Producer David Richardson said: "One of the joys of The Audio Novels is that they allow us to explore avenues which are tragically closed off. I absolutely loved working with both Mary Tamm and Trevor Baxter at Big Finish, and losing both of them was a great tragedy.

"We had such fun making The Justice of Jalxar, and I would have loved to make more full-cast adventures with the Fourth Doctor, the First Romana, Jago and Litefoot. So The Lord of Misrule is a tribute to them and the happy times we had together, so beautifully written by Paul Morris and performed by the glorious Jon Culshaw."

Jon Culshaw said: "I loved revisiting Jago and Litefoot. Since The Talons of Weng-Chiang, they’ve become known as such a force, such a team. The absolute charm of them – their great friendship, their warmth, their rapport, their knockabout energy, their mischief – they're a beautiful double act, almost a Victorian Morecambe and Wise."

Author Paul Morris said: "It’s always a joy to write for Jago and Litefoot, even in prose form. But one thing that is slightly different, although I can still hear the voices of Trevor and Chris as these characters, knowing that it wouldn’t be performed by them, it did give me some freedom to split the characters up, which was necessary to tell a story over this length.

"I had one Jago and Litefoot idea which I came up with back when we were working on the original series and never used. I was very impressed by the film Midnight in Paris, where the young writer is taken back to the 1920s; he meets all his heroes and finds they aren’t as enamoured of their era as he is, they look back to an earlier era.

"I thought that type of story would work very well for Litefoot, because he has a touch of the melancholy – he’s a very thoughtful man, and in some ways old-fashioned, even when we see him in what to us is the historical Victorian era. I’d long wondered what would happen if a similar magical taxi – a magical barouche in this story – took him back to an earlier era."

Script editor Roland Moore added: "The attraction of this story is that not only is it set in two time periods, it’s quite timey-wimey in the way it uses that, it’s got a modern series sensibility to it. And what Paul’s done brilliantly is revel in the language of Jago, Litefoot, and the Fourth Doctor. He’s absolutely nailed those characterisations and it’s a joy to hear them talking to each other. It’s really like a lost adventure."

Jon Culshaw