Two new novels will be released in May featuring the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu), who will debut as the new companion in the new Doctor Who series to begin transmission in April. Both adventures will be available in hardback, eBook and audio formats. Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook … >
The celebration of the production company’s audio drama output is themed as a live podcast. Tickets are available now for this year’s Big Finish Day. For 2025, the convention returns to Derby and the event is taking place at QUAD, in association with the Whoovers. With the event themed as The Big Finish Podcast: Live, … >
The fan-favourite infernal investigators star in The Lord of Misrule with the Fourth Doctor and Romana I. Professor George Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago were two unlikely characters thrown together by the events of 1977’s ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’. On paper, the Victorian pair had little in common – Litefoot is a pathologist, while … >
The Writers’ Script Opportunity encourages new writers in memory of the late Big Finish staffer Paul Spragg. The much missed Paul Spragg was a champion of new writing talent. To honour his memory, Big Finish holds an annual open opportunity for authors to write a Doctor Who short story. The winning script is produced and then … >
Paul Darrow’s Blake’s 7 prequel novel for his character gets the audiobook treatment. Last month, we heard that Blake’s 7, the classic BBC science fiction series, is getting the Blu ray treatment. The classic 70s/80’s BBC series will enjoy updated effects and interviews from the team behind Doctor Who – The Collection. Now, the late … >
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 … >
BBC Books has announced that three new Doctor Who novels will be published this year, featuring Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday. Each book is an original, stand-alone adventure and will be published simultaneously in hardback and audiobook in 2024, beginning with Ruby Red on 13 June. The Ruby Red audiobook will … >
This year’s story is the Doctor Who Short Trip ‘The Hoxteth Time Capsule’, written by Paul Davis. Since 2016, audio producers Big Finish have run a Memorial Script Opportunity to honour their late, much-missed colleague Paul Spragg. The competition invites submissions (a synopsis and script extract) from writers new to the company, with the chosen … >
All three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials, The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle, will be available as audio books of their novelisations in February. The Star Beast novelisation, written by Gary Russell, will be read by Jacqueline King, the actress who plays Sylvia Noble in the television special. The readers of the … >
Originally part of ‘Masterful’, the Jon Culshaw narrated audiobook will be available to download separately. At the start of 2021, Doctor Who audio producers Big Finish released ‘Masterful’, a boxset which commemorated 40 years of the Master. While the centrepiece was a dizzying multi-episode, multi-Master tale, the late Roger Delgado’s incarnation was celebrated with a … >