Big Finish Productions Releases For June 2011

DOCTOR WHO 148. RAT TRAP
Author: Tony Lee, Director: Ken Bentley
Starring PETER DAVISON Also starring JANET FIELDING, MARK STRICKSON and SARAH SUTTON

A new adventure in time and space for the Fifth Doctor and his companions Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa.

1983: as the country goes to the polls, two ‘Urban Explorers’, together with a freelance journalist, break into the long-defunct Cadogan Tunnels, once a secret wartime facility… and later, so rumour has it, the site of an experimental laboratory with a nasty sideline in vivisection. What they find, in its twisting underground corridors, is something the most cynical conspiracy theorist could never have imagined: a highly-evolved society of questing, intelligent creatures, living right under humanity’s nose for decades. But there’s no way out of the tunnels – as the Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough are about to discover when the TARDIS brings them, too, into the complex. It’s a rat trap – and they’ve all been caught!

DOCTOR WHO: THE LOST STORIES 2.5 ANIMAL
Author: Andrew Cartmel, Director: Ken Bentley
Starring SYLVESTER McCOY with ANGELA BRUCE, and BETH CHALMERS as RAINE CREEVY

A new adventure in time and space for the Seventh Doctor and his companion Raine.

The Lost Stories… Adventures that were originally written for the Doctor Who television series but never made. Now available to hear for the first time…Margrave University in 2001, and Raine Creevy is enjoying her first trip into the future. For the Doctor, there are mysteries to solve: what are the alien creatures imprisoned in the science labs? And what are the true motives of the student Scobie and his followers? With enemies on all sides, the Doctor teams up with his old friend Brigadier Bambera and the forces of UNIT in a battle for the future of the whole world.

DOCTOR WHO: THE COMPANION CHRONICLES – 5.12 THE COLD EQUATIONS
Author: Simon Guerrier, Director: Lisa Bowerman
Performed by PETER PURVES as Steven Taylor with TOM ALLEN as Oliver Harper

A new adventure with the First Doctor, as told by his companion, Steven.

In the remnant of a shattered satellite, far above the ruined planet Earth, Steven Taylor and Oliver Harper are dying. As time runs out, they face their pasts…and a secret long kept is revealed. The borrowed time is elapsing, and they realize they are facing an enemy that cannot be defeated. The cold, hard facts of science.

 

JAGO & LITEFOOT – SERIES 3 BOX SET
Author: Justin Richards, Matthew Sweet, John Dorney, Andy Lane, Director: Lisa Bowerman
Starring CHRISTOPHER BENJAMIN and TREVOR BAXTER With LOUISE JAMESON, CONRAD ASQUITH and LISA BOWERMAN

A third series of the spin-off, featuring the Victorian adventurers first seen in classic Doctor Who story The Talons of
Weng-Chiang.

When time breaks appear across Victorian London, Jago and Litefoot are joined in their investigations by their old friend Leela of the Sevateem. What is the mystery of the Wet Men? Who are the ghosts that haunt the New Regency Theatre? And what are the alien objects that invade Litefoot’s home? As the pieces of the puzzle come together, the stage is set for a battle to save time itself.

DARK SHADOWS – 17. THE CREEPING FOG
Author: Simon Guerrier, Director: Darren Gross
Featuring DAVID SELBY as QUENTIN COLLINS and MATTHEW WATERHOUSE as JOHN CUNNINGHAM

“I heard voices…”

London, 1941. Quentin Collins need not fear the bombing because he is immortal, but there’s much else to be scared of. The voices of his past will not rest still, the ghosts of those he’s lost. And there are other voices, too, a creeping fog reaching out to him…Taking refuge in an old museum will not help Quentin either, for the museum has ghosts of its own. More voices reaching out through the darkness…

DARK SHADOWS – 18. THE LOST GIRL
Author: D Lynn Smith, Director: Darren Gross
Featuring KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT as JOSETTE

“Hope is His cruellest torment.”

Josette Du Pres Collins gambled her soul, and lost it, in an ill-conceived bid to destroy her rival, Angelique. Now the Dark Lord has sent his emissary to bring Josette to her place in Hell. Only a last-minute intervention can give her a final
chance at redemption. But, as Josette struggles to win back her soul, she realizes that her guide’s life, and soul, are inexorably intertwined with her own. And so, as the sands of time flow, Josette begins her final journey…

DRAMA SHOWCASE 1.04 – UNINTELLIGENT DESIGN
Author: Geoffrey Beevers, Director: Lisa Bowerman
Performed by GEOFFREY BEEVERS, TOBY HADOKE and DAISY ASHFORD

“It’s not the end of the world…well, I suppose, literally, it is.”

A research student goes to his tutor in despair, his whole world on the verge of collapse. His project is evolving badly. Should he have tried a more intelligent design? Is it too late for his tutor to save him. Meanwhile they await the results of the competition for the most prestigious science prize of all time…