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Favourite Big Finish audios
Feb. 18th, 2025 10:13 pmMusing some of my all time favourite Big Finish audios. There are so many to choose from! But here are 9 of them.
Current listening. Big Finish, but I still daren’t use their old iOS app to download new audios. Because it isn’t coping well with large (500+) libraries like mine (700 ish). I have lots of old audios already downloaded in it, and it works well for those. But it isn’t safe again yet for downloading new releases. They are not making a great job of fixing this problem. Tonight I am using the free BookPlayer app.
Current listening. I love this pairing, of Bernice Summerfield and the Unbound Doctor. Though the backwards storytelling in this story isn't a great fit for me. It's the first in a trilogy, with James Marsters' Captain John (from Torchwood) and Derek Jacobi's Master to look forward to in the next episode. Which is already newly out. But I have to listen to this first one first!
I'm also planning to resume my paused listen through of all the early Bernice Summerfield audios from Big Finish. She was their original audio starring character, before they got the full rights to Doctor Who.
I'm also planning to resume my paused listen through of all the early Bernice Summerfield audios from Big Finish. She was their original audio starring character, before they got the full rights to Doctor Who.
More information has been released about this today, including details of new cast members, and a little bit more about plot. For full details see here.
Leading the series are Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, though not playing their previous Doctor Who characters of Alonso and Tish. Also present are UNIT's Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and Colonel Ibrahim (Alexander Devrient). Also returning are Ruth Madeley's UNIT scientific officer Shirley Bingham, and Colin McFarlane's US Army general Austin Pierce from Torchwood: Children of Earth.
The series focuses on how Earth copes when the Doctor is not around (*cough cough* Fourteenth Doctor *cough cough*). And the baddies in this series are the Sea Devils. Who recently appeared in a very poor Jodie Whittaker episode of Doctor Who. But were visually awesome. So fingers crossed for better this time.
Filming is underway, and will continue through to at least December. The series is intended to air on the BBC and iPlayer in the UK, and on Disney+ in the rest of the world.
Leading the series are Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, though not playing their previous Doctor Who characters of Alonso and Tish. Also present are UNIT's Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and Colonel Ibrahim (Alexander Devrient). Also returning are Ruth Madeley's UNIT scientific officer Shirley Bingham, and Colin McFarlane's US Army general Austin Pierce from Torchwood: Children of Earth.
The series focuses on how Earth copes when the Doctor is not around (*cough cough* Fourteenth Doctor *cough cough*). And the baddies in this series are the Sea Devils. Who recently appeared in a very poor Jodie Whittaker episode of Doctor Who. But were visually awesome. So fingers crossed for better this time.
Filming is underway, and will continue through to at least December. The series is intended to air on the BBC and iPlayer in the UK, and on Disney+ in the rest of the world.
Big Finish downloaded
Aug. 6th, 2024 08:18 amDecided to sit up and get all the remaining Big Finish DRM-free files while I still can. These are for nearly 700 audio plays I have bought from Big Finish since 2003. Mostly Doctor Who, but also Torchwood, Sapphire & Steel, Blake's 7 and many more (like a marvellous version of The Box of Delights!). Big Finish have majorly broken their website and app in last week's update. So I don't trust them, and realised I should have backups of everything. Luckily it's feasible for me to do this now, with part fibre speedier broadband. So I've now downloaded 440GB worth of MP3 files and Apple lossless audiobook files. Have started backing them up to our NAS and my desktop Mac. And Martin is going to help me with a Unix-type script to rename the individual audiobook folders to the proper names, rather than their ISBNs they currently have. But phew. Yes, all down. I even in the end went through the achingly slow 140 pages of 5 titles at a time, making sure that I had downloaded everything that I wanted. The site is still a mess. I am still missing some ordered items I should have access to. Especially recent orders. But hey, got what I can for now. Happy!
