The Minister of Chance (series)

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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".^[1] 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".

Stories[]

Audio[]

Five one-hour audio stories and a ten-minute prologue were released from 2011 to 2013. The episodes were later remastered, split into four parts, and re-released as a weekly podcast from 5 October 2020 to 23 February 2021. The Pointed Hand, a prologue to the series, introduced Paul McGann as Durian and Sylvester McCoy as the Witch Prime.

#	Title	Author	Featuring	Released
0	The Pointed Hand	Dan Freedman	Durian, the Witch Prime	13 July 2012^[2]
1	The Broken World		Minister of Chance, Kitty	13 January 2012
2	The Forest Shakes			13 January 2012
3	Paludin Fields			20 July 2012
4	The Tiger			1 March 2013
5	In a Barque on the River Hex			17 May 2013

Film[]

A video adaptation of the prologue was released in October 2014^[3] to promote a Kickstarter for a full film adaptation of The Minister of Chance,^[4] but it ultimately failed to meet its fundraising goal.^[5]