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ISSUE #21 NOVEMBER 2010 FREE! NOT FOR RESALE CIARA JANSON AND LAURA DODDINGTON ARE ALL ALONE IN TIME AND SPACE ALSO... SHORT TRIPS GET ROBBED! SEASON 27! ARE BACK! Shearman’s Caustic 20 years in the making Nick Briggs on a new Comedies will burn their LOST AND FOUND range of Doctor Who tales way into your heart with Nigel Robinson EDITORIAL Well, the Doctor Who Live tour is in its final storylines, listening to sound design and music... stages. What can I tell you? Has the magic warn Most recently, I’ve been listening to The Four off? Am I tired and jaded about the whole thing? Doctors, which is shaping up beautifully, with Of course not! I mean, it’s a shame that the girls Steve Foxon working on some great music, and have got the tops on the Daleks now. No matter Lucie Miller and To the Death… which are quite how exciting the Daleks are, they’re never going harrowing. Andy Hardwick has done some to beat the sight of our lovely ladies pointing brilliant work on those. their arms out in front of them and making And it won’t be long before I should get on ‘talkie’ movements with their hands in time to my with more Sherlock Holmes. I’m afraid Doctor dialogue. And then, of course, there’s Churchill… Who Live, joy that it is, has really messed up Conductor Ben Foster loves that bit. I have a bit of my Big Finish schedule, so the second series improvisation with him, and he’s really building of Sherlock Holmes adventures won’t be up his part. Did I tell you he once tried to bribe happening until next year now… but hopefully me with a bottle of champagne for the Dalek to within the first six months. Ah, sounds like I’ve set mention his name at the Proms? Well, naturally, I myself a deadline there. was happy to do that without accepting the bribe! Right… where’s that cigar? I’m about to go on And don’t think I’ve spent all this time swanning stage in Cardiff – the very heart of Doctor Who! around the UK without keeping in touch with Big Finish. I’ve been writing scripts, approving Nicholas Briggs SNEAK PREVIEWS AND WHISPERS Doctor Who – The Crimes of Doctor Who: The New Eighth Thomas Brewster Doctor Adventures – The Doctor’s past (and possibly a bit of his future) Lucie Miller comes back to pay a visit in this thrilling adventure Four series in Lucie finally gets a story named after by Jonathan Morris. Travelling with his trusted her, as her turbulent relationship with the Eighth companion Evelyn Smythe Doctor comes to a head in the first half of (Maggie Stables), the Time an apocalyptic tale Lord meets one Detective written and directed Menzies (played by Anna by Nicholas Briggs. Hope, and previously seen Susan (Carole Ann in The Condemned and Ford) and the Doctor’s The Raincloud Man) before great-grandson Alex reuniting with disgraced former (Jake McGann) are companion Thomas Brewster back, and as everything (John Pickard). The line-up of begins to unravel the familiar faces does battle with Daleks are back on the the terrifying Terravores, while scene – and nothing can the brilliant David Troughton stop them… pops up as the dangerous Lucie Miller is the Gallagher. And, hidden away penultimate episode in this story in plain sight, is of the Eighth Doctor something that will become Adventures. Jaws may very significant later on. All be dropping by the time will become clear in 2012! this is all over… Out January 2011 Out February 2011 Managing Editor Assistant Editor BFP Administration Publisher JASON HAIGH-ELLERY PAUL SPRAGG FRANCES WELSH BIG FINISH Editors Design and Layout CATRIN HUBBARDE PRODUCTIONS LTD. NICHOLAS BRIGGS ALEX MALLINSON MARCIN ROGOSZEWSKI DAVID RICHARDSON Web Editor ALISON TAYLOR PAUL WILSON ADAM WILLIAMS 3 IN THE STUDIO THIN ICE David of them again in the following story, Crime of Richardson the Century, where we’ll join their lives 20 years heads behind down the line. the scenes on Ricky is a lovely guy, really relishing his Season 27… chance to be in Doctor Who and, despite being a big star from EastEnders and Strictly In the past year Come Dancing, it’s hard to persuade him not I’ve had two to do the washing-up at lunchtime. John Albasiny Brilliant Ideas. The is lovely too; he’s studied Russian and he’s lived first was to cast in Moscow, so despite being perfectly English, Beth Chalmers as he’s brilliant in this role. Not only can he deliver Raine Creevy, the a magnificent accent, he’s willing and able to Doctor’s young tutor the other actors playing Russian characters new companion on exactly the right pronunciation. And then in the second there’s Beth, who can turn her hand to anything, Left: Looks like Raine. Beth season of The and during the course of this story she has to – it Chalmers joins Sylvester McCoy Lost Stories. all happens to her! The second was Sylvester and Sophie, too, are in their element. and Sophie Aldred aboard the to cast Beth as They’re fascinated by What Would Have Been TARDIS. Raina, a Soviet – it’s fun just listening to them chatting between operative and – not takes, discussing this course that their characters Below: John Albasiny, Ricky Groves coincidentally – have taken beyond their final TV outing, Survival. and Beth Chalmers Raine’s mum in the Marc’s script has some really dramatic and first of those stories. challenging scenes for both of them – and they Welcome to the Moat Studios on August 30 truly deliver some stunning work. and September 1, and we’re recording Thin Ice Scheduling this production has been… difficult. by Marc Platt, a story that was originally meant to We recorded Crime of the Century months ago, be shown on telly back in 1990. But Season 27 because it was the first script available. This of Doctor Who never happened, and the show one is set before it, and it features five of the went into hiatus for sixteen years. Wind forward to same actors – every one of them extremely busy 2009 and Big Finish’s first series of Lost Stories people. So for months Thin Ice has been on and starring Colin Baker has been a big success. So off, off and on, as we (I say we, I mean me) tried here we are with a second run, making those four to hook everyone up to the same dates. And then stories for the Seventh Doctor that never were… it happened – a window opened in which we Thin Ice was planned as a pivotal story by could get the story in, and then record the final producer John Nathan-Turner and script editor story Earth Aid the following week. Andrew Cartmel. It has Ice Warriors. It sets in Making this ‘Season 27’ has been a truly motion events and introduces characters that will satisfying experience. It’s been great to work with have an impact through the rest of the season. Andrew Cartmel and see his untold masterplan And it features the Adjudicator, an individual who unfold. It’s been a joy to spend more time with has plans for Ace… Sylvester and Sophie, and then watch a new So here we are in Soviet Russia in the late companion take her first steps into the TARDIS. 1960s, where wheeler-dealing Markus Creevy Take my word for it: cat burglar Raine Creevy is (Ricky Groves) has arrived for a clandestine going to steal your heart… meeting with his secret girlfriend Raina, watched over by the sinister Felnikov (John Albasiny). Get Doctor Who: The Lost Stories - Thin Ice is out in April used to these characters – you’ll be seeing some 2011 4 5 FEATURE We first met Abby (then Amy) and Zara in the LD: We did Chicago TARDIS and we did Key 2 Time trilogy, where we learned they were Gallifrey in LA, and we actually, because we got living Tracers, one good, one not so good, who on so well, went out to LA for Gallifrey a week are tasked with helping to locate the Key to Time. early and had a week together holidaying, and How have things changed for their solo outing? hired a beast of a car together that we drove Ciara Janson (Abby): It’s a bit of a twist really. around in playing Single Ladies really loudly out We’ve sort of swapped identities, which is quite of the window. exciting. CJ: Yeah, we did! It was so lovely! Laura Doddington (Zara): We’re a lot more LD: But the conventions are a really interesting mature than we were when we were in The Key thing because I’d never really heard what they 2 Time, so there’s not the innocence with either were like or been to any and they’re massive! of us. Although Zara was quite evil, there was an They are really big events; to the point where innocence about that that was just naïve really. the really big one, Gallifrey, so many people are CJ: She’s more worldly now; we’re just kind of there and we kind of got lost a lot of the time. It like actual human beings now. was like, ‘Where do we go?’ LD: But with extra powers. CJ: It was quite daunting, wasn’t it? It wasn’t CJ: Special powers! scary as such, but I had no idea that Doctor LD: Yes, special powers.