The Cold Equations (audio story)

The Cold Equations was the forty-fourth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the twelfth story of season 5. It was written by Simon Guerrier and featured Steven Taylor and Oliver Harper.

Publisher's summary
In the remnant of a shattered satellite, far above the ruined planet Earth, Steven Taylor and Oliver Harper are dying. As time runs out, they face their pasts... and a secret long kept is revealed.

The borrowed time is elapsing, and they realise they are facing an enemy that cannot be defeated. The cold, hard facts of science.

Plot
About to meet their deaths, Steven asks Oliver to reveal his secret, the crime that he'd committed that got him to run away in the TARDIS. Oliver relents,

Cast

 * Steven Taylor - Peter Purves
 * Oliver Harper - Tom Allen

Continuity
to be added