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…
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#PlumPudding time on May 1
Big Finish is holding its first social media listening party and it’s Chimes of Midnight. Full details after the break.
See Andrew Smith and Rob Shearman on the Isle of Wight
If you happen to be on or near the Isle of Wight this August Bank Holiday weekend (2019), you might want to pop along to Cowes Enterprise College. Now, you need to also know the Isle of Wight will be heaving with visitors that weekend, but Cowes is well served with transport from Southampton, so…
The Unsilent Library
Here’s something I missed in 2011 when it was released, The Unsilent Library. It’s a set of critical essays on the RTD era, and includes one by Una McCormack as well as a Robert Shearman introduction. It’s a Science Fiction Foundation title and was originally priced at £10 but is now just £1 + postage! *** Message…
Chimes of Midnight – a classic?
Ask any Big Finish fan to name their favourite Doctor Who release and most will mention the Robert Shearman story This Chimes of Midnight. Released in 2002, directed with great panache by Barnaby Edwards and now available on download for a mere £2.99, this is a fantastic Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard story. Is it the very best?…
Rob Shearman talks with OU Who Soc
Many thanks to OU Doctor Who Society who let me attend a recent meeting where Rob Shearman was giving a talk. Apologies to Rob for the picture – it’s the best of the few I managed with my phone! If you ever get the chance to hear Rob talk, do take it — he’s very unassuming, has…
Big Finish 15 – Day 2
We now know that there will be 15 days of celebration of the Big Finish main range with treats being revealed at 19:00 UK time every day. Today Big Finish marks the year 2000 and Rob Shearman comes to the fore.
100 reviewed
Big Finish reached the landmark of 100 main range releases in September 2007 . To mark the occasion they eschewed a multi-doctor bonanza and gave us four short stories for the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn. Two of these had a them including the idea of 100 though actually there were other themes such as birth and…
Scherzo by Robert Shearman reviewed
Robert Shearman’s Scherzo is, at least technically, the first story in the Divergent Universe arc. Even so I have decided to review it separately from the post on the whole arc for a number of reasons.
Jubilee – a classic reviewed
The fortieth main range release from Big Finish was Rob Shearman’s Sixth Doctor story Jubilee a tale that famously became the seed for the Ninth Doctor story Dalek. Putting to one side both the fact that this story was uniquely selected (so far) as the trigger for a TV episode this story is, in it’ own right, a classic. Come now…
Red Rocket Rising 