Monthly archives: May 2017

Liberator is the third episode of Blake’s 7 – The Audio Adventures by b7media.  Whereas Rebel retold the opening episodes of the TV series, and Traitor gave us three mini-stories in one, Liberator does what it says on the tin. Servalan begins to understand the power and the might of the […]

Blake’s 7 – The Audio Adventures : 3. Liberator

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In Rebel, the first episode of Blake’s 7 – The Audio Adventures by b7media, the new cast effectively took us through an abridged version of the televised episodes The Way Back, Space Fall, and Cygnus Alpha, whilst missing out great chunks of what made those episodes great on TV. This […]

Blake’s 7 – The Audio Adventures : 2. Traitor

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Blake’s 7 – A Rebellion Reborn is a series of Blake’s 7 adventures by b7media recorded between 2007-2010 and released in a collected set by Big Finish in 2013 as a 10-CD box-set comprising Blake’s 7 – The Audio Adventures and Blake’s 7 – The Early Years.  The idea of recasting […]

Blake’s 7 – The Audio Adventures : 1. Rebel

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Other than their first full-cast Blake’s 7 adventure Warship, this is my first proper experience of Big Finish’s range of Blake’s 7 audio adventures.  Released in January 2014, Fractures sees the return of as many of the original cast members of Blake’s 7 as were available at the time.  We […]

B7 1.01 – Fractures

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The Ghost Trap is a 2015 release from Big Finish‘s “Short Trips” range, and is the first time I’ve experienced this version of the range.  Short Trips are effectively narrated audiobooks by a key cast member.  The narration lasts for around a half-hour, and has some additional audio effects to […]

DWST5.04 – The Ghost Trap

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This month’s special price offering from Big Finish, under their monthly The Listeners revisit, sees the return of Sgt Benton in the Doctor Who range The Companion Chronicles entitled Council of War by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris from 2013. Sgt Benton is almost the forgotten member of U.N.I.T. after the Brigadier, […]

Council of War

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The Prophet in the Rain continues with Holmes and Watson leaving the funeral and heading towards Holmes’ secret HQ when they notice a car following them.  They meet, in the interminable rain, an enemy they’ve run into before – a Mrs Edgar Curbishley (Tracey Childs).  I’m not familiar with this […]

5.01 The Prophet in the Rain, cont’d

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The Prophet in the Rain by Jonathan Barnes is a Sherlock Holmes story set post-war, in 1921, starring Nicholas Briggs and Richard Earl from the Big Finish audio adventures range.  It’s offered as a free download to get a taster for the Big Finish box-set of The Sacrifice of Sherlock […]

5.01 The Prophet in the Rain

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The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner ends well, with Holmes “solving” the mystery of the haunting woman.  It’s an adventure whereby the journey is arguably better than the destination, because there isn’t really much of a mystery to solve. The story ends with a link to Holmes’ final Conan Doyle […]

The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner, cont’d

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