Category Archives: Big Finish

The Age of Revolution

Posted on 2 April 2013 by

Corks – it’s the return of theatre impresario Henry Gordon Jago and pathologist Professor George Litefoot, those two fruity Victorian investigators played to perfection by Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter. They are back for another quartet of audio adventures, courtesy … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jago & Litefoot, Jonathan Morris, London, Scene of the crime, Steampunk | 12 Comments

Mysteries in Audio: Podcast

Posted on 26 March 2013 by

Patrick, a man wise beyond his years and master of that smashing resource, At The Scene of the Crime, today celebrates the second online birthday of his blog. As we are both fans of mystery audios I was thrilled to … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Gilbert Adair, Jago & Litefoot, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes | 5 Comments

The Mystery of the Missing Hour

Posted on 5 March 2013 by

Agatha Christie meets Pirandello in this rather splendid audio mystery by Joseph Lidster starring Susannah Harker and David Warner as ‘time detectives’ Sapphire and Steel. It’s Cairo in 1926 and an expedition arrives from England to uncover the secrets of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Agatha Christie, Audio Review, Big Finish, Egypt, Joseph Lidster, Miss Marple, Nigel Fairs, Poirot, Sapphire & Steel, Scene of the crime | 22 Comments

GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST by Tony Lee

Posted on 23 December 2012 by

This new audio play by Tony Lee brings together two (fictional) icons of Victorian England – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, that perverse satyr, sensualist and scoundrel whose own narcissism led … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, London, Scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes | 11 Comments

Mysteries in Audio: Podcast

Posted on 1 December 2012 by

I’m a big fan of audio drama (and for a year I even hosted a blog devoted to the subject) and have occasionally reviewed full cast radio plays here at Fedora (for a list of some of these see here). … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jago & Litefoot, John Dickson Carr, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes | 8 Comments

THE ETERNAL ACTRESS by Nev Fountain

Posted on 19 August 2012 by

This new entry in the Dark Shadows series is produced for audio by Big Finish, makers of such fine products as the truly wondrous Jago and Litefoot thrillers (for my reviews of these, click here). I have to admit to … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Billy Wilder, Dark Shadows, Doctor Who, Film Noir, Gothic, Hollywood, Nev Fountain, Scene of the crime | Tagged , | 6 Comments

THE HOURGLASS KILLERS by Justin Richards

Posted on 12 May 2012 by

The title may sound like an episode of The Man from UNCLE but in fact this is the cracking climax to the fourth season of Jago & Litefoot. And one of the things that becomes clear almost immediately is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Doctor Who, Jago & Litefoot, Justin Richards, London, Scene of the crime, Steampunk | 7 Comments

THE LONELY CLOCK by Matthew Sweet

Posted on 29 April 2012 by

The Jago & Litefoot audio adventures, a spin-off from the Doctor Who characters featured in the classic Tom Baker serial, ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ by Robert Holmes, continue into their fourth and potentially best season yet. Trevor Baxter plays pathologist … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jago & Litefoot, London, Matthew Sweet, Scene of the crime, Steampunk | 4 Comments

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE PERFIDIOUS MARINER by Jonathan Barnes

Posted on 22 April 2012 by

One of many releases timed to coincide with the Titanic centenary, this audio play runs the risk of being taken for just another chair on a very overcrowded deck (sic). Which would be a great shame, because this has almost … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, London, Scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes, Sussex | 8 Comments

BEAUTIFUL THINGS by John Dorney

Posted on 12 April 2012 by

Roll up, roll up for the exciting new season of audio adventures featuring Jago and Litefoot, the Victorian duo specialising in ‘infernal investigations’ played with brio and vim by Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter. After their emotional Brighton sojourn in … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jago & Litefoot, John Dorney, London, Scene of the crime, Steampunk | 3 Comments

JAGO IN LOVE by Nigel Fairs

Posted on 29 March 2012 by

The plot: Jago, Litefoot and Leela take a holiday in Brighton. There, Jago meets and falls for music hall singer Abigail Woburn, a relationship that threatens to split the infernal investigators apart, as dark forces gather on the beach … … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Brighton, Jago & Litefoot, London, Nigel Fairs, Scene of the crime, Steampunk | 9 Comments

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE REIFICATION OF HANS GERBER by George Mann

Posted on 2 December 2011 by

The Plot: When one of the Maugham family meets an untimely death, it seems almost impossible to work out who the murderer might be, until a distant relative of the family comes to light. With the arrival of Hans Gerber, … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, George Mann, John Dickson Carr, London, Scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes, Steampunk | 4 Comments

THE MAHOGANY MURDERERS by Andy Lane

Posted on 6 November 2011 by

A few years ago I started commuting – but British trains being what they frequently are (late, over-crowded, expensive …) I found that trying to read a book was not easy, what with all the jostling amongst passengers and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Andy Lane, Audio Review, Big Finish, Five Star review, Gothic, London, Scene of the crime, Steampunk | Leave a comment

IN CONVERSATION WITH AN ACID BATH MURDERER by Nigel Fairs

Posted on 15 October 2011 by

Synopsis: In 1949, John George Haigh, the infamous ‘Vampire killer’, was hanged for the murder of at least six people. Join him in the hangman’s cell as he tells you his story and invites you to relive the seduction, murder … Continue reading →

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