April 4th, 2024
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Big Finish The Death and Life of River Song 01 Last Words
Available to order from www.bigfinish.com
River Song returns from the dead
Alex Kingston stars in The Death and Life of River Song, a brand-new series of full-cast audio dramas, coming soon from Big Finish Productions.
An archaeologist from the 52nd century, born and raised to be an assassin, destined to marry her intended target, and to have many of her own adventures too – Professor River Song’s very messy timeline began (or maybe ended) when she first appeared in the 2008 Doctor Who TV episode Silence in the Library.
Since then, Alex Kingston has reprised the role of River numerous times for Big Finish Productions, including in her own series, The Diary of River Song, which ran from 2015 to 2023. And, starting in August 2024, she will carry on the role in a brand-new series, The Death and Life of River Song.
The first box set in the series, Last Words, is written by Robert Valentine. It begins with River, after settling down to an afterlife in the Library’s computer core, finding herself waking up in Earth’s future, her consciousness having been temporarily transferred to a new body.
Alex Kingston said: “We have gone post-Library! We’ve done another episode in the past where I was within the database, which I loved, and I thought that’s the only way you could go forward with River, given her situation. So, I was actually really surprised when this box set came my way, and that we are now so far advanced in the history of Earth that she is able to be brought out as data and put into a cloned body. So very, very clever!”
Producer David Richardson added: “When every single day during the recording, your leading actress says “This script is brilliant”, you know you’re onto a good thing. Even better, at the end of the last day, Alex popped the script in her bag and announced that she loved Last Words so much she was taking it home to keep and treasure.”
The Death and Life of River Song: Last Words is now available for pre-order exclusively from www.bigfinish.com, either as a collector’s edition four-CD box set, for £29.99, or as a digital download, for £22.99 per volume.
Big Finish listeners can also pre-order a bundle with Last Words as well as Volumes 2 and 3 of The Death and Life of River Song, which are both due for release in 2025, for just £80 (collector’s edition CDs + downloads) or £66 (downloads only).
All the above prices include the special pre-order discount and are subject to change after general release.
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Doctor Stu
April 4th, 2024 - 9:36pmSo what’s the point of finishing the diary series and pretending it was a big thing it being over only to not even give her a break at all. This makes Rivers exit utterly pointless, she’s essentially alive, forever. Go back and be with your husband, there’s no tragedy at all. She’s back, she never died, still exists. What’s the point? The show better ignore this completely as it makes silence and forest of the dead utterly null and void.
Anon
April 6th, 2024 - 5:37pmDo you actually like anything stu?
Rex F
April 6th, 2024 - 11:02pmStu, it’s Big Finish. (That’s the only answer you’ll ever need.)
Doctor Stu
April 7th, 2024 - 1:36pmNot any more, Doctor who’s been in a right state for years now
The Fishmonger
April 7th, 2024 - 3:41pmThe only real surprise is that Jackie Tyler isn’t in it.
Anon
April 7th, 2024 - 6:07pmSo I take it you only watch it to complain about it now stu!
The Fishmonger
April 4th, 2024 - 4:44pmI can hear a dead horse being flogged but I’m here for it.
JR
April 4th, 2024 - 5:26pmLOL. I just finished the final Diary so I was wondering when River would resurface.