Actor and author Jane Asher (The Mistress, Crossroads, Wish Me Luck) will appear alongside Tom Baker in the forthcoming Doctor Who: Fourth Doctor Adventures story, Chase the Night. Asher plays the unsentimental Pilot Dena, on a planet where daylight kills. The commander has become so obsessed with the survival of her people that she’ll do anything to save them — including taking lives. 

Doctor Who: Chase the Night is now available for pre-order as a digital download for just £12.99 from the Big Finish website. 

On being cast in this exciting Doctor Who audio drama, Jane Asher said: “Obviously, the whole franchise is extraordinary. I’ve been lucky enough to do a Sarah Jane Adventures and a Torchwood in the past, which was lovely, but this is the first sort of proper Doctor Who, with a real Doctor in attendance. It’s wonderful. 

“Tom Baker and I knew each other at the Bristol Old Vic in the late 1960s, so it’s a treat to work with him again, and with Lalla Ward, too, who I haven’t seen for a long time.”  

Doctor Who: Chase The Night features the Fourth Doctor’s companions from the early 1980s era of the television series, including fellow Time Lord, Romana (Lalla Ward), alien whiz-kid Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) and the Doctor’s robotic dog, K-9 (John Leeson).  

The story's director, Nicholas Briggs, said: “I really loved working with Jane Asher. She’s a sort of national treasure, isn’t she? I remember, I met her ages ago, back in the 1980s, when I was working in sound production, putting microphones on people for a live cookery stage show. I planted a microphone on her and she was very gracious. Needless to say, she didn’t remember that. But for me she’s a bit of a legend. I mean, she was in The Stone Tape!” 

Doctor Who: Chase the Night is now available for pre-order as a digital download for just £12.99 from the Big Finish website. It is also part of the Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 09 Volume 1 which is also available for pre-order as a collector’s edition CD or on download from £19.99.