Big Finish and Hitch Hiker’s producer Dirk Maggs get Best Drama Audie award nominations 

Doctor Who: The War Doctor: Only The Monstrous

Big Finish – creators of many much-acclaimed Doctor Who audio adventures and more – and Dirk Maggs, well known for his “Audio Movies” approach to Audio drama, have nominations for Best Drama in the 2017  Audie Awards.

One is The War Doctor: Only The Monstrous, featuring the late, great John Hurt.

The winner will be announced on 1st June 2017 at a ceremony in New York.

Selected by the Audio Publishers Association, the Audie Awards celebrate the best in recorded literature.

The full nominations in the Audio Drama category are:

Alien: Out of the Shadows: An Audible Original Drama

Alien: Out of the Shadows: An Audible Original Drama

By Tim Lebbon and Dirk Maggs, narrated by Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck, and Mac McDonald, published by Audible Studios

As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then, on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell – and trimonite, the hardest material known to man.

When a shuttle crashes into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that there was more than trimonite deep in the caverns. There was evil, hibernating and waiting for suitable prey. Hoop and his associates uncover a nest of Xenomorphs, and hell takes on a new meaning. Quickly they discover that their only hope lies with the unlikeliest of saviors…

Ellen Ripley, the last human survivor of the salvage ship Nostromo.

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures - Death and the Queen

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures – Death and the Queen 

By James Goss, narrated by David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Alice Krige, Blake Ritson, Beth Chalmers, and Alan Cox, published by Big Finish Productions

Donna Noble has never been lucky in love.

So when, one day, her Prince does come, she is thrilled to have the wedding of all weddings to look forward to. Though the Doctor isn’t holding his breath for an invitation. And her future mother-in-law is certainly not amused.

But on the big day itself, Donna finds her castle under siege from the darkest of forces, marching at the head of a skeleton army.

When it looks like even the Doctor can’t save the day, what will Queen Donna do to save her people from Death itself?

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Doctor Who: The War Doctor: Only The Monstrous

By Nicholas Briggs, narrated by John Hurt, Jacqueline Pearce, Carolyn Seymour, and Lucy Briggs-Owen, published by Big Finish Productions

Three new battles for The War Doctor, played by the late John Hurt

1.1 The Innocent

As the Daleks mass their time fleet for a final assault on Gallifrey, something ancient is waiting for them at Omega One. And a sacrifice must be made.

Arch-manipulator and Time Lord strategist, Cardinal Ollistra receives shock news of the Doctor’s death.

Meanwhile, on the planet Keska, a parochial war has returned to plague a peaceful civilisation after decades of tranquillity. But how can such a war have any connection with the great Time War which, at any one moment in the whole of eternity, could threaten to tear the universe apart?

If only the Doctor were still alive.

1.2 The Thousand Worlds

With the high-ranking Time Lord Seratrix behind enemy lines, the War Doctor finds himself assigned to a rescue mission. But any room for manoeuvre is severely restricted by an area of space known as the Null Zone.

Times have changed on Keska, and a countdown to destruction is beginning.

But who are the Taalyens and what is their part in the great and terrifying Dalek plan?

1.3 The Heart of the Battle

Trapped in a citadel swarming with Daleks, the Time Lord rescue force must find a way to overcome insurmountable odds. With the Daleks apparently planning to rule the Null Zone, perhaps their thirst for universal conquest and victory has been quenched…

The War Doctor doesn’t believe so — but how can he prove it without destroying any chance of peace?

As the countdown to the destruction of Keska proceeds, a deadly choice must be made… A choice that will define this Doctor, and perhaps forever cast him in the role of ‘monster’.

More about Doctor Who: The War Doctor: Only The Monstrous

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In the Embers

In the Embers 

By Brian Price and Jerry Stearns, narrated by Robin Miles, Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, et al; music by Mike Wheaton, published by Great Northern Audio Theatre/Blackstone Audio

An independent feature-length audio drama

A song, a pressed flower, and the sound of two girl’s voices recovered from a burned wooden beam by using a laser to read its charred surface like the grooves of an old 78rpm record. These are the clues that archaeologist, Digger Morgan, discovers while working on a routine Maryland plantation dig.

Who were the girls? When was the fire?

The answers all lead to 1920s jazz pioneer, Kit Jeffers, whose voice mysteriously appears on Digger’s computer, and whose existence remains haunted by a singular tragic event.

More about In The Embers

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The MountaintopThe Mountaintop 

By Katori Hall, narrated by Aja Naomi King and Larry Powell, published by LA Theatre Works

On 4th April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of 3rd April is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop.

Hours after King’s final speech, punctuated by his immortal line “I’ve been to the mountaintop”, the celebrated reverend forms an unlikely friendship with a motel maid as they talk into the early hours of what will be his final day.

More about The Mountaintop

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