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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Professor George Litefoot is missing. Henry Gordon Jago hasn’t seen him. They defeated the evil alien airships together, but Litefoot didn’t come to New Year’s at the Red Tavern, and it seems like he might not even turn up to…
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We Always Get Out Alive is the latest Torchwood monthly single-disc adventure, and the latest of the post-Miracle Day/pre-Aliens Among Us adventures featuring Gwen and Rhys. This one refers to some of the aspects of rebuilding a base for Torchwood…
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Some Big Finish ranges are never exactly what I want them to be, but fundamentally solid enough that I enjoy them anyway — Counter-Measures is probably a good example of this. Others, however, always seem to dance just on the…
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Big Finish are celebrating their twentieth anniversary (yikes!) with a new line of original, download-only stories. Though these stories don’t tie into any pre-existing properties, they are stacked with familiar Big Finish talent breaking out into new formats. The first…
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As it goes on, Big Finish’s monthly Short Trips range is stretching its format more and more, from what were originally stories read by companion actors, to something more like The Companion Chronicles, albeit with more narrators who aren’t actually…
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The most recent Fifth Doctor trilogy comes to an end with Serpent in the Silver Mask by David Llewellyn. While Big Finish’s previous Season 19 stories have been somewhat sombre and serious stories in the Christopher Hamilton Bidmead / Eric…
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The best “past Doctor” stories, I think, stay true to the characters as depicted in the television programme, but place them in stories that aren’t necessarily like those of the Doctor Who of the time — there’s no reason a…
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The original Torchwood team is back! If you’ve followed my ramblings here about Torchwood over the years, you’ll know I have no particular fondness for this team, but almost everything Big Finish have done with Torchwood has been worthwhile, and…
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After the explosive events of Aliens Among Us, Big Finish’s “main” or “monthly” range of single-CD Torchwood releases returns with The Death of Captain Jack and The Last Beacon. The former includes the return of James Marsters as Captain John…
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Since 2006’s Blood of the Daleks, Big Finish have followed the life of the Eighth Doctor relatively continuously, as he travels with Lucie, then Tamsin, then Molly, and now Liv and Helen. His adventures have moved from seasons of eight…
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