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…

The Memory Bank and other stories begins with Turlough trying to pick up his interest in art, previously seen when he tried to sketch the Eye of Orion in The…

Maker of Demons finishes off Big Finish’s first Ace/Mel trilogy, and it’s one of those situations where I must damn with faint praise: this is the best of the trilogy….

I’ve complained that the last few Jago & Litefoot sets have felt like “Just Another Adventure” for the investigators of infernal incidents, despite attempts at big concepts like the Master…

Fiesta of the Damned starts well. Reminding one of past Big Finish historical triumphs like The Settling and The Angel of Scutari, Guy Adams’s script plunges the Doctor, Ace, and…

There are a few different things going on in A Life of Crime, and I don’t exactly know where to begin. Written by Matt Fitton, it launches not only a…