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The previously annual Diary of River Song series picks up the pace somewhat with its fourth volume, just eight months after the last one, and also continues its backwards journey through time, with River now meeting Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor….
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The Root of All Rage is the sequel to the first Star Trek: Prometheus audiobook, a reading by Alec Newman of a novel by Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg. Like the first one, it is slow to start. Also like…
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Jeremiah Bourne in Time is another “Big Finish Original”, celebrating 20 years of Big Finish Productions with an original (i.e. non-tie-in) audio story. Jeremiah Bourne in Time comes from the pen of Nigel Planer, better known to me as an…
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Flight into Hull! is the second of 2018’s Jackie Tyler Short Trips written by Joseph Lidster, and a direct sequel to The Siege of Big Ben. Following the events of that story, Jackie and the Metacrisis Doctor aren’t speaking, so…
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My review of Big Finish’s The First Doctor Adventures Volume One was kind of lukewarm. I think you could sum up my take on it as: it did a thing I’m not convinced needed doing, but it did it well….
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Iron Bright is a resoundingly standalone Sixth Doctor story. No companions, no trilogy, no ongoing plot threads. In that way, it does what a lot of the best Doctor Who stories do — this is a story that turns around…
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2018’s multi-Doctor trilogy takes a slightly different format to previous ones. Instead of being released sequentially at the end of the year, this year’s trio will be staggered across it. The theme this year is that of a new UNIT…
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Big Finish have followed up on the release of last year’s Torchwood One: Before the Fall with another prequel box set from prior to the Battle of Canary Wharf. This time it’s Torchwood One: Machines, featuring the long-awaited return of,…
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Big Finish’s monthly Torchwood range winds down its fourth set with one final pair of releases, Instant Karma and Deadbeat Escape. As seems common for any two releases in this range, one focuses on a major character from the show…
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This is it! Resurrecting the Past is the beginning of the end for the Bernice Summerfield range’s big story. Going all the way back to The Mirror Effect, we first learned that Irving Braxiatel was up to something, an impression…
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I’ve mourned the loss of The Avengers: The Lost Episodes from Big Finish’s slate of productions, so I was intrigued when Callan was announced. I’d never even heard of the programme, to be honest, but it too seemed to be…
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Secret Origins brings the tenth series of Bernice Summerfield to a close, as Benny tracks down the kidnapper of her son Peter: her long-time arch-nemesis Frost. But thankfully, she’s got her long-time sidekick Robyn with her as always, ready to…
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This year’s The Eighth Doctor: The Time War box set sees the injection of some new writing talent into the Eighth Doctor. It’s the first Eighth Doctor box set to not solely be written by John Dorney and Matt Fitton…
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In Venus Mantrap, Bernice Summerfield finally makes it to Venus in order to acquire the financial estate of Jason Kane, in a story about as tonally different from Absence as one could get. While Absence was a gloomy, introspective piece,…
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Following the events of Glory Days, Bernice and Peter Summerfield are off to Venus to collect the financial legacy of Jason Kane. There’s just one problem: they’ve run out of money and ended up trapped on a place with so…
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