Brigadier Winifred Bambera, created by Ben Aaronovitch for the 1989 TV Doctor Who story Battlefield and kinetically played by Angela Bruce, is an oddly little-explored character by the standards of the series. Before 1989 and after 2012, Doctor...
Naoko Mori was there at the very dawn of the current golden age of geekery. Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, before Game of Thrones, on the very first day of filming for the revival of Doctor Who, Mori was filming scenes as ‘Dr...
Survivors: New Dawn 2 is the second box set in Big Finish’s revival of its acclaimed post-apocalypse saga inspired by Terry Nation’s 1975 TV series. Whereas New Dawn 1 (read our full review here) was an effective jumping-on point for listeners new...
2022 marks the fortieth anniversary of Peter Davison’s first season as the Fifth Doctor on TV Doctor Who, and Big Finish has decided to mark this occasion with a series of box sets subtly different from the usual releases for this Doctor. At the...
Often, a reviewer will try to avoid using words like ‘I’ or ‘me’. The idea is to avoid talking about oneself and to give a feel of objectivity. But there is no chance of that here. Survivors, whether in the form of the Big Finish audio series or...
Christopher Eccleston’s return to the role of the Doctor for May’s Ravagers box set was much-heralded, and rightly so, after a span of 16 years since his last TV appearance (for context, the only Doctor to take longer between finishing their run on...
In theory (this reviewer having only heard three of the eight box sets released so far), The Diary of River Song wouldn’t appear to be one of Big Finish’s most compelling or essential ongoing series. There isn’t a central narrative to follow, no...
Big Finish has been releasing productions based on Terry Nation’s space adventure Blake’s 7 (BBC TV, 1978-81) since 2012, many of them really rather wonderful. However, the sad passing in recent years of key actors Gareth Thomas, Jacqueline Pearce...