Category Archives: Audio Drama/Radio Plays

Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 2. Big Finish Audio Drama Boxset Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Alex Kingston, Nicola Walker, Hattie Moran, John Banks, Robert Bathurst, Kirsty Besterman, Mark Bonnar, Hamish Clark, Paul Marc Davis, Andrew Dickens, Cory English, Derek Ezenagu, Vincent Franklin.

Time to regroup and allow the mind peace after what amounts to a battle of survival is one that is denied to the vast majority of the world, for we inhabit a world run by mad men who insist that constantly been overrun is good for the heart, that we must be kept busy otherwise we are run the risk of being labelled and judged as feckless, insolent, or even cowardly.

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(510 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon 3: Trapped. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Em Thane, Camille Coduri, George Asbury, Heather Coombs, Lorraine Horgan, Holly Jackson Walters, Akshay Khanna, Chelsea Little, Robert McCafferty, Bailey Patrick, Cleo Sylvestre.

When we know the outcome, we may be distracted from learning the truth behind the tale.

For many, the fact that we have been taught to repeat facts ad nauseum, parrot fashion so that for example we can quote the dates of factory acts, of F.A. Cup finals, of Nobel prize winners with certainty, we forget to delve closer to the human being affected by or instrumental in the cause of history being made, altered, or even in some cases saved.

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

Doctor Who: Redacted. Audio Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Charlie Craggs, Lois Chimimba, Holly Quin-Ankrah, Anjli Mohindra, Maggie Service, Teri Ann Bobby-Baxter, Sam Stafford, Freddy Carter, Wilf Scolding, Dervla Kirwan, Denica Fairman, Alexandra Armstrong, Irvine Iqbal.

Inclusivity has arguably never had so much attention cast upon it, the weary eye of the put upon silent majority misunderstanding the point of the word, of the detail, and grasping at it as of it’s a barbed weapon they are forbidden to touch, to have no empathy to the souls who only ask for respect for being alive; of being able to live their lives without fear.

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(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Doctor Who. Once And Future: The Martian Invasion Of Planetoid 50. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Tennant, Michelle Gomez, Neve McIntosh, Dan Starkey, Catrin Stewart, Hannah Genesius, Stephen Noonan, Tim Treloar.

The Doctor’s lives are being extinguished too fast, the degeneration effect that is afflicting him is seeing the many faces of the time traveller rapidly thrown out of time and out of place. Old friends are unknown, and new ones forged in an order that would threaten the sanity of anyone, but to whom the one who cannot but help the universe when it faces trouble, it is one that could see the end of all that history and what is to come destroyed forever.

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

Cracking. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Shôn Dale-Jones.

George Orwell got it wrong.

We are not afraid, cowering in our rooms writing in subversive diaries and avoiding confrontation with our neighbours, we have become experts at exposing the very potential that makes us spies for the state, unpaid, unregulated emissaries willing to be praised for bringing to light the slightest misdemeanour in which our friends can suffer the brutality and want of the baying righteous mob.

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(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Milady. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anjana Vasan, Luke Nunn, Sam Troughton, Carl Prekopp, Elizabeth Counsell, Rhiannon Neads, Don Gilet, Shaun Mason, Gerard McDermott, Joe Kloska, Gavi Singh Chera, Ian Dunnett Jnr, Ryan Whittle.

When we think of literature’s greatest female characters, we could possibly be forgiven for ignoring, or passing by, the marvellous Milady de Winter.

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(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 1. Big Finish Audio Drama Box Set Review.

Liverpool Soun and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Hattie Moran, Nicola Walker, Mark Bonnar, Ewan Bailey, John Banks, Robert Bathurst, Gunnar Cauthery, Matthew Cottle, Esther Hall, Caroline Langrishi, Sylvester McCoy, Lizzie Mounter, Harry Myers, Ramon Tikaram, John Voce, Bethan Walker, John Woodvine, David Yelland.

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(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot. Radio Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Turn On, Tune in…and pay heed.

The Counter Culture, the one great promise afforded to many who would see the world for its truth after World War Two, was sold a lie in many respects, it was one that was compounded by the sincerity of belief of two people to whom had decency in their heart at the outset, and one that carried a message that there is more to life than the capitalist scream that saw millions adopt an alien experience, running themselves into the ground in search of The American Dream.

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(585 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Once And Future – Two’s Company. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Colin Baker, Camille Coduri, Michael Maloney, Christopher Naylor, Michelle Ryan, Tim Treloar.

The Time War rages, and the Doctor is unable to offer much help; and for once it is because he is trying desperately to help himself in solving perhaps one of the greatest threats to all his existence ever.

Degeneration is the key, and whilst the Doctor has felt its effects as the process, he perhaps has not gleaned the full problem that awaits, and who finer to paint the picture than the recent addition to the Whoniverse than that of the fearsome Timelord, The Eleven.

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(375 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Once And Future: A Genius For War. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Beth Chalmers, Esmonde Cole, Terry Molloy, Yasmin Mwanza, Stephen Noonan, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

The Time War is a moment in science fiction history that sends waves of anticipation and excitement down the spine of those to whom understand the sheer significance it afforded the fanatics and dedicated buffs of the long running British series Doctor Who.

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