River may have closed her Diary at Big Finish but that doesn’t mean her adventures are ending.
Alex Kingston stars in The Death and Life of River Song, a brand-new series of full-cast audio dramas, starting in August 2024 from Big Finish.
The first box set in the series, Last Words, is written by Robert Valentine. It begins with River, after settling down to an afterlife in the Library’s computer core, finding herself waking up in Earth’s future, her consciousness having been temporarily transferred to a new body.
Alex Kingston said: “We have gone post-Library! We’ve done another episode in the past where I was within the database, which I loved, and I thought that’s the only way you could go forward with River, given her situation. So, I was actually really surprised when this box set came my way, and that we are now so far advanced in the history of Earth that she is able to be brought out as data and put into a cloned body. So very, very clever!”
Producer David Richardson added: “When every single day during the recording, your leading actress says “This script is brilliant”, you know you’re onto a good thing. Even better, at the end of the last day, Alex popped the script in her bag and announced that she loved Last Words so much she was taking it home to keep and treasure.”
The Death and Life of River Song: Last Words is now available for pre-order exclusively from http://www.bigfinish.com, either as a collector’s edition four-CD box set, for £29.99, or as a digital download, for £22.99 per volume.