Big Finish has announced the sixth annual Paul Spragg Short Trips writing opportunity. Once again it’s a time to remember a much-missed member of the Big Finish team. In years gone past I’ve written various suggestions on how to approach this, the rules may well have changed, but you might get something from my various…
Category: Short Trips
Short stories, read by a single actor
Paul Spragg competition winner 2020 announced
Congratulations to Eugenie Pusenjak whose Tenth Doctor story, Free Speech is the winner of this year’s Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity. The full press release follows as does some news on the Short Trips range — changes are afoot! Eugenie joins a list of great winners: 2016: Doctor Who: Forever Fallen by Joshua Wanisko 2017: Doctor Who: Landbound by Selim Ulug 2018: Doctor Who: The Last Day at Work by Harry…
Lost in Space with Nyssa!
Big Finish has released the July Short Trips story Downward Spiral. It’s read by Sarah Sutton, so no surprise to find the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa in this claustrophobic Alan Flanagan story. It’s worth reading the press release (below).
Doctor Who Short Trips: Out of the Deep review
I wrote a short review of John Pritchard’s Out of the Deep for Cultbox. It’s a Doctor Who Short Trips story for the First Doctor read by Peter Purves. I felt the story would work better with more time and a larger cast. See my thoughts here: Doctor Who: Short Trips Out of the Deep…
Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity more popular than ever
Big Finish has given lots of details for the judging of the 2020 Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity and it’s good to note there were twice the usual number of entries. Well done to everyone for getting something in under the deadline. It’s not as easy as some might think. I look forward to…
Tips for the Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips competition (2020)
Rather than repeat tips I’ve given before, interested would-be Big Finish writers can look at last years post — Advice for the Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Competition (2019). Do check the rules for entry, and if you’d like some support, the Divergent Universe has a really good thread on the competition. Good luck! +++…
Paul Spragg Writing Opportunity 2020
For the fifth year in a row Big Finish has announced the Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity writing competition. Full details on the Big Finish site, essentially you have until the end of June to come up with your story and you must not have written for Big Finish before. The full press release…
Doctor Who Short Trips – The Infinite Today review
The 2020 run of Short Trips kicked off with Sharon Bidwell’s first Big Finish story – The Infinite Today. Clearly a riff on Groundhog Day, Katy Manning performs this Jo Grant and Eleventh Doctor story. Nick Briggs takes the director’s seat and it runs at around 45 minutes.
Doctor Who Short Trips: Best Laid Plans review
December 2019 and the winner of the Paul Spragg opportunity, Ben Tedds, has the pleasure of sharing his Twelfth Doctor story Best Laid Plans with the world. Don’t forget this is free and you’ve no excuse not to give it a listen. It’s also rather good…
Doctor Who Short Trips: Peace in Our Time review
December 2019’s Doctor Who Short Trips: Peace in Our Time is an intriguing story from Una McCormack, performed by Peter Purves. As you’d imagine it’s a First Doctor and Steven Taylor tale, and for a change [sic!] we’re in London…
Paul Spragg ReCollections now published
The Divergent Wordsmiths has published their Paul Spragg ReCollections and it’s free to download from here. It’s a whopping 214 pages of Short Trips style stories for a range of Doctors and companions. Each has a great cover design as well. It’s a fabulous piece of work. There’s an introduction from Ian Atkins and yours…
Big Finish massive First and Second Doctor sale
Billed as the Black and White Friday Sale reflecting the show’s roots in 60s UK television, Big Finish is marking the 56th anniversary of Doctor Who with bargains galore! A huge 78 titles at up to 50% discount, including my own Tactics of Defeat as part of Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles: The Second…
Red Rocket Rising 