Second frame of third story (the title story, "The Highgate Horror", by Mark Wright with art by David A. Roach - NB the character here is not Bill as portrayed by Pearl Mackie, though there are obvious similarities):

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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... )

Well, new-ish, released in May, July and September - another is due out this week and there will be one more in December.

Day of the Cockroach, by Steve Lyons, is a classic base-under-siege story, the sub-genre that Lyons has made his own. It has the Doctor, Amy and Rory arriving in England in the immediate aftermath of a 1980s nuclear war, or so ( Read more... )

The second of the final pair of Sarah Jane Adventures audio books, like all of them read by the much-missed Lis Sladen as the title character. It's a decent tale of monsters from a series of books a la Tolkien / Rowling / Pratchett becoming real through mysterious means, with some cheerful playing with the fourth wall and a few lines about death ( Read more... )