Frazer Hines always did the clearing throat thing too much when he played the Doctor.
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Like @deltaandthebannermen, I found Frazer did the clearing-the-throat thing, and funnily enough, I haven’t noticed it with Michael. Patrick used to do it a bit, but I find his ‘jumping gobstoppers’ and ‘oh my giddy aunt’-type phrases overused a little in these Big Finish stories. I love both takes on The Second Doctor though.
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I get why they do those things though. Having just listened to Curiosity Shop, it was clear that Dudman was using vocal tics of the different Doctors to alert the listener to which incarnation he was imitating. When it isn’t the original actor those vocal tics, mannerisms and catchphrases help hook the listener into the performance. I also believe impressionists often say they have a stock phrase or something similar which helps them get into character. Jon Culshaw does the Tom Baker boom, you can almost hear Tim Treloar rubbing his neck and the various Hartnell ‘impressionists’ do a fair amount of hmming.
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Finished Dead Man Walking - not the best of the Sapphire and Steel’s. It all seemed to happen to the main characters and the mystery seemed a bit confused and unsatisfying.
Started Forever Fallen as I realised there have now been 9 Paul Spragg Short Trips and I haven’t listened to any of them!
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Oh I love that Torchwo-
notices thread title
…ohhhhhh
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Forever Fallen is great!!
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The Dying Breed.
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Having ordered lots of Once and Future recently, I’ve relistened to them completely out of order.
I must say, I enjoy these stories a lot more when I’m treating them as essentially standalone. (Although The Monk’s presence in The Union made a lot more sense coming straight from Past Lives)
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I have been listening to the Chase. It is pretty faithful but with some stuff added that shows that this was written much later such as talking about this is the doctor’s first regeneration.
The best part jet is that they have given a backstory to the stupid American on top of the Empire State Building.
Dills backstory
Assuming he had a best friend, this hypothetical friend would have been hard pressed to say anything even vaguely complimentary about Morton C. Dill, native of the state of Alabama. At school, he had been unaffectionately nicknamed ‘Dill the Pill’, a reference to his being rather hard to take. Since his school days—or, as some critics called them, ‘school daze’—Dill had not improved. On the contrary, his tendency to spout whatever came off the top of his mind (there being no deeper level to his thinking) was worse than ever. He rarely worried about having any content in his speech. He constantly intruded on others, generally in loud and obnoxious ways. Convinced that he was the life and soul of every party, he would make his way into any gathering and try to take over as quickly as possible.
The general response to his actions was usually a distinct drop in the air temperature, a general move in any direction away from him, and from time to time a proffered fist or a call for the nearest police officer. None of this did much to dampen Dill’s enthusiasm; he simply moved on and tried to ingratiate himself into some other gathering, firmly convinced that the original group merely lacked taste. The original group was extremely relieved to merely lack Dill.
Also explaining why the Daleks did not kill him
why the Daleks did not kill Dill the Pill
For a brief second, his life was almost over; then the Dalek diarmed its gun. It was far worse for the human race to allow this fool to live on
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That’s great Dill stuff there. Thanks for sharing!
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Just finished “Absent Friends” from Doom Coalition 3.
Wow!
Where were stories like this one in Doom Coalition 2?
Definitely a 5/5 
and another favourite 
added to the collection!
Helen and Liv, man. Helen and Liv
And who called the Doctor at the end???
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It’s a role so ridiculously stupid that it landed Peter Purves the companion role in the same story three episodes later 
I don’t think he needed a backstory, though.
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Good point. He really needs a box set, maybe two. A backstory isn’t nearly enough.
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I thought so aswell but it changed when I read his backstory. Now I want:
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I started listening to the new Classic Doctors New Monsters. Liked the first one, with my favourite TARDIS team and the Krillitane. A bit slow but with a great twist!
The second one was fine. Interesting to learn a bit more about the Lupari in this Flux prequel. But not much happened in it.
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WhhaAaaaAaaaaAAAAaatttt?!?!?
I NEED THIS!!!
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You have my attention…
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It’s rather good. I just finished it this morning. For me, it’s nothing special, but it’s a servicable story and does give us the origin of the Lupari bond with humanity.
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The dying Space Whale just returned to life!
Yeah, it’s sort of a prequel in that it explains how humans and Lupari came to form a bond, and it might or might not see one character teasing Four about stuff to come in his future!
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That blurred bit there, it’s like it’s drawing my finger in, it wants to be pressed…
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