This is part of a series where you can follow me on my journey across time and space (more commonly known as Big Finish Productions)

You can find the original posts here: https://forum.tardis.guide/t/oh-no-big-finish-addiction/4799?u=the9thcyberlegion

I cried because of this one, but I’m sure most people did. I am talking about the star of this boxset, Absent Friends by John Dorney. The performances put in by Paul McGann, Hattie Morahan and Nicola Walker (but especially the last two) are phenomenal.

This story is mostly a pure-historical but it has a bit of alien intervention even if it’s just a clock. Basically, after the finale of Doom Coalition 2, the TARDIS lands in Calcot, August 1998 and discover that the inhabitants of the village have been troubled by mobile phone calls from dead relatives after the new telephone mast was built. Also, Helen Sinclair (Hattie Morahan) goes to London to speak to her now elderly younger brother whilst she pretends to be her own daughter.

The sequences where Liv Chenka has to speak to her dead dad after she didn’t get to say goodbye to him are absolutely heartbreaking.

Absent Friends - (10/10)