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WWW.BIGFINISH.COM • NEW AUDIO ADVENTURES ISSUE 100 • JUNE 2017 THE COMPANION CHRONICLES DOCTOR WHO: THE RETURN OF HEX KEEP ON SURVIVING PLUS! BRAND NEW ADVENTURES FOR THE FIRST DOCTOR! YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD COMPANION AWAY! SURVIVORS RETURNS FOR SERIES SIX! “A bit scary, a bit addictive and a bit Twin Peaks.” JASON HAIGH-ELLERY BIG FINISH CUSTOMERS QUOTE CODE ‘K91977’ WITH ALL PHONE BOOKINGS FOR £5.00 OFF PER TICKET, BEFORE 30TH JUNE! HEADING WELCOME TO BIG FINISH! We love stories and we make great full-cast audio dramas and audiobooks you can buy on CD and/or download Big Finish… Subscribers get more We love stories! at bigfinish.com! Our audio productions are based on much- If you subscribe, depending on the range loved TV series like Doctor Who, Torchwood, you subscribe to, you get free audiobooks, Dark Shadows, Blake’s 7, The Avengers and PDFs of scripts, extra behind-the-scenes Survivors as well as classic characters such as material, a bonus release, downloadable audio Sherlock Holmes, The Phantom of the Opera readings of new short stories and discounts. and Dorian Gray, plus original creations such as Graceless, Charlotte Pollard and You can access a video guide to the site at The Adventures of Bernice Summerfield. www.bigfinish.com/news/v/website-guide-1 WWW.BIGFINISH.COM @ BIGFINISH THEBIGFINISH EDITORIAL ISSUE 100 • JUNE 2017 ’M REALLY excited for this I month’s release of The Lives of Captain Jack. I don’t know if the main reason is because I like John Barrowman Vortex has come a long way since the (we Scots have to stick together!), first issue was released highlighting that I adore Captain Jack Harkness, the Eighth Doctor Adventures in or love how Big Finish can March 2009. It has evolved over extrapolate whole adventures from time, with the late, great Paul Spragg throwaway lines. It’s probably shaping it into the magazine it is today. a combination of all three! To mark the occasion, as a special We never did find out what one off, we’ve brought back Team happened to Jack and Midshipman Twitter, an old favourite feature Frame after The End of Time, from the early days. For those who Managing Editor: Jason Haigh-Ellery and we know that Jack kept an don’t remember it, it gives you, the Editor: Kenny Smith eye on Rose growing up in the reader, the chance to find out just Executive Producer: Nicholas Briggs Powell Estate. But what did he what the Big Finish team are into Senior Producer: David Richardson do before he arrived in the 19th in their personal lives, whether Design: Mark Plastow century and before Torchwood? their TV viewing, cinema or theatre Marketing: Paddy Freeland, Kris Griffin And, of course, what is his real going habits, current listening, or Web Services: Hughes Media name? We’re about to find all anything else they are up to. BFP Administration: Cheryl Bly, of this out – and I can’t wait! And keep an eye out for the Big Brenda Smith and Alison Taylor Also, just in case you hadn’t Finish Spotify playlist, to hear what Publisher: Big Finish Productions Ltd. noticed, this month marks everyone has been listening to lately! the 100th issue of Vortex. KENNY SNEAKPREVIEW Big Finish’s memorial writing opportunity… IG FINISH is giving its memorial writing opportunity, pay tribute through hearing the B listeners the chance to write which last year resulted in very voices he’d been encouraging a short story and have it Joshua Wanisko’s Doctor Who and sharing his time with.” released later this year, in memory of – Short Trips: Forever Fallen. So 2017 sees a second time the beloved Paul Spragg. Short Trips producer Ian Atkins Big Finish are opening their In May 2014, Big Finish lost Paul, says: “We know that a lot of people doors to Doctor Who short story a hugely valued member of staff. It would like to write for us, but unless submissions, asking potential left a space still felt today. Big Finish it’s very controlled we’d get into writers to submit a storyline and executive producer Nicholas Briggs all sorts of copyright issues with first page of prose before July 1. remembers that day, saying: “It was reading unsolicited ideas, stories one of the worst days of my life. And and scripts – and just man hours! Details can be found here: in so many ways, I believe I am still in – so opportunities have been thin https://goo.gl/bd08j8 shock at the loss. He was always full on the ground. Last year, when it of such happiness and positivity.” came to marking the anniversary Joshua’s story is available The chance to find that positivity of Paul’s untimely death, we as a free download here: again was a motivator in Big Finish’s realised it was a fitting way to http://bit.ly/2ruwYhU APTAIN JACK Harkness is a We’ve seen what Jack is like Writer and producer James Goss C complex man. He has lived with his Time Lord friend and reveals: “David Richardson suggested – and loved – for centuries. his team in Cardiff but, thanks it. Also, we knew that John was He’s a man who changes depending to Big Finish, this month we see going to be in the country during the on the company he keeps – he can be the errant time agent on his own, recording of Torchwood: Outbreak, so fun-loving and carefree when he’s at various points in his life. we were able to jump at the chance.” with the Doctor, but with his John Barrowman headlines the The Lives of Captain Jack takes Torchwood team, he is a man with a series as Russell T Davies’s legendary place at four distinct points in his responsibility, to save the Earth from creation, which also welcomes back life, starting with The Year After I invasion. other old friends from the TV show. Died, by Guy Adams, which is set VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 6 THE LIVES OF CAPTAIN JACK the Emperor Dalek’s attack. We know that he hung around the Powell Estate. We know that the Doctor put him together with Alonso Frame. And, then, of course, there’s that curious missing two years of his life (and no, we don’t exactly fill it in!).” AMES IS keen to point out J that the Jack in this set is very much the man who appears in Doctor Who, rather than Torchwood, saying: “This is definitely before-the-watershed Jack. It’s also Jack roaming the universe, having adventures and If the coat fits… bumping up against John Barrowman at the Doctor Who Experience. Doctor Who-ish villains and being brilliant. picks up from “But it’s also the events showing Jack at very in The End different periods in of Time, where his life – the confused Captain Jack and man who finds he’s Alonso Frame have only still alive; the sad man who just met. But why did the Doctor is looking for rescue, then for want them to be together? The forgiveness; and finally the bright final tale in this set is Month 25 young star of the Time Academy.” by Guy Adams, and goes back Guy says: “This was one of those to the early days of Jack’s life, in lovely projects where James and I which he is the young star of the sat and poked at the whole thing, Time Agency, and his whole life sharing thoughts and ideas and is about to fall apart. But that’s chocolate biscuits. He’d already not going to stop him winning. come up with little thumbnails for ALL THE CLASSIC SPOOKINESS OF Jack and Jackie reunited. SAPPHIRE & STEEL BUT WITH MORE John Barrowman and Camille Coduri. SAUSAGE ROLLS! JAMES GOSS in the year 200,101, on an Earth With Jack having lived such a each of the four stories which had ravaged by the Daleks, where Jack long time, what made James pick then gone to Russell T Davies for his struggles to save humanity from these particular eras in his life? thoughts. Russell’s feedback then its oldest enemy. The second story He explains: “Guy Adams left us with something we could is Wednesdays For Beginners by and I sat down and did a lot of develop further, both pitching in James, in which Jack and Jackie rewatching. There’s so much ideas as to how we could explore Tyler must unite to rescue the about Jack that’s hinted at each story. We then divvied them up Powell Estate from a force whose and we’re edging towards. and came up with full storylines. name Jackie can never say. One “We know that Jack stayed on “Picking up from The Parting Enchanted Evening, also by James, Earth and helped it rebuild after of the Ways is an interesting one VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 7 THE LIVES OF CAPTAIN JACK for The Year After I Died, as Jack obviously has no idea what’s DOCTOR WHO: happened to him. How did you get into his headspace for that? THE LIVES OF “It was a case of pinning down CAPTAIN JACK the events of the story from his perspective. As far as he’s concerned n OUT THIS MONTH! he got lucky. He didn’t know he’s n CD £25.00 immortal. He faced death and got n DOWNLOAD £20.00 a second chance. So, when we first meet him we find the one thing you never expect when you meet Written By: Ellie Heydon (Ginny) Captain Jack: a cautious man.” James Goss, Guy Adams Jonny Green (Station Computer) He adds: “I took the handful of Directed By: Scott Handcock Hannah Barker (Female Passenger details Russell scattered through the Conor Pelan (Male Passenger story to help build a picture of Earth CAST Ellie Welch (Bay Guard) at this point (most of them taken John Barrowman (Jack Harkness) Kristy Philipps (Colby) from The Weakest Link questions!) Russell Tovey (Alonso Frame) Joe Wiltshire Smith (Pods) and then ran with that really.