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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} 1001 Nights by Emma Beeby Doctor Who: 1001 Nights by Emma Beeby. 1001 Nights (Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Jonathan Barnes and Catherine Harvey) Currently Big Finish Production's main Doctor Who range has been divided into four trilogies every year, but with 13 releases in every 12-month cycle, there's always one story that stands alone and this has been reserved for the release for December. For December 2012 this stand-alone story is "1001 Nights" - a and story starring and . "1001 Nights" has been written by: Emma Beeby and Gordon Rennie, Jonathan Barnes and Catherine Harvey. It has been directed by Barnaby Edwards and was recorded on the 7th and 8th August 2012. Joining Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton are: Alexander Siddig, Nadim Sawalha, Malcolm Tierney, Teddy Kempner, Kim Ismay, Debbie Leigh- Simmons, Christopher Luscombe and Oliver Coopersmith. Sylvester McCoy. It has been commented that this story’s lack of ties to other adventures is one of its strengths. As revealed by Barnaby Edwards ‘ The good thing about "1001 Nights" is that you don't need to know any continuity. You don't need to own any other Doctor Who audio stories for it to work - its great strength is that it's not part of a trilogy. It works incredibly well in its own right, and effectively because it's four stories all rolled into one, it's a quartet of new Fifth Doctor and Nyssa stories in one package. Very good value for money! ’. But "1001 Nights" is not like previous '4x1' releases - the likes of "Forty-Five" and "", which replaced the usual format of a single story told over four episodes with four one-parters. This time, the individual tales are set within, and build towards, a single framing narrative. Nyssa. As revealed by Barnaby Edwards ‘ The structure is very complicated to explain. There is a 'bracketing' story, as it were, and we keep coming back to that. It's a sultan listening to Nyssa telling stories, so we have stories within stories. Gradually, as these go on, all the stones are to do with storytelling and the process of creating a fiction, and to do with prisoners and people who put people in prison, so by the time you hit the fourth episode all the stories you've heard make sense and you realise why Nyssa's been telling them. ’. This idea though may sounds familiar as the setup with Nyssa and the sultan is basically the same as in One Thousand and One Arabian Nights , the book. As Nyssa needs to keep the sultan amused by her stories otherwise he will kill the Fifth Doctor - Nyssa is saving his neck, rather than her own as Scheherazade was in the original. ‘ Because they are separate adventures ’, Barnaby Edwards has revealed, ‘ I went for a complete unique feel for each story. The segues into the stories and out of the stories are quite fluid, and the main thing I've tried to establish is the real world of the framing device - we recorded that all in one day, with one cast, and then did the separate stories all on a different day with a completely different cast - but they all have a very different feeling ’. Main Doctor Who range subscribers, whose subscription includes this title, also received the complete Doctor Who audio drama "Night of the Stormcrow" absolutely free. This adventure stars as the , and Louise Jameson as . "Night of the Stormcrow" will be available to buy separately in December 2013. Big Finish Magazine - Vortex: Issue 46 (December 2012) Vortex: Issue 46 Issue 46 of 'Vortex - The Big Finish Magazine' was also sent out to subscribers with this release. 1 . Sneak Previews and Whispers – Doctor Who: The Chronicles – The Scorchies. 2. Editorial - Nick Briggs 3. Article - Five Talking – Peter Davison. 4. Article - Gray Christmas – Dorian Gray. 5. Article - A Very Marley Christmas – Dark Shadows 6. Article - A Little Bit Thor – Stargate SG:1. 7. Article - Something to Crow About – . 8 . Vortex Mail. 9. Article - Again: Seven Keys to . 10 . Forthcoming Releases - December 2012 – September 2013. Featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa Serial Number: 6C/R Number of Episodes: 4 Cover Length: 120 minutes Episode Lengths: 1 = 29'57", 2 = 32'50", 3 = 29'54", 4 = 26'32" Total Length: 119'13" Also features 29 minutes of trailers, music and special behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast and producers Cover Illustration: Alex Mallinson Recorded: 7th and 8th August 2012 Recording Location: Moat Studios Released: December 2012 ISBN: 978-1-78178-050-3. On the Back Cover: A long time ago, two travellers came from far away. In the perfumed palace of an omnipotent Sultan, a girl must tell stories to keep the man she cares about from a cruel and horrible death. She spins tales of distant lands she has visited with a mysterious traveller, of fabulous creatures and fantastic adventures – and of a blue box that can travel in time and space. Meanwhile, in the dungeons below the throne room, there lurks a secret which will bring down the kingdom – perhaps even the universe. Can and Nyssa escape from this never-ending story before the final chapter spells their end? On the Inside Cover: It's pretty clear from which side of my family my love of Doctor Who was inherited. My dad, another cricket-enthused Englishman (and a doctor himself), is almost entirely to blame. My mother's side didn't escape from the Doctor's influence either. My grandfather was the Brigadier - well, not that one - but he was a brigadier, who came to Scotland from Baghdad. As he'd likely not encountered Doctor Who there, he probably didn't suspect this dubbing by his British friends may have owed its origin to a certain popular TV show at the time. My mother similarly had little context for this love of Doctor Who and its weekly servings of monsters. So this story, at least for my part in creating it, was trying to bridge those two sides: putting the Doctor in a different context, and a different kind of story. It also meant being able to bring in a number of storytellers. I'm grateful as ever for Gordon's partnership, but particularly for getting the chance to work with the talented Jonathan and Catherine as they wove their brilliant tales in with ours. I hope that my mother enjoys it, and that you do as well. Emma Beeby October 2012. Whether he's ringing the doorbell at Castle in , re-enacting King Kong in or cheerfully grave-robbing in The Tomb of the Cybermen , the Doctor has always thrived when he's been thrust unexpectedly into strange reflections of familiar stories. It was with this tradition in mind, then, that for my contribution to 1001 Nights , I decided to plunge the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa into a warped version of one of my favourite films, the 1973 classic. well, I'll let you figure that out for yourself. After all, isn't that half the fun of it? Jonathan Barnes October 2012. I was thrilled when Nick Briggs and asked me to write for 1001 Nights . Looking again at the original Arabian Nights - tales layered within tales in a world of shifting narratives - raised questions for me about what the quantifiable value of a story actually is; its ownership, and the power it gives the teller. And so, in my tale within a tale, the Doctor and Nyssa find themselves on a cliff edge on a stormy night near a warm, welcoming tavern in a land where stories and storytelling are literally a matter of life and death. Doctor Who: 1001 Nights – Big Finish Audio Review. This audio drama featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa was the Big Finish Christmas release. And what a gift is inside its 120 minutes, with three short tales interconnected into a longer bridging narrative. The Doctor and Nyssa are seeking an alien beacon that is summoning an unknown race to a Sultan’s palace. When the Doctor is imprisoned by said Sultan, he finds a fellow inmate with a secret. Meanwhile, Nyssa negotiates for the Doctor’s release with a series of tales about their travels. So far, so portmanteau. But as this audio progresses, the image of a Russian Doll comes to mind. There are characters within characters, tales within tales, and Doctors within Doctors. The first of Nyssa’s stories finds her and the Doctor in a futuristic asylum, where a solitary man is kept chained and tortured by a mysterious warden. The second takes place in a Victorian house where the Doctor has sheltered Nyssa while she harbours a demon. The third story within a story is set on the planet of Fabula, where stories are currency that can be bartered and sold on the black market. A diverse range of tales then, as befits this audio’s four writers. But director Barnaby Edwards ensures the wealth of ideas form a cohesive whole, with the company of actors taking two or three roles each. One or two characters fail to fully form in their limited time, but most hit the mark, with Alexander Siddig excelling as the Sultan with his own terrible secret. Sarah Sutton adds to her CV with a demon straight out of the Exorcist movies. There are a few teases along the way, not least when it seems we might get a Fourth Doctor story set before (one for the 50th year, maybe), but this is a rich tapestry of story, character and ideas that deserves several listens to fully appreciate its beauty. (As if this wasn’t enough of a Christmas present, subscribers got a further gift in their stocking with 1001 Nights – an actual Fourth Doctor tale continuing his adventures with Leela. Night of the Stormcrow will get a general release in December 2013. Trust me, it’s worth the wait). Doctor Who: 1001 Nights review. I always look forward to Big Finish’s annual release of four one-episode stories — in this era of trilogies, it’s nice to have a story that can be told over 30 minutes. The most recent one, 1001 Nights , is a little different from most, as the stories are actually all linked together ( Forty-Five maybe came closest to this in the past). When 1001 Nights opens, Nyssa has been captured by the Sultan of an Arabian nation and forced to tell him stories. Those stories make up the bulk of the first three episodes, with Part Four filling out what happens to the Doctor and Nyssa as the night of stories draws to a close. It’s a clever conceit, and though the flashback status of each individual part makes you know that the Doctor and Nyssa are going to get out okay…. well, you always knew that anyway. The first of the flashbacks (I think it’s by Emma Beeby and Gordon Rennie, but this isn’t really clear), My Brother’s Keeper , is about a trip they made to another prison, where a lone prisoner suffers torment at the hands of a lone warder. As the first episode has a lot of framing material to get through first, this feel like the shortest tale, but it still has some neat ideas. It can’t exactly do a whole lot with them, but it’s good for what it can do, though I found the a little too cursory for my liking. The second episode gives us The Interplanetarian by Jonathan Barnes, where the Doctor travels to a Victorian house to cure a demonic possession. Well, alien possession. Barnes’s notes state he wanted to put a Doctor Who spin on the Exorcist​ -type story, but I don’t feel like he’s really done that: it’s a pretty by-the-numbers demonic possession story, with some space terminology substituted. It doesn’t feel specific to Doctor Who , or put a clever spin on the ideas. There’s some potential for character resonance, as Nyssa has seen her own father possessed, apparently incurably so, but that’s not exploited. The third, Smuggling Tales by Catherine Harvey, was definitely my favourite. With a frame about tale-telling, Harvey gives us a story about tale- telling itself, with some fun twists on the idea that tales themselves have a certain economic power. The stories within stories become hard to follow at times, but that’s half the fun… It also resonates the best with the frame, suggesting some of what is to come in the final part… The frame, by Beeby and Rennie again, carries all of part, and throughout all four episodes, I liked it a lot. Alexander Siddig ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ’s Dr Bashir) plays the Sultan very well: a charming, intellectual, dangerous man with a big secret to ; his rapport with Sarah Sutton is great. Meanwhile, the Doctor is trying to escape from a very odd prison, and this section is entertaining as well, especially Nadim Sawalha’s performance as the old man the Doctor finds in prison. There are a lot of great ideas in this as well, and though the resolution is again a little too pat for my liking, the story gives Davison, Siddig, and Sutton all some interesting material to work with, and examines the idea of just what it takes to be the Doctor. (Can I say, that I just love Sarah Sutton as always. These days, Nyssa is just the perfect companion: smart but naïve, hopeful but the last survivor of a dead race. The more I hear of her, the more I’m convinced I need to pick up more of her solo stories with Davison.) excels himself on sound design: the wind chime atmospherics of the Sultan’s palace are perfect, as is the stormswept tavern the Doctor and Nyssa stumble into. And I loved the brief touch of Roger Limb-esque music when Nyssa reminisces about Traken! The strength of these four-story releases is the breadth of Doctor Who they reveal, and 1001 Nights continues firmly in that tradition, with a story that foregrounds that for us. Like the 1001 nights themselves, I hope it never ends. 1001 Nights (by Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Jonathan Barnes, Catherine Harvey; starring Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton) was released by in December 2012. My Brother's Keeper (audio story) My Brother's Keeper was the second story in the audio anthology, 1001 Nights , which comprised the one hundred and sixty-eighth release in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Emma Beeby and Gordon Rennie and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor and Sarah Sutton as Nyssa. Contents. Summary [ edit | edit source ] The Doctor and Nyssa arrive at a prison on an asteroid in the middle of nowhere. Who is the mysterious warden and what crime has the prisoner committed? Doctor Who: 1001 Nights by Emma Beeby. 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The adventure stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, and Louise Jameson as Leela. Peter Davison spoke to Vortex #46, with excerpts of the interview presented here. The full interview can be found HERE. Hello Peter. This month you’re in 1001 Nights . Are you familiar with the concept? You mean as in 1001 Arabian Nights ? Well, I was from my childhood, yes, but I don’t think I’ve gone back to it since then. So only very vaguely. It’s one of those things, you know exactly what it is but I can’t recall ever really reading it, except maybe in a very basic children’s form. How’s your new son-in-law, ? I’ll knock him into shape over the course of the next couple of years; everything will be all right. Make sure he knows his place. [laughs] He’s fine! He’s working a lot. But it’s nice to see him because their daughter [David’s with Peter’s daughter, Georgia Moffett], Olive, she’s about a year- and-a-half now and she’s just coming out into her own, and he’s clearly devoted to her. It’s nice to have them around from time to time. So Georgia isn’t finding this weird yet, having both a father and a husband a former Doctor? No, I don’t think she is, really! I think it’s part of the reason why they got on so well to begin with, that she wasn’t at all fazed by him being the Doctor because she grew up with it, so she was very calm and very casual about it. It is a little weird when you sit and you think about it! When I gave my speech at the wedding, I expostulated that clearly, somewhere down the line, she ended up marrying her own father. But we didn’t want to go into that. No one has embraced Doctor Who quite the way you have, have they? That’s true, yes! There’s the beginning of some kind of dynasty going on here. Did you ever envisage all of this coming out of one show? No, not at all! I remember thinking, ‘Ooh, we could be doing conventions for a few more years’ but you just have no idea, of course. Because videotape was in its infancy, I had no idea that everyone would have several different versions of every single story you did. That it would still be around in that way was not a thing that you thought was possible. You’ve now finished your run on stage in the Legally Blonde musical. How was it? I loved doing it, I loved being surrounded by the young cast. I was, by a long way, the oldest member of the cast, and a good proportion of the cast were very attractive ladies, who saw me, sadly, as a kind of avuncular figure rather than the centre of their universe – but nevertheless they were a very nice bunch of people and I enjoyed it immensely! I think probably I stayed in there a bit too long; I was in it for two-and-a-half years, and I think two years is about the limit. I enjoyed it right to the end but I just feel that in the last six months, it became too much of a job. Maybe that was because I knew I was leaving, I don’t know. I love doing musical theatre. They look after you very nicely, because I think they’re used to a much higher calibre of people in musical theatre. You’ve also been doing some more radio, of Big Finish writer ’s comedy show, Welcome to Our Village – Please Invade Carefully . They’ve commissioned four episodes. I think it has potential; I look forward to that. Katherine [Parkinson] is great. And Julian [Rhind-Tutt], he was really good. I just pop in and out of it, but it’s nice to be there. I’ve always with no problem, without any intention at all, managed to straddle that whole area of comedy and drama to a certain extent. Not at the far end of both. I’m not in the alternative comedies thing, and I’m not in the high prestige end of the drama thing. But I’ve always managed to go from one to another, so that’s great. You’ve even had your shirt off in Miranda . That’s true! And not only my shirt either! But less of that. [laughs] I knew a couple of people on it and knew [director] Juliet May and Miranda [Hart, writer and star] a bit and they just rang me up and said, ‘Would you be interested in doing this?’ And I think Miranda’s great and fantastically funny, so it was very nice to work with her on that. I’m sort of doing what I never did before; I went from nothing to doing series television and I always said when I was being interviewed earlier in my career that I never did the bits and pieces that I used to see other people doing and was quite envious. Popping into things, doing a little character here, a little character there. And I now appear to be doing that. I’m doing everything back to front! I went straight from doing stage into serious television, with All Creatures Great and Small , Doctor Who , A Very Peculiar Practice , but now I’m doing popping in and out. I’m doing a series in the autumn of Law & Order again, in which I’m graduating to the ‘and’. I’ve been aware of this for some time; they say, ‘It’s Law & Order with such and such, such and such, such and such… and Peter Davison. Robert De Niro now, or Al Pacino, quite often does ‘and’. So I think I’m in good company. I ‘very kindly agreed to appear and raise the status of the programme by appearing in it, and so consequently we’re gonna go “and”’. ‘With’ is not so good, you see. And I’m too old for ‘introducing’.