Tag Archives: Dan Starkey

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dare You. Big Finish. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Jack Ayres, Camille Coduri, Beverley Klein, Harry Myers, Dan Starkey.

The voices in our head are ones to which often guide us and steer us from trouble, they warn of the temptations, the moments that will knock us sideways, the ones that allow us to keep a clear conscious; it may be instinctive, it might be just common sense, but the voice of reason and respect is there to keep us from being foolish and a social pain.

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(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The Haunted Man. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rosie Baker, Paterson Joseph, Jeff Rawle, Tim Speyer, Dan Starkey, Matthew Steer, Tilly Vosburgh.

The final novella from one of Britain’s finest ever writers, Charles Dickens, is the subject of a twin release from Average Romp this festive eve, and alongside The Cricket On The Hearth, the adaption of The Haunted Man is one that has been lovingly restored to the consciousness of the public thanks to the writing of Eddie Robson and Jonathan Morris, and their Big Finish colleagues Lisa Bowerman and Howard Carter.

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(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: The Last Days of the Powell Estate. Big Finish. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Ecclestone, Billie Piper, Harki Bhambra, Camille Coduri, Dan Starkey, Mandi Symonds.

Ghosts and legends are not just born in palaces and grand houses, hauntings are not confined to estates where a single dwelling lords over all it surveys, they are formed in the most modern of aspects, on council estates where the only horrors initially imagined was how it was acceptable to house people in such cramped quarters in such a small area; offering a sense of community, but of little value to their everyday lives.

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

Doctor Who: Pursuit. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Emma Campbell-Jones, Sonny McGann, Felicity Cant, Louise Falkner, Clive Hayward, Lizzie Hopley, Wanda Opalinska, Indra Ové, John Ramm, Vineeta Rishi, Sam Stafford, Dan Starkey, Niky Wardley.

The Time War continues to rage around the eighth incarnation of The Doctor, and with fortune, and the conundrum that continues to perplex him in the form of Cass Fermazzi is causing fractures in his personal relationship with his great-grandson Alex; and as the four stories that connect Pursuit play out so the drama of fall out is one of cracks in spirit, and splinters in time.

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

Doctor Who, Energy Of The Daleks. Big Finish Audio Play 1.04. Audio Drama Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 22nd 2012

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Alex Lowe, Mark Benton, Caroline Keiff, Dan Starkey, John Dorney, Nicholas Briggs.

Tom Baker’s incarnation and time as the fourth Doctor was never better than when he faced off against the scourge of Skaro, The Daleks. In Nicholas Briggs’ latest story for Big Finish, Energy Of The Daleks, Tom Baker is once more pitted against one of his greatest enemies and even though it was the first story that was recorded for the return of Tom Baker, there is much to admire in the delivery and the script.

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(448 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Doctor Who, Wirrn Isle. Big Finish 158. Audio Drama Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 28th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Colin Baker, Lisa Greenwood, Tim Bentinck, Jenny Funnell, Tessa Nicholson, Rikki Lawton, Dan Starkey, Helen Goldwyn, Glynn Sweet.

There must be something about the Wirrn that can give dedicated listeners of Doctor Who delicious and nerve wracking nightmares. Add in the almost lonely, desolate feel that you get in William Gallagher’s script for Wirrn Isle and the creeping music that overlays the action and the play becomes a near pinnacle of Colin Baker’s time as the Doctor.

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

Doctor Who: The Snowmen. B.B.C. Television. Christmas 2012. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Richard E. Grant, Dan Starkey, Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart, Tom Ward, Liz White, Sir Ian McKellen, Juliet Cadzow, Joseph Dacey-Alden, Ellie Darcey-Alden, Annabelle Dowler.

What do you do when the girl you meet twice keeps dying? It’s enough to make a good man come out of retirement and regain that boyish inquisitiveness once more.

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(454 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)

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.

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(643 words, estimated 2:34 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.

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