Stories Audio Book The Doctor Chronicles Episode: 1 2 3 4 The Bleeding Heart 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 6 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Thursday, May 4, 2017 Written by Cavan Scott Narrated by Nicholas Briggs Directed by Helen Goldwyn Runtime 62 minutes Inventory (Potential Spoilers!) Psychic Paper Location (Potential Spoilers!) Galen Synopsis Galen is a place where people come to heal. The renowned "planet of peace" seems the ideal venue for talks between two warring races. But when death disrupts the diplomacy, Cosmic Nine news reporter Adriana Jarsdel uncovers a different story. Luckily, someone is there to help. A battle-weary veteran from another war. The Doctor has come to Galen – but is he looking for peace, or something else entirely? Listen Listened Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Ninth Doctor Adriana Jarsdel How to listen to The Bleeding Heart: Big Finish Audio The Ninth Doctor Chronicles Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 6 reviews 19 May 2025 · 52 words Review by connorpurnell99 Even if it takes a little while to get there, I enjoyed seeing the Ninth Doctor display his manipulative (if well-intentioned) side. I feel that Big Finish often lean on his sillier, sarcastic nature, and don’t explore his darkness nearly often enough, but this story manages a good balance of the two. connorpurnell99 View profile Like Liked 0 13 May 2025 · 41 words Review by Bongo50 The Bleeding Heart is fine but nothing particuarly special. The impressions are good, as is the narration. However, the plot itself isn't anything too special. I find it quite forgetable. I also found myself starting to lose interest towards the end. Bongo50 View profile Like Liked 0 28 April 2025 · 262 words Review by dema1020 Spoilers This review contains spoilers! There's a lot of aspects to The Bleeding Heart I found quite memorable. The idea of this planet where people are forced to feel peace on a spa is interesting enough, and has some layers to it I quite enjoyed. This felt like the right kind of sophisticated for Doctor Who - full of weird alien nonsense but also a lot of fun ideas, creativity, and different alien races. I am mixed about the story ultimately being a thing with the Time War. On the one hand, it's nice to have fallout stories like this and what was done more recently with the Ten & Classic Companion set. However, I feel like it blunts the mystery of Adrianna slightly, who remains a pretty fun and great one-off companion. Where it is weaker is in performances. Claire Wyatt's Adrianna elevates things a bit, but Briggs as the Ninth Doctor is pretty rough. I didn't mind it as much with The Other Side, maybe Briggs refines his impression slightly over time or just works with the presence of someone like Bruno Langley from the original show returning, but either way I found Nicholas Briggs much less reliable here as the driving force of narration. I better see why people aren't so keep on it. Still, I enjoyed the story more than I didn't. The writing salvages what could have been a pretty rough experience, especially since some of the sound effects were a little much for me and didn't add things in what I would consider a positive way. A very average experience overall. dema1020 View profile Like Liked 0 28 April 2025 · 47 words Review by Jonathan_ This story is just ok, it’s a decent foreshadowing of how 9 and 10’s adventures tend to go and how the war has affected them Honestly the bad thing about this story is just how bad the voice of 9 is, it sounds nothing like him and it’s distracting Jonathan_ View profile Like Liked 0 1 April 2025 · 132 words Review by hallieday Spoilers This review contains spoilers! The Ninth Doctor #1 'The Bleeding Heart' (2017) from The Ninth Doctor Chronicles. After only one televised season and being bound to Earth and its orbit that whole time, having Nine's story begin on a big alien planet was quite fun go experience. I really enjoyed the storytelling and Briggs performance in this - I think it's my introduction to him as well? The reporter companion is nice and has some good moments with Nine. As the plot goes on, however, I began to lose a little interest in what was going on, especially with Rassilon being brought up and everything, but perhaps on a future revisit it'll work better for me there. Not sure if this really served well as a "first Ninth Doctor story" chronologically, but it's a good enough time nonetheless. hallieday View profile Like Liked 0 Show All Reviews (6) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating47 members 3.23 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 104 Favourited 3 Reviewed 6 Saved 4 Skipped 2 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote