Cosmic adventures for the Sixth Doctor and Mrs. Clarke

The universe awaits Colin Baker and Miranda Raison in The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Cosmos and Mrs Clarke, a brand-new box set of full-cast audio drama released today.

The Doctor meets old friends – and old enemies. But which is which – and who is Who? One thing is sure: they all have a story to tell…

The Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) is joined in his travels by Mrs Constance Clarke (Miranda Raison) – a member of the Women’s Royal Naval Service he met in World War II-era England – for his latest set of three audio adventures.

These brand-new stories follow the Doctor and Mrs Clarke as they encounter old enemies and friends, as well as some new ones, across the stars and back in time. First, the TARDIS takes them to a forest planet where a most unusual Dalek (Nicholas Briggs) acts as the local storyteller.

They then travel to 13th-century Baghdad, where the Doctor is reunited with Marco Polo (Terry Molloy) and falls prey to the body-swapping schemes of fellow time-traveller Iris Wildthyme (Katy Manning). And in the third story, an alien creature creates ravenous duplicates of Constance.

Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Cosmos and Mrs Clarke is available to purchase now for just £19.99 (download to own) or £24.99 (download to own + collector’s edition CD). Please note: the collector’s edition CD box set is strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will not be repressed.

The three thrilling new episodes are:

“The Story Demon” by Julian Richards

The Doctor and Mrs Clarke find themselves on a forest world where human settlers shelter from the night in a village built from wrecked spaceships, living in fear of the Birnamen, creatures who raid their settlement leaving death in their wake.

But are the Birnamen really to blame? Or does the truth lie with the villagers’ ‘Story Demon’, the hollow travel casing of a very familiar alien creature which they use to entertain their children…?

“The Key to Many Worlds” by Paul Magrs

The Doctor and Constance arrive in thirteenth century Baghdad and encounter an ageing and disenchanted Marco Polo. His adventures at an end, he has been ordered to transport a certain enchantress back to the Doge’s palace in Venice. The Doctor realises his danger too late, as his mind and body are swapped with those of the enchantress – the notorious Iris Wildthyme!

Now clapped in irons and trapped in Iris’s form, the Doctor is dragged along in Marco’s caravan as it trails across the desert once more… and only Mrs Clarke can save him.

“Inconstancy” by Ian Potter

On the highly regulated colony world of Hoi, the Doctor is captured by the authorities and taken to the forbidden zone for ‘re-education’. Mrs Clarke escapes and discovers an amorphous being in hiding. This protean creature craves purpose and identity, and wants Constance to make it an instrument of her will. Desperate to rescue the Doctor, she agrees – and suddenly Hoi is threatened by a swarm of wild and ravenous Mrs Clarkes!

Script editor Rob Valentine said: “I’m a huge fan of the Sixth Doctor and Mrs Clarke. Colin Baker and Miranda Raison work beautifully together, and Constance brings out a very particular side of Ol’ Sixie, so the prospect of helping to bring a whole new set of their adventures into the world was extremely enticing.

“It also meant I got to work with Julian Richards, Ian Potter and Paul Magrs, three writers I greatly admire, and their stories are terrific. There’s a particularly unsettling Dalek story, multiple Mrs Clarkes, and the return of a certain other traveller in space and time whom the Doctor was not expecting to meet again. All in all, you’re in for a cosmically good time.”

The Key to Many Worlds includes the final performance of actor Anthony Townsend, also known as Antoni Fletcher-Goldspink, a good friend to many at Big Finish, who sadly passed away in 2022.

Writer Paul Magrs said: “With the casting of Tonio, Marco Polo’s boyfriend, I really lobbied for my late friend Antoni to get the part. Something I never, ever do, but this time I really wanted my friend to get what they’d always wanted – a good part, specially written for them, in a wonderful new Doctor Who story. It’s three years since the writing and recording and Antoni is no longer here. I can’t wait to hear their voice again.”

The box set’s guest cast also includes Carly Day, Cameron Johnson, Dominic Vulliamy, Oliver Senton, Lara Lemon, and Vivienne Rochester.

Miranda Raison debuted as companion Constance Clarke in 2015’s monthly range adventure Criss-Cross, and was most recently heard in 2024’s box set The Quin Dilemma, which celebrated 40 years of the Sixth Doctor.

Colin Baker said: “The relationship between the Doctor and Constance is a lovely one. She’s a sophisticated lady. When the Doctor bangs on about Shakespeare and art and music, she’s on his wavelength. Some of the other companions don’t know what he’s talking about – philistines! They are not master and servant or Doctor and companion – they are friends.”

Miranda Raison added: “They’re quite like minds – they’re both quite literary, and enjoy living on a slightly higher plane in terms of art and literature. They’re like a very happily married couple, in a way – a couple who have a lot to talk about by the fireside!

“For an actor, it’s always most fun to do episodes where the character has some sort of self-exploration or self-discovery. And Inconstancy has that as much as any for Constance. She really has to face her own demons.”

Colin Baker added: “Upon reading this script, my first reaction was, oh, good, another one that’s good and clever and touching and rather exciting. Things get turned on their head!”

And, Katy Manning said: “It’s been an absolutely joyous day and I actually climbed into the skin of Colin Baker! I’ve got grin-ache! We’re so lucky, Paul Magrs is a wonderful writer.”

A second Sixth Doctor Adventures box set (Title TBC) will follow later in 2025. Both can be pre-ordered together in a bundle for just £38 (download to own) or £47 (download to own + collector’s edition CD box set).

Alternatively, listeners can buy this release as part of a bundle of all 15 Classic Doctor Who box sets released in 2025 for £275 (download to own) or £335 (download to own + collector’s edition CD box set).

Big Finish Productions’ Doctor Who audio drama releases

Range	Title	Starring	Release Date
Sontarans vs Rutans	“The Battle of Giant’s Causeway”	Paul McGann, India Fisher, Conrad Westmaas	Jan. 10, 2024
First Doctor Adventures	“Fugitive of the Daleks”	Stephen Noonan, Maureen O’Brien	Jan. 23, 2024
Doctor Who audio novels	“The Chaos Cascade”	Dan Starkey, Beth Chalmers, Rebecca Root	January 2024
Eleventh Doctor Adventures	“Victory of the Doctor”	Jacob Dudman, Safiyya Ingar	Feb. 6, 2024
Ninth Doctor Adventures	“Buried Threats”	Christopher Eccleston, Lisa Bowerman	February 2024
Third Doctor Adventures	“Revolution in Space”	Tim Treloar, Sadie Miller	Feb. 13, 2024
Sontarans vs Rutans	“The Children of the Future”	Tim Treloar, Sadie Miller, Jon Culshaw	Feb. 8, 2024
Torchwood	“Another Postcard from Mr Colchester”	Paul Clayton	February 2024
Torchwood	“Sabotage”	Sophie Aldred, Paul Clayton	February 2024
Master!	“Planet Doom”	Eric Roberts, Chase Masterson	Feb. 20, 2024
Twelfth Doctor Chronicles	“You Only Die Twice”	Jacob Dudman, Bhavnisha Parmar	March 2024
Sontarans vs Rutans	“Born to Die”	Colin Baker, India Fisher	March 2024
Fourth Doctor Adventures	“Storm of the Sea Devils”	Tom Baker, Christopher Naylor, Eleanor Crooks	March 5, 2024
Sixth Doctor Adventures	“The Quin Dilemma”	Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Bonnie Langford, Miranda Raison, Lisa Greenwood)	March 22, 2024
Fifth Doctor Adventures	“The Dream Team”	Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse	April 9, 2024
The Paternoster Gang	“The Casebook of Paternoster Row”	Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart, Dan Starkey, Tom Baker	April 12, 2024
Dark Gallifrey	“Morbius – Part 1”	Samuel West, Hywel Morgan, Andrew French, Mina Anwar, Justin Avoth, Janet Henfrey, Tom Baker	April 3, 2024
Sontarans vs Rutans	“In Name Only”	Jonathon Carley, Dan Starkey, Christopher Ryan, John Banks, Debbie Korley	April 2024
Torchwood	“I Hate Mondays”	Tracy-Ann Oberman, Gareth David-Lloyd, Tim Bentinck	May 2024
Ninth Doctor Adventures	“Star Crossed”	Christopher Eccleston, Alex Kingston	May 29, 2024
Missy	“Bad Influence”	Michelle Gomez, Paterson Joseph, Natalie Gumede, David Shaw Parker	May 21, 2024
Eighth Doctor Adventures	“Echoes”	Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan	May 16, 2024
Dark Gallifrey	“Morbius – Part 2”	Samuel West, Rachel Atkins, Hywel Morgan, Andrew French, Mina Anwar, Justin Avoth, Janet Henfrey	May 2, 2024
Fourth Doctor Adventures	“Metamorphosis”	Tom Baker, Christopher Naylor, Eleanor Crooks	June 11, 2024
Dark Gallifrey	“Morbius – Part 3”	Samuel West, Tom Baker, Mina Anwar, Rachel Atkins, Justin Avoth, Andrew French, Janet Henfrey, Lara Lemon	June 20, 2024
Seventh Doctor Adventures	“The Last Day 2”	Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Lissie Annis, Yasmin Bannerman, Geoffrey Beevers, Lisa Bowerman, Travis Oliver, Amy Pemberton, Philip Olivier …	June 25, 2024
Torchwood	“The Restoration of Catherine”	Tom Price, Samuel Barnett	June 27, 2024
The Novel Adaptations	“Goth Opera”	Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton,	July 17, 2024
The Lost Stories	“Deathworld”	Stephen Noonan, Michael Troughton, Tim Treloar	~~July 2024~~ DELAYED
The Lost Stories	“Operation Werewolf”	Michael Troughton, Frazier Hines, Wendy Padbury	July 24, 2024
Second Doctor Adventures	“Conspiracy of Raven”	Michael Troughton, Frazier Hines, Wendy Padbury	July 9, 2024
Sixth Doctor Adventures	“Trials of a Time Lord”	Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Bonnie Langford, David Banks	Aug. 30 2024
The Death and Life of River Song	“Last Words”	Alex Kingston, Greg Wise, Jamie Parker	August 2024
The War Doctor Rises	“Morbius the Mighty”	Jonathon Carley, Samuel West, Sheila Ruskin, Gareth Armstrong, Pamele Nomvete, Theo Solomon, Nicholas Briggs	Aug. 21 2024
Susan’s War	“Family Ties”	Carole Ann Ford, Sonny McGann, Jonathan Carley	Aug. 28 2024
Fourth Doctor Adventures	“Dominant Species”	Tom Baker, Christopher Naylor, Eleanor Crooks	Sept. 3, 2024
Eighth Doctor Adventures	“The Stuff of Legend”	Paul McGann, India Fisher, Alex Macqueen, Nicholas Briggs	Sept. 14, 2024
Fifth Doctor Adventures	“The Great Beyond”	Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Matthew Waterhouse	Sept. 17, 2024
Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter	“Saving Time”	Georgia Tennant	October 2024
Eighth Doctor: Time War Uncharted	“Reflections”	Paul McGann	October 2024
Third Doctor Adventures	“Quintessence”	Tim Treloar, Katy Manning	October 9, 2024
The War Master	“Future Phantoms”	Sir Derek Jacobi, Robert Glenister, Annette Badland, Lorne MacFadyen	November 2024
The Sirens of Time Redux	“The Sirens of Time Redux”	Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy	November 2024
Susan’s War	“Grandfather Time”	Carole Ann Ford, Sonny McGann, Jonathan Carley	March 2025

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