General stuff on Big Finish that fits nowhere else
To mark the release of the fourth series of Iris Wildthyme Adventures Big Finish have made a previous story available for free. The story in question is The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society and it is available as a podcast here. For those who don’t know, Iris (played by Katy Manning) is a Time Lady created by Paul…
Next time you visit the Big Finish website (eg after you read this click this link) look out for the discrete red tag on the left-hand side. Click this and register for a free newsletter - content as yet unknown but will also include occasional promotional codes (according to the forums). Ok, off you go……
Not sure what this might be - if it’s yet another new range I suspect my wallet will enter meltdown! On FaceBook (and David Richardson’s twitter feed) we have mentions of an announcement due Monday the 8th of July at 11 am (UK time). Apparently we need to answer the question ‘what are the fractures?’…
Big Finish have just announced an audiobook club called The Listeners. The idea is that each month a particular title is reduced in price (download only) and listeners are encouraged to discuss it on both the forums and Facebook. This month’s title (June 2013) is Sirens of Time by Nick Briggs. This is the first main range…
Due to the overwhelming success of Big Finish Day 3, we already have the announcement of Big Finsh Day 4! This will be January 18th 2014 in a new venue - The Copthorne Hotel, Slough. The official announcement is here on and the link to but tickets is through Tenth Planet. See you there! +++…
So Saturday 23rd March 2013 came and went and 100s of fans, guests, writers, cast and myriads of others made their way to Barking Abbey School (which we learned was Carole Ann Ford’s old school). Despite the sleet and snow we gathered in our masses for Big Finish Day 3! In my case it has…
This just appeared on the Big Finish website - it is a future statement about certain series that have come to an end or are being created. It seems to be a mix of obvious news (no more Lost Stories), sad news (8th series of the Companion Chronicles is the last, 6th series of Gallifrey…
February 2013 saw the release of what we now know will be the first of possibly many Vienna Salvatori stories. Entitled The Memory Box and written by Jonathan Morris who introduced us to the character in The Shadow Heart (part of the Drashani trilogy). The intention behind Vienna is to give us the character of a bounty…
Big Finish has just (1st February 2013) releases the Vienna Salvatori one-off story The Memory Box written by Jonathan Morris. The introductory pricing runs until the end of the month and along with the release Big Finish have announced that there is a boxset that will be out soon (no date given). Expect my review to follow!
UNIT: The Coup is a short, free story released in November 2004 by Big Finish to promote its then forthcoming UNIT spin-off range. Available on SoundCloud this Simon Geurrier story has to frame a whole spin-off range in a mere twenty minutes and that includes allowing is plenty of time to enjoy Nicholas Courtney in…
Big Finish are continuing to upload some great material to SoundCloud and have just put up the Short Trips story Rise and Fall which is an Ian Chesterton / First Doctor tale, read by William Russell, set on a planet whose timeline runs much faster than that of the TARDIS crew. This is a decent little story…
More activity over on SoundCloud; following on from Cuddlesome we now have another complete story available to stream, this being UNIT The Coup which which stars Nicholas Courtney! Hop over to have a listen or, if you want, go to Big Finish and get the same story by visiting its product page. Here it is…
