The winning story of the seventh annual Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity is now available to download as an immersive audiobook from Big Finish .

Each year, Big Finish runs a Doctor Who short story competition in honour of Paul Spragg – the dearly missed and much-loved producer’s assistant who encouraged aspiring writers.

The World Tree, written by Nick Slawicz, was selected as this year’s winning entry and has now been produced as a Doctor Who – Short Trip audiobook. This Eleventh Doctor adventure, narrated by Lisa Bowerman, is released today, on what would’ve been Paul’s birthday.

Nora Wicker is forgetful. Not big things – not yet, anyway. She remembers her address and where the shops are. She remembers people when they come to visit, no matter how rare that is.

But she doesn’t remember where the bush with the red leaves in her garden came from – and she definitely doesn’t remember asking for a house call from the Eleventh Doctor.

Lisa Bowerman said: “It’s such a lovely story and it was an absolute pleasure to be back having a read of a Short Trip. Nora is a very sympathetic and well-delineated character. I found Nora’s voice when I was reading – it just seemed to fall naturally.”

Doctor Who – Short Trips: The World Tree is now available to download for free exclusively here.

The 2022 judging panel comprised Big Finish’s Creative Director, Nicholas Briggs, former Doctor Who Brand Editorial Manager, Gabby De Matteis, Producer of the Doctor Who – Short Trips range, Alfie Shaw, and the winning entry’s Producer and Script Editor, Peter Anghelides.

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