Audiobook Reviews

Doctor Who: Lux – Written by James Goss & Read by Dan Starkey (BBC Audio)

James Goss, Dan Starkey, and modern Doctor Who stories about mad gods have a good thing going on. Previously, the three were united on the audio novelisation of the final 60th anniversary story, The Giggle. …


Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution – Written by Una McCormack & Read by Varada Sethu (BBC Audio)

The Robot Revolution saw the start of Ncuti Gatwa’s second (and as it turned out, final) season as the Doctor. It introduced new companion, Belinda Chandra (played by the reader here, Varada Sethu), re-introduced the…


Torchwood: The Boy Who Never Laughed – Written by Joseph Lidster & Starring A very great deal of Jonny Green (Big Finish)

The Boy Who Never Laughed is a peculiar microcosm of the philosophy of Big Finish in a miniature It’s Not That Wonderful A Life, Actually nutshell. Yes, thank you, I’m aware that’s a fantastically pompous…



Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventure: Vampire Weekend – Written by Tim Foley & Starring Jodie Whittaker & Mandip Gill (Big Finish)

She’s baaaaaaaaack! In the most hotly anticipated translation to Big Finish since the double announcement of the Fugitive Doctor and the Dhawan Master’s first box sets, Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor has arrived on audio. So…


OCAS: Pilot – Written by Theo X, Charles Kirby, Andrew Kevin Fawn & Starring Arun Blair-Mangat and Alyth Ross (Big Finish)

“So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you’ve killed all the bad guys, and it’s all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it…



Doctor Who: The Fugitive Doctor: Most Wanted – Written by Robert Valentine, Rochana Patel & Lisa McMullin & Starring: Jo Martin, Alice Krige, Leah Harvey & Jacqueline King (Big Finish)

The Fugitive Doctor, played by Jo Martin, has divided Doctor Who fans since the moment she emerged with a signature charisma and an immortal “Let me take it from the top…” On the one hand,…


The Holmwood Foundation: Episodes 1 and 2 – Written by Georgia Cook and Fio Trethewey & Starring Rebecca Root, Sean Carlsen, Samuel Clemens, Attila Puskas, Robyn Holdaway (The Holmwood Foundation)

Everybody loves Dracula in one form or another. When Bram Stoker wrote the story of a Transylvanian vampire count on a quest to update himself by moving to England (at the time the home and…


Doctor Who: Companion Chronicles: Families – Written by Jonathan Morris, Ian Potter, Paul Morris & Christopher Cooper & Starring Carole Ann Ford, Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves, Lauren Cornelius, Stephen Noonan & Duncan Wisbey (Big Finish)

The Companion Chronicles range has always been an opportunity to explore beyond the parameters of what would have made Doctor Who stories on TV that stood any chance of being commissioned. Sometimes, that allows them…


Doctor Who: Susan’s War: Grandfather Time – Written by David Llewellyn & Andrew Smith & Starring Carole Ann Ford, Jonathon Carley(Big Finish)

As of the broadcast of The Interstellar Song Contest, Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter (played by Carole Ann Ford), has been seen in on-screen Doctor Who for the first time since 1983, when she appeared (more…


Doctor Who: Susan’s War: Family Ties – Written by Sarah Cassidy & Peter Anghelides & Starring Carole Ann Ford & Jonathon Carley (Big Finish)

Well. It finally happened.  Russell T Davies lured Carole Ann Ford, who played Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter in the first era of Doctor Who, back into the on-screen show in The Interstellar Song Contest, written…