Audio Drama Archives

It's a blatant excuse for a get-together, but it all works perfectly and is simply a ripping good yarn! And those were delightful studio days." Doctor Who: The Five Companions, a full-cast audio drama, can now be downloaded free here. It's Doctor Who Day! To mark 61 years since our favourite TV show began, Big Finish[...]

What does that mean? Keep reading. "Doctor Who", Jodie Whittaker in Shutdown, BBC Former Doctor Who Actors Get to Continue Playing Their Doctors In the old days, before the internet and especially before social media, former Doctor Who stars would regenerate out of the show (or, in the final two instances of the classic era, get fired and[...]

Now that Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin have signed up to star in their own Doctor Who audio drama serials for Big Finish, the field is set for them to produce more team-up stories featuring both of them banding together Both Doctors are already quite popular and many fans feel they never got their due[...]

You probably haven't heard, but the prolific Lily Rabe (from multiple seasons of American Horror Story and most recently on Presumed Innocent) stars in a new Science Fiction audio drama podcast series called Sanctuary, now out on Apple podcasts and all the platforms The podcast series hit #1 on Apple's charts on Tuesday This the[...]

This November, the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday take off on two new Doctor Who audio adventures, narrated by Susan Twist & Genesis Lynea.

The thing about Doctor Who is there are always stories to tell, and fans always think about the stories that could still be told, and Big Finish has certainly filled that gap to become a successful company producing audio dramas featuring past Doctors and companions Now, apart from the largely forgotten Doctor Who: Death Comes[...]

Before the series was revived in 2005, one attempt to give them a grand sendoff was in fact produced by the BBC and streamed online as an audio drama in 2001 Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time starred McCoy and Aldred, and it was very weird It ignored a lot of continuity of the TV[...]

Jon Hamm will star in and executive produce a new audio drama thriller series called Dungeon Masters, which will be produced by QCode and Smile and Twilight producer Temple Hill The series is created, written, and directed by journalist and author David Kushner, based on his research and writing about the table-top RPG Dungeons & Dragons, inspired by[...]

Bosch creator Micheal Connelly has made his first stab at Horror with The Safe Man, an audio drama released by Audible starring Titus Welliver and Jack Quaid Originally a short story written for an anthology in 2011, Connelly expanded it into a feature script with his friend Terrill Lee Lankford before turning it into a[...]

I've Become a True Villainess is the first audio drama series from digital comics and novel publisher Manta in a co-production with Meet Cute Rebecca Rose plays a nameless graduate student who dies in a car crash and wakes up as the villainess in the romantic fantasy (or romantasy) novel she had been reading Now,[...]

Bestselling author Michael Connelly is best known for his crime novels and the expanding "Bosch" television universe, and The Safe Man is his first foray into audio drama The 2012 story was originally written for an anthology where authors were briefed to write a story not in the genres they were known for, and Connelly[...]

Michael Connelly, the creator of the Bosch series of books – and now television series and spinoffs – is venturing into the realm of audio drama with the Audible adaptation of his 2012 short story The Safe Man The story is Connelly's first (and so far, only) foray into the supernatural – where a reclusive[...]

I've Become A True Villainess, the popular "romantasy" by Flowing HonEy from webcomic and webnovel platform Manta is getting an audio drama series adaptation in a groundbreaking collaboration with Meet Cute, a leading fiction podcast production studio Scheduled to debut on June 11th across all major podcasting platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, this collaboration marks[...]

Now Big Finish will be bringing out a box set of audio dramas that at least features his final adventures before the 1996 TV movie where he regenerated into Paul McGann. "Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: The Last Day" cover art: Big Finish At the start of the TV Movie, the Seventh Doctor collected the Master's[...]

He has also written short stories that introduced other characters, and now one of them, The Safe Man, has been recorded as an audio drama from Audible starring Bosch star Titus Welliver and The Boys' Jack Quaid. "The Safe Man" by "Bosch" creator Michael Connelly, key art: Audible In The Safe Man, professional thief Brian Holloway (Jack[...]

After all, he's returned to play the Ninth Doctor in Big Finish audio dramas. The Man Who Fell to Earth will be streaming on BBC Radio 4 when it's released. To many fans, Christopher Eccleston will always be Doctor Who, and now he's about to star in another Science Fiction classic: a new BBC Radio 4 adaptation[...]

She's been headlining a River Song series in audio dramas from Big Finish for years since she had her final story on Doctor Who Now she will star in The Death and Life of River Song, a brand-new series of full-cast audio dramas coming soon from Big Finish Productions It's like a whole new season[...]

The US has only just rediscovered audio drama in the 2000s and is practically reinventing the wheel in producing them as streamable podcasts Many major British playwrights and screenwriters got their start writing radio plays for the BBC It has been a training ground for new writers for generations, and some of their radio plays[...]

This brings up how audio drama podcasts have evolved since they were reintroduced in America just over a decade ago Podcasts in the US have mostly been nonfiction talk shows, the most popular centred on True Crime Radio drama and comedies died out in the 1950s when television came along, with minor exceptions like the[...]

All you need to do is close your eyes and listen to the new audio drama podcast series Slayers: A Buffyverse Story and Third Eye. "Slayers", a Buffyverse series, Image: Audible In case you didn't know, Slayers is a new authorized audio drama series produced by Audible set in the Buffyverse It's written by Amber Benson (who[...]

So she has spent the last twenty-four hours going through Space and Time, from prose to comics to audiobook stories to mediocre phone games to a prose novel to a full-cast Big Finish audio drama and now back to prose again Does she survive? Does this series stick the landing? Well… sort of. "Doctor Who: Doom's[...]

Davies's three-episode Doctor Who 60th Anniversary special event set to hit our screens in November, Big Finish is nearing the endgame to its eight-episode full-cast audio drama adventure Doctor Who – Once and Future – but there's still a ton more action & intrigue on the way How soon? How about today, with Doctor Who[...]

The two spoke with Bleeding Cool on a variety of subjects, including their relationship, how Schemmel compares recording voiceovers with audio dramas and audiobooks, and more. Cr: Spiral Opus Audio The Cerebral World of 'Mindraker' Bleeding Cool: What's the inspiration behind 'Mindraker?' Burdine: As an artist and working in animation, and even since I was a teenager, I've always[...]

Davies have in store for the three-episode 60th anniversary Doctor Who special event, we're also getting a chance to preview what Big Finish Productions has been up to with its eight-episode full-cast audio drama adventure Doctor Who – Once and Future Kicking off in the middle of The Time War, an injured Doctor is being[...]

He first voiced Luther Arkwright in the first Big Finish audio drama adaptation of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright in 2005, back when he was an unknown and was playing supporting roles and bit parts in Big Finish productions Luther Arkwright was one of his first big leading role jobs, albeit in audio "There was[...]

Starting this August and continuing through 2024, all three scripted audio drama releases will be available exclusively on Audible. Co-written by author Patterson and Duane Swierczynski, the new Audible Original Zero Tolerance, starring Swank, debuts Thursday, August 24th on Audible The audio drama also stars Christine Ko, Melonie Diaz, and a full cast. Credit: Audible Sergeant Jo Barnes (Swank)[...]

The Lesser Dead, an uncompromising horror audio drama podcast series, is now available for free on all podcast platforms The official launch includes behind-the-scenes episodes featuring interviews with the cast, writers, and makers of the series to reveal the thinking behind the 1970s-set urban vampire tale. "The Lesser Dead" key art: Echoverse The Lesser Dead is an immersive[...]

Audible announced a new scripted sci-fi comedy Third Eye, created by genre legend Felicia Day, with Neil Gaiman as The Narrator and more.

& DC have the six-episode audio drama podcast The Flash: Escape the Midnight Circus speeding your way The first-ever podcast for the iconic DC character has an original, standalone storyline featuring Barry Allen, aka The Flash (Max Greenfield; The Neighborhood, New Girl), Iris West, and other characters from the DC universe. Image: DC Screencap Along with an official[...]

We'll probably get a greater sense of Doom's personality when we hear Kempner play her in the upcoming audio drama chapters of Doctor Who: Doom's Day. We Need to Care about Doom – and So Far, We Don't This brings us back to the dubious prospect of following Doctor Who: Doom's Day across different media[...]