Big Finish confirm the 2024 Paul Spragg Memorial winner

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 … >

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Dark Gallifrey: The War Master trilogy audio review

The saga continues, drawing in Bernice Summerfield, Torchwood’s Captain John and the War Doctor. 2024 has seen the start of Dark Gallifrey – a multi-year, multi-part series set in the Whoniverse. Taking the focus from the Doctor, the saga instead shines a light on their greatest foes – villainous Time Lords. First up was a … >

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Big Finish unveil Dark Gallifrey: The War Master

Across the trilogy, Sir Derek Jacobi’s Master will encounter Bernice Summerfield, David Warner’s Unbound Doctor, the War Doctor and Torchwood’s Captain John Hart.  Audio producers Big Finish have revealed the second trilogy from their epic Dark Gallifrey series featuring Doctor Who villains. Following on from Morbuis, the second set of stories focus on Sir Derek … >

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The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield continue at Big Finish

The audio producers announce the future for the spacefaring archaeologist and sometime TARDIS traveller.  The enduring character of Professor Bernice Summerfield, created by writer Paul Cornell for the Doctor Who – The New Adventures book series, has been around since the early 1990s. However, she gained a new level of fame when actor Lisa Bowerman … >

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Buried Threats audio review

Things get historical for Christopher Eccleston as he grapples with spectres of the past.  As The Ninth Doctor Adventures continue in Buried Threats, he’s reunited with his former companion and archaeologist Professor Bernice Summerfield. A Theatre of Cruelty The set begins with a historical, bringing the innovative French avant-garde playwright Antonin Artaud into the life of … >

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Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor to meet Bernice Summerfield (updated)

Big Finish’s first lady Bernice Summerfield will encounter the Ninth Doctor for Buried Threats.  Updated 16/02/24: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Buried Threats is released. Christopher Eccleston is back another box set of Ninth Doctor audio adventures, released on the actor’s 60th birthday. To mark the occasion, producers Big Finish have dropped another … >

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Charles Dickens’ The Chimes comes to Big Finish

Toby Jones leads The Chimes – Dickens’ lesser-known follow up to A Christmas Carol.  We’re all doubtless familiar with A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ festive morality tale from 1843 of the hard-hearted Scrooge who’s encouraged to change his miserly ways after a series of spectral visitations. The author followed up with a second tale – … >

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The Last Day – Big Finish to tell the Seventh Doctor’s final story

Sylvester McCoy’s devious Seventh Doctor is promised an epic 12-part audio adventure send off.  With classic Doctor Who‘s untimely cancellation in 1989, Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor didn’t get to go out on his own terms. Had the show returned, there were tentative plans for a regeneration at the end of the forthcoming season. Of course, … >

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