As previously mentioned, I enjoyed both the short-lived Doctor Who spinoff TV series Class and its associated novels; Big Finish have now done two series of audios based on the show, using all the lead actors, though not all at the same time. I've listened to the first and will report on the second in due course. Each consists of three stories.

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Big Finish have scored a major coup by persuading Georgia Tennant to return to her brief role as Jenny, the Tenth Doctor's cloned daughter, for more sfnal adventures across space and time, flanked by Sean Biggerstaff as the innocent but mysterious Noah, and both pursued by Siân Philips (who was Livia in I, Claudius forty ( Read more... )

Almost up to March's releases, so I shall note the Big Finish audios I've listened to in the last few weeks, in continuity order (almost exactly the reverse of the order that I listened to them in).

The Destroyers, starring Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom fighting the Daleks, was Terry Nation's attempt to market a Dalek show to the US. I thought it was ( Read more... )

I'm totally delighted with Big Finish's rediscovery of Jago and Litefoot, two incidental characters from the 1977 story The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Jago is a down-at-heel theatre manager, Litefoot a police pathologist, and together they fight strange occurrences in late Victorian London. Big Finish brought the original actors (Christopher Benjamin ( Read more... )

Big Finish have been releasing this story at a rate of a ten-minute episode a month at the end of their regular releases, the twelfth and last episode being released last weekend. I have to say that I am not sure it was such a successful strategy: myself, I stopped listening out for the episodes in recent months, knowing that I would eventually ( Read more... )

( Lost Stories #3: Leviathan - a Sixth Doctor story that was never made for TV but would have worked better than many that were )