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EDITORIAL SNEAK PREVIEW THE AVENGERS

S YOU’RE reading this, I’ve just returned from my summer holiday in Lanzarote A (quite possibly my favourite place in the world). As ever, when I went away, I loaded up my mobile phone with lots of Big Finish releases to enjoy, either by the poolside or late at night. And what a treat I had, having deliberately held back several releases to enjoy. UNIT: Shutdown was the ideal length for the plane journey out, and got my holiday off to a fantastic start. While I was away, Classic Doctors, New Monsters became available, and I was able to Xanna Eve Chown previews the Big download it in my friend’s bar. And wow. What a Finish reprint of Steed and Mrs Peel: release. Four absolutely brilliant tales. Whenever The Comic Strips, coming from Big I relisten to The Ordeal in the future, I’ll always think of being by the pool in Costa Finish this November. Teguise with my feet up, whilst sipping a can of lemon Fanta (I was reminded of a bus journey in HE AVENGERS comics in Diana for Girls are Majorca, when I relistened to Graceless series madcap, the artwork exquisite, and the puns three a couple of months back, as that’s where I T terrible. Plus, the magazine’s tagline was, ‘The first heard it!). Paper For Girls Who Love Good Stories.’ How could Big Big Finish plays are like pop music, for me – in Finish resist? After all, We Love Stories… a roundabout way. We all remember where we Steed and Mrs Peel: The Comic Strips is a collection were and what we were doing when we think of eight vintage strips originally published in Diana for of a particular tune, and listening to some Big Girls 50 years ago. It brings together the original comics Finish plays is just like that for me. I recall the that have been adapted for audio in volumes one and sheer frustration I felt when my CD Walkman two of Steed and Mrs Peel: The Comic Strip Adaptations. was bouncing about when I first tried to listen to It’s Big Finish’s first foray into the world of comics – and Storm Warning, and the tape adaptor cable kept it’s got everyone excited! being pulled left, right and centre. And Minuet In 1967, DC Thomson made an arrangement with ABC in Hell reminds me of driving back through the Television Ltd to adapt The Avengers into a series of new Nevada desert after a trip to Las Vegas. comic strip serials. The strips ran at two pages a week in I wonder what I’ll be listening to this time next issues 199 to 224, and the main artist was Emilio Frejo, year, to attach new memories to? assisted by Juan Gonzalez. The comic strips didn’t have titles in Diana, but in this reissue, they have been named KENNY after the Big Finish adaptations. As well as full-colour reprints of the comic strips, Steed and Mrs Peel: The Comic Strips has extra material ISSUE 91 • SEPTEMBER 2016 for Avengers fans. There’s a Q&A session with Olivia Poulet and Julian Wadham – Big Finish's Emma Peel and Managing Editor: Jason Haigh-Ellery Marketing Consultant: Kris Griffin John Steed – and Alistair Lock, who was in charge of Editor: Kenny Smith Web Services: Hughes Media music and sound design. It also interviews all the Big Finish writers involved – Paul Morris, Simon Barnard, Executive Producer: BFP Administration: Miles Haigh-Ellery, Cheryl Bly , John Dorney, Tom Salinsky, Robert Khan and Line Producer: David Richardson & Alison Taylor Matt Fitton – to find out about the challenges faced in turning a vintage comic strip into an audio adventure. Design: Mark Plastow Publisher: Ltd.

VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 5 Kenny Smith discovers what happens when the War Doctor becomes a… SECRET AGENT HE WAR Doctor is back this to know the Big Finish team well. think you’ll just have to say it like month for his third trilogy Director Nicholas Briggs says: you mean it, John’. He laughed and T of adventures, in Agents of “We got on with him right from the said, ‘That’s what I’ve been doing Chaos. In his previous Big Finish start. There’s no nonsense with all morning so far’.” outings, John Hurt’s incarnation of John. He’s very straightforward. There was a good atmosphere in the has seen the fallout Immediately the dates were agreed the studio for these sessions. from the conflict on the planet for the first block, he asked for my Nick continues: “John, very Keska in Only The Monstrous and phone number and phoned me. No flatteringly said he really liked the encountered deadly technology in nonsense. So, it was great to be atmosphere I achieved in studio. Infernal Devices. In Agents of Chaos, working with him again. He characterised it by saying we we discover what happens when “Science fiction is not his native were serious about our work but the reluctant warrior becomes territory, even though he’s done a not poe-faced about it. We took involved in three secret missions. lot of it. I remember saying to him it seriously when necessary, but With six audio adventures under when he was querying something there are plenty of laughs along his belt by this point, John had got particularly science-fiction-ish, ‘I the way.

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Bloc’ feel to it. The Soviet memorial at Treptower Park was only a few miles away, and everyone in the neighbourhood still drove Trabants! “I remember us driving around that part of the city in a battered college minibus, listening to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (we were pretentious Sixth Formers, after all), and thinking, ‘I want to write something set here.’ It just took me 20 years to get around to it.” David feels it was an interesting task to write for the War Doctor. He admits: “It was a bit intimidating at first, knowing from the offset that I was writing dialogue for The Actual John Hurt, but I don’t know whether I’d say it’s Above (from left to right): Nicholas Briggs, Matthew Cottle, Helen Goldwyn, Neve McIntosh, difficult to write for the War Doctor John Hurt, Gunnar Cauthery, David Llewellyn and Timothy Speyer – it’s just different. “There’s less of the character to base your writing on, I guess, but I re-watched Day of I LEARNT TO LEAVE HIM to see if there were any specific gestures that mark him out. In many ALONE AS HE MUMBLED TO ways you have a lot more freedom, because even after Day of the HIMSELF FOR A WHILE! Doctor and George Mann’s Engines of War and the previous Big Finish “John is very serious about getting which era – and the first thing that series, we’re still in the process of it right and would often be quite came to mind was Berlin. creating the character, so writers bullish about that. He’d say, ‘Hang “Initially, I was thinking of / can still put their own little touches on, hang on, let me just work out David Bowie/Station to Station on him.” what this is about… ’I learnt to leave Berlin, just because that would be He adds that his highlight of the him alone as he mumbled to himself very cool, but then I realised 1961 process was: “Being in the studio for a while… Then he’d suddenly was the real flashpoint year – the for the recording, without a doubt. say, ‘Right, got it! Let’s go!’ It worked worst possible time and the worst “I just about managed to remain brilliantly all the time.” possible place for the Time War to cool, calm and collected, but I was reach Earth!” very pleased that neither Mr Hurt HE SET kicks off with what With a historical setting, it nor Mr Briggs could see my face happens when the Time means that David had to look into while they were recording the War T War comes to Earth. David the recent past – although, he Doctor/ scenes, because I Llewelyn has written The Shadow concedes, he had done some of his was grinning like a six-year-old in a Vortex, which is set in Berlin during research before! sweet shop.” the Cold War. He reveals: “I did most of it David says: “The brief was very many, many years ago, for my HE try to join open. I was asked to send the War history A-Level! We were taken the Time War in the Doctor to Earth, and that was pretty on a field trip to Berlin and stayed T second release of the set, much it, apart from one or two in a hostel in Fennpfuhl, in the The Eternity Cage by Andrew Smith. bits to tie in with the rest of the former East Berlin. The cloned warriors are series! So the first thing I did was “It was only a few years since the desperate to join the temporal ask where I wanted to see the War Wall had come down, and much of conflict and this adventure Doctor – what kind of backdrop, that area still had a very ‘Eastern shows the lengths they will go

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to to try and become a part of taught English at Andrew’s old the Time War. school, Stonelaw High. It’s Andrew Smith’s second He continues: “When I was asked adventure set during the Time War, to write this one, it was suggested following on from The Sontaran that I could come up with a story Ordeal in the Classic Doctors, New that had a flavour of the movie Monsters box set. Andrew says: Where Eagles Dare, a war film from “The first draft of the storyline the novel by Alistair MacLean. didn’t actually have the Sontarans “By a quite spooky coincidence, in it. David and I had a chat and just the night before I had been he suggested we could add them. watching The Guns of Navarone,

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The Shadow Vortex by David Llewellyn The Eternity Cage by Andrew Smith Eye of Harmony by Ken Bentley

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CAST John Hurt (The War Doctor), Jacqueline Pearce (Cardinal Ollistra), Neve McIntosh (Lara), Honeysuckle Weeks (Heleyna), Timothy Speyer (Kruger), Helen Goldwyn (Professor Crane), Gunnar Cauthery (Kavarin), Matthew Cottle (Leith), Dan Starkey (General Fesk/Sontarans), Josh Bolt (Kalan), Barnaby Edwards (Vassarian), Andrew French (Muren) and Nicholas Briggs (Dalek Time Strategist/) Above: Jacqueline Pearce and John Hurt Opposite: John Hurt

As soon as he said that, I thought another Alistair MacLean war movie, secondary school. Unfortunately it was a great idea. It was quite and halfway through I thought this not while I was there.” nice as it kind of fitted in with would make a good template for Andrew particularly enjoyed The Sontaran Ordeal from Classic a Doctor Who story, with a team writing for this incarnation of the Doctors, New Monsters. sent on a near-impossible mission, Doctor. He explains: “One of the “Once that idea was there, I facing one setback after another, great things about writing for the loved it. I’ve now done three with someone working against War Doctor is that there’s a lot of stories with the Sontarans – I them – and everything that can go self-belief there. really do like writing for them. wrong, does go wrong! It’s a format “He’s invited to join a rescue I don’t actually think they are that applies to several of Alistair mission and as soon as he comes bad guys – they are just very Maclean's stories, including Where in, he’s got no doubt in his mind militaristic in their own terms.” Eagles Dare.. about who’s leading it – despite Andrew was influenced by films “So this one is a nod to Alistair what others think and say! The based on the novels of Alistair MacLean. He’s one of my favourite Gallifreyan military has another MacLean – who coincidentally writers, and was a teacher at my leader who lasts 30 seconds

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in the studio to hear that distinctive, Daleks is difficult – how did Ken gravelly voice. He was such good find them? company as well – he was so funny.” He says: “The thing I learnt about He adds: “We went through so the Daleks is that they communicate many names for this one, before we by stating the obvious. They don’t settled on The Eternity Cage. I think say anything superfluous. They don’t this was the fourth name we had, enjoy language. before finally going with this one.” “Once you get your head round that it doesn’t make it any easier ONCLUDING THIS set is The because it’s practically the opposite Eye of Harmony by Ken of how humans communicate. Their C Bentley, set on a damaged hierarchical nature also necessitates Battle TARDIS in the vortex. As it a lot of genuflection, which is quite crumbles, the Daleks seize upon it as time consuming to write! a chance to make a massive strike “In a bizarre way they’re terribly against Gallifrey. polite to each other! Each knows Although Ken has been working their place and responds with just with Big Finish for many years as a the right amount of cap-doffing! It’s director, script editor and writer, this exhausting to write!“ is the first time he has written a play Ken attended the studio session for the Doctor. to hear his work brought to life and He grins: “This is my was delighted with the way his words Who play so I can’t compare what came off the printed page, especially it’s like writing for the different from his leading man. He adds : “John Doctors. But the War Doctor is Hurt could read the phone book and probably a better fit for my style it would sound magnificent.” JOHN HURT COULD READ THE PHONE BOOK AND IT WOULD SOUND MAGNIFICENT! before the War Doctor puts him in of storytelling. He’s straighter and his place. darker than the others, and he “I don’t think the War Doctor is gets on with the job. I find those really that different from characters enjoyable to write. They incarnations of the Doctor, although don’t let other people’s sensitivities there’s a bit of roughness to him. get in their way! ITH SOME busy days in “David Richardson has said before “David was keen to explore studio, did the director have that it’s the normal Doctor but something along the lines of W any particular memories without the rules, but we’ve not fully Das Boot. If memory serves I was from these? Nick adds: “I can’t think gone in that direction yet. There’s initially down to write the second of any particular highlights. As I say, been a couple of moments where story in the box set, but I came we took it seriously, but laughter was he’s acted where the other Doctors up with an idea about a stricken never far away. Not to sound might have hesitated, but he still TARDIS and Matt Fitton juggled ridiculously positive, but the whole has the same moral compass. He will things so that it better fitted into thing was a highlight working with still give people a chance – he won’t the through line presented by the John. It felt like such a privilege. A go straight to the lethal option. other two episodes.” real ‘pinch yourself’ moment. There’s “It’s brilliant having John Hurt and In the past, some people in the part of me that still doesn’t fully it was an amazing experience to be past have said that writing for believe it all happened.”

VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 9 Kenny Smith turns the clock back to the Hartnell era… EARLY OPPORTUNITY T’S BACK to the Sixties this a pure historical (The Ravelli This run of stories features the month as the third season of Conspiracy) and the return of an old first appearances of Jemma Powell, I Doctor Who – The Early enemy (The Sontarans). playing Barbara Wright. Having Adventures get underway. It’s a “The joy of working on this series is had the experience of playing her second run of tales from the William that we get to recreate a much-loved – and actress Jacqueline Hill – in Hartnell era of the show, which sees era of Doctor Who, but then tell new An Adventure in Space and Time on a broad mixture of story types, stories that take us into new territory television, David is confident that the bringing together narrated sections – and the lead actors have responded Big Finish fans will quickly take to of story with full-cast drama. really well to this. What a joy these her in the part of the history teacher. Producer David Richardson says: are to record. He explains: “After the recasting “With any run of stories, I was “And I can’t tell you how much of Ben Jackson in the looking for contrasting styles – so fun it was to tell the First Doctor’s stories, I felt a bit more confident we have one outer space SF tale (The first meeting with a certain cloned about recasting Barbara. And seeing Age of Endurance), one interesting species. Simon Guerrier has as Jemma had already played the character piece (The Fifth Traveller), fashioned a thrilling war story.” part in An Adventure in Space and

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been there with a different set-up. “For example, parenthood and responsibility became central themes as a result, and we have some beautiful moments and grace notes that wouldn’t have occurred otherwise. So we have a story with lots of space action, but one where all that action is born of – and reflects upon – the characters‘ strengths and weaknesses.”

CTOBER’S RELEASE is the intriguingly-entitled The O Fifth Traveller, where the Doctor begins another new adventure with his four friends – Ian, Barbara, Vicki… and Jospa. Written by Phillip Lawrence, he says: “The brief came totally out of the blue. David Richardson got in contact asking for a few ideas for a First Doctor/ Ian/ Barbara/ Vicki four- part story. He liked a couple of the Above: Carole Ann Ford and WIlliam Russell concepts and asked me to combine them. One was about surviving in the

Time, there was really no question that she was the right person for the HE CAME BACK job! I remember Maureen O’Brien was thrilled – she said that she couldn’t WITH ‘WHAT ABOUT tell Jemma’s performance in that TV special apart from Jacqueline Hill…” WWII SUBMARINES HE FIRST release of this new series is out this month, with IN SPACE?’. T The Age of Endurance, written by Nick Wallace. That one didn’t really catch David’s Nick says: “The brief was two-fold, imagination and he came back with basically. Firstly, there’s the essential ‘What about WWII submarines in DOCTOR WHO ‘mission statement’ for the Early space’. That kind of cat-and-mouse THE AGE OF Adventures, which is to deliver suspense immediately clicked with ENDURANCE exciting, engaging stories that me, and we were off to the races!” remain true to their respective eras Did Nick face any big challenges Written By: Nick Wallace and characters. in this context, David along the way? Directed By: Ken Bentley Richardson asked me to come up “I think the biggest was trying CAST with a sci-fi story. to find a backstory for the central Carole Ann Ford (Susan/ “Keeping that ‘traditional’ flavour conflict that wasn’t just a repeat of Narrator), William Russell (Ian/ in mind, my first concept was for what had gone before. I think what The Doctor), Jemma Powell a real Terry Nation-esque story: a we ended up with was possibly a (Barbara), Rachel Atkins (Myla), John Voce (Toban), planet of Barbarella-style angels, little more involved than it might Gethin Anthony (Olivan), Andy filled with deadly crystalline forests have been, but it also opened up Secombe (Benya), Tom Bell that would shatter at excessive noise. opportunities that wouldn’t have (Arran/Shift) THE EARLY ADVENTURE

wilds of a hostile planet, the other was about a new .” Philip admits: “My first synopsis came out more like a Companion Chronicle – told mostly from Vicki and Ian’s point of view and with the Doctor pretty much sidelined. I was okay with that as I felt it was really Vicki and Jospa’s story anyway. “The lovely John Dorney was my script editor and he put me straight: the Doctor could and definitely should be at the centre of the action. I found that so freeing and a real joy do another Dalek story set within to give my favourite Doctor plenty THE DOCTOR The Daleks’ Master Plan?’, but we to do, beyond what would have scratched that one and thought, been physically possible for William ‘Why not do the Sontarans?’ Hartnell – like chucking him in an COULD AND SHOULD “I rewatched The Time Warrior acid river. and in that the Doctor already “After I’d done my drafts they BE AT THE CENTRE knows who the Sontarans are, so decided to recast Barbara which I thought there was something certainly frees up the storytelling. OF THE ACTION. there. I pitched David the idea of It was a bold choice to recast a the Doctor meeting the Sontarans well-loved character like Barbara from being himself the kind of awe- for the first time, but Steven and but Jemma Powell was brilliant in An inspiring ruler which he writes about Sara already know who they are. Adventure In Space And Time. I can’t in The Prince, he was basically a Immediately, the Doctor not having wait to hear her in the role.” rather unsuccessful civil servant who all the facts gives you an idea for spent much of the latter part of his the story. N ADVENTURE in history life under house arrest. But we had a “David liked the idea of the awaits in The Ravelli lot of fun designing a plot which was Sontarans as an invasion force, A Conspiracy, as the Doctor full of lies, betrayals, double-dealing with them as the all-conquering encounters Niccolo Machiavelli in and back-stabbing in order to live up soldiers we so often hear about. He 16th century Florence. to the man’s apparent reputation. suggested what might help would Written by Big Finish newcomers “Those early historicals were be to find a classic war film and use Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky, they typically the TARDIS crew on the that as the starting point. were introduced to Big Finish by edges of history, rather than wading “I rang my brother-in-law, scribe John Dorney. Tom says: “A into big turning points, so we had the who knows his war films inside little while later, we got an email relationship between Pope Leo X and out, and he said, ‘It sounds like from David Richardson asking us if his brother Giuliano as the starting you need something like The we’d like to submit some pitches for point and took a visit by the Pope to Guns of Navarone.’ So I went and The Early Adventures and we were Florence as a central event on which watched that. delighted so to do. to hang the other episodes.” “It’s such a great film – it’s “We were just asked for a historical really clever and has a lot in it. My adventure for the First Doctor, Steven OME OLD foes encounter brother-in-law suggested the best and Vicki. We came up with a handful the Doctor for the first time war films are those with complex of two-sentence pitches and David S in the final release of this questions of morality. Good people picked Machiavelli. We thought series, in Simon Guerrier’s The have to do terrible things, and they about it rather like a modern-era Sontarans, featuring Steven Taylor have some extraordinary dilemmas. celebrity historical.” and Sara Kingdom. “Gregory Peck effectively says, With a story set in history, it meant Simon says: “It came from a ‘We’ve got to be worse than the the pair had to do their research. number of things – David Richardson Nazis to beat them’ – that’s just Tom continues: “It’s true that the was quite keen I did another Steven amazing. And it’s exactly what Machiavelli myth is rather more and Sara story, and kicked about a Sara’s attitude would be to fighting extravagant than the reality. Far couple of ideas. One was, ‘could we monsters.”

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Big Finish’s output, but that he’d be interested in writing for us. We got chatting about stories that Andrew had developed for the TV series, which had never made it to the screen. One that piqued my interest was The First Sontarans.” Andrew continues: “When I got the commission to do the Big Finish audio, I must admit I couldn’t remember much about it. I couldn’t even remember why it was called The First Sontarans – I had no independent recollection and going back to read the storyline and scene The Sontarans are back to face the breakdown, I found out why! “As I read through it, there were a War Doctor this month, and Kenny couple of things that I thought, ‘Oh, Smith turns the clock back to learn that’s quite good,’ and there were a couple of other things where I felt, about their genesis… ‘Oh, don’t like that!’, like characters who could teleport, and decided N 1984, Andrew Smith was that had to go. The audio version is commissioned to write his SO MAYBE I very true to the original concept and I second script for Doctor structure, but the location is now a Who. It was subsequently dropped more logical place in the story.” and never produced. But in 2012, WAS TRUMPED says: “Every time I go Andrew’s story was finally released into the studio to record a Big Finish and performed by the actors it was BY ROBERT story I know it is going to be both fun originally intended for, and exciting. Colin Baker, and Nicola Bryant, HOLMES! “Andrew Smith’s name on a playing Peri Brown. script guarantees a great story and Andrew’s 44 page outline was filed ship really well. Then, I was told, beautifully written dialogue. This away and forgotten about. And he ‘No, sorry, we’re not going to do it,’ story was no exception – it was a recalls: “I came up with an idea for the for whatever reason. But then they clever and fast paced exploration of Sontarans and the Mary Celeste, and did The Two Doctors, so maybe I was the origins of the Sontaran race and that was it – I went off and came up trumped by Robert Holmes, but I the fact that it took place in Victorian with this idea. honestly don’t know.” England added brilliantly to the “I must admit, I did a lot of my Producer David Richardson says: drama. And alongside the Daleks research on the Mary Celeste by “I’d first met Andrew at a Doctor and the Cybermen the Sontarans are getting a book from Rutherglen Who convention in Glasgow; we in the premiership of alien enemies Library, which was excellent, and I got chatting and I was delighted faced by the Doctor over his many felt I’d got to know the crew of the to hear that not only did he follow regenerations.”

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AST MONTH, the latest official channels to get the rights to Fans of the current Doctor Bernice Summerfield box use Bernice, created by Paul Cornell, Who TV series who read the L set was released by Big and adapted some of the novels. original BBC novels had an Finish. For the uninitiated, Bernice As a result of these, Big Finish was introduction to Bernice in Big Summerfield is hugely important to later entrusted with the Doctor Who Bang Generation, a novel written Big Finish. The company’s first-ever licence. Since that first play, Benny by former Big Finish producer audio play, Oh No It Isn’t, was an has been played by Lisa Bowerman, Gary Russell, and if you’ve never adaptation of a novel featuring who has made the role her own. heard a Bernice Summerfield Benny, who had accompanied the Current Bernice Summerfield play before, you can listen to in the New range producer James Goss says: Silver Lining, a free adventure, Adventures novels of the 1990s. “Crucially, you’ve got such a right in which Bernice investigates Bernice had joined the Doctor performance from Lisa Bowerman. a tomb by following and Ace in those distant, dark We’d all been hearing Benny in our this link: days when Doctor Who was heads for years, and to discover that https://soundcloud.com/big- no longer on TV, and the only we’d been hearing her right all that finish/doctor-who-silver-lining sign of stories featuring new time was such a relief. Vortex spoke with some TARDIS travels was in the books “As soon as you hear Lisa in members of the production published by Virgin Publishing. action, you know that she’s perfect. team responsible for Benny’s To help show the BBC that they She’s instantly your best friend and adventures over the years, to ask could be trusted with a licensed you can’t wait to spend more time them to select their favourite property, Big Finish went through with her.” Bernice plays from Big Finish.

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GARY RUSSELL (Producer, seasons one to six, co-producer, box sets one to five)

It’s impossible to have a favourite that team [Gary resigned after Box monsters (and no one but Jac was Benny play, cos I love her loads Set 5: Missing Persons]. ever going to be allowed to go near – picking a favourite is a bit like But if there’s one from across Monoids – just imagine as well if I’d picking a favourite family member the board that resonates with me been able to pit Benny against the or pet. Choosing a best or most because it was just so much fun to Delegates from The Daleks‘ Master representative is difficult as well – put together, because it exemplified Plan, gosh Jac would have been do I go for anything in that first eight what I wanted to do with Benny at in heaven!) and you have a recipe years or so that I oversaw, or the that specific point in time, it has to for a superb, pacy, and thoughtful box sets Scott and I did when I came be Kingdom of the Blind. little morality play. Morality plays back to Big Finish? I mean, I certainly I mean, it’s got two amazing things: are what worked best with Benny have lots to love those later plays Monoids and Jac Rayner’s scripting – back then – and I’m very glad that for – the team of Benny, Brax, Ruth, nobody got Benny back then like Jac Kingdom of the Blind functioned Jack and Peter is incredibly special did (although Joe Lidster came close so well. Great supporting cast too, to me. I really thought we had the with my other almost-choice, Crystal Paul, Rich and Caroline plus Steve balance right with those last few box of Cantus). Then throw into that a Fewell of course excelling as always sets and I was sorry not to have the really rather dark and gruesome as Jason Kane. Great stuff and yeah, chance to tell more stories about adventure with old Doctor Who one I’m terribly proud of.

(2004) It’s such a brilliant idea – it’s THE GREL ESCAPE perfectly told and when we took it PAUL CORNELL into studio, everyone loved doing (Creator of Bernice Summerfield) it. I’ve taken some credit for it, but I really love The Grel Escape, really, it’s nothing to do with me. which shows off what a fine writer It’s all Daniel and Gary! Jacqueline Rayner is. It’s got, in the form of the Grel, deeply ironic one-track mind monsters which THE ADVENTURE OF THE fit hugely into the spirit of Doctor Who, and it’s a fun adventure DIOGENES DAMSEL (2008) We’re pretty well served for takes which makes some serious EDDIE ROBSON on Sherlock Holmes these days, but points along the way. A bit of a (Producer, seasons nine and 10) make room for another. masterpiece, frankly. This one’s worth listening to for the guest cast alone – David Warner and Peter Miles! – but the DEATH AND THE DALEKS TIMELESS PASSAGES (2006) script is wonderful too, and Nigel SIMON GUERRIER Fairs’direction strikes the perfect (2004) (Producer, seasons seven and eight) tone. Returning Bernice to the JOHN AINSWORTH Timeless Passages was world of Sherlock Holmes, which (Producer, season 11) commissioned as a script from we’d already seen in All-Consuming Although I’ve produced quite Daniel O’Mahoney by Gary Russell, Fire, but without Sherlock himself – a few Benny adventures, I’m and was there when I came on instead putting David in the role of deliberately choosing one that board as producer. brother Mycroft (whilst also making I had no involvement in: Death I pretty much had to do nothing clear that his corpulence was a and the Daleks. Not only is it an on the script – I sent Daniel a few huge exaggeration on Watson’s exciting double-length adventure notes, really just to tie in to the part). Lisa excels as a woman that features the Daleks, but it continuity of the other plays we marooned in time, and Bernice and proved to be a superb conclusion had coming up, that’s all. Mycroft make a terrific double act. to the occupation of the Braxiatel

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OH YES IT IS!

n Oh No It Isn’t is the first ever release from Big Finish Productions and as such was Nicholas Briggs’s directorial debut for the company.

n Oh No It Isn’t was the first of the New Adventures books not to feature the Doctor.

n The original story by Paul Cornell started life as simply ‘Behind You’ in 1996.

n Jo Castleton, who plays Jayne Waspo/Bitchy, auditioned for the part of Bernice Summerfield.

n The original theme for Bernice Summerfield had actually been composed by Alistair Lock for another Paul Cornell project called Phoenix Ryan.

Collection as described in the Finish ever, really set the template short story collection, Life During THE VERY, for so much. You’ve got three Wartime. This was one of the first stunning scripts by the very best and, in my opinion the best, multi- VERY FIRST OF of the Virgin authors (Paul Cornell, media ‘events’ in the Bennyverse. Kate Orman, Lance Parkin, adapted Reading the book deeply enhances ANYTHING BY BIG by Jac Rayner), and you’ve got and expands the reader’s/listener’s knock-out production values. appreciation of the characters and FINISH EVER, I know everyone says that about their world, making Death and the Big Finish, but you just can’t Daleks a very satisfying conclusion. REALLY SET THE compare them to how rich and vibrant the early Bennys sound. TEMPLATE! Another thing that the very THE WINNING SIDE (2013) early Bennys excel at is the guest PART OF THE MISSING PERSONS BOX SET the delightfully bumbling charm of casting – Mark Gatiss, Nicholas SCOTT HANDCOCK Hugh Skinner, and you have a cast at Courtney (as a talking cat), (Assistant and co-producer, box sets 1-5) the top of their game from start to as a pleasure- I love The Winning Side. For me, finish. To put it simply: it’s a winner! loving Babylonian noblewoman, it’s a classic adventure for Bernice and Stephen Fewell as Benny’s Summerfield. An intimate three- on-off-on-off-on-off lover Jason. hander (for the most part) that OH NO IT ISN‘T/WALKING So much is set up in these really focuses on her role as an TO BABYLON/JUST WAR magnificent early adventures. archaeologist. It’s a brilliant script, Yes, they’re so old they don‘t have full of wit and pathos, brilliantly (1998/1999) digital editions (the paperwork brought to life by Lisa Bowerman, JAMES GOSS probably predates the typewriter, who (dare I say) gives one of her (Producer, The New Adventures of Bernice let alone the internet), but you can strongest performances. Couple Summerfield) still buy physical copies for a fiver, that with the brilliantly malevolent That first season of Benny and the and you should immediately. As talents of Geoffrey Beevers, and very, very first of anything by Big you won’t regret it.

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TEN NOT OUT Finish stories? Finally this one‘s for and a long time ago I bought a Nick: Are there any series not currently fantastic CD called Bloodtide, in which CONGRATULATIONS ON 10 years produced by Big Finish would you the Doctor meets the Silurians. Always as the executive producer of Big would really like to have a go at? Any thought it did them more justice than Finish. Nick! I‘m sure I‘m not alone in at all? the new series did. But what about the wanting to express my gratitude for PHIL WHITEHOUSE Sea Devils? As far as I know they‘ve all the hard work you‘ve done and Nick: There are currently no plans for not been brought to audio yet, and continue to do to keep all us listeners that. But I’ll speak to James Goss, who’s I reckon a Sea Devil story would be entertained. I‘ve spent a lot of time producing the Benny adventures. absolutely fantastic. If you‘ll let me I‘ll (and my Christmas bonus) this year Other series? Thunderbirds, The even write it for you! Heh. catching up on the Big Finish stuff that Champions, Randall and Hopkirk ROB was released during the period when (Deceased), Catweazle… Nick: Hmm, yes. The Sea Devils did I wasn‘t a regular listener and it‘s so feature in a Bernice Summerfield clear how not only the main monthly adventure. But we ought to do them Doctor Who range but the whole BF catalogue has blossomed under your in the Doctor Who range, yes. Leave it guidance. Everything from the more with me. structured releases of trilogies in the main range to the spin offs like Jago & LOST IN TIME Litefoot to the exciting releases based BIG FINISH create incredible audio on the modern Doctor Who TV series. stories. Let me throw an idea at you. We are all very lucky! All the best to Have you ever thought creating series you, Nick. Hope you‘ve enjoyed the four of that classic scifi TV fantasy The Coming soon to a sidebar near you! last decade and I hope you‘re here for Lost World (from 1999-2002)? When another at least. it ended abruptly in 2002 at the end of DAVID STEEL TITLE TATTLE series three on an absolute cliffhanger, Nick: David, I really have enjoyed it and WITH THE next series of the 4DAs millions of fans world wide where continue to do so, even more as time being set during season 18, I was mystified and gutted! Clearly after 14 passes. I hope to be around for as long wondering if the image of Tom on the years it will never happen again on TV as possible. sidebar on the cover will be the one ( though re-runs have kept it incredibly from the season 18 title sequence in popular!) Big Finish would be the order to fit in with the overall feel of QUESTION TIME perfect place for its audio revival. All the adventures?“ I HAVE a few questions to put to you, of the brilliant main actors are alive GAVIN NOBLE if that‘s alright… Are there any plans and kicking. A lost Amazon jungle, Nick: Now there’s a point… If you look at to include Peter, Ruth, Jack or any explorers, crazy scientists, warriors, the preview artwork on the website, it of the rest of Benny‘s gang in the druids, dinosaurs, strange time travel does indeed include the image artwork New Adventures? After reading Big anomalies would be pure gold for you mention, Gavin! Always keep an eye Bang Generation, it would be great a fourth audio series and Big Finish on the website and the release pages. to hear how their reactions would would do an amazing job! be to meeting another Doctor. Other TOM MICHAEL than the recent Paul Spragg Memorial LOST AT SEA? Nick: I have to confess that I never did competition, are there any other I‘VE BEEN listening since the beginning see that series. I must catch up with it opportunities for fans to write Big of the Big Finish Doctor Who range, before I can answer properly.

VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 17 Kenny Smith learns about the return of to the worlds of Doctor Who… LIVING IN THE PRESENT NE OF Doctor Who’s most Armada, 10 all-new episodes Producer David Richardson popular producers returns to featuring the and . says: “I’m really enjoying working O the fold with Big Finish this Philip conceived in-depth with Phllip – he brings a wealth of month. Philip Hinchcliffe – who storylines for the plays and experience with him, and his own produced the show between 1975 worked with writer Marc Platt, who distinctive take on Doctor Who. and 1977 – previously conceived two developed them into full scripts. “After the first box set, which all-new adventures which were Now, the adventures continue for featured two pseudo-historicals, released in September 2014 in the Tom Baker and ’s Philip wanted to do a full-blooded first volume of Philip Hinchcliffe characters, once more under the sci-fi adventure with The Genesis Presents. This saw the creation of The auspices of their legendary producer, Chamber, and the massive six-part Ghosts of Gralstead and The Devil’s in The Genesis Chamber. script, adapted by Marc Platt, was

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loved by everyone. It’s so rich The first two stories were given be something to look at, something in character, detail, ideas and great reviews, and Marc says: “Well, it’s that‘s more science fiction. And I excitement – and there’s a great new brilliant when stories go down well. guess having the word ‘Genesis’ in a race of monsters too.” But even more scary when you have to title didn‘t hurt us before! Philip continues: “The first story I do a follow-up. Sequels always make “I guess the basis of the story was sold to Big Finish was from an idea I me uncomfortable anyway. It feels like in the stories I read in my childhood. had back in the Seventies, The Valley asking for trouble. Fortunately Genesis There’s been something personal in all of Death. They adapted that one, and Chamber is set on another planet of these, going back to when I was a David Richardson asked me if I had and couldn’t be more different from young boy and what I read, with ideas any more storylines which hadn‘t writing two semi-historicals.” that have been kicking around in the back of my head for all these years. “I remember reading Brave New PHILIP WANTED TO DO A FULL- World when I was 10 or 11, as it was on my father’s bookshelf, and it was BLOODED SCI-FI ADVENTURE… a tricky one to read at that age. It was

PREVIOUSLY ON PHILIP HINCHCLIFFE PRESENTS:

Above (from left to right): Philip Hinchcliffe, Tom Baker and Louise Jameson THE GHOSTS OF GRALSTEAD The Doctor and Leela return to Victorian London, in the year 1860. At St Clarence’s Hospital, been used. As I didn‘t, we came up Philip adds: “I saw there was a respected surgeon Sir Edward with this idea where I would have good reaction – I was pleased with Scrivener requires the bodies of some thoughts for stories that would the stories, as I felt they worked the dead… At Doctor McDivett’s Exhibition of Living Wonders and recreate my era, when I was working out very well indeed. Marc really Curiosities, miracles are afoot… with Bob Holmes. responded to what we were trying And in Gralstead House, the “I was asked if I would like to write to do.” ghost will walk again. Mordrega them, but for various reasons I said has come to Earth… no. I felt these were going to have to ITH THE first two stories be very good if they were going to W having been a success, it THE DEVIL’S ARMADA be a reflection of my era, so I worked was inevitable that a third The TARDIS lands in Sissenden these stories out in great detail. tale would follow. Village in the sixteenth century. “It wasn‘t just a basic idea I came Philip continues: “When I was Catholic priests are hunted, so-called witches are drowned up with, it was a well worked out asked about doing more, I was in the ducking stool, and in storyline, not quite to a scene-by- thinking about futuristic dystopian the shadows the Vituperon are scene breakdown level, but almost.” society stories and felt that would watching… and waiting…

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PHILIP HINCHCLIFFE PRESENTS THE GENESIS CHAMBER

OUT SEPTEMBER! CD/DOWNLOAD

Written By: Philip Hinchcliffe, adapted by Marc Platt Directed By: Ken Bentley

Above: Tom Baker and CAST Below: Philip Hinchcliffe Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), Jon Culshaw (DeRosa Janz), Hannah Genesius (Ana Janze), Jemma Churchill (Farla Janz/Inscape), Dan Li (Grillo Clavik), PHILIP HAS VERY CLEAR IDEAS Vernon Dobtcheff (Jorenzo Zorn), Arthur Hughes (Shown), Gyuri ABOUT THE TONE OF A STORY… Sarossy (Volor), Elliot Chapman NOTHING GETS PAST HIM! (Dack/Loyyo)

Aldous Huxley – in a time pre-Philip didn‘t go back to read them when I K Dick – writing about what a city was working on this. would be like in the future. There “But I liked the idea of a was the theme of eugenics in it, and forbidden romance between it’s stuck with me over the years. someone from the old human race, I thought it would be a good idea and someone who was part of the for something for the Doctor to get eugenic race.” involved with, so I came up with the The Ghosts of Gralstead and The idea of a future colony, living on Devil’s Armada were both set in another planet. Earth’s past, while The Genesis “The other idea which I thought Chamber takes them out into time would help make the story and space. run, would be if there was a Marc continues: “It’s a clash relationship between a person who of cultures story about an Earth was not part of the eugenics side colony set on a wild alien world. of the city, and someone who was. The settlers of the ship Flor da Vida Maybe some ideas have got mixed make up an advanced society, quite up with 1984 in my head – but I elitist and inward-looking.

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Above: Hannah Genesius and Arthur Hughes Right: Tom Baker

“As Philip says, ‘Babies are grounding in reality. If you look at Richardson, Ken Bentley and Louise manufactured artificially according the ‘alien’ stories from his own era, Jameson all had their own thoughts to eugenic principles and to their they all have that solidity to them. to add.” required function and station in The characters are real people with Working on a six-part story meant a society.’ After clashes amongst the daily routines and lives off screen. great deal of work was involved. population, a breakaway group has Having said that, Philip is very open Marc says: “An alien planet six- left the safety of their enclosed city to new ideas and twists as long as parter needs a lot of detail. It’s not to rough it, barely scratching an they serve his original story concept. like a Victorian story where all the existence out on the surface. “Philip sent me a seven page social ground rules are laid out. A “Philip suggested a Romeo and outline with his basic ideas for the whole new working world has to be Juliet theme which sets the two story – the themes, the location, built in detail from scratch. In this groups colliding again after years of the various groups of characters case, not just one society, but three! muted animosity. But both groups involved and their background. We “Philip suggested that the city are unaware that their new world is had conversations by email and on colonists could be modelled on not as uninhabited as they thought.” the phone. Chinese society with a lowly “Crucially, he left the detailed proletariat governed by an elite ARC WAS delighted to work hard plotting for the story to me – an group of privileged princelings, on the new story – what did amazing compliment considering this forever tussling for power. As I M he learn from working with is a six-parter. I spent a while fleshing worked through the Romeo thread, I Philip on the first box set, that he has out Philip’s ideas and tangling the felt that a Mafia theme was emerging taken into this new story? Doctor and Leela into them. After with powerful families always at He laughs: “Not to be scared. Philip my first draft script (272 pages), we each other’s throats – but then I am has very clear ideas about the tone met up and spent a morning batting very partial to I, Claudius. of a story. Nothing gets past him! thoughts back and forth and making “I also added a controlling computer He is determined that the ideas, possible adjustments. And when we system called Inscape that unifies however fantastical, must have a were through, John Dorney, David the colony city and upon which the

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“Being the leading man, he was charming and welcoming, although one doesn’t do small talk with Tom – he’s just too interesting to chat with about the weather. So, we tended to veer off into quite the most unexpected conversations in between incendiary anecdotes that left me gasping for air and gripping my sides. Killingly funny! “Louise was a delight – her and Tom share a great relationship and bounce off each other so well in the recording studio. Louise is an actress whose reputation precedes her – I’ve heard many other actors talk about her with great respect and warmth long before I finally got to meet her myself.”

Elliot Chapman, Hannah Genesius, Above (left to right): HEN the story was in studio, Jemma Churchill and Jon Culshaw • Below: Gyuri Sarossy Philip came along to attend W the recording. citizens have become dangerously He says: “Tom and Louise were reliant. And then there are the wonderful – they have the vitality monstrous Graaban, who emerged that they had all those years ago. from exactly the opposite direction to “I think audio recording is much which anyone had expected…” more liberating for the actors as it’s freewheeling to an extent and OINING THE guest cast of the happens more quickly than it does story is an actor familiar to for television. There’s no need to J Big Finish listeners, but he‘s wait about for hours to be filmed, not in his usual role. so this enables all their energy Elliot Chapman has won acclaim for to come out, rather than being his dedication in capturing the spirit bogged down by all the stresses of of Michael Craze’s performance as television schedules. Ben Jackson in the Early Adventures “It’s great to see them at work – and Companion Chronicles and has and Tom is just so full of energy.” happy memories from recording Elliot added: “It was a treat to the tale. have Philip come and visit us. Now He grins: “We recorded during that I have become more and more an unexpectedly summery week in immersed in Doctor Who, it’s easy March, with a cast that included lovely He admits: “Tom was incredible. to see why he is one of the most and marvellous Jemma Churchill I have a terrible fear of being late revered producers of the TV show. and Hannah Genesius, the charming to sets or studios and always tend Before recording, I watched The Arthur Hughes (brilliant as the young to overcompensate up to an hour Robots of Death to get a feel for the hero of the piece) and Gyuri Sarossy, before I’m needed, but Tom was series during Tom and Lou’s era with who had a whale of a time relishing always there before me, still digging Philip steering the ship and I was all the villainous dialogue! into the script right up to the last bowled over by how strong it was – a “Of course, we even managed minute in the green room. His ability really superb piece of television. to accommodate another legend – to rephrase a line of dialogue – so it I feel The Genesis Chamber has all the Vernon Dobtcheff, no less!” went from being a very good Fourth detail and layers of something like As a Doctor Who fan, Elliot was Doctor line to a quintessentially , but delivered on delighted to meet – and work with – Fourth Doctor line – was fascinating a scale only audio can truly achieve.” Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. to see in action.

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