Martha Jones is again! And she’s going to be depressing! And, in fact, we are able to’t wait.

Big Finish has introduced that Freema Agyeman will reprise her function as Doctor Who companion Martha Jones in a brand new standalone collection that can even see Adjoa Andoh return as Martha’s doting mom, Francine. This isn’t the primary time Agyeman has revisited the character on audio, having appeared in the Torchwood story “Dissected” in 2019. But it’s the primary time she’s returned to taking part in Martha for Doctor Who, and he or she’s returning as a very particular incarnation of the character.

The Year of Martha Jones—unfold throughout three tales, The Last Diner by James Goss, Silver Medal by Tim Foley, and Deceived by Matt Fitton—takes place between Martha’s unique swan-music episodes on the climax of Doctor Who’s third season in 2007: “The Sound of Drums” and “The Last of the Time Lords.” After the Master unleashed a daring plan to usurp management of the Earth by disguising himself because the charming British politician (and eventual Prime Minister) Harold Saxon, Martha—with out assist from her captured household, the imprisoned and tortured Tenth Doctor, or John Barrowman’s Captain Jack—journeyed the Earth on the run for a yr, evading seize by the Master’s forces and spreading the phrase of hope for the Doctor, laying the groundwork for the act of religion that revived the Time Lord and let him undo the Master’s plans, undoing the yr of trauma Martha endured… however not her recollections of it, resulting in her departing from the TARDIS.

“We really didn’t know what Martha was going through during that year on Earth—we see her embark on it, and we see the conclusion of it, but it’s so interesting to really see her as an ordinary person, trying to do extraordinary things,” Agyeman stated of the story followers will hear Martha go on in The Year of Martha Jones. “She has incredible independence and strength so I think she can rely on that, but it’s been great to see how she does ebb and flow throughout that journey.”

The Year of Martha Jones is at present set to launch in December 2021, and is available to pre-order directly from Big Finish.

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