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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jul 3

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now revealed the second Thirteenth Doctor Audio adventure. In this story, the Doctor and Yaz save the Zaarians, and as they move on... Yaz finds herself unsure of if they really saved the day... as they return, they find the Zaarians in turmoil... What has the Doctor done?

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jul 3

NEW THIRTEENTH DOCTOR DETAILS
TITLE: Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Return of the Doctor
STARRING: Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor and Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan
WRITTEN BY: Rory Thomas-Howes
DUE FOR RELEASE: September 2025

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jul 3

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now released the Thirteenth Doctor's first audio adventure. In this story, the Doctor and Yaz attend a Hen do where things go horribly wrong... as a vampire arrives...

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jul 3

NEW THIRTEENTH DOCTOR AUDIO
TITLE: Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Vampire Weekend
STARRING: Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor and Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan
WRITTEN BY: @verbatimfoley.bsky.social

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 20

NEW BOOK DETAILS
TITLE: Doctor Who: The Moon Cruise
SUMMARY: BBC Books have now announced the latest New Series Novel. In this book, the Doctor and Belinda travel to a space liner and meet Marilyn Moon and her blonde haired mannequins.
WRITTEN BY: Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
DUE FOR RELEASE: November 2025

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 18

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now released the latest Time War boxset. In this adventure, Alex and Cass are traversing time in the Doctor's TARDIS while the Doctor and Hieronyma are pursuing through other means...

Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 18

NEW TIME WAR AUDIO
TITLE: Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Uncharted 2: Pursuit
STARRING: Paul McGann as the Doctor, Sonny McGann as Alex Campbell and Emma Cambell-Jones as Cass
WRITTEN BY: Mark Wright, Katharine Armitage, @jamesmoran.com, @verbatimfoley.bsky.social

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 13

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now announced the third Fourth Doctor boxset for this year. In this adventure, the Doctor, Leela, K9 find themselves meeting Cleopatra and joining the Brigadier for a battle with the Silence...

Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 13

NEW FOURTH DOCTOR DETAILS
TITLE: Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Last Queen of Time
STARRING: Tom Baker as the Doctor, @louisejameson.bsky.social as Leela, John Leeson as K9 and Jon Culshaw as the Brigadier
WRITTEN BY: Jonathon Morris and David K Barnes
DUE FOR RELEASE: September 2025

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 12

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now released the first Space Security Service boxset. In this story, Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven take on the Voord in London's past as well as journeying to a planet where the Thals have taken over...

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 12

NEW SPACE SECURITY SERVICE
TITLE: Space Security Service: The Voord in London
STARRING: @janeslavin.bsky.social as Anya Kingdom and Joe Simms as Mark Seven
WRITTEN BY: @jairusgirl.bsky.social, @eiphel.bsky.social and @angusdunican.bsky.social

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 10

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now released the latest adventure for the Seventh Doctor. In this boxset, the Doctor, Harry and Naomi face a new breed of Weeping Angels as two companions' journey ends... and another begins.

Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 10

NEW SEVENTH DOCTOR AUDIO
TITLE: Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Past Forward
STARRING: Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor, Christopher Naylor as Harry Sulivan, Eleanor Crooks as Naomi Cross and Sara Griffiths as Ray
WRITTEN BY: John Dorney and Lizzie Hopley

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 5

SUMMARY: BBC Audio have now confirmed the next audio original. In this adventure, the Doctor and Ace travel to a research station where a scientific crew have found a source of unlimited power but something is very very wrong...

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 5

NEW AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
TITLE: Doctor Who: What Still Remains
READ BY: @sophiealdred.bsky.social
WRITTEN BY: @adamchristopher.me
DUE FOR RELEASE: 7 August 2025

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 4

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now released the latest Fourth Doctor boxset. In this boxset, the Doctor, Leela and K9 adventure to a planet in two very different times, and receive a summons from an old friend, the Brigadier.

Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 4

NEW FOURTH DOCTOR AUDIO
TITLE: Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventues: The Ruins of Kaerula
STARRING: Tom Baker as the Doctor, @louisejameson.bsky.social as Leela, John Leeson as K9 and Jon Culshaw as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
WRITTEN BY: @philmulryne.bsky.social and @verbatimfoley.bsky.social

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 3

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now revealed the next 6th Doctor boxset. In this adventure, the Doctor and Peri sail the Irish sea where aliens have taken an interest in the queen of the sea, and teach in a public school where a student seems to have a close connection to the Doctor!

Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · Jun 3

NEW SIXTH DOCTOR DETAILS
TITLE: Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Bad Terms
STARRING: @oldsixie.bsky.social as the Doctor, @nicolabryant.bsky.social as Peri Brown and Gareth David-Lloyd as Sir Kenneth Rushworth
WRITTEN BY: Nina Millns and @nevfountain.bsky.social
DUE FOR RELEASE: August 2025

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · May 30

ADDITIONAL: Two more First Doctor Unbound releases have been confirmed for March 2026 and May 2027 respectively.

Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · May 30

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now confirmed details for the first Unbound adventure for the First Doctor. In this adventure, the Doctor and his companions go to 13th Century Oxford and meet Simon De Montfort, as well as friar Roger Bacon... who may not be who he claims...

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · May 30

NEW UNBOUND DETAILS
TITLE: Doctor Who: The First Doctor Unbound: Knights of the Round TARDIS
STARRING: David Bradley as the Doctor, Claudia Grant as Susan, Jemma Powell as Barbara, Jamie Glover as Ian and Kieth Wickham as the Monk
WRITTEN BY: LR Hay
DUE FOR RELEASE: September 2025

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · May 30

NEW AUDIO CONFIRMED
TITLE: Doctor Who: The Doctor Adventures
SUMMARY: Big Finish have confirmed that all of the classic Doctors will be receiving boxsets next year. The 1st and 2nd Doctors will receive 1 boxset each, the 4th Doctor will receive 3 boxsets and the others will each receive 2 boxsets.

Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · May 29

SUMMARY: Big Finish have now revealed more details about the first part of the Master! trilogy in Dark Gallifrey. In this story, the Master once took a group of students to a psychic forest for an experiment which went horribly wrong. Now only one survives, and the others have all turned up dead.

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Whoniverse Announcements @whoannounce.bsky.social · May 29

NEW DARK GALLIFREY DETAILS
TITLE: Dark Gallifrey: Master! (Part 1)
STARRING: Eric Roberts as the Master and Paul McGann as the Doctor
WRITTEN BY: Lizzie Hopley
DUE FOR RELEASE: July 2025

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