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...
Having first made a return to the world of Doctor Who with 2020’s Big Finish Torchwood release Dissected, Freema Agyeman stars in this latest Doctor Who spin-off, set during her tenure as companion in Doctor Who series three. Joining her...
There’s no stopping Big Finish as 2022 comes to a close, with last year’s lockdowns barely slowing their output of premium Doctor Who box sets. Only a few months after the superlative War Doctor Begins: Forged in Fire (June 2021 – check out...
Big Finish wraps up their 2021 Torchwood monthly range with a decidedly festive piece of Welsh horror as Ianto Jones encounters the legendary Mari Lwyd in a remote Welsh village at Christmas. It’s another strong character-centric piece for...
Ah, the Eighth Doctor. Supremely empathetic, occasionally eccentric and always with his companions’ best interests at heart, this incarnation has been well served on audio. Every few years the character is given something of a renaissance, with a...
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...
The presence of UNIT in Doctor Who across the years has always been a reassuring one – the suggestion that, in the Doctor’s absence, there’s always an armed force capable of meeting alien threats with guns and bombs rather than compassion and...
Mr Colchester is my favourite Torchwood character. Fans of the four-series TV spin-off from Doctor Who might be confused by that name. But anyone who has listened to the ‘fifth and sixth’ series of Torchwood at Big Finish, will know what...
It’s been over three years since the first series of Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter. In the meantime, the character has featured in The Legacy of Time – Big Finish’s celebration of twenty years of Doctor Who audio drama – opposite the Fifth Doctor in...