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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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Another day, another semi-obscure tie-in range of audio dramas. Fox Yason Productions is Richard Fox and Lauren Yason, sound designers and musicians on so many Big Finish stories; they’ve launched a series of audio dramas based on Fighting Fantasy, a…
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One of Big Finish’s best kept secrets is the quality of Peter Purves and Maureen O’Brien. Oh, it’s known to anyone who was paying attention to The Time Meddler, but it’s easily forgotten amidst the epics Big Finish puts out…
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Entanglement is the third story of Series Five of Doctor Who: The Early Adventures, and this block’s only historical story. The TARDIS lands the Doctor, Steven, and Vicki in 1930s Cambridge, where an election for Master of Sedgwick College is…
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The Devil’s Footprints provides a winter adventure for the Seventh Doctor and Mel; the Doctor has gone to see an old friend, a reverend and fossil enthusiast, only it seems like the devil is afoot, and H.T. Ellacombe is more…
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I Am the Master is the first of two seasonal Doctor Who: Short Trips for 2018, an October tale of the Master appropriate for Halloween. The story is unique in being written and performed by Geoffrey Beevers, the “corpse Master”…
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Supposedly every Doctor will get a box set in the next year as part of Big Finish’s twentieth anniversary celebrations. We don’t know the details on all of them yet, but the ones we know of so far all seem…
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“I think that after six box sets and 24 episodes, if Big Finish can’t produce something consistently compelling, maybe I need to finally call it quits.” So said me in my review of the previous UNIT box set, Cyber-Reality. But…
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Blind Terror: The Gods of Frost is the latest Big Finish Original, yet another amazing convocation of Big Finish talent. Eve Myles stars in a story she asked be made — after enjoying Guy Adams’s horror-themed Torchwood scripts, she wanted…
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Torchwood’s “Series Six” launches with God Among Us 1, which picks up from the cliffhanger ending of Aliens Among Us 3. The problem of the Sorvix has been back-burnered — now Torchwood is focusing on the Sorvix “god”, apparently loose…
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I wrap up my recent catching up on Bernice Summerfield by jumping ahead — or backwards, depending on how you look at it. Treasury is a special audiobook for Benny’s twentieth anniversary at Big Finish (the character made her audio…
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The fourth Bernice Summerfield box set has the pretty generic title of New Frontiers, but it might better have been called Advent, as the three stories take place during Legion’s winter holiday season, with the last story taking place on the…
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Legion establishes a new set-up for the Bernice Summerfield range. Benny is now living on the planet Legion, the furthest planet out in the galaxy, joined by her new friend and pupil, Ruth. Legion is also home to Irving Braxiatel…
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