Doctor Who: The Sirens of Audio

Our guest this episode is lifelong Doctor Who fan, actor, writer, director and Executive Producer at Big Finish Productions, Nicholas Briggs. In part one of our detailed conversation, Nick speaks about his childhood and family, his involvement in organized fandom and playing the Doctor in the 80's for Audio Visuals, as well as how he deals with fan criticism. Trailers Doctor Who - Creatures of Bea...

This time we speak about two stories chosen for us at random by the Randomoid Selectortron, we discuss the recent announcements from Big Finish regarding price drops and increases, and we interview the writer of Moonflesh, Mark Morris.  Mark Morris' website - http://www.markmorrisfiction.com/ Find out more about our feature releases: Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Forbidden Time -...

Re-casting beloved Doctor Who characters for audio stories is a contentious issue for some fans. Our aim for this episode is to invite the doubters to at the very least, give them a try.  Our guest this time is Christopher Naylor, who plays fourth Doctor companion Harry Sullivan for Big Finish, and has appeared out of time in the U.N.I.T. Nemesis series.  We discuss his career, his other...

This time we are joined by our friend Alicia from Canada, who began both her watch of the classic series of Doctor Who and her exploration of the Big Finish audio range in 2019.  What is it like for a new fan coming in to explore the massive Big Finish catalogue for the very first time?  Alicia picks two of her favourite 1-part episodes and an old classic to talk about, and we discuss th...

Aclaimed author Robert Shearman joins us to discuss his long and varied career in writing for theatre, television and books. We dive into his six Big Finish Doctor Who audio adventures, his Sylvester McCoy play, Punchline, and of course, we talk about bringing the Daleks back to television and subsequently writing the novelization of the episode.  Thanks so much for chatting with us Rob! To f...

Maureen O'Brien was the first "new" companion to replace a departing Doctor Who companion back in 1965. Vicki was a replacement to Susan, the Doctor's grandaughter, and she instantly lit up the screen with her enthusiasm and chemistry with the regular cast.  Maureen returned to the role of Vicki on audio with Big Finish in 2007.  In this interview Maureen reveals how she came to be actin...

73 C.E. The Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara land in Judea and quickly find themselves separated.  The Doctor and Susan are camped with the Roman army led by Flavius Silva. Ian and Barbara are trapped atop Masada with the last Jewish zealots to stand against the might of Rome.  Barbara knows the fate of these people. Ian had never heard of Masada until their arrival.  History cannot b...

This month our review stories as chosen by the big Finish Randomoid Selectortron are both Sixth Doctor and Peri adventures. They are: Doctor Who - ...Ish by Phil Pascoe - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-ish-201   Doctor Who The Lost Stories - The Guardians of Prophecy by Johnny Byrne adapted by Jonathan Morris - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-guardians-of-...

Join us as we explore the clandestine intelligence organisation known as "The Forge". First appearing in Project: Twilight in 2001, The Forge cemented Cavan Scott and Mark Wright as one of Big Finish's powerhouse Doctor Who writing teams.  We are joined once again by Kenny Smith from Big Finish' Vortex Magazine and Pieces of Eighth podcast, to dive deep into the dark worlds of this group that...

Our guest Barnaby Kay has a long family history in acting. His father and grandfather were both in the business. He himself has had a stellar career in theatre, on television and in film as well as radio. Now he is working as an actor, director and writer for Big Finish in both Doctor Who and other productions such as Jeckyll and Hyde, Space 1999 and the newly announced U.F.O. Thanks for chatting...

As we were recording a forthcoming episode of The Sirens of Audio, the news came through that Ncuti Gatwa has been cast as the lead in the next iteration of Doctor Who.    Here are our instant thoughts as the news broke.    Email: sirensofaudio@gmail.com Website:  https://www.sirensofaudio.com/ Audio Feedback: https://anchor.fm/sirensofaudio Twitter:  http://twitter.c...

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 lo...

Welcome to this mini-podcast as we announce a brand new theme arrangement composed and produced for us by Big Finish (and not to mention Hollywood) musician and sound designer, Joe Kraemer.  Joe will be our special guest on the next regular podcast episode.  In the meantime, you can find out more about Joe at his website http://www.joekraemer.com/

It’s time for another Randomoid Reviews episode, and the two stories we’ll be looking at this time are: Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – The Last Post - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-the-last-post-743 and Doctor Who Unbound – Full Fathom Five - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-unbound-full-fathom-five-364 And joining us for a chat is...

To start our episode we share a quick review of two recent releases.  Philip shares his thoughts on Stranded 4 - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-stranded-4-2172 Dwayne gives his first impressions of The First Doctor Adventures: The Outlaws - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-first-doctor-adventures-the-outlaws-2513 Then we chat with Mark Wright, producer of T...

This time we are joined by Nigel Fairs, an actor and writer who has been involved with Dr Who related audio productions from the legendary days of Audio Visuals to today with Big Finish.  Not only has Nigel been involved with Doctor Who, he has produced The Tomorrow People, Blake’s 7, Sapphire and Steel and his own original productions such as Shilling and Sixpence and In Conversation With An...

1986. The Cybermen are about to invade an Antarctic base.  Ben Jackson had seen it once before. And there was only one person he knew who also knew what was to come. Her name was Polly.  This short story was originally published in 1998 in print by BBC Books.  Theme music by GeorgeCMusic - https://www.youtube.com/c/GeorgeCMusic Email: sirensofaudio@gmail.com Website:  https://w...

In this episode we discuss the place of personal politics in our podcast.  We review the Russell T. Davies penned Doctor Who: Mind of the Hodiac, available from Big Finish Productions. https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-mind-of-the-hodiac-2483 We chat with actor Simon Fisher-Becker about his career, his books and his portrayal of Dorium Maldovar in Doctor Who on TV and audio. For...

Kenny is on the team again this time as we examine Doctor Who - The Fourth Doctor Adventures - Season 11 - Solo. The two stories in the boxset are Blood of the Time Lords by Timothy X Atack and The Ravencliff Witch by David Llewellyn. - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-fourth-doctor-adventures-series-11-solo-2100 Not only do we have Nerys Hughes in her first appearance as new ch...

The celebrations are still going for our 100th episode and for this special bonus episode we share a 2007 interview that Philip did with Sylvester McCoy in Sydney for the Doctor Who Club of Australia event, "An Afternoon with Sylvester McCoy".  The footage was a recent discovery from Dwayne's vault (shed) as he had also attended the event, but the dynamic duo of Philip and Dwayne was at that...

Join us as we celebrate 100 episodes of our podcast. To help us do that, we are joined by 6th Doctor actor Colin Baker, talking all things audio, from joining Big Finish in 1999 to now, and from the adventures of Doctor Who to the worlds of Bayban the Butcher. This was a thrill for us to record, and we're so happy to be able to share it with you now.  Philip recommends Doctor Who and the Pira...

This episode of "We've Got Randomoids" sees us reviewing two stories selected by our listeners and drawn randomly from the Tardis Cookie Jar. Those stories are: Doctor Who: Cloud of Fear from Audio Visuals - http://www.justyce.org/av05a-frame.html Doctor Who: Memory Lane from Big Finish - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-memory-lane-254 We also recommend the following releases: Torc...

For the fourth year running, Big Finish has debuted a special release to mark International Women's Day. Today's release is called The Eighth of March - Protectors of Time and is available from  https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-eighth-of-march-2-protectors-of-time-2591 To celebrate we are joined by director Helen Goldwyn to talk about the history of the Big Finish special releases ove...

James Kettle has been writing audio drama for the last few years and took some time out to chat with us about his background in comedy and play writing, how he came to be writing for Big Finish for both the Doctor Who and Blake's 7 lines and the process of writing an audio play.  We recommend grabbing a copy of all the releases we discussed from  https://www.bigfinish.com/ The Diary of R...

February 2022 saw the release of Doctor Who: Short Trips Volume 11. - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-short-trips-volume-11-2362 This time we speak with Aussie writer Paul F. Verhoeven, who has contributed the story "Fear of Flying" to the set.  We find out some of Paul's history and talk about his long-term fandom, especially of Big Finish, and how he got the writing gig in t...