The story has its fair share of period Cockneys. He’s also very good at getting the balance between comedy and drama nicely balanced. Jonathan Morris is one of my favourite Big Finish writers and he does a fine job of creating the first adventure that may set the pattern for the rest of the series to come.

He has a rather nasty assistant played by Julia Hills. How has this information come to Fabian Solak (Alan Cox*) come upon this knowledge and what is going on in his Millwall factory. The first, which I think is my favourite, features electric cars that shouldn’t exist. So, the Boxed Set is made up of three stories: The Cars That Ate London!, A Photograph to Remember and The Ghosts of Greenwich written by Jonathan Morris, Roy Gill and Paul Morris retrospectively. They are a three-being investigation team who Scotland Yard seem to rely on when cases go beyond the confusing and into the downright strange. Suffice it to say Jenny is more than a Maid, Strax more than a Butler and Madame Vastra and Jenny more than just good friends. I won’t waste too much time outlining all the relationships as I’m assuming anyone reading this will be familiar with the Paternoster Gang from television. So, we get Madame Vastra, Silurian Detective (Neve McIntosh) Strax, Sontaran Butler (Dan Starkey) and Jenny, Human Maid (Catrin Stewart). This is the first Big Finish Boxed Set featuring The Paternoster Gang as a whole. Tony Cross visits Paternoster Row in Victorian London as he listened to The Paternoster Gang: Heritage 1, out now from Big Finish.

The Paternoster Gang by Dan Starkey