Category Archives: Audio Drama/Radio Plays

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)

50 Berkeley Square. B.B.C Audio Drama. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Gwyneth Keyworth, John Heffernan, Tom Kiteley, Hughie O’ Donnell, Chloë Sommer, Roger Ringrose.

A ghost story does wonders for the spirits…

We walk through Time without thinking of the pieces of ourselves that we leave behind, shedding skin, leaving our imprint on everything we have held, touched, sat in, argued with, loved, abused, cared for; our soul has its own legacy to which we leave echoes of our lives trapped in the moment of Time forever.

50 Berkeley Square. B.B.C Audio Drama. Review. full post

(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley. (Series Two). Radio Series.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Murder is an abhorrence to nature, and yet there are circumstances in which the taking of a life can be seen as a mercy, that it can be driven by political fears, and that of desperation when viewed through the lens of self-defence.

Even in age where there appears to be a glut, an overwhelming dedicated number of column inches in newspapers and social media driven commentary to any number of murders that take place in Britain, and around the world, it still comes as a shock to the senses that someone would willingly take another life, and even more astonishing when the murderer is revealed as a woman.

Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley. (Series Two). Radio Series. full post

(680 words, estimated 2:43 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Shaun Dingwall, Mark Benton, Joe Jameson, Waleed Akhtar, Amerjit Deu, Elli Garnett, Julia Hills, Syrus Lowe, Gemma Page, Alistair Petrie, Dan Starkey, Elizabeth Uter, Robert Whitelock, Claire Wyatt.

Across dimensions she has searched for the one she called Doctor. For Rose Tyler, companion of the ninth incarnation of the mysterios man in the box, and the trusted friend of the tenth to bear that name, time has been a burden, time is running out, for across the galaxy, across all dimensions, the stars are going out, and each Earth is facing its own unique set of problems in which it will eventually die.

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

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

Big Finish. Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter. Audio Drama Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Georgia Tennant, Adèle Anderson, Sean Biggerstaff, Anthony Calf, Silas Carson, Siân Phillips, Clare Corbett, Paul Courtenay, Olivia Darnley, John Dorney, Sara Houghton, Arina II, Rosalyn Landor, Pik-Sen Lim, Stuart Milligan, Siân Phillips, Arabella Weir, Sarah Woodward.

Like father, like daughter. One though has the advantage of having had all of time and space to explore for thousands of years, the other, well she has barely scratched the surface of her own place in the Universe, let alone following on in her dad’s footsteps and carrying on the family tradition.

Big Finish. Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter. Audio Drama Box Set Review. full post

(528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

The Hound Of The Baskervilles. Audio Drama/Orchestration Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Mark Gatiss, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sam Dale, Ean Bailey, Clare Corbett, Carl Prekopp, Ryan Early.

You would be forgiven for thinking that Arthur Conan Doyle’s seminal gothic tale, The Hound of The Baskervilles, could not be adapted in any shape or form more than what has gone before; you would be forgiven, but as with anything that has history nipping at its ankles, the reality is that as long as the human mind can imagine it, then that beast, that means of murder and intrigue can be shown to continue to haunt the dreams of all who dare try to solve the mystery taking place in the lonely, haunting, dangerous moors of south west England.

The Hound Of The Baskervilles. Audio Drama/Orchestration Review. full post

(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

The Signalman. Audio Drama Review. (2022).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Samuel West, James Purefoy, Sally Orrock, Nicholas Murchie.

Honour those who find their inspiration in the darkest chapters of their life, for they have seen Hell and are still able to inform you of the dangers to come.

Charles Dickens’ tale of The Signalman is one of the most creative stories from the British writer, shorter than his other works of fiction, but one that gets to grips with the century’s fear of the technology of the time, the sense of dread that came with innovation, the sounds of machines.

The Signalman. Audio Drama Review. (2022). full post

(500 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Assume Nothing: The Hunt For Typhoid Mary. Podcast Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Few people are synonymous or as intrinsically linked to a disease as that as Mary Mallon. The full name of the Irish immigrant to 19th Century New York might leave a blank look upon the face of many, but that single given name, coupled and tied with the terror of Typhoid, will leave a scar of realisation, the chill of how infection and disease are humanity’s greatest threat to existence.

Assume Nothing: The Hunt For Typhoid Mary. Podcast Series Review. full post

(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: He Who Fights With Monsters. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Richie Daysh, Indigo Griffiths, Louise Jameson, Harry Kershaw, Nicholas Le Provost, Emily-Jane-McNeill, Jason Merrells, Paksie Vernon.

Should we stare into the abyss knowing that the monster that looks back with sorrow is on the side we have taken in the battle, or do we face the war on our own knowing we strode the high line between two opposing monstrous factions, that He Who Fights With Monsters is divided by fate and the fury of a future as yet unknown.

Doctor Who: He Who Fights With Monsters. Audio Drama Review. full post

(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)