Doctor Who - Pieces of Eighth

In 2005, a number of Eighth Doctor adventures produced by Big Finish were broadcast on BBC Radio 7. To promote these, original trailers were produced, and here, for the first time, Pieces of Eighth have compiled the promotional pieces for Storm Warning.

Be honest - who hasn't dreamed of having their own TARDIS console to play with, with buttons to press and levers to switch? But one man can do that every single day of his life, if he so chooses. This week, Pieces of Eighth meets Paul Salamoff, the man who owns the original TARDIS console from the TV Movie - as well as a few other screen-worn items. FInd out just what he has in his amazing collect...

Earlier this year, the Radio Times marked the end of Big Finish's monthly range with a series of polls to find the top five stories for each Doctor. The Eighth Doctor was no exception, with The Chimes of Midnight taking the top spot, followed by The Silver Turk, The Natural History of Fear, Scherzo and Seasons of Fear.  This week, Becca and Kenny are joined by Matt Michael to give their thoug...

In 1998, the most exciting thing in the world happened - Paul McGann returned as the Doctor... Well, sort of. BBC Audio released a twin cassette story, featuring three Doctor Who short stories - Bounty, Dead Time and The People's Temple - all of which were read by Paul McGann. And, best of all, we heard McGann perform all-new lines as the Doctor, for the first time in two years in Dead Time, as he...

It's good news - Pieces of Eighth has been renewed and is back for a second season! Over the course of the next 13 weeks, we're going to bring you all-new, exclusive interviews with the people who have made the Eighth Doctor who he is, whether as writers, actors, artists, musicians or anything else.  Having finished last season with a two-part Philip Segal interview, Rebecca and Kenny are con...

Doctor Who TV Movie executive producer Philip Segal joins us from his home in the USA, for the second part of his exclusive chat with Pieces of Eighth. He reveals how he felt the TV Movie rating could have gone in modern methods were taken into account, how he's about to build the TARDIS console room again, and how he looks back on the whole movie.  Find out more about Philip's work at www.sp...

We reach the end of the first season of Pieces of Eighth, and we present the opening half of our exclusive chat with the man whose persistence led to the creation of the Eighth Doctor. Executive producer Philip Segal is our special guest, and chats about his love of Doctor Who, working in television, meeting Alan Yentob, casting Paul McGann, and bringing the team together to create the TV Movie. P...

This week, Pieces of Eighth takes its first dip into the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, a series of original paperback novels featuring the Eighth Doctor, which were published by BBC Books from June 1997 until June 2005. In that time, a total of 73 books were released, charting the adventures of the Doctor, with his friends, Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, Compassion, Anji Kapoor and Beatrix 'Trix' Macmil...

Kenny and Becca stay on Target in our latest episode. They have a chat with Gary Russell, who novelised the TV Movie for BBC Books in 1996 and revamped it for the 2001 reprint from Target.  They're also joined by Anthony Dry, who created the amazing art for the reprint cover.

Pieces of Eighth stays in audio territory - but probably not the one you were expecting. Becca and Kenny this week venture into the lands of BBC Audio, as they discover how The Scent of Blood, released in 2019, came to be. Kenny has a chat with writer Andy Lane, before he and Becca chat with actor Dan Starkey, who narrates the adventure - and Becca tries not to fan girl while talking to Strax... P...

Previous episodes of Pieces of Eighth have touched on Big Finish adventures for the Eighth Doctor, but this week we cover our first full-length story in the form of Max Warp. Becca and Kenny chat with writer Jonathan Morris about writing the script - and reveal its origins in an unused idea from several years beforehand - and musician Andy Hardwick tells it was it was like to write a theme tune th...

This week's Pieces of Eighth takes another trip into the Big Finish universe, this time to feature the highly-acclaimed Companion Chronicle, Solitaire. This week, Becca and Kenny discuss the tale, starring India Fisher as Charley Pollard and david bailey as the Celestial Toymaker. They reveal their mutual fear of puppets, have a chat with writer John Dorney, and cover artist Alex Mallinson who...

Pieces of Eighth heads into new territory this week, as we feature a Short Trip from Big Finish. Flashpoint was read by co-host Kenny Smith 's favourite, Sheridan Smith , so we have a chat with the range producer Ian Atkins, and writer Andrew Smith , about how Lucie Miller's return to Doctor Who came about.  We should point out that Becca is also part of the Smith family, as her dad is one. S...

We celebrate the plastic fantastic this week in Pieces of Eighth. Becca and Kenny are joined by Alasdair Dewar from Character Options, who explains the origins of the various action figures of the Eighth Doctor.

EPISODE four of Pieces of Eighth sees us joined by an actor who has encountered Paul McGann's Doctor in two very different roles. Seán Carlsen was first cast in The Natural History of Fear, in which he played a variety of roles, and made an impression producer/director Gary Russell, who subsequently cast him as CIA Co-ordinator Narvin in the Gallifrey spin-off series. Narvin has since become one o...

We take our first tip into Big Finish Eighth Doctor territory, with a look back to a little gem from 2003. Becca and Kenny are joined by producer/director Gary Russell, as well as Conrad Westmaas, who recalls his time in studio as Thon, in Scott Gray's witty 22-minute long episode.

We promised to bring you all things related to the Eighth Doctor, and we most definitely are in this week's episode. We discuss the Titan Eighth Doctor comic A Matter of Life and Death with the people who brought it to life,  as writer George Mann and artist Emma Vieceli exclusively share their thoughts and experiences on creating an oft-forgotten little slice of Paul McGann's Doctor, set in...

Kenny and Becca are Doctor Who fans.  He's been a fan since 1978, and Becca was born in 1995, so their experiences of the show are completely different. But something they both love is the Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann. In this podcast series, they will travel through time and space, finding the many different aspects of this incarnation of the Doctor who was only seen twice on TV - bu...