The Paul Spragg Winner of 2024 brings the Twelfth Doctor face to face with the Time War… on stage. For the last nine years, Doctor Who audio producers Big Finish have run a Script Opportunity for new writers. The competition commemorates their late colleague, Paul Spragg. Entrants are invited to submit a synopsis and script … >
The Doctor Who audio producers have also released the winner of 2024’s Paul Spragg Memorial Script Opportunity. We’re still in the Christmas season but the universe of Doctor Who never rests. Onscreen, we’ve enjoyed The War Games in colour, 2024’s Doctor Who Prom and the Christmas Special ‘Joy to the World’. From the world of … >
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 … >
‘Regeneration Impossible’, the latest Short Trip, sees range editor Alfie Shaw pushing the constraints of the regular format. Thanks to the remarkable vocal talents of actor Jacob Dudman, this story chronicles a meeting of two Doctors: one during his Victorian isolation, before the events of ‘The Snowmen’, the other at the latter end of his … >
The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles brings Big Finish into Doctor Who’s recent past for more partially-narrated adventures. The first foray into this era outside of the fully narrated Short Trips range, these stories star Jacob Dudman, the remarkable vocal mimic who has also lent his voice to both the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. He is joined … >
‘The Best-Laid Plans’ is the winner of 2019’s Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity. Released in memory of the much-missed Big Finish employee, it comes from a writer new to Big Finish. The story is one about ideas, with its central character, Dracksil Forg, being overburdened with them. So full, in fact, that he maintains … >
‘Dead Media’, the latest Big Finish Short Trip, features the character of the Twelfth Doctor. While it is not the first, that honour belongs to ‘The Astrea Conspiracy’, this release is special as it is the first performed in the Doctor’s voice, in this case by actor Jacob Dudman. Presented as a podcast, the Doctor … >
With the February 2019 Doctor Who Short Trips: The Astrea Conspiracy, Big Finish takes its licence into the Peter Capaldi twelfth Doctor era for the first time. There’s no Peter Capaldi, but we do have Neve McIntosh (known for playing Madame Vastra on-screen). Unusually for the Short Trips range, Neve McIntosh isn’t performing as an … >
Some very interesting merchandise was exhibited at the Taobao Maker Festival in Hangzhou this weekend. Among the merchandise exhibited was a traditional Chinese dough figurine in the shape of the thirteenth Doctor and her TARDIS, an elaborate mobile phone case featuring the twelfth Doctor, a pair of Doctor Who sneakers, and a Doctor Who book cover. The merchandise can be viewed … >