Doctor Who‘s Next Audio Series Is All About Arthur Darvill’s Auton Centurion

Rory ’s back ! But this fourth dimension , he ’s alone . Because he ’s meant be guard a jumbo prison house box for thousands of years , but in Big Finish ’s newDoctor Who audio series , the misfortunate husband of Amy Pond ( and one time Roman Centurion / Secret Plastic Alien Warrior ) has only gone and misplaced it .

Big Finish has announced that its recent increase to its ticket of Doctor Who audio dramas set in the “ advanced ” era of the series is The Lone Centurion , starring Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams ( née Pond , finally ) .

In the Modern Doctor Who Short , Rory Dictates His life history

Rory the Roman is gonna go roamin’.

Rory the Roman is gonna go roamin’.Image: BBC

The three - part series , scripted by David Llewellyn , Sarah Ward , and Jacqueline Rayner , is countersink in the geological period of fourth dimension between “ The Pandorica Opens ” and “ The Big Bang . ” At the time , after beingdead for a bit , Rory was actually an Auton replica of his fallen self in camouflage as a Roman Centurion as part of a grand programme to stop the Eleventh Doctor from seemingly destroy the entire universe ( god , Doctor Who , slow down for a indorsement ! ) . He guarded the Pandorica wait for the Doctor to come back and save his married woman - to - be Amy from near destruction .

But these wo n’t be stories about how Rory the Roman Auton stood near a giant prison house - cube for 2,000 age . Turns out , The Lone Centurion will see Rory do the incredibly Rory thing of somehow managing to misplace the gargantuan cube he ’s sworn to safeguard . undertake to recover the Pandorica will see him build up the Lone Centurion ’s eventual folklore mythos , as Rory travels the world to relocate it , set off off in Rome , where he ’ll obviously become a prizefighter for a bit , as one does .

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