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Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Who's Who: January 2014

It’s almost the end of January, so I thought it was time for you to feast your eyes on another Who’s Who! It’s not quite a star studded month, but you should be pleased with who’s done some hard work to please you this month. I’ll happily take on any requests for non-Who Who’s Whos (now I sound like the Cat In The Hat line “Whose shoes did he use? I looked and saw whose. And I sad to the Cat, This is very bad news. The Spot was all over Dad’s 10 dollar shoes”). There’s even an update at the end. 

Antidote To Oblivion

Philip Martin has also written:
Vengeance On Varos
Mindwarp
Mission To Magnus (novelisation and audio adaption)
Big Finish Main Range 53 The Creed Of The Kromon (the only story he has written thus far not to feature Sil) (January 2004)
Nabil Shaban reprises the role of SIl, who has been in:
Vengeance On Varos
Mindwarp
Mission To Magnus (Lost Stories audio adaption, released December 2009)
David Dobson, playing Pan/Lord Mav, has been in:
Main Range 94a as the Scandroids and 94b as the DJ (April 2007)
Eighth Doctor Adventures 1.04 Immortal Beloved as Tayden/Ares (April 2007)
Main Range 132 The Architects Of History as Selachian (March 2010)
Main Range 178 1963: Fanfare For The Common Men as Korky Goldsmith (September 2013)

Luna Romana

Matt Fitton (the writer) has also written
A Most Excellent Match (Main Range #150c, August 2011)
Artificial Intelligence (Counter-Measures 1.2, July 2012)
Black And White (Main Range #163, August 2012)
The Wrong Doctors (Main Range #169, January 2013)
The Seeds Of War, co-written with Nicholas Briggs (Main Range #171, March 2013)
Manhunt (Counter-Measures 2.1, June 2013)
Starlight Robbery (Main Range #176, August 2013)
The Dark Planet, adapted from a script by Brian Hayles (Lost Stories 4.01, September 2013)
Afterlife (Main Range 181, December 2013)
Juliet Landau reprises her incarnation of Romana (no numbers have been assigned to her Romana yet) from Gallifrey VI stories Renaissance and Ascension (October 2013).
The actress is best known for playing Drusilla in Buffy The Vampire Slayer across James Marsden, who guest starred in series 2 of Torchwood as Captain John Hart
Terry Molloy reprises the role of Quadrigger Stoyn from the previous two Companion Chronicles The Beginning and The Dying Light (November and December 2013)
Davros from Resurrection Of The Daleks (Fifth Doctor, season 21) to Remembrance Of The Daleks (Seventh Doctor, season 25). Also Davros in the audios:
#48 Davros (September 2003)
#64 The Next Life (December 2004, end of the story)
#65 The Juggernauts (January 2005)
#72 Terror Firma (August 2005)
#156 The Curse Of Davros (January 2012)
#177 Daleks Among Us (September 2013)
I, Davros (includes The Davros Mission)
Other non Davros Big Finish roles include:
#112a Kingdom Of Silver as Magus Riga (September 2008)
#122b Keepsake as Examiner 2 (September 2008)
#148 Rat Trap as Dr. Christopher Wallace and the Rat King (June 2011)
Jago And Litefoot 4.4 The Hourglass Killers as Lord Amthill (March 2012)
His other Classic series appearance was Russell in Attack Of The Cybermen (Sixth Doctor, season 22)

The King Of Sontar

John Dorney (the writer)
Has previously written:
Solitaire (Companion Chronicle 4.12, June 2010)
Echoes Of Grey (Companion Chronicle 5.02, August 2010)
The Rocket Men (Companion Chronicle 6.02, August 2011)
Special Features (fourth story of Main Range #142 The Demons Of Red Lodge anthology, December 2010)
The Elite, adapted from a Barbara Clegg story line (Lost Stories 3.01, October 2011)
Foe From The Future, adapted from a Robert Banks Stewart story (Fourth Doctor Lost Stories Box Set, January 2012)
The Fourth Wall (Main Range #157, February 2012)
The Wrath Of The Iceni (Fourth Doctor Adventures 1.3, March 2012)
Beautiful Things (Jago & Litefoot 4.2, March 2012)
The Burning Prince (Main Range #165, September 2012)
The Justice Of Jalxar (Fourth Doctor Adventures 2.4, March 2013)
Has acted in:
Faith Stealer as Bakoan/Serendipitist (Main Range #61, September 2004)
The Last as Make-Up Assistant (Main Range #61, October 2004)
A Death In The Family as Henry Noone (Main Range #140, October 2010)
Doing Time as Janson Hart (Main Range #142c, December 2010)
Special Features as various voices in the background film (Main Range #142d, December 2010)
Robophobia as Leebar/Computer Voice (Main Range #149, July 2011)
The Light At The End (50th Anniversary, October 2013)
Farewell, Great Macedon as Alexander The Great (First Doctor Box Set, November 2010)
The Fragile Yellow Arc Of Fragrance as Rhythm (First Doctor Box Set, November 2010)
Energy Of The Daleks as Robomen (Fourth Doctor Adventures 1.4, April 2012)
Echoes Of Grey as the Achromatics, uncredited (Companion Chronicle 6.02, August 2010)
Captain Henzil in various Gallifrey stories (Insurgency, Lies, Fractures, Appropriation, Panacea, Mindbomb)
Dan Starkey has been in:
As Sontarans:
The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky as Commander Skorr and Lieutenant Skree
The End Of Time as Commander Jask
Strax from the Paternoster Gang. Let me handle this Memory worm while I try to remember what stories he has been in. What is this text?
Jaka (The Lost Stories 3.06 The First Sontarans, July 2012)
The Sontarans in The Five Companion Chronicles (Subscriber special, December 2011)
Marshall Stenn and Major Flarr (Main Range 176 Starlight Robbery, August 2013)
Non-Sontaran roles:
Plark in the final Sarah Jane Adventures story, The Man Who Never Was
Cravnet (Main Range 149 Robophobia, July 2011)
Lord Zellenger (Lost Stories 3.02 Hexagora, November 2011)
Historiographer Osin (Lost Stories Fourth Doctor Box Set Foe From The Future, January 2012)
Sheer Jawn (Main Range 158 Wirrn Isle, March 2012)
Kevin Winston and Robomen (Fourth Doctor Adventures 1.04 Energy Of The Daleks, April 2012)
John Banks (this is a big one)
Main Range
125 Paper Cuts as Soldier (September 2009)
133 City Of Soldiers as Red Cap (April 2010)
144 The Feast Of Axos as Campbell Irons/Svenni Nilson (February 2011)
145 Industrial Evolution as Humanoids (March 2011)
146 Heroes Of Sontar as Fleet Marshall Stabb/Trooper Jorr/Witch Guards (April 2011)
147 Kiss Of Death as Kanch/The Morass (May 2011)
148 Rat Trap as Clifford Andrews (June 2011)
151 The Doomsday Quatrain as Brors/Bernadro/Captain Of The Guard (September 2011)
161 The Butcher Of Brisbane as Eugene Duplessis/Chops (June 2012)
163 Black And White as Weohstan (August 2012)
166 The Acheron Pulse as Boritz (October 2012)
167 The Shadow Heart as Captain Webster/Starbaff/The Wrath (November 2012)
169 The Wrong Doctors as Kallak (January 2013)
170 Spaceport Fear as Wailers/Announcement/Mad Passenger (February 2013)
171 The Seeds Of War as Elkinar (March 2013)
Eighth Doctor Adventures
4.03 Nevermore as Ravens (August 2010)
4.09 Lucie Miller as Seb Andrews (February 2011)
4.10 To The Death as Crewman (March 2011)
Dark Eyes as Private Hodgeson (November 2012)
Fourth Doctor Adventures
1.05 Trail Of The White Worm as Carswell/Mercenery (May 2012)
1.06 The Oseidon Adventure as Tyngworg/Warner/UNIT R/T Operater (June 2012)
Lost Stories
1.03 Leviathan as Herne (January 2010)
1.07 The Song Of Megaptera as The Caller/Ship’s Computer (May 2010)
2.03 Thin Ice as Yevgeni/Yasha Lemayev (April 2011)
2.04 Crime of The Century as Metatraxi/Walnuff/Gunman (May 2011)
2.05 Animal as Metatraxi/Henrick (June 2011)
2.06 as Metatraxi (July 2011)
3.01 The Elite as Garthak (October 2011)
3.03 The Children Of Seth as Radulf Varidi (December 2011)
3.06 The First Sontarans as Commander Lork/The Gentleman
Man, he’s a busy guy!
Jenny Funnel, who plays Reaver, has also been in:
Wirrn Isle as Veronica Buchman (Main Range 158, February 2012)

Also to update a previous post, there’s more news on the Pathfinders front. It’s being pushed back a month for a later release to coincide with a convention that the original creators, Paizo, will be present at.

As of the 23rd, released items include The Complete Series One And Two CD Box Set of The Confessions Of Dorian Gray, The Avengers The Lost Episodes Volume 1, Blakes 7 Classic Audio Adventures Fractures, King Of Sontar, Antidote To Oblivion and Luna Romana. Also, get in quick to claim a free Oscar Isaac song, Hang Me, Oh Hang Me. Hey, it’s free and it sticks around in your download folder.

Pathfinder Legends 1.1 Rise Of The Runelords: Burnt Offerings

To be released February 2014
Written By: Mark Wright
Directed By: John Ainsworth
A one disc full cast audio drama with characters from the game Pathfinder Legends
Synopsis
Sandpoint. An ordinary town on the Lost Coast of Varisia. When Ezren, Merisiel, Valeros and Harsk arrive, seeking rest from their adventures, it seems the town’s annual Swallowtail Festival will give them what they need – until goblins attack during a ceremony to consecrate the town’s rebuilt church.
After defending Sandpoint, the adventurers discover a sinister plot to return an ancient evil to Varisia. Can they discover the sinister connection between the goblin attack and the removal of mortal remains from a crypt in the town’s graveyard?
This is just the beginning of a new quest for the iconic Pathfinder characters Ezren, Merisiel, Valeros and Harsk. The Rise of the Runelords begins with burnt offerings – and only four heroes stand against it.

Cast

Trevor Littledale (Ezren), Ian Brooker (Harsk), Stewart Alexander (Valeros), Kerry Skinner (Merisiel), Yuriri Naka (Ameiko), Toby Longworth (Hemlock), Kevin Shen(Tsuto), Katarina Olsson (Nualia), Duncan Wisbey (Foxglove), Helen Goldwyn(Deverin), Sunny Ormonde (Townswoman)


Don’t forget to check out the Big Finish podcast, and make sure you enter the COMPETITION (Imagine the COMPETITON music is playing, then imagine Joseph Lidster listening to it) to win Dark Eyes 2 script fronts. While you’re at it, check out the pack shot, and decide it the figure in white in The White Room cover really is a familiar alien…


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Thursday, 2 January 2014

Big Finish January 2014 releases


It’s a new year, so plenty of new stories to enjoy, and such variety! For each release, I will include the information on the product page, and for the ranges I am more familiar with, things like preparatory listening. Hopefully a Who’s Who for the Doctor Who releases should be up at some point this month.






Written By: Philip Martin  
Directed By: Nicholas Briggs

Featuring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Lisa Greenwood as Flip, with Nabil Shaban as Sil

This is the first entry in the 2014 Sixth Doctor trilogy, which features Flip as the companion and is 2 discs long

Synopsis:

Future Britain is bankrupt, its corporate owners facing financial ruin. Fortunately, the Universal Monetary Fund, and its slimy representative Sil, are willing to give its President a multi-billion credit bail-out... but terms and conditions apply, and Sil's proposed austerity measures go far beyond mere benefit cuts.

Responding to a distress call, the Doctor and his companion Flip land in a London whose pacified population has been driven largely underground. But the horrors down there in the dark are as nothing to the horrors that await them at ConCorp HQ, where a young biochemist in Sil's employ is working on a permanent solution to the nation's terminal unprofitability.

Because in the final account, Sil plans to make a killing...

CAST:

Colin Baker (The Doctor), Lisa Greenwood (Flip Jackson), Nabil Shaban (Sil), Dawn Murphy, David Dobson (Pan/Lord Mav), Mary-Ann Cafferkey (Cerise), Scott Joseph (Boscoe/Voda/Knight Marshal), Mandy Weston (Kristal/Mistress Na/Velena)



Preparatory listening: Flip first appeared in the January 2011 Main Range release The Crimes Of Thomas Brewster, although not as a companion. She officially joined as a companion in the January 2012 Main Range release The Curse Of Davros, and was in the following stories The Fourth Wall and Wirrn Isle (released February and March of the same year). Sil was in the Sixth Doctor TV stories Vengeance Of Varos and Mindwarp, and the Big Finish adaption of Mission To Magnus (Lost Stories 1.02, released December 2009)





Written By: Matt Fitton 
Directed By: Lisa Bowerman
Featuring Lalla Ward as Romana with Terry Molloy guest starring as Quadrigger Stoyn, a role he is reprising from the previous Companion Chronicles, The Beginning and The Dying Light. It also features Juliet Landau as an incarnation of Romana who appeared in Gallifrey VI (released October 2013)
Luna Romana is the final entry in the 50th Anniversary Companion Chronicles trilogy, all of which feature Terry Molloy as Quadrigger Stoyn. It is also a two disc story, with a length of two hours as opposed to the usual  one hour one disc Companion Chronicle.
Synopsis:
The search for the final segment of the Key to Time takes the Doctor and the First Romana to Ancient Rome. The Time Lady is appalled when her companion prefers to watch the latest Plautus comedy rather than complete their mission, and is even less delighted to meet the playwright himself.
But all is not what it seems, either onstage or behind the scenes…
In the far, far future, the Second Romana is destined to have her own encounter with a legacy of Rome, but Stoyn has been waiting. And his actions will set Romana on a collision course with her own past.
Quadrigger Stoyn wants his final revenge on the Doctor, and only Romana stands in his way.
Both of her.

This is the third story in a Companion Chronicles trilogy celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who.


Preparatory listening: For context of the relationship between the Doctor and Stoyn, it is advised that you have heard The Beginning and The Dying Light. I am not sure if you need to have heard Gallifrey VI to understand Juliet Landau’s role in the story.



Interesting fact: this story was meant for Mary Tamm to perform as Romana I, but since her death it went to Lalla Ward as Romana II





Written By: John Dorney Directed By: Nicholas Briggs

Featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Louise Jameson as Leela

This is the first story in the third series of full cast Fourth Doctor stories and is 1 disc long

Synopsis:

Dowcra base. The third Elite Sontaran Assassination Squad closes in on its target. A dozen trained killers, but even they will be unable to bring down the invincible Strang…

Manipulated by the Time Lords, the TARDIS also arrives on Dowcra. And the Doctor is set to encounter the greatest Sontaran ever cloned...



CAST:

Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), Dan Starkey (Strang), David Collings (Rosato)



Preparatory listening: As far as I know, none





Featuring Alexander Vlahos as Dorian Gray

This compiles all the stories that have yet been released under the range, as well as the pilot story, Shades Of Gray (which appears in the Bernice Summerfield box set Legion, released September 2012) on 10 discs. There is no download accompanying the CD of this release

Synopsis:

“To have written such a book was nothing… to convince the world it was a work of fiction was a triumph!”

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic story of hedonism and corruption, The Confessions of Dorian Gray imagines a world where Dorian Gray was real, and his friendship with Oscar Wilde once spawned the notorious novel.

Presented as a series of original horror stories, Alexander Vlahos (Merlin, Privates) takes us on a supernatural journey through the twentieth century: from Oscar Wilde’s death in Paris, right through to the present day.

This complete collection features every episode from the first and second series, including three hour-long special episodes – released on CD for the very first time! Also included are the Bernice Summerfield crossover story, Shades of Gray, a soundtrack of James Dunlop’s evocative music score and specially-recorded introductions from Alexander Vlahos, who selects his favourite stories from the series.



CAST:

Alexander Vlahos (Dorian Gray), David Ames (Jack), Ayesha Antoine (Ruth), Colin Baker (Tom Sadler), David Blackwell (Robert Ross/Simon), Lisa Bowerman(Bernice Summerfield), Geoffrey Breton (Brennan Doyle), Nicholas Briggs(Sherlock Holmes), Daniel Brocklebank (James Anderson), Seán Carlsen (Basil Hallward/Billy), Paul Clayton (William Wright), Sarah Douglas (Dorothy Parker),Louise Faulkner (Flora Macintosh), Richard Franklin (The Collector), James Goss(Arp Warden), Alex Griffin-Griffiths (Mark), Lorna Rose Harris (Rosina Sawyer),Bernard Holley (The Mayfair Monster), Marcus Hutton (Radio Announcer), Alice Ingham (Shirley), Rhys Jennings (Rory), Paul Jones (Lenny Starr/Julius Metzger),Marilyn Le Conte (Genevieve Moreau/Lady Brandon), Katharine Mangold (Kayla Grant), Katy Manning (Isadora Rigby), Sophie Melville (Isabelle/Fiona), David Menkin (Otto/Detective Randall), Rebecca Newman (The Lost/Claire/Sibyl Vane),Richard Nichols (Alan Campbell), Charlotte Parkyn (Linda), Antonio Rastelli(Messenger), Thomas Rees-Kaye (Gordon Lancaster), Steffan Rhodri (Oscar Wilde), Miles Richardson (Professor Bloom), Hugh Ross (The Montagues), Gary Russell (Alfred), Wilf Scolding (Alasdair Bellamy/Bentinck Receptionist), Hugh Skinner (Tobias Matthews), Hannah Spearritt (Natalie Isaacs), James Unsworth(Barry), Lalla Ward (Constance Harker), Jolyon Westhorpe (Magic Maurice), Rupert Young (James Moriarty). Other parts played by members of the cast.

See the individual story release pages for each synopsis and cast






Written By: David Lemon
Directed By: David Darlington and Joseph Lidster

A one disc audio reading

Synopsis:

“I stepped off the stage-and floated towards the heavens…”

Former mind reader Leticia Faye thought her music hall days were behind her - but charismatic preacher Joshua King has other ideas.

With little persuasion, Leticia becomes part of King’s act; magic mixed with a rabble-rousing call for revolution.

Leticia enjoys the limelight, but is soon plagued by glimpses of a terrifying future.

Is King’s ‘gospel’ all it seems to be? And what ‘role’ does he really want her to play?



CAST:

Nancy Barrett (Leticia Faye), Peter Brooke (Joshua King), Sheila Steafel (Henrietta Frobisher), Greg Patmore (Ned Porter), Jade Sowersby (Alice Collins), James Lawrence (Patrick Kincaid), Barra Collins (James Samuels), John Chancer (Albert Brown), Alan Flanagan (Father William Flannery), Michael Shon (Police Constable Norman Wicks), Joe Johnsey (Sergeant George Croker)





Written By: Justin Richards Directed By: Ken Bentley

A one disc full cast audio drama

Synopsis:

When problems beset the Liberator, all evidence confirms that one of the crew has turned traitor.



CAST:

Gareth Thomas (Roj Blake), Paul Darrow (Kerr Avon), Michael Keating (Vila Restal),Jan Chappell (Cally), Sally Knyvette (Jenna Stannis), Brian Croucher (Travis),Alistair Lock (Zen/Orac), Bethan Walker (Mutoid)



Preparatory material: Since I haven’t seen any Blake’s 7, I would assume a basic knowledge of the show is required to get something out of it





Written By: Adapted by John Dorney Directed By: Ken Bentley

Four one disc full cast adaptions of lost episodes (deleted for good) for audio



CAST:

Anthony Howell (Dr Keel), Julian Wadham (John Steed), Lucy Briggs-Owen (Carol Wilson)

1: Hot Snow

Written by Ray Rigby, adapted by John Dorney

Colin Baker (Dr Tredding), Camilla Power (Peggy), Tim Bentinck (Superintendent Wilson), Adrian Lukis (Spicer, Johnson), Phil Mulryne (Big Man), Blake Ritson(Charlie), Anjella Mackintosh (Stella, Mrs Simpson), Kieran Bew (Sergeant Rogers)



2: Brought To Book

Written by Brian Clemens, adapted by John Dorney

Colin Baker (Dr Tredding), Adrian Lukis (Spicer/Vance), Tim Bentinck (Superintendent Wilson), George Rainsford (Pretty Boy), Alan Cox (Mason), Blake Ritson (Prentice)



3: Square Root of Evil

Written by Richard Harris, adapted by John Dorney

Tim Bentinck (The Cardinal), Phil Mulryne (5), Beth Chalmers (Secretary), Alan Cox(Hooper), George Rainsford (Warren), Kieran Bew (Steve), Blake Ritson (Tobert),Sophie Aldred (TBA)



4: One for the Mortuary

Written by Brian Clemens, adapted by John Dorney

Sam Clemens (Wilson), Francesca Hunt (Yvette), Nigel Carrington (Pallaine), Nicholas Briggs (Benson), Terry Molloy (Henry)



Preparatory listening: A passing knowledge of the TV show





Written By: Mark Wright

A one disc full cast audio drama with characters from the game Pathfinder Legends

Synopsis:

Adventurers Ezren, Merisiel, Harsk and Valeros arrive in the sleepy village of Sandpoint at a time when rumors of rampaging dragons and massing armies of giants have everyone on edge. The people of Sandpoint eagerly anticipate the coming festival to commemorate the consecration of a new temple. Yet, at the height of the ceremony, disaster strikes. A band of goblins assaults Sandpoint, and it falls to the heroes to defend the new temple.



A recent complaint with Big Finish in recent months has been the lack of additional announcements concerning this range, particularly its casting. Once Big Finish puts up more information on this release, I'll be sure to share it with you

What are you looking forward to? Please comment with the releases you want and the ones you enjoy.