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DUE TO the wonders of time and its wibbly-wobbly nature, I’m writing this just a few hours after the Virtual Big Finish Day finished on YouTube. I’ve been lucky enough to attend three Big Finish Days in person – Barking in 2013, and Derby in 2018 and 2019 – and had the most wonderful time at them all. I love the social side that goes along with the events, getting to chat face to face with THE FIRST people I normally just speak to on the phone or through email, as well as saying hello to the stars of our favourite audio productions. This year of course was different as Big DOCTOR Finish Day moved online, but fantastically it meant that many Big Finish listeners MORE ADVENTURES IN who are normally unable to attend could also join in the fun. What I particularly SPACE AND TIME… enjoyed was seeing where viewers were in the world – places as far apart as THE FIFTH volume of famous playwright in British Germany, the USA, Canada, Australia and The history – . Brazil – and everyone had a good time. Adventures will For the Glory of Urth features The live comments section was great materialise in April next the TARDIS landing in an alien – so much love and affection – and I was year for two more stories sewer where a distant scream really pleased to be able to play a part featuring the An sends Susan racing to give aid in it as I loved producing the videos of Adventure in Space and Time and the team split up. Trying listeners talking about their first Big team of David Bradley, Jamie to reunite, the travellers find Finish story. The choices were so diverse! Glover, Jemma Powell and themselves in something And what can I say about our Claudia Grant. resembling a monastery led panels? Just… wow! The highlight , Ian, Barbara by a man half-way between for me was Paul McGann and Alex and Susan will travel back an abbot and a warlord. They Kingston questioning chairman, Jason in Earth’s history and then discover that they are in ‘Urth’, Haigh-Ellery, when he was supposed venture into in a barbaric place clinging to be interviewing them! VORTEX The Hollow Crown by Sarah on to its former glory. If you missed any of the livestream, you Grochala and For the Glory Producer David Richardson can catch up now at the Big Finish of Urth by Guy Adams. tells us: “What’s so lovely about YouTube channel: bgfn.sh/bfd2020 The Hollow Crown sees the this team – and I see this in TARDIS land in Shoreditch, so many of the Doctor Who 1601, where the Doctor casts – is how this group of suggests going to see a play actors work well both on and at the Globe Theatre. But off mic. FilmingAn Adventure there is violence in the street, in Space and Time was clearly plots against the Queen and a very happy part of their lives, rebellion in the air. And at the and they’ve remained firm centre of it all stands the most friends ever since.” VORTEX and Lesser Evils by . BIG FINISH AND THE MULTIMEDIA EVENT November sees the release of The Enemy of My Enemy by Tracy Ann THAT IS VICTORIOUS… Baines, and December’s contributions include Mutually Assured Destruction by , and Echoes EARLIER THIS year Time Lord cosmos dispensing mortality. They of Extinction by Alfie Shaw. Victorious was unveiled – a judge each and every species and Alfie is also the producer of these brand-new multi-platform decree its allotted time to live – but releases and he recalls: “I first became Doctor Who story told across now the Doctor is coming for them. aware of the Time Lord Victorious several media including novels, Big Finish is playing its part in project in late November when comics and audio. Time Lord the grand story with Paul McGann executive producer Victorious is set within the Dark and featuring as emailed asking if I’d be interested Times at the start of the universe, the Doctor. Various stories will be in producing them for Big Finish. and features the Eighth, Ninth and released starting in October with Literally the next day we were in a Tenth Doctors. He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not by Carrie meeting with [Time Lord Victorious The series features the Kotturuh Thompson, as well as a pair of Short producer] and all the – creatures who spread through the Trips: Master Thief by Sophie Iles other licensees, which is when I

VORTEX | PAGE 4 JAMES [GOSS] SAID THE OPENING STORY HAD TO INVOLVE AN

ASSASSIN NAMED BRIAN… ALFIE SHAW

first got a sense of the ambition slid into place, we were rolling!” to pair a newer Who writer with an of the whole enterprise.” The series features a number older-hand, and Simon Guerrier is Alfie’s immediate priority was to of newer writers to Big Finish. someone whose work I’ve admired get the stories for the Alfie says: “I was keen to get some for quite a while. Simon and Sophie ready. He explains: “The Eighth new voices for the Eighth Doctor, had actually worked together on Doctor trilogy needed to be pulled while keeping the experience a previous project, so that all just together quickly but because it all of veteran writers Matt Fitton came together beautifully.” had to tie into the larger story, there and John Dorney to help guide were a few more steps and checks the series as script editors. WHEN VORTEX asks Alfie than usual. It was an incredibly “Carrie Thompson has previously what he can say about the tight turnaround on these as we written a lovely Short Trips for ongoing story in the Big Finish wanted to get them all recorded me, and I’m familiar with her releases, he tells us: “Oh, very before they were announced. darkly-comedic stage work. So when little! Let’s see now... The “The vinyl record release, James said the opening story had Eighth Doctor notices that Echoes of Extinction, was probably to involve an Ood assassin named time has gone wrong – and so have the one that went back and Brian, Carrie’s name shot to the the . Wonders of the Universe forth the most. It went through top of the list. Tracy Ann Baines have disappeared, whole new several different iterations at was a recommendation by the civilisations have popped into the outline stage, a lot of them wonderful Roland Moore as he’d existence. They both have very involving alternative timelines. worked with her on the Chinese different approaches as to how to fix “With the Short Trips we had version of Humans. And I loved it, but they need each other and so a little more time in development Lizzie Hopley’s Torchwood: The form a very uneasy alliance.” as they are simpler to record than Dying Room and have been keen The series opens with He Kills Me, the full-cast productions. There to work with her for a while. He Kills Me Not by Carrie Thompson, was talk of possibly seeing the “For the Short Trips, Sophie Iles with the Doctor on the desert world earlier Doctors interacting with wrote a great Subscriber Short of Atharna. Looking to visit one the Kotturuh, but once the idea of Trip, and I knew that she was a of the Seven Hundred Wonders of pitting the Master against them massive fan of the Master. I wanted the Universe, the Doctor is quickly

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SOPHIE ILES WROTE A GREAT SUBSCRIBER SHORT TRIP, AND I KNEW THAT SHE WAS A MASSIVE

FAN OF THE MASTER. ALFIE SHAW

embroiled in a web of deceit. spot for the Ood, and writing Here, the Master wants to plunder Worse than that, this Wonder of his character was such fun.” one of the most secure vaults in the the Universe is missing – and he When asked by Vortex to sum up universe, the Repository. He’s got a meets Brian, the Ood assassin. the story, she says: “Doctor Who plan and a deadly new weapon to Carrie says: “I had already meets Westworld meets sassy Ood.” assist him. However, as the Master written a Short Trips called The quickly discovers, getting in might Second Oldest Question, produced ALSO RELEASED in October be easy, but getting away with by Alfie. He got in touch shortly are a pair of Short Trips it might cost him everything. after it was released and asked featuring the Master. Alfie Sophie says: “It was a fascinating if I would be interested in explains: “The two Master process because, for the first time, a writing a full-cast drama, and of stories plug in to different bits lot of the story had been fleshed out course I said yes immediately! of the greater . One of for me. Due to this story intertwining Alfie put me in touch with them picks up a potentially loose with other events going on in the Matt Fitton, and my Time Lord looking thread from one of the Eighth Time Lord Victorious project, I would Victorious adventure began. Doctor stories, and shows get notes on expanding elements “I was given a story outline the Kotturuh at their full height.” which would then tie in later. Funnily as a guide and brief character Master Thief by Sophie Iles features enough, I was asked initially to write descriptions. I was over the moon Roger Delgado’s Master, and is it in a completely different tense. when I saw Brian the Ood on narrated by – ahem – the master Working with Big Finish, you need there. I have always had a soft of impressions, . to keep on your toes and work to

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on the local species (possibly the Master went to that time on purpose). The Master tricks/convinces them to give the local species a very short lifespan/kill them instantly and takes what he needs.’ We then went out for coffee and talked it over, and I wrote up the pitch that basically became Lesser Evils.” Simon sums up the story as: “The planet Alexis teems with life. When the Kotturuh arrive to impose death on it all, the peaceful creatures find that an unlikely hero is willing to defend them. It’s the Master.”

I WOULD GET NOTES ON EXPANDING ELEMENTS WHICH WOULD THEN TIE IN LATER. FUNNILY ENOUGH, I WAS ASKED INITIALLY TO WRITE IT IN A COMPLETELY

DIFFERENT TENSE. SOPHIE ILES

what’s required of you by the script has sworn to protect the locals. A NOVEMBER SEES the release editor and producer as things can Time Lord called the Master... of The Enemy of My Enemy by always change last minute. It was Simon recalls: “Alfie Shaw emailed Tracy Ann Baines, where the a bit like writing my Subscriber me on 6 January to ask if I’d be people of Wrax are happy to Shorts Trips in that I had a lot of interested in working on two Short begin peaceful negotiations freedom to play with how I used the Trips stories – writing one and script with the Empire. The brief to tell my version of this story. editing the other – to tie in to the two species are preparing to engage “To summarise the plot: the Master Time Lord Victorious epic. He didn’t in an alliance that will last wants to get hold of something tell me what that epic was, but did throughout the ages. The only one but, despite thinking that he’s mention I’d be working with Sophie who seems to object to this happy done his homework for his heist, Iles so I was happy to say yes. He then union is the Doctor. He knows that not everything is as it seems.” briefed me on Time Lord Victorious you can never trust – and Lesser Evils by Simon Guerrier and once I’d read the storylines that the Wraxians should never features the Master as originally and things he sent, I pitched a few have existed. portrayed by actor . rough ideas. After feedback from Tracy said: “I worked with Big The Kotturuh have arrived on James Goss who has been overseeing Finish writer Roland Moore on a the planet Alexis to distribute the the project, Alfie sent me this on Chinese TV adaptation of Humans gift of death to its inhabitants. 11 January: ‘The Master wants and he very kindly introduced me The only person standing in their something from a planet, and the to Matt Fitton. Matt approached way is a renegade Time Lord who Kotturuh are there to pass sentence me at the start of the year and

VORTEX | PAGE 7 asked if I would like to write for TWO TIME Lord Victorious “The Dalek Time Squad who Big Finish on an exciting new, top titles will be released in are running the ship were new secret, multi-platform project. Of December. The first is to me, so playing with them was course I was thrilled to be asked Mutually Assured Destruction great fun. As fast as they are and to be given the opportunity to by Lizzie Hopley. Lizzie says: “I doing their repairs, the Doctor is write for Doctor Who. I’ve been a was in the middle of another thwarting them at every turn. My fan since childhood and it’s one of script and got a call from Matt favourite scene involves the Doctor those dream jobs that as a writer asking could I drop everything to and the scientist. No spoilers, I never thought I’d get to do. write, ‘Die Hard with Daleks, on a but I Paul McGann and “I was given an outline of the story time ship falling through the Vortex Nicholas Briggs had as much fun The Enemy of My Enemy. I was also – oh, and with the Eighth Doctor?’ I performing it as I did writing it. privy to the stories either side of my mean, he had me at, ‘Die Hard with “Matt gave me two other episode and how they all worked in Daleks’! characters to throw in the mix. This conjunction with each other. My job “So I said yes, and then panicked. opened up the whole story as it was to bring the already outlined This was going to be all-action and gave the Doctor someone to engage story and characters to dramatic life. technical, it was going to need the with, in addition to out-smarting “The Enemy of My Enemy pits the Doctor to do clever sci-fi problem- the Daleks who don’t know he’s Doctor against his greatest foe, the solving and stuff, and I had to onboard and what he’s doing.” Daleks, yet not all is as it seems invent those things. I remember Lizzie adds: “Sometimes when as the Doctor and the Daleks are lying in bed thinking, I do character you’re given a project by Big forced to work together to solve and dialogue, why have I got this Finish you know it’s going to the mystery of a time anomaly storyline? But I can honestly say take a lot of research, there are and contact with a civilisation it’s one of my favourite things that so many storylines out there that should never have existed.” I’ve ever written for Big Finish. and Time Lord Victorious is one

VORTEX | PAGE 8 of them, but the framework of various reasons. James suggested I self-contained and also add-up to this particular adventure was so think of it like the filmsAlien and a whole, and that was something concise. I was basically told, ‘this Prometheus, each one is its own that we worked hard to achieve. is all you need to know up to this story and you can watch either one Plus, when you’re writing for two point, and this is how we exit first, but they inform each other. Doctors, there’s the opportunity it’ – and the rest was up to me.” “I wanted both adventures to to do a bit of a back and forth The second December explore the theme of greed and its between them. I’ve previously release, Echoes of Extinction by corrupting nature, but they are written a story which was Alfie Shaw, will be available different stories – I took the idea basically two Doctors proactively as an ASDA exclusive limited of Alien and Prometheus and ran bickering, so I wanted to go with edition vinyl commissioned by with it! The Eighth Doctor episode a different direction for this one.” Demon Records as well as on traps him on a space station and download from Big Finish. it’s quite claustrophobic, whereas THE WRITERS are all over Featuring Paul McGann and the Tenth Doctor episode is set the moon to have worked on David Tennant on a side each, Alfie on a planet and he’s teaming with Time Lord Victorious, with tells Vortex: “My brief came from a crew to uncover a mystery.” Sophie adding: “It is such a James, not from me! The brief was Alfie is delighted that he got to massive project spanning two separate stories (‘a double A put words into the mouths of both over so many types of side release’ to directly quote the Doctors. He explains: “I mean, Doctor Who related media, to document), for the Eighth and getting to write for Paul McGann have even a small part in this Tenth Doctors. As I mentioned and David Tennant is a highlight event feels completely surreal. I’m earlier, initially we were playing in and of itself! It was a really still in awe that I’ve had a chance around with different timelines interesting challenge to create to write for the Master, for the but those didn’t quite work for two stories that had to be both company whose work has been

VORTEX | PAGE 9 ALFIE SHAW AND OFITSELF! HIGHLIGHT IN TENNANT ISA AND DAVID PAUL M TO WRITEFOR I MEAN,GETTING VORTEX |PAGE 10 platforms.”of theother to seehow itunfolds across all suchwith huge scope;Ican’t wait involved inatransmedia story come true.It’s adelight tobe so itreally hasbeenadream featured inmy wedding vows!), evenBig Finish(DoctorWho beforeWho Icame for towrite I was ahuge fan of Doctor see how they allwork together.” to hear andread allthestoriesand enemies, theDaleks. I’msoexcited one oftheDoctor’s mosticonic especially when thestoryinvolves to doitjusticewas immense, words! Italsomeant thepressure Doctor was justtooexciting for of thisworld for andtowrite the given tobepart theopportunity and hidingbehindsofas, sotobe sinceIwas achild of DoctorWho all upinto onecohesive whole.” was really joiningit satisfying, incorporating what hesaid. That about how itallmight fitin,me so we hadsomefundiscussions of theKotturuh for thecover art, Lamb was working onthedesign mywritten first draft, Anthony thinking. Andby thetimeI’d fed into someofwhat hewas the way Iwrotemy storythen think someofthequestionsand the Kotturuh from James Goss. I developed. of Igot adescription as thebaddiesinitwere being fun tobeworking onastory It’s anenormousprivilege.” there for mewhen I’ve neededit. Carrie concludes: “Iamthrilled! Tracy concurs: “I’ve beenafan Simon agrees: “Itwas really TIME LORDTIME VICTORIOUS DOCTOR WHO c GANN VORTEX escape rooms andgames! novels, comics, vinyl, digital, immersive theatre, platform DOCTOR story WHO told across audio, LORDTIME VICTORIOUS isabrand-new multi- race. likeThis isastory noother… as they defend their home planet from a terrible Follow several Doctors across spaceand time FORMAT: RELEASED: BY ALFIEWRITTEN SHAW AND FORMAT: STARRING FORMAT: RELEASED: BY TRACYWRITTEN ANN BAINES STARRING FORMAT: RELEASED: BY CARRIEWRITTEN THOMPSON STARRING STARRING RELEASED: BY SOPHIEWRITTEN ILES / SIMON GUERRIER READ BY JON CULSHAW FORMAT: RELEASED: BY LIZZIEWRITTEN HOPLEY DOCTOR WHO: SHORT TRIPS MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY HE KILLS ME, HE KILLS ME NOT ECHOES OF EXTINCTION MASTER THIEF / LESSER EVILS DAVID TENNANT bgfn.sh/extinction bgfn.sh/lesser bgfn.sh/destruction bgfn.sh/myenemy bgfn.sh/killsme ORDER NOW AT: ORDER NOW AT: ORDER NOW AT: ORDER NOW AT: ORDER NOW AT: VINYL/DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD CD/DOWNLOAD CD/DOWNLOAD CD/DOWNLOAD PAUL M PAUL M PAUL M PAUL PAUL M PAUL DECEMBER 2020 NOVEMBER 2020 OCTOBER 2020 OCTOBER 2020 DECEMBER 2020 c c c c GANN GANN GANN GANN

WWW.BIGFINISH.COM/OFFERS/V/BOOKCLUB ACCESS CODE: STORIES invented this rather Byronic, middle European backdrop for it all which persists to this day. It’s just a wonderful, scary story, and in Dracula himself you have one of the great villains. Ancient, infinitely wise, infinitely corrupt – yet finally destroyed by the ingenuity of a few dedicated friends. “It’s a very good adaptation so in a way I just wanted to play that. I knew I wanted to give him a Hungarian/Romanian lilt but not do the full ‘Lugosi’ as it were. I was doing a play at the National Theatre at the time of the recording so my voice was very deep and gravelly which worked nicely. I wanted to do the whole thing DRACULA very close to the microphone. Powerful people don’t have to raise their voices…” Writer Jonathan adds: “I wanted to be as faithful as possible to the original book – indeed that was part For many people of the brief from Scott. The opening the ultimate horror – the beautiful, eerie slice of gothic character is probably pastiche; that wonderful two-hander between Harker and the Count – has Count Dracula. Since been recreated almost exactly. I think first appearing in it would be accurate to say that it’s one Bram Stoker’s 1897 of the most faithful adaptations ever.” Scott adds: “I just remember feeling novel, the vampire has very honoured that executive producers never been far from Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery trusted me to take this big, iconic people’s imaginations. classic into studio. It’s a story and a character I love, and the combination CLUB ACTOR has brought of letters, journals and phonograph Stoker’s legendary figure to audio recordings from the original novel make life on several occasions, beginning it all the more appropriate for audio. with Jonathan Barnes’s adaptation We wanted to do it justice, and had of the original text in the Big Finish a brilliant time recording it. It really Classics range. was a very special project.” VORTEX Producer/director says: “When I knew I’d be producing Dracula, I couldn’t not ask Mark to play the part. Thankfully, he said yes, so we worked around his dates with the National Theatre. Mark brings everything you could want to the role – and more!” Mark – a long-term Big Finish collaborator – was delighted to be involved with the production. He said: “I said yes immediately. As a child, I used to go around wearing a curtain and re- enacting ’s death throes from Dracula Has Risen from the Grave! “Dracula is certainly one of my favourites. When I read the book as a teenager I was blown away by how modern and thrilling it was. DRACULA BIG FINISH CLASSICS Frankenstein, by contrast, is a tough RELEASED: MAY 2016 read. It’s an important book but FORMAT: DOWNLOAD not a great one. Whereas Dracula is the definition of a page turner! “It’s a very old vampire tradition, ORDER NOW AT:

WWW.BIGFINISH.COM/OFFERS/V/BOOKCLUB ACCESS CODE: STORIES CODE: ACCESS WWW.BIGFINISH.COM/OFFERS/V/BOOKCLUB obviously, but Bram Stoker sort of bgfn.sh/count BOOK BOOK Merry Christmas, Mr Jago. Matt The Paternoster Gang are says: “We had mentioned in the planning meeting that it would back for the concluding box set be lovely to have the Paternoster Gang meet up with Jago, but we of their first Big Finish series… decided to hold it off until this last set of adventures. Paul Morris has written some brilliantly funny Jago WE DELVED into the pasts of past, which all play into & Litefoot stories, and he also wrote the Paternoster Gang – what builds into a climactic finale.” the episode when Jago bumped into Madame Vastra, Strax and Neve McIntosh, River in The Diary of : – in May’s release, and Catrin Stewart effortlessly Series Six. I knew this set would be Heritage 3, and discovered resurrected the trio on audio, coming out near the end of the year more about their individual having first been introduced in so I wanted to have Jago pop in for a backgrounds. Script editor and during Christmas special. ”Producer David writer Matt Fitton says: “The theme ’s second season of the Richardson adds: “I think by the of Heritage is the Paternoster Gang’s television series of Doctor Who. third box set that this series really own personal histories coming back The Paternoster Gang: Heritage began to earn its subtitle! We now to bite them, and how they can face 4 is being released this October as know why it’s called Heritage – and that together. We’ve had Jenny’s we move from Autumn towards that continues to be the theme of family history, Madame Vastra’s the festive season, with the the thrilling final set of stories. And heritage and Strax’s appropriately titled box set opener, we have a brilliant part of Doctor

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(l–r): Catrin Stewart, Trevor Cooper, Dan Starkey, Neve Mcintosh, Elizabeth Burrow and Christopher Benjamin Some little nods to Die Hard Who and Big Finish heritage joining “Here we see Jago – alone over the series in the first episode with and quite a big the festive season much as we Christopher Benjamin as Henry last saw him in Jago & Litefoot Gordon Jago in Merry Christmas, tip of the hat Forever – invited to the gang’s Mr Jago. Yes, it’s a Christmas home for the first time. Again episode! And of course Jago dresses he spends much of the time as Santa – how could he not?!” to Gremlins stuck with Strax, which, with no Writer Paul Morris says: “The disrespect to the other characters, brief for this story came complete (by way of a is just the most irresistibly funny with all the important story points: pairing one can make from the Jago meets Vastra, Strax and Jenny notorious Star two teams. With no Litefoot or at Christmas – with the possible Vastra to help them, things very involvement of an attempted Trek episode!). swiftly turn from bad to worse…” burglary at Paternoster Row. PAUL MORRIS “It seemed to me that Matt’s THE SECOND story of the set, outline was riffing onHome Alone, The Ghost Writers, has been which set me thinking of other written by Roy Gill, and it leads Christmas films that might be us into the finale. Roy explains: worth paying homage to. There of the hat to Gremlins (by way of “I think this one evolved fairly are a few that are similarly set a notorious episode!).” organically, leading on from mostly in a single house, and I Jago, of course, has previously discussions we’d had for Heritage 3. thought there was mileage in met Strax in Jago & Litefoot There’s a sense of things long buried exploring what secrets Vastra’s & Strax – The Haunting. bubbling up to the surface across the home might be hiding... Paul adds: “Listeners have been entire Heritage series, both in terms “I couldn’t fit all my ideas into clamouring for the Paternoster of our heroes’ past and from the sixty minutes, but among those Gang to cross over with Jago and depths of the Earth itself… that made it through are some little Litefoot, who indeed have had a “Strax and Jenny discover nods to Die Hard and quite a big tip hilarious encounter with Strax. something strange lurking in

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the steam baths, while Madame Vastra is drawn to help antiquarian Edith Renner in her quest to join the mysterious A.D. Club. Who are the Ghost Writers and what power do they wield?” How did Roy find setting up the season finale? Roy explains: “It’s a different dynamic. I’m used to creating and then wrapping up an entire narrative within sixty minutes! Matt and I worked quite closely on the concluding elements that cross between two stories and we script-edited each other’s episodes. Hopefully between us we’ve come up with something that will give the series a big exciting finale – and remind us all what the Gang stand for. “The Paternoster Gang: Heritage series sometimes touches on dark and scary moments I was working and themes, but the Gang themselves always go about their Christopher Benjamin adventures with a strong sense on the script of justice, compassion and fun. The episodes may be set over a at the start series. I had my faithful tatty hundred years in the past, but notebook in which I’d scrawled these are pacy, contemporary of lockdown, some of my suggestions, and it stories. I was working on the was great how our impressionistic script at the start of lockdown, and spending points took shape under the eye of and spending time with the David and Matt into a rough arc. Gang felt like a lovely escape “It’s amazing what you can from the worries of the world. I time with the do on audio when you don’t hope when people they’re having to think about juggling getting a chance to have a bit of a Gang felt like a prosthetics, CGI and period fun adventure and escape too!” drama budgets! The Paternoster Matt adds: “Roy is so good at lovely escape… Gang is only just getting characters and will find emotion, ROY GILL started, though, so I hope we’re pathos and connections between back for more soon.” VORTEX characters that you don’t expect. He and I worked together as the stories that finish this series are to deal with it. Though there may be a big two-parter. We had a lot of some help on hand from an discussion back and forth about unexpected ally... the set-up, where we would leave “I like putting together the final everyone at the end of episode two, pieces of the jigsaw, especially if it’s how we would end it, and what the something I’ve been script editing threat is that’s starting to emerge and been involved in the planning of. from the depths of the Earth.” It’s very satisfying to pay things off, to look at how things have happened HERITAGE 4 concludes with over the course of the series.” Rulers of Earth by Matt Fitton. Dan Starkey, who plays Strax, was Matt explains: “In Rulers of able to contribute ideas towards i THE PATERNOSTER GANG Earth, Vastra has to confront the overall shape of the season. HERITAGE 4 her demons and Jenny and He concludes: “It’s lovely to RELEASED: OCTOBER 2020 Strax face their own cast our minds back to a sunny FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD challenges. There’s a threat building afternoon in crowded central across these box sets which now when Neve and I went to emerges and affects the whole way of the Big Finish office to kick ideas ORDER NOW AT: life on Earth – and the Gang will have around about our proposed new bgfn.sh/heritage

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Thanks very much,David, very Thanks VORTEX | VORTEX PAGE 15 IT’S A TALE OF TWO TIME LORDS IN AN EXCITING NEW BOX SET AS THE WAR MASTER RETURNS…

“I’M IMMENSELY proud of the heroes and villains. Creatively it’s going on! We veer from futuristic work we’ve done on The War more challenging because you cities to spaceships, gothic castles Master range to date,” says have to find an angle that makes to jungle planets. Each of the four producer Scott Handcock, “so the audience engage with the episodes feels different tonally too: it’s a great thrill to be able to Master – and sort of root for him we go from heist film to action reunite with Sir to succeed – even when he’s doing movie, then Universal horror and tell even more stories with his the most despicable things! to race-against-time thriller. It particular incarnation of the Master.” “I suppose it’s very loosely inspired moves along at a fair old lick!” The fifth box set in the series,The by Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It’s The adventures in this set are: War Master: Hearts of Darkness, sees about the Master being recruited The Edge of Redemption by David the Master pitted once again against by Narvin and the CIA to track the Llewellyn, The Scaramancer by Lisa Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor in an Doctor down in enemy territory. McMullin, The Castle of Kurnos 5 by epic four-disc tale written by David That’s very much our starting point. and The Cognition Llewellyn and Lisa McMullin. And Beyond that premise, it spirals off Shift by Lisa McMullin. Scott this time the Master is recruited into an altogether different direction! explains: “It’s all one big adventure by the Celestial Intervention “At its core, it’s a nice examination divided into four distinct parts. Our Agency to track the Doctor down of what makes the Master and the opening episode sees Narvin recruit in deepest enemy territory. Doctor the people they are, and the the Master to track down the Doctor Scott continues: “I love these box unique relationship that ties them and, in order to do so, features the sets. There’s something fascinating together, no matter what faces Master assembling a crew to help about stories that focus on anti- they wear. And there’s a lot more him on this mission. The journey

VORTEX | PAGE 16 Apocalypse soon… (l–r): Derek Jacobi and Paul McGann

set-up for anyone familiar with “I wanted swashbuckling in IT’S A BIG the Conrad novella or Apocalypse space but with laser swords! I Now. There was something else had to remind myself that I was ADVENTURE AS in the brief that I really can’t writing for a family audience talk about without spoiling it, – you can’t go chopping up THERE’S INDIANA something that was Scott’s idea… people, even on audio! It’s a big JONES MEETS “I really enjoyed creating a new adventure as there’s Indiana world and new characters in The Jones meets Blade Runner meets BLADE RUNNER Edge of Redemption. That was a lot Star Wars meets Doctor Who.” of fun, giving each of them some Of the writing process, there was MEETS STAR WARS sort of back story, their reasons some liaison between David and for being in this awful place. Lisa. David explains: “We chatted MEETS DOCTOR “We start with a heist set on quite a bit early on, bouncing ideas the semi-spherical planet of back and forth, and we made a WHO. LISA McMULLIN Redemption followed by a bit of conscious decision to split our swashbuckling derring-do, a sci-fi episodes up so that we weren’t homage to the Universal horror each writing a block. That way it continues in episode two where their movies of old and ending with... might feel more like a cohesive ship comes under fire from space well, that I cannot tell you.” adventure, each part leading into pirates. Part three then fills us in a Lisa says of The Scaramancer: the next. We liaised again towards bit on the Doctor’s activities and why “I really wanted to do something the end of the process, mostly so the Time Lords are so keen on the with space pirates in it! Originally, that episodes one to three were Master tracking him down. Then, I wanted to call the Scaramancer consistent. But I still have no of course, the final episode throws the ‘Buccaneer’, but I was told that idea how part four ends because our leads into a confrontation as the was too whimsical, so she became I shied away from reading it. I’ll Master’s scheme comes to fruition…” the Scaramancer as it sounds find out when I listen to it! It’s Writer David says: “The title more threatening! She sounds like nice to have some surprises with should give a clue as to the basic someone that would kill you. something you’ve worked on.”

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The series concludes with The character of the music. Once that’s Cognition Shift, and Lisa says: in place it’s easier to introduce “Being given the conclusion was new or contrasting elements scary – I almost didn’t want to do depending on the requirements it as they are always so good. of the story. In this series, for “The Master is trying to take instance, the Doctor is as much over the universe... and the of a presence as the Master and Doctor doesn’t want him to. that’s reflected in the music. He’s using something called “There are a couple of cues the Cognition Shift... and that’s introduced in the third episode and pretty much all I can say! developed in the fourth that I’m “It’s an alien world, there’s a particularly fond of. They feature quest-type adventure, and it stems a trumpet, which for whatever from the novel Heart of Darkness. reason is an instrument I haven’t There’s venturing into unknown, used in my scores before now. dangerous territory and a figure When a story takes an unexpected that’s revered by some but turns direction I’ll often find that extends out to have ulterior motives... to my choices as a composer that was the starting point.” and that’s what happened here. More broadly, the whole series was a joy. I couldn’t wait to find IT’S ALWAYS A out what happened next.” Joe Meiners has worked on PLEASURE TO the sound design, and this set challenged him to create WORK WITH soundscapes for four very different locations. He reveals: “I actually DEREK AND PAUL prefer projects with a lot of range such as this, I find that it gives INDIVIDUALLY, BUT me more opportunity to use the sound design to support the story. HAVING THEM I’m a Ridley Scott fan so I enjoy TOGETHER IN doing little nods here and there; the futuristic Edge City I imagined STUDIO WAS AN as something Blade Runner-esque albeit cleaner. Making things like ABSOLUTE BLAST. the weather and people sound pleasant gives me room to let SCOTT HANDCOCK things deteriorate as the story progresses and becomes more MUSICIAN IOAN Morris has reckless. I really enjoy horror written the scores for this box and the sound design of it, so set. He admits: “I love it. for me it was all trying to build Derek Jacobi is never less than throughout the story. Sadly, I didn’t brilliant. When I’m ‘spotting’ get to scare people in this one!” the episodes (i.e. identifying where music is needed), I SCOTT DIRECTED the sometimes find myself drawn into series, as well as producing his performance and need to it, and was delighted to remind myself there’s a job to do! have Sir Derek Jacobi and He’s hypnotising in his own way, Paul McGann in studio appropriately enough. And then together. He explains: “It’s you add Paul McGann to the mix – always a pleasure to work with what could be better?” Derek and Paul individually, but Does having an established having them together in studio theme tune, plus the four note was an absolute blast. For the beat, help Ioan when it comes to third box set, Rage of the Time structuring the incidental score? Lords, Paul was unable to record He says: “Those elements, plus with Derek due to his shooting various motifs I’ve established in dates on changing, so the previous The War Master sets he picked his role up in I’ve scored are definitely helpful. several months later. Both gave They’re the baseline tone or such sublime performances you

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(l–r): Paul McGann, Amanda Shodeko, Colin McFarlane, Luyanda Unati Lewis- Nyawo, Henry Nott and Derek Jacobi

AS A DIRECTOR, as much about getting great actors War, while the middle two episodes as it is about getting people who by Lou are more intimate character YOUR LIFE IS will gel together quickly in studio. pieces, pitting the War Master “Colin McFarlane is an actor I’ve against classic companions Jo Jones ALWAYS MADE loved for years and worked with a and , long after they left the fair bit at Big Finish, so when the Doctor. Jo and Nyssa both have a SO MUCH EASIER role of a grizzled space captain strong history with the Master, so came up, I knew he’d jump at the it’s a real thrill to pit them against IF YOU GET THE chance. And he’s a great foil for both such a dangerous incarnation, and the Master and the Scaramancer: Derek really enjoyed learning more CASTING RIGHT… an invading space pirate playing about the Master’s past.” VORTEX SCOTT HANDCOCK brilliantly by Luyanda Unati Lewis- Nyawo. I’d only worked with Unati once before on the would never have known they story, Thin Time, but she instantly recorded separately, but there’s impressed and I knew she’d have a certainly an extra spark when ball playing an uncompromising you get actors of that calibre space pirate. And, of course, Tom together. And when you have two Webster brought those characters brilliant actors you want to make to life perfectly on the cover art! sure the material challenges It’s a fantastically striking image.” them, which I think it’s safe to say It’s already been announced that these scripts did. There were a lot the War Master will return in a sixth of tricky bits but they both season, and Scott teases: “The War embraced the madness of it all!” Master: Killing Time is a fantastic Scott was also particularly set of adventures written by James THE WAR MASTER pleased with the other actors Goss and Lou Morgan that form a HEARTS OF DARKNESS RELEASED: OCTOBER 2020 joining the established pair. “Oh, loosely connected arc. James opens FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD the entire guest cast for this box set and closes the set with a story is fabulous. As a director, your life is featuring the Master attempting always made so much easier if you to take over an empire in order to ORDER NOW AT: get the casting right – which is just exploit the fallout from the Time bgfn.sh/dark Oblique SHADOWS THE DALEKS RETURN stories in which the Fifth Doctor a twist, with its own identity. There’s lands in different times, different a recurring theme running through it, TO DOCTOR WHO places… and keeps meeting the but that doesn’t mean that the stories THE MONTHLY same faces but as different people. don’t work as stand-alone episodes. The mystery is heightened by the The general brief was to work with the ADVENTURES… oblique appearances of Daleks. But same three recurring actors – Dervla not only that – -era Daleks! Kirwin, Anjli Mohindra and Jamie “NECESSITY REALLY is the “The Fifth Doctor is not where Parker – although technically you might mother of invention,” says Big he should be. Something is very veer towards a fourth, who features Finish senior producer David wrong. And so we had a lot of fun occasionally. And it’s a specific age Richardson. “In the very early days with these adventures – weaving range and type for them, returning of lockdown we knew we would them together, pushing in different throughout time. The actors recur, have to adapt some of our plans directions and getting to play with but not the characters. Then there’s for The Monthly Adventures. What we the audacious concept. And Peter the question of why that’s a thing…” needed were two releases that could be Davison really enjoyed it. We had a achieved with one Doctor and four guest fantastic and esteemed guest cast, THE FIRST story in Shadow of the cast members, recording remotely in a and by the end of recording it was Daleks 1, out this October, is block. When you have a brief like that, almost like we were in a real studio Aimed at the Body by James Kettle. it’s not at all restricting – instead it forces together, sipping coffee in the green James says: “I’m not sure why you to do something different, room and chatting like old friends.” John asked me to write the first something bold, something fun. Script editor and writer John Dorney episode but it was good news for “So what we have in Shadow of the adds: “It’s basically an anthology me, it allowed me to get some mysteries Daleks 1 and 2 are eight half-hour release in the old style but with a bit of going without having to worry myself

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The third story of the set is The Bookshop at the End of the World by Simon Guerrier. Simon says: “I [initially] thought of cricket, because it’s the Fifth Doctor. But James Kettle had already pitched a story about cricket so I scratched that and had another think. “The Doctor is just one of the troubled souls taking shelter in a second-hand bookshop that is also a bar. But he’s forgotten who he is… As for the Time War, my initial draft of the script dealt with it in only the vaguest terms because that’s what I’ve always had to do before. But David and John wanted the Time War much more present in my story, so I beefed that up in the rewrite. That was exciting. But I think the real challenge was in coming up with something different for the cast to ensure that they weren’t playing the same roles as in the other stories.” Interlude by Dan Starkey concludes the October release. He says: “I was invited to pitch for the Shadow of the Daleks sequence after a brief explanation of the limitations the

about paying them off! once said (regarding ) that it’s easy to write the first episode of IT’S ONE OF THOSE DOCTOR anything. How easy it was for me, let the listener judge…! WHO CUT AND SHUTS – PUTTING “It’s one of those Doctor Who cut TOGETHER TWO UNRELATED EVENTS and shuts – putting together two unrelated events and seeing what AND SEEING WHAT HAPPENS. happens. In this case, it’s the historical JAMES KETTLE facts of the Bodyline scandal where aggressive tactics in a series of Ashes SHADOWS cricket matches led to a national outcry in Australia and a near-collapse in to get to sleep. It becomes a process of production team were dealing with in relations between Australia and the refining the idea, adding to it, coming the early stages of lockdown. I came UK, and the mysterious mood of the up with jokes and characters and up with about four or five outlines classic film Picnic at Hanging Rock. Oh, updating the pitch every six months after the instruction from John that and Daleks. John suggested the Bodyline or so. So while Lightspeed was written we were to go for ‘high concept’ element and I was very keen. I’d done very quickly, you could say that it settings, the better to embrace the a lot of reading up on it for a feature was over five years in the thinking! stand-alone episode structure. film project (still gloriously unmade) “This also meant that when I “The germ of my idea was the and was fascinated by the character of pitched it to David Richardson he Doctor having to team up with a then-England captain Douglas Jardine, already knew what the story was I was company of travelling players, like who’s at the centre of this story. That talking about, and then when I got to the ones in , in order to get said, it’s not a story that’s intended write it I had five years of bottled-up his TARDIS back. Everything else to be only for cricket-watchers. enthusiasm inside me, all raring to spidered out from that really. Though being into Daleks helps.” go. I couldn’t wait to get started – and “I hadn’t written for the Fifth Doctor Lightspeed by is once I started, I couldn’t stop! before, but it’s ‘my’ period – from when the second episode. He says: “Since “It is exactly what it says on the tin. I was a kid and the programme first 2014 I have been pitching a story idea The Doctor is trapped on a spaceship etched itself onto my imagination – called Lightspeed – not just for audio with a motley crew and even motlier and it’s great to exploit his mixture but for comic strips, for short story passengers – and the spaceship has of decency and understated sarcasm. collections. And, as is the case with been sabotaged so that if it ever The Time War only impinges into my ideas that aren’t used, you don’t just drops below the speed of light, it will story as a spur to the wider mystery, forget them, you keep mulling them explode! And then, if that wasn’t but it’s good to have him thinking on over while going for walks or trying enough, things begin to go wrong…” his feet through most of the story.”

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Towards Zero has been written Effect and Cause by John Dorney by Roland Moore, and he tells concludes the eight-episode Vortex: “This was such a brilliant adventure. He tells Vortex: “I can project! It was a fascinating brief. say practically nothing about Effect I thought of three characters and Cause. It’s the one that’s most that would be great for the actors fully Dalek-y. They are often hinted to play, giving them something at – a background presence or different to do that they wouldn’t given a brief mention in previous have done in the other stories. adventures – but this is properly a “It’s a murder mystery set in a Dalek story. This is the end of the country house but the twist is that the trail the Doctor has been following Doctor is both the investigator and the where everything is resolved. victim. It was exciting to write a story “During the initial discussions it with obvious links to Agatha Christie made sense for me to write the final (the title comes from one her novels one that ties everything up since I was but also specifically relates to what going to script edit these stories. I could happens in this story). Intentionally, I bring the things together that everyone used characters who you would expect else had written, as I would see the to find in a drawing room mystery. scripts more closely than the others. There is a fair bit of humour and “I had interesting emails back and some nods to other aspects of Doctor forth about what the general arc of

THIS IS THE END OF THE TRAIL THE DOCTOR HAS BEEN FOLLOWING WHERE EVERYTHING IS RESOLVED... JOHN DORNEY

IN NOVEMBER, Shadow of the Who. Can the Doctor solve his own the series could be. Due to having Daleks 2 opens with The Echo murder? I hope it’ll be fun for people!” a gap in my schedule I wrote this Chamber by Jonathan Barnes. He The penultimate story is the one early on, before I had all of the says: “It was really a dream kind ominous-sounding Castle Hydra, other storylines through, which of brief, a chance to tell a one-off, written by Lizzie Hopley. meant I could send it out to the largely self-contained short story She says: “Castle Hydra was born writers and say, ‘This is what we’re starring the Fifth Doctor. I’d had the from a heap of ideas I pitched for a aiming for,’ and I could feed bits idea which formed the basis of The Echo story arc based around Daleks. It was of their scripts back into mine. It Chamber bouncing around in my head great having such initial freedom was a creative to and fro.” VORTEX for months and this really did seem like but things soon sped up and before a wonderful opportunity to see how it I knew it people were fixing on might work in practice.” incredible ideas and John had written i When asked to sum up the story, the final episode! During all of this, DOCTOR WHO Jonathan grins: “Hopefully amusing the vision of Castle Hydra arrived in SHADOW OF THE DALEKS 1 and intriguing with a dash of satire, my brain. It took some refining as it RELEASED: OCTOBER 2020 in a format which Doctor Who hasn’t was complicated but I ran with it. FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD quite done before. The Doctor finds “It’s hard to say too much without himself, inexplicably, the host of a radio giving away spoilers. The Daleks ORDER NOW AT: talkshow where people phone in with are a theme running through the bgfn.sh/interlude incredibly strong opinions on whatever stories and John’s final episode is an happens to be the issue of the day. He’s ingenious pay off to a very clever idea. DOCTOR WHO not sure quite how he’s got there or “The Hydra is the many headed SHADOW OF THE DALEKS 2 who is profiting from his situation but snake from mythology and RELEASED: NOVEMBER 2020 he’s determined to find out. And the seemed a perfect name for a castle FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD fact that, out of all the incarnations that isn’t as straightforward (unlike, say, the First or the Sixth), as you’d think. John and David the Fifth Doctor is perhaps the worst thought it was crazily elaborate ORDER NOW AT: suited to the job, only adds to the fun.” but thankfully went with it!” bgfn.sh/hydra

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