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Out of the success of 2009’s The Companion Chronicles: The Mahogany Murderers comes Jago & Litefoot: Investigators of Infernal Incidents, Big Finish Productions’ newest Doctor Who spin-off. It obviously features Henry Gordon Jago, theatrical impresario, and Professor George Litefoot, police…
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At the end of Epoch, Bernice Summerfield received a message from Irving Braxiatel telling her that her son Peter was on a distant planet called Legion; Road Trip, the next box set in the series, consists of three standalone stories…
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After no small delay, the third of 2017-18’s audio versions of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds is finally out. Like BBC Radio 4’s adaptation and Big Finish’s The Martian Invasion of Earth, Sherwood Sound’s The Coming of the…
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The Diet of Worms by Matthew Sweet rounds off the ninth series of Bernice Summerfield. After the events of The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel, Benny and Peter have been reunited, and Benny is looking for work, applying for a…
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It’s been almost four years since I last listened to a regular Bernice Summerfield audio drama; I left off back in 2014 with 2008’s Beyond the Sea, which relaunched the series off in a new direction. Bernice has fled the…
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I’m not gonna lie. King Lear has always been one of my least favourite Shakespeare tragedies. I was tempted to give its Big Finish Classics production a miss. But I was like, if anything can make me like King Lear,…
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The Beast of Kravenos launches a new series of Fourth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish, these ones supposedly set before Season 18 (as opposed to the last set, which was set after Season 17; yes, I don’t know what the…
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After the success of last year’s Classic Doctors, New Monsters release (and the placing of “Volume One” on its cover), a second box set was, thankfully, inevitable. Once again, four “classic” Doctors are pitted against an array of new series…
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By the end of Counter-Measures, I’d grown a little tired of the gigantic conspiracies despite my enjoyment of the basic premise of the series and its characters. Thankfully, Big Finish themselves seem to have realised this. Set ten years on,…
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Big Finish has mainly featured two different incarnations of the Master on audio. Geoffrey Beevers’s cadaverous Master from The Keeper of Traken returned in 2001’s Dust Breeding in a new post-Anthony Ainley version that went on to appear in Master…
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After Zygon Hunt, I swore off Nicholas Briggs-penned Fourth Doctor Adventures, and I actually kept to that promise for the fourth series, skipping three releases featuring gratuitous returns of past elements. But I am a weak man, and I did…
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I was surprised how much I enjoyed the first series of Big Finish’s Torchwood audio dramas, which have tended to spotlight characters in turn. The second series begins by spotlighting Torchwood’s most familiar character, and one we haven’t heard from…
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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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One of the many minor miracles Big Finish has performed with Doctor Who is to make me look forward to reappearances of Mel. 2015’s trilogy of We are the Daleks, The Warehouse, and Return of the Sontarans is the first…
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