It is our great pleausre to welcome voice of K9, John Leeson, to the podcast. We'll chat about his career including his time on Doctor Who, Rainbow and Blake's 7, his love of wine and his time as a lay magistrate.
We'll also jump down the rabbit hole with the Melbourne live audience from our recent event with Frazer Hines.
In 2023 AUK studios released two CDs related to Doctor Who.
Me & Him & Who is an audio drama that chronicles the life of John Nathan-Turner, written by Stephen Wyatt.
And speaking of Stephen Wyatt, AUK also released a musical sequel to The Greatest Show in the Galaxy called Children of the Circus, which features a reunion of the entire cast including new roles for Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
Creative Director for AUK, Barnaby Eaton-Jones, joins us to talk about these releases, as well as how he came to be invoved in audio production.
He also talks about another passion project, Robin of Sherwood on audio, featuring actors from the original tv series.
We focus this time on the Big Finish adaptation of The Prisoner.
Number 6 actor Mark Elstob joins us to talk about his career, Patrick McGoohan Doctor Who, Blake's 7 (specifically, Paul Darrow's Avon), and of course, The Prisoner.
We take a sidestep from Doctor Who this time and enter the world of The Tripods television series, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this month.
We'll be joined by Chris Jones, author of the forthcoming book "All For Nothing?", which will be released at a special Tripods fan event next week. The event will also feature appearances from all four principal cast members, together for the very first time since the show was filmed, as well as other cast and production crew.
We are also joined by Tripods superfan Will Hadcroft, better known to Doctor Who fans by his audio dramas The Resurrection Plant and Dark Contract.
To "cap" it off, we'll have a special focus on the sensational soundtrack for The Tripods, composed and arranged by Ken Freeman.
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.
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.
