# The War Master – His Greatest Trick

- Link: https://andrewjamesspooner.com/portfolio/the-war-master-his-greatest-trick/
- Published: 2025-11-06T11:31:58+00:00
- Author: Andrew Spooner

I appear in the story THE WORST OF ALL EVILS as Dr Varna and Marshal Duhrak. Working
With Derek Jacobi was a career highlight! 

Available now from [BIG FINISH PRODUCTIONS](https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-war-master-his-greatest-trick-3202).

 

Gallifrey’s most evil Time Lord has become so dangerous that both sides of the Time
War agree on one thing: the Master must be destroyed!

However, even as the Daleks and the Time Lords conspire, the Master is about to 
pull his greatest trick.

**12.1 The Grievance Bureau by Lizzie Hopley**
 Like many a top-class criminal, 
the Master has been caught on a misdemeanour. Both the Time Lords and the Daleks
intend to destroy him forever but they can’t do it alone. Can the two sides of the
deadly Time War come together to eradicate a mutual enemy? But as the Master’s show
trial commences, there’s a danger that his ‘misdemeanour’ may not be as minor as
they thought…

**12.2 Last Girl Standing by Katharine Armitage**
 The Master has taken charge of
an exclusive alien girls’ school, where he’s lying low in comfort. But when pushed
by a suspicious colleague, he weaves a treacherous web around students and teachers
alike.

Under the guise of choosing a new Head Girl, the ‘Head Master’ sets off a twisted
competition; a race for survival where there can only ever be one winner…

**12.3 The Worst of All Evils by Ian Winterton**
 Damaged by a Dalek time-destructor,
the Master’s TARDIS is spat from the vortex onto Horoka – the hub of Earth Empire’s
transmat network, and the site of a refugee camp. Injured, the Master is taken to
a hospital run by the ever-hopeful activist Carla Zheng.

Their situation is desperate, but to the Master there is one thing even worse than
despair…

**12.4 The Blue Shift Ritual by Adam Christopher**
 On the run from both the Daleks
and the Time Lords, the Master stumbles across an out-of-control time capsule. The
crew are on a mission from Ancient Gallifrey to the legendary planet of Arkheparas,
where they hope to prevent the Cult of the Infinite from activating their great 
Engine – a device which the seers foresaw would end all of time. But with both factions
of the Time War on his tail, the apocalypse is just what the Master needs…

 

 * [Derek Jacobi](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Derek-Jacobi-9424) (The
   War Master)
 * [Laura Aikman](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Laura-Aikman-11380) (
   Tilikia / Lorossa)
 * [Bethany Antonia ](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Bethany-Antonia-11969)(
   Suki)
 * [Ben Arogundade](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Ben-Arogundade-10195)(
   Cardinal Rubion)
 * [Nicholas Briggs](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Nicholas-Briggs-6)(
   The Daleks)
 * [Darragh Cowley](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Darragh-Cowley-12508)(
   Ikos / Lord Vosc)
 * [Jessica Dennis](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Jessica-Dennis-12503)(
   Professor Jean Wengler)
 * [Isabelle Farah](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Isabelle-Farah-12504)(
   Professor Leto)
 * [Elizabeth Hollingshead](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Elizabeth-Hollingshead-12502)(
   General)
 * [Lizzie Hopley](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Lizzie-Hopley-1094) (
   Hera / Captain)
 * [Sèverine Howell-Meri](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Severine-Howell-Meri-12507)(
   Mirand)
 * [Sapphire Joy](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Sapphire-Joy-12505) (
   Nadiya / Leto 2)
 * [Quanna Luo Masterson](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Quanna-Luo-Masterson-12506)(
   Carla Zheng)
 * [Richard Reed](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Richard-Reed-11249) (
   Kassanashyk / Jendah)
 * [Sophie Shad](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Sophie-Shad-11856) (Brenna)
 * [Andrew James Spooner](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Andrew-James-Spooner-11418)(
   Dr Varna / Marshal Duhrak)
 * [Sarah Whitehouse](https://www.bigfinish.com/contributors/v/Sarah-Whitehouse-12338)(
   Phayte)