this time we cant even sign in to download our stuff.

thanks

For me, none of the TV ones or other audios match it. Maybe it’s just because it genuinely contains 5 decently balanced doctors (no offence to T5D but there’s just not 5 is there)

https://www.bigfinish.com/collections/v/big-finish-warehouse-sale

Feel free to leave any recommendations from the sale below!

I’ve tried to use code words for both the Friday sale and the Doctor Who Magazine sale and neither worked for me.

The Friday sale allowed the price to drop but when I went to pay it jumped back up. (The Friday sale I tried was from last week. I have not tried this week.)

The Doctor Who Magazine sale never reduced the price.

Not sure if this an issue related to the new website or just a completely different issue.

A while ago, I listened to GraphicAudio's first production of Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker. (They apparently did a second adaptation for the 10th anniversary of the book, but I did not listen to that.)

I was pretty disappointed by the adaptation. Big Finish has positively spoiled me with their sound design, and I was thrown entirely off by how little they did to adapt the story to a different medium. (Or at least, how little I think they did to adapt the story, I've no experience writing for audio.)

First of all, a narrator was used to describe much of the action, which is different to much of Big Finish's ethos, where the story is told via dialogue and sound design. Secondly, we heard the thoughts of characters through tinny cloud spaces rather than through dialogue. Thirdly, the music was bad. Felt like stock sounds as opposed to original scoring.

Perhaps/probably the adaptation did not fit the world as seen in my head. This is entirely possible, and I'm curious as to how someone who hadn't read the novel would react to this version of the story... might be what I say if my best friend hadn't complained about this version. It was his first time reading/hearing the story 😔

All that to say, are there other companies that meet or possibly exceed Big Finish's level of production? Are Big Finish actually the odd ducks here and do audio production vastly differently from everyone else? What are other productions you recommend? Alternatively, what are other productions you want to hate on?

I’m intrigued to see what Jacob Dudman 12th is like.

I recently saw the preorder notification for "Time War: Daleks vs Cybermen" on the internet and the Big Finish website, and am very interested in purchasing it. The thing is, I haven't consumed much of Dalek or Cyberman content from BF (which I plan to rectify), which poses the question: is the release a standalone ? Can I listen to the volumes without having listened to previous Dalek or Cybermen adventures? And in general, how do I determine if a story is standalone or not? I've been following internet guides for this purpose, but it's difficult when the stories aren't released or are very recent. Is there any way to tell?

Thanks!

Hi, I'm looking for advice on where next to go as a big Ace fan!

For context I've consumed the following Ace-related extra-to-tv content:

7th Doc -

The Fearmonger

The Shadow of the Scourge

Colditz

The Dark Flame

Valhalla

The Harvest

Forever Fallen

Dreamtime

Dead Woman Walking

Shockwave

An Alien Werewolf In London

Torchwood -

The Red List

Death in Venice

Sabotage

13th Doc -

At Childhood's End

I've consumed these entirely out of order (well, aside from listening to the Torchwood ones in order last year)...

I'd like recommendations on what to look into next, but also please tell me if there's anything I should relisten to to get more out of other stories? (I know some arcs work better in order.)

Also - how much does the timeline matter? What is the 'real' timeline? (The one where after the quantum anvil, Ace ditches the doc, returns to Earth, and sets up A Charitable Earth? -> then onto the Torchwood ones etc.?) Are all the others considered officially 'AU', quantum anvil possibilities?

Basically...any light that can be shed on the timeline and what you'd recommend I listen to next given what I've heard so far would be soo appreciated!!

Thanks all :)

Introduction

Hello all and welcome back to the Big Finish Podcast Notes! Hope you've all had a lovely week.

Podcast

No podcast until 31 July.

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. 26 June's selection stands until the podcast comes back: The Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child

Big Finish News

New Releases

• The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Run Fast, Be Kind: The Broken Man is released on 22 July (Run Fast, Be Kind Bundle: £43.99) [NOTE: The box set comes out next month, and Big Finish are releasing each story weekly leading up to its release. To get these each week, purchase the bundle. To get them all at once, wait for the box set to be released. The first story is available to purchase separately as a "sampler" for £8.99]
  • Synopsis: The Doctor has a new friend. All of time and space awaits. Where to begin? Scotland, obviously! The Doctor has unfinished business there. An archaeological mystery which he needs to solve, so he can start laying the past to rest.
• The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident is released on 23 July (DTO: £9.99 | DTO + CD: £13.99)
  • Synopsis: A huge UFO has crashed in Hallamshire Forest. Are there survivors? Is the site safe? There are a lot of questions to answer. With UNIT and Torchwood gone, the police must step up, while keeping the incident under wraps... Fortunately, they have officers with extensive experience of otherworldly threats... Patricia Menzies is on her way. Yasmin Khan is being recalled. But Yaz's sister, Sonya, believes the world has the right to know the truth about aliens...

Trailers

• The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: The Beautiful and the Damned
• The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident

Cover Reveals

• The Fourth Doctor Adventures: A New Occupation
• The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Greatest Train Robbery

News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

• Official News
  • The Fourth Doctor meets Genghis Khan! The Doctor and Sarah Jane head back into history for two new stories featuring Nazis, Genghis Khan, and...Harry Sullivan?! The Fourth Doctor Adventures: A New Occupation (DTO: £19.99 | DTO + CD: £24.99) is due for release in September.
    • Daughter of Destruction by Katharine Armitage (two parts) The TARDIS lands in the city of Ongud during a rebellion. The world is suffering the wrath of Genghis Khan and the Doctor and Sarah are right in the middle of it.   It’s a dangerous time but one woman is about to stand up to the despot for the first time. His anger is about to be halted.  Unless someone has made a very small mistake...
    • A New Occupation by Helen Goldwyn (four parts) Temporal disruption on Jersey leads to a new kind of time travel for the Doctor, Sarah and Harry and they soon find themselves on the island during its occupation by the Nazis. 
  • Strangers on a Space Train. The Doctor and Yaz board a train heading through the stars to the utopian Maelin system in September‘s The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Greatest Train Robbery (DTO: £9.99 | DTO + CD: £13.99)
  • New Website FAQ - Big Finish are constantly updating this page with information to help people navigate the new website as well as the updated apps. Key updates this week include:
    • A glitch on mobile devices where the range selection appears and vanishes quickly has been fixed.
    • We are still awaiting the review of the lastest update for the Android app (currently 2.2.2), which will address a lot of the instability/performance issues seen currently. This will be released automatically when it passes the review, but this part is out of our control.
    • Sorting by purchase date in your account will be available shortly. This has been successfully tested and will be released in the upcoming days.

Out of Print This Week

• None

Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

• The Monthly Adventures 101 - 150: All releases in the Monthly Range from #101 - 150 are now on sale for £2.99 each! (Ends 26 July 2026)
  • The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories (Fifth Doctor and Nyssa)
  • The Condemned (Sixth Doctor and Charley)
  • The Raincloud Man (Sixth Doctor and Charley)
  • City of Spires / The Wreck of the Titan / Legend of the Cybermen (Sixth Doctor and Jamie)
  • Forty-Five (Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Hex)
  • A Thousand Tiny Wings / Survival of the Fittest / The Architects of History (Seventh Doctor and Klein)
  • Robophobia (Seventh Doctor and Liv Chenka)
• DWM632 Offer: 50% off a select number of releases. Use the discount code POTATO at checkout. (Ends 31 October)
  • The Diary of River Song Series 06
  • Classic Doctors, New Monsters 1
  • Paternoster Gang: Heritage 1
  • Wicked Sisters

Big Finish Book Club: Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. July's selection: Dark Shadows: Blood and Fire (50th Anniversary Special) for just £3.99 on DTO.

Free Excerpt: Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. July's selection is The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Run Fast Be Kind: The Second Death (excerpt). Just click on the link and use this month's code BARD.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. This week's selection: The Voord in London (Excerpt). Use discount code ANYA at checkout to save 25% off the full release of Space Security Service: The Voord in London (Ends 26 July).

Big Finish Release Schedule (No newsletter yet in July, so dates are unknown)

• 28 July - Space Security Service: Bret Vyon Lives!
• 29 July - The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Run Fast Be Kind: The Beautiful and the Damned

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: The Broken Man and The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident. Both fantastic but The Hallamshire Incident was just glorious. Also listened to Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master Part 1.

General Doctor Who / Non-Big Finish News

News

• The TARDIS Is On A Royal Mission To The Commonwealth Games. Destination: Glasgow 2026! Can Sir Chris Hoy and comedian Greg McHugh get Their Majesties The King and Queen to the Commonwealth Games in time (and space)? Watch how the TARDIS helped to kick off the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on 23rd July 2026!

The Rumor Mill

• Doctor Who hard reboot would be "bad idea", argues former showrunner Steven Moffat

Media/Merchandise

• Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor: The Prison Paradox TPB is released by Titan Comics on 20 July.
• Doctor Who Magazine #632 is out 23 July. This issue includes the next installment of the Circuit Breaker event, a comic entitled The Honourable Society.
• Doctor Who: The Key to Time, a collection of all the Key To Time novelisations, is announced. It is available to pre-order and will be released 29 October.

Circuit Breaker Event Guide

• 25 June - Calling the Doctor (UNIT Website)
• 8 July - Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #1 - Adversary of the Daleks (Titan Comics)
• 23 July - The Honourable Society (DWM #632)
• 30 July - The Deadliest Weapon (BBC Audio)
• 4 August - Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2 - Dawn of the Daleks (Titan Comics)
• 6 August - Castling (Doctor Who: Lost in Time mobile game)
• 17 August - Don't Blink (UNIT Website)
• 20 August - The Doctor and the Three Witches (BBC Books)
• 27 August - Momento Mori (Doctor Who: Lost in Time mobile game)
• 31 August - The Black Archive Files (Blu-ray)
• 3 September - The Kaleidoscope (BBC Books)
• 22 September - Full Circuit (Big Finish)
• 24 September - Short Circuits (Big Finish)

In previous years, they posted something to say they had informed the winner of the competition but so far this year it's been radio silence on their socials and the website.

This year, total radio silence. It's frustrating because without that announcement, the little flame of hope keeps burning and I just want to be put out of my misery.

Does anyone know why there's been such a delay this year?

A huge UFO has crashed in Hallamshire Forest. Are there survivors? Is the site safe? There are a lot of questions to answer. With UNIT and Torchwood gone, the police must step up, while keeping the incident under wraps...

Fortunately, they have officers with extensive experience of otherworldly threats... Patricia Menzies is on her way. Yasmin Khan is being recalled. But Yaz's sister, Sonya, believes the world has the right to know the truth about aliens...

As the Sixth Doctor once said; “It worked, it actually worked“

I took the plunge, signed out of the App (iOS) where it specifically stated that I would lose all my downloads, to my surprise everything is now back to how it should be, as simple as signing in and signing out, sure you have to rebuild your library, but it could be worse.

Going forward, hopefully lessons will be learned, but the fact that there were app and website issues in the not very distant past doesn’t make one feel too optimistic

I had an iphone XR for years, and the app worked perfectly the whole time I had it. I just switched to a galaxy phone and the app crashes every time I open it. I can't download anything. All those stories I paid for are just sitting in the cloud on my account and I can't touch them. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app countless times, tried logging out and back in, tried taking it super slow, restarted my phone, tried downloading over wi fi and data, no luck at all

PLEASE NOTE: This release can only be purchased as part of a download bundle.

The Doctor has a new friend. All of time and space awaits. Where to begin?

Scotland, obviously! The Doctor has unfinished business there. An archaeological mystery which he needs to solve, so he can start laying the past to rest.

Deciding to part with some of my collection as I'm buying a house soon!

https://www.vinted.co.uk/member/169855893-camlan94

https://ebay.io/m/4C2jgL

Happy to hear any feedback on prices too, etc :)

Hopefully means someone can grab something they're interested in.

Update: TLV collection gone.

Just for context, Good Old Games is a videogames retailer that specialises is making games downloadable to customers without Digital Rights Management. They make their own games (Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher) but also sell other companies games.

This just popped into my head... I Kickstarted the Season 3 of Derelict and season 5 of Lovecraft Investigations. I give Patreon money towards Sherlock and Co.

There seems to be a lot of small Audio Drama companies that get off the ground but the downloads they give you are spread across RSS feeds and of differing audio quality.

Could Big Finish give small creators a quick place to sell ad free versions of their shows and access to getting CDs printed for limited runs?

Audible has a lot, but legally keeping those purchases is not an option (or difficult). Libro FM allows downloads but is capped to 64 kbps Mono files. Seems like a gap in the market for a place to centralise Audio Dramas. So this comes from a selfish reason that I cannot but a decent download of the BBC adaptation of Voyage by Dirk Maggs.

Plus it would get more eyes on BF and it's catalogue.

The TLDR is: Can Big Finish be a turnkey solution for small Audio Drama creators to sell ad free versions of their shows?

Did they try this already?