zero • Paper Cuts • Blue Forgotten Planet
"Jamie"
City of Spires • The Wreck of the Titan • Legend of the Cybermen
Flip
The Curse of Davros • The Fourth Wall • Wirrn Isle • Antidote to Oblivion • The Brood of Erys • Scavenger
Constance
Criss-Cross • Planet of the Rani • Shield of the Jötunn
Mel
The One Doctor • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker Than Water • The Wishing Beast • The Vanity Box • The Wrong Doctors • Spaceport Fear • The Seeds of War
Solo travels
The Sirens of Time • Davros • The Wormery • Her Final Flight • I.D. • Urgent Calls • The Four Doctors • The Acheron Pulse • Trial of the Valeyard • Last of the Cybermen
Seventh Doctor
Mel
The Fires of Vulcan • Bang-Bang-a-Boom! • Flip-Flop • Unregenerate! • Red • We Are The Daleks • The Warehouse • Terror of the Sontarans
Ace
The Fearmonger • The Genocide Machine • Dust Breeding • Colditz • The Rapture • 1963: The Assassination Games • You Are the Doctor and Other Stories (You Are the Doctor • Come Die With Me • The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel • Dead to the World)
Ace Hex
The Harvest • Dreamtime • LIVE 34 • Night Thoughts • The Settling • No Man's Land • Nocturne • The Dark Husband • Forty-Five (False Gods • Order of Simplicity • Casualties of War • The Word Lord) • The Magic Mousetrap • Enemy of the Daleks • The Angel of Scutari • Project: Destiny • A Death in the Family • Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge • Protect and Survive • Revenge of the Swarm • Mask of Tragedy
Ace Benny
The Shadow of the Scourge • The Dark Flame
Sally
House of Blue Fire
Ace Hex Lysandra Sally
Black and White • Gods and Monsters
Ace Hex Sally
Afterlife • Signs and Wonders
Klein
A Thousand Tiny Wings • Klein's Story • Survival of the Fittest • The Architects of History
Klein Will
Persuasion • Starlight Robbery • Daleks Among Us
Jo
The Defectors
Solo travels
The Sirens of Time • Project: Lazarus • Master • Return of the Daleks • Valhalla • Frozen Time • Death Collectors • Spider's Shadow • Kingdom of Silver • Keepsake • The Four Doctors • Robophobia • The Doomsday Quatrain • The Shadow Heart
Eighth Doctor
Mary Shelley
Mary's Story • The Silver Turk • The Witch from the Well • Army of Death
Charley
Storm Warning • Sword of Orion • The Stones of Venice • Minuet in Hell • Invaders from Mars • The Chimes of Midnight • Seasons of Fear • Embrace the Darkness • The Time of the Daleks • Neverland • Zagreus • Scherzo • The Girl Who Never Was
Charley C'rizz
The Creed of the Kromon • The Natural History of Fear • The Twilight Kingdom • Faith Stealer • The Last • Caerdroia • The Next Life • Terror Firma • Scaredy Cat • Other Lives • Time Works • Something Inside • Memory Lane • Absolution
Solo & other travels
The Company of Friends (Benny's Story • Fitz's Story • Izzy's Story) • An Earthly Child • The Four Doctors
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