Doctor Who: The Sirens of Audio

Join us as we chat with the man who spearheaded the campaign to bring back new and original Doctor Who on audio back in the 1990's.

Gary Russell is a lifelong fan of Doctor Who, and has been involved in almost every avenue of Doctor Who media, from the TV series, to books, to DWM editor and of course, the audio adventures.

In part 1 of our extensive conversation, we speak with Gary about his early days as a fan, his involvement in fandom itself, the launch of the audio adventures of Bernice Summerfield and his writing up to the birth of Doctor Who on audio in 1999.

Dwayne's recommendation - Nerdology UK with Dwayne in conversation with Jim Baker (Henry Parker) from The Tripods.

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Our guest for this episode is Will Hadcroft, the writer of the most recent Doctor Who original release from BBC Audio, Dark Contract, read by Matthew Waterhouse.

Dark Contract is a Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric adventure set in the ever fascinating dark and dreary Dickensian era.

Will joins us for the entire episode including the rabbit hole topic and our recommendations.

Thanks to Michael Stevens for his help with this episode.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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Joe Kraemer has carved out a career in Hollywood for almost three decades, but for us audiophiles he has worked on many Doctor Who and related releases for Big Finish as both composer and sound designer. He has also composed many of the themes from the Big Finish spin of series such as The Robots, Missy and The Paternoster Gang.

Join us as we chat with Joe about his roots in New York, his love of Doctor Who before it was available on video, his move to LA and how he came to be working for Big Finish while creating scores for some of the biggest movie blockbusters of the time.

Ranges and stories we recommend checking out are:

Vienna Series 2 - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/vienna-series-02-1106

Doctor Who - The Defectors - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-defectors-870

Doctor Who: Static - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-static-1263

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon - https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/rose-tyler

Missy - https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/missy

The Paternoster Gang - https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/the-paternoster-gang

The Robots - https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/the-robots

Transference - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/transference-1779

Jenny: The Doctor's Daughter - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/jenny-the-doctor-s-daughter-series-01-1701

Philip recommends Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Music from the Motion Picture) - https://open.spotify.com/album/7IFDpEhE5oE4GgSWnaqI7I?si=Zbta94BVTWSiCVPzCx4Caw

Dwayne recommends Tripodscast - https://open.spotify.com/show/0G9YY3mCvvlNX3qo4l63xf?si=318c23e8974b41b3

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It is our privilege to welcome Joe Sims as our guest, who stars alongside David Tennant and Tom Baker in Doctor Who: Dalek Universe, a 10-part epic audio adventure that premiered in April 2021 with prequel Fourth Doctor story "The Dalek Protocol" and the first part of a 3-part box set series featuring the Tenth Doctor, all under the banner "Dalek Universe".

Joe speaks passionately about his acting career including his breakthrough television part in Broadchurch, and he speaks in depth about working in the audio medium.

Philip recommends Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders (audiobook read by Elisabeth Sladen)

Dwayne recommends Daleks: The Destroyers (audio adaptation by Big Finish)

Listen to Dwayne's guest appearance on The Doctor Who Show - Primary Sources.

Dwayne appeared on All of Time and Space podcast this week, talking about classic series 2 episode, The Rescue.

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We continue our discussion with founding Big Finish producer and director Gary Russell on the early years of Big Finish, talking about projects such as the Gallifrey and Sarah Jane Smith series, as well as the creation of Evelyn Smythe, played by the lovely and sorely missed Maggie Stables.

Part 3 coming soon.

Next time on The Sirens of Audio... Annette Badland discusses her career, and her work with Big Finish, 16 years after her debut TV appearance in the Doctor Who universe in 2005's Aliens of London. (I know we said 21 years during the show, that was Philip's fault for not doing his maths properly and Dwayne's fault for believing everything that comes out of Philip's mouth.)

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