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Wrapping up in style, with warm sunshine and sandy beaches, the series finale concerned the fate of some long lost Caribbean booty, namely a pistol and emerald ring belonging to the infamous pirate privateer Captain Morgan (yes, like the rum). Although Hooten had struck out on his own, leaving Lady Alex to her impending marriage, … >
While Torchwood has been off our screens since 2011’s Miracle Day, the show has maintained a loyal fan base and was successfully resurrected on audio by Big Finish in September 2015. To celebrate its tenth anniversary The Torchwood Archive weaves a tale through the history of the organisation, from its Victorian roots to the distant … >
S. J. Kinaid’s beautiful, and at times brutal, new novel takes place amid the rarefied setting of a Galactic Imperium. The Diabolic follows the story of a designer humanoid, created and conditioned to protect the daughter of a rich Senator. At a young age, the savage Nemesis is purchased and bonded to the gentle Sidonia … >
Nine weeks after their rather fractious adventure in Moscow, which resulted in a bust up between the pair, we pick up with Hooten on the trail of another fabled item; this time the wish-fulfilling Chintamani jewel. Searching in the Cambodian jungle, Tomb Raider style, he is on the trail of artefacts which hold clues to … >
After a busy series opener and a slightly less frenetic, if rather gory follow-up, Class settles in to its weekly pattern with ‘Nightvisiting’, which draws its beautifully macabre premise from the notion of the dead returning to visit those left behind. Despite seeing a fair amount of death on the show already, the episode focused … >
In another busy month from the Doctor Who audio producers, we celebrate Torchwood’s Tenth Anniversary with the special release ‘The Torchwood Archive’ and John Hurt returns in another trio of adventures for the ‘The War Doctor Volume 3: Agents of Chaos’. Also, those stalwart Victorian investigators of the infernal, Jago & Litefoot notch up their … >
Both Hooten (Michael Landes) and Alex (Ophelia Lovibond) get to grips with elements of their past this week, as the show comes to Moscow on the trail of a (possibly mythical) 51st Imperial Fabergé Egg. Meeting with an old contact who claims to know the egg’s location, some more of Hooten’s mysterious backstory is brought … >
From the pen of YA author Patrick Ness, and the current Doctor Who production team, BBC Three’s Class feels like a far more confident programme than either of its Whonivese spin-off forebears. Set at the Coal Hill School, the parent show’s earthbound launch pad and latterly Clara Oswald’s place of work, it centres on a group of Sixth … >
This week’s adventure came to interrupt Lady Alexandra Lindo-Parker (Ophelia Lovibond) amid crucial decisions surrounding her upcoming nuptials; while Alex has been making plans, her stalwart colleague Ella (Jessica Hynes) has gone and got herself kidnapped by bandits. Working to a forty-eight hour time limit, in which she had to both relieve the British Museum … >
This autumn has seen a few audio Doctor Who re-releases from Big Finish. First the epic 50th Anniversary series ‘Destiny of the Doctor’ in new packaging, and secondly a bunch of hard to find tales under the banner of ‘Short Trip Rarities’. ‘Destiny of the Doctor – The Complete Adventure’ Originally appearing monthly throughout 2013, … >