August 21st, 2020 14 comments

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Big Finish The Diary of River Song Volume 8

Due for release in January 2021, Alex Kingston stars in The Diary of River Song series eight–four new full-cast audio dramas featuring the Doctor’s wife on her travels through time and space.

Time-travelling archaeologist and adventurer River Song has met many of the Doctor’s incarnations on screen, plus even more in audio, and in this latest series she will run into a few more characters very familiar to Big Finish Doctor Who listeners.

As exclusively revealed in Doctor Who Magazine issue 555 (in shops from 20 August 2020), Alex Kingston is back in The Diary of River Song series eightalongside Salome Haertel (as android Rachel), Derek Griffiths (as 24thcentury war criminal, Annam Henic), John Leeson (as the Doctor’s favourite robot dog, K9) Tracy Wiles (as robot cat, FE-LINE) and Nicholas Briggs as The Mechonoids. Plus, in a spectacular return to the worlds of Doctor Who, Big Finish regular Jane Slavin reprises the role of Anya Kingdom, Space Security Service officer, who this time is on a rescue mission with a difference.

The Diary of River Song series eight is now available to pre-order at the special price of £24.99as a collector’s edition four-disc CD box set or £19.99as a download, exclusively from the Big Finish website: www.bigfinish.com. It’s River and robots! Professor River Song is an expert in many things, but her tech skills are tested in these encounters with robotic friends and foes.Over the course of four episodes River will battle Mechonoids on an ice world, meet K9 in a ‘forever home’… and help a treasured android friend discover her destiny in the stars.

The box set comprises four new adventures:

• Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow by James Goss
• A Brave New Worldby Tracy Ann Baines
• A Forever Homeby Alfie Shaw
• Queen of the Mechonoids by Jonathan Morris

The Diary of River Song series eightcan now be pre-ordered exclusively from the Big Finish website at the special price of £24.99as a collector’s edition four-disc CD box set or £19.99as a download.

Alex Kingston will be reunited with her TV husband David Tennant in the forthcoming Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor and River Song, which is also available to pre-order now and is due for release in November 2020.

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