One of my vague ambitions for the year ahead is to get back into Big Finish again. There are a load of Big Finish audios which I did listen to a few years back, and never got around to writing up here; I haven't gone into it systematically, but I'll listen again to all those I haven't yet posted about.


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Night of the Stormcrow, by Marc Platt
King of Sontar, by John Dorney
White Ghosts, by Alan Barnes
The Crooked Man, by John Dorney
The Evil One, by Nicholas Briggs

I had never got round to writing up Night of the Stormcrow, a Fourth Doctor/Leela special release from Big Finish back in December 2012, so I listened to it again recently. Marc Platt is ( Read more... )

Way way behind with book- and audio-blogging. A quieter week or two ahead, I hope, so I may be able to catch up.

As I've said before, I'm really not a huge fan of the Trial of a Time Lord season of classic Who; but as I've said on M another occasion recently, Big Finish have proved capable of mining the rubble for jewels, and this is an excellent ( Read more... )

Big Finish produced a very strong trio of Seventh Doctor plays earlier this year, featuring Sophie Aldred as Ace, Philip Olivier as Hex and a little bit of Sylvester McCoy (his availability has been limited due to filming The Hobbit in New Zealand). Each of the three takes a particular text as its basis, but I think they are all accessible even if ( Read more... )

Catching up here with several months' worth of the new Tom Baker / Louise Jameson audios, which are well worth investing in.

( Wrath of the Iceni: What have the Romans ever done for us? )

The new series of Eighth Doctor plays from Big Finish began with Situation Vacant, where Joanna Kanska stole the show, guest starring as a hotel duty manager; this time Fenella Woolgar (who was Agatha Christie in The Unicorn and the Wasp) steals the show, guest starring as an interstellar war criminal incarcerated in a jail designed with an Edgar ( Read more... )

Three more as I work through the BF back catalogue, and also the latest of their offerings.

( Live 34: Seven, Ace and Hex leading a revolution via public radio )

Two Doctor Who audios this week - yes, the month that Big Finish are publishing the 100th in their series of plays, I have got around to #50, Zagreus, a three-CD extravaganza with four Doctors (Davison, C Baker, McCoy and McGann); and I also listened to Slipback, the first proper Doctor Who audio play (I shall justify this controversial claim below ( Read more... )

( Embrace the Darkness: Eighth Doctor and Charley, and blindness )

More Doctor Who audios - I know I said I was taking a break, but had problems finding and then ripping the CDs I actually wanted to listen to, so they will have to be later in the week. Two clunkers, one OK and one superb one this time.

( The Maltese Penguin: Sixth Doctor and Frobisher in a yawn a minute )