Short stories, read by a single actor
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).
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…
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…
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! +++…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Like September before it, October 2019 brought another new writer to the Big Finish fold via the Short Trips range. Carrie Thompson wrote The Second Oldest Question, which Sarah Sutton narrates. As you’d expect it’s a Fifth Doctor and Nyssa story.
September 2019 brought us Doctor Who – Short Trips: Dead Media a first Big Finish piece for writer John Richards and a first for a Jacob Dudman vocalised Twelfth Doctor. It’s set during the Doctor’s time at university in Bristol, though no Nardole who has borrowed the TARDIS to pop back to 1974’s Eurovision Song…
