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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It's the end... of the monthly range at Big Finish and our special guest is writer of the final story in the range, Rob Valentine. The finale is called "The End of the Beginning" and features the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Doctors. 

Rob gives us some insight into writing for multiple Doctors, the inspiration for some of his settings, and how the pandemic affected the story. 

Master! starring Eric Roberts as the Doctor's arch nemesis is also released this month from Big Finish, and Rob speaks about his episode in the set entitled "Faustian". 

Recommendations

Philip recommends Survivors (Big Finish Productions)

Dwayne recommends Space 1999 Volume One (Big Finish Productions) & Red Moon by Robert Valentine (Wireless Theatre Company)

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To celebrate 50 episodes of The Sirens of Audio, Philip and Dwayne help introduce new fans to the worlds of Big Finish by sharing their stories for new listeners to Doctor Who in the audio medium for Doctors 1-8 and 10. 

Philip recommends Flight Through Entirety (podcast)

Dwayne recommends Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (music)

Dwayne's background art is by Millie McKenzie @CowBearCreates

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We have a fascinating conversation with the multi-talented MILES RICHARDSON, best known by Doctor Who fans as Irving Braxiatel, first mentioned the the 1979 tv story, City of Death, and immortalized by Miles on audio in the Bernice Summerfield and Gallifrey ranges for Big Finish.

Thanks so much for speaking with us Miles. 

Trailers from the following audio stories were used in this episode:

The Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: The Extinction Event

Doctor Who: Bloodtide

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Hamlet

Gallifrey: Time War Volume 4

Recommendations

Philip recommends Hamlet (Big Finish Productions)

Dwayne recommends Doctor Who: The Peterloo Massacre (5th Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan)

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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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Welcome to the inaugural "We've Got Randomoids", where we use the Randomoid Selectortron to choose two random Big Finish releases to review. This could be anything from Doctor Who to Torchwood, Blake's 7 to Space 1999. The Randomoid Selectortron will decide...

This time we review the following releases:

Doctor Who - Short Trips 6.2 - Prime Winner

Dalek Empire III - Chapter 4 - The Demons 

Check out the Randomoid Selectortron for yourself. 

Recommendations

Philip recommends All of Time and Space (podcast)

Dwayne recommends Diddly Dum (podcast)

Thanks to Hayden Gribble from the Diddly Dum podcast for arranging Uncle Terrance to join us. 

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With the recent release of Doctor Who - The Savages on BBC Audio, actor Peter Purves joins us to talk about his time working on Doctor Who in the 60's, and more recently with audiobooks, soundtrack narration and Big Finish productions. 

Thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us Peter. 

The following trailers of Big Finish productions were used in this episode:

Doctor Who - The Sontarans (The Early Adventures)

Doctor Who - Mother Russia (The Companion Chronicles)

Doctor Who - The Secret History (Monthly Range)

Doctor Who - The War to End All Wars (The Companion Chronicles)

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Our guest this time is writer/director Ken Bentley. He has directed hundreds of audio productions for Big Finish over the last fourteen years. 

He speaks to us about the penultimate Big Finish monthly release, February 2021's Doctor Who - The Blazing Hour and his incredible career with Big Finish and beyond. 

The following trailers were used in the episode:

Doctor Who - The Blazing Hour

Doctor Who - The Eighth Doctor Adventures - Stranded 2

The Island of Dr Moreau

Doctor Who - Dalek Universe 1

Recommendations

Philip recommends the entire Gallifrey series (Big Finish)

Dwayne recommends How Doctor Who's Missing Episodes Came Back (Josh Snares - YouTube)

Thank you each and every one of you for taking the time to listen to us. 

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We chat with Big Finish author and Doctor Who fan Nev Fountain about his career, his writing and his love of Doctor Who. 

Clips and trailers used in this episode of the podcast were taken from:

Doctor Who - Death Comes to Time

Doctor Who - Omega

Doctor Who - The Kingmaker

Missy Series 1

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This time we feature the third to last Big Finish monthly range release, Doctor Who - Colony of Fear by Roland Moore. 

We chat with Roland about this and many of his other releases including Doctor Who - The Night Witches, as well as his time writing for TV's "Doctors" and as showrunner for a Chinese production of "Humans". 

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Recommendations 

Roland recommends Heavy Pencil (podcast), The Hellbound Heart (Bafflegab Productions) & the Torchwood Monthly Range (Big Finish).

Philip recommends Putting It Together (Podcast)

Dwayne recommends Kingbathmat - Truth Button (Music)

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