Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker: Short Circuits out today!

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker concludes today with Short Circuits, a pair of brand-new audiobooks read by Dan Starkey.

The Doctor Who mixed-media adventure Circuit Breaker reached its grand finale earlier this week with Full Circuit, a full-cast audio drama starring Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor. But there are still two parts of the story to be told…

Those missing pieces are revealed in today’s release Short Circuits, a set of two Short Trips-style 30-minute audiobook stories, which reveal the backstories of two key characters original to Circuit Breaker.

First, we head to Sontar, to discover the origins of the Conductor, a uniquely intelligent example of his militaristic race. Then, the second story focuses on Andrew, Osgood’s assistant in the UNIT Black Archive.

Both stories are read by Dan Starkey, who’s known for playing Sontarans across Doctor Who on both TV and audio.

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker: Short Circuits is now available to purchase as a download to own for just £11.99, exclusively from the Big Finish website.

The two 30-minute adventures are:

Battleships by Alex Hewitt

Meet the Conductor. It’s rare for a Sontaran to be unique, but this Sontaran is certainly that. Regarded as an aberration by the short-lived scientists who oversaw his clone batch, this cadaverous specimen is also a peerless tactical genius.

But life is hard for a Sontaran who stands out from his fellows, and this formidable mastermind must outwit certain rivals of his own kind before setting his sights on the true enemy of the Sontaran empire.

Get Rich or Die Trying by Alex Hewitt, from a story by Natasha Siegel

Meet Andrew – a young man with a good job and a mysterious benefactor. Following a coded message to the Jurassic Coast, where a team of palaeontologists are digging up a dinosaurskeleton, Andrew encounters a stranger who gives him a so-called time-travel device. Before he knows what’s happened, Andrew is plunged back through history, all the way to the Jurassic Period itself.

Why has he been sent here? Who is his anonymous benefactor? And is he the victim of a sinister experiment? Only time will tell...

Reader Dan Starkey said: “They’re fun stories. There’s an origin story for the Conductor. It has
the birth of a supervillain feel to it, both nice and horrible at the same time! The other story is
more of an introductory bridging story as to how Andrew ends up working for UNIT. There’s a
little bit of jeopardy, some thrills and spills – oh, and a dinosaur. It’s all great fun!”