The Minister of Chance

I was quite surprised when someone told me that the next episode of The Minister of Chance was going to be the last one. Surely not — it seemed like this was a long buildup to a quick resolution if…

The Tiger is the fourth full episode of The Minister of Chance, the audio spin-off of Death Comes to Time starring Julian Wadham as the “defrocked Time Lord”. This is the first episode of 2013, and hopefully we’ll get more…

The problem in the release strategy — if there even is one — of The Minister of Chance is quite plainly revealed in Paludin Fields. It’s been seven months since I listened to the prologue and first two episodes of…

My sense that The Minister of Chance was hitting several familiar story beats from Death Comes to Time was only heightened by its second full episode, The Forest Shakes. In this episode, the pacifist Professor Cantha ends up in a…

The Broken World is the first full episode of The Minister of Chance, and our first opportunity to hear Julian Wadham play this new incarnation of the Time Lord, taking over from Stephen Fry, who played the previous incarnation in…

I’m a big fan of Death Comes to Time, the 2001-02 webcast that recast Doctor Who as a sprawling, interplanetary, operatic epic along the lines of Babylon 5, Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings. But even so, I…