Pointless Witterings

Starring Paul McGann, India Fisher & Michael Sheard Written by Paul Magrs Directed by Gary Russell The Doctor and Charley decide to take a well-deserved break from the monotony of being chased, shot at and generally suffering anti-social behaviour at the hands of others. And so they end up in Venice, well into Charley's future, as the great city prepares to sink beneath the water for the last time... Which would be a momentous, if rather dispiriting event to witness in itself. However, the machinations of a love-sick aristocrat, a proud art historian and a rabid High Priest of a really quite dodgy cult combine to Venice's swansong a night to remember. And then there's the rebellion by the web-footed amphibious underclass, the mystery of a disappearing corpse and the truth behind a curse going back further than curses usually do. The Doctor and Charley are forced to wonder just what they have got themselves involved with this time... The next instalment of...

Written by David Whitaker Based on the TV story The Daleks by Terry Nation The mysterious Doctor and his granddaughter Susan are joined by unwilling adventurers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright in an epic struggle for survival on an alien planet. In a vast metal city they discover the survivors of a terrible nuclear war - the Daleks. Held captive in the deepest levels of the city, can the Doctor and his new companions stop the Daleks' plan to totally exterminate their mortal enemies, the peace-loving Thals? More importantly, even if they can escape from the Daleks, will Ian and Barbara ever see their home planet Earth again? Doctor Who literature has as diverse and interesting an history as the television programme itself. Many novels (such as Time And Relative, Goth Opera, The Nightmare Fair, Timewrym: Genesys or The Auton Invasion) have claim to many prestigious first. Others (like Love And War and The Ancestor Cell) have had a resonating effect upon the Who...

Starring Paul McGann, India Fisher & Bruce Montague Written & Directed by Nicholas Briggs The human race is locked in deadly combat with the 'Android Hordes' in the Orion System. Light years from the front line, the Doctor and Charley arrive to sample the dubious delights of a galactic backwater, little suspecting that the consequences of the Orion War might reach them there. But High Command's lust for victory knows no bounds. Trapped aboard a mysterious, derelict star destroyer, the Doctor and Charley find themselves facing summary execution. But this is only the beginning of their troubles. The real danger has yet to awaken. Until, somewhere in the dark recesses of the Garazone System, the Cybermen receive the signal for reactivation... After the breathlessly exciting, but ultimately traditional, first story Storm Warning, Big Finish decided to follow it up with another traditional story, filtered for 2001. While Sword Of Orion does use one of the m...

Starring Paul McGann, India Fisher & Gareth Thomas Written by Alan Barnes Directed by Gary Russell October, 1930. His Majesty's Airship, the R101, sets off on her maiden voyage to the farthest-flung reaches of the British Empire, carrying the brightest lights of the Imperial fleet. Carrying the hopes and dreams of a breathless nation. Not to mention a ruthless spy with a top-secret mission, a mysterious passenger who appears nowhere on the crew list, a would-be-adventuress destined for the Singapore Hilton... and a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. There's a storm coming. There's something unspeakable, something with wings, crawling across the stern. Thousands of feet high in the blackening sky, the crew of the R101 brace themselves. When the storm breaks, their lives won't be all that's at stake... The future of the galaxy will be hanging by a thread. The very first Paul McGann audio from Big Finish had a huge job to do. After all, it had to r...

Starring Paul McGann, Lalla Ward, Andrew Sachs, James Fox, Susannah Harker, Sean Biggerstaff, Hannah Gordon, Melvyn Hayes & John Leeson as the Voice of K9. Written by Douglas Adams Adapted & Directed by Nicholas Pegg The Doctor has a spot of unfinished business. Reunited with his old friends, Romana and K9, he answers a summons from Professor Chronotis, a retired Time Lord now living the academic life in a Cambridge college. But the Doctor isn't the only visitor to Cambridge. Somewhere in the city is the sinister alien Skagra, who is intent on stealing an ancient and mysterious book brought to Earth by the Professor many years before. What is Skagra's diabolical masterplan? And who or what is the mysterious Shada? To discover the truth, the Doctor and his friends must embark on a perilous journey that will take them from the cloisters of Cambridge to the farthest reaches of deep space, risking deadly encounters with a sentient spaceship, the monstrous ...

I've not known anything other than the EU. Having been born after John Major left power, but before the tragic death of Princess Diana, I have only ever really experienced Britain as a major player in the European game, which it always was, particularly with regards to the many conflicts that were prevalent throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries. However, on the 23rd June (the day after I inch a bit closer to becoming a full adult by turning 19), the whole of the country could be seismically changed. For if Britain votes to leave the EU, and attempt to stand on it's own two feet, I feel we could end up making a massive mistake, and Britain could be plunged back into the kind of true uncertainty that dominated the governments of the 50's and 60's. Any future prosperity would be put on a knife edge, simply because of this perceived power shift that could occur, and some jingoistic notion of Britain 'standing tall' again. I certainly believe that it'...

Since it's release a few months ago, Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn Of Justice has been metaphorically slated by critics and fans alike. Many people say it's lazily plotted, with huge gaps in logic, poor acting and terrible dialogue. But, to be honest, is it really as bad as people say it is? No. And in fact, there was a time when it's was fine to like the movie. It's opening weekend split opinion, but it wasn't hated universally. Now, however, it seems perfectly ok to rip into the film, with many believing it to be DC's greatest mistake, even more so than 2010's Green Lantern. However, I still feel that Dawn Of Justice is not as bad as people say it is. Now, this isn't a review, I want to make this clear. A review would look at both positives and negatives, but I won't be looking at the negatives here. That would do no one any good, and besides, I'm trying to convince you that it's a good film. It would do no good if I just started to pick holes ...