THE BIG FINISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH ISSUE 145 DOCTOR WHO: DALEK UNIVERSE THE TENTH DOCTOR IS BACK IN A BRAND NEW SERIES OF ADVENTURES… ALSO INSIDE TARA-RA BOOM-DE-AY! WWW.BIGFINISH.COM @BIGFINISH THEBIGFINISH @BIGFINISHPROD BIGFINISHPROD BIG-FINISH WE MAKE GREAT FULL-CAST AUDIO DRAMAS AND AUDIOBOOKS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO BUY ON CD AND/OR DOWNLOAD WE LOVE STORIES Our audio productions are based on much-loved TV series like Doctor Who, Torchwood, Dark Shadows, Blake’s 7, The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Omega Factor, Terrahawks, Captain Scarlet, Space: 1999 and Survivors, as well as classics such as HG Wells, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, The Phantom of the Opera and Dorian Gray. We also produce original creations such as Graceless, Charlotte Pollard and The Adventures of Bernice Summerfield, plus the THE BIG FINISH APP Big Finish Originals range featuring seven great new series: The majority of Big Finish releases ATA Girl, Cicero, Jeremiah Bourne in Time, Shilling & Sixpence can be accessed on-the-go via Investigate, Blind Terror, Transference and The Human Frontier. the Big Finish App, available for both Apple and Android devices. 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 SIXTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES I’ve always been a huge fan of Rory Williams. He’s the most down-to-earth person we’ve met – a nurse in his day job – who gets dragged into the Doctor’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 companion 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 Mark Bonnar. We’re so Zoom chat with Arthur Darvill, the First introduced in the lucky to have him working for actor who brings Rory to life, as he is Eighth Doctor’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 Time Lord retains the real-life wife Lucy Gaskell (yes be fast, furious and really, really fun. personalities of his previous Kathy Nightingale in Blink!) And we’ve also got the small matter of incarnations which co-exist would be interested in doing a new series with David Tennant 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 taken 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 Terry Nation 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 Fourth Doctor 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 Lizzie Hopley, The ■ RELEASED: SEPTEMBER 2021 ■ FORMAT: CD/DOWNLOAD Murder of Oliver Akkron by Nigel Fairs and Elevation ORDER NOW: bgfn.sh/akkron by Chris Chapman. | PAGE 3 THE TENTH DOCTOR IS BACK IN A BRAND NEW SERIES OF CONTINUING ADVENTURES… DAVID TENNANT returns encounters his old travelling battling for survival in a universe as the Tenth Doctor in Dalek companion Anya Kingdom full of Daleks, Mechonoids, Universe, nine hour-long (played by Jane Slavin) – the Movellans… and Davros! 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 listen pulled out of time and sent Ann Kelso, and her android to the prologue to the series back to the era before the last colleague Mark 7 (Joe Simms). – The Dalek Protocol – which great Time War. Along the way he Together they find themselves stars Tom Baker as the Fourth | PAGE 4 DOCTOR WHO DALEK UNIVERSE “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. The other 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 boots. She tells Vortex: “I was determined Doctor and features Leela (Louise that Anya was going to come back. I Jameson) and K9 (John Leeson). 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 River Song 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 Mark Gatiss, 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 Nicholas Briggs 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, | PAGE 5 DOCTOR WHO DALEK UNIVERSE 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 Sara Kingdom, 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 JOHN DORNEY ABOUT THEM.