Big Finish Productions has today released The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Cosmos and Mrs Clarke, a brand-new full-cast audio drama box set. This new box set (available from the Big Finish website) features three new adventures for the Sixth Doctor (played by Colin Baker) and his latest companion Mrs Constance Clarke (Miranda Raison), a member of the Women’s Royal Naval Service he met during World War II in England.
These brand-new adventures for the Doctor and his companion will have listeners on the edge of their seats as the pair encounter old enemies and old friends on aliens worlds and in thirteenth-century Baghdad.
These three new adventures are:
In ‘The Story Demon’ by Julian Richards, the pair find themselves on a forest world where human settlers live in fear of the Birnamen, who they claim raid their settlements every night. But is it really the Birnamen that are attacking, or has the whole incident got something to do with the ‘Story Demon’, the hollow casing of a very familiar alien that they use to entertain their children?
‘The Key to Many Worlds’ by Paul Magrs brings the TARDIS to thirteenth century Baghdad where the travellers meet an ageing Marco Polo who has been ordered to transport an enchantress back to the Doge’s palace in Venice. By the time the Doctor realises this mysterious enchantress is the devious Iris Wildthyme, he is caught in her body-swapping trap. As the Doctor is forced across the desert in Iris’s form, can Mrs Clarke save him?
Finally, in ‘Inconstancy’ by Ian Potter, the Doctor and Mrs Clarke arrive on the highly regulated colony world of Hoi. When the Doctor is arrested and taken to the forbidden zone for ‘re-education’, Mrs Clarke discovers an amorphous creature that wants her to make it an instrument of her will. Desperate to rescue the Doctor from an uncertain fate, she agrees, but what will happen to Hoi when a swarm of wild Mrs Clarkes descend on it?
From L to R: Oliver Senton, Lara Lemon, Vivienne Rochester
This box set also features the voice talents of Nicholas Briggs, Terry Molloy as Marco Polo, Katy Manning as Iris Wildthyme, Anthony Townsend, Carly Day, Cameron Johnson, Dominic Vulliamy, Oliver Senton, Lara Lemon and Vivienne Rochester.
Colin Baker said: “The relationship between the Doctor and Constance is a lovely one. She’s a sophisticated lady. When the Doctor bangs on about Shakespeare and art and music, she’s on his wavelength. Some of the other companions don’t know what he’s talking about – philistines! They are not master and servant or Doctor and companion – they are friends.”
Miranda Raison and Colin Baker
Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor Adventures – The Cosmos and Mrs Clarke is available to purchase now for £19.99 as a download or £24.99 as a limited collector’s edition box set. Alternatively, a second Sixth Doctor Adventures box set will release later this year and can be pre-ordered as part of a bundle for £38 for the download and £47 for the limited collector’s edition box sets.
