![]() ![]() Here, the two Carolines (Morris & Symcox) combine to give the Doctor a very real headache: for perhaps the first time I can remember, a Tardis companion openly refuses to do what the Doctor wants, choosing instead to affect the course of history for the sake of fairness and justice. This is a straight-ahead time-travel-changes-the-course-of-history play, and it is all the more effective in that the major problem is caused by Erimem’s refusal to let things lie. That makes the peril within this story all the more believable. Once again we’re in ancient history (not that The Church & the Crown was that ancient), and once again there is no alien baddie to fight. He believes he will just be doing some sightseeing, but as he and Peri and Erimem get caught up in popular riots in the city’s streets, so they stand in danger of unravelling the whole history of Christianity itself – and the biggest danger comes from Erimem herself… The Doctor arrives in Nicaea to witness the infamous Council of 325AD at which the Roman Emperor Constantine oversaw the creation of the first uniform Christian creed. The Council of Nicaea, by Caroline Symcox ![]()
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