Launched in secret, The Human Frontier is a sleeper ship carrying over a thousand settlers. The world they’re heading for is uninhabited, light years away and the crew, fitted with neural AI assistants, are ready for whatever it throws at them. They tell themselves they’re ready… Written and directed by Big Finish’s Nicholas Briggs, The Human Frontier closes out …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Regular readers of The Lid will know my fondness for audio drama in all …
Big Finish have, for a ridiculous amount of time, been turning out some extraordinarily good, ambitious Doctor Who audio drama. As we all settle in for an extended lockdown, they’re diving into that library to release a new episode, for free, every Monday. Firstly, register for an account with them and then check the Weekly …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you like it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori) and Sebastian Vaughan (Hugh Skinner) are recruited into Torchwood at …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 1st March 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Doctor Who: The Astrea Conspiracy Aphra Behn is sitting …
Torchwood was a very odd TV show. Over it’s four years it covered everything from alien fight clubs and the only Kaiju under Cardiff to Welsh cannibals, searingly clever social science fiction and the end of death. It was wildly uneven, often awful, often good, occasionally incredible. It’s final season, Miracle Day, was Torchwood to a tee; …
Last weekend, as well as co-running the awesome redcloak team with Marguerite, I was on a panel at Fantasycon. ‘Sounds Like A Good Story’, designed by Richard Webb, did a great job of letting us talk about the attractions of audio fiction of all sorts and it was a really fun hour. It was also …