I am a big fan of Matthew Sweet’s work on Jago & Litefoot. I was also very taken with the documentary he did around the time of the 50th anniversary and thanked him personally for it at the 2013 ExCeL centre convention. As a result of this, and the pretty extreme, divisive reactions to this play, I was expecting to be in the “10/10” camp. Unfortunately, his first outing for Big Finish doesn’t really go anywhere for me.

There is understandably some great dialogue throughout but this is paired with paper thin plotting and a chronic lack of conciseness. It certainly relies on you finding the central premise of a man-pig more entertaining than I do.

Its an all-star cast with recognisable and exciting names such as Adjoa Andoh, Michael Keating and Maureen O’Brien joining Colin and Nicola. Unfortunately though, as everyone is putting on their best Received Pronunciation accent I had to really focus to be doubly sure who was talking at points. Adjoa could be mistaken at a distance for Maureen, Colin could be mistaken at an alarmingly closer distance for the pig man! And these are voices that I am in most cases very familiar with.