Following on from the successful Audio Novels range, Big Finish will be releasing a series of Doctor Who Audio Novellas from January 2026. Each volume will contain two120-minute adventures, narrated […]
Following on from the successful Audio Novels range, Big Finish will be releasing a series of Doctor Who Audio Novellas from January 2026.
Each volume will contain two120-minute adventures, narrated by celebrated Doctor Who actors and with sound effects and music to create fully immersive productions.
The Audio Novellas begins in January 2026 with The Time-Splitters, a story following the First Doctor, Steven and Dodo, and Dimension 13, which features the Third Doctor, Liz Shaw and the Brigadier.
These two stories are narrated respectively by Peter Purves, who played Steven Taylor on Doctor Who from 1965 to 1966, and impressionist Jon Culshaw, now known to Big Finish listeners as the voice of the Brigadier and many other characters.
The Time-Splitters by Colin Brake, narrated by Peter Purves
A TARDIS materialisation accident at the Lunar University causes Steven to be separated from Dodo and the Doctor. Steven is now eight years in their future and the university is mysteriously abandoned. As he tries to survive the threat stalking the corridors, can the Doctor ever find him again?
Dimension 13 by David Llewellyn, narrated by Jon Culshaw
The Doctor, Liz and the Brigadier investigate disappearances and strange time phenomena at Shackleton Base in Antarctica. But when the Doctor discovers the source of the temporal problems, he realises the only solution might be the ultimate sacrifice…
Producer David Richardson said: “We’ve loved working on the Audio Novels for the last four years, and long may they continue. There’s also room for shorter stories too, and that’s where The Audio Novellas come in – two-hour narrated tales read by Doctor Who legends.
“This duo of adventures takes in the Moon’s surface in the distant future and an earthbound tale for the exiled Third Doctor and his UNIT colleagues. They’re filled to the brim with imagination and thrills.”
Script editor Roland Moore added: “The range is great because it gives us so much flexibility. We give fully immersive Doctor Who adventures, with effects and music as if it was a full-cast recording, but with a single performer.
“And so we can go to any year of the show and produce shorter length adventures – stuff that may be difficult to place in a range otherwise – and they’re all ready to download.”
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