Murray Melvin’s final recording for the Torchwood range of monthly adventures, Sigil, is out now from Big Finish.

Melvin passed away on 14 April 2023. He returned to the part of Bilis Manger on audio in 2017 and recorded his final performance with Big Finish a little over a year ago. On what would have been his 91st birthday, the story is now out, in which he is joined by Olivier Award-nominated Gabrielle Brooks (as Sam) and Star Trek: Prodigy’s Angus Imrie (as Emil).

Sam has been haunted for years by the Sigil. She’s drawn the pattern since she was a child, she has a tattoo of it, she sells prints of it. Then one day, she sees it on a statue in the window of Bilis Manger’s shop.

It turns out the Sigil is very old indeed. Why has it been haunting her? Why is it on a Celtic statue of a bird? Where did it come from? Has a terrible entity been released from its ancient slumber?

Producer James Goss said: “We didn’t realise that this was going to be Murray’s last recording with us – it was just before his 90th birthday so we had a small party in the studio with flowers and cake, and I hope we gave him a wonderful send off. He took great delight on finding the studio’s sharpest, wickedest knife to advance on the cake with.”

Big Finish listeners can now purchase Torchwood: Sigil as a collector’s edition 1-disc CD (+ download for just £10.99) or as a digital download only (for just £8.99), exclusively from http://www.bigfinish.com.

(Photo from studio © Lisa Bowerman)

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