Time-travelling archaeologist and adventurer River Song has met many of the Doctor’s incarnations on screen, plus even more in audio, and in this latest series she will run into a few more characters very familiar to Big Finish Doctor Who listeners.  

As exclusively revealed in Doctor Who Magazine issue 555 (in shops from 20 August 2020), Alex Kingston is back in The Diary of River Song series eight alongside Salome Haertel (as android Rachel), Derek Griffiths (as 24th century war criminal, Annam Henic), John Leeson (as the Doctor’s favourite robot dog, K9) Tracy Wiles (as robot cat, FE-LINE) and Nicholas Briggs as The Mechonoids.  

Plus, in a spectacular return to the Worlds of Doctor Who, Big Finish regular Jane Slavin reprises the role of Anya Kingdom, Space Security Service officer, who this time is on a rescue mission with a difference.  

The Diary of River Song: Series 8 is now available to pre-order at the special price of £24.99 as a collector’s edition four-disc CD box set or £19.99 as a download HERE.

It’s River and robots! Professor River Song is an expert in many things, but her tech skills are tested in these encounters with robotic friends and foes. 

Over the course of four episodes River will battle Mechonoids on an ice world, meet K9 in a ‘forever home’… and help a treasured android friend discover her destiny in the stars. 

The box set comprises four new adventures:  

Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow by James Goss 

A Brave New World by Tracy Ann Baines 

A Forever Home by Alfie Shaw 

Queen of the Mechonoids by Jonathan Morris 

The Diary of River Song: Series 8 can now be pre-ordered at the special price of £24.99 as a collector’s edition four-disc CD box set or £19.99 as a download HERE.

Alex Kingston will be reunited with her TV husband David Tennant in the forthcoming Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor and River Song, which is also available to pre-order now and is due for release in November 2020.