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A Big Finish A Week 19 – The Game

Sport, sport, masculine sport, equips a young man for society… There are a number of cliches about Doctor Who fans that happen to be true. They’re not *as* true now as they used to be (a lot of people now … Continue reading

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A Big Finish A Week 18: Omega

Well, it’s actually more than a fortnight since the last one, but given the circumstances, I hope you can forgive me. (There are a *lot* of people searching for Doctor Who today, aren’t there? And I appear, when I look … Continue reading

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Childe Peter To The Dark Tower Came – The Five Doctors

John Nathan-Turner, the producer of Doctor Who for most of its last decade, gets a bad rap from much of the fanbase. Sometimes this is deserved – some of the worst episodes of the show ever produced were done on … Continue reading

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A Big Finish A Week 15: Spare Parts

One of the things nuWho has done repeatedly since its inception is to base many of its stronger episodes on material from spin-off and ancillary media – it’s no coincidence that Dalek, Human Nature/Family Of Blood and Blink (the three … Continue reading

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A Big Finish A… More Than A Week 13: Zagreus

Sorry this one is ‘slightly’ more than a week after my last BFAW – to make up for it I’m going to review the longest of all the Big Finish stories: Zagreus. In 1973, when Doctor Who was ten years … Continue reading

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