Short Trips – Volume 3 Explained

Short Trips - Volume 3
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Series:	Doctor Who
Number:	3
Director:	Nicholas Briggs Ken Bentley
Date:	May 2011

Short Trips – Volume 3 is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

After the Big Finish Short Trips books ended the range was restarted in talking book format, now read by actors with music and sound effects.

Seven to One by Simon Paul Miller Read by Nicholas Briggs, William Russell Featuring The Seventh Doctor, Ace The Sixth Doctor, Peri The Fifth Doctor, Nyssa The Fourth Doctor, Romana The Third Doctor, Jo Grant The Second Doctor, Jamie The First Doctor, Susan The Doctor suddenly finds himself in Gray Space, a point shared by powerful Black and White entities. There he faces a seemingly simple puzzle that offers seven attempts to solve.
The Five Dimensional Man by Kate Orman Read by David Troughton Featuring The Second Doctor, Zoe, Jamie An aspiring science fiction writer from 1959 is whisked off to the 28th Century to help stop an alien invasion.
Pop Up by David Curran Read by Katy Manning Featuring The Third Doctor, Jo Grant Jo's compassion leads to the TARDIS being infected with advanced alien Adware.
The Wondrous Box by Juliet Boyd Read by Louise Jameson Featuring The Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith An 1885 visit to PT Barnum's famous circus leads to a Jumbo tragedy.
Wet Walls by Mathilde Madden Read by Peter Davison Featuring The Fifth Doctor, Peri The Doctor tries to help a mad woman in a rainy 1903 Shropshire manor house.
Murmurs of Earth by M Deacon, J Middleton, & C Wraight Read by Colin Baker Featuring The Sixth Doctor, Peri At the edge of the Solar System lies the Oort cloud. In 2199, it is still an unexplored frontier. No one from Earth has ever seen it or the obscure asteroid within it, inhabited by strange, naked humans.
The Riparian Ripper by Andrew Cartmel Read by Sophie Aldred Featuring The Seventh Doctor, Ace A series of brutal attacks on the banks of the Red River cause terror and confusion.
All the Fun of the Fair by Bev Conway Read by India Fisher Featuring the Eighth Doctor, Lucie Miller An unscrupulous barker turns the TARDIS into a funfair attraction.

Notes

• Seven to One is split into eight parts and dispersed between the other stories. It features the first seven Doctors arriving and disappearing from the same spot, one after the other and in reverse order.
• The powerful, ancient, diametrically opposed, Black and White entities, locked in an eternal struggle, are never named. Their description implies that they are the Black Guardian and the White Guardian.
• Sophie Aldred reads her story in first person, as Ace. India Fisher also reads her story in first person, but not as a previously established character.

External links

• Short Trips Volume 3