Emma Campbell-Jones (Cass from 2013’s story, The Night of The Doctor) guest stars in Battlegrounds, the penultimate boxset in The War Doctor Begins range. This time, the actor plays Layla Bridge, a brave and loyal friend to the warrior Time Lord. In three full-cast audio dramas set in the tumultuous Time War, Jonathon Carley’s War Doctor is held captive on a Thal ship and faces an astonishingly…

Thanks to the wonders of Big Finish, even Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor has enjoyed a solid degree of prolificacy, despite that incarnation only appearing in one TV Movie (1996) and the 2013 short, The Night of the Doctor. This surely makes John Hurt’s War Doctor the shortest-serving incarnation of the Time Lord.

Fortunately, there’s still plenty of material featuring the War Doctor to enjoy.

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You might consider each Doctor to have the same attitude to warfare and militarism, but that’s not entirely true. Okay, so he’s broadly against it, but many incarnations of the Doctor have stories which tell us a lot more about their individual stances: The Zygon Invasion/ The Zygon Inversion features the Twelfth Doctor’s famous speech opposite Bonnie (Jenna Coleman); The Face of Evilsees the…