Faction Paradox - Audio

Audio

A series of full-cast audio dramas dubbed The Faction Paradox Protocols was produced by BBV between 2001 and 2004. All were written by Lawrence Miles. These stories centred around two Cousins of the Faction, Justine and Eliza. (Justine features in the BBC novel Alien Bodies and Eliza is implied to be the character Christine Summerfield from Dead Romance.) The first two stories were set in the Eleven-Day Empire, the second two in 18th Century London, and the last two split between Cousin Justine's past before joining the Faction, and the Great Houses' prison facility (analogous to Shada, the Time Lords' prison planet from the unfinished Doctor Who serial). Although there were six releases and an ongoing story, each pair (usually released close together) formed a two-part story. In order they were:

• The Eleven-Day Empire
• The Shadow Play
• Sabbath Dei
• In the Year of the Cat
• Movers
• A Labyrinth of Histories

In 2004 Magic Bullet Productions, known for their Kaldor City audio dramas, obtained the license to produce further Faction Paradox audios, dubbed The True History of Faction Paradox. The narrative of this series continued from the BBV releases, although the first CD was also written to be accessible to newcomers. Like the BBV audios, these stories focused on Cousin Justine and Cousin Eliza, but the characters were recast.

The dramas in the series, released between 2005 and 2009, have featured guest stars including Julian Glover, Peter Miles, Philip Madoc and Gabriel Woolf. Woolf plays the ancient Egyptian god Sutekh, whom he had previously played as a Doctor Who villain in the 1975 story Pyramids of Mars. The six titles are:

• Coming To Dust
• The Ship of a Billion Years
• Body Politic
• Words from Nine Divinities
• Ozymandias
• The Judgment of Sutekh