Michael Keating

The Turing Test by Simon Guerrier is the first adventure from the first box-set, released in February 2012, of The Liberator Chronicles, a range of enhanced Blakes 7 audios from the stables of Big Finish.  This first episode was released in standalone format during the 2014 “12 Days of Big Finish-Mas” […]

B7LC 1.01 – The Turing Test

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Having finished listening to the first season of Big Finish‘s full-cast audio Blakes 7 adventures, with Caged effectively tying up that series of adventures, the only other full-cast episode I have at the moment is the opening episode of season 2 : Scimitar.  Season 2 is set during the third […]

B7 2.01 – Scimitar

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The previous adventure, Cold Fury, ended on the cliffhanger of Travis on board the Liberator demanding Blake’s surrender.  The final adventure of Big Finish‘s first season of full-cast Blakes 7 adventures opens with Blake having his wounds patched up by Cally, whilst Jenna and Avon are being subjected to Travis’ […]

B7 1.06 – Caged

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Following on almost directly after the previous adventure, Mirror, Cold Fury opens with Vila having apparently escaped Travis’ grasp just long enough to send an audio signal with location beacon to the Liberator.  He’s then locked up again, and suffers Travis asking him to tell him something which Vila is […]

B7 1.05 – Cold Fury

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  Following on from the previous adventure, Drones, Mirror, by Peter Anghelides, is the fourth in the first series of full-cast Blakes 7 audio adventures from Big Finish.  Released in April 2014, Drones features all surviving members of the original Blakes 7 cast ably assisted by Alistair Lock as Orac […]

B7 1.04 – Mirror

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The third adventure in the first series of Big Finish‘s Blakes 7 full-cast audio adventures, Drones by Marc Platt, follows on directly from the previous adventure, Battleground.  Released in March 2014, Drones features all surviving members of the original Blakes 7 cast ably assisted by Alistair Lock as Orac and […]

B7 1.03 – Drones

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Set after Fractures, Battleground is the second full-cast audio adventure of Blakes 7 from Big Finish, not-counting the 2013 Warship adventure.  Written by Andrew Smith and released in February 2014, Battleground features all surviving members of the original Blakes 7 cast. Blake (Gareth Thomas) is tracking down Alexa Michelov (Abigail […]

B7 1.02 – Battleground

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Blake’s 7 – The Early Years from b7media is a follow-up series of adventures using some of the same cast and writers of their previous series Blake’s 7 – The Audio Adventures, also featuring some of the actors from the original televised Blake’s 7 series.  These adventures were released as […]

Blake’s 7 – The Early Years : 1. When Vila ...

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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 documentary/interviews from the Big Finish Blake’s 7 adventure Warship is well worth a listen.  There’s a little bit too much of “we don’t often meet each other, but everyone’s wonderful” and “the script was wonderful”.  In fact, everything was “wonderful”. However, between all of that, there’s some fun input […]

Blake’s 7 : Warship, cont’d

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Warship, from 2013, was Big Finish‘s first full-cast audio adventure of Blake’s 7. Starring the late Gareth Thomas as Blake, together with Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette, and Jacqueline Pearce, all returning to their roles as Avon, Vila, Cally, Jenna, and Servalan, and joined by Alistair Lock […]

Blake’s 7 : Warship

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