Synopsis:

A new four-disc release featuring four tales from readers associated with the First Doctor era, and a second actor.

The Sleeping Blood by Martin Day:

When the Doctor falls ill, Susan is forced to leave the safety of the TARDIS behind. Exploring a disused research centre in search of medical supplies, she becomes embroiled in the deadly plans of a terrorist holding an entire world to ransom – and the soldier sent to stop him.

The Unwinding World by Ian Potter:

Office life is tough, the commute is a grind, nothing works quite as well as you’d like. Vicki seems to remember things being better once, before the little flat. It’s time she put some excitement back in her life. It’s just a shame the Doctor can’t help.

The Founding Fathers by Simon Guerrier:

The TARDIS lands in Leicester Square in the summer of 1762. When the Doctor, Steven and Vicki find themselves locked out of the TARDIS, only one man can possibly help them. But the American, Benjamin Franklin, has problems of his own…

The Locked Room by Simon Guerrier:

Steven Taylor left the Doctor and the TARDIS to become king of an alien world. But it’s now many years since he gave up the throne and went to live in a cell in the mountains, out of sight of his people. He’s not escaping his past – quite the opposite, in fact. As his granddaughter, Sida, is about to discover…

 

Written By: Martin Day, Simon Guerrier, Ian Potter

Directed By: Lisa Bowerman

 

Cast:

Carole Ann Ford, Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves, Alix Dunmore, Alice Haig, Darren Strange

Producers David Richardson & Ian Atkins (The Sleeping Blood)

Script Editor Jacqueline Rayner

Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs

 

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We have exciting news for any fan of our main Doctor Who range – a journey into time to the year 2020!

Recently we were delighted to announce a new license with the BBC to produce Doctor Who audio stories through to March 2020. Since that happy and proud day for us, we’ve been able to confirm some stunning new ranges and releases, such as Doctor Who – Doom Coalition, Torchwood, more Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures and UNIT – The New Series, with more to come.

But that’s not to neglect our hugely popular and long-running main range of Doctor Who stories. Today this range is extended through to March 2020, when the two hundredth and sixty second story will be released! We’re also marking the event by creating eight separate ranges, one for each Big Finish Doctor, so that you can find your favourites as easily as possible, with Bundles set up to make buying a specific Doctor a little easier…

While all our existing subscriptions remain available for the main range and the new stories (along with the free PDF scripts, extended extras on download, and fourDoctor Who -Subscriber Short Trips a year they give), for this month only, we’re making available a special extended subscription on both CD and Download. Thissubscription, priced at £350 for CD, £325 for Download, runs for 42 stories, starting from anywhere the listener requires between story #216 and story #221. If you’re able to start from #221 then you’ll be placing an order for every single one of these newly announced Doctor Who stories from January 2017 to March 2020! And it does, of course, come with all the extras, at savings of well over £200 on either format!

The offer is for this month only, and ends on July 1st. So strike while you can!

The latest teaser for our Doctor Who main range went live this morning with a trailer for September’s Doctor Who – Terror of the Sontarans. While on websiteKasterborous, they’ve just run an article where their writers pick their 12 favourites…

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With our main Doctor Who range seeing its 200th release this month, we go back exactly halfway for the June Listeners title…

Doctor Who – 100 is the chosen Listeners title this month, available until 1st July on Download for £2.99, with Colin Baker and the much-missed Maggie Stables as the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn:

Four one-part stories:

1. 100 BC by Jacqueline Rayner

The Doctor and Evelyn arrive in Rome, 101 BC, approximately, October. They meet a young lady of 19, Aurelia. She mentions her husband – Julius Caesar. Evelyn is excited, but her excitement soon turns to confusion. Surely you can’t heal a wound in time with just a bit of sticking plaster?

2. My Own Private Wolfgang by Robert Shearman

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Born in 1756, a veritable wunderkind – playing music for the crowned heads of Europe as an infant, composing by the time he was five years old. But it’s tempting to wonder whether his amazing longevity has overshadowed his creative genius – would Mozart’s music be better respected, maybe, if he’d died as a young man? Would he be a legend of music, rather than of scientific curiosity, if he’d never lived to compose the film score for the remake of The Italian Job?

3. Bedtime Story by Joseph Lidster

Once upon a time… Jacob Williams is going to tell the tale of Sleeping Beauty but he realises he has told that one too many times so, instead, tells of how he once met this man called the Doctor… It’s a tale of love and death and a family with a terrifying secret…

4. The 100 Days of the Doctor By Paul Cornell

Someone has assassinated the Doctor. And he only has 100 days to find out who did it.

Discussion on Doctor Who – 100 will happen on a dedicated Big Finish forum thread here. If you’ve never heard the release before, or even if you’re well familiar with it, all opinions and observations are very welcome!

Doctor Who – The Secret History is the two hundredth title in Big Finish’s main range of Doctor Who releases. An exclusive preview of episode one will be available soon to subscribers to our newsletter, while as ever, subscribers to the range not only get significant money saving on the titles they buy, but also free PDF scripts, extended extras on download, and four exclusive Doctor Who – Subscriber Short Trips a year!

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