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VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 2 EDITORIAL ISSUE 112 • JUNE 2018

ACK IN the mists of time very quickly taken by how (OK, it was December down-to-earth he was, and B 2014!), through my then before too long the conversation day job, I was invited down to turned to Big Finish. for the press screening And my word, Frank is a of Who television real and proper fan! He knows special Last Christmas. his stuff. This isn’t someone Various people connected to who’s heard a couple of plays the show were invited along, and half-remembered them. and I was able to have a long He is a real enthusiast. Managing Editor: Jason Haigh-Ellery chat with Andrew Cartmel – So, for this issue, it was a Executive Producer: Nicholas Briggs mainly about our cats rather pleasure to speak with Frank Senior Producer: David Richardson than Doctor Who. Steven once again, discussing his Editor: Kenny Smith Moffat, Peter Capaldi and Jenna new Big Finish starring role in Design: Mark Plastow Coleman were there too… along Callan, playing Lonely. I’ve only Copy Editor: Stephanie Hornett with a guest star of note from ever seen a couple of episodes The Big Finish Team: Peter’s first series. And there on video, but it was a series my Ian Atkins, Sue Cowley, Emily de Fraine, was Frank Skinner, standing parents always loved (mainly Hannah Peel, Paul Spragg on his own. So, ever the bold because of Russell Hunter, the Marketing: Kris Griffin and journalist, I went up and said original Lonely, I reckon). Paddy Freeland hello to him, and we started Frank’s also a big fan of BFP Administration: Cheryl Bly, Brenda Smith, Alison Taylor chatting (about football, I Vortex, which was lovely to Publisher: Ltd. will be honest, discussing hear – I’m relieved to know West Bromwich Albion and it won’t be heading to Room Aberdeen in particular). I was 101 anytime soon!

COMINGSOON INFAMY OF THE VINYL!

IG FINISH is going on from Saturday, 16 June. the record again – and HMV will be stocking a strictly B this time it’s with the limited pressing of Infamy of Tenth Doctor. Following on the Zaross on yellow 180GM from the recent news that heavyweight vinyl. This will be Energy of the Daleks is being available in participating stores released as a vinyl edition for only, limited to 750 units. Sainsburys, Big Finish has A spokesperson from HMV Writer John Dorney adds: “I’m teamed up for another exclusive says: “We’re delighted to delighted to see Infamy of the deal, this time with high street welcome Doctor Who back on Zaross on vinyl, especially in retailer HMV. vinyl in time for Father’s Day. It’s HMV. I’ve still got my Gran’s old Doctor Who: Infamy of the just what the Doctor ordered!” His Master’s Voice record player Zaross, starring David Tennant As well as David and Billie, in my house. Quite a prized bit of and Billie Piper, will be available Camille Coduri also features in furniture, which has such a store for the first time on vinyl record Infamy of the Zaross as Jackie Tyler. of memories for me…”

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THE SHOTS…

HRILLERS AND spy Originally created by James James Mitchell, and we got stories have been hugely Mitchell, Callan is now back on talking. And what enjoyable T popular fare with book audio with Big Finish. Adapted conversations they were! We just readers, TV viewers and cinema from James’s Sunday Express clicked, I think, in our shared goers for well over half a century. short stories by his son Peter passion for his father’s work. James Bond’s quips and the Mitchell, four new adventures “Nicholas Briggs, myself and lighter side of international will expand the themes explored Peter met for lunch next to crime fighting inThe Man from in the television show. London Waterloo one day, and U.N.C.L.E. became a staple of the Succeeding Woodward as Peter kindly agreed to the idea 1960s, but in 1967 the darker the title character is Ben Miles, of us doing audio adaptations of side of the genre took centre who starred in Steven Moffat’s his father’s Callan short stories. I stage in ITV’s Callan which Coupling, while his sidekick thought they’d be perfect – they starred Edward Woodward. Lonely, originally played by were just the right length to Having similar responsibilities Russell Hunter, is brought expand into 50 minute episodes. to an MI5 operative, David to life by Frank Skinner. “We agreed that Peter would Callan took a darker approach Producer David Richardson write the adaptations himself to espionage using the most explains: “Actually the idea of – after warning him that being ruthless and lethal techniques doing Callan was brought to a first time writer at Big Finish to get the job done. Four series us by Robert Fairclough, who can involve lots of painful were produced on television had written a guide to the notes, rewrites, more notes, between 1967 and 1972, plus TV series. He put us in touch more rewrites – and yet the a cinema film released in 1974 with Peter Mitchell, who was scripts came in and were very and a return to TV in 1981. the son of the series’ creator polished. I think a couple of

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know that he had an apartment in Spain and most of the short stories were written while he was on holiday there. So I imagined him sitting on his balcony soaking up the sun – pen in hand. I felt extraordinarily close to him during the entire process.” Developing short stories into full dramas was something that Peter found tough to do, and explains: “It was a bit of a challenge. Each drama had to be 60 minutes but some of the stories were much shorter than that. I tried to keep any additional material totally in keeping with the twists and turns of a typical Callan plot. “What made life much easier was the fact that my dad had a range of regular, well-defined Above (l–r): Ben Miles and Frank Skinner characters that were always waiting in the wings to add of the Callan TV series – The texture as well as sub-plots. This Callan File. Rob suggested that gave me plenty of options. I shared Big Finish might be interested them with David and John and in looking at a Callan project. we agreed a way forward. I was Producer David Richardson very pleased with the result and and I got in touch and we had I hope Callan fans will agree. lunch with executive producer “I was thrilled that Big Finish Nick Briggs. We had a good old wanted to develop Callan for chat about the possibilities and audio, but I was over the moon “I was keen to do it and thought if I said no, I would never hear from Big

Finish again!” FRANK SKINNER

them needed fleshing out a little agreed to examine the short to be invited to write them. I to hit the right length, but they stories for potential adaptation. had absolutely no hesitation were stunning pieces of work. “I wasn’t really familiar with in agreeing to do them – it Peter hit the ground running, the work of Big Finish so David was a total pleasure and it and then did a marathon!” sent me some existing dramas – was a new experience for me. Peter has adapted File on a Doctor Who and The Avengers. I had a ball doing them.” Deadly Shot, File on a Classy Club, I’d never written for audio before File on an Awesome Amateur – my experience is in television HE CHARACTER of Lonely and File on a Harassed Hunter, and print – but David and script became as well-known as and says: “I encountered Big editor John Dorney were very T the show’s leading man, Finish through a good mate of patient and supportive with me. with the small-time thief with mine. Rob Fairclough is a big “It was a wonderful experience. body odour problems making Doctor Who fan who also (along I read and re-read the stories and Russell Hunter into a TV star. Now, with Mike Kenwood) wrote the found myself listening to my the character is being portrayed by definitive tome on the making dad’s voice while I was doing it. I Frank Skinner.

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“I watched Callan when I was a kid, but I haven’t gone back and re-watched it again. I went by what I remembered, I didn’t swot up on it. I remembered Lonely, but we hadn’t decided if I would do it in my normal accent or do a specific 1960s Cockney, which is very different from 21st century Cockney. I felt it had to be done in the 60s Cockney. “The original Lonely, Russell Hunter, was Glaswegian, and when he played him, I “He did sound like he could kill someone when he was on the microphone.” Above (l–r): Ben Miles and Frank Skinner FRANK SKINNER

David says: “I can’t remember remember his accent going a bit who suggested Ben Miles, but north of the border at times! I was very keen to work with “ thing I really Ben again as we’d loved working remember about Callan was that with him on our adaptation of it was massive. It was one of those HG Wells’s The Time Machine. TV series that everybody would He’s just so brilliant, and so easy be talking about the next day. to work with. We suggested “I’m sure there will be a lot of Ben and Frank to Peter and he people who haven’t heard of it gave the thumbs up, so we then nowadays, but it had one of the approached both actors – and best opening sequences, with a thankfully they both said yes!” swinging lightbulb which then Speaking to Vortex, Frank explodes. It’s got a very lo-fi says: “Nick Briggs called me 60s feel to it, but it’s so good. up about six months before “We’re doing these short stories, it was confirmed, saying, which is something Big Finish ‘We might have the rights has always been very good at – to do Callan, would you be finding things that have been interested in playing Lonely?’ forgotten about and then taking “I was keen to do it and them and doing something thought if I said no, I new and full with them, giving would never hear from Big them the star treatment. This Finish again! I was really is recycling at its best! chuffed about it, to play a “These are Callan stories that Above (l–r): Ben Miles character called Lonely. appeared in the Daily Express

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CALLAN

RELEASED JULY 2018 Download/CD Extras Interviews Director Ken Bentley Cast Ben Miles, Frank Skinner, Nicholas Briggs, Jane Slavin

David Callan works for The Section, a top-secret counter- Above (l–r): Ben Miles and Nicholas Briggs espionage organisation. He’s a killer, a trained assassin, and the best at what he does. But that doesn’t “it’s so rewarding mean he has to like it. chatting to Frank about With the aid of the burglar Lonely; fellow operative Big Finish. He loves our Meres; and Section secretary Liz, Callan fulfils the orders audios…” DAVID RICHARDSON of departmental Hunter and finds himself in very murky waters. and I suppose most people Callan/Lonely relationship would think they had been is special and the casting is Murder, betrayal and model lost forever, but then suddenly absolutely crucial. Brilliant call.” soldiers. It’s all in a day’s we’ve got people turning up and Joining Ben and Frank in work for Callan. showing an interest in them.” studio are Jane Slavin, who Peter adds: “I thought the plays Section Secretary Liz, casting was inspired. I knew and Nicholas Briggs who plays that Ben was a Callan fan and I the Head of the Section. had great respect for him as an Frank adds: “Working with actor – a tremendous choice. The Ben was great. He’s really good Four series of the original idea of casting Frank as Lonely as Callan – he’s got that coldness television series were produced took me completely by surprise from the original but he’s found between 1967 and 1972, plus a but the more I thought about a way of making it work, and cinema film released in 1974 it, the more I was convinced can occasionally be quite nice and a TV comeback in 1981. he was absolutely right. That to Lonely – but not too nice!

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“When I’m driving around, I’ve usually got a Colin Baker or Peter Davison CD with me,” FRANK SKINNER

being brought to life. He sighs: “David invited me down to London for the last day of the recordings. So I set off early one Above (l–r): Jane Slavin and Ben Miles morning from my home in Northumberland only to have the power steering fail on the car just going to get a beautiful production as I pulled into the car park at and spend the day laughing. And Newcastle Central Station. I it’s so rewarding chatting to Frank couldn’t physically park the about Big Finish. He loves our vehicle, so I missed the train. I audios – I remember he came along was so disappointed to have praising Doctor Who: Time in missed out. Office, which he’d just listened to!” “But I’m really looking forward Frank laughs: “I’ve done a Tom to listening to the finished Baker, and I did Dark Eyes 2 with product. I’ve heard some clips Paul McGann, and I subscribe to and they are absolutely first the Big Finish Doctor Who stories. class. I worked in TV for many When I did my one with Tom, years and can be a fairly tough I was delighted to meet writer judge but so far, I’m incredibly Andrew Smith and got to talk to impressed and can’t wait to him about Full Circle. I remember hear the completed episodes.” at the end, I was a bit embarrassed Could more Callan follow? asking Tom to sign my script for Peter says: “I sincerely hope me, but he was really nice about it! so. I think this has the potential “When I’m driving around, I’ve to be a really strong team and Above (l–r): Jane Slavin, Ben usually got a Colin Baker or Peter for me, the experience has been Miles and Nicholas Briggs Davison CD with me, and I still get nothing but positive. We all work a real buzz from listening to them. to the same goal which is to create “He did sound like he could kill “As a Doctor Who fan, Big the best product we possibly someone when he was on the Finish has been the centre of can. We collaborate in a spirit of microphone – he was great! the universe for me, for so many openness with utter respect for the “I have to say, I loved doing it. I years. When people find Big originals. I couldn’t ask for a better would love to do more – it would be Finish, they tend to stick with it production company to be involved brilliant if this could run and run.” like I have. I’m a total fan boy!” with. The Callan brand is in safe David agrees: “The studio hands with Big Finish. I know sessions were a blast. Working with NFORTUNATELY FOR my father would be delighted to Ben, Frank, Nick and Jane, and with Peter, he was unable to know that, even after all this time, Ken directing, you know you’re U hear his adaptations David Callan lives on.”

VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 8 SEVENTH HEAVEN next big Big Finish meeting, and am His incarnation of the Master Just overdosed on all three box happy to report we’re now doing this. was perfectly portrayed. Dreyfus sets of Blake’s 7: Crossfire over the Sue Cowley in the production office has the absolute best voice for last week. Awesome stuff! Felt as tells me she’s added the archive logo the Master. But I have a question if you managed to insert an entire covers to the download zips dating about his incarnation. Was the extra season into the TV canon. back to January this year. Nice one! Dreyfus Master intended to be For me, the standouts were the the First Master? Are we hearing stories by Paul Darrow and Una A FIFTH ELEMENT him as he originally was before McCormack but overall it was never I just wanted to ask if Big Finish he ever regenerated? Or is that less than fantastic. Hope that there had plans for any Fifth Doctor and intentionally left unanswered will be more B7 in the future. Peri stories in the near future? They and open for interpretation? Michael Evans worked fantastically well together Tate Henvey Nick: Ooooh, there will, on a number of the earlier monthly Nick: The latter, Tate, the latter. Michael, there will! releases, and could make a good I like unanswered questions! contrast to some of the more recent (still brilliant!) Fifth Doctor stories. I also wonder if the universe could handle Benny versus River Song? Richard Perrin Nick: Richard, there are no plans for this because I feel that we previously mined the virtually non-existent narrative gap between Planet of Fire and The Caves of Androzani beyond all credibility. Peri clearly arrives on Androzani wearing the same clothes she wore in Planet of Fire… It was a fun thing to do, but FIRST DEGREE I think we’ve stretched the point Any chance of the First Doctor CLASSIC CONUNDRUM enough now. Peri will be back with meeting the Cybermen? After all, I love your audiobooks and am the Sixth Doctor and she’s also he seemed at least aware of them a huge fan of your Doctor Who, featured in the Short Trips range. in The Tenth Planet. Speaking of Blake’s 7 and Avengers ranges. I Cybermen, I’ve often wondered live in America and am strictly a MASTER PLANS what would happen if they download only customer. I love I want to start by thanking you met up with Davros. Always the new Chibnall Who logo on all for the fantastic work you thought it’d be interesting… your forthcoming DW releases, do. I recently purchased (among Monty but was wondering if you could other things) The First Doctor Nick: I wouldn’t rule it out. I’m include the alternate covers with Adventures Volume One and have not aware that the First Doctor the classic TV logos as part of the already finished listening to The expressed any prior knowledge download release package? Thanks Destination Wars. While I still of the Cybermen in The Tenth for Ravenous, Crossfire Part 3 and think the voices of the First Doctor, Planet. I’m not sure of what kind the upcoming Too Many Targets! Susan, Barbara and Ian sound very of story would emerge if Davros Joseph Coker different from the original actors, were to meet the Cybermen. Not Nick: After I read your email, Joseph, I I absolutely loved the story. James part of our current plans. But… just added this point to the agenda of our Dreyfus was especially wonderful. imagine… Mwahahaaaa!

VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 9 BOURNEKenny Smith steps back in time as comedy hero Nigel Planer’s new series is finally realised… free OR SEVERAL years Nigel been through various shapes and it. Jeremiah Bourne is funny Planer has had an idea forms. I wrote it originally as a and exciting and warm and… F sitting in the back of his book, but later felt it would be I kept coming back to the word mind. The actor, known for playing best suited to an audio drama. ‘delightful’. I found it absolutely Neil in The Young Ones, Nicholas “I’ve worked for Big Finish a delightful. I suggested the project Craig: The Naked Actor and few times as an actor and always to Nicholas Briggs and Jason Vorgenson in Doctor Who Live!, enjoyed it. I was working on The Haigh-Ellery (this was before had created a character who can First Men in the Moon for them, we had an officialBig Finish travel through time using only the and I mentioned it to David Originals range) and they liked power of his mind. Richardson, the producer, who the idea and gave the thumbs up.” And now, this fantasy picked up on it immediately.” Nigel continues: “I’m interested comedy-drama has taken form David confirms: “We were in the idea of genetic memory, the in Jeremiah Bourne in Time, recording our audio adaptation possibility that things might have which is being released next of The First Men in the Moon last a sort of ‘morphic resonance’. The month as one of the new Big year, and had a quick break. Over freaky idea that it might be possible Finish Originals range launched a cuppa in the green room, Nigel to have unconscious memories earlier this year to celebrate the told me about this audio series of things you’ve never actually company’s 20th anniversary. he was writing, and asked if I’d experienced. You know what it’s Nigel tells Vortex: “I’ve had be interested in reading it. like when you smell something Jeremiah Bourne in Time in my “I asked him to email the scripts and it sets you off, and brings back head for a few years now. It’s to me, which he did… and I loved memories from your childhood? Or

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with big memories would find themselves at a distinct advantage and might end up in control. “People like black cab drivers before satnav who had to take years to learn every single road in the town [London]. They called it ‘The Knowledge’. Well after a Digi meltdown, people like that might form an elite class that survives through its super-memory.” And now the series has taken shape. Jeremiah Bourne is a boy with a remarkable gift. He can travel in time. Not by using a time machine, Above: Sebastian Armesto or stepping through a dimensional portal. It just happens to him, as though by accident. One minute he’s in the present day, the next, he’s a hundred years in the past, standing in the London of 1910. Jeremiah has two questions; how did he get there – and how can he get back? On his quest for the answers, he enlists the help of Phyllis Stokes of The Society for Theosophical Research and her equally eccentric brother, Roger Allcot Standish, magistrate, spiritualist and dedicated nudist. He encounters the sadistic Mr and Mrs Grout and the ruthless Ed Viney, thief, gang member and

Above (l–r): Sophie Thompson, Nigel Planer, slitter of throats. And he arouses Sebastian Armesto, Tim Bentinck and Annette Badland the disapproval of Clementina Quentinbloom, the head of a home for ‘Fallen Girls’, by befriending Daisy sometimes you see someone and I IMAGINED A Wallace, a girl ahead of her time. you think you remember their face? “Well, in Jeremiah Bourne in Time TIME IN THE LTHOUGH BEST known we’ve taken that idea a bit further, FUTURE WHEN for his acting work, Nigel so Jeremiah accidentally transports A has several previous himself back in time as he starts THERE’S BEEN writing credits. David says: “Nigel to have memories that aren’t his. A DIGITAL asked if we had a script editor who There’s no time machine involved. was especially good at plotting, as And he doesn’t travel in space – just MELTDOWN he wanted some steering on that in time. He stays in exactly the same front. I thought of Jonathan Morris, place, but finds himself… then! AND ALL DATA who was very keen to become “When I was younger, I used to be HAS BEEN LOST. involved, and then pretty much left really good at remembering a lot of NIGEL PLANER Nigel and Jonny together to shape long numbers, like bank accounts the series into what it is now (which and passports etc, but now, with is delightful!).” Nigel adds: “I have the advent of iTechnology, I don’t written a couple of radio plays even think I know either of my future when there’s been a digital before so I’d had a bit of practice sons’ mobile phone numbers meltdown and all data has been with audio drama, but I was very because all I have to do is tap a lost. Or even two or three digital lucky with Big Finish to be working screen. Well, for Jeremiah Bourne meltdowns, Digi 1, Digi 2 and Digi with script editor Jonny Morris. in Time, I imagined a time in the 3. In those circumstances, people Jonny really knows how this kind of

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adventure story works, structurally. He’s done a lot of Doctor Who and other sci-fi things. I listened and learned. “He also helped in terms of the stage directions. For example, you might write something like, ‘Jeremiah’s in the room with Phyllis Stokes’, so Jonny would Above (l–r): Sophie Thompson, Nigel Planer, ask me, ‘How do we know that?’ Sebastian Armesto, Tim McInnerny and Helen Goldwyn It gets you thinking about how you would convey the story only through what people hear.” about Y at this point? Can we have Jonny says: “I was very thrilled, a reason why they don’t just do Z?’” because – obviously – I am a Jeremiah Bourne in Time has a massive fan of Nigel’s work, not cast that any radio play, theatre just The Young Ones and the production or TV show would be alternative comedy stuff, but his envious of. It features a host of Nicholas Craig shows. I even saw British acting greats, including him in We Will Rock You. But once Celia Imrie, Tim McInnerny, the process began that was all put Christopher Ryan, Siobhan aside, because working with Nigel Redmond and Sophie Thompson. was just like working with any Nigel says: “Casting was really other writer. He was extremely good fun. I was lucky to get a lot receptive to suggestions, even of mates interested in it. Sophie when they meant more work, Above (l–r): Annette Badland Thompson, Chris Ryan, Tim and not at all precious. Nigel had and Tim Bentinck McInnerny, Celia Imrie. I’ve heard already spent some time developing the first edits and they are just phenomenal. They bring it off EVERYBODY the page in a way that I could never have imagined. And some JUST JOINED are playing multiple roles. IN. AND “Celia, for instance, who you would expect to be playing someone EVERYONE posh like Clementina Quentinbloom WANTED TO (which she does brilliantly), is also playing old Mrs Tandy. Everybody BE THE VOICE just joined in. And everyone wanted OF DRYDEN to be the voice of Dryden the parrot. We had a ‘best parrot’ competition, THE PARROT. but, you know, listening to the NIGEL PLANER edit, I can’t tell who won!” The titular character is played by Sebastian Armesto, and director Barnaby Edwards says: “There’s the idea, he already had all the a special thrill to a new project. characters worked out and so on. You’re creating everything from My role was to use my extensive scratch – the feel of the story, its audio-based sci-fi storytelling pacing, its tone, its characters, its experience to pull it all together humour. You’re the one setting into a strong, logical story. So I the precedents, determining the helped develop the plot and how rights and wrongs of this brave it approached the ‘rules’ of time new world. That’s simultaneously travel stories. After that, as Nigel exciting and daunting. delivered the drafts, it was a normal “I’m delighted to say that Nigel

Above: Nigel Planer script-editing process of checking, was a huge help all along the ‘Wouldn’t character X be worried way. From the outset, he told me

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in combination with each other “It was great fun, and I think the that’s the tricky part of casting. end result is rather special. It’s very “Anyway, that’s why there are lots colourful, vivid and funny, and a of other actors who, regardless of little bit outrageous. There’s also their long and successful careers in a magical The Box of Delights TV, film and theatre, also happened quality to it. It’s such a strong idea to have starred in hit 1980s it has the potential to go even ‘alternative comedy’ TV shows: Tim further. It could be a TV series or McInnerny, Celia Imrie, Siobhan a film! There is certainly scope Redmond, Christopher Ryan, for a second series. So I hope this Annette Badland and so on. For the is just the beginning, and having younger cast members, I sought developed such a good working out similarly fresh and quick- relationship with Nigel, it would witted minds with immaculate be nice to keep going!” Nigel

JEREMIAH BOURNE

RELEASED JULY 2018 Download Extras Interviews Director Barnaby Edwards Cast Sebastian Armesto, Nigel Planer, Sophie Thompson, Tim McInnerny

Above (l–r): Nigel Planer, Sophie Thompson, and Tim McInnerny

‘You’re the boss’ and he let me comic timing, foremost among concludes: “I’m really hoping cast and direct and sound design them the gloriously mercurial people will like it – I’ve already everything as I wanted to – but he Sebastian Armesto who turns in a worked out a storyline for series was a wonderful sounding board superb central performance as our two. It won’t necessarily be set in and always happy to offer an reluctant time-traveller. I’ve known 1910 like the first series; there are insightful suggestion when I was Seb for nearly two decades – before lots of other areas to explore. I’m hovering between possibilities. we worked together on Doctor walking through Blackfriars right “In terms of casting I wanted Who TV episode Bad Wolf in 2005 now, which is where Jeremiah lives. actors who would ‘get’ the – and it was his voice I heard in my “The history comes up at you brilliance of Nigel’s scripts: head as I first read the scripts. from everywhere. Some of these their humour, their pathos, “I know one shouldn’t have roads have been here for hundreds their period quirkiness. I favourites, but this cast were really of years. There are bits of the city, knew I wanted Nigel as the icy special. I can rarely remember still visible now, that are over a Henry Davenant Hythe and he enjoying a recording more. And thousand years old – a wall here, suggested Sophie Thompson I’m delighted to say that this a stone there. Blackfriars Bridge, (with whom I’d always wanted spirit of fun has translated into for instance, is over 250 years to work) for the eccentric the finished drama – the comedy old. The traffic I’m hearing today, Phyllis, so I based the rest of and inventiveness of the cast would disappear, as I drift to, the casting on those two roles. effortlessly carry us through say, 400 years ago, and I can hear I often do this as it helps give this extraordinary time-hopping horses and carriages and street an audio drama a unified – and rollercoaster of an adventure. vendors’ calls. We could go to the unique – tone. There are plenty Here’s hoping we do a sequel!” 18th century, the 16th, the 15th… of great actors out there, but it’s Jeremiah Bourne in Time is a back to Roman times. There are working out how they’ll operate four-hour release, and Jonny adds: so many opportunities.”

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S THE universe burns so well. It was a joy to work around him, the Eighth on, and we found during the A Doctor is back for another writing and production that box set of adventures, set in the there was much more potential early days of the Time War. there, so many stories to tell. Paul McGann’s incarnation, “This second release sees us OF TIME accompanied by his new opening up the world, exploring companion Bliss (Rakhee the character of Bliss more, Thakrar), will face four more delving into her background.” are steps on the way towards adventures with high stakes, the Doctor we saw in the TV as the Daleks and Time Lords HE LORDS of Terror by episode, The Night of the Doctor battle for eternity in The Eighth Jonathan Morris opens where, of course, he decides he Doctor: The Time War 2. T the set. must finally join the Time War Jacqueline Pearce ensures Jonny says his initial outline and become the War Doctor.” that Gallifrey stands once more was: “Just to write a dramatic, How did Jonny find writing when she returns as Cardinal character-led story. I was very about the Time War, given what Ollistra, with Nicholas Briggs keen to build a story around was previously mentioned about again voicing the Daleks. a series of escalating moral it in the television story? Producer David Richardson dilemmas and to put the Doctor in He explains: “Well, it’s not based says: “I was thrilled that the first a situation where he is pushed to on any of the references to it on Time War box set went down the brink. I think all these stories television. I felt it was important

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happened to change the course of its history, turning it into a world deliberately resembling Airstrip One from Nineteen Eighty-Four (I took inspiration from the works of Orwell, using it as a theme to tie it all together). And, of course, the question is, who has done this – and why?” Jonny previously wrote for the Eighth Doctor, always full of life and energy, during his adventures with Lucie Miller. He continues: “I think Paul McGann is great at playing the Doctor when he is forced to make tough – impossible – moral choices. Where he is forced to question his own principles. Many years ago I wrote an audio story for the Eighth Doctor called Deimos/The Resurrection of Above (l–r): Jon Culshaw and Rakhee Thakrar Mars where I built a plot around creating those situations, and with The Lords of Terror I’ve ALL DRAMA IS taken it another step further. “All drama is essentially about ESSENTIALLY ABOUT putting your characters in situations where they have to PUTTING YOUR make heartbreaking, life-changing choices, where the characters CHARACTERS IN are defined by which way they SITUATIONS WHERE jump. So what I have tried to do with this is create a situation RUNNING OUT THEY HAVE TO MAKE where you don’t know which HEARTBREAKING, LIFE- way the Doctor will go…” S THE Time Lord becomes CHANGING CHOICES. more embroiled and JONATHAN MORRIS A desperate in the temporal conflict, they look to use all of the OF TIME potential assets at their disposal including the Twelve. Previously mission in the TV episode, Genesis the Eleven played by Mark Bonnar of the Daleks; that his mission to in Doom Coalition and Ravenous, avert the creation of the Daleks this next incarnation is played by

Above: Julia McKenzie was because the Time Lords had Julia McKenzie. foreseen the Time War and were David explains: “We’ve brought trying to prevent it. Of course, the in the Twelve, a very different to keep it grounded within a Doctor didn’t avert the creation of successor to the Eleven, who is realistic situation, rather than the Daleks, so it could be argued a significant presence in the last make it about a war played out that the Time War is all his fault… three stories. And we find the in multiple dimensions. We can “The story begins with the Doctor being dragged, against do that further down the line! Doctor taking Bliss back home his will, into the turmoil of “But what I have done, and have only to find that her home planet the war that will ultimately had great fun doing, is to explicitly has changed almost beyond define his future. And there are tie the Time War to the Doctor’s recognition. Something has Daleks. Lots and lots of them!”

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In the second story of this set, the Daleks are reunited with their old servants in Planet of the Ogrons, written by Guy Adams, who has also penned the third story, In the Garden of Death. Guy says: “There are very few times in my life when while looking at ways to improve something, I haven’t thought, ‘It needs more Margaret Rutherford.’ Naturally, the Dame is immortal and yet inconveniently impossible to hire, so while I approached the character of the Twelve with her in mind I was painfully aware we were unlikely to get her… Above (l–r): Nikki Amuka-Bird, Christopher Naylor, Amanda Root, “No matter! Look who we got Simon Slater, Rahkee Thakrar, Jonathan Morris and Rakie Ayola instead! I mean, there are very

THERE ARE VERY FEW HE TIME War 2 concludes with Jonah TIMES IN MY LIFE T by Timothy X Atack. He explains: “Jonah is set in the WHEN, WHILE LOOKING aftermath of a terrible Dalek invasion where no-one quite AT WAYS TO IMPROVE understands why they’ve SOMETHING, I HAVEN’T invaded. The action takes place on a submarine. As the story THOUGHT, IT NEEDS opens we discover that the Daleks are searching the MORE JULIA McKENZIE! peculiar oceans of this GUY ADAMS backwater world for something mysterious and dangerous, and our heroes think they’re tailing them, spying on them – only few times in my life when, while for the tables to quickly turn. looking at ways to improve It’s got depth charges, tense something, I haven’t thought, moments of near-silence, all ‘It needs more Julia McKenzie!’ the things you’d expect from a Everything needs more Julia submariner’s story, and it also McKenzie, one of our finest, asks the urgent question: do most charismatic actors. I am Above: Nikki Amuka-Bird Time Lords have sea shanties?” already stood outside the studio Tim admits that he took some waiting to offer her cups of inspiration from a favourite tea and eternal servitude.” them evil. Irresistible. And then film of his, 1981’s Das Boot, set David adds: “We knew we when Ken Bentley suggested Julia on a WWII German U-boat. wanted to look to the future of McKenzie, it all came together He says: “One of my favourite the Eleven in these Time War brilliantly. Julia is magnificent.” war movies is Das Boot, so stories, and bring in the next Ken grins: “Julia McKenzie I thought it was a great idea incarnation. It was the brilliant was the first actress that to have Paul’s Eighth Doctor minds of Matt Fitton and Guy sprang to mind when I saw as an extremely reluctant who devised this new, Margaret the character breakdown for commander, trapped in a Rutherford-esque take on the the Twelve. She’s such an tin can, facing the kind of character. A sweet old lady with accomplished actress, loves decisions that eventually a dozen personalities inside her audio, and I knew she’d relish the make him the warrior his head, and most (but not all) of opportunity to play a villain.” future persona becomes.

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somehow speaks of relatable FOR THE DOCTOR, decisions on a personal scale.” THE WORST IS YET Tim also enjoyed having the chance to write for the TO COME. TIMOTHY X ATACK Doctor in a tense situation. He adds: “One of the common maxims for drama writers is to make life difficult for your “I think the Time War protagonists, then make it probably has as many detours, worse, then make it impossible. phoney wars, tragedies and I think us Time War storytellers minor victories as any major are pacing ourselves at the conflict and most likely, moment – the conflict is already we’re just getting started cataclysmic but for the Doctor, telling those stories. the worst is yet to come. “The difficulty is always in “While he’s still very definitely Above (l–r): Nikki Amuka-Bird, Christopher Naylor, Amanda Root, DOCTOR WHO finding ideas that are redolent the Eighth incarnation we know Simon Slater, Rahkee Thakrar, Jonathan Morris and Rakie Ayola THE TIME WAR 2 of a reality-rending bloodbath and love, the pre-echoes are

RELEASED JULY 2018 CD/Download Extras Bonus Disc Director Ken Bentley Cast Paul McGann, Rakhee Thakrar, Nicholas Briggs, Jacqueline Pearce, Julia McKenzie, Nikki Amuka-Bird

THE LORDS OF TERROR by Jonathan Morris

PLANET OF THE OGRONS by Guy Adams

IN THE GARDEN OF DEATH by Guy Adams

JONAH by Timothy X Atack Above (l–r): Tania Rodrigues, Surinder Duhra and Anya Chalotra

between two equally present, the clues are there as to matched enemies, what he will become that night while also keeping it a) on Karn. There are moments in intelligible and b) fun, Jonah where I hope you see it… because this is Doctor where the Doctor’s future is laid Who after all. The way bare, and he faces a soul-shaking I’m focussed on doing premonition of the terrors it is in making sure ahead…” Director Ken concludes: that in the end you’re “The Time War is always an writing about people entertaining range to record. The and their problems. Daleks are the only character we “Even if those record with a live voice effect, problems happen and I never get tired of seeing to be terrifying and all the faces light up when the cosmos-changing, actors get to work alongside the you make sure it Daleks for the first time!”

VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 17 Kenny Smith discovers that David Bradley’s second box set as the Doctor features stories of… THE FIRST ORDER

RESH from the success of two stories which feel totally they know the kind of things his return to the role as at home in that first season of that Nick and I are looking F the First Doctor on Doctor Who, one being scientific for, and I knew they’d deliver television and audio, David and the other a historical, with excellent work to schedule. Bradley is back in the TARDIS The Invention of Death by John “Which, of course they all did. again next month. Dorney, and The Barbarians and Like the first box set, Volume His acclaimed portrayal of the Samurai by Andrew Smith. Two offers two stories that are the original incarnation of Producer David Richardson tells very authentic to the period. our favourite Time Lord led to Vortex: “We knew we were going One futuristic sci-fi, the other widespread praise, especially for to be recording the first two First an adventure-filled historical.” his Big Finish debut in The First Doctor box sets back to back, and The Invention of Death by John Doctor Adventures Volume One. (though it actually turned out Dorney opens the set, and it’s not Now, he will return for two not to be the case) we initially the kind of story that you would more stories, alongside Jamie thought we might be short of expect. Vortex doesn’t want to Glover as Ian Chesterton, Jemma time to get the scripts together. spoil the surprise of what the Powell as Barbara Wright and “So I went for writers who had actual story is about, but it’s one Claudia Grant as , a huge amount of experience at that fans of harder sci-fi will enjoy. his co-stars from the 2013 Big Finish – Matt Fitton and Guy John was delighted to be writing William Hartnell biopic, An Adams on Volume One, John and for the First Doctor, and reveals: “I Adventure in Space and Time. Andrew on Volume Two. We all know there’s often quite a clamour This new release will feature know each other so well that for the full-cast plays from the

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“This isn’t a full-on adventure story – it’s a slightly more slow burner of a story than we would do for the more recent Doctors.”

s tended to happen in those first couple of A seasons of Doctor Who, if the TARDIS materialised somewhere futuristic in one story, then the chances were that it would go back in time – and back to Earth – for the next adventure. And that’s exactly what we have with The Barbarians and the Samurai by Andrew Smith, which Above (l–r): John Dorney, Michelle Morris, Jemma Powell, David Bradley, Nicholas Briggs, Claudia Grant, Christopher Naylor and Tracy Wiles takes the TARDIS to a country that it has rarely visited in any of I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING REALLY EXTREME, SOMETHING A BIT MORE HARD

SCI-FI… JOHN DORNEY

Doctor Who’s various forms of audios, novels and comic strips. Andrew explains: “It was a Above: David Bradley labour of love, really. It’s an area of history I’ve had a keen interest in since the early 1980s fanbase, but from my point of a lot of ambition there. Look at after reading James Clavell’s view as a writer, it doesn’t feel The Sensorites and The Web Planet novel, Shogun. I even learned a much different from doingThe – they’re trying to bring an alien bit of the Japanese language. Companion Chronicles. You’re civilisation to life, doing whole “I’ve a book on the history still trying to craft lines, it’s just alien worlds in a small studio. of modern Japan going back a different way of writing. There are so many alien worlds to the 18th century that I “It’s an exciting thing to be asked in those early stories, with some used as research, and I read to work on, as it’s something new. of them not connected to Earth some others as well. “I’ve loved David Bradley for at all – and no Earth colonies. “This is a story I’ve always 20 years! I remember seeing “So rather than setting it on wanted to tell. Back around him in The Alchemist in the Earth or a colony, I felt it would 1982/83, I wrote a storyline 1990s, so it’s a bit of a dream be more interesting to take it called The Dark Samurai which come true to write for him in somewhere else which would I submitted to , the a full-cast First Doctor story. be more exciting. I wanted to script editor of Doctor Who, “I’ve been watching the first do something really extreme, which wasn’t taken up (Eric couple of seasons of Doctor Who something a bit more hard sci-fi said it would have been too quite a lot, and you can see there’s than what we would usually do. expensive). I’ve taken some

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elements from that – a few He reveals: “The amount of characters and the setting, with research I had to do was much British sailors supplying guns more than I’d had to do for – but The Barbarians is a very any other story. It seemed that different story. For one thing,The on almost every page I had to Dark Samurai was a sci-fi story, research something, such as and this is a ‘pure’ historical. what the environment would “When David asked me to be like at that time, and even write it, along with Matt, John things like what would be and Guy for the other stories on the floor. I actually spent in this range, it was suggested four hours reading up on floor there could be a historical for coverings in feudal Japan! So the First Doctor. Guy came back Above: David Bradley you know, for most places YOU LEARN SO MUCH FROM DOING THE RESEARCH – I THINK IT’S REALLY GOOD FUN. ANDREW SMITH

they used (and still use) tatami mats, which are even laid out in special configurations for certain auspicious occasions. “Simple everyday things like doors are different too – sliding doors rather than hinged, for the most part. And what implements would you find in a Japanese feudal kitchen? I looked into all of this, not just

Above (l–r): Jozef Aoki, Sadao Ueda, Christopher for realism in the dialogue, but Naylor, Susan Hingley, Andrew Wincott and Dan Li to help the sound designer. “It’s a great thing, with Doctor Who having an educational with his idea for The Great White fiction trappings, I think it side. You learn so much Hurricane, and I suggested this makes the jeopardy and the from doing the research – I 18th century Japanese story. characters feel more real.” think it’s really good fun.” “Later on at a social event By having a historical, its To make sure he captured the with Matt, the script editor on very nature meant that Andrew authentic feel of the era, Andrew these, I told him I was toying had to research the time period got a proper insight into the with the idea of making it part- in which the story was set – regular cast and the way in which historical, part-science fiction, and it turned out to be more historicals were handled by and he said I could – but then extensive than he’d planned. watching Doctor Who episodes on the journey home I decided After all, who thinks about the from 1964. Although he knew he to make it a ‘pure historical’ interior decoration of Japanese was writing for the An Adventure as I love the realism of them. buildings in the 18th century? in Space and Time cast, Andrew “Since there are no science Well, Andrew did for a start…! was conscious of capturing the

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voices of the original TARDIS the Doctor and Susan, with their crew. Andrew says: “I did have family connection – it’s such a the original crew in mind when diverse range of characters. I wrote The Barbarians. I went “People talk about the crowded back to view The Aztecs for TARDIS in the 80s, but this team research but ended up doing a of the 60s was just fantastic. William Hartnell Doctor Who They were all such distinct, watch and carried on with the well-defined characters.” rest of the series! It’s really Back as Susan is Claudia Grant, interesting to see it in sequence who tells Vortex: “After I did An for the very first time (although Adventure in Time and Space, I was around back then, my I didn’t actually think too much firstDoctor Who memories about it again so I was delighted are of Patrick Troughton). when Big Finish asked me to

DOCTOR WHO THE FIRST DOCTOR ADVENTURES

RELEASED JULY 2018 CD/Download Extras Bonus Disc Director Nicholas Briggs Cast David Bradley, Claudia Grant, Jemma Powell, Jamie Glover

THE INVENTION OF DEATH Above (l–r): Jamie Glover, Claudia Grant, David Bradley and Jemma Powell by John Dorney

THE BARBARIANS AND THE SAMURAI “I steeped myself in that era, come back with the others. by Andrew Smith particularly with that initial “We had such a good time four in the TARDIS and the in 2013 so it was great to see dynamics between them. David, Jamie and Jemma again. With Ian, you have a man “It was great fun in studio of action, and Barbara is and they were all really good the font of knowledge who stories, but my favourite was knows they have arrived definitely the Japanese one. during the 200 years of It was so well written and seclusion for Japan, when really interesting to do.” foreigners were immediately David Richardson adds: “We put under the death penalty. had such a happy time on this. You could expect to be Everyone really bonded – David killed if you were caught. was just so lovely and easy and “Barbara susses it out early excellent, and he adores Jemma, on, that they are in the period Claudia and Jamie. And they are of ‘sakoku’, when Japan was just fantastic, there was a real in isolation – and they feeling of friendship forged on need to get out of there. this and I’m really looking forward “They have all got their to doing more – which I very roles to play. You’ve got much hope we will…!”

VORTEX MAGAZINE • PAGE 21 pre-Davros Daleks, up to their bringing the words to life. Wendy old tricks. The scourge of the Padbury revisiting Zoe – brilliant. universe, turning up like a virus And Nicholas Briggs doing the that can never really be eradicated, Daleks – I got to see the ring and causing major havoc. modulator in action, up close!” “So I went for old-school As a new range, the series one Daleks hatching an evil plan, writers were still testing the just like it was in the 1960s. As water with the format of The for doing something new with Companion Chronicles, with them, it’s all about good writing. an actor and a second voice.

THE SCOURGE OF THE UNIVERSE, TURNING UP LIKE A VIRUS THAT CAN NEVER REALLY BE ERADICATED… PATRICK CHAPMAN

Rob Shearman reinvented them Patrick explained: “These brilliantly when he brought plays are set up as a hybrid form. them back for the TV series. And They’re half way between a the Moffat/Gatiss Daleks are talking book and a full-cast play, old-school again, re-established and that made it fun to write. “You have to be careful about how you write exposition so that FEAR OF THE DALEKS it doesn’t come across as stagy RELEASED JANUARY 2007 or artificial. It’s got to be visual writing in a narrative format while having the character sound AUNCHING A new Big as a universal threat, not having natural. There’s a mixture of both Finish range has always to explain themselves, or their ‘show’ and ‘tell’ that has to be L been exciting. And if escape from the last time the balanced properly. The second you’ve got Daleks and Cybermen Doctor wiped them out. voice did add to the texture of in there, it really grabs the fans’ “It was fantastic to get to write the play, and as that second voice attention. Turn back the clock to dialogue for the Daleks, and to try was Nick doing the Daleks, it 2007 and we had Fear of the Daleks and devise a plot intended to be ended up being several characters as the debut Second Doctor story very much of the Second Doctor’s – individual Daleks – rather in The Companion Chronicles. era but with a few modern than just Zoe and one other.” Written by Patrick Chapman, twists. I particularly enjoyed Producer and director Mark J he said: “I’ve always loved subverting a well-known Dalek Thompson added: “Patrick wrote Doctor Who and grew up with saying. Instead of, ‘My vision is for the Doctor and Zoe really, the Daleks, as everyone has, impaired, I cannot see’, I wrote, really well. And Nick Briggs, I so it was a labour of love. ‘My consciousness is impaired, I have to say, did an absolutely “It’s always difficult to try cannot think.’ That was a hoot! fantastic job of providing the three and do something new with the “However the most enjoyable Dalek voices in this.” Daleks. With Fear of the Daleks, part of the experience was I was trying to do something being allowed to sit in on the Fear of the Daleks is available old with them as well. These are recording and hear the actors now on CD and download.

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