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Big Finish The War Master Deeds Without Name

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The Master releases his memoirs

He’s on the run but can’t resist the attention! Sir Derek Jacobi stars in The War Master: Deeds Without Name, a box set of full-cast audio drama, due for release October 2026.

The Time War era incarnation of the Master, voiced by the devilish Sir Derek Jacobi, returns later this year for four brand-new audio adventures.

Following the events of 2025’s box set His Greatest Trick, the Master is still a fugitive from the war, with Time Lords and Daleks alike out to kill him. But when has that ever stopped him from seeking out more trouble?

In Deeds Without Name, the Master menaces the minds of wealthy retirees, before he dies and is – as always – resurrected. Then, he takes on the energy companies on a distant planet and returns to Earth to publish his tell-all memoir. All in a day’s work.

The Worlds of Doctor Who – The War Master: Deeds Without Name is available to pre-order now for just £24.99 (download to own) or £30.99 (download to own + collector’s edition 4-disc CD box set). Please note: the collector’s edition CD box set is strictly limited to 1,250 copies and will not be re-pressed.

The War Master’s four nefarious new adventures are:

The Unstately Home by Alison Winter

• The super-rich elite residents of Aurora Mansions, a high-tech luxury retirement village and nursing home, have every imaginable comfort and amenity in their golden years. But the Master, posing as a cognitive hypnotherapist, is keen to demonstrate that no amount of money can provide sanctuary from the troubled mind… especially when he’s inside it.

Dead Man’s Pulse by Mark Bowsher

• The Master is dead. For now, at least. But even a dead Time Lord is valuable during a Time War and when a gang of scavengers steal the Master’s body, their ship is targeted by a psychological energy weapon. They are forced to revive the Master to gain his help, but his cooperation comes at a high price…

The Devil in the Detail by David K Barnes

• On a colony world in perpetual night, young scientist Lyle Godwin is determined to give power back to the people. He’s beating the energy companies at their own game – but why does the Master want to help him do it? The devil… is in the detail.

In His Anecdotage by Matthew Sweet

• The Master is publishing his memoirs – You Don’t Know Jackanapes – in which he offers himself as a reformed character and spills secrets from the UNIT years. Talking to veteran investigative journalist Jeannie Keen, she questions him about government cover-ups, and he tells her, out of the blue, that he has seen a UNIT file showing she has a twin sister living in a nursing home in Wexcliffe-on-Sea. Only it’s not a nursing home, it’s a UNIT safe house.The Master offers to team up with Jeannie, apparently interested in helping her with the story. But what is the secret of Ashburton Lodge? And what’s behind the Master’s most unreliable of memoirs?

The guest cast of The War Master: Deeds Without Name includes Kathryn Drysdale (Bridgerton), Carolyn Seymour (Survivors), Sarah Hadland (Miranda), Josh Finan (The Responder), Ben Whitehead (Wallace & Gromit), Chizzy Akudolu (Holby City), and Will Keen (Wolf Hall), plus further names to be announced.

Producer Robert Valentine said: “Deeds Without Name presents four disturbing tales of the Master’s warped exploits – dark deeds and weird sins that will make you shudder, scream… and maybe even laugh. But if you do find any of these stories in the least bit funny… well, that would be very wicked of you indeed.”

Big Finish listeners can save money by pre-ordering Deeds Without Name in a multibuy bundle with the previous War Master box set, October 2025’s His Greatest Trick, for just £48 (download to own) or £58 (download to own + collector’s edition CD), exclusively from www.bigfinish.com.

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