Twenty years of Doctor Who at Big Finish, eh? Who would have believed it? Big Finish have been running just six years shy of how long the classic series itself did. When The Sirens of Time came out, it had…
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Muse of Fire brings transtemporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme back into the world of Doctor Who for the first time in a long time (since May 2014’s The Elixir of Doom) and her companion Panda into the world of Doctor Who…
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Volume Three of Big Finish’s Tenth Doctor Adventures yields three more adventures for the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, once again with a contemporary opener, a historical, and a futuristic story. As much as any other range, this one is…
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Warlock’s Cross caps off 2018’s main range Doctor Who multi-Doctor trilogy; now it’s the Seventh Doctor’s turn to meet Daniel Hopkins and his UNIT compatriots, but this time Elizabeth Klein is thrown in as well. Warlock’s Cross feels like an…
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Ian Potter has always been one of my favourite Counter-Measures writers, so I was glad to see him down as the writer of what looks to be the last Counter-Measures release for the foreseeable, The New Counter-Measures: The Hollow King….
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Big Finish’s Star Trek: Prometheus audiobooks draw to a close with In the Heart of Chaos, which ties up the story begun in the first two. Honestly, if you made it this far, you probably know what to expect, with…
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If you’re a fan of the Master, it’s a great time to also be a fan of Big Finish. The past year or so has seen two War Master sets, a Master-themed River Song set, the Master appearing in UNIT,…
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The Diary of River Song began with River meeting the Eighth Doctor, then continued with the Seventh, and so on — but now River has met all the classic series Doctors who work with Big Finish. So, for Series Five,…
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God Among Us 2 continues Big Finish’s ongoing post-TV adventures for Torchwood — the so-called “Series Six”. As always it contains four stories, each of which stands alone, but across them the masterplan slowly advances. In terms of individual stories, this…
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The Syndicate Master Plan draws to a close with its second volume, collecting half of one story and two full others. Tom Baker and Jane Slavin are back as the Doctor and Ann Kelso, with John Leeson’s K9 thrown into…
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Ravenous 3 continues the latest Paul McGann Doctor Who saga, and it also continues to confirm my reservations about the overarching storyline. The more the Ravenous are developed, the more certain I am that they’re simply just not interesting, yet…
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You might be surprised — I suspect Big Finish themselves were, given the way Series One ended — but The War Master is back for three more series of renegade Time Lord villainy courtesy of Derek Jacobi. The Master of…
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Following on from 2017’s The Hero’s Quest, Fox Yason Productions has released a box set of four more Fighting Fantasy audio dramas. It seems to have no over-arching title (or cover art!), but it picks up on the end of…
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The Syndicate Master Plan evolves the change in format introduced in The Fourth Doctor Adventures’ seventh series, box sets for Tom Baker instead of individual releases. But this season adds two new somethings on top of that. The first is…
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Survivors Series Eight continues Big Finish’s audio exploration of what happened after the original programme ended, this set promising — at long last — an encounter between Abby Grant and the son she’s been questing for since 1975. (Well, they…
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