Big Finish have released the synopses for numbers 120 and 121 in their monthly Doctor Who audio range. They are the April and May releases, respectively.

The Magic Mousetrap
Switzerland, 1926: the Doctor finds himself halfway up an Alpine mountainside, on his way to an exclusive sanatorium for the rich and famous run by the Viennese alienist Ludovic ‘Ludo’ Comfort. In between bouts of electric shock therapy, Ludo’s patients – including faded music hall turn Harry Randall, chess grandmaster Swapnil Khan and Lola Luna, darling of the Weimar cabaret scene – fill their time with endless rounds of Snap!, among other diversions.

But the Doctor soon suspects that someone’s playing an altogether more sinister game. Someone with a score to settle…

Enemy of the Daleks
Bliss used to be a paradise planet. The Galapagos Islands of space. But when the TARDIS brings the Doctor, Ace and Hex to Bliss, it’s been over-run with ironweed plants, and the air is heavy with the stench of burnt silk and static electricity.

Worse, the Daleks are coming, on the trail of a lost patrol of starship troopers. Holed up in the Roarke 279 research facility, Lieutenant Beth Stokes is preparing her last stand against the invaders.

But there’s a secret on Bliss, a secret guarded by the obsessive Professor Shimura…

This time, could it be the Daleks need saving?

The synopses and covers for the four episodes of “Iris Wildthyme” series 2 have been revealed by Big Finish. The first of these is due for release on 28th February.

The Sound of Fear

With her red London bus on course for the future, Iris runs slap-bang into the past!

Materialising aboard Radio Yesterday, a space station broadcasting golden oldies to Earth’s colonies, Panda finds something sinister in the air-conditioning and Iris comes face to face with her long-lost husband… (no, really!)

As Iris, Panda and the crew of Radio Yesterday experience the true power of music, the evil Naxian hoardes are poised to transmit a groovy message of death… to the entire galaxy!

Land of Wonder

Exiled to Earth by her mysterious superiors, Iris has been amusing herself and Panda by working for MIAOW, the Ministry for Incursions and Other Wonders. When a certain Professor Ramsbottom and his lovely assistant Audrey unearth a weird vehicle under a London railway station, Ms Wildthyme and her art critic chum are on the scene pretty sharpish.

Among anachronistic skulls and crockery they discover the still-living forms of utterly perplexing, alien creatures. And, before you can say ‘Jabberwocky’ Iris and her friends are on a mind-boggling voyage into a groovy Wonderland deep, deep beneath the Earth’s crust…

The Two Irises

Iris is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. She sacrificed herself to save her best friend, Panda, then exploded inside her time-travelling bus.

On Earth in the year 2108, the North Bloc and the South Bloc teeter on the edge of terrible nuclear war. The fate of the whole world rests on a not-very-good disco in Spain. One run by the dastardly alien Naxians…

Iris Wildthyme is as dead as a doornail. But her new incarnation is going to have to get stuck in. Poor bloke doesn’t stand a chance.

The Panda Invasion

San Francisco, New Year’s Eve, 1999

She’s back, and it’s about… gin!

When an unconscious Iris Wildthyme is rushed into a San Francisco hospital on New Year’s Eve 1999, hunky doctor George Strangeways’ life is turned upside down.

As the world prepares to party its way into the next millennium, a space time rift opens above the Golden Gate Bridge – where an old fashioned London bus has appeared… As the rift spills untold horrors from other dimensions into our world, Iris has just one question: where the ‘eck is Panda?!

Big Finish have announced more information about the special bonus series entitled “The Three Companions” will be made available as a bonus feature as of April on their Doctor who monthly range. It will run for 12 mini-episodes, each lasting 10 minutes. It’s also been confirmed that Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart will appear.

Big Finish have announced the three companions who will feature in the upcoming Companion Chronicles mini-series, “The Three Companions”. It will be released part by part as bonuses with the monthly Doctor Who audio range, starting from Spring 2009.

Anneke Wills returns as Polly who, in the present day, tracks down Jo Grant (Katy Manning), and realizes their past adventures with the Doctor have actually intersected. Meanwhile, as the planet Earth faces environmental catastrophe, a third companion is observing them from afar… A certain Thomas Brewster (John Pickard), who is in possession of a stolen TARDIS.

This year sees the 45th anniversary of Doctor Who, and to fit the celebration, Big Finish plan to release this week a rather special audio play. The aptly named “Forty-Five“ is a series of four adventures on 2 CDs from some new writers to Big Finish, featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex.

The following is the synopsis of the plays in the 45 release:

1. FALSE GODS
by Mark Morris

In the blistering heat of the Egyptian desert Howard Carter and his team search for the lost tomb of Userhat, a servant of the god Amun. What they discover sheds new light on the history of the world as we know it.

2. ORDER OF SIMPLICITY
by Nick Scovell
Dr. Verryman has devoted his life to the advancement of knowledge. When his experiments on a remote planet threaten the entire human race only the Doctor can help – if he puts his mind to it.

3. CASUALTIES OF WAR
by Mark Michalowski
Opportunity knocks in postwar London. But when a tea leaf steals from the wrong woman it becomes a race against time to discover the truth. Only some truths are best left untold.

4. THE WORD LORD
by Steven Hall
In a top secret military bunker deep beneath the Antarctic ice a mysterious death threatens peace negotiations and could spell disaster for the inhabitants of Earth. Can the Doctor cross the t’s and dot the i’s? Or will his efforts get lost in translation?

Big Finish have announced the next series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, to be released from the 7th of March. In a new move for the company, they will be available for download in weekly episodes, with the CD of each adventure being released after the story’s conclusion at the end of each month. Big Finish have also announced plans to release a 9th episode of this season for Christmas 2009.

Click below to read some early story synopses and listen to the trailer. Warning may contain spoilers.

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