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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 Eighth Doctor Short Trip, The World Beyond the Trees. Jonathan…
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Speaking of how television programmes tend to improve after shonky first seasons, A.V. Club critic Zack Handlen says this is partially down to “the simple fact of accrued character history. First seasons have to struggle a little to get us…
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Listening to the CD extras for Jago & Litefoot Series Twelve is interesting, as producer David Richardson and script editor Justin Richards state it was their intention to do something more tightly plotted than previous Jago & Litefoot releases, more…
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Eddie Robson is one of my favourite Big Finish Doctor Who writers, and we don’t hear from him often enough by my reckoning. The Fourth Doctor Adventures’ The Labyrinth of Buda Castle is only the third Robson audio in the…
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The Waters of Amsterdam launches 2016’s main range Doctor Who releases from Big Finish, with a story by Jonathan Morris taking place in the aftermath of Arc of Infinity, with the TARDIS crew, recently rejoined by Tegan, still hanging out…
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Big Finish seem to do two kinds of four-disc box sets. The first, like Jago & Litefoot or Doom Coalition, consists of four individual stories with loose links between them. The second, like Dominion or the original Dark Eyes, is…
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Constance Clark is the newest of Big Finish’s original Doctor Who companions, introduced as a partner for the Sixth Doctor in a trilogy of adventures: Criss-Cross by Matt Fitton, Planet of the Rani by Marc Platt, and Shield of the Jötunn…
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Big Finish’s dive into the “new series” era of Doctor Who continues with Series One of The Diary of River Song. River is a character I’ve never quite warmed to on television: Alex Kingston plays her with gusto and verve,…
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Back in 2011, the Doctor encountered the Daleks for the first time in a long while, and they managed to take from him two of his friends, not to mention his great-grandson, sending him into a spiral of depression. Four…
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I would have never dreamed that Big Finish would adapt H.G. Wells’s The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution as part of its Classics range. For one thing, it was published in 1933, whereas the five other H.G….
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