The Diary of River Song: Series Eight

The Diary of River Song: Series Eight — 2021
Main character:	River Song
Featuring:	Rachel Burrows, K9, Anya Kingdom
Key crew
Executive producers:	Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery
Producer:	David Richardson
Script editor:	Matt Fitton
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound design:	Howard Carter
Covers by:	Tom Webster
Series details
Released:	27 January 2021
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Production codes:	BFPDWRIVER08
Physical ISBN:	978-1-83868-288-0
Digital ISBN:	978-1-83868-289-7
Released as:	4 CDs
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Main Vortex coverage in issues:	142
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The Diary of River Song: Series Eight was a full cast audio anthology released on 27 January 2021 by Big Finish Productions. It was the eighth release of The Diary of River Song. It featured Alex Kingston as River Song, Salome Haertel as Rachel Burrows, David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, John Leeson as K9 Mark III, Jane Slavin as Anya Kingdom and Joe Sims as Mark Seven.

Publisher's summary

It’s River and robots! Professor River Song is an expert in many things, but her tech skills are tested in these encounters with robotic friends and foes.

Over the course of four episodes River will battle Mechonoids on an ice world, meet K9 in a 'forever home', and help a treasured android friend discover her destiny in the stars...

8.1 Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow by James Goss

River feels responsible for synthetic person Rachel, left alone on a dying world. So she shows her the history of another, and teaches her the responsibilities of time travel.

8.2 A Brave New World by Tracy Ann Baines

Rachel has made a choice and joins a new society at the start of its journey. But she has not bargained for the worst instincts of humanity.

After leaving her ward behind, can River make it back in time to save her?

8.3 A Forever Home by Alfie Shaw

River finds herself caged and feeling under the weather. Luckily, her new owners are on hand to take care of her in her ‘forever home’.

But which of River’s keepers can she trust? Is robot cat FE- all she seems? And is K9 still a girl's best friend?

8.4 Queen of the Mechonoids by Jonathan Morris

Space Security agents Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven answer a distress call – and find River Song, ruling a city of Mechonoids.

But another shock awaits beneath this planet’s icy surface. The Mechonoids have been upgraded and are about to be unleashed upon the galaxy!

 Featured actors

• Alex Kingston
• John Leeson
• Derek Griffiths
• Jane Slavin
• Joe Sims
• Nicholas Briggs

Stories

#	Title	Author	Director	Featuring	Released	Pr. code
8.1	Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow	James Goss	Ken Bentley	Rachel Burrows	27 January 2021	BFPDWRIVER08
8.2	A Brave New World	Tracy Ann Baines		Tenth Doctor, Rachel Burrows
8.3	A Forever Home	Alfie Shaw		K9 Mark III
8.4	Queen of the Mechonoids	Jonathan Morris		Mechonoids, Anya Kingdom, Mark Seven

Notes

• This box set was recorded on 16 December 2019 and 17, 22 and 31 July 2020 at The Moat Studios and remotely.
• The cover art uses an image of K9 Mark I taken from Regeneration, the premiere episode of the spin-off television series K9.

Cover gallery

• Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow (audio story).jpg

  Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow

• A Brave New World (audio story).jpg

  A Brave New World

• A Forever Home (audio story).jpg

  A Forever Home

• Queen of the Mechonoids (audio story).jpg

  Queen of the Mechonoids

External links

• Official The Diary of River Song: Series Eight page at bigfinish.com