Robert Valentine

Abandoned in the Vortex, the Master's lost incarnation is about to be thrown a lifeline. Earth rebuilds in the aftermath of invasion, and power rests with those who innovate. Genius Lila Kreeg makes a deal with the devil to see her dreams. As the Master returns, there are those - like Vienna Salvatori - who wish to hurt him, and those upon whom he wishes vengeance himself... 1. Faustian by Robert Valentine. Drake Enterprises is the most powerful company on Earth. Dr Lila Kreeg is its most valued asset. But her experiments open a doorway which allow an evil back into the universe. The Master can offer Lila the world, so long as she obeys him...2. Prey by Robert Whitelock. Impossibly glamorous assassin Vienna Salvatori has a new target. Crossing time and space, Vienna takes one final job to free her from this life. But when the Master is hunted through the slums and ganglands of London, the line is blurred between predator and prey... 3. Vengeance by Matt Fitton. The Daleks are returning. Their plan, long in the making, is complete. Earth will be theirs once more. But someone stands against them. Someone with his own reasons for revenge - and Vienna and Lila are caught in the crossfire. Because Earth's greatest hope against the Daleks lies with the Master. Cast: Eric Roberts (The Master), Chase Masterson (Vienna Salvatore), Laura Aikman (Lila Kreeg), Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks), Alistair Petrie (Magnus Drake), Rachel Atkins (Cathrin Travers/Inga), Susan Hingley (Sassparilla/Li Zhao), Glen McCready (Eddi Bhole), Andrew James Spooner (Artie/King Muggy). Other parts played by members of the cast

Our daily actions are so important, yet so many people moan and complain they haven’t achieved their personal goals and or fulfilled their aspirations. Join two best friends, ‘Actions’ and ‘Words’ as they navigate through life with two very different mindsets. ‘Actions’ keeps quiet and makes daily routines a must to achieve his goals and targets, while his best friend, ‘Words’ talks a good talk, but fails to achieve much in life. Will there be a happy ending for the best friends?

Master of disguise, disarray and disorder. The Master has always enjoyed creating chaos, but this incarnation revels in it more than most. A new Master is unleashed upon the universe, and he is taking his time - and pleasure – in finding out exactly who he is...Self-Help by Robert Valentine. The Master is having a crisis of the existential variety. While he may have a classic diabolical scheme on the go, the dastardly Time Lord's latest incarnation isn’t quite feeling himself. In fact, he’s not even sure who he is anymore. He needs help. But can he help himself? The Clockwork Swan by Georgia Cook. Opening night is approaching for the latest presentation at cultural theme park Historica Dramatica: Earth-set whodunnit The Clockwork Swan. But cast and crew are being murdered... Enter a mysterious stranger. Who better to solve the crime than galaxy-renowned detective LeMaitre? Only, LeMaitre isn’t all he seems... The Good Life by Una McCormack. On a distant Island, a group of holy men and women work together to keep the Balance. Elta, one of the Shore-folk, has come to learn. But there’s a new man on the Island – the first in living memory – and it’s not clear whether he’s saint or sinner. Is it only coincidence that the weather seems more changeable these days? That people are angrier and turning to violence? Where, wonders Elta, is this all heading – and does the stranger even know himself? CAST:: Sacha Dhawan (The Master), Bethany Antonia (Elta the Acolyte), Timothy Bentinck (Garf / The Great Zenith), Maddison Bulleyment (Nyseth), Angus Dunican (Taran / Carter), Richard Fleeshman (Kristopher), Dave Hearn (Alteph), Femi Houghton (Rayt the Boatman), Anjella MacKintosh (Kirtta the Mistrustful / Cory the Incomer), Dominique Moore (Lezlee), Timothy Speyer (Ghett The Weather-Worker), Julie Teal (Silla), Becky Wright (Ursa). Other parts played by members of the cast. REGISTERED OFFICE: 23 GROVE PARK, WHITE WALTHAM, MAIDENHEAD, BERKSHIRE, SL6 3LW REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO. 03217457

Something is afoot in the lonely Cornish village of Merrymaid Bay. Rumours of dead men working in the tin mines have sent a chill through the community, and it's up to the Doctor and Charley to get to the bottom of the mystery.Can the legends of the Bucca that haunts the mines be true? And just what awesome power do the Doctor's greatest enemies - the Daleks! - threaten to unleash upon the universe?CAST: Paul McGann (The Doctor), India Fisher (Charlotte Pollard), Alex Macqueen (The Master), Carolyn Seymour (Old Emily Barnfather / The Light Bucca), Nisha Nayar (Emily Barnfather), Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks), Barnaby Edwards (Jago Penrose / Foley), Jason Forbes (Captain Montgomerie Césaire), George Naylor (Jory / Robomen / The Dark Bucca). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Something is afoot in the lonely Cornish village of Merrymaid Bay. Rumours of dead men working in the tin mines have sent a chill through the community, and it's up to the Doctor and Charley to get to the bottom of the mystery. Can the legends of the Bucca that haunts the mines be true? And just what awesome power do the Doctor's greatest enemies - the Daleks! - threaten to unleash upon the universe?CAST: Paul McGann (The Doctor), India Fisher (Charlotte Pollard), Alex Macqueen (The Master), Annette Badland (Old Emily Barnfather / The Bucca), Nisha Nayar (Emily Barnfather), Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks), Barnaby Edwards (Jago Penrose / Foley), Jason Forbes (Captain Montgomerie Césaire), George Naylor (Jory / Robomen).

The Master and Vienna Salvatori form an unlikely alliance when they're forced into joining an expedition to a forbidden planet. Accompanied by elite marines, government scientists and a corporate mercenary with access to some very old UNIT files, they go in search of an ancient, subterranean labyrinth infested by an alien lifeform the Master knows all too well... 3.1 Basilisk by Robert Whitelock. Vienna finds herself prisoner on a warship. Private contractors working with the military's scientific division want her to help them resurrect the Master. Why? Because they need a guide into the bowels of a nameless planet... and the Master is their man. 3.2 Axos Rising by Barnaby Kay. The Master and Vienna are joined at the hip as they head into the alien labyrinth. But deadlier things than ancient booby-traps await them. Deep in the subterranean darkness, they discover the terrifying entity that has been waiting for millennia to be set free. Vienna is horrified... but the Master knows an opportunity when he sees one. 3.3 Hellbound by Robert Valentine. With the countdown ticking, the Master and Vienna are desperate to escape, but if Axos gets loose, the entire galaxy is doomed. Vienna needs a miracle, and perhaps she's found one. But probably not the miracle she was expecting. CAST: Eric Roberts (The Master), Chase Masterson (Vienna Salvatori), Paul McGann (Axon Doctor), Teri Ann Bobb-Baxter (Passion / Raptor 5), Barnaby Kay (Axos), Dan Li (Mike Chaoxiang / Raptor 6), Beverly Longhurst (Computer / Raptor 7 / Alvara), Nigel Whitmey (Phillips / Raptor 8). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Like most students at Kingshill Middle School, Connor is obsessed with the smash hit TV Show ‘Para-Norman’. It follows Norman, a Ghost hunter who spends his time chasing ghosts. So naturally when a ghostly rumour starts to circulate around their school’s very old building, Connor can’t resist persuading his four best friends to break into the school. In a crazy attempt to see if the rumour is true, they have a sleep over at the school! Wandering the spooky halls of the school in the dead of night should have been an adventure for Connor and his friends...however, what they learn in school that night...are some terrifying truths! Join Connor and his four best friends on a spine-tingling adventure in the eerie halls of Kingshill Middle School.

The Doctor crosses paths with many travellers – some at the start of their journey, some well on their way. From the remote nodes of a transmat network, to solving crimes at a spaceship service station, or helping a friend climb the political ladder - sometimes the journey is more interesting, and more dangerous, than the destination. Contains three new adventures: Below There by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle. Vyx works on a teleport relay station in the darkest depths of space – and she’s afraid. Strange voices crackle through comms channels, shapes gather outside the starless viewing ports, and visions of death and destruction plague her dreams. Then she gets a call from the Doctor, who warns Vyx that her worst nightmares are about to become a reality. The Butler Did It by James Moran. The Doctor lands at a spaceship repair port on a dusty planet to tune up the TARDIS engines. But someone has poisoned an old friend of his, and now everyone at the station is a suspect. It's time to round up the clues, get out the magnifying glass – or sonic screwdriver – and check the butler's alibi... Run by Robert Valentine. When heinous demagogue Bellatrix Vega threatens the stability of the Galactic Federation, the Doctor convinces newly elected representative Alpha Centauri to run against her for president. As Vega’s team mount a campaign of dirty tricks, the Doctor and Alpha must thwart a murderous conspiracy or see the galaxy’s greatest democracy become a brutal dictatorship. CAST: Christopher Eccleston (The Doctor), Kelly Adams (Vyx Leeson), Jane Asher (Bellatrix Vega), Nicholas Briggs (Zzargol), Jane Goddard (Alpha Centauri), Daniel Cerqueira (Tom Francis), Homer Todiwala (Computer / Jacob Ojo), Emma Swan (Myra), Paul Thornley (Relb / Sita), Louise Faulkner (Larch / Kiri), Andrew French (Tiller/Hargenoy), David Langham (Kramp / Tau Ceti), Philip Pope (Speaker of the House / Cartel Boss). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Doom's Day is a multi-platform Doctor Who story to celebrate Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary, introducing a brand-new character on a 24-hour pursuit of the Doctor. Someone has sent literal Death after Doom. She can only outrun it for 24 hours. Unless she can find the Doctor... Tick... Tock... As Doom's final hours come into sharp focus, she'll need to do whatever's necessary to complete her missions, find the Doctor, and escape what increasingly seems like the inevitable. But how best to find the person who can save Doom's life? Will the Doctor's friends be her salvation? Or perhaps the Doctor's enemies will be the route to survival? Doom is about to travel across thousands of years of time, and lightyears of space in search of her last, best hope. But even if she finds the Doctor, will a person who is all about saving lives help a person whose only job is to take them? Doom's day is almost over. Time is running out. This could be the end. Dawn of an Everlasting Peace by Jacqueline Rayner Venus, 3975. The day of the non-aggression pact. The perfect ironic location for an assassination! But Doom’s mission is about to become much more complicated thanks to an explosive plot to undermine the treaty itself. The Howling Wolves of Xan-Phear by Simon Clark A warring world of wolves. Doom’s target turns out to be the puppeteer of the warring Xan: a Silent. But what if she’s already completed her mission? How will she know? What if this wasn’t even her mission in the first place? No time to waste. The countdown is on. A Date with Destiny by Robert Valentine A romantic dinner turns life-threatening for an unsuspecting human in 2007. But this time, Doom has competition. And if she loses, then her last chance to find the Doctor could be snatched away. Cue an action-packed chase through the streets of London. But has Doom met her match? The Crowd by Lizzie Hopley “Follow the crowd”, that’s what they say, right? In this case, however, devastation, murder and destruction follow this particular Crowd - Doom’s next target. But amongst them - an unfamiliar face, with a familiar name. Could this be Doom’s salvation? CAST: Sooz Kempner (Doom), Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler), Paul McGann (The Doctor), India Fisher (Charlotte Pollard), Ben Arogundade (Dennis / Diamante Roxx), Yasmin Bannerman (Destiny), Nicholas Briggs (Chu’Lac), Jonathan Case (Shabby Youth), Rebecca Crankshaw (Jeppra), Jon Edgley Bond (Fettzer), Wayne Forester (Thin Man), Trevor Littledale (Klorin / Compuvac), Richard Reed (Karlton), Susie Riddell (Lonnet), Frog Stone (PO / Waitress), Tam Williams (Lan-Say), Becky Wright (Terri / Fynix / Stout Woman). Other parts played by members of the cast.

The Doctor, Mel and Hebe are reunited – but Purity's temporal meddling has altered history as they know it. To make matters worse, whatever is left of the being once known as Patricia McBride is still intent on fulfilling her grand design for humanity. Contains three new adventures; 4.1 Girl in a Bubble by Jacqueline Rayner. The TARDIS arrives in Hebe’s flat but it’s not how the Doctor and Mel remember it – and neither is Hebe! In Purity's new timeline, Hebe Harrison lives in a grand penthouse with armed guards and a live-in factotum – Ron! – and if she ever leaves her sanctuary... the world will end. Are these strangers the ones who have been sending her messages? And can this reality be undone without losing Hebe forever? 4.2 The Corruptions by Mark Wright. Melanie Bush is a popular part of the Pease Pottage village community, and her best friend Hebe runs the local café where Elise the florist often drops by. Elsewhere, the Doctor is trapped in a nightmarish realm – Pease Pottage Services – unable to cross the boundary of the motorway where shadowy creatures drift amid the traffic. Purity is watching, and if the Doctor attempts to rescue his friends... they will cease to exist. 4.3 The Wrong Side of History by Robert Valentine. Mel, Hebe and Elise find themselves inside a plastic bubble-city in a distant future of humanity where robotic ‘Purifiers’ police the sickly populace. Purity rules this antiseptic nightmare from her high tower, and with the Doctor as her unwilling new helper, she can finally make everything... perfect. CAST: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush), Ruth Madeley (Hebe Harrison), Imogen Stubbs (Purity / Patricia McBride / Purifiers), Toby Hadoke (Ron), Kacey Ainsworth (Beryl), Cherylee Houston (Elise Kaplan), Patricia England (Mrs Varley / Emerald Exerciser / Corruption / Jaunty Quiz Machine Voice), Jake Wardle (Nil / Chronomancer), Barnaby Eaton-Jones (Mick / Fred), Connie Farrow (Young Hebe), Brad Shaw (Mr Peabody / Mike / Arcade Machines / Corruption), Matthew Brenher (Havash Khavûl), Victoria Jeffrey (Silkreth / Silkreth’s Time-Suit). Other parts played by members of the cast.

The Doctor meets many remarkable people on his travels – those at the forefront of innovation and exploration. From a deep-space colony ship seeking safe haven, to the frozen Arctic wastes, and the foundation of ideas which will touch the lives of millions – the Doctor is there to lend a hand to the human race’s greatest pioneers! Contains three new adventures: 1.1 The Green Gift by Roy Gill. Seeking a new home for Callen and Doyle, the Doctor lands on a vast spacecraft: The Greenwood. The ship is nearing the end of its long journey but what is the price of this voyage? Who is really in charge? And what legacies from Old Earth might be travelling with them? 1.2 Northern Lights by Robert Valentine. The Doctor crashes to Earth and finds himself in the Arctic – but not quite alone. The Aurora Borealis are even more unearthly than usual… Intrepid explorer Fridtjof Nansen is trying to get home as alien forces close in. The Doctor knows Nansen has a part to play in history – can he save the future? 1.3 The Beautiful Game by Katharine Armitage. The Doctor decides to treat himself and attend the historic meeting which founds the football league. But he arrives a week early! Instead, he must enlist the help of a hotel maid to battle an obsessive alien before it consumes everything that will ever be connected to the beautiful game… Cast: Christopher Eccleston (The Doctor), Adam Martyn (Callen Lennox), Harki Bhambra (Doyle), Louise Jameson (Fiacra), Maddison Bulleyment (Tay Lothlor), Andrew James Spooner (Librarian / Herder / Helmsman), Ian Conningham (Fridtjof Nansen), Gerard Kearns (Hjalmar Johansen), Ginnia Cheng (The Aurora), Daniel Cerqueira (Frederick Jackson), Homer Todiwala (Steward), Rachel Fenwick (Daphne), Andrew Ellis (Donald), Raymond Coulthard (William Sudell), Becky Wright (Eva / Strike). Other parts played by members of the cast.

The Time War. The Doctor has been injured and brought to a Time Lord field hospital. His body glows with energy, but this is no regeneration into a future form - instead, the Doctor's past faces begin to appear as he flits haphazardly between incarnations... Staggering to his TARDIS, the Doctor sets out to solve the mystery of his 'degeneration'. Who has done this to him? How? And why? From the Earth to the stars, across an array of familiar times and places, he follows clues to retrace his steps, encountering old friends and enemies along the way. Tumbling through his lives, the Doctor must stop his degeneration before he loses himself completely... Settling as his Fourth incarnation, the Doctor goes in search of the Monk, with a vague memory that he had something to do with his 'degeneration'. On Earth, the Monk is meddling, bringing Sarah Jane Smith to the future UNIT HQ to steal a device for an alien race. The Doctor must help Kate Stewart and Osgood foil an invasion before he can confront the Monk about what he knows... CAST: Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), Nerys Hughes (Margaret Hopwood), Guy Adams (Garlon Dees), Sam Benjamin (Attendant / Halfway Men), Chase Brown (Sergeant Ray Hunter), Barnaby Edwards (Stan Trubshaw / Private Massey / Edie’s Dad / Old Reg), Holly Jackson Waters (Alice), Joe Jameson (Jacob Harmer (16) / Jacob Harmer (35)), Kenneth Jay (Captain Ray Hunter), Evie Killip (Edie Carter), Shvorne Marks (Mia Valarna), Victor McGuire (Huthro), Jackson Milner (Private Joe Powell), Paul Panting (Nate Duffy / Mr Fennec), Ronald Pickup (Jacob Harmer), Olivia Poulet (Felsa Mavelock), Sara Powell (Moira Tenaka), Joe Sims (Tench). Other parts played by members of the cast.

The Doctor is no more. In his place, a warrior, finally joining the Time War between the Daleks and Gallifrey. But how far will he go to end the conflict? What lines will he cross? How much of himself will he sacrifice? The War Doctor is beginning to find out who he is...

The countdown to the millennium begins, New dangers face Brigadier Winifred Bambera, Sergeant Jean-Paul Savarin and Dr Louise Rix – some manmade, some uncanny, and some from beyond this world. To defeat them they must stand together… or there’ll be no tomorrow. 1. The Frequency by Tajinder Singh Hayer. UNIT has been invited to take part in the testing of a top-secret US Air Force project designed to make military groups function better as a team; the ‘Hoplite Frequency’. However, the implications of this powerful mind-altering technology make Sergeant Savarin uncomfortable. Will Bambera heed the misgivings of her loyal Number Two, or take the charismatic Colonel Hagen up on his offer and choose to embrace the Frequency? 2. Haunt by Lizzie Hopley. Bambera joins Rix on an excursion up north to investigate strange goings on at the abandoned Greensands Hotel. Are local legends true that the hotel is haunted by a murderous bogeyman known as Baghead, or is there a more down-to-earth explanation? The only way to uncover the truth is to stay in the hotel overnight, but their digging into the building’s past has awoken something that would have been better left alone. 3. The Last Line of Defence by Robert Valentine. With the civil war in Valge Maja threatening to spark an even greater conflict, Bambera is put in charge of security at a secret Millennium Eve peace conference to settle the matter. But as all of Earth’s leaders gather to debate the future of humanity, dark forces have conspired to ensure that this meeting will usher in a terrifying New World Order – and with the clock ticking, who can possibly stand in their way? CAST: Angela Bruce (Brigadier Winifred Bambera), Alex Jordan (Sergeant Jean-Paul Savarin), Yemisi Oyinloye (Dr Louise Rix), Ian Abeysekera (Colonel Birch), Timothy Blore (UNIT Trooper/Talbot/Zeta Hydran), Chandrika Chevil (Clare Yale/President Esperanza), Nathaniel Curtis (Dom McNeil/Zeta Hydan 1), Lesley Ewen (The Omniarch/Landau), Jason Forbes (Baghead/Zeta Hydan 2), Sarah Griffin (Captain Carmen McClean/Nurse Bannister), David Menkin (Colonel Alexander Hagen/Delegate), Liz Sutherland-Lim (Dame Lydia Kingsley/Joyce). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Vienna Salvatori is on a mission, and must make her way up the serpentine vehicle, from the crime-ridden rear segments, through the enclosed compartments of the mega-rich, all the way to the front of the ship to face the man who controls it all... the Master!

Five years after the release of the second instalment, an array of classic Doctors take on fan-favourite monsters from the new era of Doctor Who in a long-awaited box set of adventures. Contains four new stories starring Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Paul McGann and Tim Treloar.

BAFTA-nominated Ruth Madeley (Years and Years, The Rook) continues as marine biologist Hebe Harrison, a new friend and travelling companion for Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush.

This is a distinct new era for UNIT. Set in the late 1990s, the Cold War is over and the geopolitical landscape is in flux. Brigadier Bambera is deemed the right candidate to lead UNIT into the 21st century. But in this brave new world, the stakes are higher than ever...

A second series of adventures from Big Finish begins, featuring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor. Time and again, the Doctor finds himself returning to his favourite planet. Dropping in on history or the present-day, whether it's kings, commuters or ordinary people, he's never met anyone who wasn't important...

The Terra Nostra deal in whatever's dirty, degrading and cruel on every civilised world. Weapons, racketeering, smuggling, assassinations, territory disputes. Their tentacles stretch and unfurl across the galaxy. Jenna and Vila each learn the hard way that they can never escape the Terra Nostra's plots and conspiracies. 1. Stimulus/Response by James Kettle. Jenna Stannis has resumed her smuggling career after leaving the Liberator, and Stor Jayden is a dream location to unload her contraband. The Terra Nostra have other ideas. And with a reformist president recently elected on the planet, can Jenna escape with her cargo - or her life? 2. Entrapment by Robert Valentine. A heist to rip off the Terra Nostra requires a master cracksman. Fortunately for Kyzer Frik, he's found one. Unfortunately for Villa Restal, it's him. But as Frik comes to suspect a spy in his crew, how long before he decides that it's reluctant member Vila? 3. The Offer by Peter Anghelides. Fleeing from his enemies, Vila Restal sneaks back into Space City. But it's more difficult than he thought to get rescued - especially when he discovers he can't trust an old friend. To save himself, must he betray the Liberator crew to the Terra Nostra? CAST: Sally Knyvette (Jenna Stannis), Michael Keating (Vila Restal), Karl Howman (Tudman/The Enforcer), Ajjaz Awad (Grovenar/Dreamhead), Abigail Thaw (Hinton/Vormar), Pal Aron (Rax Aptford/TV Host), Jamie Zubairi (President Artim/Hessler/Ravel), Rebecca Sarker (Mel Hessler/The Dream), Ariyon Bakare (Kyzer Frik), Shvorne Marks (Legra Minassian), Turlough Convery (Darra Teevan), Joe Shire (Jok Rork), Rakie Ayola (Councillor Zukonar/Jax), Naomi Yang (Tudor/Karine), Alistair Lock (Zen/Orac). Other parts played by members of the cast.