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Big Finish post
Snow permitting, I shall be at the Big Finish 2 day this Saturday, February 11th, from 9:00 am. The event is at Barking Abbey School in, Barking, Essex. There will be actors, directors, producers,...
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GallifreyOne update
The GallifreyOne people have kindly asked me to be on a number of discussion sessions at their forthcoming convention. On Friday at 3:30 pm I’m doing something called a Kaffeklatsch. I’m not quite sure...
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Winchester Festival, July 7th
I seem to have forgotten hitherto to say that I’ll be at Winchester’s Discovery Centre tomorrow for a Doctor Who Creative Writing Workshop. The splendid author Simon Guerrier will also be there, as...
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Warship trailer
Big Finish Productions have released the first trailer for my full-cast Blake’s 7 audio Warship. Click the link to hear it! Download: blake-s-7-warship---cd-and-download-815 But more importantly,...
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B7 podcast update
Big Finish Productions have released a podcast featuring some clips from my full-cast Blake’s 7 audio Warship. Click the link to hear it! Download: august-2012-1---blake-s-7-podcast And of course you...
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Blake’s 7: Incentive
Big Finish today announced release 6 of The Liberator Chronicles. This was originally the collection that would have included Warship, which was subsequently spun out into a full-cast audio of its own....
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Spelling B7
I’ve been pondering the accuracy of my spelling when writing Warship for Big Finish at the end of last year. Big Finish does make an effort to get spellings correct wherever possible (yes, even though...
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Good companions
What a splendid day I had yesterday at the Big Finish Day 3 event in Barking. I met lots of lovely people who said equally lovely things about stuff I’ve written. I spoke on a panel about Blake’s 7...
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Filling the gap
I’m delighted to confirm that my audio Blake’s 7: Warship was so successful that Big Finish has invited me to write three new scripts. Like my original one, they will be full-cast audios starring the...
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Free sample
Have you been tempted by my novelisation of Blake’s 7: Warship, but afraid to commit? Fear no more! You can obtain a free sample from Amazon in the UK and in the US. And also in Japan and Germany and...
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Mirror image
Those splendid people at Big Finish have been publishing the covers of their forthcoming full-cast audio Blake’s 7 episodes. One of them is mine: Mirror. More news about that in the new year. In the...
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Gauda Prime day
Today is Gauda Prime Day 2013. It’s the anniversary of the first broadcast of “Blake,” the finale to season D of Blake’s 7 over three decades ago. I wrote in a previous blog post about how I got to see...
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Here’s one I saved earlier
These days, enthusiastic viewers of the BBC’s Blue Peter programme can learn from Jedward how to make a ring-pull bracelet from drinks cans. But back in 1978, I learned from Lesley Judd how to make a...
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Talking to Big Finish
Big Finish kindly invited me to participate in their event this weekend, Saturday 18th January, at the Copthorne Hotel Slough-Windsor. Guests include Paul McGann, Tom Chadbon, Simon Fisher-Becker,...
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GallifreyOne 2014
I am delighted to have been invited once again to the fantastic GallifreyOne, the world’s largest and longest-running Doctor Who convention. There’s a sparkling array of major guests attending: Doctors...
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Reflections on Mirror
My Blake’s 7 audio “Mirror” is published today. It’s the latest exciting episode in a full-cast audio series. You can hear a preview clip of it here. I loved being part of a team of writers putting...
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Hursley FM competition
After months of negotiation with my agent, I agreed terms with http://hursleyfm.com for a podcast interview. Oh, all right then, they e-mailed me at work last Wednesday, and I said yes straight away....
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It’s just a machine
Interviewed by Big Finish about the scripts for their Blake’s 7 audios, Paul Darrow commented that sometimes we have Avon describing the computers as “he” rather than “it.” And because that wasn’t...
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Blake novelisation
In 1981 I went with my pals Peter and Tony to BBC Television Centre London, where we saw the final episode of Blake’s 7 being recorded. I’ve blogged about that elsewhere on this blog. Subsequently, I...
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Shadow novelisation
The success of my 1985 Blake novelisation prompted me and my pals to consider publishing further Blake’s 7 TV adaptations. Chris Boucher had been very helpful by allowing us to adapt his script for the...
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