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Adapting an iconic title such as Dracula needs particular care to balance putting a new stamp on the story, whilst respecting the pedigree of a classic tale. In the hands of Big Finish, this audio adaptation is a powerful listen and nothing has been lost in Jonathan Barnes’ take on Bram Stoker’s original. As the … >
In the last six months or so, Big Finish has treated us to a wealth of modern Doctor Who related titles, including Torchwood, Churchill, The War Doctor and River Song. Now the stakes are raised with the much-anticipated return of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, complete with Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. And a … >
‘Ghost Mission’ continues the second season of Torchwood audios from Big Finish with a James Goss penned story for Sgt Andy Davidson (Tom Price). Finally, ten years after Gwen Cooper joined Torchwood, Sgt Andy gets his chance. All he has to do is pass an assessment. This being Torchwood, his assessor is a ghost from … >
In another busy month for the Doctor Who audio wizards, the Torchwood range featured the return of technical specialist Tosh for an adventure in ‘Zone 10’. April also provided the much awaited New Adventures adaptation, this time bringing the Seventh Doctor and Ace to the 1960s for Mark Gatiss’ atmospheric novel ‘Nightshade’. While The Fourth … >
The Liberator Chronicles from Big Finish have come to a conclusion with the release of the this set of Blake’s 7 stories. Big Finish released Volume 1 of the Liberator Chronicles in February 2012, and since then has released twelve sets of three one-disc stories, a special story (Warship) in 2013 reuniting the full cast … >
For most people who watched British TV in the late 1960, the series The Avengers was about John Steed and Mrs Peel. Yes, we also had Tara King and Cathy Gale as companions to the bowler hatted Steed, but it’s Mrs Peel who most captured the show’s period feel of psychedelia, fun and champagne interspersed … >
Well, here’s a thought… What if Katherine Kelly’s character in BBC Three’s new Doctor Who spin-off is in fact an undeclared future incarnation of the Doctor? Is Steven Moffat hiding one last surprise in plain sight before he hands over the show? Created by YA author Patrick Ness, Class began filming in Cardiff last week. Former Coronation Street … >
One of the many joys with Big Finish’s new Torchwood series, apart from the great stories and range of authors, is catching up with characters we never thought we’d meet again. With ‘Zone 10’, writer David Llewelyn brings back Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori), last seen dying in the second TV season story ‘Exit Wounds’. In ‘Zone … >
With Doom Coalition 2, Big Finish continues their series of Eighth Doctor stories as the Doctor (Pail McGann) and his companions Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and Helen Sinclair (Hattie Morahan) take on rogue time lord forces with aid from an unexpected quarter. Unexpected that is unless you spotted Alex Kingston reprising the part of River … >
It seems there is no such thing as a quiet month for Big Finish! After the excitement of January’s River Song and Churchill audio debuts, February saw the return their impossibly glamorous home-grown heroine Vienna Salvatori, as well as Eve Myles back as Gwen Cooper to round out Torchwood’s first audio season with ‘More Than … >