Recorded Time and Other Stories

Recorded Time and Other Stories is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. As the 150th release, it is made of four one-part stories, by different authors, rather than the usual multi-part serial. All episodes feature the Sixth Doctor as played by Colin Baker and Peri Brown played by Nicola Bryant.

Main cast

• The Doctor — Colin Baker
• Peri Brown — Nicola Bryant

Recorded Time

By Catherine Harvey

1536, The Court of King Henry VIII Immortalis.

• Henry VIII — Paul Shearer
• Anne Boleyn — Laura Molyneux
• Scrivener — Philip Bretherton
• Marjorie — Rosanna Miles

Paradoxicide

By Richard Dinnick

The legendary lost world of Sendos was rumored to have the most powerful weapons in the universe. Now it is broadcasting across space in Peri's voice.

• Inquisa — Raquel Cassidy
• Centuria / Ship — Joan Walker
• Barond — James George
• Volsci — Laura Molyneux / Rosanna Miles

A Most Excellent Match

By Matt Fitton

In Jane Austen's England, Peri was seen to be courting suitors, including the Doctor.

• Tilly — Rosanna Miles
• Darcy / D'Urberville / Heathcliff — Philip Bretherton
• Cranton — Paul Shearer

Question Marks

By Philip Lawrence

The mysterious man with the question mark collar saves the crew of a stricken vessel.

• Destiny Gray — Raquel Cassidy
• Greg Stone — James George
• Arnie McAllister — Joe Jameson

Continuity

• The First Doctor also quarreled with Henry VIII, as he explained in The Sensorites.
• The Tenth Doctor was briefly married to the daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I (The End of Time, "The Day of the Doctor"), resulting in another quarrel ("The Shakespeare Code").

Cast notes

• Raquel Cassidy was in the 2011 Doctor Who television story "The Rebel Flesh" / "The Almost People".

Critical reception

Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael called the collection "excellent", identifying "A Most Excellent Match" as the "most fun", and "Question Marks" as the "strongest".^[1]

References

External links

• Big Finish Productions - Recorded Time and Other Stories