Storm Sounds of Delight
While you’re waiting for The Christmas Invasion, are you interested in finding out what happened after the TV Movie, but before Rose? BBC Radio 7 will start broadcasting the 8th Doctor audios produced by Big Finish while the tv series was off the air. Broadcasts start Saturday August 6th at 6:30pm (UK time) with repeats taking place 6 hours later. The great thing about this for listeners outside the UK is that BBC 7 can be heard over the internet, allowing fans all over the world to tune in. One episode will be broadcast a week, making it convenient after all that Big Finish tend to release their stories in 4-part episodic format on CD when there isn’t any strict need to do so for the CD format.
Joining Paul McGann in the regular cast is the delightful India Fisher as his companion Charley Pollard. Their first adventure together, Storm Warning, also guest stars Gareth Thomas (best known as Blake from Blake’s 7) and was first released in January 2001.
Somewhere in the distance, the sounds of a “8th Doctor Audios are officially canon due to this BBC broadcast” debate can be heard like an oncoming storm…...
Posted by John on Sunday, July 24 at 1:56 am
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Just to update my own entry, it seems that Minuet in Hell, the last story of the first McGann season, will not be broadcast and instead Invaders from Mars, the first story of the second season, will be broadcast in its place. I suspect this might be due to the length of Minuet in Hell, which has four episodes that I believe are all longer than 30 minutes each (and therefore would not fit in the broadcast slot).
Wonder what they will do when they get to Neverland and Zagreus…..
Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/25 at 01:38 PM
It would seem, however, that the vortisaur is not canonical! (Whether that’s because they didn’t air Minuet In Hell that they cut all the vortisaur sequences, or they cut Minuet In Hell because of all the vortisaur sequences remains to be seen!)
I do think they could have easily cut Minuet into a more appropriate length, though. I wonder if length was really the reason…
Posted by Graeme on 07/25 at 04:27 PM
Bad accents perhaps?
Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/25 at 04:38 PM
That hasn’t stopped them from airing Invaders From Mars, though!
Wish they would have included Chimes of Midnight at least.
Posted by Graeme on 07/25 at 04:41 PM
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