Doctor Who: The Sirens of Audio – Details, episodes & analysis

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.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer and Ken Freeman.

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Pamela Salem is an actress who starred in memorable roles in classic Doctor Who stories The Robots of Death and Remembrance of the Daleks.

She reprised her television roles for Big Finish in the spinoff series' Counter-Measures and The Robots.

Pamela passed away in February 2024.

We speak with several people who worked with her on television and audio, Louise Jameson, Sophie Aldred, Karen Gledhill and Ken Bentley.

We also share for the first time, video footage of our 2021 interview with Pamela for The SIrens of Audio Podcast.

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We reach a milestone for the podcast with our 200th episode.

To help us celebrate, we are joined by 2nd Doctor Who companion actor Frazer Hines.

Not only do we have Frazer joining us for the podcast, we announce our live events for September 2024, featuring both Frazer and Katy Manning!

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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This week we celebrate the release of Gallifrey: War Room 1 - Allegiance with producer Heather Challands. We chat with Heather about her love of Doctor Who and how she came to be working for Big Finish, and we hear some of her insights about the work involved in producing Doctor Who on audio. 

Gallifrey: War Room 1 - Allegiance can be purchased from https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/gallifrey-war-room-1-allegiance-2592

Philip recommends The Mutoid Podcast - https://mutoidpodcast.libsyn.com/

Dwayne recommends the most recent single from Machines of Indeterminate Origin, This Ship Rights Itself/Reckless - https://moio.bandcamp.com/album/this-ship-rights-itself-reckless

M010 are making this two track download available with all proceeds going to support Ukranian refugees and also Amnesty International’s continued push for better gun laws internationally, especially what has happened (again) in the USA.

www.unrefugees.org.au/emergency-response/ukraine-emergency/

www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/arms-control/gun-violence/  

This download is setup as ‘name your price’, so consider what you would like to give to these charities, all proceeds, split evenly, go to them.

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In this exclusive chat with writer and producer Alfie Shaw, we discuss and preview the exciting new Eleventh Doctor Chronicles season starring Jacob Dudman and Safiyya Ingar, with the first set to be released in October 2022.

To pre-order your copy and for more information, visit https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-eleventh-doctor-chronicles-are-back

Preview clip courtesy of Big Finish Productions.  

Theme music by Husky By The Geek

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We celebrate the legacy of Bernard Cribbins in Doctor Who on audio, as Kenny Smith joins us to discuss his only two audio releases for Big Finish, the Eighth Doctor adventure, Horror of Glam Rock and Tenth Doctor Adventure, No Place. 

We also reminisce about our early memories of Bernard and his immense contribution to Doctor Who on television as Wilfred Mott. 

Plus, we each give our Bernard Cribbins' recommendations to close out the episode. 

Kenny's podcast Pieces of Eighth can be found at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/doctor-who-pieces-of-eighth/id1568889213

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In Part Two of our discussion with Big Finish Executive Producer Nicholas Briggs, we delve into the history of the company from the early days when The Sirens of Time was still an idea, to today, where we look at where the company is going now. 

Thank you so much for your time Nick!

Philip recommends Doctor Who: Out of Time 3 - Wink - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-out-of-time-3-wink-2297

Dwayne recommends The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield Volume 6: Lost in Translation - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-new-adventures-of-bernice-summerfield-volume-06-lost-in-translation-2228

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We are joined by writer Will Hadcroft as we discuss his exciting new Second Doctor BBC Audio release Doctor Who: The Resurrection Plant, his fandom and writing journey to this point, and we take a side-step into the worlds of John Christopher and The Tripods. 

We also give our weekly recommendations. 

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We speak with James Moran, author of Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii, released as an audiobook on 14th July 2022. 

Available from - https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Fires-Pompeii-Novelisation/dp/B09SZMSBFH

Original theme composed by Joe Kraemer | http://www.joekraemer.com/about/

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Two stories. One guest. And a lot to discuss in this month's edition of "We've Got Randomoids". 

Best-selling author and comic book writer Tony Lee joins us to talk about his one and only Big Finish Doctor Who release, Rat Trap. 

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-rat-trap-314

And we review Marc Platt's second Doctor Who Unbound adventure starring Geoffrey Bayldon and Carol-Ann Ford, A Storm of Angels. 

 https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-unbound-a-storm-of-angels-368

Philip recommends Mrs Frisby and The Rats of NIMH - https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Frisby-and-Rats-of-NIMH-audiobook/dp/B0085BK1TG

Dwayne recommends Tony Lee's Adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - https://www.amazon.com/20-000-Leagues-Under-Sea/dp/B08D3WFPPX

Original theme composed by Joe Kraemer | http://www.joekraemer.com/about/

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