Blood of the Time Lords (audio story)

Blood of the Time Lords was the first story of the eleventh series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Timothy X Atack and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and James Dreyfus as.

Publisher's summary
The book known as The Dischord Grimoire is an incredibly powerful tome, believed capable of altering the true passage of time itself. And the Doctor has it in the TARDIS.

Wanting to look into this mysterious opus further, he decides to take it to an old friend in The Recusary – a monastery-like retreat on a moon of Gallifrey.

But he’s chosen an inauspicious time to arrive. Something else is visiting the Recusary. And this something hasn’t brought a book with it...but death.

Part one
The Doctor walks around the TARDIS reciting poetry and, three miles from the console room, comes across a miscellaneous room and finds the Dischord Grimoire, a book supposedly capable of altering the true passage of time. He takes it to the smallest moon of Gallifrey for a second opinion as he is concerned about keeping objects of immense power on board and is led to the Recusary by Honourable Haku.

In the Shriving Chambers,, disguised as a Cohort, chokes Honourable Ailgen and kills her with his Tissue Compression Eliminator. Ansillon dictates a testament for the High Council, Keeper and Chief Librarian Elanora informing them of her sudden disappearance and resulting panic given that she is the third to vanish. He is interrupted by Elanora and told of the materialisation of an unauthorised TARDIS, which he tells her to investigate and move.

A fire breaks out in the library and the Doctor and Haku find themselves running in circles trying to flee. They run into Elanora and the Doctor knocks over the shelves like dominoes to dampen the flames, after which the Cohorts are able to put out what flames remain with buckets of water. Ansillon is forced to arrest the Doctor for abduction, murder and arson and send him to Gallifrey, but Haku suggests exposing him to the time winds in the meditation chambers to ensure that he tells the truth. Meanwhile, Elanora has the Cohorts deal with the damage caused to the books and the library.

The Doctor is escorted to the precipice by Cohorts and confesses that he is completely responsible for what has happened; he admits to starting the fire and killing the missing people by rewinding their timelines, all with the aim of destroying the cosmos.

Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Tom Baker
 * - James Dreyfus
 * Elanora - Emma Noakes
 * Ansillon - Adrian Lukis
 * Eminent Sedanya - Annette Badland
 * Codal Thark - Susan Kyd
 * Cohort 1 / Honourable Ailgen - Jane Slavin
 * Cohort 2 / Honourable Loric - Christopher Naylor

Continuity

 * The Doctor calls out to Sarah Jane Smith (TV: The Hand of Fear) and mentions saving Gallifrey mere hours ago, (TV: The Deadly Assassin) noting it's not the first time he saved it. (TV: The Three Doctors)
 * He remembers his last time in front of a Codal Office inquiry brought about regeneration and exile. (TV: The War Games)
 * The death of a Time Lord is meant to be preceded by confessions in which they make their peace. (TV: The Witch's Familiar, Hell Bent)