Christopher Eccleston’s next box set of audio adventures promises an encounter with Alpha Centauri.
Updated 03/08/23: The audio adventures of the Ninth Doctor continue today with three more stories, released under the title Travel in Hope.
To celebrate its arrival, producers Big Finish have released another of their special video trailers. This one leans towards the poetic, with the Doctor spelling out his wanderlust…
This latest boxset, the second in Christopher Eccleston’s third series of adventures, boasts a few notable guest stars. The cast includes Jane Asher (Alfie, The Sarah Jane Adventures), Kelly Adams (Hustle) and Paul Thornley (The Gold).
We’re particularly looking forward to ‘Run’ which features the classic Doctor Who character of Alpha Centauri.
The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Travel in Hope is out now at Big Finish. It’s available on a collector’s edition CD box set (+ download), or on digital download only.
We look forward to bringing you a review soon and you can check out the story details below.
Original article (of 05/07/23) continues…
The Ninth Doctor Adventures continue with Travel in Hope
Christopher Eccleston’s next box set of audio adventures promises an encounter with Alpha Centauri.
August 2023 brings another volume of adventures for Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor. This time, we can look forward to a spooky teleport relay station and a whodunnit.
The set also reunites the Doctor with an old friend, the hermaphrodite hexapod Alpha Centauri. The high-pitched alien ambassador starred in two Pertwee-era stories representing the Galactic Federation. They also made a brief Capaldi-era cameo in ‘The Empress of Mars’.
Here’s the synopsis for Travel in Hope:
The Doctor crosses paths with many travellers – some at the start of their journey, some well on their way.
From the remote nodes of a transmat network, to solving crimes at a spaceship service station, or helping a friend climb the political ladder – sometimes the journey is more interesting, and more dangerous, than the destination…
The three stories are;
‘Below There’ by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle
Vyx works on a teleport relay station in the darkest depths of space – and she’s afraid. Strange voices crackle through comms channels, shapes gather outside the starless viewing ports, and visions of death and destruction plague her dreams.
Then she gets a call from the Doctor, who warns Vyx that her worst nightmares are about to become a reality.
Kelly Adams (Hustle) stars in ‘Below There’ as Vyx Leeson.
‘The Butler Did It’ by James Moran
The Doctor lands at a spaceship repair port on a dusty planet to tune up the TARDIS engines. But someone has poisoned an old friend of his, and now everyone at the station is a suspect.
It’s time to round up the clues, get out the magnifying glass – or sonic screwdriver – and check the butler’s alibi…
‘Run’ by Robert Valentine
When heinous demagogue Bellatrix Vega threatens the stability of the Galactic Federation, the Doctor convinces newly elected representative Alpha Centauri to run against her for president.
As Vega’s team mount a campaign of dirty tricks, the Doctor and Alpha must thwart a murderous conspiracy or see the galaxy’s greatest democracy become a brutal dictatorship.
Jane Asher stars as Bellatrix Vega, with Jane Goddard reprising her role Alpha Centauri. Plus, Nicholas Briggs once again voices the Ice Warriors.
Speaking at Awesome Con in Washington DC, Christopher Eccleston said:
“I can’t believe [that] some of the dramas I’ve recorded for audio have not been used visually in the television series. That’s the thing about Big Finish. Their writers are top-drawer.”
Producer David Richardson added:
“This is a box set of contrasting tones – the dark terrors of Below There, the wit and imagination of The Butler Did It and the thrills and political intrigue of Run, as our three writers deliver very different scripts.
“We’re lucky to have such a wonderful cast in this set, giving performances that linger long in the memory long after the closing theme has rolled. When I first joined Big Finish, one of the first things Creative Director Nicholas Briggs said to me was that to some extent we make these productions for ourselves – to aim to make things that excite and entertain us, in the hope it does the same for the wider audience. And Travel in Hope ticked all my boxes.”
Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Travel in Hope is now available to pre-order as a collector’s edition 4-disc CD box set (+ download), or on digital download only, exclusively from Big Finish.
Check out our reviews of all the Ninth Doctor’s audio adventures here.