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An Earthly Child
''An Earthly Child'' is a Big Finish Productions List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish, audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It is free to those whose subscription includes ''Plague of the Daleks''. Plot The Doctor returns to twenty-second century London after his granddaughter Susan Foreman, Susan sends out a distress signal. There he discovers the Earth enveloped in xenophobia, an alien invasion taking place and his rebellious great-grandson, Alex, in the middle of it all. Cast * Doctor (Doctor Who), The Doctor – Paul McGann * Susan Foreman – Carole Ann Ford * Alex Campbell – Jake McGann * Holly Barrett – Sheryl Gannaway * Marion Fleming/Hope – Leslie Ash * Faisal Jensen/Reporter – Matt Addis * Duncan – Ian Hallard * President of the Earth Council/Policeman/Air Control/Helicopter Pilot/Reporter – Ian Brooker (actor), Ian Brooker Notes Jake McGann is the son of Paul McGann. He previously appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include '' Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from '' 2000 AD'', '' Blake's 7'', ''Dark Shadows'', '' Dracula'', ''Terrahawks'', '' Sapphire & Steel'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''Stargate'', '' The Avengers'', '' The Prisoner'', ''Timeslip'' and '' Torchwood''. History Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the New Adventures, a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed ''Doctor Who'' stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. In 1999, Big Finish obtained a non-exclusive licence to produce official ''Doctor Who'' plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story ''The Sirens of Time''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor (Doctor Who)
The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC Science fiction on television, science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by thirteen lead actors. In the programme, "the Doctor" is the alias assumed by a millennia-old humanoid Extraterrestrials in popular culture, alien, a Time Lord who travels through space and time in the TARDIS, frequently with Companion (Doctor Who), companions. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of "Regeneration (Doctor Who), regeneration", a biological function of the Time Lord race that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance with recovery following a fatal injury. A number of other actors have played the character in stage and audio plays, as well as in various film and television productions. The Doctor has been well-received by the public, with an enduring popularity leading ''The Dai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Audio Plays
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Who Never Was
''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly titled the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'', produced by Nicholas Briggs and Big Finish Productions and starring one of the original actors to play The Doctor on television in the classic era of the programme. The main audio series currently feature the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and have since developed the pattern of thirteen releases per year, one every month with two in September or December. In May 2020, Big Finish announced that the Main Range would conclude with its 275th release in March 2021, to be replaced with regular releases of each Doctor in their own boxsets throughout the year from January 2022. With 275 releases over 22 years, in 2021 the series received the Guinness World Record for longest running science fiction audio play series. Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immortal Beloved (Doctor Who Audio)
''Immortal Beloved'' is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions and was broadcast on BBC 7 on 21 January 2007. Plot The Doctor and Lucie Miller land the TARDIS next to a cliff in what appears to be ancient Greece. Two star-crossed lovers, Kalkin and Sararti, have been preparing to kill themselves nearby, but the Doctor and Lucie prevent this, and soon anachronistic helicopters surround them all. One of the soldiers who disembark, General Ares, is gravely injured in the ensuing struggle. The Doctor just about saves his life and he, Lucie, Sararti and Kalkin are taken back to a grand palace, where to their horror they witness the ailing Ares' mind being transferred into the body of another man, one of the soldiers, who has expected this and is entirely willing to so sacrifice himself to his 'destiny'. The Doctor confronts Zeus, the autocratic ruler of this strange s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Brooker (actor)
Ian Brooker is a character actor, with experience of theatre, television and film. However, it is in the medium of radio and audio drama that he is best known. Ian Anthony Brooker is the ninth generation of a theatrical family that first went on stage in the mid eighteenth century. Relatives have included leading theatrical and literary figures such as Dame Madge Kendal (Mrs Kendal in ''The Elephant Man'') (1848–1935), dramatists such as Thomas William Robertson (1829–1871) – author of the play '' Caste'', the screenwriter Philip MacDonald (1900–80) – author of the Boris Karloff film ''The Body Snatcher'', and several Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films; Harry Duff (1895–1984) – the boy actor who played both Michael and John Darling in the original production and revival of the play ''Peter Pan''; the French actress, Rachel Berendt who studied with Sarah Bernhardt and who married the film, stage and television actor Pierre Fresnay; and Carol Robertson – producer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Hallard
Ian Christopher Hallard (born 9 November 1974) is an English actor and writer. His work includes acting roles in the West End, including the lead role of Michael in a revival of Mart Crowley's '' The Boys in the Band''; at the National Theatre and on television. He has also written and script edited for both television and stage. Early and personal life Hallard was born in Birmingham, West Midlands on 9 November 1974. Following his education at Solihull School and an undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield, he trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the Post Graduate Acting course, won a singing scholarship, and graduated in 1998. He lives with his husband, the actor and screenwriter Mark Gatiss. The couple live in Islington in London. Career Theatre Hallard has been acting professionally since 1999, when he appeared in a production of ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' at the Battersea Arts Centre. Since then his roles have included Sordo in '' Scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Ash
Leslie Ash (born 19 February 1960) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in ''C.A.T.S. Eyes'' (1985–1987), the BBC sitcom ''Men Behaving Badly'' (1992–1997), ITV drama '' Where the Heart Is'' (2000–2003), and BBC medical drama ''Holby City'' (2009–2010). Her book ''My Life Behaving Badly: The Autobiography'' was published in 2007. Early career Ash was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and first appeared on British television in 1964 at the age of four asking "Mummy, why are your hands so soft?" in an advertisement for the washing-up product Fairy Liquid. She was educated at the independent Italia Conti Academy stage school, and then started a career as a fashion model appearing on the cover of a number of teenager magazines, including ''Pink'', and '' Jackie'', for which she was photographed by David Bailey. Having appeared with her sister Debbie in the 1978 British slapstick comedy ''Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse''; her first major film ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake McGann
Jake McGann (born 1990) is an English voice actor who has appeared in '' Doctor Who'' audio dramas. ''Doctor Who'' In 2007, he appeared in two '' Doctor Who'' audio dramas starring his father as the Doctor: ''Immortal Beloved'' and ''The Girl Who Never Was'', before playing the title role in the 2009 audio, ''An Earthly Child'', where he played the Doctor's great-grandson Alex Campbell. He reprised his role in the audio dramas ''Relative Dimensions'' and '' To the Death''. Family He is the second and younger son of actor Paul McGann and Annie Milner. He has an elder brother, Joseph McGann, born in 1988. He is the nephew of actors Joe, Mark and Stephen McGann. References 1990 births 21st-century English male actors English male radio actors English male child actors Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Jake Jake may refer to: Name * Jake (given name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Katrin Jäke (born c. 1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Ann Ford
Carole Ann Lillian Ford ( Higgins; born 16 June 1940) is a British actress best known for her roles as Susan Foreman in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', and as Bettina in the 1962 film adaptation of '' The Day of the Triffids''. Life and career Ford has had a long and diverse acting career. Her theatrical work includes many comedies, dramas and musicals, including ''The Jungle Book'', ''Stranger in the House'', ''Bakerloo to Paradise'', '' The Owl and the Pussycat'', ''The Rumpus'', ''Pride and Prejudice'', ''Inadmissible Evidence'', ''Enrico'', ''Expresso Bongo'', '' Sleeping Beauty'', '' You Never Can Tell'', ''Ned Kelly'', ''Mother'', ''MacBett'', '' The Boy Friend'', ''Have You Seen Manchester'' and '' Private Lives''. Her film appearances include '' The Day of the Triffids'' (1962) as the blind French girl Bettina, '' Mix Me a Person'' (1962), '' The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery'' (1966), '' The Hiding Place'' (1975) and '' The Incredible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McGann
Paul John McGann (; born 14 November 1959) is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial '' The Monocled Mutineer'' (1986), then starred in the dark comedy '' Withnail and I'' (1987), which was a critical success and developed a cult following. McGann later became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 ''Doctor Who'' television film. He is also known for playing Lieutenant William Bush in the series '' Hornblower''. Early life Paul John McGann was born in Liverpool on 14 November 1959, into a Roman Catholic family. His ancestors immigrated from Ireland in the mid-19th century, having left due to the Great Famine. His mother, Clare, was a teacher, and his father Joe who died in 1984 was a metallurgist. His cousin, Ritchie Routledge, was in the 1960s band The Cryin' Shames. He has an older brother, Joe, and three younger siblings: brothers Mark and Stephen and sister Clare. All th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xenophobia
Xenophobia () is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange. It is an expression of perceived conflict between an in-group and out-group and may manifest in suspicion by the one of the other's activities, a desire to eliminate their presence, and fear of losing national, ethnic, or racial identity.Guido Bolaffi. ''Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture''. SAGE Publications Ltd., 2003. Pp. 332. Alternate definitions A 1997 review article on xenophobia holds that it is "an element of a political struggle about who has the right to be cared for by the state and society: a fight for the collective good of the modern state." According to Italian sociologist Guido Bolaffi, xenophobia can also be exhibited as an "''uncritical exaltation of another culture''" which is ascribed "''an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality''". History Ancient Europe An early example of xenophobic sentiment in Western culture is the Ancient Greek denigration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
