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Title: Doctor Who - Neverland

Author: Alan Barnes

Narrator: Paul McGann, India Fisher

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-16

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

The web of time is stretched to breaking. History is leaking like a sieve. In the Citadel of Gallifrey, the Time Lords fear the end of everything that is, everything that was...everything that will be.

The Doctor holds the Time Lords' only hope - but exactly what lengths will the Celestial Intervention Agency go to in their efforts to retrieve something important from within his TARDIS? What has caused Imperiatrix Romanadvoratrelundar to declare war on the rest of creation? And can an old nursery rhyme about a monster called Zagreus really be coming true?

The answers can be found only outside the bounds of the universe itself, in a place that history forgot. In the waste grounds of eternity. In the Neverland.

Written by Alan Barnes and directed by Gary Russell.

Members Reviews:

awesome

I just loved It!

Paul Mcgann is my favourite Doctor!

It was a really fun concept and they tackled it really well!

Drama!!! but at what cost?

The drama is excellent but the story doesn't completely hang together. Not quite as good as the independent pieces big finish has made.

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Title: Cyberman 2

Author: James Swallow

Narrator: Mark McDonnell, Hannah Smith, Barnaby Edwards, Jo Castleton, Nicholas Briggs

Format: Original Recording

Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-16

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

Written by James Swallow and directed by Nicholas Briggs.

Members Reviews:

Great performances, gripping story

I'd listened to Cyberman 1 a few years ago, and when I saw that they're on Audible, I had to pick up part two with one of my credits. It's got political intrigue, ship-board mutiny, xenophobia, ordinary folks dealing with oppression and conquest, and Cybermen on every street corner as well as outer space. It was hard to turn off and I ended up listening much too late till I finished it.

Really enjoyable

Really enjoyed this. Well acted great script imaginatively put together. Big Finish at their best.

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Title: Doctor Who - Seasons of Fear

Author: Paul Cornell, Caroline Symcox

Narrator: Paul McGann, India Fisher

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-16

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

On New Year's Eve, 1930, the Doctor lets Charley keep her appointment at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. But his unease at what he's done to time by saving her life soon turns into fear.

Sebastian Grayle: immortal, obsessed, ruthless, has come to the city to meet the Time Lord. To the Doctor, he's a complete stranger, but to Grayle, the Doctor is an old enemy. An enemy that, many years ago, he finally succeeded in killing. And this is his only chance to gloat. The Doctor and Charley desperately search human history for the secret of Grayle's power and immortality.

Their quest takes in four different time periods, the Hellfire Club, the court of Edward the Confessor and the time vortex itself. And when the monsters arrive, the stakes are raised from the life of one Time Lord to the existence of all humanity.

Written by: Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox. Directed by: Gary Russell.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Bought as a gift.

A fun villain

Another great adventure of the 8th doctor and Charlie as they meet a foe who has gone through time fighting the doctor. The Doctor meets his foe who gloats over his victory forcing him to backtrack through time leading to their meetings. (wibbly wobbly timey wimey). Thus the doctor finds him self in Roman England, the time of Edward the Confessor and a fun time in the early 1800's as he tries to defeat this "new" foe and perhaps an old one too.

As usual McGain and Fisher run with a great script, the supporting actors come through as the story flows forward toward a climax. The only real question seems to be are McGain and Fisher capable of a sub par performances? Apparently not at least so far.

Review of the Seasons

It is a fantastic adventure with a lot of chasing and time travel. I do not know what will happened next. The ending of the bad guy is quite a surprise. The mystery at the end is a real nail biter

Season of Brilliance

It seems to be a recurring theme in Audio Doctor Who with the Doctor encountering a cvilain multiple times and occasionally out order (see the Ghosts of N Space and the Excelis saga). This story far easier to do over audio whereas doing it right on television requires too many sets and just becomes too expensive. It may have never been done better than it was here. The story begins in 1930 when the Doctor finally brings Charley to Signapore only to discover Sebastian Crail, a man he's never met before declaring he's one of the Doctor's lifelong enemies and that he's killed the Doctor already.

The Doctor gets Charley and they set about to solve the mystery, travelling to London in three different times: during Roman occupation, the middle ages, and then during the mid-19th century. Each era is created with exquisite detail. My favorite was the Doctor's visit to Edward the Confessor and Edith.

Also worthy of praise is Stephen Perring as the ever-changing Sebastian Grayle. It really makes the episode.

This story is a lot of fun as the actions of Grayle's masters allow the Doctor to meddle even more than usual. Fans of the new series will have to smile at the Doctor's use of, "Geronimo" when diving into the vortex.

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Title: Doctor Who - Destiny of the Doctor - Enemy Aliens

Author: Alan Barnes

Narrator: India Fisher, Michael Maloney

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-16

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

Nineteen thirty-five: a message from a Time Lord in trouble sends the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte 'Charley' Pollard to the streets of London's West End, in search of a mysterious alien adversary - unaware that something monstrous is already on their trail.

They soon discover that an insidious conspiracy is indeed at work, its tentacles extending the length of the British Isles. Proving its existence won't be easy, however, after a confrontation in a music hall ends up with the Doctor under arrest and Charley on the run, suspected of murder.

All their hopes rest in a musical clue and a man named Hilary - neither of which is much consolation, with the two time travellers the object of a nationwide manhunt. And all the while, the enemy aliens are drawing closer and closer still....

Written by Alan Barnes. Directed by John Ainsworth.

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Title: Doctor Who - Invaders from Mars

Author: Marc Gatiss

Narrator: Paul McGann, India Fisher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-16

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

Hallowe'en 1938. A year after a mysterious meteorite lit up the skies of New York State, Martian invaders laid waste to the nation. At least, according to soon-to-be infamous Orson Welles they did. But what if some of the panicked listeners to the legendary War of the Worlds broadcast weren't just imagining things?

Attempting to deliver Charley to her rendezvous in Singapore in 1930, the Doctor overshoots a little, arriving in Manhattan just in time to find a dead private detective. Indulging his gumshoe fantasies, the Doctor is soon embroiled in the hunt for a missing Russian scientist whilst Charley finds herself at the mercy of a very dubious Fifth Columnist.

With some genuinely out-of-this-world 'merchandise' at stake, the Tardis crew are forced into an alliance with a sultry dame called Glory Bee, Orson Welles himself and a mobster with half a nose known as The Phantom. And slowly but surely, something is drawing plans against them. Just not very good ones....

Written and directed by Mark Gatiss.

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Title: Doctor Who - Minuet in Hell

Author: Alan W Lear, Gary Russell

Narrator: Paul McGann, India Fisher, Nicholas Courtney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-16

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

The 21st century has just begun, and Malebolgia is enjoying its status as the newest state in America. After his successful involvement with Scotland's devolution, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart has been invited over to Malebolgia to offer some of his experiences and expertise.

There he encounters the charismatic Brigham Elisha Dashwood III, an evangelical statesman running for Governor who may not be quite as clean-cut and wholesome as he makes out. One of Dashwood's other roles in society is as patron of a new medical institute concentrating on curing the ills of the human mind.

One of the patients there interests the Brigadier - someone who claims he travels through space and time in something called a TARDIS. Charley, however, has more than a few problems of her own. Amnesiac, she is working as a hostess at the local chapter of the Hell Fire Club, populated by local dignitaries who have summoned forth the demon Marchosias. And the leader of the club?

None other than Dashwood, who seems determined to achieve congressional power by the most malevolent means at his disposal.

Written by Alan W Lear and Gary Russell. Directed by Nicholas Brigg.s

Members Reviews:

Great Read

Really enjoyed this book. Narrators were good and great to here Nicholas Courtney. Good storyline. Would definitely recommend this book to Dr Who fans

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Title: The Devil You Know

Author: K. J. Parker

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-16

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

The greatest philosopher of all time is offering to sell his soul to the devil. All he wants is 20 more years to complete his life's work. After that he really doesn't care. But the assistant demon assigned to the case has his suspicions, because the philosopher is Saloninus, the greatest philosopher, yes, but also the greatest liar, trickster, and cheat the world has yet known - the sort of man even the Father of Lies can't trust. He's almost certainly up to something...but what?

Members Reviews:

Good story, bad reader

The reader kept flipping voices making it confusing as to who was talking.

He would use the same voice for the devil as he would use for the philosopher and vice versa, so at time I wasn't sure who was talking at all

Our Mortality How Will You React

This is a great story that's just as good as the Last Witness. Although they have nothing in common expect for being really good can't wait for another. There is 1 word that can discribe what the book is about but that 1 word would spoil the story so I leave to you to make it out what that 1 word is. This is a minor thing but an FYI sometimes the author wrote from different view points of view so paying attention if all of a sudden it becomes confusing a bit. Definitely replay value here.

Slight Spoiler Question Kind Of Thing To Think About After You Are Done.

1. One thing though I don't know if you can answer is why this man chose this representative.

2. How did he know his name to ask for him, also on the cover it says father of lies , we all know that Satan has that honor but from the memories of himself we can see he more like a minion of Hell that Satan himself.

Mansplain

Not a bad book, but it treated women like property. It was clearly written by a man for other men.

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Title: Doctor Who - The Apocalypse Element

Author: Stephen Cole

Narrator: Colin Baker, Lalla Ward, Maggie Stables

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-16

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

When the planet Archetryx is threatened by a Dalek assault squad, the Doctor and Evelyn become embroiled in an ever-deepening mystery. What has become of President Romana, missing for 20 years? What lurks in the vast gravity wells of Archetryx? What is the secret of the ancient element the Daleks are synthesising - and how does Gallifrey feature in the plans?

The Doctor finds that if his oldest enemies cannot conquer the universe, they will watch it go up in flames....

Written by Stephen Cole. Directed by Nicholas Briggs.

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Title: Doctor Who - The Renaissance Man

Author: Justin Richards

Narrator: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Ian McNeice

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-16

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

To continue Leelas education, the Doctor promises to take her to the famous Morovanian Museum. But the Tardis lands instead in a quiet English village, where they meet the enigmatic collector Harcourt and his family. When people start to die, reality doesnt appear quite what it was.

Theres something sinister going on within the walls of Harcourts manor, and the stakes are higher than they can imagine. The Doctor is about to discover that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Written by Justin Richards. Directed by Ken Bentley.

Members Reviews:

Great DW story! A must listen!

Justin Richards is one of the best DW writers out there. A deftly presented battle of wits and gorgeously played characters. They've never been played better. The Doctor and Leela just leap out of the speakers. This os a.must listen.

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Title: Counter-Measures Series 1

Author: Paul Finch, Matt Fitton, Ian Potter, Justin Richards

Narrator: Pamela Salem, Simon Williams, Karen Gledhill, Hugh Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-16

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

After the mysterious events at Coal Hill School, the British government has created the Counter-Measures group, a specialist team that investigates strange phenomena and dangerous technology. Their first missions will involve a haunted warehouse, a groundbreaking artificial intelligence, a mysterious new town and a threat to the future of the country....

Four full-cast audio dramas plus a behind-the-scenes documentary.

Threshold by Paul Finch.

A missing scientist and ghostly phenomena bring Gilmore and Allison to a factory in Bermondsey and the discovery of a science that should not exist. As Rachel Jensen returns to help them, a new future for Counter-Measures is set in motion....

Artificial Intelligence by Matt Fitton.

Investigating a suicide at the Sen-Gen facility, the group discovers a new weapon in the Cold War - and Gilmore meets an old flame. Meanwhile Rachel discovers that she can't trust anyone, not even the sound of her own voice....

The Pelage Project by Ian Potter.

A case of industrial pollution leads the group to the new industrial town Pelage and a dangerous meeting with its leader, Ken Temple. And deep within the plant, it appears that an alien invasion is already underway....

State of Emergency by Justin Richards.

There are creatures from another dimension on the streets and traitors in the halls of Westminster. When the government is in jeopardy, Rachel, Allison and Gilmore take on a faction staging a very un-British coup....

Written by: Paul Finch, Matt Fitton, Ian Potter and Justin Richards. Directed by: Ken Bentley.

Members Reviews:

Great book!

I just finished listening to this and went and purchase the other two right away. I love the different voice and stories.

Offshoot from BBCs Doctor Who series

Just listened to all of the available series on Audible, 1-3, back-to-back.

The story follows the Counter-Measures team solving mysterious events, similar to The X-Files. Based during the 1960s, it has a period The Avengers-esque soundscape to match.

The first series is OK, but a bit of a mess in places; within the behind the scenes documentary it is acknowledged they learnt what worked and what needed changing. And am happy to say that series 2+3 are both much improved.

The main issue with Counter-Measures, for me, is the delivery of one actors lines. So often theyre flat, lack emotion, or are poorly timed which results in them jarring with the flow of dialogue. It does improve in the latter half of series 3 so am hopefully once Audible gets Series 4 itll be a 5* all round review.

* Series 1 - July 2012

* Series 2 - June 2013

* Series 3 - July 2014

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Not yet available on Audible:

* Series 4 - July 2015

Then it morphs into The New Counter-Measures:

* Who Killed Toby Kinsella - July 2016 (duration 2 hours)

* Series 1 - December 2016

And one last thing to say is, Hugh Ross is fantastic as Sir Toby Kinsella. Hes got a great voice.

Like retro 60s sci-fi...? Give it a punt !

I had never heard of this series, but after a little background reading found out it came out of a single Dr Who episode from (I think) the late 80s. While written and broadcast from 2012, the whole thing is set in the 60s and does indeed do a good job of actually sounding like it was written and produced in that era....