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Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper's new Doctor Who adventure gets first-look trailer
The next Big Finish adventure will be called False Friends.
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- James Hibbs
Published: Wednesday, 12 August 2026 at 11:04 am
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A trailer has been released for the next Doctor Who audio adventure starring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, titled False Friends.
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The trailer for the Big Finish production features the Doctor explaining that despite being light years away from any inhabited world, the TARDIS has received a communication including the word Doctor in about 45 different Earth languages.
Another voice (Máiréad Tyers as Minnie McKeith) tells us they have been trapped for a year on a planet entirely populated by a robotic parody of human civilisation.
You can watch (and listen to) the trailer right here now.
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The synopsis for the new story says: "Minnie and Gary are trapped on a planet of robots, a fake Earth, and they're the only humans - hoping no-one spots their humanity. They summon the one person they know will answer their call for help.
"But can the Doctor and Rose save Gary and Minnie from this false Earth - and who has built this very bad copy of human civilisation in the first place?"
The cast of the adventure also includes Nicole Davis as Alice JNKL520, Glen McCready as Peter Ampersand Hashtag and Joe Pitts as Gary Purdue.
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The most recent audio adventure, titled Dark Tides, was just released, starring Good Omens actor Doon Mackichan in a supporting role.
While Eccleston and Piper have reunited in the audio realm, and Piper has returned to the on screen series for a surprise cameo at the end of the latest episode, The Reality War, Eccleston recently explained what would get him to return to play the Ninth Doctor in the mainline series.
"Here’s the thing: Doctor Who’s written by boys," he said. "There has never been a female showrunner of Doctor Who."
Eccleston continued: "So my dream is this: there was a little girl who was, I don’t know — six, seven, eight — in 2005 when my series went out, and she gets the job, and she asked me back? I’d go back like a shot."
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James HibbsDrama Writer
James Hibbs is a Drama Writer for Radio Times, covering programmes across both streaming platforms and linear channels. He previously worked in PR, first for a B2B agency and subsequently for international TV production company Fremantle. He possesses a BA in English and Theatre Studies and an NCTJ Level 5 Diploma in Journalism.
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