Tag Archives: Mark Benton

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon: Other Worlds. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Mark Benton, Nicola Blackman, Robert Cavanah, Luke R. Francis, Indigo Griffiths, Victoria Jeffrey, Malcolm Jeffries, Hywel Morgan, Sarah Priddy, John Rayment.

Tread softly in the worlds of others, for your presence has not been anticipated enough for it not to leave a groove in the sands of their time.

Rose Tyler has had to learn this the hard way, initially with her travels with the Doctor, then as she is stranded in another version of Earth, a parallel world where the fabric of time has altered certain aspects of what she, and the listener, would take for granted.

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(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Shaun Dingwall, Mark Benton, Joe Jameson, Waleed Akhtar, Amerjit Deu, Elli Garnett, Julia Hills, Syrus Lowe, Gemma Page, Alistair Petrie, Dan Starkey, Elizabeth Uter, Robert Whitelock, Claire Wyatt.

Across dimensions she has searched for the one she called Doctor. For Rose Tyler, companion of the ninth incarnation of the mysterios man in the box, and the trusted friend of the tenth to bear that name, time has been a burden, time is running out, for across the galaxy, across all dimensions, the stars are going out, and each Earth is facing its own unique set of problems in which it will eventually die.

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(583 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

The Nevers. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Laura Donnelly, Ann Skelly, Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Pip Torrens, Rochelle Neil, Amy Manson, Zachary Momah, Viola Prettejohn, Kiran Sonia Sawer, Ella Smith, Anna Devlin, Ben Chaplin, Zain Hussain, Denis O’ Hare, Nick Frost, Elizabeth Berrington, Pui Fan Lee, Eleanor Tomlinson, Vinnie Heaven, Claudia Black, Domenique Fragale, Martyn Ford, Mark Benton, Sylvie Briggs, Nicholas Farrell, Nicola Sloane, Abigail Thaw, Matt Emery.

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(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: Death Of The Small Coppers. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland,  Ann Eleonora Jorgensen, Mark Benton, Peter Egan, Ellie Haddinton, Ray Fearon, Thusitha Jayasundera, Ella Kenion, John Light, Niamh McGrady, Chance Perdomo.

It never does a television series any harm to rejuvenate itself every now and then, it arguably suggests an element of self-awareness that it is willing to go through the process of reincarnation, like an insect that becomes sheltered in its cocoon, when it re-emerges out into the sunlight it can be seen to be more colourful, more illuminating than it had the chance to be before.

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(431 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Danny And The Human Zoo, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kascion Franklin, Lenny Henry, Arthur Darvill, Cecilia Noble, Richard Wilson, Evanna Lynch, Peter Bankole, Danya Bateman, Mark Benton, Richard Boland, Reis Bruce, Michael Crump, Tonia Daley-Campbell, Leonie Elliott, Adam Fray, Don Gayle, Natasha Gordon, Brenton Hamilton, Tina Harris, Lee Hodge, Daniel Holden, David Knopov, Laurence Inman, Marlene McKenzie, Quinn Patrick, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Danny Sapani, Cherrelle Skeete.

 

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(622 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Michael Praed, Mark Benton, Noel Sullivan, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Phoebe Coupe, Carley Stenson, Emma Caffrey, Andy Conaghan, Soophia Foroughi, Johnny Godbold, Orla Gormley, Patrick Harper, Jordan Livesey, Regan Shepherd, Kevin Stephen-Jones, Katie Warsop, Jenny Wickham, Justin-Lee Jones, Andy Rees, Freya Rowley.

 

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(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Doctor Who, Energy Of The Daleks. Big Finish Audio Play 1.04.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 22nd 2012

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Alex Lowe, Mark Benton, Caroline Keiff, Dan Starkey, John Dorney, Nicholas Briggs.

Tom Baker’s incarnation and time as the fourth Doctor was never better than when he faced off against the scourge of Skaro, The Daleks. In Nicholas Briggs’ latest story for Big Finish, Energy Of The Daleks, Tom Baker is once more pitted against one of his greatest enemies and even though it was the first story that was recorded for the return of Tom Baker, there is much to admire in the delivery and the script.

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(446 words, 1 image, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)