Apparently, the upcoming Special Edition of The Visitation has a feature about the audios, and there are two interesting tidbits from Russell T Davies regarding Big Finish:

• He wishes he had had Nick Briggs write for the TV series: “Looking back I think, to be honest, I always regret that we never asked Nick Briggs to write a Doctor Who script. He writes cracking Big Finish stories.”
• He more or less prevented Mal Young from revoking Big Finish’s license when the new series began:

“I swear to god, if Mal Young [Doctor Who Executive Producer at that time] had found out about Big Finish, he would have canceled them. He would have axed their license.” Describing a meeting with BBC Worldwide when the topic of Big Finish and their license was broached, Davies said, “I remember leaning across the desk and went, ‘That’s fine. Mal, I’ll take charge of that. You don’t have to worry about it. It’s fine, let’s move on.’ I literally stopped it being discussed.”

[source - Blogtor Who]

six-glasses-of-carrot-juice:

Charley was a dream role. Alan Barnes had created her so completely in Storm Warning that I really had very little to do. By the time the Doctor and Charley have met and exchanged banter about Geronimo and tiddlywinks you feel you already know her and more importantly their relationship. It is a masterly piece of writing. Her character just leapt off the page, there was no need for me to spend hours deciding how I was going to play her, or what she’d be like, it was all there for me. I just had to read the lines. She was so brilliantly fresh and vibrant, the term perky has been used on several occasions, but there’s more to her than mere perkiness. I loved the fact that she was an adventurer in her own right; you know that even if she’d never met the Doctor she’d be off somewhere getting into trouble, although there would probably have been fewer near death experiences of battles with Cyberman. […] She was such a strong and rounded character and I felt she came to the relationship with the Doctor as an equal. She was prepared to speak her mind, never intimidated and always ready to pick up the nearest gun and get in the thick things. I just loved her from the very start.

I can’t wait for Charley’s spinoff series. :)

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In response to a post from early today.

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Oh man, these are really good. I especially admire “‘The Natural History of Fear’ — Nineteen Eight-y four.”

That’s awesome.

“34: ‘Bang-Bang-a-Boom!’ — Eurovision in space.”   That definitely makes me want to listen to it. XD

I have Bang-Bang-a-Boom! but I haven’t listened to it yet (because of technical difficulties) although everything I’ve heard about it makes it sound like All The Star Trek Parodies At Once.