Pamela Salem is an actress who starred in memorable roles in classic Doctor Who stories The Robots of Death and Remembrance of the Daleks.

She reprised her television roles for Big Finish in the spinoff series' Counter-Measures and The Robots.

Pamela passed away in February 2024.

We speak with several people who worked with her on television and audio, Louise Jameson, Sophie Aldred, Karen Gledhill and Ken Bentley.

We also share for the first time, video footage of our 2021 interview with Pamela for The SIrens of Audio Podcast.

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In this episode we review the recent Big Finish releases in the Lost Stories range, the second Doctor adventures Operation Werewolf, and forerunner to The Three Doctors, Deathworld.

Get the releases here:

Operation Werewolf - https://bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-operation-werewolf-2930

Deathworld - https://bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-deathworld-2929

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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Michael Herbert is a historian and the writer of the forthcoming biography, "Don't Believe Everything You See" - The Life and Writings of Malcolm Hulke. The book is due to be published by Telos Publishing some time in 2025.

Michael joins us to speak about "Mac's" career including his early television and colaborations, and the importance of his work in Doctor Who on television and in books.

We also take a closer look at Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters audiobook read by Caroline John, during our discussion.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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In this special edition of the podcast, released to celebrate Doctor Who Podcast Day 2024 #dwpd2024, we are joined by actor Stephen Noonan to record our live commentary of the third Doctor introductory story, Spearhead from Space.

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Join us and our guests, Dave from The Doctor Who Show, and Marc from Mr & Mrs Who, as we discuss the new Big Finish adaptation of the Virgin Missing Adventure, Goth Opera.

https://www.bigfinish.com/doctor-who-goth-opera-standard-edition-cd-retail

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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.

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Sutekh recently made a return to TV Doctor Who, but did you know that Gabriel Woolf had previously returned to bring the Osiran to "death" on audio with two seperate incarnations of the Doctor?

We dive into the Bernice Summerfield box set featuring the Seventh Doctor called "The Triumph of Sutekh" as well as the fourth Doctor two-parter seperately titled "Kill The Doctor!" and "The Age of Sutekh".

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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Join us for a microscopic look into what it takes to produce a Doctor Who audio drama through the eyes and ears of Big Finish director Ken Bentley.

From the dynamics of classic television characters to newly created roles for audio, from budgets to scheduling, casting to providing notes, Ken peels back the layers for us all to see a day in the life of an audio director.

There is much more to it than you think...

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We are privilged to be joined this episode by the very first Doctor Who companion actress Carole Ann Ford!

Will there be a twist in the end?

Carole speaks about her acting career starting at age 8, her time on Doctor Who and beyond, and returning to the role of Susan at Big Finish.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of William Russell (1924-2024).

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We reach a milestone for the podcast with our 200th episode.

To help us celebrate, we are joined by 2nd Doctor Who companion actor Frazer Hines.

Not only do we have Frazer joining us for the podcast, we announce our live events for September 2024, featuring both Frazer and Katy Manning!

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