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At Long Last the Gang Comes to Audio! Jenny ISSUE: 123 • MAY 2019 WWW.BIGFINISH.COM TORCHWOOD GOD AMONG US DEITY TROUBLE IN SOUTH WALES! DOCTOR WHO SURVIVORS SHORT TRIPS THE END IS NIGH A QUICK SPIN IN THE TARDIS! WILL THE SURVIVORS SURVIVE? JENNY, STRAX AND VASTRA… AT LONG LAST THE GANG COMES TO AUDIO! We make great full-cast audio dramas and audiobooks that are available to buy on CD and/or download WE LOVE STORIES! SUBSCRIBERS GET Our audio productions are based on much-loved 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 HG Wells, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, The bonus release, downloadable audio Phantom of the Opera and Dorian Gray. We also readings of new short stories and produce original creations such as Graceless, discounts. Charlotte Pollard and The Adventures of Bernice Summerfield, plus the Big Finish Originals range featuring seven great new series including ATA Secure online ordering and details of Girl, Cicero, Jeremiah Bourne in Time, Shilling & all our products can be found at: Sixpence Investigate and Blind Terror. www.bigfinish.com WWW.BIGFINISH.COM @ BIGFINISH THEBIGFINISH COMING SOON DOCTOR WHO RAVENOUS 4 KNOW THAT I wasn’t the only one who was Y THE time you read The three stories are I heartbroken when Jago & this you’ll know Whisper and Planet of Litefoot came to an end following B EXACTLY how the Dust, both by Matt Fitton the sad passing of Trevor Baxter. third series of the Eighth and the concluding I had the pleasure of interviewing Doctor’s ongoing adventures two-parter Day of the Trevor twice for Vortex, and concluded in Ravenous 3. Master by John Dorney. listening to Jago & Litefoot Forever And you’ll know that having John says: “Day of the definitely brought a tear to my faced River Song earlier this Master was possibly the most eye when I heard the archival year, four incarnations of the exciting and yet terrifying clips giving us a final farewell Master will take on the brief I’ve ever had. Finishing to the professor. So it’s with Doctor in the fourth and off theRavenous arc was a big great joy that we can now return final run, Ravenous 4. enough responsibility on its to Victorian London with the In October, Michelle own... but throw in wanting arrival of The Paternoster Gang – Gomez, Derek Jacobi, to give great material to Sir Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax. Geoffrey Beevers and Eric Derek Jacobi... and Michelle The torch was passed on from Roberts become embroiled Gomez... and that’s before Jago & Litefoot & Strax, ensuring in the Doctor’s latest we even get to the heart- there was a link between the two adventure and meet his stoppingly fantastic prospect series. These are different tales companions, Liv, Helen of bringing Eric Roberts’s told in different ways, but the and the Eleven – played Master back face to face with Victorian period just lends itself by Nicola Walker, Hattie the Doctor again for the first to the Doctor Who universe. Morahan and Mark Bonnar. time in over 20 years... We also have the conclusion to It’s of particular note that “Well, you can see why Torchwood series six – God Among this will be the first time it might be intimidating! Us 3 to come, and I can’t wait to the Eighth Doctor has faced But honestly it was one of hear it. The Torchwood box sets are Eric Roberts’s incarnation the best times I’ve EVER something I look forward to with of the villainous Time Lord had writing a Doctor glee, as I love the mix of science since the 1996 TV movie. Who story!” fiction, real life, and more than a dash of danger. I have no idea where the series is heading... but I like it! And talking of where things Managing Editor: Jason Haigh-Ellery Design: Mark Plastow are heading, we bid farewell to Executive Producer: Nicholas Briggs Copy Editor: Stephanie Hornett Survivors. After nine series it’s all Senior Producer: David Richardson Marketing: Steve Berry, Kris Griffin, coming to an end, and when doing Editor: Kenny Smith Paddy Freeland this issue’s interviews, no one let The Big Finish Team: Ian Atkins, BFP Administration: Cheryl Bly, slip who’s going to live or die... Sue Cowley, Emily de Fraine, Karen Parks, Brenda Smith, Alison Taylor But I don’t mind. I do like Hannah Peel, Alfie Shaw, Paul Spragg Publisher: Big Finish Productions Ltd. a surprise! VORTEX | PAGE 3 ORDER NOW AT BIGFINISH.COM Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), (was that five years ago?), but THE PATERNOSTER GANG Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart) and it’s taken a while for everything n Released: June 2019 Strax (Dan Starkey) – or as we to fall into place. So we’ve had know and love them, The plenty of time to think about it n Format: CD and download Paternoster Gang. And now the and tackle questions like, ‘It’s time is finally right for the in the same time period and Silurian warrior, her human wife setting – how does this differ ORDER NOW AT: and their Sontaran butler to from Jago & Litefoot?’ (an HTTP://BIT.LY/GETSTRAX return to audio life. answer to that came easily). Producer David Richardson “We started pre-production was delighted to welcome the with a meeting that Neve NE OF the most popular Paternoster Row residents to and Dan came along to (sadly requests for a new Big Finish. He reveals: “I’d been Catrin was away), where we O Doctor Who audio pitching the idea of a Paternoster just threw ideas around – many spin-off series from Big Finish has Gang spin-off from the moment of which will be incorporated been for more adventures for we got the new series licence into this 12-episode run. VORTEX | PAGE 4 DOCTOR WHO THE PATERNOSTER GANG “It’s great that we’ve been able to have a degree of input into the wider arc. It’s exciting to see what’s going to develop.” HE SERIES begins with a story from a Doctor Who T veteran writer – The Cars That Ate London! by Jonathan Morris. He says: “It’s flattering to YOU ONLY HAVE TO WATCH THE FIRST HALF OF THE CRIMSON HORROR TO SEE EXACTLY HOW A VASTRA, JENNY AND JONATHAN MORRIS Above (l–r): STRAX SERIES WOULD WORK… Catrin Stewart, Dan Starkey and Neve McIntosh be entrusted with such responsibility, but in this case it doesn’t really feel like a step into the unknown because the format had already been established. “You only have to watch the first half of The Crimson Horror to see exactly how a Vastra, Jenny and Strax series would work, it’s all there. And, of course, The Cars That Ate London! isn’t the first story that Big Finish has released with these characters. “If anything, my responsibility was just to set up the tone of the series; to establish what makes it different from all the other series that have gone before. So my story is, quite deliberately, what Above (l–r): Beth Goddard, Arthur you might expect a ‘traditional’ Hughes and Christopher Ryan Paternoster Gang story to be like. Then other people can “For a brand new series, this who was thrilled to return to come along and go off on weird hit the ground running when playing Strax. Dan says: “Neve and wonderful tangents.” we got into studio. Neve had had an idea, that we – her, What kind of brief was Jonny played Vastra for us before myself and Catrin – should given by script editor Matt Fitton? (The Churchill Years 2), Dan have a meeting with David “Basically to set up the series, had appeared as Strax in Jago & Richardson and Matt Fitton, showcase the three characters Litefoot & Strax, and Catrin had and they said, ‘It’s your series and establish the ‘world’ and appeared in Torchwood – albeit – have you got any ideas about the scale of their adventures. not as Jenny. So they all knew what you’d like in it?’ Sadly Specifically, to tell stories with the process, and of course knew Catrin wasn’t able to make it, aliens, scares, and Steven Moffat- their characters, and they just but it was a good meeting. style humour and storytelling, got in front of those microphones “It’s very unusual to be and make it clear that, although and had a brilliant time.” asked to do something like also set in 19th-century London, Bringing the series to life that, when the producer this is an entirely different series has delighted Dan Starkey says, ‘What do you think?’ to Jago & Litefoot and will be VORTEX | PAGE 5 DOCTOR WHO THE PATERNOSTER GANG Above (l–r): Lucy Briggs-Owen, Catrin Stewart, Joseph Kloska, Neve McIntosh, Trevor Cooper, Dan Starkey and Daisy Ashford telling different kinds of stories. “Our heroes investigate a factory in East London where a sinister genius called Fabian Solak is producing a new type of electric car... a car that has a mind of its own!” Recording was a delight for Dan. He explains: “It was good being back in character again, and we all have a very easy chemistry between us. We’ve hung around with each other on and off set since we first appeared – and it’s now over five years since we worked together on screen.
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