The Council of Nicaea is a Big Finish Productionsaudio drama based on the long-running Britishscience fiction television series Doctor Who. Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... This is a list of audio plays based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who produced by Big Finish Productions. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 p. ...
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The Fifth Doctor, Erimem and Peri travel to the city of Nicaea in 325 AD, to witness the First Council of Nicaea. However, religious fervour is running high, and theological disputes threaten to spill over into actual violence. In the midst of this, the Doctor and Erimem find themselves on different sides. Jump to: navigation, search The Fifth Doctor is the name given to the fifth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Erimemushinteperem, or simply Erimem, is a fictional character played by Caroline Morris in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown. ... Jump to: navigation, search The First Council of Nicaea, convoked by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great in 325 AD, was the first ecumenical (from Greek oikumene, worldwide) conference of bishops of the Christian Church. ...
Peter Davison (born April 13, 1951) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan to Robert Hardys Siegfried in All Creatures Great and Small and as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1981 to 1984. ... Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown. ... Nicola Bryant (publicity portrait). ... Erimemushinteperem, or simply Erimem, is a fictional character played by Caroline Morris in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The Doctor claims to be an interested but impartial observer to the religious debate, which is Constantines own position; however, as he is Emperor, the bishops keep pestering him to choose one side or the other, and hes heartily sick of it.
She questions whether the Doctor is really familiar with this era; he claims to have studied it in detail, but hes always told her that historical documents are no replacement for being there.
When the Doctor learns that Peri and Erimem have met Arius himself, he warns them that they cant risk intervening here; this is a crucial moment of history, the first time that politics and religion came together under the aegis of the Christian Church, and interfering now could change the whole of human history.
But for Erimem this is her future she is witnessing and so does not appreciate the complexities of time travel and the damage that can be caused if key historical events are changed when to one person this is the future and not the past.
The Council of Nicaea is a pure historical, and as such I’ve tried to stay as true as possible to the people involved in these events.
The contentious subject of religion in DoctorWho, particularly Christianity, might ironically have been less contentious in a sci-fi setting, but it could also have trivialised what is one of the most important moments in history.
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