Category Archives: Audio Drama/Radio Plays

Doctor Who: The Final Phase, Big Finish Audio Play 2.07.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, John Leeson, David Warner, Toby Hadoke, Dominic Mafham, Jane Slavin, Nicholas Briggs, John Dorney.

If for nothing else, and to be fair there is a lot of emotion running through this last episode of Tom Baker’s second series for Big Finish. For fans of the classic series of Doctor Who, the final moments and words of May Tamm as the compelling Lady Romana as she admits to want to carry on travelling with The Doctor in the Tardis and keep an eye on him are filled with a deep and lasting regret as this would be the last the devotees and story addicts will ever get to hear new and well-polished expressions by one of the finest actors to step on board the Tardis.

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(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot: The Ruthven Inheritance, Series Two. Big Finish Audio Play.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, David Collings, Simon Williams, Duncan Wisbey, Lisa Bowerman, Conrad Asquith, Alex Mallinson.

A long laid down plot in which to ensnare our intrepid investigators, the dark arts and foul machinations of vampire Gabriel Sanders and the bigotry of Victorian standards all play a part in the final episode of Jago and Litefoot series two with Andy Lane’s tale The Ruthven Inheritance.

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(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot: The Theatre Of Dreams. Series Two, Big Finish Audio Play.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Lisa Bowerman, Duncan Wisbey, Conrad Asquith, Jennie Stoller, Alex Mallinson.

It seems that the theatre can be bad for the health; especially when it involves the Theatre De Fantasie and Henry Gordon Jago’s desire and yearning to be back on top of the impresario game.

Series Two of Jago and Litefoot’s enquiries into the world of the infernal and nefarious leads neatly to the stage where a slight supposed diversion, a chance for the action to become diverting enough before the final curtain comes down with an enjoyable story by Jonathan Morris which tests the wits and friendship of the two investigators in The Theatre Of Dreams.

Jago And Litefoot: The Theatre Of Dreams. Series Two, Big Finish Audio Play. full post

(558 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot, The Necropolis Express. Series Two, Big Finish Audio Play.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Lisa Bowerman, Vernon Dobtchef, David Collings, Alex Mallinson.

One of the most powerful images of pre-20th Century medical advancement is that of the body-snatcher, the ghoulish purveyors of the recently deceased and comfortable in their new home six feet underground to the medical profession, especially those of impoverished students for research purposes has never been looked at favourably or with rose tinted eyes. What it has done though has given cinema and audio drama the great lease of life in which to scare audience’s silly.

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(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot, Litefoot And Sanders. Series Two, Big Finish Audio Play.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, David Collings, Conrad Asquith, Chloe Howman, Lisa Bowerman, Alex Mallinson.

Jago and Litefoot are as inseparable as fish and chips, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding…the Doctor and his companion…As Series Two starts with the eminent professor forming a new working relationship with his equal Gabriel Sanders, it seems that the dynamic duo, the investigators of all incidents infernal have gone their separate ways and the cold reality of their friendship hits Henry Gordon Jago hard.

Jago And Litefoot, Litefoot And Sanders. Series Two, Big Finish Audio Play. full post

(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Prisoners Of Fate. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish 174.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton, Sarah Douglas, Alistair Mckenzie, Anjella Mackintosh, Jez Fielder.

Never mind a woman scorned, when a Tardis gets rejected, she really does have a long time to brood and plot her revenge on the one person she has bonded with, namely the Doctor.

Doctor Who: Prisoners Of Fate. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish 174. full post

(519 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Dalek Contract. Big Finish Audio Play 2.06.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, John Leeson, David Warner, Toby Hadoke, Dominic Mafham, Jane Slavin, Nicholas Briggs, John Dorney.

It is rightly considered one of the classic moments of Doctor Who ever; faced with the opportunity to eradicate the evil of The Daleks forever, Tom Baker’s incarnation of the man from Gallifrey chose to set them back 1,000 years in their evolution rather than commit genocide of the most hated race and feared in the universe.

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(545 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot, The Similarity Engine. Series One, Big Finish. Audio Play Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Lisa Bowerman, Conrad Asquith, Toby Longworth, Matt Steer, Alex Lowe, John Banks, Alex Mallinson.

The final episode of Jago & Litefoot’s adventures, at least for as season one goes, sees the common thread of the machinations of Doctor Tulp finally revealed and for Gordon Henry Jago and Professor Litefoot it is a case that brings danger to the front door of the two friends and amateur detectives.

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(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot, The Spirit Trap. Series One, Big Finish. Audio Play.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Lisa Bowerman, Janet Henfrey, Lex Shrapnel, John Ainsworth.

The third instalment of Jago and Litefoot’s adventures in the dark world that shrouds the Victorian era takes a spiritual turn in the Jonathan Morris’ The Spirit Trap.

This penultimate story of Series One sees a slightly reduced cast from the previous two episodes tackle the Victorian world of spiritualism that has been captured in everything from romance, crime, even Victorian Lesbian drama and whilst not hitting the heights of the opening couple of tales in which Gordon Henry Jago and Professor George Litefoot have become institutions to the world of Doctor Who, is an interesting take on the field and one that is enjoyable and worth being involved in the initial series.

Jago And Litefoot, The Spirit Trap. Series One, Big Finish. Audio Play. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot, The Bellova Devil. Series One, Big Finish Audio.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Lisa Bowerman, Conrad Asquith, Toby Langworth, Duncan Wisbey, Stephen Thorne, Peter Silverleaf, Alex Mallinson.

When a dead body is found on the Circle Line on London’s Underground, it seems as if this could just be another death that the metropolis has seen another subject pass untimely away into the arms of Lady Morpheus’ elder sister Death.  Nothing that should concern two of London’s eminent amateur detectives, nothing out of the ordinary to vex the brain power of Professor Litefoot and his friend with the knack of finding himself either in debt to theatre productions or flustered with his use of alliteration which he uses to great and stunning effect.

Jago And Litefoot, The Bellova Devil. Series One, Big Finish Audio. full post

(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)