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It’s the Ninth Doctor vs. the Cybermen in Big Finish’s Lost Warriors

Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor comes face to face with the Cybermen this November, in Big Finish’s The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Lost Warriors.

Follow the TARDIS to a 1930s country mansion, the Scottish Highlands and an iconic movie set – where he runs into one very familiar face… Here’s the blurb:

The Doctor meets many strangers on his travels. Some are destined to end up friends, while others were always going to become his enemies.  

And some were once warriors, with reasons of their own to remain hidden from the universe… 

Here are the three new stories included in this volume:  

  • The Hunting Season by James Kettle 
  • The Curse of Lady Macbeth by Lizzie Hopley 
  • Monsters In Metropolis by John Dorney 

Christopher Eccleston said:

“It’s just magical to me, to be playing a hero again. There’s a great positivity and optimism to the Doctor, and what Doctor Who can do with these audios by reaching out to those young hearts and minds, to those young imaginations – it’s beautiful.” 

Director Barnaby Edwards added:

“It was a huge treat to be reunited with Christopher Eccleston, 16 years after we last worked together on Doctor Who. He had such energy and enthusiasm and inventive brilliance then – and he’s still got it now. 

“These three stories see the Ninth Doctor, himself a lone veteran of a great war, encountering three other ‘lost warriors’. Each adventure works as an entirely separate entity with great plots, fun characters and surprising villains, but together they present a fascinating dialogue on how conflict can change a person. And that’s especially true of the Doctor himself. 

“I love all three scripts. They’re so varied and so perfect for the Ninth Doctor. All are period pieces, which is an area where Chris’s very modern Doctor works so brilliantly, and all have a background of conflict, be it the aftershock of the First World War, the genesis of the Second World War or the innumerable battles in 11th Century Scotland. And, hey, where else could you find the Doctor encountering not only Macbeth and Lady Macbeth but also Fritz Lang?” 

You’ll recognise some familiar faces– well, voices in this set too, with Doctor Who alumni, Annette Badland (Boom Town), Don Gilét (The Runaway Bride), and Madame Vastra herself — albeit not playing the Silurian here — Neve McIntosh.

Box set opener The Hunting Season features BAFTA nominee Alex Jennings (The Crown, A Very English Scandal) as master of Dewberry Hall Lord Hawthorn, Annette Badland (Ted Lasso) as cook Mrs Goose, and Don Gilét (EastEnders) as the brutal butler Streatham, while The Curse of Lady Macbeth stars Neve McIntosh (The Paternoster Gang) as brave ruler Gruach, and closing episode Monsters in Metropolis features Big Finish’s Nicholas Briggs as the Cyberman. 

You can now order all four volumes of The Ninth Doctor Adventures, which are available in three formats – collector’s edition CD, digital download or limited edition gatefold triple LP vinyl – exclusively from Big Finish. Or save by ordering a bundle of the entire series for just £88 (as collector’s edition box sets) or £78 (as downloads).

Philip Bates

Editor and co-founder of the Doctor Who Companion. When he’s not watching television, reading books ‘n’ Marvel comics, listening to The Killers, and obsessing over script ideas, Philip Bates pretends to be a freelance writer. He enjoys collecting everything. Writer of The Black Archive: The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang, The Silver Archive: The Stone Tape, and 100 Objects of Doctor Who.

It’s the Ninth Doctor vs. the Cybermen in Big Finish’s Lost Warriors

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