The CD extras of Quicksilver are, I think, inadequate, because they fail to really explain the story’s central draw. Listening to them, Matt Fitton’s thought process seems to mostly run,…

The most recent Sixth Doctor and Constance trilogy continues with Jamie Anderson’s Absolute Power. Anderson has been doing a lot of directing for Big Finish of late (including both other…

Constance Clarke is back. Mike Tucker’s Order of the Daleks launches a new Doctor Who trilogy, bringing back World War II’s favourite WREN. In its first story, the Sixth Doctor…

I occasionally inveigh against nostalgia here (mostly when I think it’s responsible for giving us things like Zygon Hunt), but I have to admit that when you balance the nostalgia…

Historical Doctor Who stories can succeed in two different ways, I reckon. You can go all-in on your period realism, telling a gritty story about the horrors of history (see…

The Star Men begins a new trilogy of adventures, and marks the Doctor Who monthly range debut of Adric. The Season 19 TARDIS team of Peter Davison, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah…

If I am to attempt a crude typology, I would guess there are two reasons to listen to a Big Finish audio dramatisation of a Doctor Who novel. The first…

Big Finish’s range of Doctor Who novel adaptations draws to a close with two more adaptations of novels featuring the Seventh Doctor, Chris, and Roz, a TARDIS team that debuted…

The Jago & Litefoot Revival is a first for the Short Trips series on multiple levels: the first to focus on spin-off characters and be narrated by them, the first…

Readers of my reviews on this site know of my love for Nicola Walker’s Liv Chenka — so of course I was excited to hear that Walker was reading an…