The Lady of Mercia
Story Number: 173 (BF)No of Episodes: 1
Writer: Paul Magrs
Director: Ken Bentley
Starring: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton
Big Finish Release (United Kingdom):
First Broadcast: Friday 31st May 2013
Running Time: 2 hours
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa to the University of Frodsham, close to where the warrior queen Æthelfrid fought a desperate and bloody rearguard action against the savage Danes. Over a thousand years later, in 1983, battle is still being raged, with student activists taking on savage funding cuts… and disrupting a conference about Æthelfrid convened by history professor John Bleak