Series: Torchwood

Book 2.5

The hit BBC series is back! Big Finish bring immortal Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness and colleagues back to audio life for a fresh series of six new audio dramas. Whenever Ianto Jones has a tough day at work, he has somewhere he can hide. And, for Ianto Jones, it's always a tough day at work. His girlfriend is dead, his colleagues don't trust him, and his boss, his boss is something else. With no friends in the world, and his life in danger every day, is it any wonder that at night, Ianto Jones goes to the pub? Ianto's local becomes somewhere where he feels safe. Safe from his demons, safe from his life, safe from Torchwood. Until one evening, Captain Jack Harkness walks into a bar...The huge, and long-running public interest in new Torchwood adventures resulted in a server melt-down when its return on audio was announced by star John Barrowman on his Sunday night radio slot. This second series was greenlit even as the later releases of the first popular series were being recorded. This story is the first of Big Finish's popular Torchwood range to team up fan-favourites Ianto and Captain Jack.John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Kai Owen and Gareth David-Lloyd reprise the characters who starred in four years of hit Doctor Who spin-off.
CAST: John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness), Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones), Melanie Walters (Mandy Aibiston), Eiry Thomas (Glenda), Ross Ford (The Saviour). NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

Book 5

Torchwood

by Sarah Pinborough

Published 7 May 2009

The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they've been dissolved...With the Welsh Amateur Operatic Contest getting under way, music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff. The competition has attracted the finest Welsh talent to the city, but it has also drawn something else - there are stories of a metallic creature hiding in the shadows. Torchwood are on its tail, but it's moving too fast for them to track it down. This new threat requires a new tactic - so Ianto Jones is joining a male voice choir...Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit sci-fi series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.

Book 32

Torchwood #32 Smashed

by James Goss

Published 31 December 2019

Glynteg was never much of a place. Since the refinery’s shut down there’s been nothing much going on – no jobs, no money, more pubs than buses. One of those sad Welsh towns where’s there’s little to do but drink. Then the frakking company came and there was a brief spark of hope – maybe there’d be some jobs, at least. But that fizzled out. Instead the people started falling ill. Gwen Cooper’s come to Glynteg to find out what’s happening. Something ancient has woken up beneath the ground and will do whatever it can to protect itself. The Hunters have been unleashed. And there’s only one way to stay safe. This release features Welsh actress Helen Griffin, who sadly passed away in June 2018. She was known for roles in TV dramas
Keeping Faith and Twin Town, as well as the role of Mrs Moore in the Doctor Who television episodes Rise of the Cybermen
and The Age of Steel. CAST: Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), Omar Austin (Martyn), Helen Griffin (Rhian), Dick Bradnum (Drillpak Manager), Kezrena James (Elwyn). Other parts played by members of the cast. NOTE: TORCHWOOD CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL AND MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER LISTENERS.

Book 33

Torchwood #33 Dead Man's Switch

by David Llewellyn

Published 31 January 2020

A devious antiques dealer, a property developer and a heartbroken hairdresser. Three strangers sit on a train that’s going nowhere. They are joined by a mysterious figure. Billis Manger wants to tell them how they died.The huge and long-running public interest in new Torchwood adventures resulted in a server melt-down when its return on audio was announced by star John Barrowman on his Sunday night radio slot. Across the range, John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Kai Owen and Gareth David-Lloyd have reprised the characters who starred in four years of hit Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, screened around the world. CAST: Murray Melvin (Billis Manger), Timothy Blore (Piers), Maxine Evans (Rowena), Mali Ann Rhys (Zoe). Other parts played by the cast. NOTE; Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

Book 43

Torchwood #43 Three Monkeys

by James Goss

Published 31 December 2020

Andy Davison's been ordered to watch over a local businessman. Everything's always gone right for him and Andy's long wondered why. Owen joins him on the stakeout. He knows something - the businessman's attracted Torchwood's attention and tonight, the two of them are going to take him down. But will luck be on their side? NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners. CAST: Burn Gorman (Owen Harper), Tom Price (Andy Davidson), Joseph Tweedale (Dennis), Joanna Van Kampen (Chief Constable). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Book 49

Torchwood #49 Gooseberry

by James Goss

Published 30 June 2021

Andy has a girlfriend. She's called Caite, and she's utterly lovely. And then she meets Owen. Owen finds out that Caite has a secret. One that he's desperate to understand. But the more he discovers, the more dangerously close to Caite he becomes.
What's going to happen when Andy finds out? Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.
Cast: Burn Gorman (Dr Owen Harper), Tom Price (PC Andy Davidson), Lois Chimimba (Caite), Lowri Gwynne (Mae), Daniel Llewellyn-Williams (Bus Driver), Betsan Llwyd (Pathologist), Joanna Van Kampen (Homeowner). Other parts played by members of the cast. NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

Book 50

Torchwood #50 Absent Friends

by James Goss

Published 31 December 2050

On a dark and stormy night in Cardiff, the city is in danger, and the Doctor's put himself in charge of Torchwood in order to save it. In a sealed recording studio, the voices of the dead have been playing for 17 years. Was it the project of madman, or is this the site of something terrible? Torchwood has been hunting for the Doctor since 1879. And now they've found him. This special release, which teams up with John Barrowman and David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor for the first time since their respective TV series, is he 50th monthly Torchwood audio adventures from Big Finish and celebrates the 15th anniversary of Torchwood. CAST: John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness), Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones), David
Tennant (The Doctor), Ayesha Antoine (Mishka), Colin McFarlane (Devin). Other parts played
by members of the cast.

Book 52

Torchwood #52 Madam I'm

by James Goss

Published 30 September 2021

Torchwood, Soho, the 1950s. Disgraced agent Norton Folgate has a new boyfriend, the very lovely Adam. Brilliant scientist Lizbeth Hayhoe meets a charming stranger on the underground, the very lovely Adam. Very soon, Torchwood has a new leader – the very lovely Adam. With people losing their lives and their souls, Lizbeth and Norton must work out what’s happening to Torchwood. And why is Torchwood preparing to go to war? CAST: Samuel Barnett (Norton Folgate), Bryan Dick (Adam Smith), Dervla Kirwan (Lizbeth Hayhoe). Other parts played by members of the cast. NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

Book 53

Torchwood #53 - Empire of Shadows

by James Goss

Published 31 October 2021

In the far future of the Earth Empire, Torchwood is forgotten. So it's a surprise when Zachary Cross Flane of the Torchwood Archive finds himself summoned to the opening of the late Empress's Library. Her son believes that the conspiracy which deposed his mother is still active, and that the key to it is hidden somewhere in the library. But does Zachary want to find it?
CAST: Shaun Parkes (Zachary Cross Flane), Chandrika Chevli (The Empress), Mateo Oxley
(Emperor Merdiven), Wilf Scolding (Courtier), Amanda Shodeko (Chloe). Other parts played by
members of the cast

Book 54

Torchwood #54 Curios

by James Goss

Published 30 November 2021

During World War Two, the Torchwood Archive has been stowed away in a Welsh coal mine along with countless other art treasures. Bilis Manger is among them. And there’s something hunting him in the dark. Jill has been sent to catalogue the collection. She’s on her own, she’s in disgrace and there’s something hunting her on the slopes of the mountain. Cast: Murray Melvin (Bilis Manger), Rosie Baker (Jill Anderson), Matthew Gravelle (Wilf Church), Laurie Kynaston (Brent Hall). Other parts played by members of the cast. NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

Book 55

Torchwood #55 - The Great Sontaran War

by James Goss

Published 31 December 2021

The Great Sontaran War has raged across the cosmos for millennia and finally it is coming to the Earth.
Major Kreg has been dispatched to carry out a strategic assessment of the planet. He will learn
about the dominant life form, decide what the world has to offer, and discover the ultimate
value of the human race.
For Torchwood, there is only one place to put him. Welcome to the Mumbles Bay Caravan Park.
CAST: Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones), Dan Starkey (Major Kreg), Kaye Brown (Mrs Betty
Appleby), Nigel Harrison (Mr Higgins), Farshid Rokey (Jamal). Other parts played by members
of the cast.

Book 56

Torchwood #56 - The Red List

by James Goss

Published 31 January 2022

At first it was lights in the sky. Then the country started falling apart. Torchwood has come to
help. So has A Charitable Earth. But there's a problem.
Mr Colchester and Ms McShane find themselves trapped in a quarantine hotel in the middle of
an alien invasion.
Can they save the world without leaving their rooms?
Cast: Paul Clayton (St John Colchester), Sophie Aldred (Dorothy McShane), Manuel Pacific
(Xavier). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Torchwood: Risk Assessment

by James Goss

Published 1 October 2009

Are you trying to tell me, Captain Harkness, that the entire staff of Torchwood Cardiff now consists of yourself, a woman in trousers and a tea boy?' Agnes Havisham is awake, and Jack is worried (and not a little afraid). The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her deep sleep in only the worst of times - it's happened just four times in the last 100 years. Can the situation really be so bad? Someone, somewhere, is fighting a war, and they're losing badly. The coffins of the dead are coming through the Rift. With thousands of alien bodies floating in the Bristol Channel, it's down to Torchwood to round them all up before a lethal plague breaks out. And now they'll have to do it by the book. The 1901 edition. Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit sci-fi series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.

The Men Who Sold The World

by Guy Adams

Published 18 August 2011

When Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they've been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff.

The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case. As the strange deaths pile up, Rex realises there must be experimental tech out there, but someone is obstructing him at every turn. Rex is the CIA's golden boy - but has he met his match in the evasive Mr Wynter...?

Based on the hit science fiction series created by Russell T Davies, The Men Who Sold The World is a prequel to Torchwood: Miracle Day, starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles as Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper, with Mekhi Phifer as Rex Matheson.

Long Time Dead

by Sarah Pinborough

Published 4 August 2011

Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base. DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance, fascinated by the process. There are people in his dreams. People he feels he should know.

The disbanded Torchwood Institute spent a century accumulating non-terrestrial artefacts and catching aliens. Who knows what - or who - might still be intact down there. But by the time they find the first body, Suzie Costello is long gone.

Based on the hit science fiction series created by Russell T Davies, Long Time Dead is a prequel to Torchwood: Miracle Day, starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles as Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper. It features Suzie Costello, as played by Indira Varma.

Consequences

by Andrew Cartmel, David Llewellyn, James Moran, Joseph Lidster, and Sarah Pinborough

Published 1 October 2009

Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable.

But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a supermarket? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto's actions at a local publisher's affect Torchwood more than a century earlier?

For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past...

Featuring sci-fi stories by writers for the hit Torchwood series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television, including James Moran and Joseph Lidster, plus Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough and David Llewellyn.