Big Finish Audio: An Earthly Child

I was really looking forward to this one. Susan! We find out what happened next! Yaays!

... unfortunately for about the first half of listening all I could think was how many lines I'd put the emphasis in an entirely different place, especially those read by Jake McGann. I'd not set out to be picky, but emphasis shifts the meaning around and I kept feeling a bit behind unscrambling things that only almost made sense. I'm sure other people haven't that opinion at all.

I liked what they did with Alex Campbell. There's story there, where there could easily have been saccharine. And it makes plenty sense.

But then the other thing I got stuck thinking all the way through was that bit with the 9th Doctor in The Empty Child:

Dr. Constantine: Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm neither. But I'm still a doctor.
The Doctor: Yeah. Know the feeling.

So you can't listen to it with just his past in mind, and I kept on wanting to yell at the Doctor, especially at the end.

But there's still room. For a while.

Radio

I had a bath and the internet needs to know listened to the radio. I'd changed channels until I found something entirely non-Christmas related before I got in the bath. Alas, it did not stay that way. So now I'm wondering:

Which UK radio station is for people avoiding Christianity?
Is there one?
Or do we just have to listen to the same old xmas songs for another day and a half?

... this is unlikely to be relevant for another year now. Yet still I wonder.