Gwen and Rhys Join Big Finish’s Torchwood

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Gwen Cooper and her husband, Rhys Williams will be appearing in the third release of Big Finish’s Torchwood range!

The audio’s company’s first foray into the universe of nuWho begins this month, but we’ll have to wait for November’s Forgotten Lives to hear Eve Myles reprise her role as Gwen, and Kai Owen to return as Rhys.

It’s actually the 10th anniversary of Eve’s first appearance in Doctor Who: she played Gwyneth in The Unquiet Dead, but the Who crew liked her so much, they invited her back to play the audience’s introduction to Torchwood, a sort of riskier UNIT back in 2006. Four series of the spin-off followed, and Big Finish has confirmed that these audio dramas take place after the latest run of TV episodes, grouped together as Miracle Day. Here’s what Forgotten Lives is about:

“It has been four years since the Miracle, and Gwen and Rhys’s lives have gone back to normal, very normal. They’re raising their daughter (they’ve got pictures they’d be only too happy to show you), they’re living in a nice house, and they’re almost on top of the laundry.

Captain Jack Harkness has been missing from the world and their lives for a long time. But late one night the phone rings, and they’re summoned to an isolated part of North Wales. The Bryn Offa Nursing Home contains a dark secret, an alien threat, and someone who really shouldn’t be there.

Gwen and Rhys are about to discover that Torchwood stays with you for the rest of your life.”

Written by Emma Reeves, and directed by Scott Handcock, the story also stars Phillip Bond as Griffith, Valmai Jones as Elunedd, and Seán Carlsen as Gary. Reeves, who further guests as Ceri and Nurse Bevan, says:

“I’ve been lucky enough to write for Eve before, on Belonging, and I know that she has a unique gift of imbuing every syllable with the deepest meaning. Getting Eve Myles and Kai Owen, too, is basically like winning the writer lottery.”

Eve has been confirmed for later on in the series too – although more details have yet to be revealed. This series will run monthly until February 2016, and you can subscribe (making the most of special savings) now.

Forgotten Lives is available for pre-order for £9.99 for a CD, or £7.99 for a downloadable copy.

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