Since 2018, BBC Physical Audio has been releasing a series of one-disc original-to-audio dramatic readings starring pre-Jodie Whittaker Doctors; the range began with Paul Magrs’s Fourth Doctor tale The Thing from the Sea, and has continued with instalments featuring the…
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Time Lord Victorious is a gigantic Doctor Who story running across innumerable tie-ins: novels, comic books, comic strips, audiobooks, audio dramas, a cartoon, even an escape room. Big Finish’s contribution begins with a pair of Short Trips about the Master,…
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I had to listen to Grace Knight’s Short Trip, These Stolen Hours, as it stars the best-ever Doctor Who audio companion, India Fisher. Fisher narrates a first-person story of Charley Pollard — the frame is set during Charley’s time as a…
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I pick and choose with my Short Trips, and I almost always choose anything read by Peter Purves, who established himself as a masterful reader in The Companion Chronicles, and continues to do strong work in The Early Adventures. John…
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2020’s season of Doctor Who: Short Trips debuted with The Infinite Today, a Sharon Bidwell-penned story featuring Jo Jones (née Grant) in her Sarah Jane Adventures-era world crusader phase. Jo is trying to fly on an aeroplane to Mexico —…
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God Among Us 2 ended with apocalyptic events for Torchwood specifically and Cardiff in general; God Among 3 opens up some months later, with Cardiff struggling to recover on its own. (The UK government sure does seem to abandon Cardiff…
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Missy returns for a second Big Finish box set. Despite some missteps, I enjoyed the first set a lot, so I was really looking forward to Series Two, which brings back a few concepts from the first set, and introduces…
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Big Finish’s War Master range is surely one of its most exciting “gets”: one of Britain’s greatest actors, apparently happy to come in and ham it up in front of a mic every few months for Big Finish. In an…
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The Human Frontier is Big Finish’s most recent “original” production, a gritty science-fiction from the pen of Nick Briggs, a man who has made gritty science-fiction his speciality in the Doctor Who universe in stories like Sword of Orion, Embrace…
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Like many Big Finish series concepts, The First Doctor Adventures is never so great that I feel enthusiastic about picking up the next volume, never so terrible that I swear off picking up another one. Part of the problem is…
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Peter Purves reads Una McCormack’s tale of the First Doctor and Steven, Peace in Our Time. The Doctor and Steven must prevent alien intervention in British military history prior to the Great War. A lot of the story is told…
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Jaine Fenn’s Hall of the Ten Thousand brings back my favourite, and my first, audio Doctor/companion team, with India Fisher narrating a story of the Eighth Doctor and Charley. While this team is usually solid, and Fisher does her usual…
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The Astrea Conspiracy by Lizbeth Myles is a Short Trip featuring the Twelfth Doctor, narrated by Neve McIntosh — who plays Madame Vastra, though she has nothing to do with this story. The story is told from the perspective of…
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Collections of four one-part stories used to be an annual staple of Big Finish’s Doctor Who main range, but the tradition was skipped in 2018, and arguably 2017’s Time in Office doesn’t count either. 2019 brought it back, however, with…
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Big Finish’s Doctor Who “main range” — its collection of two-disc stories going back to 1999 — is finally coming to an end. It’s a weird thought. The whole way I got into Big Finish was typing “doctorwho.co.uk” on a…
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