Category Archives: Audio Drama/Radio Plays

Shard. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Damien Molony, Finbar Lynch, Rebecca O’Mara, Trevor Kaneswaren, Kitty O’ Sullivan, Will Kirk.

Our environment shapes us but are we willing to listen to demands that the Earth below our feet asks of us in return for the bounty it supplies. If we look upon the last couple of hundred years of abuse we have savagely wrecked upon the soil, the heavy metals we have allowed to poison our lands, the sheer scale of strain we have placed on that which feeds us, then its no wonder that it could be argued, that the earth has rejected us, and no amount of pleading or sacrifice made in arrears will satisfy or placate that which has been abused.

Shard. Radio Drama Review. full post

(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Once And Future: The Artist At The End Of Time. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Davison, Georgia Tennant, Colin Baker, Abi Harris, Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Noonan, John Telfer, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

We denigrate the artist during their lifetime, and only appreciate them when they have passed. The poorer the artist, the more their work is valued after they have departed this world, it is an exchange we barter for where we can, with hand on heart, say we have supported a starving artist, but it is delivered at the expense of a fat profit and unimportant conscience.

Doctor Who: Once And Future: The Artist At The End Of Time. Big Finish Audio Drama Review. full post

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

The Piper. Radio Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tamzin Outhwaite, Charlie Lou Borthwick, Rosalina McDonagh, Kacey Ainsworth, Kassius Carey Johnson, Manpreet Bachu, Shiloh Coke, Andrew Tiernan, Mark Lockyer, Deka Walmsley, Rob Jarvis, Nhu Huynh, Natalie Mitchell, Macready Massey, Anamaria Marinca, Holly Hazelton.

Many a children’s tale of caution is one that is designed in actuality for the adult to take heed. The children of Hamelin were not the ones to openly suffer at the hands of the musician and his magic, but the parents who saw their children spirited away in act of vengeance of non-payment. It is to this effect that other tales show their true hand, the adult beware of those we cross, for the payment is often more than we can bear to lose.

The Piper. Radio Drama Series Review. full post

(590 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Call Jonathan Pie. Podcast Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Walker, Lucy Pearman, Aqib Khan, Nick Revell, Daniel Abelson, Bob Sinfield, Rob Curling, Adam Byron, Bryony Corrigan, Emma Thornett, Liz White, Cole Anderson-James, Ellie Dobing, Sarah Gabriel, Ed Kear, Hope Leslie, Thanyia Moore, Jonathan Taffer, James O’Brien.

Think of how many great artistic creations come from the depths of the soul in which their opinions are more memorable than perhaps the face which delivered the immortal lines.

Call Jonathan Pie. Podcast Series Review. full post

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

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon: Other Worlds. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Mark Benton, Nicola Blackman, Robert Cavanah, Luke R. Francis, Indigo Griffiths, Victoria Jeffrey, Malcolm Jeffries, Hywel Morgan, Sarah Priddy, John Rayment.

Tread softly in the worlds of others, for your presence has not been anticipated enough for it not to leave a groove in the sands of their time.

Rose Tyler has had to learn this the hard way, initially with her travels with the Doctor, then as she is stranded in another version of Earth, a parallel world where the fabric of time has altered certain aspects of what she, and the listener, would take for granted.

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon: Other Worlds. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish. full post

(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Once and Future – Past Lives. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Sadie Miller, Jemma Redgrave, Ingrid Oliver, Rufus Hound, Ewan Bailey, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Noonan, Dan Starkey, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

Stories are important, they are magical, they are a link to our past and our determination to see the future shaped in our image. Once a story has been silenced it becomes myth, the unspoken, the heritage of the speaker denied…but some tales persist in Time, they become the backdrop to our society, to our history and the dream that such days can once more return.

Doctor Who: Once and Future – Past Lives. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish. full post

(643 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

The Prisoner: Volume Three. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Mark Elstob, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Alicia Ambrose-Bayly, Jim Barclay, Richard Dixon, Barnaby Edwards, Genevieve Gaunt, Jennifer Healy, Lorelei King, Glen McCready, Sarah Mowat.

The price of losing your own individuality is more than you think, more than you can afford, and more than society can bear as the race for hegemony of all continues on with relentless pursuit and fearful dominance.

The Prisoner: Volume Three. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish. full post

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

Doctor Who: Comrades-In-Arms. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Ajjaz Awad, Michael Amariah, Nicholas Briggs, Tiegan Byrne, Esmonde Cole, Sophie Khan Levy, Georgia Mackenzie, Deeivya Meir, Lucy Murrell.

The Time War arguably truly begins with a hybrid being fought over, a case study in the relative positions of two great empires, one dedicated by the actions of a mad man to destruction, racial purity, and genocide, the other the relic of a period in time when lords were looked upon as Gods, and when they acted in the same casual, nonchalant manner.

Doctor Who: Comrades-In-Arms. Big Finish Audio Drama Review. full post

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

Passenger List. Audio Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kelly Marie Tran, Elyse Dinh, George Q Nyugen, Colin Morgan, Ben Daniels, Ian McQuown, Doyla Gavanski, Valarie Vennix, Tessa Auberjonis, Pej Vahdat, Lauren Shippen, Carl Prekopp, Richard Tanner, Kelsey Venter, Sean T. Krishnan, Adam O’Byrne, Julie Adamo, Nathan Osgood, Laurel Lefkow, Gabby Brooks, Kathleen Early, Richard Doyle, Adrian Latourelle, Kristian Bruun, Patti LuPone, Steve Basaula, Mark Henry Phillips, Philip Desmeules, Becci Gemmell, Eben Figueiredo, Fode Simbo, Nicole Stedwell, Nick Massoub, Ray McAnally, Rob Benedict, Mary Gordon Murray, Richard Doyle, Heather Craney, Anjili Mohindra, Briggon Snow, Alex Brown Marshall, Raad Rawi, Marie France Arcilla, Clare Corbett, Jennifer Armour, Barbara Barnes, Eric Meyers, Chrstopher Ragland, Cyril Nri, Danielle Lewis, Akie Kotabe, Carlyss Peer, Gianna Kiehl, Kerry Shale.

Passenger List. Audio Drama Series Review. full post

(693 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Happy Birthday Mr President. B.B.C. Audio Drama. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lydia Wilson, Justin Salinger, Isabella Inchbald, Simon Harrison, Clare Perkins, Jason Barnett.

Pop culture moments tend to stick in the collective memory more than most, even when a person is obviously too young to have witnessed it first hand, the abundance of times it has been watched and rewatched, the stories of its greatness handed down from one generation to the next; pop culture is the ultimate foundation of the 20th and 21st Centuries to which glory has been immortalised in a single snap shot of a camera’s lens.

Happy Birthday Mr President. B.B.C. Audio Drama. Review. full post

(595 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)