If I were to give a one sentence review for “Resistor” it would be that it’s a simple two-part story that’s just… fine. The main issue is coming right after “Pursuit of the Nightjar” which is an extremely tough job for any story, let alone one with such a comparatively short run time. Still, putting that aside and looking at it by itself, what’s it like? Let’s take a deeper look…

What’s this? Reviewing a story in the month it was released?! I know, it’s been a while playing catch up… Anyway, “Pursuit of the Nightjar” is frankly a sleeper hit as I had no real excitement about this release but it blew me away with its writing, setting and over-arching plot, so let’s take a look!

When I saw the synopsis for “Run” I felt a cold shiver go up my spine as it sounded like another ham-fisted attempt at political satire like “The Salurian Candidate”, and while thankfully it never sank that low it’s still as subtle as a brick to the face and not very clever to boot, so it didn’t make for a good hour’s listen. Oh well, let’s take a look…

Travel in Hope, the latest Ninth Doctor full cast box set, gets off to a fun start with two well written space-based stand alone stories that may not amaze you but will definitely entertain you, in two very different ways. “Below There” I found the best of the two for creating a good sense of tension and intrigue while “The Butler Did It” was a fun little run-around “whodunnit”. Let’s take a look!

The second three-part story in “Far From Home” is less a “great concept not really well executed” like the previous story and more a “good idea done alright”. It has a greater focus on Naomi at last but all that did was further demonstrate how Eleanor Crooks still doesn’t seem to know how to show a range of emotions on audio, so that didn’t really help things either. Oh well! Let’s take a look and finally put the June Big Finish releases to bed…