The Minister of Chance (series)

The Minister of Chance was a series of fantasy audio and video stories written by Dan Freedman and produced and released by Radio Static. The series centered on the eponymous Minister, who was introduced in Freedman's Seventh Doctor webcast Death Comes to Time, and his involvement in court intrigue on the planet Thea.

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". 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".

Publisher's summary
A world not our own: Kitty is a barmaid in the occupied city of Tantillion. When a stranger arrives looking for an outlawed scientist, her curiosity is piqued, so she follows him into the forest. When he constructs a doorway to another world it is piqued further, so she follows him across the Frost Bridge and into a terrifying land where the laws of physics themselves are broken.

Audio
Five one-hour audio stories and a ten-minute prequel were released from 2011 to 2013. In 2020, the episodes were remastered and re-released as a podcast, with each episode split into four parts. The Pointed Hand, a prologue to the series, introduced Paul McGann as Durian and Sylvester McCoy as the Witch Prime.

Film
A video adaptation of the prologue was released in October 2014 to promote a Kickstarter for a full film adaptation of The Minister of Chance, but its ultimately failed to meet its fundraising goal.

Book
A novelisation of The Minister of Chance was announced in 2016, and was eventually released in 30 June 2022 by Arcbeatle Press.

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