I love Big Finish stories when they're a little bit scary - something about scary on audio is thrilling to me. And Protect and Survive isn't exactly a horror story, but it is chilling.

Ace and Hex, trapped in a time loop where they are forced to live out the same nine days of nuclear fallout ovet and over again sounds pretty horrible on paper, and in your ears, it is exactly as spooky as you imagine. Interspersed with the radio giving instructions on what to do in event of nuclear attack, the story unfolds slowly, and the deaths at the end of the loop still managed to affect me even knowing they were coming.

An incredible story, overall, and even as we learn that it's a trap for some Elder Gods rather than a story about some normal people in Yorkshire, it doesn't lose impact. So often, the resolution of an episode like this takes away from the suspense that's been built into it, but this episode blew me away with how chilling it was right to the end.