The second episode of Doctor Who Series 13 (aka Flux), War of the Sontarans, sees the Sontarans as an opposing faction in the Crimean War fighting against the British army. One of the guest characters is a lady called Mary Seacole. While for some that name isn’t well known, for others Mary Seacole is just as important as the other famous nurse of the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale. In this…

Big Finish has revealed the top five Seventh Doctor stories as chosen by Radio Times readers – and, for a limited time, those five stories are available to download for half price!   This is the third of Radio Times’ Doctor Who – The Monthly Adventures polls, in which Big Finish listeners decide which are their favourite episodes from each Doctor featured in the range. Here are the cream of the…

Big Finish has relaunched its #lockdownloads scheme, giving fans the chance to download selected titles completely free for a week, with extra discounts also available. And this week’s free story is The Veiled Leopard, featuring two TV Doctor Who companions (Peri and Ace), and two audio companions (Erimem and Hex). Every Monday, a new story (or episode from a box set collection) can be…

Big Finish has revealed three upcoming Monthly Range tales, starring the Fifth and Seventh Doctors and their respective companions.

In July, Peter Davison returns as the Fifth Doctor in new stories picking up where last year’s Warzone/ Conversion left off. Time Apart is a four-part anthology written by Steve Lyons, Jacqueline Rayner, Tommy Donbavand, and Kate Thorman. Having left his…

Going into this audio adventure, I had very little in the way of expectations. I figured it’d be a typical Seventh Doctor and Ace adventure, albeit with an extra companion named Hex (Philip Oliver) and co-starring Katy Manning as Iris Wildthyme – both characters, I’d heard of but never heard. I only knew there was substantial history with both due to past audios, but I was going in fairly cold.

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…

The Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) are back in the latest two-parter from Big Finish. In the next edition to the fine Doctor Who Main Range collection, Doctor Who – Shadow Planet / World Apart, also sees the return of Philip Olivier as Hex. Shadow Planet by AK Benedict sees the Doctor come face to face with the shadow within. “Troubled? Anxious? Tormented by self-doubt?…