Doctor Who Audio Adventures
for Big Finish productions
By Timothy X Atack
I'm a regular writer for the Big Finish range of official Doctor Who audio dramas, with my first appearing in 2017.
A selection below...
Salvation Nine
The Doctor happens upon an unusual outpost – and discovers it is about to be annihilated in an interstellar war.
To save Salvation Nine, he must rally a people for whom war is an alien concept... and protect the future of the Sontaran race!
“… bursting with fresh ideas and sparkling dialogue… [Salvation Nine] pushes the boundaries of the Doctor Who universe into unknown territory, both physically and philosophically… In less than 60 minutes, everything is changed. The Doctor is different, the Sontarans are different, we are different. Simply astounding.”
JAMIE LENMAN in Doctor Who Magazine.
THE DOCTOR Christopher Eccleston
GAZNAK Josie Lawrence
LOPZ Dan Starkey
ILLENX Dan Starkey
FIELD MARSHAL HENX OF THE FORTY-THIRD ITERATION OF HENX, BASTION OF SONTAR, HENX THE IMPENETRABLE Dan Starkey
NAVARCH AL-HANIN Poojah Shah
ANTINAV FLORIS Lily Bevan
Directed by Helen Goldwyn
The Wreck Of The World
The TARDIS is caught in a collision with the huge, decaying wreck of a starship. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover they are on board The World, the very first colony ship to leave Earth, lost mid-voyage under unknown circumstances.
And they are not alone. A terrible suspension chamber is filled with dead, withered human bodies, and a team of gun-toting astronauts are stalking the corridors. But a far greater threat lurks deep inside...
THE DOCTOR / JAMIE Frazer Hines
ZOE / NARRATOR Wendy Padbury
COMMANDER LORNE Judith Roddy
THE NOSTIC Rosanna Miles
TWENTY Adam Newington
PORTHINTUS Don McCorkindale
PROFESSOR BLAVATSKY Richenda Carey
Directed by Lisa Bowerman
Blood Of The Time Lords
The book known as The Dischord Grimoire is an incredibly powerful tome, believed capable of altering the true passage of time itself. And the Doctor has it in the TARDIS.
Wanting to look into this mysterious opus further, he decides to take it to an old friend in The Recusary – a monastery-like retreat on a moon of Gallifrey.
But he’s chosen an inauspicious time to arrive. Something else is visiting the Recusary. And this something hasn’t brought a book with it... but death.
THE DOCTOR Tom Baker
EMINENT SEDANYA Annette Badland
HONOURABLE HAKU James Dreyfus
CODAL THARK Susan Kyd
ANSILLON Adrian Lukis
HONOURABLE LORIC Christopher Naylor
ELANORA Emma Noakes
HONOURABLE AILGEN Jane Slavin
Directed by Nicholas Briggs
Rewind
Lacuna is on the brink of destruction, attacked by a new breed of Dalek. But every day, it is pulled back from that brink, and everyone prepares to live through the end of their world once again.
One strange man, alone in his castle, holds the key to Lacuna’s ultimate salvation - or its annihilation.
"... a powerful story, building to a final scene that has to be heard to be believed and will haunt the listener even after the theme music and extras play."
MATTHEW KRESSAL, Warped Factor
THE WAR DOCTOR Jonathon Carley
SARAH MOSS Ignis Abel
HOMER TODIWALA Regis Parenthis
JULIAN FORSYTH Grei Potemic
NICHOLAS BRIGGS The Daleks
Directed by Louise Jameson
Planet of the End
The Doctor arrives on a mausoleum world hoping to enjoy some sightseeing and light pedantry, correcting its planetary records. The resident AI has other ideas.
Deep within a tomb, something stirs. Occasus is the last resting place of a species far too dangerous to exist. And the Doctor is its way back.
THE DOCTOR Christopher Eccleston
FRED Margaret Clunie
SACRISTAN HINGE Akshay Khanna
FIRST INCORPORATION Jan Francis
SECOND INCORPORATION Nick Fletcher
Directed by Helen Goldwyn