May 4th, 2018
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Big Finish The Diary of River Song Volume 5
Available to order from www.bigfinish.com
The Bekdel Test by Jonathan Morris
Animal Instinct by Roy Gill
The Lifeboat and the Deathboat by Eddie Robson
Concealed Weapon by Scott Handcock
Story details to follow soon
Directed By: Ken Bentley
Cast
Alex Kingston (River Song), Geoffrey Beevers (The Master), Eric Roberts (The Master), Derek Jacobi (The Master), Michelle Gomez (Missy)
More cast details soon.
Producer David Richardson
Script Editors Matt Fitton, John Dorney
Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
It’s River Song versus the Masters! Michelle Gomez returns as Missy and Eric Roberts reprises his portrayal of the Master after a 22 year hiatus in the fifth series of The Diary of River Song.
Over the course of four audio series made in arrangement with BBC Studios, River Song (played masterfully by Alex Kingston) has shone alongside several incarnations of the Doctor, including Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Peter Davison and upcoming in August, Tom Baker. But all that is set to change…
In January 2019, River Song will face off against four regenerations of The Master, the mortal enemy of the Doctor, in the fifth series of adventures. And some old (and new) faces are returning…
Alongside Geoffrey Beevers (first playing the Master in Doctor Who TV episode The Keeper of Traken in 1981) and Derek Jacobi (who played the Master in 2008 episode Utopia and continues at Big Finish), Michelle Gomez returns as Missy, who we last saw in the latest Doctor Who series opposite Peter Capaldi.
Plus Eric Roberts, who first crossed paths with Paul McGann’s Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, returns to battle the Doctor’s wife.
Mark your diaries, four new adventures for River Song begin in January 2019…
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toptimelord
May 15th, 2018 - 11:22amRiver Song and The Master’s! This sounds fantastic! But why could it not have been on telly!
Tyler P
May 10th, 2018 - 3:38pmI really like how, in the show, they say “we keep meeting, but in the wrong order” and you assume this is how 10 met River first, then 11, then 12 and River met them 11, 12, 10, but then the audio dramas re-interpret this as River meeting them going backwards down his entire timeline – 11, 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4…
Anonymous
May 13th, 2018 - 4:50am11, 12, 8, 6, 7, 5, 4, 10
Anonymous
May 13th, 2018 - 10:22amWe don’t really know when she first meets Ten in her timeline, do we?
R1ch1e
May 13th, 2018 - 12:36pmShe dies after meeting 10 doesn’t she?
Anonymous
May 13th, 2018 - 1:40pmThey met multiple times.
Anonymous
May 13th, 2018 - 1:49pmI’d say from their interactions in ‘The Time of Angels’ that although he doesn’t know River as well as he will in series 6, he’s met her multiple times before – Amy hasn’t met her so either in his first TARDIS trip in the Eleventh Hour, before he returns to collect her, or as the 10th Doctor. I’d also say that River expects the 10th Doctor to recognise her in Silence in the Library, suggesting that she’s had adventures with him before. She hasn’t met Donna so these adventures must take place for him during the specials year. I’d say that’s definitely something for Big Finish to mine when they can get Tennant in on a more regular basis.
whovian
May 18th, 2018 - 8:47amWhen River meets Ten, she has heard of Donna, but has it been established in the audios when she actually does hear about her? I dont listen to the audios as i cant concentrate on media like that.
DoctorSong2016
May 18th, 2018 - 9:23amThe picnic at Asgard was originally supposed to be with Ten, but then a writer asked if they could do it with the Eleventh Doctor for that River Song prose anthology.
I think she meets them in this order:
Eleven
Ten? (All we know is that from her point of view, she’s met him before she met Eight and has at least had one adventure with him prior to Silence in the Library)
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Twelve
Anonymous
May 7th, 2018 - 12:36pmWhy is the bbc logo so big now
Anonymous
May 7th, 2018 - 12:36pmIt’s actually bigger than the big finish logo
whofan36
May 7th, 2018 - 2:51pmIt really bothers me as it feels like the BBC are trying to take credit for the work Big Finish have done.
Anonymous
May 7th, 2018 - 3:52pmBig finish only exist due to to the BBC original programmes. Doctor who is BBC not big finish.
Anonymous
May 7th, 2018 - 6:29pmYep bbc prog so why not a big bbc logo?
Anonymous
May 7th, 2018 - 10:52pmYeah but
Really does it need to be that big
I mean put it there
But big finish need more credit it’s there stuff from a bbc show
Art before the creator
Anonymous
May 7th, 2018 - 10:52pmAlso the bbc logo is taller than the doctor who logo,
Anonymous
May 7th, 2018 - 11:40pmI’d say it’s pretty clear from its position that it’s referring to the fact that Doctor Who is a BBC property, but I can see what you mean. I suspect the reason is that any other arrangement either makes the BBC logo illegibly small, or looks silly, whereas here the text “BBC Doctor Who” flows as one statement.
Harold Saxon
May 5th, 2018 - 10:07pmI wonder where in Roberts master timeline this took place as one screen he only had a short timeline !
Anonymous
May 6th, 2018 - 11:13amEh.
DoctorSong2016
May 6th, 2018 - 1:54pmI guess it’s either during the events of the movie or they’re retconning him into having a longer existence.
Phillip
May 6th, 2018 - 8:25pmHe was in the 8th Doctors Tardis, no reason he couldn’t have darted off for a lifetime and then came back a split second later:)
Philip
May 7th, 2018 - 3:26pmThe 8th Drs TARDIS was stuck so the Master was going nowhere, probably scooped up by Rassilons triangle, or hitched a lift from a passing Vogan ship !
TORCHWOODFAN1
May 5th, 2018 - 9:02pmAre the Shakri from the Power of Three in one of these stories, as the cover is littered with Cubes?
Anonymous
May 6th, 2018 - 2:10amPossibly,but they could be time Lord memory cubes
Phillip
May 5th, 2018 - 3:23pmDay one.
Harold Saxon
May 5th, 2018 - 1:38pmMight have been too many if they had used 7 masters in this production !
Harold Saxon
May 5th, 2018 - 1:30pmIs the james Dreyfus master before delagado?
Doctorfan
May 5th, 2018 - 2:21pmyes the james dreyfus master is the very 1st incarnation
Harold Saxon
May 5th, 2018 - 9:20amThat’s fabulous ! Only 2 masters missing McQueen & Simm and you have all living masters on it ! This is gonna be a blast ! I don’t know a story where river song met any masters !
whofan36
May 5th, 2018 - 12:03pmYou forgot James Dreyfus
Philip
May 5th, 2018 - 8:29amLets hope Eric Roberts has DREZZZED for the occasion !
Anonymous
May 4th, 2018 - 9:47pmSo have and got Capaldi licence yet
I just want them to get the whole era and have no boundaries
VeryFactualDalek
May 4th, 2018 - 10:24pmThey got the Capaldi license ages ago they just don’t have any huge plans and Capaldi wants to take a break for a while
DoctorSong2016
May 5th, 2018 - 9:15amTechnically they’ve already got the licence for the Jodie era too, they’re just not allowed to use it until she’s gone, because I think how it works now is that there’s a Licence for stuff that’s no longer onscreen and then a licence for what is currently on screen, so they got use of Capaldi after Twice Upon a Time aired.
booboo
May 5th, 2018 - 9:22amand of course its only of use if Peter Capaldi wants to do them if you want the actual actor in the part
Harold Saxon
May 5th, 2018 - 1:28pmWonder what will happen with simm or if he will return on screen again ? Or to big finish audio ?
Anonymous
May 4th, 2018 - 9:46pmI honestly loved the two masters and WEAT and TDF
Best parts where the masters interacting
Will be buying for that again, nothing beat a multi master story
Only where is McQueen,
Anonymous
May 5th, 2018 - 3:31amI imagine they are trying to encourage many tv-exclusive fans to buy this, adding in an external media-only version of incarnation may be even more confusing.
Doctorfan
May 4th, 2018 - 6:01pmi hope one of the stories includes all 4 masters, missy better make comments on beevers master’s appearence and robert’s master’s creepy eyes
Gordon
May 4th, 2018 - 1:03pmIt’s amazing they got Eric Roberts back. Hopefully they can get him to a rematch with Paul McGann at some point
VeryFactualDalek
May 9th, 2018 - 4:26amThey have no plans currently but will see how this boxset does and if Eric wants to do more
Pip
May 4th, 2018 - 11:09amRiver vs Missy… Would have liked to have seen that in screen, what a story that would be! Both of them loving the Doctor in their own unique way, one who tried to kill him but changed and one who is still struggling over whether to kill him or not.
Anonymous
May 4th, 2018 - 9:07amBig Finish are brilliant at producing stories like this this that, for all sorts of reasons, could never be done on T.V. This line up is a thing of dreams. On top of the amazing ideas, they are not half bad at producing amazing scripts either.