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VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 2 COMING SOON TORCHWOOD: GOD AMONG US

Clayton as St John Colchester, IME TRAVEL is a strange Alexandria Riley as Ng, thing. I’m writing this Samantha Béart as Orr, Jonny T whilst visiting family near Green as Tyler Steele and Salisbury, on a blazing hot Saturday as Sergeant Andy afternoon in June. This issue will be Davison. released in August, with many of the says: “They are all great stories productions being previewed in series six – they really coming out in September. move the narrative forward. One of those is Bernice I find all over the world, from Summerfield. It’s hard to believe Puerto Rico to Paris, from Benny is 20. I was one of those to Florida, to South fans who bought all of the New America, that there are many Adventures novels in the 1990s huge Torchwood fans and the and followed Benny’s career with LIENS AMONG Us, the audience is always growing.” interest. And I carried on when the fifth series of the Series producer Doctor left the New Adventures and A Torchwood special has written the first episode, remained with her throughout releases, saw the team return to Future Pain, and reveals: “We the rising of the gods on Dellah. Cardiff and encounter an alien had such a great reaction I was really pleased when I read in occupation, terrorists and the to series five, and it’s been a that Bernice resurrection of Yvonne delight getting the cast back was being brought to life as an Hartman. All in a day’s work together to do more. Now audio series by some company for Captain and things are established the or other called Big Finish, and I his friends. stories are more standalone, immediately pre-ordered Oh No Big Finish have been with Torchwood facing It Isn’t. I’ve stuck with Big Finish producing the official some tough challenges – a ever since then, as a fan first and continuation to Russell T plague of sleep, a city that foremost, and been with Benny on Davies's Doctor Who spinoff, goes blind, organising a virtually every step of her journey and things have been ramped funeral, and then there’s an through life, through the Braxiatel up a little for series six, as alien god to deal with!” Collection, through the Epoch, and this year they face an alien three stories into the Unbound universe (to very deity in God Among Us. The in this box set are The Man briefly sum up her Big Finish life!). story continues with John Who Destroyed Torchwood I’ve been lucky enough to speak Barrowman as Captain Jack by Guy Adams, See No Evil to the woman who is Benny, Lisa Harkness, Tracy-Ann Oberman by John Dorney, and Night Bowerman, on many an occasion, as Yvonne Hartman, Paul Watch by Tim Foley. and it’s always a pleasure to chat with her. Like everyone at Big Finish, she’s passionately ISSUE 114 • AUGUST 2018 committed to what she does, and keeping Benny true to character. Managing Editor: Jason Haigh-Ellery Looking back, my only Benny Executive Producer: regret is that I didn’t subscribe to Senior Producer: David Richardson the Time Ring trilogy in that first Editor: Kenny Smith series, as I would have had a physical Design: Mark Plastow copy of that now nigh on impossible Copy Editor: Stephanie Hornett to find CD of Buried Treasures! The Big Finish Team: So, as we preview Benny, let’s raise Ian Atkins, Sue Cowley, Emily de Fraine, our glasses to her, to her creator Hannah Peel, Paul Spragg , to Lisa and Big Finish’s Marketing: Kris Griffin original production team of Jason and Paddy Freeland Haigh-Ellery and . BFP Administration: Cheryl Bly, Big Finish is getting bigger, and Brenda Smith, Alison Taylor there’s no sign of a finish… another Publisher: Ltd. thing worth toasting! KENNY

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ABOARD!SHE ESCAPED THE PLANET OF THE DEAD, AND NOW LADY CHRISTINA DE SOUZA IS BACK FOR MORE…

HE FASCINATING thing And so Michelle Ryan is back document together with a " about Lady Christina is in the role for the first time brief on the character and T she’s one of those since 2009, when she appeared what we planned to do. characters whose narrative in the Easter special written by “Christina’s character just clearly stretches well before the Russell and . jumps off the screen – a posh lady Doctor Who episode in which David continues: “This is thief in the Lara Croft mould, but she appears, and goes on long one of those series where a bit more mercurial. You can after it too,” says producer David everyone involved fell in love see when she talks to Richardson. “ is a with it. It just felt right – there’s a bit more edge to her at creating brilliantly Michelle was so comfortable, and he brings that out of her. rich characters in a short so much fun and so great to “Getting the tone right was very amount of screen time, and I was work with in the lead role.” important – it had to be energetic really keen to follow Lady In charge of developing the and pacy, and one of the things Christina’s story after Planet of series from the concept was Russell T Davies suggested when the Dead – to see how she fared script editor Matt Fitton. He we ran the series by him was that without the Doctor.” says: “For this series, I put a it should be big and fun. And he

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Above: Michelle Ryan Above: Warren Brown

perfect writer to kick it off, doing ongoing adventure, or just MAKE SURE something witty and fun.” start the story with her at the SHE USES John said: “Lady Christina beginning? A lot of my thinking is a lively and interesting was about what I would want a THE BUS! character, I really enjoyed series opener to feel like, and how Planet of the Dead – I thought I would introduce the threats. RUSSELL T DAVIES she was entertaining, so this “I was determined that gave me an excuse to watch it Christina’s first entrance had to again and make some notes. be big, brash, cool and exciting, also said, ‘Make sure she uses the “It’s quite cool getting the to get the listeners straight into bus!’ The fact that we have a big, opener to the box set and setting it, and to go with it. That led to a flying bus helps define this up the series – but there’s also a lot of the structure of the story, mad, mad world – so we set off huge amount of responsibility, with a big opening scene.” on a globetrotting adventure.” to advance the character and make people think, ‘This is a N THE second story of the HE FIRST story of the set, series’, straight away. You want set, Christina crosses It Takes a Thief by John the listeners to feel excited I swords with another T Dorney, sets the tone for and comfortable for the rest character from the Tenth Doctor’s what follows. Matt explains: “At of the run. There’s a lot of era in Skin Deep by James Goss. the start, she’s a thief from the pressure which I’ve never had Matt explains: “It occurred to gentry, and I suggested to John before – I’d written other parts us, thinking about which other Dorney that he could do in a series or the finale in a box characters we could feature, that something on the French Riviera, set, but not done an opener. Sylvia Noble would be a good like To Catch a Thief. “You have that dilemma – do one to use. With all of Donna’s “It’s good to start with a safe you set things up so you join travels, she would likely have pair of hands and John was the Christina in the middle of an had an alien artefact or two

VORTEX | PAGE 5 DOCTOR WHO LADY CHRISTINA around the house, and that’s she’s pretending that life’s all what Christina is looking for good fun – until actually it is. as alien treasures would be “Meanwhile, Sylvia Noble is even more valuable than her a woman for whom the teacup usual gems and trinkets. is always half empty and the “Bringing her into Sylvia’s tea’s gone cold. Putting the two orbit provides a great culture of them together – and making clash when you have Sylvia, them instant best friends – was with her airs and graces, and great fun, even though we never pretensions to being posher trust Lady Christina’s motives. than she is, meeting someone “Sylvia, oh my word, Sylvia – she’s a monster, but that doesn’t make her anything other than a loving monster! In another life she’d have been a terrifying B&B landlady but LADY CHRISTINA instead she has Donna and Wilf to terrorise and strive for. No SERIES ONE wonder Donna packed it all in and ran away to the stars! RELEASED August 2018 “It’s sort of Oceans 8 set during Download/CD The Masque of the Red Death, CD £23.00 Download £20.00 only starring Lady Christina and Sylvia Noble. It’s set at a party and Extras Bonus Disc was inspired by a friend of mine Director Helen Goldwyn – she’s very rich and successful Cast Michelle Ryan, Jacqueline – and she said in passing, ‘The King, Warren Brown thing about really famous people is that they’re not just really really thin, they all also look IT TAKES A THIEF by John Dorney so young.’ This sort of answers SKIN DEEP by James Goss that, but mostly it’s about Sylvia helping herself to canapes PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Tim Dawson while Christina steals things.” DEATH ON THE MILE by Donald McLeary

ATT SAYS: Above: Tracy Wiles “As the series progresses, Christina M finds herself bumping up who actually comes from against UNIT in the form of Sam nobility. I was thinking of Basil Bishop, Warren Brown’s “It made sense to have a Fawlty in that Touch of Class international troubleshooter, and comedy writer with Tim having episode. To write it, we went later on, journalist Jacqui McGee. created sitcom Coming of Age straight to James Goss – he Sam is a great foil for Christina, for BBC Three. I suggested he is the king of the mums!” they’re chalk and cheese, and came up with a chase across James says: “This is what UNIT really want to bring her in the world, like a 1970s Bond Big Finish does best – finding – as we saw on TV – but they may film – and he really went for it!” lovely alcoves of Doctor Who end up having to work together Tim confirms: “We decided and settling down in them. against common enemies…” early on it would be tonally a bit Lady C was the who They meet in the third like a Roger Moore James Bond got away – and she got away in story, Portrait of a Lady, by film – kind of Moonraker meets such style. So where is she now? Tim Dawson. Matt continues: NuWho. Matt gave me pretty What is she up to? And does “David Richardson suggested free reign over the plot – and she still have the flying bus? Tim Dawson, who came to us it was my choice to put Sam in “The original character was, through Jamie Anderson. He’s an the episode. It’s a fast-paced at first glance, Emma Peel – but experienced TV writer and we’re international adventure about then you realise she’s in some keen to approach people with a intergalactic art criminals ways putting on a brave face. pedigree in professional writing and a sentient painting. And She’s had so much go wrong that for television, radio or theatre. it has a in it! I love

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story – and he came back with a FINDING setting in... Scotland! LOVELY “We wanted in it as well as they seemed a good ALCOVES OF match with Christina – new series monsters that want the DOCTOR same thing as her, to make WHO AND money! Donald put it together perfectly, and looking back on it SETTLING now, it’s probably the maddest story we’ve ever done!” DOWN IN Donald explains: “Matt said he THEM. wanted something exotic, but when I thought about it, a tropical JAMES GOSS island isn’t your typical Doctor Who setting, whereas Edinburgh is. It’s a worldwide tourist spot and I remembered that two of its best landmarks are both extinct volcanoes – Arthur’s Seat is one, and Edinburgh Castle is built on top of another. I then decided I’d like to set one of them off at the height of the tourist season. “I also like those 1970s disaster movies where you’ve

got to escape, pulling out all Above: Michelle Ryan

realised that we like to work with a family atmosphere. “Once she knew that we were exactly what we appeared to be, she really relaxed and had a great time. She’s not just a wonderful actress but is really interesting as a person. She’s got so much more to her than people realise. She hasn’t gone down the , and it’s cool to the stops. I think that fits into the obvious route in her career, have a monster from the series’ Doctor Who – a familiar setting as she seems more focused on past – and created by Robert with something out of the challenging, satisfying work. Holmes no less! – in it. I hope ordinary happening there! “I listened to one of the we did something a little bit “This was only my second episodes last night, and I had different for Grunt – he was Big Finish script, but they such a smile on my face. I’m fun to write for. I felt quite were completely relaxed hoping everyone will love sorry for him by the end.” about my ideas, thankfully!” these as much as I do.” EATH ON the Mile by The box set has been directed David concludes: “The writers Donald McLeary by Helen Goldwyn. She said: delivered such exciting, fun D concludes this series, and “I met Michelle when we were and colourful scripts. When I Matt reveals: “For the finale, the doing The Tenth Doctor finished reading John Dorney’s original pitch was ‘something set Chronicles, and when she first draft of episode one I smiled in an exotic location’. I initially first came in, I don’t know if contentedly and thought, ‘Oh suggested something in the Far she fully understood what yes, that’s what this series is.’ East or on a Pacific island. We Big Finish was about. I’m He defines it so beautifully brought in another comedy sure she knew it was audio and succinctly, and everyone writer, Donald McLeary and I gave drama, but knew little beyond else followed his lead and did him those suggestions for the that – though she soon equally sublime work.”

VORTEX | PAGE 7 Kenny Smith is back at Coal Hill Academy for some more…

SCHOOLOCTOR WHO’S DAYS third 21st which always makes a project means we can really focus on the century spin-off series appealing, but the characters different characters and their D from the BBC has finally themselves are fascinating. relationships. It feels like a really made it to Big Finish – Class is now “They’re not a natural group natural medium for this universe.” in session. of friends, which makes the Although the television series combinations you can play with IVIDED INTO two box ended on a cliffhanger, these six instantly more interesting. sets of three adventures, new adventures are set during Sometimes the characters we’ve D both being released in the series and feature the original chosen get on, other times there’s August, the first episode is Gifted cast, as Greg Austin plays Charlie conflict. And that period of your by Roy Gill. Smith, Fady Elsayed is Ram Singh, life can be quite impulsive too. Sophie Hopkins is April MacLean, Plus, we get to explore some of the When a talent scout arrives Vivian Oparah plays Tanya fallout from the TV episodes, and in Shoreditch, Ram sees an Adeola, Jordan Renzo is Matteusz the trauma characters might have opportunity to further his goals, Andrzejewski and Katherine Kelly experienced (such as the of whilst April strikes up a friendship features as Miss Andrea Quill. Ram’s girlfriend, for instance). with new boy, Thomas Laneford. Produced by , “The great thing about the audio he says: “The most exciting medium is it’s driven a lot more Roy says: “I think I was asked to thing about Class for me, both by language, which weirdly fits pitch a story for either Ram or as a viewer and producer, was quite well with Patrick Ness’s April, and I chanced my luck and the talent involved. The cast are writing style as a prose author. It asked if I could have them both! all brilliant and so enthusiastic, also adds an extra intimacy, which The TV series showed those two

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characters coming together and then rapidly splitting apart, so I felt there was maybe room to show a bit more of them during their relationship, and explore a bit about how they connect. “As well as each other, both lead characters have strong interests in their lives – Ram has his sport, his football; April is a musician. They’re both very determined people. It’s about what they will and won’t sacrifice to get what they want.” Another Scottish writer is responsible for the second story, as T Colgan wrote Life Experience. Above (l–r): Jordan Renzo and Greg Austin

After signing up for work experience at Sevelin Laboratories, Matteusz find themselves alone – Tanya and Ram find themselves I LOVED BEING though not quite as alone as they thrust into the world of medical first believed. He teases: “It’s a research. But dark secrets lie at ABLE TO TAKE claustrophobic chamber-piece for the heart of Sevelin Industries… Charlie, Matteusz and Quill, and technically quite a demanding Jenny admits: “I loved being PATRICK’S WORK challenge for Greg, Jordan able to take Patrick’s work and Katherine (and me as the further and carry on with the FURTHER AND director). It’s technically the most Class team, and I hope there’s demanding script I’ve written – lots more terms to come.” CARRY ON WITH Torchwood: Cascade was relatively Scott swaps his producer’s straightforward in comparison hat for his writing one for the – but it’s been fun to tackle third story of the set, Tell Me You THE CLASS TEAM. something quite experimental Love Me, in which Charlie and JENNY T COLGAN and give the leads something

VORTEX | PAGE 9 DOCTOR WHO CLASS meaty to sink their teeth it mean for a star student into. Timing is everything. to be seeing a guy who’s That’s all I’m going to say!” gone through so much psychological trauma? VERYONE LOVES “We’ve got a new student, Reagan by Tim Foley Reagan Harper, who E opens the second transfers from a school in box set. . She quickly becomes a well-loved When Reagan Harper pupil, much to April’s joins Coal Hill Academy chagrin. April and Ram everybody instantly loves her hit a bit of a bumpy patch – everybody except for April. when they realise that, this time, maybe there’s Tim says: “I was asked to no alien menace involved write an episode about April – perhaps it’s just the case CLASS that nobody likes April and VOLUME ONE Everybody Loves Reagan.” The second story, RELEASED August 2018 AT ITS HEART I Now You Know… by Download/CD Tim Leng sees Tanya CD £20.00 Download £15.00 WANTED IT TO BE and Matteusz find themselves investigating Extras Interviews A STORY ABOUT a mystery that dates Director Scott Handcock back to the 1960s. Cast Katherine Kelly, Greg Austin, Tim reveals: “Well, at its Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins, BULLYING. heart I wanted it to be a Vivian Oparah, Jordan Renzo TIM LENG story about bullying, and

CLASS VOLUME TWO Above (l–r): Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins, Rhys Isaac-Jones and RELEASED August 2018 Download/CD and Ram in the early-stages how not everyone finds of their dating. In addition their time at school to be CD £20.00 Download £15.00 to this, I know there’s been the stereotypical ‘best years Extras Interviews a mental wellbeing drive in of your life’. So into that we Director Scott Handcock some schools, which I think find Tanya and Matteusz is fantastic. If ever there – who amongst the cast Cast Katherine Kelly, Greg Austin, was a student to lead the of characters probably Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins, charge on this initiative, it’d stand out most as being a Vivian Oparah, Jordan Renzo, Sophie be our April – but what does bit different: she because Aldred, Nicholas Briggs

VORTEX | PAGE 10 DOCTOR WHO CLASS she’s so incredibly intelligent When an alarm is triggered at Aldred and Katherine Kelly and younger than the others; he Coal Hill Academy, Quill and especially is electric!” because he’s a gay immigrant. Charlie encounter a mysterious “And of course, it’s Class intruder prowling around HERE’S ANOTHER – there has to be some school premises. Worse, they continuity with the TV otherworldly element in there also encounter a . Their T episodes, as the Big too, so Tanya and Matteusz only hope of lies Finish series is being scored by are kind of thrown together with the stranger: a woman Blair Mowat, who also did the when something starts who calls herself ‘’… music on screen. He laughs: “We don’t have anything like the music budget we had for the TV show, so first off it’s about finding ways to make sure that the quality doesn’t drop! However, I have existing melodies to draw from which really helps, and bringing them back also makes sure it sounds authentically Class. “Just like the TV show it’s about making sure you help tell the story and support the emotional arc throughout – regardless of the medium that never changes.” (For more updates on the Class soundtrack release you can follow Blair on Above (l–r): , Greg Twitter at @BlairMowat). Austin and Katherine Kelly These new stories are set during TV series one... if things go well and the audio series is a success, could that TV cliffhanger be picked up and resolved? Scott concludes: “I’ve already seen people online saying it’s because Patrick wouldn’t let us do stuff after series one – but that’s not the case at all, so it’s good to set the record straight. Big Finish doesn’t happen overnight. We want everything to be the best it can be, but that takes time. A lot of time. Not just to work up storylines and scripts with Patrick, but Above (l–r): Sophie Hopkins, Vivian also to get the cast in the same Oparah, Taj Atwal and Fady Elsayed place at the same time. “When we started working appearing at Coal Hill Academy Scott says: “I think that was on Class and getting ideas in, and attacking people.” my first idea when pitching the series had only just aired, potential storylines to the and there was no word as to its Since the Big Finish Class BBC, and I’m so glad everyone future on screen, so naturally series was announced, one story was keen and we made it there was no expectation that we in particular has definitely happen. Guy Adams has should pick up the cliffhanger… raised eyebrows, the third done some brilliant stuff since then, circumstances of the second box set – In with the script, and the have changed, so if we did Remembrance by Guy Adams. dynamic between Sophie more, who knows?!”

VORTEX | PAGE 11 SURPRISEPARTY Kenny Smith celebrates two decades of Bernice Surprise Summerfield at Big Finish

UITE A few of you reading “Delighted and kind of amazed,” Vortex today will have been was how Benny’s creator Paul Q there at the start of the Cornell felt when asked for his magnificent Big Finish story, with thoughts on his creation, still going the release of Oh No It Isn’t in strong on audio after two decades. September 1998. Put your hands This new collection features six up! (Yes, I have!) adventures from different times How things have changed in the in Benny’s life, overseen by the intervening years. Big Finish now current producer, James Goss, has multiple Doctor Who ranges working in tandem with Paul – and and a host of other licensed TV directed by Scott Handcock. properties and original dramas, Paul modestly says: “I really but one production which has did hardly anything. I always stayed at the heart of this output for Big Finish and it’s a testimony like to to what’s going on, is the Bernice Summerfield to Paul Cornell, Lisa and everyone but I’m very choosy about how range, played, as ever, by the involved in the ongoing audios and when I intercede. I think it’s one and only . and books that she is still going rarely a good thing when original Next month marks the release strong. Lisa is adored by Benny creators try to maintain long-term of six new stories, Bernice fans, and she has embraced all creative control on a fiction. Summerfield: The Story So Far, the fun and fascinating flaws in “Bernice has been allowed to split over two volumes. Big Finish the character and never fails to be grow and change, that’s the reason producer David Richardson someone you want to join on an she’s still here. Lisa Bowerman says: “Professor Bernice Suprise adventure. It still feels like Benny’s not only plays her perfectly, she’s Summerfield is where it all began story is only just beginning.” also the fulcrum for decision-

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Producer James, speaking of these box sets, says: “Like the original Benny, it was Paul Cornell’s idea. He said he’d like stories written by writers from each era of Bernice Summerfield, and he’d like a running theme of friendship and to see her reunited with some of her family. “So, we’ve done exactly that. These are six ‘missing’ adventures from each era of Benny, filling in gaps that you didn’t know existed! “As to the people that Benny Above (l–r): Stephen Fewell, Paul Cornell and Lisa Bowerman is paired with, a lot of that came from Lisa. I sat down with her and asked her who she’d love to be reunited with.”

AMES WROTE the opening adventure, Ever After J Happy, going back to those days when Bernice Summerfield was a young rebel, living in the grounds of a military academy. He I THINK IT’S RARELY A GOOD THING WHEN ORIGINAL CREATORS TRY TO MAINTAIN LONG-TERM CREATIVE CONTROL ON Above (l–r): Emily Laing A FICTION. and Lisa Bowerman PAUL CORNELL making, the spearhead of all the just a few fan boys with a Casio explains: “Ever After Happy is about various creators, with James Goss recorder… how wrong I was! that curious period of Benny’s life being the keeper of the faith, the “The atmosphere is always long before she met the Doctor. arbiter of those decisions, as well splendid on these… and Scott Emily Lloyd plays the young as the source of most of them.” and James always engender Bernice (although we’re not without Vortex asks Lisa – in all honesty a great team spirit. I’ve been Lisa – she’s there as the Academy’s – how long did she think Benny immensely lucky to have had an new gardener). It’s about a brilliant would last? She grins: “Honestly? opportunity to work with some young woman who has no idea of Only a couple of weeks! I’ve been brilliant actors in the regular parts how amazing her life is going to be. on record more than once to say over the years, and it was great But it’s also about a disastrous time I really thought Big Finish was to see some of them again.” travel experiment.”

VORTEX | PAGE 13 NOTHER CELEBRATORY A Benny release is Bernice Summerfield: Treasury, a short story collection performed by Lisa and written by a host of illustrious names with Doctor Who connections. Treasury features: The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam by Above (clockwise from top left): Paul Cornell, Jonny Green, Ellie Darvill, , Stephen Fewell, Lisa Bowerman, Scott ; And Then Handcock and Liam Hourican Again by ; Misplaced Spring by Paul Cornell; Solar Max and the my fave TV monster, but better. Seven-Handed Snake-Mother EVERYONE WAS So many quirks to work with!” by ; Walking The first box set concludes Backwards for Christmas by SUPERB AT THE with Braxiatel in Love by Simon Ben Aaronovitch; The Least Guerrier, in which the creator of the Important Man by Steven RECORDING. Braxiatel Collection gains a fiancée. Moffat; Bernice Summerfield I THINK POOR Simon says: “James offered me the and the Library of Books by chance to write for Braxiatel again, ; and A Mutual LISA IS IN NEARLY which was brilliant. So I pitched Friend by . an idea I’d had for ages and sort Lisa adds: “It was really EVERY SCENE! of used in Many Happy Returns all very exciting to have a chance to put a voice to UNA McCORMACK those years ago, with Benny and the words of writers as Brax meeting (real) archaeologist brilliant as Rob Shearman Get ready for laughs in the Mortimer Wheeler. James sent and ! And what second story in this set, with me some notes on that, and his a diverse take they all had The Grel Invasion of Earth by typically perceptive insights got me on the character!” Jacqueline Rayner, as the fact- thinking, and the whole plot sort of obsessed Grel head for our world. unravelled. So I started again, came Jac reveals: “I suggested a Grel up with a new idea and it made comedy to link to Oh No It Isn’t!, him laugh – so we were away.” because I’d been reading and James, darling man that he is, the manuscript of James Cooray suggested another Hartnell homage OLUME TWO of The Story Smith’s excellent book, The Ultimate after The Grel Escape, which was So Far begins with Every Foe, and a story idea popped into my based on . It took about V Dark Thought by Eddie head – one where the Valeyard poses half a second for me to yell, ‘The Robson, in which the Doctor as the Doctor because, as far as he’s Grel Invasion of Earth!’ at him. () has asked for concerned, he is the Doctor. “I feel so at home writing the Grel. Benny’s help digging up some “It’s a standalone adventure I adore them. They’re like the non- mysterious ruins. Eddie says: “I’d in Benny terms. I’ve assumed television version of the Monoids, been thinking quite a lot about the the listener knows the ‘Doctor’

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not exactly ‘fun’, but I was proud of the script, and everyone was superb at the recording. I think poor Lisa is in nearly every scene!”

HE DIRECTOR of these six adventures is a former T Bernice Summerfield producer, Scott Handcock. He says: “It’s been an absolute joy tackling all the different eras of Benny’s long life. Only in hindsight do you tend to look back and bookend those periods as distinct eras, so dipping back in – especially with scripts penned by writers associated with Above (l–r): Gabrielle Glaister, Lisa Bowerman and Taj Atwal those characters – has been brilliant fun. Each story has a really distinctive flavour, which makes the and he’s always been entertaining box sets even more fun as a director! company. James very kindly “Truthfully, every story has asked me if there was anyone in something special about it – particular I’d like to work with for whether that be an element of this series and I threw his name Benny’s history we discover, or into the hat. I was really delighted a guest character returning to when I heard we could get him!” the fold, or some Doctor Who Another foe from Doctor Who connection we get to explore features when Benny meets the for the very first time. I would Empress of the Drahvins. Written probably say Empress of the Drahvins by , he says: “I was was my favourite, because it asked to write a Benny and Ruth was the era I oversaw with Gary story, which harked back to my Russell, but honestly, each of first time writing for Big Finish these stories has been enormous (Paradise Frost), and I think James fun to work on. I can’t wait for rattled off a list ofDoctor Who everyone to rediscover the life of aliens that we had permission Bernice Summerfield... so far!” to use, should I feel like it. I went James adds: “For the special away and ignored bit and features, Scott Handcock has edited came up with this idea involving a together two frankly stunning hour remote, donut-shaped planet with long documentaries on all aspects of a matriarchal society, and James Benny, with some real treats in there reminded me that he’d mentioned and an overall warm glow to it. the Drahvins in his original email, “This might not be ‘The Six and it all came together from that!” Bennys’ running around a quarry, The sixth and final tale of but it should make you feel Above (l–r): Stephen Fewell and Lisa Bowerman these releases is The Angel of absolutely thrilled to own it.” History by Una McCormack, Lisa concludes: “To be honest, the featuring the return of David whole set is consistently good. isn’t what he claims to be, which Warner’s Unbound Doctor. All the writers have written for I hope makes it quite tense as Una reveals: “I decided to Benny before, so there was never Bernice doesn’t! He needs Bernice’s focus on something to do with any worry that none of them archaeological expertise to unearth her archaeological skills and would ‘get’ her. It’s wonderful to the key to defeating an alien menace finding herself in a situation that reunite Benny with her first audio – or so he says…” Lisa adds: “I’ve she couldn’t fix on the spot. adapter Jacqueline Rayner though… been a huge fan of Michael’s work “I’m really pleased with this always love her scripts. Not to for donkey’s years. He’s a great actor, story, which I think is one of the mention back in with a great voice. I’d met him a few best things I’ve done for Big Finish. the writing saddle. Really though, times on the convention circuit, It’s quite gruelling in places, so they were all excellent.”

VORTEX | PAGE 15 Another of Big Finish’s original series is on its way

WOULD SUM up Shilling by : The Missing Year teacher who arrives in the village " & Sixpence Investigate as and Dark Shadows; In the Silent in the first episode. He sees life I Agatha Christie meets Dead of Night and A Very Messy through the prism of the boys’ with a Business; An Appointment with God school that he worked in for hint of Wilde,” says director Samuel and The Dying Room; and The Face many years before taking on the Clemens. “A sprawling murder of an Angel and The Black Widow. position at Morlington School for mystery epic. Be sure to keep your Nigel tells Vortex: “Shilling & Girls, once Morlington Castle. ears pricked up for all the juicy Sixpence Investigate is based on “The headmistress of the details that are woven through it.” a ‘murder mystery soap opera’ school is the no-nonsense Vortex is intrigued. Out for release I’ve been writing since 1996. Lavinia Sixpence, played by in September as part of the Big It started as a monthly dining Celia Imrie. She often locks Finish Originals range, Shilling & experience, and has developed horns with the local police Sixpence Investigate takes place into monthly episodes which my (Detective Inspector Cribbage, in a quirky, dark world where theatre company performs in whom I play, and Sergeant Salt, nobody is quite whom they seem. a variety of venues including a played by Max Day), thinking Starring and Celia jailhouse, a castle and on a steam (usually correctly) that she and Imrie, these tales are based on a train. They’re always based in a Desmund are far more capable of series of murder mystery plays Cornish village, Morlington Hill, solving the various crimes that written by Nigel Fairs (the man and at the moment are set in 1941. happen around the village.” behind the much-missed Big Finish “We get avid followers of the story “David I adore, and will always Tomorrow People and Sapphire who come back month after month work with given the opportunity. & Steel ranges) which have been to find out how their favourite He is literally a theatre legend running for over 20 years. characters are doing – or if they’re – his Hamlet was the defining Based in Cornwall, Shilling and still alive – or now a murderer! Hamlet of a generation and I Sixpence have four cases to solve “Desmund Shilling (played know that it was his casting in eight episodes, each re-written by David Warner) is an English that swayed the wonderful Celia

VORTEX | PAGE 16 BIG FINISH ORIGINALS SHILLING & SIXPENCE

Imrie to take the job. I’ve always enough to be able to direct one of wanted to work with her, and she my father’s plays, Strictly Murder. was as wonderful as you would “When the play came to The Rose expect. Hilarious in the lighter Theatre, Kingston, Nigel came to stuff (they both are) and utterly see it and was very complimentary heartbreaking in the darker bits. about the production and said “Part of my pitch was that I then that he’d like me to direct could use my regular theatre an audio drama he had been casts – Abi Harris, Max Day, Radley writing for Big Finish. That was Mason and Beckie Crinnion – all the first time I learnt ofShilling of whom are very fine working & Sixpence Investigate.” actors and feel like family. Into Having heard more, Sam was that heady mix I was delighted keen to get involved. He continues: to add Lisa Bowerman, Matthew “I was immediately attracted Waterhouse and , to the incredibly catchy and BIG FINISH ORIGINALS all sublime. Everyone understood intriguing name – Shilling & and ran with the style of the series, Sixpence Investigate. It already SHILLING & and I’m hoping people will love it sounded like a well established SIXPENCE and want more! Especially as I’ve series that had been running dropped in a few tasty teasers to for years on television. One RELEASED September 2018 Download £17.00 Extras Interviews Director Samuel Clemens Written by Nigel Fairs Cast Celia Imrie, David Warner

THE MISSING YEAR DARK SHADOWS IN THE SILENT DEAD OF NIGHT A VERY MESSY BUSINESS AN APPOINTMENT WITH GOD THE DYING ROOM THE FACE OF AN ANGEL THE BLACK WIDOW Above (l–r): Radley Mason, Samuel Clemens, Rebecca Crinnion, David Warner, Abi Harris, Celia Imrie and Nigel Fairs the story arc of the second season conjured up thoughts of Sapphire agreed and we were so lucky to get and ended the first on a massive & Steel, Midsomer Murders or our first choices. I think Celia and cliffhanger,Dynasty -style!” any Agatha Christie mystery, David make a glorious team. You and I knew I wanted to be a part can hear the chemistry of a new AM CLEMENS – whose late of it purely from the title alone! dynamic duo being born. It just father Brian was an Once Nigel explained to me the felt so right and they bounce so S acclaimed TV writer (The origin of the piece and that it had wonderfully well off each other.” Avengers, as well as numerous 21 years of material behind it, I As previously mentioned, Nigel stage plays) – was delighted to come knew it was going to be fantastic. has set things up for a second onboard as director. It is so detailed and beautifully series – and there’s no end in sight He says: “I became involved with complex, and Nigel writes so for this investigating pair. He grins: the series because of Nigel Fairs. well – I felt I had hit the jackpot. “Desmund and Lavinia are unique We had worked together on a stage “Nigel was quite far into the to this series, but I’ve written over version of Wait Until Dark at the process of producing when I came a hundred Morlington Mysteries, Brighton Emporium in 2016 and on board and after a few discussions plus there’s a new one every month! really clicked. We kept in touch of who he thought would be The world is growing and growing and last year I was fortunate fantastic in the title roles, I totally constantly, and I love it!”

VORTEX | PAGE 17 VORTEXMAIL FACTORED OUT I’ve recently discovered the Big HAVE YOUR SAY! Finish Omega Factor series. EMAIL: [email protected] It’s brilliant – I’d never seen REMEMBER TO PUT ‘VORTEX MAIL’ AS THE SUBJECT the original on TV, but now I’m hooked and trying to track down a copy of the DVD. I know GRACE AND FAVOUR? spirit as the original show. you’ve just released a rather With the release of The Time Very enjoyable and well good Omega Factor book – but War 2, and the placement of worth a listen if you’re a fan will there be more audios? the stories being near the end of the original series. Again, John J of the ’s life, I thanks to all, and looking Nick: I’m afraid not, John. We’re was wondering if we may have forward to the next release. giving The Omega Factor a any stories with a character James Munro rest for a while as sales haven’t from the very beginning of his Nick: Cheers, James. I will been high enough to cover the life: Grace. With pass that along. They’re going budget. I’m particularly upset reprising his role as great guns, aren’t they? about this because it’s one of in The Diary of in my favourite series at Big Finish 2019 it has got me wondering MORE TRELOAR – not least because I compose if that means that Big Finish I’m been a fan and customer the music for it, and that’s has gained the rights to Grace of Big Finish for many years one of my favourite jobs. But as well. I know other fans have now and have thoroughly sometimes reality bites. Hopefully, longed, like me, to see some enjoyed practically everything it can come back one day. more adventures between the I’ve ever listened to. But I just Doctor and Grace, with her had to give you a very special FIRST DATE? having multiple appearances shout out over your recent Hot on the heels of the brilliant in other forms of media e.g. release of The Diary of River Song series three comics. Are there any plans Adventures volume four. As (which I think was definitely for of some possible much as I thoroughly enjoyed the best set yet) and with Main Range releases with her? the first three volumes, you growing excitement for series Arthur Kinsman could tell that four with and Nick: Sadly, the rights to Grace was still learning his way , I got to thinking are not available, Arthur. The around the role. But in volume about what the future could be. Master is part of the BBC’s four, I had to repeatedly Considering that David Bradley copyright and therefore part of remind myself that it was is the in his own our licence. So, unfortunately, someone other than Jon right and should certainly do no plans for Grace. Such a great Pertwee because that was more work for Big Finish, how pity, because we love Daphne. the Third Doctor. In fact, I about a David Bradley led series? will even go so far as to say It could combine classic First MAGNIFICENT 7 that Tim Treloar sounded Doctor era pure historicals I just wanted to express my more like the Third Doctor and classic sci-fi stories, all the gratitude to all involved in the than Pertwee himself did while with River and the Doctor Blake’s 7 Crossfire series. It has in his two radio plays of the bickering about something or been a very enjoyable series, 90s – The Paradise of Death causality, rather. The more I and I am looking forward to and The Ghosts of N-Space. think about it, the more I think the next set of audio series. I Please keep his stuff coming! that it’d be rather different, have been a fan of Blake’s 7 Ethan Muse but it could certainly work and since it was first broadcast on Nick: Many thanks, Ethan. It’s create a truly unique set. the BBC in the late 70s, and a combination of Tim getting Alex H just wanted to congratulate better and our ears getting used Nick: I can hear Matt the team as the latest audio to him. He’s a great actor and Fitton formulating ideas series has captured the same so much fun to work with. as I type! LISTENAGAIN script, I just thought, ‘This guy DOCTOR WHO knows how to tell a cracking story’. And the cast had pretty THE WRONG DOCTORS much the same reaction. #169 • RELEASED JANUARY 2013 “The whole confusion of the two Mels and the two Doctors

he thinks it’s time to pick Mel up, the older Doctor WHEN YOU meets himself when he’s THINK ABOUT fresh from the trial. “In writing it, I tried to make MEL AND HER distinct differences between the Doctor who we’ve come to TIMELINE know through Big Finish, and IT’S PRETTY his more brash television self. We’ve also got the younger, COMPLICATED! more inexperienced Mel, MATT FITTON and the version of Mel who’s come straight from the trial. was played out so perfectly “The more I thought about in the script that rather N A SERIES which has it, the more it appealed than confusing the actors, it run as long as Doctor to have all these different kind of delighted them. I Who has, finding new combinations with the “Colin always likes a challenge angles for multi-Doctor stories different Doctors and Mels. and is such an astute actor. can be tough. But that’s I had a chart so I knew Bonnie, too, is indefatigable exactly what Matt Fitton who was meeting who. and so sharp. It was great to achieved with Main Range “I think I referred to them as have the two of them together release, The Wrong Doctors, the Motley Doctor and the Blue again. I’ve known Colin really when the and Doctor in the script! When I well for years and consider Mel, fresh from leaving his was writing it, the younger him a mate, and Bonnie is one trial, encounter an older, more Doctor is much more bolshy, of my favourite people. She’s mellow version of the same jumping to conclusions. so full of energy and is such a incarnation, and a younger When you think about your professional. Nothing fazes her.” Melanie Bush. younger self, we were all a Matt adds: “Colin leapt into Matt laughs: “With The bit like that, so it was nice it and really enjoyed it, I think. Wrong Doctors, I think I made to come back and look at It’s brilliant how he made the a rod for my own back! Alan that earlier Sixth Doctor, two performances so distinct Barnes had asked me to do showing his inexperience – hearing him play scenes the first meeting between compared to his older self.” against himself is still one Mel and the Sixth Doctor. Director Nicholas Briggs of my proudest and happiest “When you think about Mel says: “This was the moment memories of any Big Finish! and her timeline it’s pretty when I realised what a “The other amazing thing was complicated, as she meets the brilliant writer Matt Fitton listening to Bonnie Langford Doctor again when he hasn’t is. He was an unofficial at work. She was fantastic and met her at all in The Trial of runner-up in our new so professional too.” a . When you take writers’ opportunity which that as your starting point, all had been organised and sorts of possibilities creep up. run by Main Range script THE WRONG DOCTORS IS AVAILABLE NOW ON CD “I couldn’t resist the idea editor . AND DOWNLOAD FROM of having the Doctor run “Alan championed him, WWW.BIGFINISH.COM into himself and just when and when I received the

VORTEX | PAGE 19 Clara Oswald, as well as Kazran use his impersonation of Matt THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR Sardick from A Christmas Carol, Smith. His YouTube videos AND WILL and humanoid Dorium Maldovar. having brought him to the These four new narrated attention of fandom and Big ALWAYS HAVE A SPECIAL stories set in the Eleventh Finish... and the rest is history. Doctor’s era are written by He reveals: “We did the sets PLACE IN MY HEART. AK Benedict, Simon Guerrier, pretty much around the same JAKE DUDMAN Roy Gill and Alice Cavender. time with two episodes of The Director Helen Goldwyn says: Eleventh Doctor Chronicles “We’ve a couple of newer writers recorded at the same time as HE Ninth and The Tenth which is good, as we keep aiming the Tenth Doctor release. Doctor Chronicles ranges to expand our pool. There’s some “I suppose it was like putting on T have been met with great quite extraordinary stories in a familiar coat in a way. The first acclaim following their releases, this set, so vividly imagined, and one I recorded was an Eleventh and now it’s the turn for another you can almost feel it when it Doctor Chronicle, then we did 21st century Doctor to get the Big comes from a fresh perspective, some Tenth Doctor ones, and Finish treatment. giving us new voices.” now we’ve come full circle and The Eleventh Doctor Having narrated the Tenth finished with the Eleventh again! Chronicles covers different Doctor set, returns “When you do a Big Finish it’s periods in the Time Lord’s life as to voice this series, and he was like being part of a family – you he travels with and delighted to get the chance to know you’re going to have fun.

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It’s nice coming back to a Hobbs Bursary. She’s such place of familiarity with a brilliant actor and I think the Eleventh Doctor, where she is biding her time for I started my adventures. the perfect breakthrough “The Eleventh Doctor role – in the meantime she’s and Matt Smith will always enjoying her audio work. have a special place in “I sense she’s going to get my heart. I’ll always be her break very soon – she grateful for what that will be cast in something impression and the videos which will be a really have done for me.” significant role and she will be huge. She is so unique.” The set opens with The adventures continue The Calendar Man by AK with The Top of the Tree, by Benedict, where, answering long-standing Big Finish DOCTOR WHO a cry for help, the Doctor writer Simon Guerrier. and Amy arrive on a misty THE ELEVENTH colony world with missing On one of their annual DOCTOR CHRONICLES people and a fairy-tale. jaunts, young Kazran

RELEASED August 2018 Download/CD CD £23.00 Download £20.00 Extras Interviews Director Helen Goldwyn Cast Jake Dudman, Simon Fisher- Becker, Danny Horn

THE CALENDAR MAN by AK Benedict

THE TOP OF THE TREE by Simon Guerrier

THE LIGHT KEEPERS by Roy Gill

FALSE CORONETS by Alice Cavender

Above (l–r): Danny Horn and Jacob Dudman

HIS IMPRESSION Helen explains: “Before Sardick and the Doctor we started, we knew we find themselves in trouble OF THE ELEVENTH had a superpower in Jake when the TARDIS is tangled Dudman – his impression of in the branches of a very DOCTOR IS EVEN the Eleventh Doctor is even strange, very large tree. better than the Tenth. When BETTER THAN THE you hear him, it really could Helen continues: “Danny be Matt Smith speaking. Horn and Jake really hit it TENTH. WHEN YOU These stories have a very off in studio and there was different vibe to the Tenth a great chemistry between HEAR HIM, IT REALLY Doctor box set – they are them.” Jake agrees: “I’ve very much in keeping with been really lucky to have COULD BE MATT that era of the TV series.” such brilliant guest stars. The guest star is Eleanor Danny Horn was really Crooks as Olivia, and Helen lovely as Kazran and we SMITH SPEAKING! adds: “Eleanor is a past clicked pretty quickly – I HELEN GOLDWYN recipient of the BBC Carleton hope that comes across.

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“He’s a top guy and there’s a good relationship between them, with the Doctor being like a big brother and a teacher.”

NOTHER ACTOR from the TV series recreates A his role for Big Finish as Simon Fisher-Becker is back as Dorium Maldovar in the third episode, The Light Keepers by Roy Gill. The blue gentleman SIMON FISHER- BECKER IS REALLY LOVELY… HE WAS GIVING ME ADVICE ON HOW TO INTERACT WITH THE DOCTOR WHO COMMUNITY! JAKE DUDMAN

Above (l–r): Nathalie Buscombe and Jacob Dudman enlists the Doctor’s help when advice on how to interact with Girl. She’s really professional he has trouble with the the Doctor Who community. and great to work with.” self-styled ‘Beacon People’ in his He also gave me acting advice, Jake tells Vortex he enjoyed shuttle park. which was very kind of him.” working on this set, especially Helen reveals: “Simon’s an The final story, False Coronets by with his director. He grins: “Helen absolute pro – he has done a shed- Alice Cavender, takes the Doctor is brilliant to work with, and her load of work over the years. His and Clara to a London dungeon eye for casting is so good. She gets voice just sounded incredible. He’s in a 19th century England where the best out of everyone in studio. such a talented character actor, the King has been dethroned. “She put out a picture the he’s similar to Jacqueline King in With history having gone awry, other day on Twitter, but she that sense. He brings out every bit Jane Austen must help rewrite it. wouldn’t let me see it when she of nuance in a line. He was really The famous writer is played was taking it – she said, ‘I look good company in studio as well.” by Nathalie Buscombe, and like your mum!’ It felt like that Jake nods in agreement: “Simon Helen explains: “This is the in the studio too – but in a good Fisher-Becker is really lovely. I second Big Finish Nathalie way! I’ll hear a voice saying, actually met him at a convention has done, and she was so ‘Jacob! Stop eating biscuits and last year, and he was giving me good I also cast her in ATA get back to work’!”

VORTEX | PAGE 22 COMINGSOON THE BIG FINISH RELEASE SCHEDULE

AUGUST 2018 DECEMBER 2018 ■■ DW • THE MONTHLY ADVENTURES: RED PLANETS ■■ DW • THE MONTHLY ADVENTURES: (241, , ACE AND MEL) MUSE OF FIRE (245, SEVENTH DOCTOR, HEX, ACE AND IRIS)

■■ DW • ELEVENTH DOCTOR CHRONICLES (BOX SET) ■■ DW • THE MONTHLY ADVENTURES: TBA (246) ■ ■■ DW • LADY CHRISTINA (BOX SET) ■ DW • THE EARLY ADVENTURES: THE CRASH OF THE UK-201 ■ DLO ■ DW • SHORT TRIPS: FLIGHT INTO HULL! (5.4, FIRST DOCTOR, AND STEVEN) (8.8, META-CRISIS DOCTOR, ) ■■ DW • SHORT TRIPS: THE DEVIL’S FOOTPRINTS DLO ■ ■ DW • CLASS: VOLUME 1 (BOX SET) (8.12, SEVENTH DOCTOR AND MEL) ■ ■ DW • CLASS: VOLUME 2 (BOX SET) ■■ BERNICE SUMMERFIELD: IN TIME ■■ BERNICE SUMMERFIELD: TREASURY (BOX SET) (NOVEL, EBOOK AND AUDIOBOOK) ■■ THE AVENGERS: TOO MANY TARGETS ■■ STAR TREK PROMETHEUS: IN THE HEART OF CHAOS (AUDIOBOOK) ■■ TORCHWOOD: DEADBEAT ESCAPE (24) ■■ : MOTHER EARTH PART 2 (BOX SET) SEPTEMBER 2018 ■■ DW • THE MONTHLY ADVENTURES: JANUARY 2019 THE DISPOSSESSED (242, SEVENTH DOCTOR, ACE AND MEL) ■■ DW • THE MONTHLY ADVENTURES: TBA (247) ■■ DW • THE EARLY ADVENTURES: ■■ DW • THE ADVENTURES: THE DALEK OCCUPATION OF WINTER SERIES 8A (8.A, FOURTH DOCTOR, ANN KELSO AND ) (5.1, FIRST DOCTOR, VICKI AND STEVEN ■■ DW • THE FOURTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: ■■ DW • THE DIARY OF RIVER SONG: SERIES 4 (BOX SET) THE SINESTRAN KILL DLO (8.1, FOURTH DOCTOR AND ANN KELSO) ■■ DW • SHORT TRIPS: A SMALL SEMBLANCE OF HOME DLO ■■ DW • THE FOURTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: (8.9, FIRST DOCTOR, IAN, BARBARA AND SUSAN) THE ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS DLO (8.2, FOURTH DOCTOR AND ANN KELSO) ■■ BERNICE SUMMERFIELD: THE STORY SO FAR VOLUME 1 (BOX SET) ■■ DW • THE FOURTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: PLANET OF THE DRASHIGS DLO ■■ BERNICE SUMMERFIELD: (8.3, FOURTH DOCTOR, ANN KELSO AND K9) THE STORY SO FAR VOLUME 2 (BOX SET) ■■ DW • THE FOURTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: ■■ BIG FINISH ORIGINALS: THE FALSE GUARDIAN DLO SHILLING & SIXPENCE INVESTIGATE DLO (8.4, FOURTH DOCTOR, ANN KELSO AND K9)

■■ THE DIARY OF RIVER SONG: SERIES 5 (BOX SET) OCTOBER 2018 ■■ CALLAN: VOLUME TWO ■■ DW • THE MONTHLY ADVENTURES: THE QUANTUM POSSIBILITY ENGINE (243, SEVENTH DOCTOR, ACE AND MEL) FEBRUARY 2019 ■■ DW • THE EARLY ADVENTURES: AN IDEAL WORLD ■■ DW • THE MONTHLY ADVENTURES: TBA (248) (5.2, FIRST DOCTOR, VICKI AND STEVEN) ■■ DW • THE FOURTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: ■■ DW • THE EIGHTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: SERIES 8B (8.B, FOURTH DOCTOR, ANN KELSO AND K9) RAVENOUS 2 (BOX SET) ■■ DW • THE FOURTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: ■■ DW • SHORT TRIPS: I AM THE MASTER DLO TIME’S ASSASSIN DLO (8.10, THE MASTER) (8.5, FOURTH DOCTOR, ANN KELSO AND K9)

■■ TORCHWOOD: GOD AMONG US PART 1 (BOX SET) ■■ DW • THE FOURTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: FEVER ISLAND DLO ■■ BIG FINISH ORIGINALS: (8.6, FOURTH DOCTOR, ANN KELSO AND K9) BLIND TERROR: THE GODS OF FROST DLO ■■ DW • THE FOURTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: THE PERFECT PRISONERS PARTS 1-2 DLO NOVEMBER 2018 (8.7, FOURTH DOCTOR, ANN KELSO AND K9) ■■ DW • THE MONTHLY ADVENTURES: ■■ DW • THE FOURTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: 'S CROSS (244, SEVENTH DOCTOR AND KLEIN) THE PERFECT PRISONERS PARTS 3-4 DLO (8.8, FOURTH DOCTOR, ANN KELSO AND K9) ■■ DW • THE EARLY ADVENTURES: ENTANGLEMENT (5.3,FIRST DOCTOR, VICKI AND STEVEN) ■■ TORCHWOOD: GOD AMONG US PART 2 (BOX SET) ■■ DW • SHORT TRIPS: THE MISTPUDDLE MURDERS DLO (8.11, , AND TEGAN)

■■ UNIT – THE NEW SERIES: REVISITATIONS (7) DLO = DOWNLOAD ONLY ■■ SURVIVORS: SERIES 8 (BOX SET) DW = DOCTOR WHO WWW.BIGFINISH.COM • ISSUE: 114 • AUGUST 2018

DOCTOR WHO Impressions of the new Eleventh Doctor Chronicles… CLASS BIG FINISH Big Finish heads back to school as the ORIGINALS pupils of Coal Hill come to audio… Shilling & Sixpence Investigate… IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY…* BERNICE SUMMERFIELD: TWO DECADES OF AUDIO ADVENTURES!

LADY CHRISTINA We go behind-the-scenes of the PLUS! new audio adventures…

* 25TH JUNE 1998 ACTUALLY