tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759907408628736472024-03-13T18:42:17.489+00:00Broad Thoughts from a HomeBeing an on-line repository for the occasional brain-splurges of Ian PotterIZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.comBlogger229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-69542466499465820432019-01-11T15:09:00.001+00:002019-01-11T15:09:36.723+00:00Staying GermyAlready nearly two weeks into 2019 and no updates.<br />Deary me.<br />Anyway in product out there to buy news...<br /><i><b>The New Counter-Measures- The Hollow King</b></i> is out there to buy! Yes! From <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-new-counter-measures-the-hollow-king-1971" target="_blank">here</a> in fact (other shops will follow in a month or so, but you won't get the offer of a download and I'll be surprised if it ends up cheaper)<br />It's had a couple of lovely reviews as well which I'm delighted by. <a href="https://scifibulletin.com/doctor-who/reviews/review-doctor-who-big-finish-audio-the-new-counter-measures-3-the-hollow-king/" target="_blank">Here</a> and <a href="https://redrocketrising.com/2019/01/06/counter-measures-the-hollow-king-review/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />It's a stand alone story but there are continuity Easter Eggs for the very keen- the company Rachel's lab's with has been mentioned in passing once before in a Guy Adams <i><b>Counter-Measures</b></i>, the museum referred to is one invented for a John Dorney <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> story (I suspect so utterly ghastly things weren't alleged to have once happened at the British Museum), there may even be a nod to Clifford Jones of Llanfairfach and a little bit of chat about the UN and a Royal Institute that might even be discussing UNIT and Torchwood. That's even before you get to the OTHER STUFF.<br />There- you simply have to buy now.<br /><br />In other news, this month I am absolutely full of something virulent, have just delivered the audio component of a new <i><b>Rifftrax</b></i> piece with Matthew J Elliott and have written a short play.IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-91656179989025518342018-12-21T10:16:00.001+00:002018-12-21T10:16:44.055+00:00Going GermyI accidentally went a tiny bit viral on Twitter this week.<br />Just before bed one night an advert came on the TV for Pepsi which featured exciting young things surfing with neon boards in the middle of the night in what would obviously be freezing sea.<br />"Make new traditions" the ad concluded. It's sort of a tacit admission that Pepsi can't compete on Christmas fizzy drinkness with Coca Cola which has the modern image of Santa as some stupid trucks delivering pop every year at the core of its brand. Pepsi, in brand terms, is always the second one you think of.<br />I tweeted a thing which has often occurred to me that Pepsi should use this underdog thing a lot more, particularly in the UK because we love a bit of self-deprecation here. We're the third best at it in the world.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Cblockquote%20class=%22twitter-tweet%22%20data-lang=%22en%22%3E%3Cp%20lang=%22en%22%20dir=%22ltr%22%3EWhy%20does%20Pepsi%20never%20advertise%20using%20its%20official%20UK%20slogan%20as%20used%20by%20all%20British%20pub%20landlords?%3Cbr%3E%22It%27s%20Pepsi.%20Is%20that%20alright?%22%3C/p%3E%E2%80%94%20Ian%20Potter%20(@ianzpotter)%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://twitter.com/ianzpotter/status/1075187106107088896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22%3EDecember%2019,%202018%3C/a%3E%3C/blockquote%3E%20%3Cscript%20async%20src=%22https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js%22%20charset=%22utf-8%22%3E%3C/script%3E"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Why does Pepsi never advertise using its official UK slogan as used by all British pub landlords?<br />"It's Pepsi. Is that alright?"</div>
— Ian Potter (@ianzpotter) <a href="https://twitter.com/ianzpotter/status/1075187106107088896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></a><br />Responses were a lot faster and more plentiful than I'm used to. I primarily tweet to quite a small group of people but I soon realised what was happening because it happened similarly but on a larger scale to a good friend earlier this year.<br />The main difference is her tweet was actually very funny and very her.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Cblockquote%20class=%22twitter-tweet%22%20data-lang=%22en%22%3E%3Cp%20lang=%22en%22%20dir=%22ltr%22%3EDear%20Amazon,%20I%20bought%20a%20toilet%20seat%20because%20I%20needed%20one.%20Necessity,%20not%20desire.%20I%20do%20not%20collect%20them.%20I%20am%20not%20a%20toilet%20seat%20addict.%20No%20matter%20how%20temptingly%20you%20email%20me,%20I'm%20not%20going%20to%20think,%20oh%20go%20on%20then,%20just%20one%20more%20toilet%20seat,%20I'll%20treat%20myself.%3C/p%3E%E2%80%94%20Jac%20Rayndeer%20(@GirlFromBlupo)%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://twitter.com/GirlFromBlupo/status/982156453396996096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22%3EApril%206,%202018%3C/a%3E%3C/blockquote%3E%20%3Cscript%20async%20src=%22https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js%22%20charset=%22utf-8%22%3E%3C/script%3E"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Dear Amazon, I bought a toilet seat because I needed one. Necessity, not desire. I do not collect them. I am not a toilet seat addict. No matter how temptingly you email me, I'm not going to think, oh go on then, just one more toilet seat, I'll treat myself.</div>
— Jac Rayndeer (@GirlFromBlupo) <a href="https://twitter.com/GirlFromBlupo/status/982156453396996096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></a><br />You can read her response to going viral <a href="https://jacrayner.com/news/on-going-viral/">here</a>. It mirrors mine but is better, like she is, and I am apparently Pepsi to her Coke.<br /><br />The main thing I've learned from the experience is how unpredictable and unplannable going "viral" is (only in retrospect did I realise talking about big brands has a mass appeal I never normally reach for). I'm sure there are key times of day to tweet and all the rest of it if you want this kind of thing but it seems to me there's a lot of luck in how the snowball rolls down hill.<br />I've also learned how overwhelming a wall of replies can be, blocking out other communication for hours. <br />I think this may go someway to explaining why some famous people on Twitter end up either really quite weird or virtually unresponsive- they must get this noise constantly and there's no great way to deal with the volume. <br />I've also noticed quite a lot of people seem to have read the tweet as a personal attack on Pepsi which is odd because I'm a soda water with ice and lemon man, and have very little truck with any colas (holidays are coming, holidays are coming). That seems to confirm just how common confirmation bias is to me (ha, ha, I am clever).<br /><br />Beyond that, responses boil down to people telling me- <br />The observation is accurate. <br />The phrase is universal but with some regional variants. <br />They work in a bar and the staff there recite it like a mantra.<br />This would be a good advertising approach (I agree).<br />It has actually been done in Brazil (well done, Pepsi Brazil people).<br />Someone else has thought this before.<br />I probably should have said bar staff not landlords.<br />Bar staff habitually use the phrase to avoid being accused of passing off one product as its competitor.<br />Which of the broadly indistinguishable drinks they prefer.<br /><br />I'd like to reply to about half of them but there isn't time (I have Christmas presents to wrap- holidays are coming, holidays are coming). If any of you happen on this blog, I am genuinely grateful for your replies (unless you were a bit strange, but if you were I doubt you'll realise).<br /><br />Another friend, Alistair McGown suggested this morning the tweet's unexpected popularity may be down to a Russian plot to destabilise cola brands and thus the entire US way of life. He may be right- it will also explain why Jac 'Coke' Rayner's anti Amazon tweet is 7 times more impossibly popular than mine. Curse her.IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-26546234278077693562018-12-10T13:28:00.000+00:002018-12-10T13:28:32.156+00:00A Bit of Fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I'm editing a RiffTrax recording on the PC at the moment (mainly just
noise clean up etc.) and to make sure the riffing soundtrack and video
matched up I opened up the film in Sony Vegas and found the last project
on there still unfinished.<br />So, I finished it as simply as I could.
It was meant to have much more going on but there's no longer much
point. The thing was started as an April Fool's Day joke for Doctor Who
fans so long ago that reality has pretty much superseded it. Tom Baker
has finally recorded The Iron Legion and this little flight of fancy is a
bit redundant.</div>
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<br />Enjoy (if you're silly enough). There are four or five little bits of animation in there I have to say I'm pretty pleased with.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-17421278530556369572018-11-13T21:24:00.000+00:002018-11-13T21:24:09.452+00:00Hollow Hills<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<br />There’s now a trailer, cover, blurb and cast list up for <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-new-counter-measures-the-hollow-king-1971" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Counter-Measures: The Hollow King</i></b></a> an audio drama I wrote due for release from Big Finish Productions in January 2019.</div>
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It’s an Earthbound 1970s science fiction adventure featuring
characters spun off from a 1980s Doctor Who serial, though no knowledge of that
is expected or required. It stars Karen Gledhill, Hugh Ross, Pamela Salem and Simon
Williams as a team investigating the strange and unusual and this is the third
play I’ve written for them (you can find the first two <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/counter-measures-series-01-665" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-new-counter-measures-series-01-1387" target="_blank">here</a>).<br />
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We often talk about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Counter-Measures</i></b> as being an audio in the style of the
globe-trotting ITC film adventure series of the late 60s and early 1970s though,
to tell the truth, I’ve imagined this one slightly differently. I thought it’d
be fun to think of it as an episode of the 1970s TV series <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thriller</i></b>, which is set in
a slightly skew-whiff England as an American tourist might imagine it or a UK
TV company might present it when trying to make something you could sell to America<i> and</i> show at home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
A lot is still on film (though mostly mute), but whenever you go into the village
pub or the local lord’s country estate where all the dialogue breaks out you’re
definitely on video in a studio set…<br />
Anyway, that is sort of the world of this play. Don’t worry we’ve not sound
designed it to feel like a video and film mix, there’s no out of place US guest star
and people do talk outside. It's just there’s slightly more chance of sparring
dialogue over large tumblers of whisky than you’d get in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Champions</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
It’s rural England with top 1970s concerns laced through, UFOs, the
counter-culture, quaint folk tradition and scary analogue synthesisers. <br /><br />
Major influences include Sutton Hoo, an episode of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Project U.F.O.</i></b> I adored
in 1979, the gloriously eccentric musician and writer, Desmond Leslie, a rather
lovely festival of ideas I was invited to in 2016 and the sub-genre of 70s British
film and TV we’ve come to call Folk Horror. <br />
I hope I’ve managed to serve both our cast’s beautiful way with dialogue (they
can all land a gag superbly) and audio’s power to disturb.<br />
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This play was originally planned for the second series of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Counter-Measures</i></b>
released last year but around the start of March of 2017 the writers working
on scripts were told one of our stories would be bumped to make way for a late
addition to the box set. We later found out this would be a story featuring the
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doctor
Who</i></b> adversary, The Great Intelligence. Big Finish's executives had just negotiated permission to use it and dropping it into <i><b>The New Counter-Measures</b></i> set would allow Big Finish to mark the 40th anniversary of its first TV appearance.<br /><br />Once our first drafts were in it was decided my play (it's the closest in tone of the four initially planned to an Intelligence story), should be the one held back for
recording in series 3.
I thought that’d be that for a while until I got an email on holiday in the
July of 2017 asking if I could do a second draft to get my play ready for
recording with the others after all. So, over a couple of days swapping notes
with script editor John Dorney, that’s what I did. <br />I think, reading between the lines, getting my play studio ready was just to
give flexibility in case anything dropped out late in the day. No one wants to
hire actors for a week and not fill all their time!<br /><br />
Unfortunately, the sales of the second <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Counter-Measures</i></b> box last year weren’t quite
strong enough to automatically greenlight a third, so unusually my play’s ended
up being released on its own. I’m delighted it has because if it hadn't been squeezed into that recording week it could very easily
not have seen the light of day at all.<br /> <br />
If you’re clever, and I suspect you are, you might spot a couple of elements in the play that we’d intended to pay off down the line in further stories. It’d
be wonderful if one day that can still happen. <br />
Fingers crossed. I’d love to think that there could be more adventures if this
accidental one-off sells well enough to make them viable.</div>
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Matthew J Elliott and I have written and recorded a few more riffs for Rifftrax- <a href="https://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax-presents-hangar-18" target="_blank"><b><i>Hangar 18</i></b></a>, <a href="https://www.rifftrax.com/planet-outlaws" target="_blank"><b><i>Planet Outlaws</i></b></a> and <a href="https://www.rifftrax.com/snowbeast" target="_blank"><i><b>Snowbeast</b></i></a>
(and as I mentioned in the last entry we've more ready to go). I think
we've hit quite a nice vein now and I'm very excited about the upcoming
riffs which I think include some of the funniest work. Do not feel you
have to pop in here and tell me if you later disagree.<br />
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I also wrote a book. A whole book on a single four episode<b><i> Doctor Who</i></b> story. Seriously, it's longer than the script <i>and</i> the novelisation. <a href="https://obversebooks.co.uk/theblackarchive/available-titles/third/16-com/" target="_blank"><b><i>The Black Archive 16: Carnival of Monsters</i></b></a>
comes from those excellent people at Obverse books and is full of
analysis of the story and its themes, thoughts on empire, class, race,
language, writer Robert Holmes' life and how it may have influenced his
work, and important things you didn't even know you didn't know about
the production, like the proper order it should have been shown in and
how very, very different the first script was.</div>
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For Big Finish I wrote an episode of <b><i>Survivors</i></b>,
the post-Apocalyptic story of people trying to be decent and thrive in a
ruined world which I was quite pleased with. I tried to follow the
1970s series tone quite faithfully, and also had fun populating an
insular village entirely with family names from a local 19th century
census in pursuit of a genuine small town feeling. That was already
written when I mothballed the blog, but hadn't been announced. <br />
That was followed by my <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> Short Trip <i><b><a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-british-invasion-1363" target="_blank">The British Invasion</a> </b></i>which
had been announced but wasn't scheduled at the time. That was a joy to
write and research, all the history and geography is true and everything
I say about the alien menace is defensible(!). It's also blessed with a
rather beautiful reading from Wendy Padbury.<br />
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After that came a further episode of the <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> spin-off <b><i>The New Counter-Measures</i></b> which comes out next year after being recorded in July 2017, an episode of the revived 1980s Hard SF police series <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/star-cops-mother-earth-part-1-1750" target="_blank"><b><i>Star Cops</i></b></a>, and a <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> Early Adventure- <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/an-ideal-world-1324" target="_blank"><b><i>An Ideal World</i></b></a>. I'll probably talk more about all of those later. </div>
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I've also audio edited and sound designed some projects for them again- three of their Short Trips <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> stories, <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/how-to-win-planets-and-influence-people-1358" target="_blank"><b><i>How to Win Planets and Influence People</i></b></a>, <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/mel-evolent-1557" target="_blank"><b><i>Mel-evolent</i></b></a> and the forthcoming <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-devil-s-footprints-1567" target="_blank"><b><i>The Devil's Footprints</i></b></a>.<br />
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It probably looks more like the sum of an afternoon's work to you than 20 months but you can only take the work you're offered and only do it if you have the time!IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-65205649868637153662018-11-05T16:44:00.001+00:002018-11-05T16:44:25.462+00:00Welcome Back, Potter<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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have decided to quietly resurrect this weblog.<br />
The main reason is so some people I know who’ve have left Twitter and don’t do
Facebook can still see I’m alive, charming, eminently employable and enviably
modest.<br />
This week’s fun fest should see me giving blood, recording some Rifftrax, working
on a second edit of a sound design project and ideally getting some writing
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll probably tell you next week
how that went.</span>IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-58125452001149999682017-01-08T15:13:00.001+00:002017-01-08T15:13:36.176+00:00Promotional New Year's MessagesHello,<br />I hope you are well. I've had a rotten year following things I believed in being systematically destroyed and people I loved and admired dying. Professionally, it was much better, damn that faint praise.<br /><br />So last year, after <a href="http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/vienna-series-03-1107" target="_blank"><b><i>Vienna</i></b> series 3</a> came out, I had another Rifftrax Presents release with Matthew J Elliott <a href="http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax-presents-flight-to-mars-matthew-j-elliott-ian-potter" target="_blank"><b><i>Flight to Mars</i></b></a>, which was a lot of fun and I think strikes the nice balance of being a movie that's just about watchable without a riff over the top and having some nice silly jokes layer on it.<br />You may disagree. I'd not be surprised or disappointed. There's another riff close to recording right now. We'd have liked to have got it out last year, but life kept getting in the way.<br /> <br />I also wrote three <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> audio stories, one released, two due for release in 2017,<a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-memory-bank-and-other-stories-1056" target="_blank"> <b><i>The Becoming</i></b></a>, <i><b>The British Invasion</b></i> and <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/vortex-ice-cortex-fire-1255" target="_blank"><b><i>Cortex Fire</i></b></a>, an episode of the <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> spin off <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-new-counter-measures-series-01-1387" target="_blank"><b><i>The New Counter-Measures</i></b></a>, a play for another audio series that hasn't been announced yet and two episodes of the audio reconstructions of missing episodes of <b><i>The Avengers, <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-lost-episodes-volume-06-1042?range=84" target="_blank">Death on the Slipway</a> </i></b>and <a href="https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-lost-episodes-volume-07-1043" target="_blank"><b><i>Dragonsfield</i></b></a>.<br /><br />The last project is a really interesting one, because in the case of both stories I did the scripts are missing and the reconstructions rely on TV listings, brief synopses and surviving photographs, primarily tele-snaps, an off air record of the show as it went out, in the case of these episodes about 80 over an hour of TV.<br /><br />Obviously, they will never be the same as the original show, and there has to be a lot of educated guess work involved but my aim with the two I adapted was to mirror the approach of the episodes of <b><i>The Avengers</i></b> that survive or we have scripts for from that first year of production and to adhere closely to the style of the two original writers James Mitchell and Terence Feely, looking at how they approached both their later <b><i>Avengers</i></b> episodes and their other work before and after this period.<br />It proved instructive and when an additional season 1 episode was recovered later in the year I was quite pleased by how stylistically close it was to what we'd done. I hope if you listen to the plays our deep respect for all the cast and crew for this incredible series comes through.<br /><br />Oh, and I did my half marathon. Not as quickly as I would have liked but I got there.<br /><br />Happy New Year!IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-62125428085354273972016-02-05T16:10:00.001+00:002016-02-05T17:09:25.810+00:00Matters arising...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's a few of these, I'm afraid.<br />
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one, I've been writing a fair bit recently which means there are things
I need to beg you to buy, things to reassure you are in the pipeline
and things to darkly hint at that I haven't actually finished yet.<br />
Anyway, there are two <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> spin-offs (in the very loosest sense of those hyphenated words) that I've been involved with out now. <br />
They're both built around female supporting characters from <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i>, but when they're at the centre of their own stories they inhabit quite different universes. <br />
The first of these is the Iris collection I mentioned last time edited by Paul Dale Smith.<br />
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You can buy that <a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/the-perennial-ms-wildthyme/" target="_blank">here</a> or go and read Paul talk about it in detail over <a href="http://www.dalesmithonline.com/get-asked/perennial-miss-wildthyme" target="_blank">here</a>. It's a very quirky, British kind of literary fantasy that enjoys messing about with the nature of fiction. It's playful, it's weird, it gets dark now and then and it also gets very silly.<br /><br />
The second is <i><b>Vienna- Series 3</b></i>. Vienna's an audio science fiction series about a once ruthless assassin and bounty hunter who's become something a little more morally complex. She's the titular Vienna and is played with great wit and cool by Chase Masterson who some of you may work for her <i><b>Star Trek</b></i> appearances.<br />
Vienna is Jonny Morris' baby, but this third series he kindly invited three other writers to work with him as script editor. He came up with a clever series arc and some basic situations and let us fly with them.<br />
One great thing about Vienna for me is how it manages to feels a very natural melding of those great Robert Sheckley and Philip K Dick era literary SF books and the big action SF movies based on them (except <i><b>Freejack</b></i> which is the most monstrous wreck you could possibly make out of Sheckley's <i><b>Immortality Inc.</b></i>). There's action, satire, spectacle and a willingness to follow through on hard SF concepts. Vienna's always been interesting about identity, and that's something I've wanted to play with in my story, as you will discover if you buy it...<br />
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You can do your buying <a href="http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/vienna-series-03-1107" target="_blank">here</a>, or read Jonny mentioning this as one of his many things coming out <a href="http://underthreehundred.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-girls-of-amsterdam.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Pipeline and as yet unwritten projects definitely involve more <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i>, submarines, a <i><b>RiffTrax Presents</b></i> release recorded last year, some short fiction, the Festival of Britain and a lengthy piece of factual writing. More later...<br />
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Number two, I'm running the Hadrian's Wall Half Marathon again this year- but this year I'm going to be faster. Training's going well and my weight's coming down nicely after quite a sedentary period in 2015.<br />
I'm seeking sponsorship again too, for three charities this year.<br />
They are the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and Invest in ME as before, and the Sheffield Hospitals Charity. The first two have supported friends and people in positions like them and the latter is to assist the hospitals who are helping my wife walk again after her severe leg injury in January 2015. There's a lot the hospitals do that isn't covered by core NHS budgets, and I want to support anything that makes that work easier for them.<br />
If you can sponsor any of these causes you'd make me very happy indeed, and probably make me run quicker. There's a sponsorship link <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/teams/IanHadrian2016" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Number three, the National Media Museum is under fire again. It is losing vital funding, staff, and collections, and the Science Museum management that should be working to make it stronger seems intent on stripping it of its assets, broad appeal and curatorial expertise, making it a shadow of the organisation it once was. It feels like a closure by stealth to be honest, and it makes me angry. <br />I worked at the Museum under its previous name and what's being done to do it at present feels like an insult to its audiences and all those people I worked with.<br />
There's some background <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/04/national-media-museum-bradford-rebranding-science-museum-north" target="_blank">here</a>, and petitions you might sign if you'd care to <a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-cultural-asset-stripping-of-bradford-s-national-media-museum?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1454433237" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.change.org/p/ed-vaizey-mp-minister-of-state-for-culture-and-the-digital-economy-the-royal-photography-society-s-world-renowned-collection-must-remain-in-bradford?recruiter=52972576&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-reason_msg&fb_ref=Default" target="_blank">here</a>, but I'm afraid signing petitions isn't going to win this battle. This is just the beginning of a long hard fight against philistinism in high places.<br />
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Right, that's my bits done. Any other business?IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-61566146219006253092015-06-05T14:12:00.000+01:002015-06-05T15:09:28.962+01:0011 Months Later...I notice I've not been using this blog at all.<br />
Sorry, Twitter seems to have absorbed a lot of my spare "writing things on the internet that hardly anyone looks at" time.<br />
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So, what's been happening?<br />
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Well,
I've had a slightly rotten five months because my wife had a really
nasty injury on holiday in January that's put life a bit on hold while
she's been recuperating. She's had it worse, of course, she's had me
nursing her. Luckily things seem to be getting on track now and there
are jollier things in life happening. For example, there are things I've
written to plug shamelessly.<br />
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So, since we were last here together, two <a href="http://www.rifftrax.com/collection/rifftrax-presents" target="_blank"><b>Rifftrax Presents</b></a> titles with Matthew J Elliott have been released<i><b>,</b></i> <a href="http://www.rifftrax.com/scared-to-death-matthew-j-elliott-and-ian-potter" target="_blank"><i><b>Scared to Death</b></i></a> and <a href="http://www.rifftrax.com/warning-from-space-matthew-j-elliott-and-ian-potter" target="_blank"><b><i>Warning From Space</i></b></a>.<br />
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It seems to be quite an American phenomenon "riffing". Basically, it's talking over films in a manner that hopefully won't spoil the movie for anyone watching it, so you're trying to make jokes in the gaps, so viewers won't miss any plot. We seem to be the only British people doing it, which makes for an interesting balancing act, doing things that make us laugh while trying to keep a largely US audience happy.<br />
I think we're getting better at it. We're working on a fourth title at the moment which I'm rather enjoying.<br />
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I've also written another <a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Obverse Books</b></a> Iris Wildthyme story, which will be out this Autumn. This one's for the hugely talented and ridiculously patient Paul Dale Smith, who trusted me to write a story based on a very vague and partially worked through pitch, and make sense of it as I went along. I think we got there.<br />
That's for <a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/the-perennial-ms-wildthyme/" target="_blank"><b><i>The Perennial Miss Wildthyme</i></b></a> which sounds like it's going to be a fun collection. It's set in a strange Northern town called Samhain, where all sorts of unlikely beings and events jostle together under slate-grey skies.<br />
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I think my story is going to be titled <i><b>Self Possessed</b></i>. It's called <i><b>Doppler Shift</b></i> on the pre-publicity material, largely because the starting point was doing a sort of homage to Alan Garner's <b><i>Red Shift</i></b>, but it's drifted off quite a way from that.<br />
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Finally, I've a couple of things happening with <a href="http://www.bigfinish.com/" target="_blank"><b>Big Finish Productions</b></a>, as yet unannounced and have just had a <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> play for them released. It's in a collection of Companion Chronicle plays set in the William Hartnell era of <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i>,
with the other plays written by the brilliant Martin Day and Simon
Guerrier. Martin is writing for Carole Ann Ford as Susan, Simon is
writing for Peter Purves as Steven and I've done one for Maureen O'Brien
as Vicki. Great talents to be working with. You can check out further
details <a href="http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-first-doctor-volume-01-1132" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Because it's in a set with a shared sleeve, my story, <i><b>The Unwinding World</b></i>, doesn't have its own cover, so for those who fancy one, I think it should be something like this.<br />
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It's a bit rough and ready and missing all the lettering and so on, but there you are. I'm sure you can do better and I'd love to see your versions.<br />
<br />IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-84295964874129265072014-07-03T17:21:00.000+01:002014-07-03T17:30:15.454+01:00Newsy newsy newsHello, you've been very polite about not caring much about what I've been up to recently, so to reward you I'm going to tell you in tedious detail.<br />
There's no winning, is there?<br />
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1) I've been writing something else for Big Finish, and the first draft is finally away, so I'm looking forward to licking that into shape over the next few weeks. Also, while you've not been looking here there's been a splendid cover released for my Big Finish <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i> audio coming later this year.<br />
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at it a reduced price before November. I heard a little trailer using
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2) I've written a story for the forthcoming Obverse Book story collection edited by Philip Purser-Hallard as well. This has a rather fabulous cover too, and a lovely list of contributors I'm delighted to be part of.<br />
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Iris is a fun character to write for, she's a bizarre force of nature who barges into other people's stories and tidies or messes them up as suits her. This collection has a brilliant idea behind it, with Iris exploring a succession of fictional representations of Mars. I picked the most contrary one I could think of for my pitch.. It seemed right.<br />
Obverse haven't put an order link up for the book yet (I think it's out in August), but you can read more about it at Phil's site <a href="http://www.infinitarian.com/iwom.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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3) I've had a nice little running gag sketch recorded for Radio 4's That Show What You Wrote. I'm rather pleased about this because I had to come up with ideas very quickly over a few days to get them in before deadline, and this was one of two sketches I came up with that I really loved. More on that later whether it survives to the broadcast edit or not. I've missed writing radio comedy.<br />
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4) A few weeks ago Matthew J. Elliott and I recorded another RiffTrax commentary, which is currently in the States for approval. Fingers crossed. We had a few technical issues with our last one which made it a bit fiddly, and took a bit of the spontaneity and fun out of proceedings, so I'm hoping this has gone better and needs less post-production work.<br />
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5) I ran a half marathon for charity. <a href="http://www.born4running.co.uk/hadrianhalf/" target="_blank">This</a> one.<br />
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You can still donate and help my good causes now if you'd like to. They're excellent causes, as you can see <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/teams/ianhadrian" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-24452082519023540722013-12-06T12:54:00.001+00:002013-12-06T12:57:49.062+00:00A sleeping city, a storyteller and some simians... Updates!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are some details up now on the <a href="http://bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-sleeping-city-759" target="_blank">Big Finish</a> site for my next <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> play<b><i> The Sleeping City</i></b>. They include a rather lovely cover, an intriguing trailer, a little bit of teaser synopsis and the all important 'click on the button and buy it' option. Buying direct from Big Finish naturally gives them more profit than buying their productions elsewhere on-line does, so do please buy from the site if you can.<br />
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As the trailer and synopsis reveal, it's a science fiction story about a futuristic city where everyone's being encouraged to think and feel the same way. The story's framed by Ian Chesterton, back on Earth, telling the story of this adventure to an interrogator who, quite understandably, thinks the way Ian, Barbara and one of their pupils vanished from Coal Hill School is distinctly suspicious.<br />
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I always thought Ian and Barbara would have a hell of a time fitting back in once they got home. I suspect 60s England changed nearly as much as they did in the couple of years they were away. Ian seems to have learned at least one Beatles song released in their absence, but did they even know Kennedy was assassinated?<br />
After <b><i>Remembrance of the Daleks</i></b> was screened, in which we discover Coal Hill School and the missing pupil's home address were overrun by warlike aliens almost straight after the three of them disappeared, I became convinced there'd be a lot of hard questions awaiting them on their return. Reworking an idea that had started as a notion for a Rachel Jenson based <b><i>Counter-Measures</i></b> story that never quite gelled, it suddenly occurred to me who'd be the first to be ask Ian those hard questions! <br />
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Hopefully, the paranoid 60s Cold War plot and the Science Fiction fable cross-fertilise a little. I guess both strands are about social control and fear of outsiders to a degree. I'm really looking forward to this coming out.<br />
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Still available is the collection of short stories for charity in memory of the rather fantastic writer Matt Kimpton, a friend who lived with Cystic Fibrosis but not long enough for my liking.. It is now available in <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/various/storyteller/paperback/product-21273593.html" target="_blank">hard cover form</a> as well as an <a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/storyteller-a-found-book/" target="_blank">ebook</a>.<br />
It's an entirely not for profit thing done by a lot of smashing authors (and me), that is trying to do a tiny bit of good, so I'd really love it if a few of you bought it.<br />
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Still not quite available, because we had to sort out a few tech things with microphones and levels and people being in the same room and things, but coming jolly soon is <i><b>RiffTrax Presents... King of Kong Island</b></i>. That's me and writer Matthew J Elliot helping you through a rather challengingly odd movie by talking in the quiet bits and it's something I hope a lot of you will have fun with when it's released. It contains many several jokes and good bits and Northern English accents.<br />
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Those are the definitely happening now/soon things. I need to go off and make some other things happen now.IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-75085130338850284632013-09-19T10:25:00.000+01:002013-09-19T20:09:50.486+01:00New things...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello, how are you doing? I'm pleased. Particularly if you just contrarily ignored the accepted social form and told me you weren't doing well. I'm all the more pleased for not having heard it.Anyway that's the niceties out the way. It's time to return to the one sided business of me telling you what I'm up to.<br />
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Number 1:<br />
<a href="http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-alchemists-749" target="_blank">The Alchemists</a> is out there and being reviewed. The response is far more positive than I'd feared. There's a lovely review on <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alchemists-Doctor-Who-Companion-Chronicles/dp/1844359468/" target="_blank">Amazon.co.uk</a>, nice ones on <a href="http://scifibulletin.com/doctor-who/reviews/review-doctor-who-big-finish-audio-c-c-802-the-alchemists/" target="_blank">Sci-fi Bulletin</a> and<a href="http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-alchemists-written-by-ian-potter.html" target="_blank"> Doc Oho Reviews</a>, good ratings on <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/433372.Ian_Potter" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> (I didn't tell you I've dipped a toe in Goodreads, did I?), and some others scattered around that are more measured. It was always thus.<br />
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One disappointment a couple of people had is that it wasn't a play about<b><i> Doctor Who</i></b> fighting the Nazis and it wasn't darker in tone. I understand, that but in the end I wrote the play I could and a grim piece about fighting the Nazis wasn't the story I felt I could write. Most of the reasons why are about <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b>.<br />
Firstly, in a Companion Chronicle for Susan alone (and there are sensible historic and dramatic reasons for making her the solo companion), I couldn't really make the early Doctor the straightforward hero that kind of story would require.<br />
Secondly, the <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> licence is for family appropriate entertainment (the treatment of the Suffragist and Suffragette prisoners in the play <b><i>The Suffering</i></b> is the example I'm always reminded of, of real awful history that needed toning down to be acceptable for <b><i>Who</i></b>), so any more brutal content, and it's a brutal history, would be tricky to cover. There is darkness in <b><i>The Alchemists</i></b> of course, but most of it
is beneath the surface. There are things our unworldly narrator sees and
reports without understanding that are awful...<br />
Thirdly, I personally feel <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> has presented a bit of a cartoon World War II in recent years that I'd not be entirely comfortable about adding to. For me, and for the flavour of <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> I was writing here, David Whitaker's mention of the impossibility of killing Hitler in the prologue to<b><i> The Crusaders</i></b> novel sat better than his comic TV appearance in 2011's <b><i>Let's Kill Hitler</i></b>. I wanted to deal with real history on a more human scale, and all the history in the play is true. Even the somewhat bizarre and fantastical McGuffin was a real plan to save Germany from post-World War I ruin. My gut feeling is if you want <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> against inhuman Nazi monsters, you already have the Daleks.<br />
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Number 2:<br />
A little over a year ago, a writer friend of mine died, sillily young, and we've put together a book in his memory and to aid people with Cystic Fibrosis, the condition he lived with which led to his early death. You'll be able to buy it as an ebook <a href="http://www.manleighbooks.co.uk/?product=storyteller-a-found-book" target="_blank">here</a> soon, with a hard copy available after that.<br />
It's a book written by people he knew, liked, had worked with and others he'd not met working in the same realms of mind-bending fantasy, whimsy and creepy that he did. Not surprisingly, there will be a few names in there <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> fans of a more literary bent know.<br />
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It's called<b><i> Storyteller- A Found Book</i></b> and it's for Matt. I've written one story and I like to feel I had a small hand in another because I brought the authors together.<br />
The notion behind it is rather fun, it's a whole list of "other titles you may enjoy" from the back of a genuine old book, except now those titles have had to detach themselves from their old stories and make themselves new ones from scratch. Here's the content listing...<br />
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Strangers from the Sea – George Mann<br />
Moon Eyes – Stuart Douglas<br />
Grandad with Snails – Nick Campbell<br />
Seal Morning – Cody Quijano-Schell<br />
Put Out More Flags – Sarah Hadley<br />
The Hanging Tree – Cavan Scott<br />
Honey in the Horn – Mark Manley<br />
The Devil’s Children – Richard Wright<br />
Harlic – A Story of a Grey Seal – Simon Bucher-Jones<br />
Doctor Syn – Ian Potter<br />
The Samurai’s Daughter – Andy Smillie<br />
Black Mischief – Elizabeth Evershed<br />
The Unicorn Leacock – Orna Petit and Jacqueline Rayner<br />
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Everyone's written these stories for nothing and it's for a great cause. <br />
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Number 3:<br />
Just over a week ago I recorded a piece with Matthew J Elliott, the British writer of American radio, mystery fiction expert, and quickfire gag man who I've come to know through a mutual friend. It's for the US company RiffTrax and should soon be available from their <a href="http://www.rifftrax.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, I'll let you know when it is. It's a comic commentary to accompany a movie. If you know the series <i><b>Mystery Science Theater 3000</b></i> you know the kind of thing it is already. If not, think of it as a director's commentary almost entirely composed of gags, that sit on top of a film but doesn't prevent you following it. It's an extra layer of enjoyment, which to be honest this particular film needs. It's an odd little piece called<b><i> King of Kong Island </i></b>which includes many peculiar pleasures and delights but you really do need a bit of help if you're going to watch it all the way through.<br />
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Number 4:<br />
I have been announced as doing some more <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b>! Next year, I have a 4 episode audio adventure coming out for the wonderful Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves, and a really smashing guest cast which is yet to be revealed (though one of them has actually announced their involvement on Twitter). It's called <b><i>The Bounty of Ceres</i></b> and is an attempt to imagine the 60s TARDIS crew in something approaching the hard SF of Arthur C Clarke. Writing it, I deliberately imagined which bits would have to have been done on film or using Kirby Wires or would just have looked awful on the TV budget of the day. Then, I wrote them anyway, knowing on audio they'd look amazing. You can pre-order that one <a href="http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/tba-887" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Right, I'd better go and make some other things for you to buy or not. See you soon!IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-68382261585880295702013-08-15T14:24:00.003+01:002013-08-16T22:12:00.166+01:00Alchemology<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, <i><b>Doctor Who -</b></i> <a href="http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-alchemists-749" target="_blank"><b><i>The Alchemists</i></b></a> is out! I can hardly believe it, it seems a long time since I wrote it. This may be because it is.<br />
Anyway, I thought some of you might be interested in some of the things I used researching it.<br />
There's more than listed here, Wedekind's <i><b>Lulu</b></i> plays and Pabst's film of <i><b>Pandora's Box</b></i> for example which I think have a homeopathic influence on the play, but nothing a sane person could spot.<br />
There's also a bunch of internet bookmarks on an old laptop, covering the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, old railway lines, the rise of the Nazis and how Aleister Crowley and Christopher Isherwood were connected amongst other things. All the kind of stuff I imagine gets you interrogated at airports...<br />
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<b>Books</b><br />
<i><b>Germania</b></i>, Simon Winder. An opinionated, personal and very readable guide to the geography and history of Germany.<br />
<i><b>When Money Dies</b></i>, Adam Fergusson. All you ever wanted to know about Weimar hyper-inflation and a little more besides.<i><b> </b></i><br />
<i><b>Mr Norris Changes Trains</b></i>, Christopher Isherwood. A fictional account of his life in Berlin. <br />
<i><b>Goodbye to Berlin</b></i>, Christopher Isherwood. A slightly less fictional account of his life in Berlin.<br />
<i><b>Little Man, What Now?</b></i>, Hans Fallada. A simply and poignantly told story of ordinary life in the Germany of the early 1930s.<br />
<b>The Wages of Destruction</b>, Adam Tooze. A thorough, detailed examination of the economics underpinning Nazi Germany, which I found the opening chapters of very useful.<br />
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<b>TV</b><br />
<i><b>Heimat</b></i>, Edgar Reitz. A beautifully told saga of modern German history told through the lives of people in the fictional village of Schabbach. I just looked at a couple of episodes this time, but it's really a masterpiece of TV you should let roll over you.<br />
<i><b>Berlin Alexanderplatz</b></i>, <span class="st">Rainer Werner Fassbinder. An extraordinary bit of television based on </span>Alfred Döblin's novel of the same name, set in late 1920s Berlin. It's deliberately slow paced, and explodes into an astounding allegorical vision which not all viewers are quite prepared for at the end, but it does amazing things along the way<br />
<i><b>The Nazis- A Warning From History</b></i>, Laurence Rees. A hugely important BBC documentary series, given incredible power by the first person testimonies it features.<br />
<i><b>Christopher and his Kind</b></i>, Kevin Elyot. A dramatisation of Isherwood's biography, beautifully directed by Geoffrey Sax and starring Matt Smith as Isherwood and Toby Jones as Gerald Hamilton, the inspiration for Isherwood's Mr Norris.<br />
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<b>Films</b><br />
<i><b>Kuhle Wampe</b></i>, Bertolt Brecht. A short film dramatising the plight of the urban poor in Berlin and showing the radical alternative that many turned to. Made in 1931, it was invaluable for first hand social detail. <br />
<i><b>Doctor Mabuse- The Gambler</b></i>, Fritz Lang. This film was made ten years before the period I was setting my story in, but I found it useful for tone. It's absurdly long by modern standards but it has two or three wonderful scenes and beautifully dramatises the paranoid notion of a shadowy figure mysteriously manipulating gambling, crime, economics and ordinary people for his own ends.<b><i> </i></b><br />
<b><i>M</i></b>, Fritz Lang. Absolutely in the period I was using and again great for social detail. There's a constant sense of fear below the surface. If you've not seen it, you really should do for Peter Lorre alone.<br />
<i><b>The Testament of Doctor Mabuse</b></i>, Fritz Lang. A sequel to both of the above, and a cracking dramatic ride, with some eerie special effects. The sense of a criminal underground and the accepted belief that it was organised is writ large in all these three films.<br />
<i><b>Cabaret</b></i>, Bob Fosse. A 1970s filtered version of Isherwood. It's a loose adaptation of a stage musical adaptation of a stage adaptation of <b><i>Goodbye to Berlin</i></b>, so it's gone through quite a few transformations along the way. Still, an extremely moving piece of work.<br />
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<b>Radio</b><br />
<i><b>The Chemist of Life and Death</b></i>, Chris Bowlby. Hearing this was what set me thinking about using Fritz Haber as the key to the story. You can still hear it <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01062gy" target="_blank">here</a> on the BBC Website.<br />
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I think that covers most of it. I'll probably bore you senseless being more specific once the play's been out a while and most people who fancy hearing it will have done.IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-16218141692978158052013-06-10T11:39:00.001+01:002013-06-10T12:58:19.672+01:00Matters arising...There are a few of these so I'm going to be brief.<br />
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First of all I've a new short story out in Philip Purser-Hallard's collection <b><i>More Tales of the City</i></b>.<br />
Now, you may know a book with that title already, this is not that. Philip in an act of contrarian heroism has named both the short story collections in his constructed world, The City of the Saved, after Armistead Maupin books.<br />
The world Philip has constructed is quite a thing- it's a heaven within our reality (as much as we can have one) jammed in somewhere near the zero point at the back end of our universe. Everyone who has ever lived is back (or at least believes themselves to be to a degree that makes it rude to argue) and there are quite a few people who've never lived there too.<br />
The setting makes all sorts of unlikely things possible and absolutely refuses to allow a lot of the things that are usually quite likely in stories. Mine is a sort a detective story. You'll see if you read it.<br />
You can buy the book <a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/more-tales-of-the-city-ebook/" target="_blank">now</a> in electronic form direct from the publisher, with the print edition following <a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/more-tales-of-the-city/" target="_blank">shortly</a> (I expect Amazon will get 'round to fleecing the publisher later) or read more about it on Philip's <a href="http://www.infinitarian.com/index.html" target="_blank">site</a>.<br />
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Secondly, I'm currently working with another writer on something that's a bit of a departure for me. It's comic, there's performance involved (it's been a while) and it's in a genre that seems to be a bit of a cult in the US but hasn't to my knowledge really taken off here in the UK yet and that's all the teasing you get 'til it's finished.<br />
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Thirdly, I've started running again (which may be the most overused phrase in this 'blog after "I've written", or "I'm sorry") and from a stupid, wheezing 'stop after 10 minutes' start I've managed to get back to 2 hour long runs remarkably quickly. I've found turning it into a game I play against myself really helps (partly because I get to win) and also found myself entering a really interesting creative space on certain parts of my circuit. I worked out an entire short radio play while zoning out last week crossing over a footbridge. Good old liminal spaces...<br />
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Fourthly, talking of playing games, liminal spaces, creativity and bridges makes it impossible not to mention the loss of Iain Banks here, an author whose writing and outlook on life I find it hard not to admire. I met him once, very briefly, while working on a TV show in Edinburgh and it goes without saying I found he was just as smashing as everyone else who encountered him is saying. A deeply sad loss. He had a lot more fun to share.<br />
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Fifthly, the organisation that helped put me in a position to work on that TV show, and even gave me a sabbatical to do so and welcomed me back afterwards, is under threat.<br />
The National Media Museum, which was the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television when I worked there, is one of three museums in the North of England run by the Science Museum and under threat of closure due to government funding cuts.<br />
All the museums under threat have their plus points, but the National Media Museum is a place I hold very dear. It has unique collections and incredible staff and has achieved national and international acclaim despite tiny resources for nearly 30 years.<br />
It has battled on despite a series of ever deepening cuts over the last 5 years, losing key personnel and festivals, staff taking pay cuts, and being unable to fund redevelopment and renovation and the reward for this appears to be the possibility of disappearing completely. I really don't think that's on.<br />
If you feel similarly, you can support all the Northern museums <a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/british-government-business-innovation-skills-culture-media-sport-science-museum-group-funded-to-keep-all-4-museums-open-and-free?utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition" target="_blank">here</a> and the National Media Museum in particular <a href="http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-national-media-museum-bradford" target="_blank">here</a>. I hope you do.IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-19243593146022028232013-04-25T17:12:00.001+01:002013-04-25T17:12:19.186+01:00Bear with me!Just a bit of fun. This is a message with no real content. I want to see how easy it is to spread!IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-88669573369018380792013-04-25T17:08:00.003+01:002013-04-25T17:44:43.059+01:00This is a testing time for the NHSYou can't have helped noticing, well you can but bear with me, people all over the UK troubled by the way the NHS is being treated. There's been an unmandated, untested, hugely wasteful restructuring of it by the coalition government partners (even if you believe the 'reforms' are good that's unarguable), a lot of media stories leaped on and or generated by politicians talking the service down (often frighteningly misinformed either through deliberate spin or ignorance- look at the way the Leeds children's heart service was treated) and while all that's gone on their have been real term cuts in provision, denied and denied and proven, despite promises this would not happen.<br />
The service is being talked down, beaten down and cut down, in the face of widespread public alarm.<br />
Many people have been particularly perturbed by the silence of the mainstream media in the face of this, particularly the BBC, another British institution the government seems keen to smear, slash and silence into submission.<br />
As a result, lots of people are using social media to articulate their views that aren't being reflected by mainstream broadcasters but in the last day or so I've seen a worrying cluster of such people saying their attempts to share their messages are being blocked by the market leader in sticking things up on a virtual noticeboard to share among friends, Facebook.<br />
If that's true, it's very troubling indeed and we'll need to find out why. So, as a tiny test, I'm putting up my own NHS message here to share on Facebook when I've published it. If it gets through and appears on my wall it proves nothing either way, of course. If it doesn't, I'll be beyond angry and will let you know.IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-83984396055882303622013-03-22T16:10:00.000+00:002013-03-22T20:48:43.163+00:00Promotional MessagesHello, hello! Sit down, get yourself comfy! Reach for your credit card. It's been too long.<br />
Today is International "Did You Know There Is Stuff You Can Buy?" Day, the anniversary of which is celebrated daily in most parts of the world.<br />
But wait, that's not all!<br />
There's also some free stuff (but nothing like as much).<br />
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<b>Free thing 1: No Tomatoes</b><br />
A BBC Radio 4 Extra repeat run of my BBC 7 (eeh, those were the days) sketch show commences on Tuesday the 26th of March. Go <a href="http://www.radiotimes.com/programme/mfncm/no-tomatoes" target="_blank">here</a> to read all about it with my name everywhere or <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cr5zy" target="_blank">here</a> if you'd rather minimise my involvement but be one click nearer playing the episodes.<br />
<b><i>No Tomatoes</i></b> can be listened to for free on demand on iPlayer radio anywhere in the world (each episode available for a week after transmission). Free! It is an excellent bargain at that price.<br />
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<b>Free thing 2: A Trailer</b><br />
Do you see how the amount you get for nothing plummets as you go down the list?<br />
My <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i> audio play <i><b>The Alchemists</b></i> has a trailer, and you can hear it for absolutely nothing by clicking the "Listen to Trailer" button on <a href="http://bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-alchemists-749" target="_blank">this page</a> (also an excellent page to buy it from). It's set in 1930s Berlin, involved a truck load of research and has nothing to do with the synopsis someone's put up for it on Wikipedia! They've quite intelligently extrapolated from the blurb but, erm, completely made their own story up (citation needed).<br />
<i><b>The Alchemists</b></i> is now out in August, having been unlucky with a couple of delays since it was first announced however long ago it was. One was an actor availability issue that pushed recording back and the other was a last minute technical issue which meant the CD wouldn't be ready in time for the revised release date. It's all glamour, isn't it?<br />
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<b>Not that dear stuff 1: Things by me on Amazon.co.uk</b> <br />
Look at this lovely <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ian-Potter/e/B002DES1QG/" target="_blank">list</a>! There's lots of <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i> related stuff here- fictional, factual, passing quite near <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i> and waving, and the book I wrote on UK TV History focusing on the independent production sector, which is properly all grown up and not even a teeny bit about <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i>.<br />
All the items are at marvellous competitive prices due to Amazon's policy of not paying the tax it should and only accepting stock at evilly discounted prices. I will of course get stuff all or next to stuff all for any of these purchases. Maybe, if you get some of this not dear stuff this way you should think about getting some of the stuff that actually helps smaller companies survive directly from them.<br />
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<b>Stuff that will be pretty good value for money that you can't quite order yet 1: A short story</b><br />
I'm writing a story set in Phil Purser-Hallard's <b><i>City of the Saved</i></b> Universe (which he maintains is mainly this Universe plus some stuff that hasn't happened yet). It's in a category all of it's own of original Science Fiction that waves at a Universe that nods and winks to the <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> one. There's a bit of a preview <a href="http://infinitarian.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/more-tales-of-city-trailer-1.html" target="_blank">here</a> in lieu of <a href="http://obversebooks.co.uk/" target="_blank">Obverse Books</a>, the lovely independent publishers behind it, managing to monetise your interest in it and bunging up an order page.<br />
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<b>Stuff that was free as a download you need to pay more to get hold of in CD form 1: The Revenants</b><br />
My audio drama that was given away with <b><i>Doctor Who Magazine</i></b> in mp3 form is soon to be yours to own in a format audiophiles don't dislike quite as much. It's being offered as part of a deluxe <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> CD boxset. You can get the 2 CD multiple Doctor audio adventure separately cheaper, but for spending a bit more dosh it'll also come in really lovely packaging along with 2 CD documentaries (one about the adventure's making and the other about the history of Big Finish, the company that makes the <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i> audios) and my play.<br />
This is however a limited edition so I suspect if you don't go for it this year it'll be tricky to get hold of in years to come. You can buy that <a href="http://bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-light-at-the-end-limited-collector-s-edition-860" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<b>Stuff that is freely given and is thus valued as worthless 1: My Love to All of You.</b><br />
No, really. I'm proud of you for getting this far down this litany of self promotion. Thank you.<br />
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There, that was nearly fun, wasn't it?<br />
I've recently had some casting news on future plays which has made me very happy indeed, but I can't say much now. One of the people involved has mentioned it on the internet, but even I couldn't find it until I really hunted, so I suspect you won't either. I had the advantage of knowing their name. All will become clear.<br />
I know people like to find out stuff in advance (and that's pretty much the only reason you've got this far down this list) but it's probably better to wait and avoid the anticipointment of piecing together something in your head that real life then fails to match. That person who made up their own version of <i><b>The Alchemists</b></i> on Wikipedia is going to feel very let down for starters...IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-2009730092612490102013-02-06T11:27:00.000+00:002013-02-06T11:27:17.326+00:00Base CampHmm,<br />
I've been working on tackling negativity recently. Not positive I've succeeded.<br />
I've also written a couple of things that aren't quite announced yet. Both quite different (more of them later) and both from synopses I created long before writing.<br />
<br />Synopses are funny things- they're obviously a vital tool for the commissioner and the writer, they're the map of where you're heading, but sometimes they're treacherous documents.<br />
The ground that looks safe and easy to traverse on the map turns out to be ridiculously slow and boggy sometimes, sections of the journey you'd imagine would take ages zip by at alarming speed, areas where you hoped to find buried treasure turn out to have been looted and you end up having to go to places marked "Here be dragons", which rarely ends well.<br />
Dragons, as a rule, are either inconvenient or non-existent.<br />
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Both the last two synopses have been distinctly slippery maps, partly because the me who drew them up is quite a distance from the me who had to follow them, but they've got me to the end of their journeys. The points of interest on route may have changed, and in one case I had to take a massive detour to guarantee I'd still get to my final destination but we're there and I'm ready for the next trips and the suns shining. <br />
I think I might sit the sunshine for a bit and make up some jokes. That's the plan anyway. It may change.IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-20072649969260687712012-11-29T15:33:00.001+00:002012-11-29T23:14:34.041+00:00Recent doings and Revenants (slight return)Hello. Excuse the dust. I've been doing stuff.<br />
First things first- I think some time ago I promised those of you who cared some background info on my <b><i>Doctor Who Companion Chronicle</i></b>, <a href="http://bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-revenants-808" target="_blank"><b><i>The Revenants</i></b></a> once it was no longer a free download and the chances of spoilers had reduced.<br />
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It started with the brief to do something with Ian Chesterton missing his family and home, so from that came the idea of putting him just near enough home in time that he could feasibly end his adventures early and return to his old life. The idea of missing families suggested setting the story just after Susan left the Doctor too. This had the advantage of getting William Russell out of playing two womens' roles in the play.<br />
A daft <b><i>Brighton Rock</i></b> and <b><i>Hancock's Half Hour</i></b> shaped late 50s/early 60s idea came next, and left sharpish. I've been intrigued for years by Piers Britton's notion of 60s Dr Who as a clash of Modernism and Edwardian styles and thought a story where Brighton Mods were science fictional might work but it was too silly to sustain. Anyway, <b><i>The Space Museum</i></b> is already 60s Who's definitive Teddy Boys versus Mods in Space story.<br />
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David, the producer, suggested going down a<b><i> Quatermass</i></b> line instead and the new storyline became essentially two thirds of my later <b><i>Counter-Measures </i></b>story, <b><i>The Pelage Project</i></b>. The major differences were a completely different climax, a hinted at origin story for the villain Temple which is only homeopathically in the finished play and a large section at a school. Exploring the utilitarian, indoctrinating schooling of Pelage was a natural fit for Ian, and could be done without child actors in the<b><i> Companion Chronicle</i></b>s format.<br />
Child actors are tricky- their working hours are limited and the really good ones are in constant demand. Write a child part for audio and you can easily end up in trouble- you may get an adult impersonator or a child who's not up to carrying the weight of story you've given them.<br />
Anyway, after that plot went to <b><i>Counter-Measures</i></b> I had to come up with a new one for Ian. I had the idea of doing something playing with folklore and magic influenced by the writer Alan Garner and a book by Mollie Hunter that had scared and enthralled me as a child, <b><i>The Haunted Mountain</i></b>. <b><i>The Haunted Mountain</i></b>'s story is set in Scotland and it set me thinking about using Scottish legends, which in turn reminded me of an amazing holiday around the archaeological sites of Orkney and Shetland.<br />
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They're beautiful, mysterious islands and you can easily get in touch with that part of you that's scared of weird stuff in the night up there. There's also a real sense of time layered on itself too. Time as a space or a landscape, not a straight line. Sounds a bit bonkers but there you are.<br />
I decided to do a story that suggested Time on Orkney was a mess (and it was probably at least partly the Doctor's fault) with fairies and ogres and so forth creaking at the edges of it. The twist was they'd all be revealed to be different people's visions of the other tribes they interacted with in prehistory- slight, non-Iron working, tribes became fairies warily trading with lumpen thuggish incomers, ogres. The idea was we share traditions of both 'species' because we're descended from both tribes and our traditions have intermingled. On Orkney the word 'Trow' covers magical beasties of both descriptions, fay and brutish.<br />
There's a lovely, atmospheric Radio Scotland programme called <b><i>When Standing Stones Come Down To Drink </i></b>about Orkney and Shetland traditions which captures a lot of the atmosphere I was after <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wnlct" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wnlct</a>. I hope it's repeated some day, it's well worth a listen.<br />
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Anyway, that idea was a touch nebulous, involved and undramatic, and, as David pointed out, was likely to be vetoed by the BBC for including fairies. Fairies basically exist and are as you saw them in <b><i>Torchwood</i></b> in the <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> universe. Anything else is going to be a hard sell. David suggested doing something a bit like Joe Dante's<b><i> Gremlins</i></b> instead. That was when I decided to invent the Marsh Wains. They're Marsh Children really (I spelled the Scottish word "wean" the less common "wain" to try and disguise that). They're based on the real preserved bog bodies you find all over Northern Europe, but mine are much gloopier and creepier, with the whole still being alive and being entirely made of peat thing.<br />
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They're also looking for family, or a replacement for it, just like Ian and the Doctor. The core story is (and I realised this in horror, only when I came to finish it) pretty much that Steven Moffat tells in <b><i>The Empty Child</i></b>/<b><i>The Doctor Dances</i></b>. It is also a "broken spring" story. No real villain just a technological mistake that needs resolving.<br />
The never-ending magical battle of the dead on Hoy comes from Snorri Sturluson’s <b><i>Prose Edda</i></b>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedin_and_H%C3%B6gni" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedin_and_H%C3%B6gni</a> We're lucky that Barbara has read this. She is the world's greatest history teacher.<br />
At one point I was going to have the Marsh Wains at the old naval base on Hoy. There's all sorts of exciting tunnels and oil and things there but it was too fussy for a story that's essentially an hour long two-hander. Janet's cottage was much more contained.<br />
Janet's cottage is based on a croft interior from the Stromness museum and Janet herself is based on Janet Forsyth, a historical Spae Wife <a href="http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/witchcraft/stormwitch.htm" target="_blank">http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/witchcraft/stormwitch.htm</a>. If the plot had carried on being about fractured time she almost certainly would have been her, and her miraculous rescue from Marwick's Hole would have been down to the Doctor's intervention. The Orkneyjar site above is terrific for lots of Orcadian lore, actually. It's a really great resource. Go <a href="http://www.orkneytourism.co.uk/index.asp" target="_blank">here</a> after and then book a holiday.<br />
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The Wissfornjarl, sadly, does not exist. Similar figures do but him I invented, the name is just the Norse words for wise old chief. Similarly, the barrow the TARDIS is discovered in has not been found on Hoy yet. There are several broch mounds there and there could well be more, but we've not found them in quite the area I put Janet's home. Ideally, I wanted the TARDIS to be inside The Dwarfie Stane <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfie_Stane" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfie_Stane</a> but annoyingly the Neolithic engineers didn't get the proportions quite right for stuffing police boxes in.<br />
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The, as yet undiscovered, barrow is much more like Maeshowe <a href="http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/maeshowe/runes.html" target="_blank">http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/maeshowe/runes.html</a>. This does raise a question though. The barrow would be likely to have been closed up about 5000 years ago (though there's evidence these days they were popped in and out of for generations), did the Doctor go back that far?<br />
He might have done. He might be the sole reason Time is messed up on Orkney. He might be the sole originator of the myth of the Wissfornjarl. He might have lived the 5000 years between him and Ian and Barbara a day at a time or tried a speedier, technological approach to get back to them. On the other hand he may just have spent a few years or decades on Hoy. I deliberately left the options open for the listener.<br />
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One of the things I like in folkloric stories are the gaps for your imagination, and this is purposely one of those. All we know is that, while he waited, the Doctor read a selection of books he seems to know
well in later years that it seems unlikely he did when we first met
him! I think that book the second Doctor has with the sea weed creature
listed in it is one of them.<br />
Barbara's place in the modern day is a similar gap in the story. I think she's now dead and seeing her equivalent is part of what brought Ian back to Orkney. You don't have to think she's dead though, and I don't want you to either. If she is I'm certainly not going to be the one to tell you.<br />
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Second things, second- I've been writing some more for <a href="http://www.bigfinish.com/" target="_blank">Big Finish</a> in recent months. Another thing for Ian and another set slightly later in the first Doctor's era which I've done the first draft of but which has much more work awaiting (the secondary characters aren't quite there yet).<br />
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Third things, third- I'll be writing a marginally <b><i>Who</i></b> related but in no way <b><i>Who</i></b> story for Obverse books at the start of next year, but right now I'm going to write something with no series name above the title for a change and see how that goes. IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-15642426288019697602012-09-07T23:13:00.000+01:002012-09-07T23:13:37.971+01:00Matt<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The very wonderful Matt
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About 1% of what you
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He was funny and kind and clever. That's the main other thing you need to know. </div>
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"We will sing of him in
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"He will be a pebble
smoothed into story and reduced to mere legend, but those of us who
knew the man will always know a man is more than a story that shifts
from teller to teller, more than a beacon in the dark and more than
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I will miss my friend.
I'm so glad he was here and so grateful to the people who loved him,
cared for him and helped make him who he was.</div>
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Breathe easy, Matt.</div>
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It's here at last, the first four instalments of science fiction thriller,<b><i> Counter-Measures</i></b> were released on Thursday! It's a series of audio dramas from those lovely people at Big Finish that lives somewhere in between the BBC's 1950s <i><b>Quatermass</b></i> and 1970s <b><i>Doomwatch</i></b> series and, despite being a <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> spin-off, it requires no <i><b>Doctor Who</b></i> knowledge whatsoever. Our heroes are two scientists and an RAF captain who were caught up in bizarre alien goings on with the Doctor in 1963 and have now been reunited in a government funded team investigating the odd. It's gritty and witty, action-packed and tense, has an utterly exemplary cast and sounds beautifully 60s. </div>
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The series has had a gratifyingly great response so far, with lots of lovely comments already. Mine (pictured below) is episode 3 and the whole boxset is eminently buyable right now, and as if 4 hours of top-notch drama isn't enough you get an hour of the creators talking about it on a bonus disc too. Imagine! Whole minutes of me chunnering with little thought or preparation but spoken aloud not typed.</div>
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You can be one of the series' eminent buyers right <a href="http://bigfinish.com/releases/v/counter-measures-series-1-box-set-665" target="_blank">here</a>! Do it now, before the planet is doomed. While you're there, you might also want to pre-order <a href="http://bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-alchemists-749" target="_blank">this</a>, a <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> story by me. It's out next April so only order it if you think we're just a bit doomed and will make it to next year, or think we're so doomed you may as well just throw all your money away now.<br />
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I imagine there's been a lot of talk in the recent obituaries of Eric Sykes about his silent or at least silentish works from <b><i>The Plank</i></b> to <i><b>The Big Freeze</b></i>, but to me they're not the core of his work. As well as being a gifted and shrewd physical comedian, Eric was a writer and a prolific one.</div>
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He wrote comedy for all the greats of his age- Frankie Howerd, Tony Hancock, The Goons, as well as vast quantities of <i><b>Educating Archie</b></i>, the radio hit of its day, long before penning his own hugely popular TV sitcoms <b><i>Sykes and a...</i></b> and <b><i>Sykes</i></b>. It's not over-stressing things to say British comedy was reshaped by him. Without Eric there'd have been no Associated London Scripts, and without Associated London Scripts there'd be hardly anything worth having.</div>
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In some ways the silents represent Eric's weakest work because they fall back on fairly broad and sometimes rather hackneyed comedy and some star names that can sell them, and the reason for that is that they weren't scripted, so much as put together as loose scenarios and then made up as they were shot. I think it shows. Eric's forte was in sketch and sitcom structure rather than film plotting, they don't really build, and the lack of organisation and troubled production that lead to definitely comes through on later entries like <b><i>The Big Freeze</i></b>. It's the work of a man who could come up with ideas quickly and plentifully and get away without structuring them too much, starting to struggle. <i><b>The Plank</b></i> is wonderful but it let him get away with a working method that brought diminishing returns.</div>
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Go to Eric's scripting work for his true genius. Seek out his Frankie Howerd monologues and his 60s TV work in particular. The BBC DVD <b><i>The Best of Sykes</i></b> does a fair job in giving you a flavour of the latter alongside his more often seen 70s series. The Network <b><i>Sykes</i></b> DVD will give you an even better idea of his 70s work and a hint of just how fraught it all was behind the scenes.</div>
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Eric wasn't a complete saint, but who is? He could definitely be intolerant and definitely held grudges as the regrettable absence of any mention of his long time manager Beryl Vertue in his autobiography attests, but he was undeniably brilliant.</div>
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I was lucky enough to spend several hours with him a few years ago, interviewing him with an audience and later dining with him, my wife and his agent, Norma. He was a dream interviewee, I was able to ask him a few comedy anorak questions and cue up some stories I was sure he'd get a big response with, and away he went, flying- a man who could hardly see or hear making hundreds howl with laughter. He was clearly lifted by the adrenaline, the applause and our love.</div>
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He was charming afterwards at dinner too, if occasionally indiscreet in that way only a rather deaf man who's known hundreds of famous people very well can be, but also revealed a little more of the more complex man behind his cheery, always on stage persona. The bottom line is he was lovely.<br />
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</div>IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-34525257036300544562012-06-13T18:26:00.000+01:002012-06-13T18:26:35.342+01:00They say "never apologise, never explain"...... I'm sorry, but what's their reasoning?<br />
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Just popping up very briefly to say I've enjoyed reading responses to my <b><i>Doctor Who </i></b>story <b><i>The Revenants</i></b> online but there's been a suggestion a couple of times that it contradicts the following TV story <b><i>The Rescue</i></b> by adding too much time between The Doctor's farewell to Susan and that story, and, you know what, that's probably the one criticism I'd disagree with.<br />
You see, if you go into the expanded fiction, there are already a full novel and at least four short stories in that gap and even if you don't bother with the books, there's already been some kind of gap. The Doctor has changed cravat. That's how mind-bogglingly long the break is.<br />
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The dialogue in <i><b>The Rescue</b></i> taken to put this story close to its TV predecessor has the Doctor briefly expecting Susan to with them in the TARDIS and then Ian and Barbara discussing that moment later on.<br />
Ian says "all the old associations are still in the Ship" and they can't expect the Doctor to "say goodbye to Susan and forget her the next minute".<br />
That's the nearest we come to a problem- how you choose to interpret that idiomatic expression. Yes, I imply a lot longer than minutes have passed in my story but I hope I've also hinted that the length of time the Doctor will remain emotionally involved with his travellers is surprisingly long and that Ian and Barbara have come to realise that.<br />
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I've actually tried quite hard to tie into the beginning of <b><i>The Rescue</i></b>. My story ends with the Doctor back in the TARDIS after some time from it, back with "the old associations" for the first time in years and deliberately prefigures the shared humorous glance between Ian and Barbara after the Doctor warns them not to open the TARDIS doors while in flight in their opening scene. I've even suggested an origin for that oh-so-mysterious new cravat!<br />
I absolutely agree that David Whitaker envisaged no gap for new adventures between these TV stories when he wrote <b><i>The Rescue</i></b>, but I do think there's a gap there to exploit (enough of us already have), and I hope you'll forgive me making Ian's remark a little woolly retrospectively to slide another story into it.<br />
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Anyway, in the end it's all interpretation and it's all pretend. Thank you to all of you who've taken the time to listen to the story and comment on it, I've found everyone's views interesting. I hope those of you who disagree with my reasoning here can at least understand it.IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-52823343889076530072012-06-03T14:58:00.000+01:002012-07-16T18:49:40.467+01:00They Should Have Called the Magazine Ian<a href="http://www.subscription.co.uk/home/mpurchase.asp?m=1070&src=BAR1" target="_blank"><b>Doctor Who Magazine 448</b></a> is now out in the UK at least (though I see at least one Australian seems to have already got access to it), with contents including Ian Chesterton, Ian "Chunky" Gilmore and a few words from me, as part of a feature by Cavan Scott on Big Finish audio-drama <a href="http://bigfinish.com/ranges/coming_soon_reverse/counter-measures" target="_blank"><i><b>Counter-Measures</b></i></a>. Amusingly, we writers seem to have said a few quite similar things, so poor Cav has had to create a couple of relay quotes of us almost continuing the same thought at one point.<br />
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It also contains the code to freely download an audio drama I wrote for Big Finish last summer called <b><i>The Revenants</i></b> (the individual episode titles for those curious are, rather prosaically, "The Marsh-Wains" and "The Wissfornjarl").<br />
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The one above by <a href="http://www.nicholasgiles.co.uk/" target="_blank">Nick Giles</a> is my current favourite.<br />
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Gratifyingly, response to the play seems to be broadly favourable so far, though obviously you can never please everyone. A few listeners seem to found the story a bit straight-forward, a couple of others seem to have missed the implication of the ending so I've clearly not got everyone on board, but hopefully there's a good few people in-between who felt neither short-changed or under-informed.<br />
It's deliberately quite leisurely and 'literary'- William Russell is such a lovely reader it's daft not to try to use that, and I tried to slightly mimic the slow-building almost John Buchan style of David Whitaker's first person Ian novelisation <i><b>Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks</b></i>, and, I hope, reflect some of the style of early TV <i><b>Doctor Who </b></i>which I always feel is much more about suspense than action.<br />
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I'm really pleasantly surprised to read some people found it scary, particularly as I was yelping like a complete wuss at the film <b><i>The Awakening</i></b> last night, a really rather controlled and old-fashioned ghost-story. I've never thought of myself as a spooky writer so it's particularly nice to see I've caused a few shivers down spines here and there.<br />
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I'll talk more about the story in a few months when everyone who wants to hear it probably will have (apparently it can take around 3 months for <i><b>Doctor Who Magazine</b></i> to reach all the countries it sells to), but as a tiny taster I'll let you know now that I spotted halfway through writing that there was potential for a small continuity clash with an old <b><i>Doctor Who</i></b> prose story that's now out of print called <b><i>Set In Stone</i></b>. For that reason I tweaked a late speech slightly so it fits with the events of <b><i>Set in Stone</i></b> if you know it but hopefully still makes sense if you don't. I doubt most people would care about this or even notice usually but I'm always aware that the people who do notice really do care a lot so it's worth seeing if you can address these issues where you can. Expect more tedious stuff like that in early September.<br />
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You should buy the magazine, you know- me, Glen McCoy and Neil Gaiman all sharing our wisdom in a single volume. That's special.IZPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575990740862873647.post-7970302590587442292012-05-24T16:21:00.000+01:002012-05-24T16:59:14.394+01:00The RevenantsThe issue of<i><b> Doctor Who Magazine</b></i> that comes out next week contains a very special free gift. It's an audio play written by me for you to download and disparage!<br />
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It stars the very wonderful William Russell and Sharon Small, was directed by the lovely Lisa Bowerman, produced by the incredibly patient David Richardson and features sound design and editing by the ridiculously modest Toby Robinson. It's set in that gap between <b><i>The Dalek Invasion of Earth</i></b> and <b><i>The Rescue</i></b> not enough people have used (I've left you a space for your <b><i>Venusian Lullaby</i></b> and so forth don't worry).<br />
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As a download it has no CD cover, so if you're the kind who likes that kind of thing I've mocked up a quick and dirty template for one for you to disparage even more. I'll wager far better fan produced ones will be forthcoming.<br />
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Enjoy, if you're one of those as does.<br />
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