This month, in Vortex:

UNIT: Eras A new series in Big Finish's UNIT range highlights heroes from across the history of the organisation. The first box set comprises four new adventures featuring Jon Culshaw as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, Ingrid Oliver as Osgood, Sadie Miller as Sarah Jane Smith and Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan. This release also marks the Big Finish debut of Rupert Holliday-Evans as Colonel Mace. UNIT: Eras - Hostile Universe will be released on download to own in April 2026.

Doctor Who - The Eleventh Doctor Adventures Miles Taylor takes on the role of the Doctor, with Jasmine Bayes as new companion Eleanor Fong, in the first of a brand new series of adventures for the Eleventh Doctor. Written by Lisa McMullin and Beth Axford, the stories are set in 1990s Hong Kong, futuristic Space Florida, and back in history to Salem during the 1692 notorious witch trials. Doctor Who - The Eleventh Doctor Adventures: The First Question will be released on download to own in March 2026.

Doctor Who - The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures Jodie Whittaker is the Doctor, with Mandip Gill as Yaz, in a new adventure set in the East End of London, in 1926. The story, written by Rafaella Marcus, features the London underbelly of East End music hall culture and that time period's obsession with speaking to the dead through mediums, weird science experiments and 'piercing the veil'. Doctor Who - The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Violet Hour will be released on CD and download to own in March  2026.

Doctor Who - The First Doctor Adventures Stephen Noonan plays the Doctor, with Anneke Wills as Polly and Lauren Cornelius as Dodo. The adventure, written and directed by Nicholas Briggs, explores the notion that an alien invasion might not be a grand, military affair, but could just be sordid little deals where the human race is seen simply as a commodity. Doctor Who - The First Doctor Adventures: Beware the City of Illusions will be released on CD and download to own in March 2026.

Doctor Who - The Fourth Doctor Adventures Tom Baker is the Doctor, with Sadie Miller as Sarah Jane Smith, Jon Culshaw as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan in the first of the Fourth Doctor's box sets of 2026. Summoned back to Earth by the Space-Time telegraph, the Doctor and Sarah Jane find themselves assisting their old friends at UNIT - not once, but twice. But exactly how willing will a Time Lord be to be stuck in a single place once more? Doctor Who - The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Ministry of Death will be released on CD and download to own in March  2026.

UNIT: Brave New World Angela Bruce returns as Brigadier Winifred Bambera, with Alex Jordan as Sergeant Jean-Paul Savarin and Yemisi Oyinloye as Dr Louise Rix. Following directly on from UNIT - Brave New World: Fractures, a rift has opened leading to Camelot, and the return of Bambera's husband - the knight Ancelyn. The release features a tribute to the late Marcus Gilbert, who played Ancelyn. UNIT - Brave New World: Knightfall will be released on download to own in March 2026.

Torchwood Big Finish pays tribute to the late Murray Melvin, and his iconic character Bilis Manger, in a story by David Llewellyn. How was Torchwood involved in a burnt-down Swansea theatre? Who is the character claiming to be Bilis Manger? And what's trapped inside the statue of the Swansea Devil? Torchwood: Curtain will be released on CD and download to own in March 2026.

Star Cops David Calder returns as Commander Nathan Spring, with Linda Newton as Chief Superintendent Pal Kenzy and Trevor Cooper as Inspector Colin Devis, in part three of Star Cops: Conflict. Written by Roland Moore, this is a thriller with a strong emotional impact. Star Cops: Conflict: Prisoner and Escort will be released on download to own in March 2026.

Plus: The Big Finish Book Club: revisit Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: Home Truths on download to own throughout February for only £1.99.

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