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Hour of the Cybermen (or The Hour of the Cybermen, as Colin Baker claims when he reads the credits) is the final instalment of 2018’s Sixth Doctor trilogy in the Doctor Who main range, but it’s also the middle instalment…
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Big Finish continues its range of The Avengers adaptations with Too Many Targets, a script by John Dorney based on a 1990 novel by John Peel and Dave Rogers. The selling point of the novel, and thus the audio drama,…
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Ian Potter is particularly good at two things as a writer. (Well, I reckon probably more than two, but let’s put the others to the side for the moment.) One is emulating the TV of the 1960s on audio: his…
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It’s been a while since I’ve listened to an instalment of Doctor Who: The Early Adventures, but it’s on its fifth series now, so someone must be. This series pulled me back in with the promise of a continuous “missing…
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Epoch marks a new, well, epoch in the ongoing adventures of Professor Bernice Summerfield. 2011 saw the range transition to the same format most of Big Finish’s other Doctor Who spin-off ranges had adopted, a sequence of box sets. The…
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Continuing her adventures in the mysterious Year 54, Bernice Summerfield is hired by a historian (an illegal occupation) to go on an archaeological expedition (an illegal activity). A previous expedition went to this planet — and everyone seemingly died. Like…
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Ravenous 2 continues one of the Eighth Doctor’s two different sagas — overlapping in production if not internal chronology. One may recall that I was sceptical about Ravenous 1, and one contributing factor was the depiction of the Ravenous themselves….
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After you blow up the universe (potentially), where do you go next? Year Zero provides a soft reset for Big Finish’s Bernice Summerfield range, but also seemingly one for the entire universe. Her time ring now basically a hunk of…
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This is it! Escaping the Future ties off not only Resurrecting the Past and Present Danger, but plots going back seven years. Why has Irving Braxiatel manipulated the lives of Bernice Summerfield, Peter, Jason Kane, and everyone else at the…
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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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