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ISSUE 145 MARCH 2021

IN A IN A ALSO INSIDE ALSO TARA-RA BOOM-DE-AY! TARA-RA THE TENTH DOCTOR IS BACK TENTH DOCTOR THE BRAND NEW SERIES OF ADVENTURES… SERIES OF BRAND NEW MAGAZINE

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Secure online ordering and details of all our products can be found at: bgfn.sh/aboutBF EDITORIAL SINCE DOCTOR Who returned to our screens we’ve met many new companions, joining the rollercoaster ride that is life in the TARDIS. We all have our favourites but THE ADVENTURES I’ve always been a huge fan of . He’s the most down-to-earth person we’ve met – a nurse in his day job – who gets dragged into ’s world THE ELEVEN through his relationship with Amelia Pond. And despite everything that he ONE OF Big Finish’s Producer David Richardson goes through, he’s the most level-headed most exciting says: “The Eleven is a favourite the Doctor has ever had – and accomplishments in character of mine, largely due loyally devoted to Amy until the very end. recent years has been the to the performing powerhouse I had the honour of having a lovely creation of the Eleven. that is . We’re so Zoom chat with , the First introduced in the lucky to have him working for actor who brings Rory to life, as he is ’s Doom us at Big Finish. A while back soon to star in his own new Big Finish Coalition series, this renegade Mark had mentioned that his series, The Lone Centurion. It’s going to retains the real-life wife Lucy Gaskell (yes be fast, furious and really, really fun. personalities of his previous Kathy Nightingale in !) And we’ve also got the small matter of incarnations which co-exist would be interested in doing a new series with back with his current persona. a Big Finish, and we were very as the Tenth Doctor in a new run of Played by Mark Bonnar, keen, but it’s a little adventures called Dalek Universe. It’s we’ve heard him face the while because I wanted to find such an exciting set-up, and with so many Seventh and Eighth Doctors, the right part. And Miskavel memorable creations from the mind of the and now he’s about to is a great part – the Eleven’s late, great featuring in it, it’s encounter another incarnation wife! Oh, what mayhem they hard to know where to begin. Oh, actually, in The Sixth Doctor can create together… And that’s not strictly true! Dalek Universe Adventures: The Eleven. Colin it’s a lovely box set in which starts with a adventure, Baker stars as the Sixth Doctor our three writers take these The Dalek Protocol written by Nicholas alongside Miranda Raison characters and really run Briggs. Let the nightmare begin! VORTEX playing Mrs Constance Clarke. wild with them.” VORTEX The box set will contain three adventures: One for All by , The ■ RELEASED: SEPTEMBER 2021 ■ FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD Murder of Oliver Akkron by and Elevation ORDER NOW: bgfn.sh/akkron by Chris Chapman.

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DAVID TENNANT returns encounters his old travelling battling for in a universe as the Tenth Doctor in Dalek companion Anya Kingdom full of , Mechonoids, Universe, nine hour-long (played by Jane Slavin) – the Movellans… and ! episodes across three box undercover Space Security Service Before you enter the Dalek sets, where the Doctor is (SSS) agent previously known as Universe, make sure to pulled and sent Ann Kelso, and her android to the prologue to the series back to the era before colleague Mark 7 (Joe Simms). – The Dalek Protocol – which great . Along the way he Together they find themselves stars as the Fourth

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“The Dalek Protocol sets up the relationship between Anya and Mark, essentially. And they work really well together. It’s a nice vibe. “It’s a story that’s very much in two parts even though it’s a four-parter. Some of the story is on a spaceship, heading into danger. part is on Exxilon with an old friend of the Doctor’s and a

EVEN IF YOU ARE KILLED AND YOUR HEAD IS CHOPPED OFF, THEY WILL FIND A WAY TO BRING YOU BACK! JANE SLAVIN

new enemy for him too. But there

Jane Slavin are plenty of Daleks as well!” Jane Slavin is delighted to be back in Anya Kingdom’s space . She tells Vortex: “I was determined Doctor and features (Louise that Anya was going to come back. I Jameson) and (). just thought the Doctor Who world Producer David Richardson is such that, even if you are killed explains: “Dalek Universe begins and your head is chopped off, they with The Dalek Protocol in which will find a way to bring you back! I the Fourth Doctor and Leela was initially really upset at the end of encounter Mark 7 and the SSS. Or Ann Kelso as I loved that character, actually it starts with The Diary but Anya has turned out to be just of Volume Eight, in as interesting, especially in these which River Song first meets Anya Dalek stories with David Tennant. Kingdom and Mark 7. Actually, They are just wonderful adventures, no, it first begins withThe Fourth she’s got many areas to explore.” Doctor Adventures Series Eight, which first introduces Anya…!! THE FIRST box set of Dalek “How exciting it is to work on Universe features guest stars storytelling this huge and detailed. Gemma Whelan , Kevin McNally and To have characters that are on such Gemma Whelan. Buying Time by a big journey with all these separate John Dorney (who is also one of strands leading to the Tenth Doctor the script editors) kicks off the and Anya Kingdom, meeting again David Richardson. He asked for series. The far future – Anya Kingdom on the planet Mira just as time itself a proper sequel to Death to the of the Space Security Service is on a is about to fall apart. For those who Daleks, with the Doctor returning mission investigating an SSS ship wish to explore it all, it will be a to Exxilon. And then he said, crashing on a distant jungle planet. rewarding experience. And for those ‘Oh, and what about putting Unknown to her superiors she’s who listen to just Dalek Universe, it Mark 7 in it’. I was very excited. searching for something very specific… will stand by itself and make perfect Then he said, ‘Oooh, and Anya but what she finds is completely sense. The best of both worlds!” Kingdom too’. I was even more unexpected. Her old friend, the Doctor. The Dalek Protocol has been excited but rather concerned With a completely different face and no written by who about breaking the integrity of the idea what he’s doing there. tells us: “Initially it was one of Doctor’s timeline – but we soon The adventure continues in The those lovely suggestions from thought of a way out of that! Wrong Woman, also written by John,

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where the team’s investigations have John was also pleased to bring back history with the Doctor. At the taken an unexpected turn but the Anya. He continues: “We always felt same time they were still – broadly signs all still point to businessman, there was more we could tell with speaking – a bit of a blank slate, Sheldrake, who is preparing to Anya, even to the degree of properly and Anya is similar to a degree. launch commercial time tunnels. specifying how she was related to “She’s had an encounter with John reveals: “Dalek Universe , and that’s something the Doctor but we don’t know is a plan we’ve had on the back we look at as we dive into this much more about who she burner for a while. It was an idea series, it was part of the impetus. really is, so there’s plenty to we started developing at the end of “There is also a story arc explore, and that was part of the 2019, scheduled for a bit further to be told, with her arc of thinking to bring her back.”

WITH ANYA AND MARK BEING SPACE SECURITY AGENTS, THERE IS SOMETHING INHERENTLY TERRY NATION ABOUT THEM. JOHN DORNEY

in , but when lockdown redemption, and that all happened and David Tennant was fed into telling this specific available it meant that we could adventure at this specific time. bring it forward and release it sooner “When I wrote The Syndicate

than we originally intended. Plan, I thought there Joe Sims “We had been looking at developing was something brilliant about more stories with Jane Slavin’s the delegates as they had some Anya Kingdom, and when Nick was writing his Fourth Doctor story, The Dalek Protocol, he teamed Anya up with Mark 7. Joe Sims, who plays Mark 7, has a previous working relationship with David Tennant as they were both in . That’s when I started working on an overall arc for this series. “Part of the stories came about as, with Anya and Mark being Space Security agents, there is something inherently Terry Nation about them. When I was coming up with ideas for my scripts in this first set, I thought, ‘This doesn’t feel right, it doesn’t feel like something you can drop a Space Security agent into – it needs to have a James Bond in space feel’. Otherwise, it’s weirdly disconnected. “That led to getting rid of the TARDIS, for example, setting it instead in a fixed location and time, the same period as ’ Master Plan and The Syndicate Master Plan, and the fall out from that, with some of the routes into the story, and it became clear we could have a lot of fun bouncing around the Terry Nation universe. It’s almost more of a Terry Nation universe than a Dalek Universe!”

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about how they would do a finale: they would create big moments and set pieces and work out how to connect them. I realised I’d got a few big moments I could hang the story off, and work a path between them, which gives a crazy journey on a large scale and hopefully a great sense of fun. The cheekiest way of putting it is it’s a little bit tarty, saying, ‘Look at me!’”

THE HOUSE of Kingdom by Andrew Smith concludes the set as the Doctor, Anya and Mark 7 are on a space station which is attacked. They escape to the house of Anya’s grandfather, Merrick Kingdom, on Neptune (which is being terraformed by the Mechonoids) but family tensions soon surface. John says: “One of the joys of being about to tell a story over nine parts is you can do a variety of tones and explore different things. The brief for Andrew was that this is where

David Tennant we look into Anya’s family history, and what she knows and what the

WITH DALEK Universe taking place after the Fourth Doctor story, John had a challenge on THE CHEEKIEST his hands. He explains: “I was WAY OF always determined that you should be able to listen to the PUTTING IT IS David Tennant box sets and be able to follow them without any prior IT’S A LITTLE knowledge. The plan initially was for The Dalek Protocol to be released a few BIT TARTY, years later and gaps could be filled in SAYING, ‘LOOK afterwards, so I was careful to make the Tenth Doctor Dalek Universe stuff AT ME!’ JOHN DORNEY stand alone and also not spoil any of the surprises from The Dalek Protocol. “Buying Time and The Wrong Doctor knows. There’s the question Woman are a two-part story, a of what happened to Bret and Sara Tenth Doctor -style in the television series? We know adventure with a cliffhanger in the Bret is gunned down but Sara middle. I can’t really say too much effectively vanishes after killing her about The Wrong Woman but one of brother – so where does that lead? the things I was keen to do was to That was our start for this story. make it feel like you’re starting with But at no point does the Doctor a finale. The size and scale then just mention this to Anya, so we have gets bigger and bigger as you figure potential for dramatic energy there. out what’s going on. There are lots “We were always thinking early of twists and surprises going on. on about using the Mechonoids “I also wanted it to be fast and for a while they were going and funny. I remember reading to be in my two-parter, though I something where either Russell wasn’t sure how to tie them into the T Davies or talked main story. Eventually I emailed

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Andrew and asked if he had any ideas for the Mechonoids. Within a week, he emailed me back a plot using them. Hopefully people will have fun seeing them back!”

ANDREW, WRITING for the Tenth Doctor for the first time, says: “I was really excited to have the chance to write for another Doctor, actually. The thing with the Tenth Doctor is that he says things before he’s fully formed a thought, and it tumbles out. Right from the TV special The Christmas Invasion he does that, and it’s all down to David Tennant’s delivery. I didn’t have any issues with it, I felt I was doing it correctly, right from the start: I didn’t get any notes on the tone or the character after the first draft. “The energy of this Doctor is something else, and it affects the pace of the story – boom, boom, boom! They don’t stand around for long, they get on with it. He’s a Doctor who doesn’t wait for things to happen, he gets things done and is in people’s faces. That energy is all over the play.”

rich source of possibilities – conflict and threat, loss, emotion and THE ENERGY OF THIS DOCTOR all that sort of thing. Relationships are always a well to draw IS SOMETHING ELSE, AND IT from, and I made the most of that. AFFECTS THE PACE OF THE STORY “It comes up in the story that Anya doesn’t like her grandfather – BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! ANDREW SMITH very much. After her mother died they have a fractious relationship and she unexpectedly ends up on “The brief I got was rather open be to Sara Kingdom and Bret Vyon, a planet with her grandfather. and there was the option to use the and what was Sara’s relationship to “She has to sort the relationship Mechonoids. I’ve actually studied Bret. She says he was her brother out – is there actually affection the Mechonoids before, doing my after she kills him but that’s it. So I there under the surface? And when usual research and taking lots of worked something out. We’ve got her push comes to shove, does a blood notes and thinking about what grandfather in this story too, Merrick relationship outrank other plots they were about. I had a lightbulb Kingdom, and her grandmother was or interests people might have? moment when I saw where they mother to Sara and also Lena, who is “And then I threw in the could fit into this story, which was Sara’s sister. Anya is Lena’s daughter. Mechonoids. We have them doing really fun to do. There’s an element “Her grandparents divorced their thing of planet building, and regarding Varga plants (deadly and her grandmother married there’s one we call Archie, who’s kind plants native to the planet ) someone else whose surname was of a butler for Anya’s grandfather. which I was able to use as well.” Vyon, so he’s Uncle Bret. I drew That was quite nice as he has a bit Although monsters feature in the up a family tree and circulated of character. His designation is adventure, they aren’t at the heart it to the other writers after I ran RG-183. RG phonetically becomes of the tale. Andrew reveals: “We it past David and John – I had to ‘Archie’. Every time I use a number look into Anya Kingdom’s family. get it all straight in my head! in my writing it has significance It was an odd thing, trying to work “It was nice to play around with the for me – 183 is the first part of my out what her relationship would Kingdom family. Family is always a old police warrant number.”

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HOME RECORDING WAS ALMOST THERAPEUTIC, IN A WAY, AS THE WORLD WAS IN SUCH A STATE OUTSIDE OF OUR HOMES AT THAT POINT DURING LOCKDOWN. JANE SLAVIN

has been, he’s not even vaguely grumpy – and Joe Sims was excited to be pretty much a companion.” Jane is no stranger to working with David Tennant, saying: “I’ve worked with David before on the radio and it was a thrill to be working with RECORDING THE series in him on a Doctor Who. I really want lockdown posed its own to act my way through the Doctors! problems for the cast, especially I’m lucky enough to have worked during the hottest months of with and obviously 2020. Jane reveals: “I’d bought Tom – I hope to be in something some kit before we officially with them all at some point. locked down. I’d always wanted to “David’s really diligent in the have recording equipment at home, way he works, he puts his whole and I never thought it would make heart into it. He knows the subject its money back, but that I could and if there was a line that was out record poems and stories for people of sync in some way or he felt it – or even myself. needed clarifying, we would talk “The first thing I did was with Tom about it. He’s quite forensic!” VORTEX Baker, just reading in, and very soon afterwards David Richardson said Big Finish was going to do a series Mark Gatiss DOCTOR WHO: DALEK UNIVERSE 1 of box sets with David Tennant. CD BOX SET

“Home recording was almost ■ RELEASED: APRIL 2021 therapeutic, in a way, as the world ■ FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD was in such a state outside of handy hint is to put a wet towel in ORDER NOW: bgfn.sh/kingdom our homes at that point during the fridge then put it round your lockdown. And because it was neck if it gets too hot.’ It was just Doctor Who we knew we were lovely little things like that which DOCTOR WHO: DALEK UNIVERSE 1 going to be OK in the end! It was really helped. However tricky it LIMITED EDITION VINYL EDITION a real tonic for the actors. got, and if anything technical ■ RELEASED: APRIL 2021 ■ “Our director let us down, Ken was very calm, FORMAT: TRIPLE VINYL was wonderful. He sent us text gentle and funny – I felt he was ORDER NOW: bgfn.sh/sheldrake messages saying things like, ‘It’s looking after us. David Tennant going to be 34 degrees today – a was so good natured – he always

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IF EVER there were a time for the lone centurion – a mysterious the solitary soul was revealed to be friends, Romans and Roman soldier who stood guard over Rory Williams, the husband-to-be of countrymen to lend their ears – the Pandorica, warning off those who Amelia Pond. it’s now… In the television would attempt to open it. A constant Having made several appearances episodes / warrior whose story appeared in the as different characters in Big Finish The Big Bang we learned about folk history of a dozen civilisations, productions, this April Arthur Darvill

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idea of a series set during his time as the lone centurion. It allows us to focus on Rory away from the Doctor and Amy, but also doesn’t compromise the ongoing storylines that were established on screen. Even then Arthur was a little uncertain but happily the concept intrigued him. So we met up for a coffee in one evening, thrashed a few thoughts around about how it could play out, and walked away with The Lone Centurion raring to go!”

TALKING EXCLUSIVELY to Vortex, Arthur says: “I’ve always been really hesitant to come back as Rory. Whenever that’s been suggested, I’ve always

IT FELT LIKE THE RIGHT TIME TO ADDRESS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM AND ASK IF [ARTHUR] FANCIED REVISITING RORY.

Arthur Darvill gone, ‘Well, yeah, okay, maybe, let’s do some other things first – but then Scott finally wore me down! reprises his role as Rory more. “To be really candid the reason I Producer Scott Handcock reveals: didn’t want to do it was that I felt the “The series came about in a really work we had done on Doctor Who weird way actually. I’ve known was quite sacred. That storyline was Arthur for about a decade, ever since very precious to me – I didn’t want to we worked together on TV Doctor do anything that interfered with it. Who. He’s come in and played a few “And then, after some time had parts for things I’ve produced for passed, I had a proper chat with Scott Big Finish, first a villain inBernice about it. He pitched the idea of the Summerfield, then a Dark Shadows lone centurion, and I just thought and a Torchwood – and of course it was a brilliant one as it doesn’t Frankenstein. At the Torchwood interfere with anything else, and recording in 2017, he happened there’s real scope for light and fun. to mention his mum, Ellie, had If it had been dark and moody, I Ayesha Antoine been doing some radio work with (Locusta) wouldn’t have been interested. The the BBC and would love to do a Big amusing comedy side of it really Finish, so we got her in too. Then appealed to me, and I saw it as such around a year and a half ago, Ellie a good opportunity for the writers to mentioned that Arthur would “I knew Arthur was a little unsure have a field day with the material. love to do something more, and it at the idea of Rory returning – his “I think Rory’s such a great felt like the right time to address main concern was spoiling the arc character as so often, for so much the elephant in the room and ask that had been developed on TV. of it, he’s on the outside looking in. if he fancied revisiting Rory. And that’s really why I leapt on the I always saw him as representing

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the audience’s point of view – work with him on something a little “Our first volume, set in Ancient especially in the first TV season.” more light-hearted after so much Rome, opens with Rory in the Torchwood! Arthur was also really gladiatorial ring, and events spiral THE OPENING story of this keen to make something fun and out from there. It’s actually a perfect box set sees Rory travelling to tackle more comedy, which nicely place to set a series like this. It’s a Rome in search of the Pandorica steered us away from stepping on the world populated with so many larger but he finds himself forced to toes of other Big Finish immortals like than life characters – emperors and perform as a gladiator in the Captain Jack or Dorian Gray.” assassins and soothsayers – that Colosseum, attracting the Scott confirms there’s a huge plunging Rory (with all his memories attention of the Imperial household. amount of fun in this series: “The of the 21st century) into the thick of Scott explains: “After I heard Arthur finished episodes are fantastically it proves a really enjoyable clash. And was up for some audio recording, the silly. They’ve been a joy to record, he can’t just walk away because he’s idea of revisiting Rory became and an even greater joy to listen to on a very personal mission to protect the Pandorica. That’s sort of the key to the character: he isn’t a superhero, he can’t defeat his enemies single- handed, but he’s fiercely loyal and will lay down his life for the woman he loves. Even though she’s not present, the stories really honour the Rory/Amy relationship.”

APPROPRIATELY FOR A ROMAN, I LOVE HIM LIKE SALT! (NOT TRYING TO IMPLY HE GIVES ME HYPER-TENSION THOUGH!)

THE ADVENTURES begin with Gladiator by . Kidnapped, Rory is taken to Rome and thrown into the arena where his hapless inability to die brings him to the attention of the Emperor. David says: “I often get asked to write opening episodes, especially by Scott, so I can only assume it’s something I’m reasonably good at! Endings are a pain. If I had my way every story would Robyn Holdaway (Decima) end with, ‘and then they all went home and everything was lovely’, or ‘and then everything exploded and they all died’. irresistible, and I found myself in the edits. That’s the wonderful Beginnings are exciting because chatting through ideas with James thing about working with someone absolutely anything can happen!” Goss during some at 2019’s like Arthur. Even in the most What kind of brief did Scott Big Finish Day. We latched onto the ridiculous of situations, he finds give David? He replies: “It was idea of a Blackadder-esque series that the emotional truth. He’s not quite open. We were going back flitted through different timelines, afraid to send himself up when the to Rory’s days in Ancient Rome, and James was great at suggesting script requires it, but everything and he was to become bodyguard possibilities beyond the initial volume he does, all the choices he makes, to one of the Caesars. I remember in Ancient Rome. It’s been lovely to come from a very human place. pitching an idea that was a bit

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Rory has no intention of killing anyone and concocts ingenious plans to avoid his duties. “I love escaping into imaginary worlds. I fell down the rabbit hole into an alternative Roman Empire and loved every minute of it.” The set concludes with I, Rorius by Jacqueline Rayner which sees Rory wanting a return to his normal life. Drowning in a sea of plots and conspiracies, Rory just wants his life back. But in Ancient Rome, people don’t retire, they die. And that’s a bit difficult when you’re immortal. Jac grins: “Appropriately for a Roman, I love him like salt! (Not trying to imply he gives me hypertension though!) “Scott brought together three writers who have a background in

IF I HAD MY WAY EVERY STORY WOULD END WITH, ‘AND THEN THEY ALL WENT HOME AND EVERYTHING WAS LOVELY’… DAVID LLEWELLYN

ancient history in some way and presented us with the overview of how Rory’s time in Rome would Samantha Béart (Anna) go. I rather enjoyed getting to round off his adventures there.” How much fun is there to be had with this character and the settings? like Rosemary Sutcliffe’sThe Eagle THE SECOND adventure is Jac tells us: “Almost too much! of the Ninth but that didn’t quite The Unwilling Assassin by Sarah Scott and James had to rein me work, so we settled on the idea of Ward. The Roman Empire has a in so the comedy bits wouldn’t Rory starting off as a gladiator. new official assassin – lethal, overtake or undermine the drama “What was stressed from the cunning and utterly unsuited to and heart that Rory deserves.” start was that this didn’t need to the job. Can Rory Williams Arthur adds: “I got to work with be a historically accurate Rome, succeed at assassination without my wife, Inès [De Clercq], who’s in because it’s not quite our Ancient actually killing anyone? one of them, which was great. We Rome, so that gave us licence Sarah tells Vortex: “The brief was recorded them at home because we to have fun. It’s probably the pretty flexible. Rory, a gladiator were in lockdown, but we’ve got closest thing to Carry on Cleo in the Roman Empire whose quite noisy neighbours so I built a or Up, Pompeii I’ll ever write. strength is legendary, stands duvet fort around my sofa to muffle Or maybe I, Claudius if it had guard over the Pandorica. As an the sound. I loved being able to been written by a young Evelyn he is indestructible but come downstairs and go to work Waugh instead of Robert Graves. hates harming others. I was asked in my little ‘hut’. We just had a real There’s gladiatorial , to write the middle story where laugh. You can’t see anyone when skulduggery, a bowdlerized Greek Rory is an unwilling assassin who recording but you can hear them, tragedy and murder most foul.” has to carry out killings. Only it’s such a different type of acting.

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Normally when you’re recording audio plays you can see each other, but this required a different level of concentration as you are really listening to everything. “It’s amazing what technology can do now – everyone really went for it and got the tone straight away.”

ROB HARVEY is responsible for the sound design and music on this tale. He admits: “Having the opportunity to really be all over a series like this is a dream. And having a character like Rory to write music for is

WE’VE GOT QUITE NOISY NEIGHBOURS SO I BUILT A DUVET FORT AROUND MY SOFA TO MUFFLE THE SOUND. ARTHUR DARVILL

everything. He’s a modest, lovable altruist with a moral compass and he knows exactly what’s right. He has no ego and will always do the right thing so long as he protects his Amy trapped inside the Pandorica. “He’s a hero in that sense but he’s not standing in front of millions with his chest puffed out. He’s just Mina Anwar making sure he makes a difference (Juliana) in small meaningful ways. For me that’s the most exciting part to be grappling with. The underdog that has the courage to stand up have a rough idea based upon the proper standalone adventures and for the little guy when he sees instruments we know they had, you think, ‘This could be actually something’s wrong. Being involved but we actually have no music from be a TV show’. I’ve only listened in the musical and sound design this period written down. So I’ve to little bits of it so far but it side of things is allowing me to put had to figure out what needs to be always amazes me how good the my own spin on it. The material happening. We also know roughly sound design is. There are loads of I’m writing is not the usual sound what their trade routes would little Easter Eggs in there as well, Big Finish go for, so for me that’s have looked like in those days, so and it’s really silly in places – I a really fun avenue to explore. this gives us more of an insight think we could all do with a little “So far the biggest challenge into what influences their music bit of that just now.” VORTEX which has also been the highlight might have had. I’ve had to brush is nailing down the exact tone of up on my harp playing along with the music. Travelling through time instruments like the traditional DOCTOR WHO: in Doctor Who stories always has flute. But then with all that said THE LONE CENTURION elements of the period, however and done, I’ve got the challenge of ■ RELEASED: APRIL 2021 ■ this walks the line of a historical adding in modern influences like FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD story with a twist. So it’s been fun the electric guitar for full effect!” ORDER NOW: bgfn.sh/gladiator and challenging researching exactly Arthur concludes: “The stories what Roman music sounds like. You are so good. They are such a romp,

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DOCTOR WHO: STORIES THE NIGHTMARE FAIR SINCE 2009 Big Finish has difficult that actually proved to be so! time I was living near Great been bringing Doctor Who For instance, the opening sequence Yarmouth, and I asked at the local stories which were planned for of the story where a lone man is pleasure beach if I could do some television, but ultimately never chased by ‘something’ through the recording but they wanted to made, to life in The Lost deserted fairground would certainly charge me ridiculous amounts to Stories range. look, on the face of it, to be hard make an audio just of the sound of The first release in the range, The to create on audio alone. Certainly a rollercoaster. And I mean a lot of Nightmare Fair, was adapted from producer David Richardson was money! It just wasn’t reasonable Graham Williams’s original script, worried about it. But actually I so the ambience sounds are of and it would have been aired in 1986 didn’t have too much trouble with the Great Yarmouth area and I had it been realised for television. it and I think it works nicely.” stitched together several library recalls: “I was on an As well as referring to Graham recordings for the rollercoaster.” aeroplane with John Nathan-Turner Williams’s original script, John also John was very pleased with the and he pulled the script for The tapped into the writer’s novelisation finished The Nightmare Fair. He Nightmare Fair out of his bag. It of the story. John reveals: “The novel says: “Of all The Lost Stories that was going to be the first story we which was also written by Graham I’ve directed – or at least the ones recorded of the next season – the was a very clear indication of how he based on actual TV scripts – I think one which was cancelled. I read wanted the adventure to be. What this was the most successful. That it on the plane and said, ‘Ooh, I’m was particularly interesting – and sounds like I’m patting myself on so looking forward to doing this’ gratifying – was that occasionally I the back for a good adapation, but because of the idea of working with would add in a little bit of dialogue I think its success has a lot to do the Toymaker, who was a character I here and there to the more visual with the fact that it is the most well remember fondly from having seen scenes in the script, just to help paint known of The Lost Stories.” VORTEX his first appearance on the screen. the audio picture. I would then read It was a brilliant script, I loved it.” the same sequence in the novel to Responsible for adapting The compare it and would often find DOCTOR WHO: THE LOST STORIES Nightmare Fair for audio was John that Graham had inserted almost THE NIGHMARE FAIR Ainsworth, who was also the play’s exactly the same dialogue as I had. ■ RELEASED: MAY 2016 ■ director. He says: “Some bits were So I took that as a good omen that I FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD certainly more difficult than others was thinking along the right lines.” ORDER NOW: bgfn.sh/rollercoaster to adapt. However, it wasn’t always Sound designer and musician the scenes that initially looked more recalls: “At that

| PAGE 15 outrageous story ideas. And their in The Avengers: The Comic adventures have continued on audio Strip Adaptations Volume 05. THE AVENGERS ARE BACK with Big Finish releasing adaptations Producer David Richardson AND THERE’S A FAMILIAR of the comic strips which appeared says: “Picture this: there I was in TV Comic. Julian Wadham and booking Emily for the recording NAME IN THE CREDITS… Emily Woodward fill the shoes and days, and her lovely agent Phil just kinky boots of the legends that are happened to say, ‘I also represent JOHN STEED and Tara King Steed and Tara. Linda Thorson, I’m sure she’d love were the final pairing in the And now for the first time, one to do one of these.’ I could not original television run of The of the original leading TV stars reply fast enough! And so thanks Avengers, where Patrick Macnee of The Avengers is appearing to Phil, Linda is our guest star in and Linda Thorson encountered in the Big Finish series, as Linda the episode Mother’s Day, and what some of the series’s most Thorson herself guests stars an utter joy she is to work with.

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sports day. While it worked well for an episodic comic strip, it needed more of a story arc to work on audio. “I had quite a bit of licence to do what I wanted, and it was an interesting challenge to work out what to keep and what to change. I made some adjustments to the character of Mother’s Aunt Gertrude as she was just a foil in the comic strip and I wanted to give her something more meaty to do. I also needed to rethink the nature of the villains of the piece and give a little more logic to why they were trying to assassinate PATRICK MACNEE USED TO SAY, ‘THE AVENGERS IS FOREVER. THERE’LL

(l–r): Linda Thorson ALWAYS BE AN and Emily Woodward LINDAAVENGERS.’ THORSON

She was so delighted to be acting me at ease. We discovered we had Mother. I kept several of the methods with Julian and Emily (she’s been many links between us, and it was of assassination by sports day from a friend of Emily’s mum Michelle just such a great day in studio – a the comic strip and added in a Dotrice for many years), and wonderful, kind-hearted woman.” couple of my own. I also added in a she kept us laughing and shared befuddled estate agent, just for fun!” many stories of her time on the MOTHER’S DAY, the fourth TV series. What a legend – I’d story in the set, has been WHATEVER NEXT? by John love to work with her again.” adapted by Sarah Grochala. Dorney is the first story in this Linda tells us: “Patrick Macnee Script editor John Dorney says: set. After an eccentric scientist used to say, ‘The Avengers is forever. “Mother’s Day is obviously a correctly predicts an imminent There’ll always be an Avengers.’ special one. We were already asteroid collision, John Steed and That was his favourite quote. Little excited by the storyline as it features Tara King are dispatched to did he know that Big Finish would Mother and we could properly use uncover the basis of his precognitive take it on. I think it goes very, very Christopher Benjamin to the fullest. powers. well on audio. I give it ten out of ten. But when the possibility came of John says: “I gave myself a difficult “Julian Wadham has got the getting Linda Thorson involved, an task. The story has a lot of potential elegance, the lightness of touch, assassin was the obvious part for her but even by Avengers standards, and the slight sardonic savoir faire to play. She’s the big guest star of the it’s a little insane! The original plot of Steed. And Emily Woodward is episode.” involves a scientist being able to really something. Talent is in every Writer Sarah reveals she included predict the future, largely because bone of her body. She’s fiercely parts of the original comic strip: “I he’s being given information by aliens wonderful. I love her. And I just was able to use some but not all of it who exist outside time. This veers thought the script was fabulous.” as the story in the comic was a little off into Steed and Tara travelling on Emily adds: “We were all in simplistic for an hour long drama. It an alien spacecraft to meet Father masks and Linda came in and was basically a series of comic skits in Time himself and all manner of told me, ‘I was so nervous this which two unidentified villains try to strange things that – and this may morning about meeting Tara King,’ assassinate Mother when he’s invited come as no surprise – don’t end up in which was so lovely and it put to give a trophy at his old school my story! So that left me wondering,

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how can I make this idea work as an The climax is based around the visual “I’m sure that there are some Avengers story? I took a good chunk pun of having a World War I Tiger details that might not be exactly of the original comic adventure, Moth piloted by Steed menaced by a how the RAF in the late 1960s though, and took inspiration giant butterfly, which looks great on might have functioned, but we are from a few Emma Peel stories. the page but again needed something in a world where giant butterflies “I also brought back Brodny, the a bit extra for audio. can be conjured up with special ambassador for ‘the other side’, who “I think that the artist had clearly fertiliser so I hope I’m allowed was played by Warren Mitchell on enjoyed doing all the details with the a bit of artistic license…” screen. We’d already used Brodny RAF planes from different periods and in Too Many Targets, where he was so forth, so I tried to respect that by THE THIRD story of the set is played by . I felt he using a bit of choice RAF slang which I A Very Civil War by Roland Moore. Steed and Tara are summoned to investigate a most unusual robbery – where the robbers don’t seem to have been interested in taking the money. How does the mystery tie in to a local Civil War re-enactment society? Roland says: “I had the original comic strip, which, as with all of The THE ARTIST HAD CLEARLY ENJOYED DOING ALL THE DETAILS WITH THE RAF PLANES FROM DIFFERENT PERIODS… DAN STARKEY would be a good fit, as a character, Avengers comic strips, is a series of for this story and it was good fun one-page instalments telling a single going back and watching his TV story. I know with some of these that episodes. There’s a running gag in his parts are sometimes missing, but I two episodes, the same gag, which was lucky to have the whole thing. I felt obliged to use in the audio.” “The comic strip is built around having a solid cliff-hanger at the HOW DOES your Garden Grow? end of each instalment to make by Dan Starkey sees the plants people come back next week. That’s around an air force base grow to sometimes at the expense of any prodigious proportions deep motivation or real interaction over-night, and an explanation is for the characters. So the story required. Dan reveals: “I took the in the comic strip was minimal salient details of the story and added a but it told an exciting tale of a bit more solid plot and motivation: a mysterious – impossible – robbery. story that can be told perfectly Dan Starkey That’s the element that really satisfactorily in a visual medium intrigued me; the ‘locked room’ doesn’t always withstand the audio mystery of a robbery where nothing treatment when you pick it apart. In is taken. It seems like case closed the original, the farmer character think is a reasonable audio equivalent really early on, except that Steed realises he’s blundered, sort of says of all these details. Then it was a case suspects that all isn’t as it seems… ‘sorry’ at the end and that’s it, which of having a more dastardly plan and an “I loved expanding this story isn’t the most dramatic treatment. explicit villain that the original lacks. for audio. The comic gives a great

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with him, especially with his Avengers connection. He said to me at one point, ‘I have a poster of your mum on my wall’, as his dad wrote a film my mum was in called And Soon the Darkness, and my mum is lying as a dead body on the poster. My mum would speak fondly of his dad, and my dad [Edward Woodward] worked with Brian in the 1990s on CI5: The New Professionals. It’s lovely having that mutual thing before we even get on the blower! “After four days of being in the studio and talking constantly, getting notes in our ears, we got to the last Tara and Steed line, and Sam cut and said, ‘There’s I LOVED EXPANDING THIS STORY FOR AUDIO. THE COMIC GIVES A GREAT TEMPLATE THAT’S LOOSE ENOUGH TO Linda Thorson

BUILDROLAND MOORE UPON.

of the characters was fun. I was an absolutely beautiful rainbow also able to add some set pieces. outside of my window.’ It was “In the comic, Steed and Tara King lovely. I like to look for signs like join a re-enactment society and that – perhaps his dad sending a never really do anything before their message – and it was the first time covers are blown. I wanted to show some of us had worked in a while. the dangers of their induction tests With what we’re going through, that into that society and the cat and rainbow was really significant.” mouse game that ensued. That also Emily adds: “We’ve got a allowed me to build up the threat of member of the Clemens family the villain and reveal his motivation.” plus the original Tara in this box set – and she’s playing a baddie, SUPERVISING THE which is fantastic!” VORTEX recording of this series as director was Samuel Clemens,

Greg Patmore whose father Brian had been the THE AVENGERS: creative co-producer for the THE COMIC STRIP ADAPTATIONS majority of the original run of VOLUME 5: STEED AND TARA KING The Avengers.Emily, who went into ■ RELEASED: APRIL 2021 ■ template that’s loose enough to build a studio for the recording after FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD upon. Taking the central plot of a months in lockdown, says: “I hadn’t ORDER NOW: bgfn.sh/garden robbery where nothing is missing worked with Sam before but it was and building on the motivation lovely having the chance to record

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WE GO back to the future in When the TARDIS materialises in years. I’ve read and/or seen most of The First Doctor Adventures Shoreditch, 1601, the Doctor suggests them – some I’ve seen a huge number Volume Five, when the TARDIS going to see a play at the Globe Theatre of times! I was also in a few of them heads to Elizabethan England and his friends readily agree. But this when I was an actress. Most of the and an alien world. The is a turbulent time. There is violence in research I did specifically for this adventures are brought to the street, plots against the Queen, and adventure was historical and I read vivid life with David Bradley as the rebellion is in the air. At the centre of it a couple of books on Shakespeare’s First Doctor, Jamie Glover as Ian, all stands the most famous playwright London. I also read and really loved Jemma Powell as Barbara and in British history – William Shakespeare James Shapiro’s book 1599 which Claudia Grant as Susan, in two – who is having troubles of his own. is about a year in Shakespeare’s life. stories set during the first Sarah tells Vortex: “I already know My episode was set in 1601 but even television season of Doctor Who. quite a lot about Shakespeare as so, the book was really helpful. I also The set opens with The Hollow I work in theatre, and I’ve been spent lots of time looking at a map of Crown by Sarah Grochala. studying and performing his plays for London from around Shakespeare’s

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time so that I could make sure that Great White Hurricane, I think the geography of the city was right.” I WANTED it was time for me to do a nice Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth TO DO 1960s-style sci-fi adventure. I of England, two characters who “The difficulty with these ranges, have met the Tenth Doctor in TV SOMETHING in many ways, is you’re trying to appearances, gave an added element ABOUT A channel the flavour and atmosphere to Sarah’s script. She continues: “I PAROCHIAL of the time so they feel of a pace with loved writing for them, they’re two the original TV series. But at the same characters that I’m fascinated with! SOCIETY. time you’re a writer living in the 21st It was also interesting writing for I LOVED THE century so it’s nigh on impossible them within the context of what IDEA OF A TINY, to keep those influences, thoughts other writers have done for Doctor and concerns out of your work, no Who. There is a nod to Elizabeth’s TINY WORLD matter how hard you try. We’re the previous relationship with the Doctor EXCEEDING THE product of our environments, we’re and to the fact that Shakespeare full sponges that can’t help but leak. has met the Doctor before. The First LIMITS OF ITS “Hopefully, this script will fit Doctor however looks very different INHABITANTS’ into that early Doctor Who world to the Tenth Doctor so neither of HORIZONS but also contain a few things them recognise this incarnation.” GUY ADAMS to discuss that are as relevant Wendy Craig stars as Her Majesty, today as they were back then. and says: “This is really going back “I wanted to do something about a parochial society. I loved the idea of a tiny, tiny world exceeding the limits of its inhabitants’ horizons – there is nothing beyond Urth. So when the TARDIS materialises on this enclosed, claustrophobic society, the crew are soon split up and deal with several different threats in true 1960s Doctor Who style, with monsters in sewers and monsters at the very top of society too.”

GUY ADDS: “When I’m writing for the First Doctor, the voice in my head is somewhere between and David Bradley. I find it very hard to not let my ears get a little bit infected by the performance, and David’s performance is brilliant – it’s his performance of the First Doctor as well as a beautiful channelling of William Hartnell. (l–r): Jemma Powell, Jamie Glover, David Bradley and Wendy Craig “David’s a great actor, and great actors don’t just do impressions. They can’t – the quality will always shine through and it will become into ancient history. I’ve always to give aid, and the crew split up. Trying something more multi-layered and wanted to play Queen Elizabeth I. to reunite, the travellers find themselves textured. Listen carefully and you will I think she’s the most wonderful in something resembling a monastery hear the delightful elements that are woman – the most wonderful led by a man half-way between an more Bradley than Hartnell.” VORTEX character. I’ve not played royalty Abbot and a warlord. They discover that before as I am always rather they are in ‘Urth’, a barbaric place more ‘below stairs’ really!” clinging on to its former glory. It’s DOCTOR WHO: somewhere its populace are never THE FIRST DOCTOR ADVENTURES THE SECOND story, For the allowed to leave, somewhere keeping VOLUME 5 Glory of Urth by Guy Adams, is many secrets from its people. ■ RELEASED: APRIL 2021 ■ the set’s Guy says: “With The First FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD adventure. The TARDIS has barely Doctor Adventures, you tend to ORDER NOW: bgfn.sh/globe landed in an alien sewer when a either have a historical or a science distant scream sends Susan racing fiction story. Having written The

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stopped. All I can say to you at the moment is that there are no current plans to release series 14 of Jago & Litefoot on CD. Huge apologies.

THE GREAT EIGHT Around 2017, in the midst of a massive craving for more Eighth Doctor content (after rewatching the TV Movie and Night of the Doctor), I discovered that this ‘lost’ incarnation in fact had a full life, and after listening to the Classic Doctors, New Monsters box sets, and the Charley stories (through which I discovered just how amazing Colin Baker’s LOVE SONG past months to ensure that Sixth Doctor really is), and the Lucie I’ve just finished listening toThe despite what’s going on we Miller stories, I became completely Diary of River Song Series Eight and still get to enjoy your fantastic hooked. One series I’ve particularly I loved it! The relationship between stories. Thank you so much! enjoyed listening to over this most River and Rachel is beautiful and ANDRÉ LUCAS recent lockdown is the Torchwood heart-warming. I loved the references Nick: You are so welcome, André. continuation in Aliens Among Us and to River having adventures with the It’s what we love doing, and when Gods Among Us. While Thoughts and , the , the the pandemic stopped us from Prayers was a delightful conclusion, and the surprise getting into studios, it almost I can’t help but feel a little greedy. cameo! I hope we get to hear some didn’t occur to me that we might Orr, Colchester, Yvonne and the gang of River’s adventures with the War have to stop! Benji and I have been make for such a fantastic team, and Doctor and the Ninth Doctor. I really recording the remotely I would love to hear more of them. enjoyed Queen of the Mechonoids ( from two different locations) for JOEL MARTIN and how it sets up Dalek Universe. years, so I immediately set about Nick: Glad you are enjoying it I would like to finish by saying that adapting and refining that process all, Joel. , who runs I really appreciate what everyone so that we could connect actors our Torchwood division, has all at Big Finish has been doing these and directors. It works a treat. sorts of surprises up his sleeve.

UNITing THE NINETIES I’ve really enjoyed the various original CDs SHELVED? and spin off CDs from Big Finish and UNIT series Big Finish have created I found the letter from Louise Wade would like to continue buying CDs, to date, from the original run with and subsequent reply interesting. You so please don’t change tack within a Colonel Emily Chaudhry, to UNIT: have now announced a series 14 of series, as you did with Short Trips. Dominion, and more recently with Jago & Lightfoot but it only appears JOHN DIVERS Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Osgood. as a digital download. I don’t buy Nick: This is a tricky one, John, as So far we’ve not heard much from downloads and I have all the other changing sales patterns and concerns Brigadier Bambera (played by Angela Jago & Lightfoot series on CD. Can I such as the environment (as well Bruce) and the 1990s television request that you reconsider as I’m sure as storage costs) often necessitate UNIT – could we hear more about her, many fans would wish to keep their changes in behaviour from all of us. Sergeant Zbrigniev (played by Robert collection complete by purchasing I was a confirmed CD collector for Jezek) and the rest of their team? the CD version? While I understand a long time until a couple of years ALEX MILLER environmental and storage concerns, ago when I found the arguments Nick: There is some great story nothing can beat physical media. I about storage and the environment potential right there, Alex. I’d currently have all the Doctor Who to be overwhelming, and so I simply certainly never rule that out. VORTEX

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AS HE WAITS FOR THE PANDORICA TO OPEN…

ALSO INSIDE TARA-RA BOOM-DE-AY!