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ISSUE: 124 • JUNE 2019 WWW.BIGFINISH.COM DOCTOR WHO PERI BROWN COLIN BAKER AND NICOLA BRYANT REUNITED! THE WAR DOCTOR MEN OF WAR RAGE OF THE TIME LORDS! IT’S MILLER TIME! SHERIDAN SMITH IS BACK FOR MORE CAPTAIN JACK SAME HARKNESS, DIFFERENT COAT! We make great full-cast audio dramas and audiobooks that are available to buy on CD and/or download WE LOVE STORIES! SUBSCRIBERS Our audio productions are based on much-loved GET MORE! TV series like Doctor Who, Torchwood, Dark If you subscribe, depending on the Shadows, Blake’s 7, The Avengers, The Prisoner, range you subscribe to, you get free The Omega Factor, Terrahawks, Captain audiobooks, PDFs of scripts, extra Scarlet and Survivors, as well as classics such as behind-the-scenes material, a bonus HG Wells, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, The release, downloadable audio readings Phantom of the Opera and Dorian Gray. 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So when by Natasha Gerson – whose going to be performed at the she was cast as Lucie Miller I was father Jack created the series. upcoming Edinburgh Festival. delighted as I had been a big fan of The Omega Factor, based in The story which follows is her work for many years. I first Scotland, starred Louise mysterious and traumatic. remember seeing Sheridan in Holby Jameson as Anne Reynolds and Many lives are put in danger. City when she guest starred in half a the late James Hazeldine as There are inexplicable dozen episodes as a character who Tom Crane. Big Finish revived events which seem to mirror claimed to be the witness to a the series on audio in 2015 Adam’s experience in the killing, and I was impressed that making three series set in the present day... You’ll have to such a young actress was able to modern day, with Louise listen to find out more!” give so strong a performance. Jameson reprising her role of She adds: “The Omega I then followed her career with Anne (now a doctor), and John Factor had an impact because interest from guest appearances Dorney playing Adam Dean, it wasn’t just an ordinary in The Royle Family followed the son of Tom. thriller. It also contained by a starring role in Two Pints Festival of Darkness will be timeless elements of the of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. the latest release in a series supernatural, extra-sensory And that’s when I fell in love of original fiction audiobooks perception and science-fiction, with her, long before the rest set around the time of the with echoes of the work of MR of the country did after Cilla, 1979 TV show. Natasha says: James, Algernon Blackwood The C Word and Mrs Biggs. “We start with Adam looking and one of my maternal Late in 2011 my mum died just at one of his father’s case relatives, RL Stevenson. It 41 days after being diagnosed files. Tom has returned to couldn’t fail to fascinate, or with pancreatic cancer. This Edinburgh in late July 1979 even shock, as evidenced by obviously floored me, but the two at Anne’s urgent request. But Mary Whitehouse’s reaction. things that helped me get through he’s there somewhat against She thought it ‘thoroughly my grief were the Eighth Doctor his better judgement because evil.’ I still love that!” audio stories with Lucie Miller he is meant to be taking a Read by Louise Jameson, and TV episodes of Two Pints – sabbatical after attacks on Festival of Darkness is available particularly the musical special. his physical and mental well- to pre-order now at £9.99 This issue I achieved something being that resulted from his on download. of a lifetime ambition by having an interview with Sheridan (courtesy of Nicholas Briggs, who knows I love her so much). 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OF ONE MAN AND HIS Then having reformed VORTEX MANIPULATOR... his criminal ways, he joined them on their travels before being left behind on APTAIN JACK Satellite 5 after the Doctor’s DOCTOR WHO: Harkness – a man who regeneration began. THE LIVES OF CAPTAIN C has become very The Lives of Captain JACK: VOLUME TWO familiar, and yet we know so Jack introduces us to the little about… We know Javic exploits that follow – before n Released: June 2019 Thane grew up on the Boeshane and after he ended up at n Format: CD and download Peninsula. His brother was Torchwood Three in Cardiff. taken during an alien attack; The second box set in the and he later become a Time range features Piece of Mind ORDER NOW AT: Agent. His exploits took him to by James Goss, What Have BGFN.SH/CAPSIXIE Earth after he quit the agency, I Done? by Guy Adams and took on the name of a captain, Driving Miss Wells, also by VORTEX | PAGE 4 DOCTOR WHO CAPTAIN JACK Right: John Barrowman “IT’S ESSENTIALLY JUST James. We begin with a story which John Barrowman A STORY ABOUT FEAR – himself teased us with on THE SHEER Instagram when he donned a CRIPPLING very familiar-looking brightly ...” GUY ADAMS coloured patchwork coat... EFFECT OF FEAR James says: “A Piece of Mind is a hoot and a half with a heart, in which Captain Jack meets look good in anything! ROM A story with lots the Sixth Doctor. There’s a line “And yes, John insisted on of fun, we get to in the TV episode Utopia about going for an English accent. F explore the more how Jack’s been waiting around His Doctor is the kind of serious side of Jack in What ‘for the right Doctor’ and we person grannies would Have I Done? James says What asked Russell T Davies if he punch on the nose – but Have I Done? is: “A thoughtful could meet the ‘wrong’ one! he’s also very charming.” adventure set in the trenches “As we couldn’t not have Director Scott Handcock adds: of World War I, which sees Jack Jack wearing the coat, the “It’s a lovely trio of stories. The determined to save someone’s story grew from there – it’s first, Piece of Mind, finds Jack life against all the odds. sort of Cyrano de Bergerac still waiting for ‘his’ Doctor “It’s a proper character meets The Prisoner of Zenda. to come back for him after piece from Guy Adams Something terrible happens the catastrophic events in the that really captures the to the Sixth Doctor mid-story, TV episode The Parting of the pointless, grinding misery and Jack has to step into his Ways, and instead having to of the setting. It’s also set spats and save the day. deal with – and help save – a at Gallipoli, a battle famous “You’ll be thrilled to hear much earlier incarnation. for being fought uphill.” Colin and John stealing It’s a fun, tender script, Writer Guy explains: scenes from each other, and with joyous performances “The story I’ve written is the photoshoot with John from John and Colin, both of basically a two-hander. in the coat was an utter joy whom get to show a different What Have I Done? sees Jack – proof that that man can side to their characters.” paired up with a young VORTEX | PAGE 5 DOCTOR WHO CAPTAIN JACK soldier. It’s essentially just a story about fear – the sheer crippling effect of fear, the sheer destructive quality of fear, the viral quality of fear... it’s surprisingly heartfelt at times. “What’s important when writing about a historical era is conveying the truth and sense of that era. “A lot of time when I’m doing research, I collate a lot of facts, but these don’t tend to make their way in. For me, when you’re writing about an important real Above (l–r): Timothy Blore, event, you want to capture Lachele Carl, Vikash Bhai and Maeve Bluebell Wells “HE’S HAUNTED BY HIS IMMORTALITY, AND WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO SAVE A SINGLE LIFE… BUT LIFE IS NEVER AS STRAIGHTFORWARD Above (l–r): Sophie Hopkins, AS DEATH.