Big Finish have followed up on the release of last year’s Torchwood One: Before the Fall with another prequel box set from prior to the Battle of Canary Wharf. This time it’s Torchwood One: Machines, featuring the long-awaited return of,…
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Big Finish’s monthly Torchwood range winds down its fourth set with one final pair of releases, Instant Karma and Deadbeat Escape. As seems common for any two releases in this range, one focuses on a major character from the show…
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This is it! Resurrecting the Past is the beginning of the end for the Bernice Summerfield range’s big story. Going all the way back to The Mirror Effect, we first learned that Irving Braxiatel was up to something, an impression…
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I’ve mourned the loss of The Avengers: The Lost Episodes from Big Finish’s slate of productions, so I was intrigued when Callan was announced. I’d never even heard of the programme, to be honest, but it too seemed to be…
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Secret Origins brings the tenth series of Bernice Summerfield to a close, as Benny tracks down the kidnapper of her son Peter: her long-time arch-nemesis Frost. But thankfully, she’s got her long-time sidekick Robyn with her as always, ready to…
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This year’s The Eighth Doctor: The Time War box set sees the injection of some new writing talent into the Eighth Doctor. It’s the first Eighth Doctor box set to not solely be written by John Dorney and Matt Fitton…
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In Venus Mantrap, Bernice Summerfield finally makes it to Venus in order to acquire the financial estate of Jason Kane, in a story about as tonally different from Absence as one could get. While Absence was a gloomy, introspective piece,…
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Following the events of Glory Days, Bernice and Peter Summerfield are off to Venus to collect the financial legacy of Jason Kane. There’s just one problem: they’ve run out of money and ended up trapped on a place with so…
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Yet another new licence has come to the tie-in factories of Big Finish Towers, with Fire With Fire, the first Star Trek audiobook from the company. It’s a reading of a 2016 German novel in the Prometheus subseries by Bernd…
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Joseph Lidster’s The Siege of Big Ben brings the greatest-ever Doctor Who character to the Short Trips line: Camille Coduri’s Jackie Tyler. The Siege of Big Ben gives us a peek into Jackie’s life on “Pete’s World” following the events…
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James Goss’s Ghost Mission was one of the successes of the second series of Torchwood audio dramas, pairing my favourite Andy Davidson with a corrupt Torchwood operative from the 1950s thanks to transtemporal holography. Samuel Barnett’s Norton Folgate returned in…
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After no small delay, the third of 2017-18’s audio versions of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds is finally out. Like BBC Radio 4’s adaptation and Big Finish’s The Martian Invasion of Earth, Sherwood Sound’s The Coming of the…
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The Diet of Worms by Matthew Sweet rounds off the ninth series of Bernice Summerfield. After the events of The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel, Benny and Peter have been reunited, and Benny is looking for work, applying for a…
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It’s been almost four years since I last listened to a regular Bernice Summerfield audio drama; I left off back in 2014 with 2008’s Beyond the Sea, which relaunched the series off in a new direction. Bernice has fled the…
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In 2015, BBC Books re-released a number of older historical novels under the banner The History Collection; this was later followed up by audiobooks of some of these books. Among these audiobooks was Human Nature by Paul Cornell, one of…
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