Doctor Who: The Sirens of Audio
By Sirens of Audio
We give recommendations, interview cast, writers and production crew, review new releases and old favourites, and discuss anything and everything related to audio drama from the Doctor Who expanded universe and it's spinoffs as well as other franchises such as Blake's 7, Torchwood, Star Cops, Space 1999, Survivors, UFO and many more produced by Big Finish, the BBC and others.
Hosted by Dwayne Bunney and Philip Edney.
Doctor Who: The Sirens of AudioAug 12, 2021
197. Review: Novel Adaptations - The Highest Science & Cold Fusion
Take a break from reviews of TV Doctor Who and join us with our guest Dave from The Doctor Who Show as we discuss two Big Finish novel adaptations, Gareth Roberts' The Highest Science and Lance Parkin's multi-Doctor adventure, Cold Fusion.
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196. WENDY PADBURY - Live in Melbourne - 18th February 2024
Here for your enjoyment is a small part of out live event with Wendy Padbury in Melbourne in February 2024.
Looking forward to bringing you many more events such as these in the second half of 2024 and beyond!
Keep up to date with out events and news by joining our private Facebook group via https://www.facebook.com/groups/sirensofaudio
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195. LOUISE JAMESON - Torchwood: Double
Louise Jameson joins us to chat about her recent adventures in India, her time on Emmerdale, and her recent Big Finish releases including Torchwood: Double.
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194. Time Lord Victorious - Success or Failure?
We explore every audio Time Lord Victorious release and chat with Genetics of the Daleks writer, Jonathan Morris, and producer of the Big Finish range and writer of Echoes of Extinction, Alfie Shaw.
These reviews were originally done for the boys at Progtor Who and Around the Console. Check out their podcast here - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/around-the-console/id1593947980
00:00 - Intro
03:54 - Master Theif / Lessor Evils
17:11 - Echoes of Extinction - 8th Doctor side
23:57 - He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not
39:03 - The Enemy of My Enemy
49:12 - The Minds of Magnox
1:01:10 - Mutually Assured Destruction
1:3:34 - Genetics of the Daleks
1:24:53 - Interview with Jonathan Morris
1:36:05 - Echoes of Extinction - 10th Doctor side
1:49:43 - Interview with Alfie Shaw
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193. DAVID K. BARNES - The Silent Devil
Our guest is Big Finish writer David K. Barnes. He'll join us down the rabbit hole, chat about his career, and we'll go through each of his Big Finish releases to date, including his most recent releases, Storm of the Sea Devils and The Silent Priest/The Silent City.
This is a conversation not to be missed.
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192. SOPHIE ALDRED - Ace and Mr Colchester
This time we discuss the three Torchwood audio adventures that feature Ace and Mr Colchester, The Red List, Death in Venice and Sabotage.
And we catch up with Sophie Aldred to talk about what she has been up to since we spoke to her last including her audio work and back to the televisual world of Doctor Who in Tales of the TARDIS.
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191. KATY MANNING - Live Q&A - Sydney, October 2023
We share our Q&A session from Katy Manning Live in Sydney on 14th October 2023.
With the real story behind "The Five Doctors", the creation of Iris Wildthyme and tips for wearing a mini-skirt properly, this fun session gives you a look at a small part of our live events.
Have fun!
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190. KAREN GLEDHILL - Remembrance, Counter-Measures & Beyond
Our guest is Doctor Who actress Karen Gledhill.
Karen played Allison in Remembrance of the Daleks and reprised the role in the Counter-Measures series for Big Finish.
We chat about her career and her role in the Doctor Who universe.
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189. Reviews | Revolution in Space | Buried Threats
We review two recent Big Finish Doctor Who releases.
Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith adventure, Revolution in Space and Ninth Doctor box set, Buried Threats.
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188. Sontarans Vs Rutans | Michael Jayston | Trial of the Valeyard
This time we celebrate the character brought to life by Michael Jayston, namely, The Valeyard. We review Trial of the Valeyard, a Big Finish Doctor Who subscriber special release.
We also review the February Doctor Who release, Sontarans vs Rutans - The Children of the Future by Tim Foley. Theme music by Joe Kraemer. https://sirensofaudio.com Find us on all socials @AudioSirens
187. EDDIE ROBSON - Memory Lane
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186. The Best of Big Finish 2023
Here is our annual chat about our favourite stories from Big Finish from the previous year, with our guest host, Kenny Smith.
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185. JOSEPH LIDSTER - Soapy Death
We welcome the return of Joe Lidster to the podcast to talk about his writing journey, his influences and the lyrics to the Murder, She Wrote theme tune.
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184. WENDY PADBURY - An Astrophysicist Down Under
Welcome to our first podcast episode of 2024.
We are delighted to bring to you our recent chat with 2nd Doctor companion Zoe actress, Wendy Padbury.
Wendy, along with her daughter and Big Finish actress Charlie Hayes, will be appearing at events in Melbourne and Sydney in February 2024. For more information on those event and to buy tickets, visit https://sirensofaudio.com
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Sophie Aldred Live in Sydney - 13th May 2023
Back in May 2023 with had the privilege of hosting Sophie Aldred's only appearance in Sydney on her last visit to Australia.
We hope you enjoy her first interview (of several) of the day.
This may give you a taste of our intimate Doctor Who events and at the time of publication, we are happy to share that Wendy Padbury will be our next featured guest at events to be held in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in February, 2024.
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Review: The Church on Ruby Road | Sirens Sound Off
We review the 2023 Doctor Who Special - The Church of Ruby Road, featuring Ncuti Gatwa in his first full episode and Millie Gibson as new companion Ruby Sunday.
183. Once and Future [Spoilers]
**Please Note - THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS**
In our final episode of 2023, we take a (spoiler-filled) look back at Big Finish's epic seven-part 60th Doctor Who anniversary special, Once and Future.
Did we say this episode contains spoilers? We'll say it again just to be sure you know. We reveal the entire plot, so if you don't want to be spoiled, listen to Once and Future before listening to this.
We also take a grateful look back at the incredible year we had as a podcast and now as event organisers.
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The Giggle (Review) | Sirens Sound Off
After last week's firey discussion, can Philip and Dwayne find some healing the final 60th Anniversary Doctor Who Special?
182. INDIA FISHER - Good Charlotte
It is our great pleasure to bring to you our recent chat with India Fisher, who played, and continues to play, Eighth Doctor companion, Charley Pollard.
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Review: Wild Blue Yonder | Sirens Sound Off
Well this is our most heated disagreement yet. Leave your thoughts on the episode below and we will read them out and discuss them next time.
181. Love and War - The 25th Anniversary of Professor Bernice Summerfield at Big Finish
In the 60th Anniversary Season of Doctor Who, how could we miss a focus on one of the most important characters in the whole of Doctor Who expanded media, namely, Professor Bernice Summerfield?
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The Star Beast (Review) - Destination Skaro - The Daleks in Colour - Sirens Sound Off
In the very first "Sirens Sound Off", Philip and Dwayne give their first impressions of the brand new Doctor Who off the telly, The Star Beast.
They also talk about the recent Children in Need skit, Destination Skaro, Russel T. Davies controvertial comments about the changing of Davros and The Daleks in Colour.
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180. NICHOLAS BRIGGS - The Light at the End
Happy Doctor Who Day!
To celebrate (or not, as the case may be) we are joined by the Creative Director of Big Finish, Nicholas Briggs, to talk about his 50th anniversary adventure, The Light at the End.
Additionally, Nick will be jumping down the rabbit hole with us to discuss our favourite episodes to revisit during the anniversary period.
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179. EDDIE ROBSON, JONATHAN MORRIS & JOHN DORNEY - The 1963 Trilogy
With only one week until the first 60th anniversary Doctor Who special hits our tv screens, we go back ten years to the 50th anniversary and the 1963 Trilogy. Three stories centred around that very special year in Doctor Who history.
The stories titles are 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men, 1963: The Space Race and 1963: The Assassination Games.
As a special treat, we are joined by each of the authors, Eddie Robson, Jonathan Morris and John Dorney, who discuss their work.
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178. The Toymaker - Solitaire
Only a couple of weeks to go until the 60th Anniversary Doctor Who specials begin to appear on out television screens. In the meantime, join us as we take a look at one of the audio appearances of this mysterious foe, Big Finish's Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - Solitaire, featuring India Fisher as Charley Pollard and David baillie as The Toymaker.
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177. The Star Beast - The Comic Strip Adaptations - Review
As the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who comes ever closer, we review the Big Finish audio adaptation of the comic strip that is also being adapted for the first episode of the RDT2 era, The Star Beast.
And we ask the question, why does Russell T. Davies love to adapt stories from other Doctor Who media such as comics, books and audio?
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176. GARY RUSSELL - Zagreus - The 40th Anniversary Doctor Who Special
Our 60th Anniversary series continues with a look back at the Doctor Who 40th Anniversary special, Zagreus. Joining us to talk about it in depth is producer, director and co-writer, Gary Russell.
We'll also be jumping down the rabbit hole with the live Sydney audience from our recent event with Katy Manning.
And for those who loved our recent interview with Conrad Westmaas, he returns here to give us his special experience of working on Zagreus.
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175. The Villains Trilogy - Looking Back at the Doctor Who 40th Anniversary - with Ian Kubiak and Gary Russell
Continuing our Doctor Who 60th anniversary season, we take a look back to the 40th anniversary and The Villains Trilogy, featuring Omega, Davros and The Master.
We are privileged to be joined by Cygnus Alpha events organiser, Ian Kubiak. For information on his upcoming events, visit https://www.cygnusalpha.org/
We also have some memories from the man behind Big Finish at the time, producer and director, Gary Russell.
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174. CONRAD WESTMAAS - How To Be Invisible
Our Doctor Who 60th Anniversary season continues with our special guest for this episode, Conrad Westmaas.
Conrad is a lifelong Doctor Who fan and actor who played Eighth Doctor companion C'Rizz, a chameleonic alien from the Divergent Universe.
And since it's anniversary time, it will have been 20 years in January 2024 since C'Rizz made his first appearance in Philip Martin's "The Creed of the Kromon".
Conrad speaks frankly about his love of sci-fi and fantasy, what let him to being an actor, and how he felt about his time as a Doctor Who companion, including how he dealt with the negative fan reaction at the time.
Thanks so much for being with us Conrad!!
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173. BRIAN CROUCHER - The Travis of Death
We continue our anniversary themed episodes with a celebration of 10 years of full cast Blake's 7 audio drama from Big Finish.
Brian Croucher has appeared in both Blake's 7 (as Space Commander Travis) and Doctor Who (as Borg in The Robots of Death), and he joins us to talk about his career and his views on life, as well as his time recording audio drama for Big Finish and Magic Bullet Productions.
Our thanks go to Ian Kubiak at Cygnus Alpha Events - https://www.cygnusalpha.org/
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172. NICHOLAS PEGG, TIM SUTTON, HELEN GOLDWYN and COLIN BAKER - The 20th Anniversary of Doctor Who and the Pirates
We are pleased to bring to you this special 20th anniversary celebration of Philip's favourite Big Finish adventure, Doctor Who and the Pirates, starring Colin Baker, Maggie Stables and Bill Oddie (The Goodies).
This feature includes brand new interviews with Nicholas Pegg, Tim Sutton and Helen Goldwyn, with archive Sirens of Audio material from Colin Baker and archive clips of Bill Oddie and Maggie Stables thanks to Big Finish Magazine.
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171. The Paradise of Death | Looking back at the 30th Anniversary
In our anniversary themed episodes leading up to the 60th, we take a look back at 1993 and the BBC Radio release, "Doctor Who - The Paradise of Death", starring Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen and Nicholas Courtney.
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170. Torchwood - Four of the Best | with Martyn Havell
Long-term pop culture podcaster Martyn Havell joins us to discuss four of his favourites from the Big Finish Torchwood range.
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169. The Ninth Doctor Returns! | Ravagers | with Sarah Graham from Type 40
We head into the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who season with a look back at The Ninth Doctor Adventures - Ravagers, with our friend Sarah from the Type 40 podcast.
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168. LOUISE JAMESON and JOHN DORNEY - The Omega Factor
We are thrilled to once again be joined by the delightful Louise Jameson and the boundless John Dorney, this time to talk about their roles in the Big Finish audio adaptation of The Omega Factor, the 1979 cult paranormal investigative TV show that had Mary Whitehouse going bananas.
For more information on audio adventures of The Omega Factor, including details of the forthcoming release "The House That Wasn't Haunted" by Tim Foley, visit https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/the-omega-factor
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167. JANET FIELDING - Live In Sydney 2023
In this special edition of the podcast we share the first interview with Janet Fielding at her live event with us in Sydney on 1st April, 2023.
Lots of talk about The Power of the Doctor and bringing the character of Tegan back to television after over 40 years.
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166. HUGH ROSS - Counter-Measured
We speak with actor Hugh Ross about his career and his work for Big Finish, including one of our favourite regular roles of his, Sir Toby Kinsella of Counter-Measures.
Dwayne's wife will be pleased that even Outlander gets a good mention.
Also included in this episode is our regular rabbit hole topic and recommendations.
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165. JONATHAN MORRIS - Cobwebs and Death and the Queen - Randomoids 23
We take a look at two randomly picked Doctor Who stories, Tenth Doctor and Donna adventure, Death and the Queen, and the very first outing for Janet Fielding as a regular companion in the fifth Doctor story, Cobwebs.
As a special treat we are joined by writer of Cobwebs, Jonathan Morris.
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164. PAUL F. VERHOVEN - The Green Man
We are pleased to bring you our recent chat with Aussie author Paul F. Verhoven.
Paul penned the middle story in the most recent Big Finish boxset release from The Second Doctor Adventures.
"The Green Man" is Paul's first full length and full cast Doctor Who audio drama and we are sure this is the first of many to come!
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The Seeds of Death - Unofficial Audiobook Reading - Chapters One to Five
This bonus episode features material from an abondoned project to record Doctor Who - The Seeds of Death by Terrance Dicks as an unofficial audiobook. It was progressing well... until BBC Audiobooks announced an official version was going to be released in 2023, read by David Troughton.
So here for you are the first five chapters of the book, read by The Sirens of Audio host, Dwayne Bunney.
If you like what you hear, we recommend you get along to wherever you can avail yourself of the official version and support that.
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163. LIZZIE HOPLEY - Happy Horror Heroes
Joining us for the entire episode this week is Big Finish writer and actor Lizzie Hopley, talking all things Doctor Who, heroes and villains, her inspirations and recommendations.
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162. GLEN McCREADY - "Please Don't Pester the Team"
Glen McCready is one of Big Finish's most prolific guest actors with a huge array of voices and accents to draw from. Today we'll find out what led to Glen becoming an actor, how long he waited to be employed by Big Finish, what it's like for an actor to face regular rejection, and his working relationship with Steven Berkoff.
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To find out more about the Steven Berkoff play, Corpse, visit https://www.stevenberkoff.com/
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161. BETH CHALMERS - Pulling No Punches
Join us for a chat with one of Big Finish's most reliable guest actors, and the smoothest of voices, Beth Chalmers.
Beth has had many guest roles across many ranges including playing seventh Doctor companion Raine and the Time Lord Veklin in the War Doctor series.
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160. Classic Doctors, New Monsters Volume 2 | Randomoids 22
Our chat around this month's Randomoids was chosen by an audience member and it is Doctor Who - Classic Doctors, New Monsters Volume 2.
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159. TIM BENTINCK - The Tassie Laddie
Join us for a fascinating chat with one of Big Finish's regular guest actors, Tim Bentinck. He has appeared in almost every Big Finish series including Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Space 1999, The Avengers, Torchwood and more. Tim is also very well known for his portrayal of David Archer in the long-running radio serial, The Archers.
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To read Tim's article, "The Return of the Laddie from Tazzie", click here - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/holidaytypeshub/article-608173/Return-laddie-Tazzie.html
To see a full list of Tim's appearances for Big Finish, visit https://www.bigfinish.com/search_results?search_value_selected=0&search_term=timothy+bentinck
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158. Sarah Jane Smith | Series Two | Retrospective
Join us on an exhilarating journey into the captivating world of the Sarah Jane Smith Series 2 Big Finish audio series. Prepare to be enthralled as we delve into the depths of this extraordinary production, accompanied by exclusive interviews that will transport you behind the scenes.
Step into the realm of limitless imagination as we unravel the creative genius behind the series, accompanied by the mastermind himself, producer and director extraordinaire, John Ainsworth. Discover the intricate tapestry of storytelling woven by the brilliant mind of David Bishop, the esteemed writer behind all four awe-inspiring stories.
But that's not all! Prepare to be introduced to the enigmatic Josh Townsend, Sarah Jane's ever-loyal companion, portrayed by the charismatic Jez Fielder, also known as Jeremy James. Hear firsthand about the challenges and triumphs of bringing this compelling character to life, and the unforgettable moments shared in studio.
And as if that weren't enough, we've reached back in time to bring you archive material from the acclaimed Big Finish Magazine Volume 7, released in 2006. Immerse yourself in a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes insights, illuminating the creative process and the remarkable talents that brought this series to fruition.
But wait, there's one more treat in store! We'll be joined by none other than Gary Russell, the prodigious producer and director behind the sensational Series 1.
Get ready for a glimpse into the evolution of the series, as we uncover the secrets of its genesis and the incredible journey from its inception to its resounding success.
So buckle up, dear listeners, as we embark on an extraordinary adventure, exploring the Sarah Jane Smith Series 2 Big Finish audio series like never before. Get ready for a whirlwind of captivating stories, compelling interviews, and unforgettable memories that will leave you spellbound.
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157. ELIZABETH MORTON - The Doctor's Wife
Writer and actress Elizabeth Morton joins us to talk about her new book, The Orphans from Liverpool Lane, her career, her appearances in Big Finish produced audio drama and her life as the wife of Peter Davison and, step-mother to Georgia Tennant and mother-in-law to David Tennant.
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156. The Bride of Peladon | The Lost Stories: Animal | Beth Chalmers | Randomoids XXI
Our Randomoids selections for review this month are Big Finish Monthly Range story The Bride of Peladon featuring the fifth Doctor, Peri and the final story for Erimem, and The Lost Stories: Animal, featuring the seventh Doctor, Ace and Raine.
We also share a snippet from a forthcoming in-depth interview with actress Beth Chalmers.
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155. MAX KASHEVSKY - Short Trippin' Across The Universe
Our guest is emerging Big Finish writer Max Kashevsky. He talks about his Short Trips stories "Still Life" and "Salvage", and his forthcoming Eleventh Doctor story "All's Fair". He also gives some advice for aspiring Doctor Who writers.
For information on the 2023 Paul Spragg Writing Opportunity, visit https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/enter-big-finish-s-2023-writing-opportunity
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154. HELEN GOLDWYN - Big Finish Director, Actor and Writer
Although Helen Goldwyn has joined us previously on the podcast, we have never before spoken at length with her about her career and her time with Big Finish as a whole in her various roles as actor, director and writer. Now that time has come!
Dwayne's interview with Jim Baker from The Tripods can be found here - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jim-and-dwayne-talk-the-tripods/id495324255?i=1000509951089
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