The recent Redux version of this actually improved the story a little. It’s still not a very good story, but it’s my preferred version.
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I still don’t get the hate for this serial. It’s a bit shaky, but still a solid story, and interesting presentation style.
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Totally with you on this. I’ve always like the ‘episode per Doctor and combining forces in the final one’ structure.
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I like that structure tbf!
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I like the structure and actually think it’s one of the things that work better in this audio. It’s just the whole thing together is kinda…meh. I don’t hate it. I just also don’t think it’s great. That’s why I rated it 5/10, pretty middle-of-the-road.
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It’s a decent audio for the Main Range’s first outing. It’s definitely ambitious story-wise. But I agree with what a lot of other people have said about the plot not being structured super great, because I did indeed get confused a few times. Though in terms of being a multi-doctor story, it works well balancing each of the three out.
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I am only commenting here to display the sheer incredulousness I am feeling upon learning that THE Maggie Stables voiced Ruthley, one of my all time least favourite Big Finish characters ever. I am in shock. How?
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They phoned her up and asked her if she wanted to be in this audio; she said yes, she came over to the recording studio and recorded her lines 
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Thought I’d try to listen to the main range in order instead of randomly listening to whatever looked good and I honestly don’t know what to think of it. Maybe it was just that I wasn’t fully concentrating (I was doing homework, but I often listen to DW audios when I’m doing stuff and it doesn’t seem to impact it that much) but I’m not really sure what happened. It may just be that I had my hopes up after really enjoying the three previous main range stories I’d listened to (master and chimes of midnight were great and despite its lack of norse mythology I quite liked Valhalla (I’m a norse mythology fan and got convinced by the title to listen)). I enjoyed the plots and how they worked together, but I don’t really know how they came together. Maybe it’s one I’ll enjoy more if I relisten to it. I still very much enjoyed listening and am looking forwards to listening to the rest of the main range.
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@missy_or_missilelaun, Sirens of Time is an odd beast. It’s a multi-Doctor story for the big series opener, but it takes each Doctor separately before slamming them together in the final episode. There are explanitory posts further up the thread. I’ve heard that the new Sirens of Time Redux does a decent job of melding the different threads together, but yeah, it’s kind of middle-of-the-road.
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Oh ye I by no means think it was bad, gave it a solid 3/5. I just think it’s the type that I’d probably need to relisten to once or twice to get properly.
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No, I don’t think it’s bad. Is it an outstanding top-of-the-range story? No. Is it terrible garbage? Also no. I do enjoy it and I think it’s an ambitious way to start the range. Have fun with the rest of the range.
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Not sure if I have an audio club badge for this, so I’ll drop a meaningless opinion post where I say that The Sirens of Time is actually a banger and you guys are all wrong /lh
Ah I was right, “yay” and “letsgo” for another equally meaningless but oh so dopamine giving audio club badge.
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The Sirens of Time is solid enough. Nothing groundbreaking or exciting but still fun nonetheless. Not a lot to say about this one.
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I’ve decided to listen to the whole main range in order if I can manage it so I’ve gone back and re listened to Sirens of time. The individual parts at the beginning are just fine (my favourite is 5’s) but then they come together and it just gets less interesting somehow. Felt more like a novelty than a story for me, so that’s how it all began.
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Ok, I do legit love this story… it’s such a fascinating little time capsule. I can really feel the ambition: three classic Doctors, three separate adventures, one big finale! But while that structure is bold, it doesn’t quite work for me. It’s like you get three Part Ones and then a mad dash to wrap it all up in the final episode. Still, I admire the confidence of it all.
That said, there’s loads to enjoy. Davison’s U-boat section is nicely atmospheric, and I surprised myself by loving Colin Baker’s intergalactic conference centre subplot: he strides in and completely owns it. He’s the standout Doctor of the bunch. McCoy’s bit doesn’t quite spark for me; I remember being so excited back in 1999 to hear my Doctor again, but on relisten, he feels a bit adrift in a story that’s pretty thin. The supporting cast, though? Glorious. Maggie Stables chews the scenery in the best possible way, and Sarah Mowat somehow plays three versions of the same character so well that I didn’t clock it until the end of Part Two on my original listen!
It’s not a perfect debut, but it is full of promise… and knowing what Big Finish would go on to achieve makes it oddly charming in hindsight.
[An d if you haven’t listened to the original, head for the Redux. It fixes a lot of these issues and makes the story stronger, IMHO.)
If you fancy hearing a gay boy from Birmingham bang on about the Monthly Adventures, nip over to Substack as I’m keeping a diary there… but I’ll gradually catch up on here too! 
Original review of Sirens here: Doctor Who: The Sirens of Time Review – A Multi-Doctor Epic
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