So, after the unexpected gem that was Geronimo, my interest in the Doctor Chronicles went from 0 to 10 with where they would go next, which brings us to the next volume of the Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, All of Time and Space, nice of them to release this on my birthday no less. On the whole, All of Time and Space wasn’t as good as Geronimo, but it was still a very strong set with the concluding story as its standout.

The story sees Valerie in the aftermath of an incident where the TARDIS stopped two fleets of waring spaceships but at a cost to the Doctor as he’s not only lost his memory, but he’s been regressed back to his first incarnation, and very slowly his personality moves from one incarnation to another as Valerie tries to coax him to remember who he truly is. But with each visit to this Mr Foreman in his junkyard, she gives away a piece of herself and it’s only a matter of time before she loses herself entirely.

This story along with the rest of All of Time and Space plays out as a self-aware celebration of the show, you have the Doctor going through all his past lives under the persona of Mr Foreman living in his junkyard as Valerie tells him of different adventures she had with the Doctor and all the various ways he’s saved worlds and toppled governments. It even gets a bit dark halfway through by basically saying that Doctor Who will slowly consume a person’s life, as we have Valerie gradually give up one augmentation at a time to the point where she can barely function. All while a local vendor keeps insisting that this Doctor she’s so enamoured with is nothing but a fiction. There’s some great meta-subtext in this story that feels like the sort of thing Rob Shearman would write about. Coupled together with a great performance from Jacob Dudman showing off his impersonation skills with past Doctors and Safiyya Ingar giving an even better performance as Valerie showing how far she’ll go for the Doctor.

All of Time and Space as a whole I wouldn’t say is better than Geronimo, but it is one of Big Finish’s most experimental box sets in recent years and it was a very entertaining listen, with Curiosity Shop being a clear cut winner and a true highpoint for the Eleventh Doctor in Big Finish.