Guests
Annette Badland
Annette is most well-known in the Doctor Who universe for portraying Margaret Blaine aka Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen during the Ninth Doctor era. She has now gone on to feature in several Big Finish audios titles spanning the Fourth Doctor Adventures to The Diary of River Song.
Aside from Doctor Who, she has appeared in many television roles including Bergerac, 2point4 children, Jackanory, The Demon Headmaster, The Worst Witch, The Queen's Nose, Coronation Street, Wizards vs Aliens, EastEnders, Midsomer Murders, and most recently, Ted Lasso.
Throughout her career, she has also featured in several on-stage productions, movies, and BBC Radio productions.
Jan Chappell
Born in Brixton, London, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Jan Chappell has featured in British television shows such as Reilly, Ace of Spies, Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, The House of Eliott, Lovejoy, Pie in the Sky, Holby City, New Tricks, Spooks, and Rosemary & Thyme as well as years of theatre that included Richard II and A Comedy of Errors.
In the Doctor Who-adjacent universe, she was also featured as Lisa Deranne in the Reeltime Pictures video drama Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans.
She is most known in the science fiction world for playing Cally in three seasons of Blake’s 7. This is a role that she has now returned to in various Big Finish audio adventures.
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Brian Croucher
Not only did Brian Croucher portray Travis in the second season of Blake’s 7, but he is also known for his role as Ted Hills in EastEnders as well as featured parts in Doctor Who and Doctor Who-adjacent projects.
He played Borg in the Doctor Who story The Robots of Death. He also appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans.
In addition to these roles, Brian has also been seen in films such as Burke & Hare, Made, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, Scrubbers, and Underworld, and television shows The Jensen Code, The Young Ones, The Bill, and Rockliffe’s Babies among others.
Sally Knyvette
On screen, Sally Knyvette is best known for her roles as Jenna Stannis in the first two seasons Blake's 7 and as Kate Sugden in the soap opera Emmerdale.
After leaving her role in Blake’s 7, she received her English and drama degree at the University of London and has now gone on to have a storied theatre career.
Over the last 20 years, she has directed and featured in the productions Twelve Angry Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Inherit the Wind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Judgment at Nuremberg, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - among many others.
Sally also regularly works as a voice over artist. She has done countless commercials, portrayed Doctorman Allen in the Doctor Who audio adventure Spare Parts and Queen Carmilla in the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow as well as its sequel.
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Jo Martin
Jo Martin is best known in the Doctor Who universe for her role as the Fugitive Doctor - a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor introduced in the 13th Doctor Era.
She has also played Natalie Crouch in the BBC One sitcom The Crouches, neurosurgeon Max McGerry in Holby City, and had roles in other television shows and films such as Wizards vs. Aliens, Batman Begins, Fleabag, 100 Streets, Jonathon Creek, Casualty, 97 Minutes, Death in Paradise, and Dreaming Whilst Black, among others.
She is currently set to return to the role of the Fugitive Doctor as part of a series of Big Finish audio adventures.
(Appearing Friday and Saturday only.)
Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy was born on 20 August 1943, in Dunoon, Scotland. His father was killed in the Second World War a couple of months before he was born, and he was brought up by his mother, his grandmother, and aunts.
He attended St. Mun’s, a local Dunoon school. McCoy expressed an interest in every job, and as a result, eventually found himself given an afternoon off school to go to see a local priest about entering the priesthood. He joined Blair’s College, a seminary in Aberdeen, and between the ages of twelve and sixteen trained to be a priest.
It was while at Blair’s College that he realized that there was more to life than could be found in Dunoon. He discovered classical music and history, which fascinated him. He eventually decided to become a monk and applied to join a Dominican order, but his application was rejected as he was too young. He went instead to Dunoon grammar school, where he discovered that he didn’t want to be a priest or a monk after all.
With the help of a cook at London’s Roundhouse Theatre, McCoy gained a job there selling tickets and keeping the books in the box office. Eventually, he joined the Ken Campbell Roadshow. Along with Bob Hoskins, Jane Wood, and Dave Hill, McCoy started performing a range of sketches with the umbrella theme of “modern myths.” McCoy found himself for a while in a double-act with Hoskins before Hoskins left to pursue his film career.
During a break from one of their UK engagements, the Roadshow team was discovered busking on the street by Joan Littlewood, who invited them to go on stage as a curtain up before her production of The Hostage. Littlewood invited McCoy to join her world-renowned Theatre Workshop. Numerous engagements followed.
McCoy was starring at the National Theatre in The Pied Piper, a musical play written especially for him when he learned that the BBC was looking for a new lead actor to replace Colin Baker in Doctor Who. He later won the role as the Seventh Doctor.
Following Doctor Who, McCoy continues to work extensively in theatre, films (including The Hobbit trilogy), radio, opera, and on television.
He continues to portray the Seventh Doctor in various Big Finish Production audio adventures.
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Paul McGann
Paul McGann’s entrance into dramatic acting came in 1986 with his portrayal of Percy Toplis in the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer. Following his success in this role, he starred in the cult classic film Withnail and I alongside Richard E. Grant. Countless other film roles would follow. He starred in such films as Empire of the Sun, The Three Musketeers, and Alien 3. During the early to mid-90s, McGann also continued to feature in several TV shows and miniseries for the BBC.
In 1996, McGann made his debut in the Doctor Who universe as the Eighth Doctor in the Doctor Who TV movie. Originally intended as a “back door pilot” of sorts for a potential revival of the series, the TV ratings were too low in the United States to justify a relaunch of the popular sci-fi show.
Throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, McGann again starred in several film and television roles. Two notable portrayals were David Talbot in 2002’s Queen of the Damned and William Bush in the ITV/A&E joint production of Hornblower.
McGann has gone on to star in other television shows throughout the 2010s such as Jonathan Creek, Luther, and Holby City.
McGann has yet to give up his role as the Eighth Doctor. Not only does he continue to portray the Time Lord in countless audio adventures for Big Finish Productions, but he also reprised the role on screen in 2013’s Night of the Doctor. Fans got a never before seen glimpse at the regeneration of the Eighth Doctor into the War Doctor.
Sonny McGann
Sonny McGann has most notably, he has portrayed the Doctor's great-grandson, Alex Campbell, as part of Big Finish Productions in the Eighth Doctor Adventures stories “An Earthly Child”, “Relative Dimensions”, “Lucie Miller/To the Death” and reprised the role as part of The Eighth Doctor: Time War series.
In addition, he has voiced other characters for Big Finish and helped produce the Master: Planet Doom installation, starring Eric Roberts reprising his role as The Master.
He is the real life son of Paul McGann, the Eighth Doctor.
More guests to be announced soon!