Professor River Tune will open her diary for a twelfth and ultimate quantity of adventures: The Orphan Quartet. 

Ever since her final onscreen look because the time-travelling archaeologist, Alex Kingston has been reprising the character for her personal audio spin-off.

Throughout eight wonderful years of audio adventures, Professor Tune has met a number of Medical doctors, Masters and all method of alien foe. She’s additionally handled household points and, most just lately, turn out to be intertwined the destiny of 1 household throughout the generations. It’s been fairly a experience!

Nevertheless, all good issues should come to an finish. Massive End have introduced that the twelfth and ultimate boxset within the sequence is out in August 2023. For that ultimate outing, they’ve saved an encounter with one other Physician Who icon – the indomitable Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler.

Listed here are the small print for The Diary of River Tune: The Orphan Quartet

An outdated enemy hides past the universe, a desolate Cornish inn confronts the reality, a grieving mom holds onto a lethal memento of conflict, and has the Earth failed to note it’s been invaded? Professor River Tune should clear up all this whereas coping with a lack of her personal.

The ultimate 4 tales within the sequence are:

‘The Excise Males’ by Lou Morgan, ‘Harvest of the Krotons’ by James Goss, ‘Lifeless Man Speaking’ by Tim Foley and ‘The Spouse of River Tune’ by Lizzie Hopley.

Producer James Goss mentioned:

“It’s an absolute privilege to unite Three Nice Queens of Physician Who – River Tune, Jackie Tyler and The Krotons. The Krotons are again and so they’re operating a well being farm! Who higher to research than River and Jackie?”

“If you happen to have been questioning about Jackie’s unlikely friendship with Mrs Tune at Quantity 23 (in The Lives of Captain Jack quantity 3) then right here’s the reply. It was the sort of day in studio you possibly can solely dream of as one among Physician Who’s most beloved monsters met the Krotons – will Jackie Tyler turn out to be a Excessive Mind?”

Different appearances 

After all, we don’t anticipate for one second that this would be the final we’ll hear of River Tune on audio. She’s appeared in a UNIT boxset, met Captain Jack, adventured with the Tenth Physician and joined his Dalek Universe sequence. She additionally met fellow archaeologist Bernice Summerfield within the celebratory multi-Physician journey The Legacy of Time too.

Additionally, we’d be shocked if the present sixtieth anniversary sequence As soon as and Future handed with no go to too.

The Worlds of Physician Who – The Diary of River Tune: The Orphan Quartet is up for pre-order now. It’s obtainable as a collector’s version CD field set + obtain, or on obtain solely, from Massive End.

Try the CultBox opinions of all of the earlier volumes within the sequence right here.