Big Finish’s Doctor Who Main Range, aka The Monthly Adventures, come to a close with The End of the Beginning, which is available to buy on CD or download right now. The End of the Beginning brings together the Fifth (Peter Davison), Sixth (Colin Baker), Seventh (Sylvester McCoy), and Eighth (Paul McGann) Doctors in a full cast audio drama that takes them to the very edges of the Universe. This…

There are very few positives when it comes to lockdown. But one is, at least, Big Finish, releasing free downloads of full-cast audio dramas – or #lockdownloads – for a limited time. Every Monday, a new story (or episode from a box set collection) can be downloaded for free exclusively from the Big Finish’s Weekly Deals page. This week’s #lockdownload is Callan – Volume 1: File on a Deadly…

First Lord of the Admiralty, British Prime Minister during the Second World War, and close friend of several incarnations of the Doctor, Winston Churchill was born 146 years ago today. To celebrate, Big Finish is giving listeners a chance to listen to the first episode of The Churchill Years.

Churchill met the Eleventh Doctor in Victory of the Daleksin 2010, and we learned that this wasn’t the…

I think out of all the releases from Big Finish to come out last year, The Robots: Volume 1 was the most surprising. I will admit to being of those who looked at the announcement with a little incredulity. The Robots of Death is rightly one of those perfect Doctor Who stories; why mess with what it did?

But I was very pleased to find that The Robots Volume 1didn’t focus on the robots…

You can listen to the first episode of Doctor Who: Doom Coalition from Big Finish completely free.

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the award-winning audio drama series, Doom Coalition, Big Finish is giving listeners the chance to download part one, The Eleven, by Matt Fitton, exclusively from the Weekly Deals page free for one week only.

Here’s the synopsis:

The Eleven. A Time Lord…

Big Finish has announced further details about next month’s The Robots: Volume 2, the spin-off sequel to the much-loved Fourth Doctor classic, The Robots of Death. The range finds Eighth Doctor companion, Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and her sister, Tula (Claire Rushbrook) adapting to life on Kaldor, a world in which artificial intelligence is advancing at an unprecedented rate.

Joining the…

You can now pre-order 2 new Counter-Measures stories from Big Finish, which are due for release next year.

The Counter-Measures stories pick up the adventures of the team first introduced back in the 1988 Sylvester McCoy classic, Remembrance of the Daleks (written by Ben Aaronovitch). Simon Williams reprises his role as Group Captain Gilmore, who is joined by Professor Rachel Jensen (Pamela…

Series 7A of The Fourth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish opened with a bit of an unexpected bang, giving us what quite possibly may be the best set of Fourth Doctor stories since the second series from this range. The Sons of Kaldor threw us back in time and made us remember why we love Robots of Death so much; The Crowmarsh Experimentharkened back to the more “experimental” days of Big Finish…

The previous release in Big Finish’s The Fourth Doctor Adventures range, The Skin of the Sleek, was a very well put together piece of Doctor Who. It ended on a cliffhanger that packed a punch and left the listener with a great taste in their mouths so that they would gobble up the second half of the story when it came. Well, it felt like a long wait, but that second half did eventually come – so…

The first series of Big Finish’s Fourth Doctor Adventures is airing on BBC Radio 4 Extra, meaning you can enjoy them completely free! The range is currently on its seventh series, but we’re sure there will be readers here who have never listened to the Fourth Doctor Adventures or indeed just this debut series, which was first available in 2012. The season ran for 6 episodes, and paired Tom…

The Silurian Candidate is a good story. I need to make that clear from the outset because I also have quibbles (what do you mean, I always have quibbles?!). Matthew J. Elliott has written a proper adventure here, worthy of its title pun. The narrative is well-paced and carefully thought out. Elliott has a very visual imagination and it often plays like a screenplay rather than an audio drama –…

Big Finish’s The Blood Furnace serves as a perfect example of what Doctor Who in the 1990s could have been. Landing in Liverpool in 1991 at a shipping yard, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), Mel (Bonnie Langford), and Ace (Sophie Aldred) find themselves in trouble, thanks to the mysterious Dark Alloy Corporation. The enigmatic company has successfully reopened a shipyard and created jobs for many.…

Finishing off the Big Finish two-parter trilogy (yes, it’s being called that – it’s a great nickname for it) come the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), Ace (Sophie Aldred), and Hex (Philip Olivier) with Shadow Planet/ Worlds Apart. Perhaps the darkest of the offering in the last few months, these TARDIS tales, directed by Ken Bentley, are not for those who like their Who light. That’s not to say…

Though they’re one of Doctor Who‘s most recognisable monsters, the Silurians haven’t been featured too heavily by Big Finish – so this month’s lastest audio offering is a pleasant, and very welcome, surprise! In fact, they’ve only starred in one adventure in the company’s Main Range – 2001’s Bloodtide – although have also cropped up in UNIT: The Coup (a 2004 special for Doctor Who Magazine) and,…

Fresh from their adventures with previous members of staff – namely Jo Grant, Benton, and Mike Yates – UNIT return this November… to fend off the Daleks and the Sontarans! Starring Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart and Ingrid Oliver as Osgood, this will be Big Finish’s fifth series, aka boxset, this one called UNIT: Encounters, featuring the latest incarnation of the UNified Intelligence Taskforce…

Almost two years since we were treated to Series 1 of The Omega Factor, Big Finish has released a second series of stories for Dr Anne Reynolds (Louise Jameson) and Adam Dean (John Dorney). Before we proceed, a quick recap. Back in 1979, Jack Gerson created The Omega Factor for the BBC. The show was cancelled after a single season due to pressure from Mary Whitehouse and has lain almost forgotten…

One of the great things about Big Finish is its capacity for change. To adapt and experiment, sometimes in ways even Doctor Who on TV can’t. Such experimentation is evident from this month’s Main Range story, Alien Heart/ Dalek Soul. This is the first of a trilogy of releases, presenting two two-parters each across three months. Alien Heart/ Dalek Soul stars Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor alongside…