‘Torchwood’ audio story review: Tosh returns in ‘Zone 10’

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 … >

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‘Torchwood’ audio story review: Jack’s back in ‘The Victorian Age’

Launching their second season of audio adventures, hot off the heels of the first, the audio resurrection of Torchwood continues with a story set in the early days of the organisation. After establishing the organisation in the Doctor Who episode ‘Tooth and Claw’, as a reaction to her close encounter with an other-worldly Werewolf and … >

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Sophie Aldred and Sylvester McCoy

Big Finish’s ‘Doctor Who’ audio story reviews: March 2016 round-up

In another busy month for the Doctor Who audio producers, ‘Doom Coalition 2’ saw the return of the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen. This second volume brought them face to face with the Voord, delivered another encounter with Mark Bonnar’s fearsome unhinged villain ‘The Eleven’ and granted Eight a further brush with River Song. Kicking … >

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John Hurt as the War Doctor

Doctor Who: The War Doctor – Infernal Devices audio review

With barely time to catch our breath since December’s epic Only the Monstrous, this second box set presents three further adventures for John Hurt’s missing incarnation of our favourite Time Lord.  Surrounded by terrific, thumping version of the theme, these stories ostensibly deal with attempts to employ super-weapons in the struggle against the Daleks. In … >

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Audio review: Big Finish’s ‘Carnacki – The Ghost Finder’

Featuring the impressive vocal talents of sometime Sontaran and Hobgoblin Dan Starkey, the latest from the Big Finish Classics range features the Edwardian supernatural investigator, Thomas Carnacki. While the company has tackled grander and rather more well-known titles like Frankenstein and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, William Hope Hodgson’s ghostly tales are more contained affairs. … >

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Big Finish’s ‘Vienna’ audio box set review: Season 3 fizzes with energy

Chase Masterson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) is back as the impossibly glamorous assassin turned bounty hunter Vienna Salvatori. Unlike previous seasons, this third box set has Vienna accompanied by Jexie Reagan (Samantha Beart, Random Dent in the fifth season of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reprised on stage). Jexie was a jaded cop … >

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‘Torchwood’ audio story review: Gwen returns in ‘More Than This’

Since returning to the Earth defending game, post-Miracle Day, Gwen Cooper has been working primarily from the boot of her car with only her long-suffering husband Rhys as backup. As Torchwood’s hub was destroyed in ‘Children of Earth’, Gwen is seeking to re-establish a new base of operations in the Cardiff Bay. The major obstacle … >

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