Into The Time Vortex - Interview with Nick Briggs of Doctor Who and Big Finish

Big Finish Doctor Who News

Big Finish announced last week that they will be doing a series of Doctor Chronicles that take place during the 9th, 10th and 11th Doctor eras of Doctor Who.  These box sets will be just like the Companion Chronicles and that the stories will be narrated and some of the parts being played by those who have appeared in featured Doctors era.  Nick Briggs will be the main narrator and will be playing the role of The Doctor.  The first set will be the 9th Doctor and will be out in May while the 10th and 11th Doctor box sets will be out in 2018.  You can read more about this release at the following link.
https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who---the-doctor-chronicles



Big Finish also announced that there will be more 4th Doctor adventures coming in 2018 with the release of two box sets coming out in January and May.  What more The Doctor will be facing some familiar foes as The Doctor will once again go up against the Egyptian God Sutekh who will be played once again by Gabriel Woolf.  Tom Baker will be joined by Louise Jameson who played Leela during the 4th Doctor era.  You can read more about the forth coming 4th Doctor adventures at the link below.
https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/fourth-doctor-series-7-news

Doctor Who - The Voice of the Daleks Is Coming To LI Who 4

Nick Briggs who voices every creature in New Doctor Who but most noticeably the Daleks and Cybermen will be heading to Long Island this November.  Nick Briggs is also one of the main guys at Big Finish as he produces, directs and writes for various ranges.  His panels should be pretty interesting as I'm sure he'll have some Big Finish stuff for us.  You can order your tickets at the LI Who website.
http://longislanddoctorwho.com/index.html

Doctor Who - Synopsis For The Exxilons

New Year and a new year for Big Finish as we start of 2015 with another series of 4th Doctor Adventures starring Tom Baker.  He is once again joined by Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as K-9.  The first story in series 4 is The Exxilon by the voice of the Daleks himself Nick Briggs. You can order it from the Big Finish website.
http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-exxilons-937

Planet E9874 supports a developing civilisation known as the Tarl. The peaceful, technologically advanced Locoyuns are helping the Tarl develop rudimentary technology. What could be more innocent than that?

When the Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive, they find the delicate balance in the relationship between the two cultures reaching an unexpected crisis point. The spears are flying and the threat of all-out war is in the air.

The Doctor must use all his guile to tread a careful path with Tarl leader Ergu, while Leela and K9 discover an ancient power of unimaginable strength which threatens to tear the minds out of its victims.

Written By: Nicholas Briggs
Directed By: Nicholas Briggs

Cast
Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), John Leeson (K9), Daisy Dunlop (Trexa), Jacqueline King (Calura), Hugh Ross (Gethal)

Synopsis For The Judgement of Sherlock Holmes Box Set

Big Finish is releasing another box set for their popular Sherlock Holmes series with the voice of the Daleks Nick Briggs taking the lead yet again as Sherlock Holmes.  The Judgment of Sherlock Holmes is a story if four parts and you can order it from the Big Finish website.
http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-judgement-of-sherlock-holmes-box-set-1116

Sherlock Holmes had many secrets. This is the greatest of them.

Our knowledge of the life and career of Mr Sherlock Holmes is necessarily partial and inexact. Riddled with lacunae and ambiguities, its parameters are defined chiefly by what his friend and colleague, Dr John Watson, saw fit to record. One era in particular – those enigmatic years in which, believed dead at the Reichenbach Falls, the Great Detective roved the world incognito – has been shrouded in obscurity and doubt, the particulars of that time too terrible and too strange to be set down in full.

At least, that is, until now…

Part One: Poppyland
It is October, 1921. Dr John Watson, now almost seventy, has accustomed himself to a life of retirement. He is surprised, then, to encounter his old friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, rising out of the early evening mist like a wraith. There are things they have to discuss, he says, matters from the distant past. It is important, he says, that Watson hears at last a full account of what happened to Holmes during his years away from England when, believed by the world to be dead following his battle with Professor Moriarty, he travelled incognito overseas…

Part Two: At the Gates of Shambhala
1892. At the heart of Tibet, a world away from London, where a grieving Dr Watson is battling demons of his own, stands an ancient monastery, abandoned for generations but now the source of rumours of the most peculiar and terrible kind. For strangers have lately invaded this place and pressed it into service for their dark schemes. Those who dwell nearby have come to live in fear and sorrow. What good fortune, then, that a certain noted Norwegian explorer should happen to have found himself in the vicinity…

Part Three: The Man in the Moonlight
Mr Sherlock Holmes is the kind of man whom it is practically impossible to imagine ever having been a child, so fixed and set is his nature. Yet even he was once an infant, his childhood as fraught with peril as his adult life. That time, long past, still haunts him – one element most of all, the figure of a stranger, standing without and gazing upwards, his thin, pale face haloed by moonlight.

Part Four: The Tragedy of Pargetter Square
Here is where it ends: with a murderer in Pargetter Square, with the detective and a tyrant come face to face in Baker Street, with desperate ambition and wickedness incarnate, with an assassin’s bullet and with old friends working, unknowingly, as one.

Yet what is an ending if not a beginning by a different name?

Written By: Jonathan Barnes
Directed By: Ken Bentley

Cast
Nicholas Briggs (Sherlock Holmes/Sherrinford Holmes), Richard Earl (Dr Watson), John Banks (Inspector Lestrade, Colonel Sebastian Moran), Tim Bentinck (Mycroft Holmes), Gemma Whelan (Mary Watson), Jemma Churchill (Helena Eidelmann), Terrence Hardiman (Dr Esau Thorne), Nicholas Chambers (The Reverend Samuel Griffiths), Joannah Tincey (Miss Jessica Hendrick), Dai Tabuchi (Dorje), David Killick (Lord Colney, The Earl of Pettigree)

Nick Briggs Talks About the Return of Doctor Who Episodes

Nick Briggs was asked at New York Comic Con this past weekend what it was like to see the two Doctor Who episodes "The Enemy of the World" and "The Web of Fear".  Nick Briggs plays the voice of the Daleks, Cybermen and other characters in the latest Doctor Who series but is obviously thrilled with the return of these classic stories which are both available now on ITunes.

Thanks to Gene from the Doctor Who Store

Doctor Who Stars Colin Baker and Nick Briggs Added To NYCC Guest List

New York Comic Con has added some Doctor Who guests to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary in the form of the 6th Doctor himself Colin Baker.  He will be joined by the voice of his arch enemy The Daleks Nick Briggs and Big Finish Audio Producer Jason Haigh - Ellery.  They will be at the DoctorWhoStore.Com  table 3138 and all three will be doing a panel together on Sunday at 2:45 PM.  NYCC is held at The Javits Center in Mid Town Manhattan on October 10 - 13 and all three will be there all four days. http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/Whos-Coming/Guests/Ent-Guests/