Two new Doctor Who audiobooks coming in November

BBC Audiobooks have recorded two new stories featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday for release in November 2024 – on both CD and digital formats. On Ghost Beach, by Niel Bushnell, read by Susan Twist The TARDIS arrives in County Durham, England, in 1958. Seaham Chemical Beach was once a scene of heavy industry, … >

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Central Intelligence – BBC Radio 4 audio drama tells the story of the CIA

The audio drama series stars Kim Cattrall, Ed Harris and Johnny Flynn.  Among a raft of new commissions, BBC Radio 4 has announced Central Intelligence. The 10-part drama will take us inside the early years of the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency. Here’s what we know about Central Intelligence: Central Intelligence tells the true insider … >

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Doctor Who – The Stuff of Legend – Big Finish live on stage (updated)

The audio drama company announce a live Doctor Who drama, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. Updated 30/07/24: A second date added with two more chances to see ‘The Stuff of Legend’ live. ‘The Stuff of Legend’, the live Doctor Who audio drama being presented on stage, sold out in record time. Consequently, producers Big … >

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Zygon Century – new audio anthology series announced for 2025

Doctor Who‘s shapeshifters are coming with a hundred-year plan to claim the Earth from humanity.  Audio producers Big Finish have been doing a fine job of celebrating the golden anniversaries of the Whoniverse over the past few years. While the series itself turned fifty back in 2013, other elements of the show are naturally reaching … >

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The Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz land on audio at Big Finish

Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill reprise their roles for The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures.   Time flies and not just in the TARDIS! The ground-breaking Thirteenth Doctor began her travels back in 2017, and we said goodbye to her in October 2022. Her tenure gave us three seasons, the latter foreshortened by a global pandemic, and a … >

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Big Finish celebrate the Fourth Doctor at 50 with a special adventure

‘The Curse of Time’ will fit into Tom Baker’s celebrated first season. The indomitable Tom Baker first burst onto our screens as the Fourth Doctor in 1974. Across seven years he redefined the role, bringing an otherworldly charm to the Time Lord and creating an indelible mark on the series. While The Fourth Doctor Adventures … >

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The Third Doctor vs the Mondasian Cybermen in a Gothic mystery tale

The next volume of Big Finish’s The Third Doctor Adventures will pit the Doctor and Jo Jones against the men from Mondas in ‘The Quintessence’.  Famously, Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor didn’t encounter the Cybermen during his original television run. While that fact has been remedied a few times, in ‘The Five Doctors’ and on audio, … >

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Doctor Who: Print the Legend

Doctor Who Magazine special celebrates novelisations

A 116-page bookazine, Doctor Who: Print the Legend, is offered from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine as an essential guide to novelisations – hardback, paperback and audio adaptations of television stories. Highlights include profiles of leading authors, a section on collecting rarities, a look at the recording of the audiobooks and a tribute to … >

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Susan’s War continues at Big Finish with two new releases

The Doctor’s granddaughter returns for further audio adventures in the Time War.  Back in 2020, Doctor Who audio producers Big Finish addressed the fate of the Doctor’s granddaughter during the Time War. As the conflict between the Time Lords and the Daleks engulfed the universe, Susan’s War saw her recruited to aid her people – … >

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