Class: The Audio Adventures continues the world of Doctor Who’s teen spin-off, with two further volumes of audio afterlife. Focussed on the exploits of a group of Sixth-Formers at the Coal Hill Academy, plus a couple of alien refugees, the Patrick Ness helmed series created some compelling characters in an all-too-brief run on TV. While … >
Released the same time as Volume 1, Class Volume 2 is another set of three stories centred on the comings and goings at Coal Hill Academy. The good news is this set of stories is (at least) as good as the first! The bad news is Big Finish has yet to announce any more stories. … >
Making its debut via the online BBC Three, and with some shoddy treatment from BBC One schedulers, it is fair to say Class, 2016’s Doctor Who spin-off, struggled to find its audience. Set around the Coal Hill School, a location with enduring links with the parent show, Patrick Ness created a drama series aimed at … >
Doctor Who’s Season 19 crew find themselves drawn into an epic mystical adventure. The Whoniverse is often as much fantasy as it is science fiction, depending on who holds the pen. In the Ncuti Gatwa era, for example, the Doctor battles gods such as the Toymaker, Maestro, Sutekh and Lux. In Peter Davison’s time, he … >
Alex Kingston’s irrepressible time traveller Professor River Song faces ‘The Dissolution of Time’. Since her audio adventures rebranded themselves as The Death and Life of River Song, River has grappled with a prequel to ‘The Ark in Space’, and found herself entangled with ‘Ace and Tegan’. For the range’s third volume however, she’s set to … >
The Doctor and Romana reunite with those indefatigable investigators of the infernal, Jago & Litefoot. Thrown together during 1977’s ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’, Professor George Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago were an unlikely double act. However, with Trevor Baxter as the thoughtful pathologist, and Christopher Benjamin playing the loquacious impresario, they were a perfect paring. … >
Tom Baker and Louise Jameson return for more audio dramas as the Fourth Doctor and Leela. It’s always fun to launch into another series of adventures with the irrepressible Tom Baker. In this fourteenth run of audio stories, he’s paired with Louise Jameson’s noble savage Leela, with adventures set around 1977/78. Both tales excuse K-9 … >
River Song meets two of her husband’s best friends, Ace and Tegan, in a time-twisting four-part adventure. With her own capacity to time-travel, Professor River Song (Alex Kingston) encountered three Doctors on screen, and has met more on audio since. However, her latest adventure brings her into contact with two of the Doctor’s former travelling … >
Told across two box sets, Hooklight stars the Season 19 TARDIS crew. Updated 03/04/25: Hooklight 1 is out, dropping with a video trailer The 12-part audio adventure Hooklight begins today with volume 1. The story, featuring the Fifth Doctor and his original TARDIS crew promises planet-destroying peril, monsters and immense cliffhangers. To coincide with the release, … >
The trip of a lifetime begins again with ‘Snare’ by Tim Foley. It’s been 20 years since the Ninth Doctor met Rose Tyler and began their adventures. On 26th April 2005, we were first introduced to Christoper Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor as he battled the Autons. This introduction came primarily through the eyes of Rose Tyler … >