This week Michael Mills returns to talk all about the Big Finish subscriber audio, The Five Companions, by Eddie Robson. He and Luke also talk about the under discussed story, the Five Doctors and our thoughts on Big Finish over the years.

The Quantum Of Krotons!

Nyssa gets no blurb love.

Episode may or may not contain average meandering.

Luke is with Nathan Bottomley. In his house! Recording his first ever face to face episode. This week, much to everyone's probable surprise, the lads talk about the Five Doctors 40th Anniversary Edition.

Luke is informed that there are in fact three Atlanti.

"Take me back to ****ing Heathrow, you ****ing dog ****"

Most definitely send those letters.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Rob Irwin joins Luke to talk all about the special edition of the Five Doctors! Discover how it's been redecorated and whether or not the lads like it.

Xander uses the Dark Web?!

Nothing beats chunky buttons and red knobs.

So what does happen when everyone enters the TARDIS at the end?

Lucy McCaul is here to join Luke for a chat about The Five Doctors. The original (version) you might say!

Discover why Luke only reads Doctor Who for the articles.

Witness the Master meeting his favourite monsters.

Listen in annoyance as Luke repeatedly calls the Cybermen, Robots.

This week on the Maran Chess Club its more Books n Stuff! Kieran Pell returns to talk with Luke all about Craig Hinton's first novel. So pick your favourite restaurant destination in history (I wonder if there's a bus somewhere that could help one do that?), because it's time for the Crystal Bucephalus.

Like Nekromanteia, Luke will never forget how to spell Bucephalus.

Just how much NA is in this MA?

Tegan nearly goes full Aussie.

Dan Hollingsworth joins Luke to have a chat about Tegan's ex boyfriend Tody Hadoke! Join the as they cover the Big Finish Lost Story Hexagoa & then get somebody to help you please as the duo talk all about Resurrection of the Daleks.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Melvin Pena joins Luke to talk about the Big Finish audio drama, The Peterloo Massacre by Paul Magrs. Doctor Who fulfilling one of its original remits. They also talk about the 2018 movie Peterloo directed by Mike Leigh.

Mr Si Hart returns to the Maran Chess Club for another dose of Christopher H. Bidmead goodness. This time in Target form with Frontios!

What if Cockerill was actually an amazing character?

What if a character from a Pertwee story grew?

And what if a writer finally did something with Turlough being an alien?

Mr Paul Quinn returns for more books n stuff. So empty your mind and get ready for some enthusiastic stroking as Paul and Luke talk all about the Target novel Black Orchid, by Terrance Dudley.

Wait a King John reference?

I don't like cricket. Oh no.

The Time Lords will steer the Doctor towards some low stakes problems for fun.

Jo Short has never seen Enlightenment before now. So this week on the Maran Chess Club she joins Luke to talk all about it.

Who wins the chess battle of the ages? Tegan or Turlough?

Prepare yourself for Cackling, laughing and chuckling

This week Rod Brown returns to the Maran Chess Club to talk about his Big Finish Short Trip, The Meaning Of Red & The Fifth Doctor Adventures story Psychodrome by Jonathan Morris.

Just how many Red Dwarf's in one is this?

Listen in awe as Rod & Luke almost drown in a kitchen sink...... of ideas.

We always do stories that melt our brains.

It's also episode 25!!!!!!!

Parental advisory: In this episode of the Maran Chess Club, Iain Martin joins Luke to talk all about Carol Ann Phaorred.... Actually no they talk about the Virgin Missing Adventure, Cold Fusion by Lance Parkin.

Witness Saward laughing at Luke wearing nothing but a nappy.

Listen as Iain makes sure Luke shuts up about Blake's 7 & the Underwater Menace.

Experience the horror of Chess humbling.

Journey with Alex Wilcock and Luke as they venture forth to an unnamed planet in the future. Where they do a lot of magic tricks. It's time for the Big Finish Adaptation of Lance Parkin's Cold Fusion.... by Lance Parkin.

So are you arthouse or macho?

Nathan Bottomley returns and together with Luke they fix Black Orchid. So put on your best fancy dress costume (or steal someone else's), because it'll be a real hoot!

Enjoy the adventures of a certain cabin boy.

Dream about an ending where George falls on his mother.

Whose winning, Kinda or Snakedance? (no please tell me)

On this episode of the Maran Chess Club, Lucy McCal returns for more season 19 goodness. Yes we mean goodness. That's right fellow thespians turned highwaymen its time for the Visitation!

Was the android the inspiration for Colin's jacket?

How good are Tereleptil arts and crafts?

And get ready for the Plague 2 Electric Boogaloo.

On the Maran Chess Club this week Dylan Rees joins Luke for a Stephen Gallagher Double bill. Have a listen while wondering around the forbidden zone or a virtual reality hellscape, because its time for Terminus & Nightmare Country.

Spoilers for Nightmare Country. Give it a listen!

One day we might cover a past Traken by Lance Parkin.

Evil. Lasagna.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Luke fulfills his promise with Paul Quinn to read a good book this time. So take some hydromel & hide in the vents as they talk all about Stephen Gallagher.... errrr John Lydecker's Terminus!

Nyssa leaves to break bad.

GallaGER or GallaHER?

Are pharmaceutical companies evil? Yes. Yes they are.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Kieran Pell joins Luke to express how little fear they experienced reading Fear Of The Dark by Trevor Baxendale.

Is doubling down on perceived wetness a good idea?

It's every Davo trope in a blender along with celery.

We needed a Crystal Bucket.

Spoilers in this episode.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Mark Rawlins & Joe Ford join Luke to talk all about the recent Big Finish Audio epic Hooklight! One of us didn't like it, one of us is in the middle & one of us loved every second.

Prepare for fights.

Learn how to romance Tegan.

Be careful what you put on covers.

This time on the Maran Chess Club, Gareth Bowley joins Luke on a trip to the far far future. It's time for Frontios! So steal a satsuma and don't be unaccountable, join us!

You want more Gravis? Oh we've you covered. He sings, he dances, he wraths.

It's nice to know that with everything going wrong that the washing machines work.

Have I mentioned it's GRAVIS TIME!?