The first season of Big Finish’s Ninth Doctor Adventures finished in style with Old Friends, a strong boxset that really showed what Christopher Eccleston can bring to the role of the Doctor. Fond Farewell by David K Barnes is the first of three episodes in the fourth boxset, and kicks off with a cold open that throws you straight back into the first Russell T Davies era. Eccleston is…

Frank Skinner will join Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor in Shades of Fear, an audio box set coming in February 2023 from Big Finish. But no, Frank won’t be playing Perkins, the role he took in the Twelfth Doctor tale, Mummy on the Orient Express. Instead, Skinner guest stars in The Colour of Terror as Pete Snow, a nosy neighbour who gets roped into investigating a junk shop with the…

Not only will the Ninth Doctor meet up again with his Eighth Doctor companions, Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and Tania Bell (Rebecca Root), in the next box set from Big Finish; he’ll also be facing off against the Sea Devils — only this time, they’re in space! Plus, the Doctor meets the first woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize! The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Hidden Depths also stars Jeremy Swift…

As the 2022 Scribe Audio Awards edges closer, Big Finish has found that six of their latest releases have been nominated. Over the last few years, a number of Big Finish audios have been nominated and won awards, so it’s expected that at least one of these six audios will win something. But this year, three of The Ninth Doctor Adventures have been nominated, taking the lion’s share of…

The Ninth Doctor runs into his former companions in Big Finish’s The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Hidden Depths, due for release in November 2022. In the third adventure of the set, Flatpack, Nicola Walker and Rebecca Root return as Liv Chenka and Tania Bell, respecively – most recently heard in the Eighth Doctor Adventures series, Stranded – now happily living together in London. While shopping,…

Christopher Eccleston is back for a second series of boxsets for Big Finish’s The Ninth Doctor Adventures, starting this May with Back to Earth. The Doctor will embark on three Earth-based adventures. He encounters a fairytale-esque villain, travels to Moscow in 1605 and, in the closing story, crashes a family’s New Year’s gathering. Here’s what’s in Back to Earth: Station to Station by Robert…

It was Christopher Eccleston’s birthday last week, and Big Finish just released the final boxset of The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 1 — so it feels a good time to look back at the time Eccleston played the titular role in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. And tomorrow (22nd February), it’ll be a year since I interviewed Christopher for the DWC. He was my first Doctor, the man who introduced me to this…

Big Finish’s Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 1 comes to an end in the fourth boxset Old Friends, where the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) attends a galactic funeral like no other, before reuniting with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (played here by Jon Culshaw), and UNIT’s Lieutenant Sam Bishop (Warren Brown) against the Cybermen (Nicholas Briggs) in the epic two-part finale. Speaking of the…

Big Finish concluded its #BF2021 poll on Twitter, which took the best-selling releases from each quarter of last year, put them into a popularity poll, then had a final poll with the winning releases of each quarter. Masterful topped Q1, the first and third instalments of the Dalek Universe series topped Q2 and Q4, and the second boxset in the Ninth Doctor’s second ever series of adventures (if…

Big Finish has unveiled the covers and episode synopses for the next box set of The Ninth Doctor Adventures, Lost Warriors, which will see Christopher Eccleston’s incarnation of the Time Lord battle the Cybermen for the first time. This November, the Ninth Doctor faces aliens in a country estate, fights alongside the ‘real’ Lady Macbeth in the Scottish Highlands, and comes face to face with an…

Yes, we can enjoy more stories featuring Christopher Eccleston’s incarnation of the Time Lord in a second series of Big Finish’s successful The Ninth Doctor Adventures range! These audios are due to be released throughout 2022 and into 2023. Eccleston returns to the TARDIS for 12 more exciting adventures in time and space, across four brand new box sets.    Christopher Eccleston said: “Just…

Will Christopher Eccleston return to Doctor Who for its 60th anniversary in 2023? Don’t get your hopes up. Asked during a Q&A at the Dragon Con whether he’d return to the show, Eccleston said it was “very doubtful.” He went on: “My relationship with the BBC over Doctor Who has not healed. I left because my relationship with [showrunner] Russell T Davies, [and producers] Julie Gardner and Phil…

Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor comes face to face with the Cybermen this November, in Big Finish’s The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Lost Warriors. Follow the TARDIS to a 1930s country mansion, the Scottish Highlands and an iconic movie set – where he runs into one very familiar face… Here’s the blurb: The Doctor meets many strangers on his travels. Some are destined to end up friends, while…

Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor is back, in a new set of three audio adventures, Respond to All Calls, from Big Finish! The set finds the Doctor answering cries for help from across the galaxies. From Scotland to Paris to a spooky graveyard planet, these are set to be the adventures of a lifetime… Here’s the full run-down: Girl, Deconstructed by Lisa McMullin Marnie is missing. But she…