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===Audio plays===
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Romana II appeared pseudonymously in a series of audio plays produced in the early 2000s by [[Bill & Ben Video|BBV]]. In this series, Lalla Ward played a character who appeared with K9 in an unnamed parallel universe.  This character is called the Mistress (which was what K9 called Romana in the television series).  Because of an unusual copyright situation in which BBV was able to license K9 but not Romana or other ''Doctor Who'' elements, the Mistress is not explicitly called Romana.  For similar reasons, the parallel universe (obviously intended to reflect Romana's exile in E-Space) is called a "pocket universe" in the series' packaging.

In Big Finish's regular line of ''Doctor Who'' audio stories, Ward joined [[Colin Baker]]'s [[Sixth Doctor]] in ''[[The Apocalypse Element]]'', in which Romana is Lady President of Gallifrey. In the story, it is revealed that Romana II was abducted by the Daleks soon after assuming the presidential office, and remained in captivity for twenty years before making her escape, briefly reuniting with the Doctor before reassuming her post. Romana II also appears with [[Paul McGann]]'s [[Eighth Doctor]] in the 2003 remake of ''[[Shada (Doctor Who)|Shada]]'', an audio play produced by Big Finish for the BBC's ''Doctor Who'' website and accompanied by [[Adobe Flash|Macromedia Flash]] animations, and also in ''[[Neverland (audio drama)|Neverland]]'' and ''[[Zagreus (audio drama)|Zagreus]]''. More recently, she has appeared with the [[Fifth Doctor]] in ''[[The Chaos Pool]]'', the final part of the ''Key 2 Time'' trilogy, where it is revealed that Romana's regeneration was at least partly caused by her transformation into the new sixth segment of the Key to Time, the audio concluding with the segment's essence being transferred back to Astra to save Romana's life before the Doctor destroys the Key for good.

In ''Neverland'' Romana encounters the [[Eighth Doctor]] as Anti-Time infects the Universe. With other Time Lords she travels to the Anti-Verse in the hope of finding a way to stop the flow of Anti-Time. But there she is left by Co-ordinator Vansell to the Neverpeople, those the Time Lords have erased from existence, who are planning to send Anti-Time to Gallifrey. However she helps the Doctor activate the TARDIS and stop the Anti-Time. In the sequel to this ''Zagreus'', Romana II is forced to banish the [[Eighth Doctor]] from the universe as he has become a danger to it following his infection by the forces of "anti-time".  Following on from this, she is featured in a number of audio plays with former Doctor companion [[Leela (Doctor Who)|Leela]] (played by [[Louise Jameson]]) under the umbrella title of ''Gallifrey''.

In the audio series, Romana has to contend with the emergence of a terrorist group known as Free Time, which wants to break the technological monopoly on time travel and threatens not just Gallifrey, but its time travel-capable allies. Romana's progressive policies, including opening the academy to non-Gallifreyans, also face opposition from more conservative elements. Complicating this is the escape of an ancient evil called Pandora from the [[Matrix (Doctor Who)|Matrix]] in the paradoxical form of Romana's first incarnation (played once again by Mary Tamm). Both Romana and the Pandora entity proclaim themselves Imperiatrix of Gallifrey, provoking a civil war. At the war's end, Romana destroys Pandora by trapping her in the Matrix and destroying it. She is also removed from the Presidency.  With Gallifrey on the brink of economic and social collapse, as well as in danger of being overrun by a Free Time virus, Romana and her friends flee through several alternate universes.  Romana encounters many versions of Gallifrey worse than her own, before finally becoming trapped in one.  This Gallifrey is similar, but without the ability to time travel.  After their President Romana is assassinated, she assumes her identity, regaining her office, albeit in a different universe. She is eventually able to return to her universe with a cure for the Free Time virus, although the audios then lead into early strikes by the Daleks that are apparently intended to foreshadow the Time War.

Big Finish's spin-off line ''The Companion Chronicles'' has featured new performances by both Ward and Tamm in a number of stories set within their respective continuities.

Tamm reprised the role of Romana for the final time alongside Tom Baker for a second series of original audio dramas (the first series having featured Leela) set after the Key to Time era. Recorded several months before Tamm's death in 2012, the first of these, ''The Auntie Matter'', was released in January 2013, with a total of seven plays being released up until July 2013.

[[File:Juliet Landau 4.jpg|thumb|left|[[Juliet Landau]] portrayed a future incarnation of Romana in the sixth set of audio serials in the ''Gallifrey'' series]]
In July 2013 it was announced that [[Juliet Landau]] would play a future incarnation of Romana for Big Finish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/gallifrey-vi-cover-released|title = Gallifrey VI Cover Released - News - Big Finish}}</ref> This version of Romana was introduced in ''Renaissance'', the third chapter of ''Gallifrey VI'', released in October 2013, and was said to come from thousands of years in the future. This version of Romana was later reprised by Landau in the January 2014 audio drama ''Luna Romana'', part of Big Finish's ''Companion Chronicles'' line; Landau also performs the role of Romana I in lieu of the now-deceased Mary Tamm in this story, the narrative intending to present Landau's Romana as looking back on the events of her first incarnation's travels with the Doctor. To avoid confusion with her earlier self, this future Romana volunteers to use the name Lady Trey (taken from one of the middle syllables of her full name){{citation needed|date=January 2022}}. Landau returned to the role once again in ''Gallifrey: Intervention Earth'', a continuation of the ''Gallifrey'' series released in January 2015. This story is revealed in the follow-up ''Enemy Lines'' to depict what happens shortly after Ward's incarnation is forced to regenerate and sees Gallifrey on the brink of another war. However [[Irving Braxiatel]] prevents the regeneration so that these events, including the very existence of the Landau incarnation, are undone.

In November 2013 it was revealed that Lalla Ward would reprise her role of Romana II alongside former Fourth Doctor Tom Baker and John Leeson as K9 in a pair of audio adaptations of Gareth Roberts Missing Adventure novels ''The Romance of Crime'' and ''The English Way of Death'' in January 2015, to be followed by at a series of new adventures in 2016 and another in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/tom-baker-lalla-ward-and-john-leeson-return-for-new-stories|title = Tom Baker, Lalla Ward and John Leeson Return for New Stories! - News - Big Finish}}</ref> Lalla Ward also returned as Romana II in ''Gallifrey: Enemy Lines'' in 2016, ''Gallifrey: Time War I'' in 2018, ''Gallifrey: Time War II'' in 2019, ''Gallifrey: Time War III'' in 2020, and ''Gallifrey: Time War IV'' in 2021. As well as Gallifrey Romana II also featured in a series set while travelling with the Doctor and Adric in E-Space, [[Doctor Who: The Lost Stories|the Lost Story]] ''[[Doctor Who: The Lost Stories#Series 6 (2021)|The Doomsday Contract]]'', and ''[[List of Doctor Who spin off audio plays by Big Finish#Series 2: Protectors of Time (2022)|The Eighth of March 2: Protectors of Time]]''.