4th DOCTOR TOM BAKER makes me complete!! I've now worked with ALL FIVE REMAINING CLASSIC ERA DOCTORS!!

As the HEADLINE suggests, I am over the moon to announce that I've now worked with all of the remaining CLASSIC ERA DOCTORS!!

The final piece of the puzzle was to work on a BIG FINISH AUDIO DRAMA with my FAVOURITE - THE FOURTH DOCTOR - TOM BAKER ...

With the release this month of 15B. Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 15: Lethal Progress - a BOX SET of 3 adventures including my particular involvement in 'THE CONTINUUM' written by the prolific JOHN DORNEY and directed by the always fabulous HELEN GOLDWYN.

We recorded 'THE CONTINUUM' remotely back in 2021 (can't quite remember why!) and it's been wonderfully assembled into a really fantastic audio adventure. The cast was as follows:

What a thrill to hear my voice opposite the legendary 4th Doctor Tom Baker, it's definitely been worth the wait ... I play MR PHILLIPS, Engineering Officer onboard the legendary space-station The Daedalus. Here's how the adventure is described ...

"The Doctor and Sarah land on the space-station Daedalus on the day it makes history. The first journey through hyperspace has just been completed. But it hasn’t gone as smoothly as posterity suggests.

Something terrible is happening – and the clock is ticking down."

Order of Doctors I've worked with ...

Colin 'The Sixth Doctor' Baker (2007)

Sylvester 'The Seventh Doctor' McCoy (2007)

Peter 'The Fifth Doctor' Davison (2008)

Paul 'The Eighth Doctor' McGann (2015)

AND LAST BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST ...

Tom 'The Fourth Doctor' Baker (2021)

and still sounding like The Doctor I grew up with at 87*!!! 

*Of course Tom has now just turned 92, still amazing!!

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SINS OF THE FLESH wins at the SCRIBE AWARDS 2024 + MAHABHARATA NOW gets a REPEAT OUTING on BBC R4 ...

 

Quite a nice little flurry of good news this week ... firstly the splendid announcement that 'SINS OF THE FLESH' (part of the 'EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE' audio box set compilation) from BIG FINISH has only gone and won the BEST AUDIO DRAMA AWARD at this years prestigious SCRIBE AWARDS!!! It's already garnered so many outstanding reviews from the audio world of Doctor Who, not least for it's no holds barred story telling - it seems only right that writer of 'SINS OF THE FLESH' and producer of the 3 part compilation ALFIE SHAW should come away with this years award. 

The Scribe Awards is a yearly event held by the IAMTW (The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers) which celebrates and honors excellence in the field of writing tie-in fiction for media franchises. These works include novels, short stories, audio dramas, and graphic novels tied to licenses of movies and TV shows, as well as video games, comics, songs, and even book series.

The winners were rather excitingly announced at this years SAN DIEGO COMIC CON last Friday, July 26. Congratulations should also go to all the nominees but in particular to the other two adventures featured in the box set; GEORGIA COOK'S 'SPIRIT OF THE SEASON' and ALL'S FAIR by MAX KASHEVSKY which were also nominated in the same category.

Lastly but not leastly, congratulations to our esteemed director on all three stories HELEN GOLDWYN, thank you for casting me in one of the best roles I've had in recent years in 'SINS OF THE FLESH' ... HUZZAH!!!

'MAHABHARATA NOW', a B7 MEDIA production for BBC RADIO 4 was first transmitted last year gets a welcome repeat outing over the next two Saturdays, the 3rd & 10th August at 3pm on BBC Radio 4. Written by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle, produced by Helen Quigley and Andrew Mark Sewell and the director was Jatinder Verma ... 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rgxs

I was delighted to be a small part within this RADIO ADAPTATION of 'THE MAHABHARATA', an epic that comprises one hundred thousand stanzas of verse divided into eighteen books, or parvas. It is the largest single literary work in existence. 

In Episodes 3 & 4 - Yash and Padma arrive in Manchester to begin their four year exile. I pop up as the WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR in Episode 3 and in Episode 4, I can be heard playing a myriad of characters ... 

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Doctor Who - The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles - Everywhere and Anywhere - SINS OF THE FLESH - OUT NOW!!

Well I've really been looking forward to listening to this terrific ELEVENTH DOCTOR box set since I recorded the final adventure 'SINS OF THE FLESH' last year and boy it doesn't disappoint!! It's been universally praised across the Doctor Who Audio world. Very proud to have played the guest lead role of the not terribly pleasant ROBERT MCINTOSH (no he's not Scottish!) in this brave and hard hitting story ... This is the blurb from the BIG FINISH website:

"Is your child exhibiting sinful behaviour? Have they set themselves on the road of eternal damnation? Has everything you tried failed? Feel like you’re out of options?

Don't worry. We can help. Bring them to the Rebirth Organisation today. Bring them to be converted."

What an amazing script! NO SPOILERS ... but McIntosh is the founder of the REBIRTH ORGANISATION where there just 'might' be some CONVERTING going on!!!!!!!!

It was extra special because amazingly I had never been involved in a CYBERMAN story for BIG FINISH PRODUCTIONS until now, so it was fabulous to be in such a special one!! This particular adventure 'SINS OF THE FLESH' was written by THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR CHRONICLES producer ALFIE SHAW and directed by the lovely HELEN GOLDWYN ... 

(from left to right) Alexandra D'sa (Lilly), Sean Connolly (McIntosh), Maddison Bullevent (Carmen), Brad Shaw (Jason), Safiyya Ingar (Valarie), Jacob Dudman (The Doctor)

The full cast list is as follows:

The Doctor / Harry  JACOB DUDMAN

Valarie Lockwood  SAFIYYA INGAR

Carmen  MADDISON BULLEYMENT

Lilly  ALEXANDRA D'SA

McIntosh  SEAN CONNOLLY

Jason  BRAD SHAW

Cyberleader / Cybermen  NICHOLAS BRIGGS

In this penultimate ELEVENTH DOCTOR CHRONICLES box set there's a brilliantly talented cast involved, lead by the extraordinary JACOB DUDMAN sounding faultlessly like the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) ... Seek it out here 

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Celebrating World Audio Drama Day 2023 ...

It's that time of year again ... when we celebrate all things AUDIO DRAMA!

It's 33 years since my very first AUDIO DRAMA/RADIO DRAMA a radio play called 'THE PEOPLE'S WOMAN' directed by the much missed PHILIP MARTIN for BBC RADIO all the way back in 1990... It was an important moment in my fledgling career and I'm very grateful to have continued working in audio drama for over 30 years now - huzzah!

I'm also grateful to now LECTURE & DIRECT students in the DARK ARTS OF AUDIO DRAMA at some of the countries leading universities and drama schools, long may that continue too! I get so much from passing whatever knowledge I've acquired over the years to the next generation of radio/audio actors ... Oh and I'm glad to say that I haven't stopped working myself in this world and I'm still learning!

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WARHAMMER DAY 2023 - marking it's 40th Anniversary with a TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE - my WARHAMMER JOURNEY!!

Following on from yesterday's WARHAMMER DAY, not only are they celebrating all things WARHAMMER - this year they are celebrating 40 YEARS of all things WARHAMMER! I thought it might be fun to look back at my own involvement over nearly 35 of those years!!

My very first recollection of what was then called GAMES WORKSHOP was playing some of their games and painting their fantasy figures in the early nineties, some of which I still have to this day (don't ask me where!). I had recently left drama school and I landed the job of voicing one of their very first VIDEO PAINTING GUIDES using their CITADEL PAINTS, if my memory is correct it was even produced on VHS!! That was the beginning of what was to become a long and pleasurable association over the next three decades.

This potted history continues when I met the stupendously talented TOM LAUTEN and his team at BRIGHT LIGHT STUDIOS based in Coventry. He was producing the most extraordinary creatures, costumes, and props for the cutscenes in Games Workshop video games, it was an extraordinary time! I had the opportunity not only to wander open-mouthed around his incredible workshop but also be part of that world ... I ended up playing WARHAMMER'S SHORTEST EVER ORK alongside Gavin Naylor ...

Then there was the time that I played a rather unfortunate MINER in a game, (who's name I completely forget) but here is the photographic proof, opposite a pretty scary looking TYRANID!!

More live action cutscenes came along. perhaps the most impressive and well-remembered being 'FINAL LIBERATION: WARHAMMER EPIC 40,000' where I played a TECH ADEPT opposite the enormously missed actor LARRY REW ...

There's a lot of love still out there for this game and for the standard of the live action sequences, remember this was 1997 ...

A few years previously, I had also started my VOICE OVER JOURNEY with WARHAMMER when I provided the voices for about a dozen characters including the MAIN GAME PLAY CHARACTER - COMMANDER MORGAN BERNHARDT (it's him on the front cover below on the white horse!) on 'WARHAMMER - SHADOW OF THE HORNED RAT' for PC and PLAYSTATION!!

I still remember to this day the feeling of being in the studio recording what would be my very first computer/video game voice over ... NEARLY 3O YEARS AGO! Here's a great video I've found on YouTube showing the game's look and actually some of the characters I voiced.

I played about a dozen or so characters, some of whom are featured below in a rogues gallery of sorts ...

Well just three short years after the 'FINAL LIBERATION: WARHAMMER EPIC 40,000' game in 2010, came the terrifically exciting 'ULTRAMARINES - A WARHAMMER 40,000 MOVIE', an all singing - all killing thing of beauty from Good Story Productions featuring a stellar voice cast including John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Sean Pertwee ... Director was MARTYN PICK, alongside producer BOB THOMPSON and the writer was WARHAMMER LEGEND DAN ABNETT ...

Perhaps you're wondering why I'm mentioning this WARHAMMER MOVIE, well I had the great privilege to provide, alongside fellow voice actor MIKE HAYLEY, the GUIDE TRACK CHARACTER VOICES for the film's pre-production period, in other words the WHOLE FILM was voiced by Mike and I so the animators had something to work with before they had received the vocal performances of Messrs Hurt, Stamp and Pertwee et al ... I would've have loved to have been in the final film, unfortunately that wasn't to be! Nonetheless so chuffed to have been a part of it ... 

So now fast forward NINE YEARS to 2019 for my next involvement with WARHAMMER ... I was so delighted to be asked to audition for a character in a brand new BLACK LIBRARY AUDIO ADVENTURE called 'THE BEAST INSIDE'. I got the part (ROGUE TRADER Janus Draik) - more on him later! The rest is history I suppose, as I went on to be cast in FOUR further BLACK LIBRARY ADVENTURES in that year, ALL LEADING ROLES - great times! As well as Janus, I played Brezarrk (Northern Dwarf) in 'HEIRS OF GRIMNIR', Magnus The Red (The Crimson King) in 'MORNINGSTAR' (one of the BIGGEST characters - literally as he's over 20 feet tall - in the WARHAMMER UNIVERSE), Chamberlain Edmund Sark in 'BROKEN SAINTS - SISTER ADAMANTHEA' and Lord Oswal in 'DARKLY DREAMING' ...

Also a slight departure with a great WARHAMMER HORROR AUDIO DRAMA called 'DARKLY DREAMING' by JOSH REYNOLDS which was terrific fun to record ...

All of which culminated in me NARRATING MY FIRST FULL LENGTH WARHAMMER BOOK, 'BLACKSTONE FORTRESS' by DARIUS HINKS (Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins) playing over 30 characters, all based around Janus Draik's (there he is front and centre on the cover below!) exploits exploring the mysterious and dangerous Blackstone Fortress. It was a crazy year and a bit which ended as the 'thing that shall be named', reared its ugly head in early 2020!

Thanks for joining me on my trip down WARHAMMER 40,000 memory lane!

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'Mahabharata Now' - Episodes 3 & 4 - The saga continues on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 15th & 22nd October 2023 ...

I am delighted to be a small part within this RADIO ADAPTATION of 'THE MAHABHARATA', an epic that comprises one hundred thousand stanzas of verse divided into eighteen books, or parvas. It is the largest single literary work in existence. In Episodes 3 & 4 - Yash and Padma arrive in Manchester to begin their four year exile. I pop up as the WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR in Episode 3 and in Episode 4 I can be heard playing a myriad of characters ... 

You can listen to 'MAHABHARATA NOW' on Sunday 15th & 22nd October 2023 at 3pm on BBC RADIO 4 ...

As previously mentioned across some of my socials, the recording session was an extraordinary happening, bringing a whole new meaning to the idea of 'remote' recordings. The UK-based cast recorded from LONDON at THE SOUNDHOUSE studios, linked up to the MUMBAI cast some 4,500 MILES AWAY. It all worked a treat, amazing really with the added bonus that the productions carbon footprint would be tiny by avoiding those long plane flights!! 

'MAHABHARATA NOW' was written by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle, produced by Helen Quigley and Andrew Mark Sewell and the director was Jatinder Verma ...

Here are the full production credits ...

Cast:

Dhruv: Neil Bhoopalam

Yash: Tavish Bhattacharyya

Padma: Ira Dubey

Shaks: Vivek Madan

Karthik: Sukant Goel

Gopi: Mina Anwar

Nyra: Abir Abrar

Swati: Rina Fatania

Emmi: Ayla Wheatley

Landlord: Dean Harris

Andy: Kenny Blyth

Warehouse Supervisor: Sean Connolly

Other characters played by Abir Abrar, Omkar Kulkarni, Devika Shahani Punjabi and Prerna Chawla

Sound Supervisor (Mumbai): Ayush Ahuja

Sound Design and Post Production: Wilfredo Acosta

Original Music: Imran Ahmad

Written by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle

Producer (Mumbai): Nadir Khan

Producer(s): Helen Quigley and Andrew Mark Sewell

Director: Jatinder Verma

A B7 Media production for BBC Radio 4

It promises to be an enthralling couple of episodes, can't wait to hear it for the first time this Sunday ... 

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ANOTHER Classic British Sci-Fi is OUT NOW - 'Survivors - New Dawn 3' from BIG FINISH!!

 

The original ‘SURVIVORS’ was a British post-apocalyptic fiction drama television series created by TERRY NATION and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC, that broadcast from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an apocalyptic plague pandemic (frighteningly prophetic!), which was accidentally released by a Chinese scientist and quickly spread across the world via air travel.

In 2014, BIG FINISH PRODUCTIONS released the first four-episode volume of an audio drama expansion of 'Survivors', with CAROLYN SEYMOUR, IAN MCCULLOCH, and LUCY FLEMING reprising their screen roles. 

In this 3 episode latest audio instalment, 'Survivors: New Dawn 3' (this time starring CAROLYN SEYMOUR, and LUCY FLEMING), I was (as ever), delighted to be asked to play a fair few cameo roles across the box set, including put upon government minister MIKE FERGUSON.

In 3.1 The Turning Part 1: food shortages threaten the stability of the New Federal Government. Prime Minister Celia Tate clings to power and Robin Page - once a thorn in her side and now a minister - becomes involved in an uprising to depose her.

Once again, the world is changing and the best Abby and Jenny can hope for is to survive.

A really terrific cast deliver the chillingly believable world of 'SURVIVORS' ...

Here's the full cast list of 10.3 'Survivors: New Dawn 3' written and directed by KEN BENTLEY ... I had worked with quite a few of the voice cast previously which was rather nice.

Carolyn Seymour (Abby Grant)

Lucy Fleming (Jenny Richards)

Tom Alexander (Former-Ranger / Cleric)

Daisy Badger (Debra Adams)

Sean Connolly (Mike Ferguson / Groom)

Mark Elstob (Andrew / Terry Matthews)

Jonathan Keeble (Mark Osborne)

Belinda Lang (Celia Tate)

Hannah Raymond-Cox (Boo / Judy Lawson)

David Shaw-Parker (John/Harold Smith)

Enzo Squillino Jnr (Phil Harris)

Sam Stafford (Robin Page)

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OUT NOW!! Classic British Sci-Fi - 'Star Cops: The High Frontier 1' from BIG FINISH!!

STAR COPS is a British science fiction television drama series first broadcast on BBC2 in 1987. It was devised by CHRIS BOUCHER, a writer who had previously worked on the science fiction television series DOCTOR WHO and BLAKE'S 7 as well as crime dramas such as Juliet Bravo and Bergerac.

In 2018, Big Finish continued the story, with original cast members DAVID CALDER, TREVOR COOPER and LINDA NEWTON joined by new characters played by RHAKEE THAKRAR and PHILIP OLIVIER.

I was delighted to be asked to be a part of it's latest BOXSET: 3A - 'Star Cops: The High Frontier 1' comprising of THREE interconnected episodes.

3.1 Dead Air by Roland Moore

When Sonia Garrett dies during a routine moonwalk, the Star Cops suspect that her suit was sabotaged. As part of the investigation, Devis and Paul travel to an ancient space station to interview XANDER O'BRIEN (played by my good self in a guest lead role!). But the reclusive meteorologist has a surprise in store. He knows exactly who killed Sonia Garrett. Aliens!

I also turn up in the two other episodes of the boxset:3.2 Hostile Takeover by Rossa McPhillips and 3.3 Death in the Desert by Sarah Grochala playing a Moonbase Worker and a Soldier respectively!

It's cracking stuff here, great fun to record and extra special to work with some of the original stars of the show and all wonderfully directed by HELEN GOLDWYN ...

Here's a full cast list for the three episodes:

3A - Star Cops: The High Frontier 1

David Calder (Nathan Spring)

Trevor Cooper (Inspector Colin Devis)

Linda Newton (Acting Chief Superintendent Pal Kenzy)

Philip Olivier (Inspector Paul Bailey)

Sean Connolly (Xander O’Brien / Soldier 1)

Billie Fulford-Brown (Kathy Marshall / Clare Jones)

Sarah Lawrie (Dr Kay Jones)

Lynsey Murrell (Alice Okoro)

Jason Nwoga (Professor Sani Habib / Sergeant Hamza)

Graham Vick (James Winfield / Torsten Arthurton)

Becky Wright (Sonia Garrett / Chef)

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Good Lord! I'm playing a Knight of The Realm - Sir Ralph Richardson - Sat 14th May 2022 @ 7.30pm on ZOOM!!

Really looking forward to playing SIR RALPH RICHARDSON next Saturday to celebrate INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS DAY in an AUDIO VERSION of the stage play '3 Knights & 2 Welshmen' written by PT Rose! Everybody who was anybody will be there; Richard Burton (Lyndon Jeremiah), Sir John Gielgud (Stephen Smith), Lord Olivier (Laurence Saunders) with Sir Ralph Richardson (little me!) making up the trilogy of lordly/knighted acting legends, as well as Dylan Thomas (Kerry Frater) and of course an appearance by Elizabeth Taylor (Corrina Haycox) - no surprise there I suppose, it is a play about Richard Burton after all!!

It will be an extraordinary evening so don't forget to BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS for a ZOOM reading on International Dylan Thomas Day. 

BOOK NOW! May 14th 7:30pm BST https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/317657029727 ...

NOT TO BE MISSED!!

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FIREWORKS FLY in new B7 Media/BBC Radio 4 RADIO DRAMA - 'BARRED' - Saturday 6th Nov - BBC Radio 4 at 3pm ...

You can be sure of FIREWORKS when you tune in TOMORROW at 3pm on BBC RADIO 4 ... 'BARRED' is a contemporary thriller about a young black barrister trying to establish her career. 

TAMIKA (played by the wonderful KERRI MCLEAN) starts at Tudor Chambers full of hope and idealism - only to be confronted by some harsh truths about the broken criminal justice system and the integrity of some of her colleagues.

Rather surprisingly to me - I play a police officer for the very first time, I was almost certain that I had been an 'officer of the law' previously but no!!

The large cast includes; KERRI MCLEAN ('Line of Duty', 'Poldark'), SUSANNAH HARKER (perhaps best known playing Jane Bennet in the 1995 TV adaptation of ‘Pride and Prejudice’), ANDREW LANCEL ('Cardiac Arrest', 'Coronation Street'), ALI BASTIAN ('Hollyoaks', 'The Bill, 'Doctors') and ANDREW WINCOTT (Adam Macy in 'The Archers') who I had previously worked alongside on some video game but more recently (but still nearly a decade ago on 'The Archers') where I (as KEITH HORROBIN) was involved with the gang who hospitalised his character ADAM! There is of course a supremely talented supporting cast too ...

It's a cracking HOUR LONG DRAMA and I am privileged to be a part of it. After its first transmission TOMORROW it'll be available ON DEMAND on the BBC iPlayer here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011bg6

It was also extra special as we recorded it back in an actual radio drama studio ...

The drama was written by THANDI LUBIMBI and RICHARD KURTI and was directed by ANDREW MARK SEWELL.

'BARRED' is a B7 MEDIA production for BBC RADIO 4.

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Celebrating World Audio Drama Day 2021!!

CELEBRATING WORLD AUDIO DRAMA DAY 2021!! As an actor, audio drama has been such an important part of my professional life for over 30 years now. THANK GOODNESS FOR IT!! 

I love it that much - I also teach it at some of the country's best universities and drama schools!!

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GREAT TO BE BACK in an 'ACTUAL' RECORDING STUDIO working opposite REAL LIVE actors!

I'm so delighted to have been back in a PHYSICAL RECORDING STUDIO last week recording a terrific NEW radio play for BBC RADIO 4 produced by the lovely folks at B7 MEDIA ... Here I am next to 'Poldark' and 'Line of Duty' actress KERRI MCLEAN, just one member of the esteemed cast! 

It was a great day at THE SOUNDHOUSE STUDIOS (ALL COVID SECURE!) in LONDON which reminded me why being 'physically in a studio' is SOOO different to recording remotely from your own home studio. I know which one I prefer!! What was extra lovely was the fact that I hadn't worked professionally with any of the actors or production team before ...

The play itself is a very powerful piece of writing by THANDHI LUBIMBI & RICHARD KURTI, can't wait for everyone to hear it later in the year. More news on the full cast and the TX date in the coming months. STAY TUNED!!

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My WORK REVIEW of 2020 ... here's to a MUCH BETTER 2021!

Looking back over 2020 I'm quite staggered about what I managed to get up to, feeling blessed to look back on some positive 'work' highlights during what was for the most part, a very challenging year for us all!! 

Let's hope for a MUCH BETTER 2021!!

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