Rachel Steffan

In the spirit of previous Big Finish releases like Forty-Five and The Company of Friends, The Demons of Red Lodge and other stories is a compilation of four 25-minute stories featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa. Unlike previous compilations, however,…

With a mysteriously appearing Alaskan island, an expedition seeking the hidden Lurkers, and a mild-mannered author that everyone describes as the most dangerous man alive, Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge has all the hallmarks of a classic Hinchcliffe-era Who yarn. At…

One of the many great things about Big Finish is that it periodically introduces listeners to some extremely talented new writers. In November 2008, Big Finish released Forty-Five, a series of four one-part Seventh Doctor adventures to celebrate Doctor Who‘s…

In June 2003, Big Finish released Project: Lazarus, culminating in the tragic death of Cassie Schofield, whom the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe had promised to protect. In June 2004, we met Hex – Thomas Hector Schofield – a nurse…

Having enticed Janet Fielding back to reprise her role as Tegan Jovanka alongside Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor), Mark Strickson (Turlough), and Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Big Finish couldn’t possibly let the opportunity for a new story about the snake-like mind…

Reunited after the events of Cobwebs, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough, and Nyssa arrive in a mysterious alien forest at night. In an effort to aid Nyssa’s quest for information on Richter’s syndrome, the Doctor has “suggested” to the TARDIS…

Continuing its string of returning companion arcs, Big Finish’s July Doctor Who release sees Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton, and Peter Davison reunite for the first time since the 1980s as Tegan, Turlough, Nyssa, and the Fifth Doctor. Set…

The Sixth Doctor/Jamie trilogy winds to a close this month with Legend of the Cybermen… now, with added Zoe! Yes, that’s right. Wendy Padbury joins Frazer Hines in a Doctor Who story for the first time since The Five Doctors,…

The Sixth-Doctor-and-Jamie Big Finish trilogy continues in May with The Wreck of the Titan, in which the Doctor’s attempts to show Jamie the classy side of time travel with a holiday on the Queen Mary, which, unsurprisingly, goes wrong in…

In one of two much-anticipated Doctor/companion reunions at Big Finish this year, City of Spires sees Frazer Hines return to the role of Jamie McCrimmon, playing opposite Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor. The first of four Sixth Doctor and Jamie stories, City…

The Architects of History, the third and final instalment of the Klein trilogy, finds us some considerable time after the events at the end of Survival of the Fittest. Elizabeth Klein has stolen the TARDIS, leaving the Seventh Doctor stranded,…

After the events of A Thousand Tiny Wings, Elizabeth Klein is now travelling with the Seventh Doctor. February’s Big Finish offering consists of a one-part story, Klein’s Story, in which Klein relates how she came to possess the TARDIS in…

In 1950s Kenya, a group of women shelter in a remote farmhouse during the Mau Mau uprising, hoping to escape the violence until the British Army arrives to restore order. One of these women, Doctor Elizabeth Klein, recognises the small…