Big Finish will be confirming more details over the coming weeks, but today we can reveal that in the final story of
The Diary of River Song Series Six, River will be travelling back to Victorian London, just before the classic
Fourth Doctor story,
The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
In
The Talents of Greel, by Paul Morris, River will be playing detective, working out what is happening to the performers of London town, and her investigations take her to the Palace Theatre where she'll meet Henry Gordon Jago, played by Christopher Benjamin.
Angus Wright (
Kingdom of Heaven,
The Iron Lady) plays Magnus Greel (reprising the role from an earlier audio adventure,
The Butcher of Brisbane), Nicholas Goh plays Li H'Sen Chang and the villainous ventriloquist's doll, Mr Sin, and Casey the Irishman is played by John Paul Connolly.
David Richardson, producer, tells us more: "Working in the wonderful world of
The Talons of Weng-Chiang is not unusual for me having produced so many spin-off audio adventures for
Jago and Litefoot. Here we are back at the Palace Theatre, in those last days before Jago met Litefoot, when the maniac Magnus Greel is skulking below in his secret laboratory, and his servant Li H'Sen Chang is performing on stage and doing his master's bidding.
"We've worked hard to authentically recreate the story – think of this as episode zero of
The Talons of Weng-Chiang; our guest cast all watched the original before coming to the studio. Needless to say Angus Wright, Nicholas Goh and John Paul Connolly make a fantastic Greel, Chang and Casey!"
