Gold Winner for Best Drama Special at the 2018 New York Festivals International Radio Awards.
Seventeenth-century England, and a plough uncovers a grisly skull in the furrows of a farmer's field. The skull disappears, but its malefic influence begins to work in insidious ways upon the nearby village of Hexbridge. First, the cows stop milking and the fruit turns rotten on the trees. Then, an insolent ungodliness takes hold of the local children, mysterious fur patches appear on limbs and people start disappearing....
Something evil is stirring in the woods. Something that is corrupting the village youth, who retreat to the woodland deeps to play their pernicious games. Hysteria spreads as it becomes clear that the devil has come to Hexbridge, to incarnate himself on earth. Can the villagers, led by the Squire Middleton (Mark Gatiss) and Reverend Fallowfield (Reece Shearsmith), prevent the devil gaining human form?
This digital audio exclusive stars Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith, alongside the original film's Angel Blake, Linda Hayden. Gatiss and Shearsmith are both huge fans of the original film, even recording a commentary for the DVD release.
An Audible Original drama adapted from the original screenplay by horror writer Mark Morris, Blood on Satan's Claw stars Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen), Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen), Alice Lowe (Sightseers, Prevenge), John Heffernan (Ripper Street, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell), Ralph Ineson (The Witch, The Office), Thomas Turgoose (This Is England), Rebecca Ryan (Shameless) and Philip Hill-Pearson (Good Cop).
The Doctor, Ace and Mel are caught in a forever night. After crossing the threshold, a strange world awaits them. An army of tortured souls. A lift that leads to an alien landscape. An alien warlord, left for dead, and willing to do anything to prolong his life... it's all in a day's work for the Doctor. But when his companions become victims of the desperate and powerful Arkallax, the Doctor will have to do battle in a psychic environment where he must make a choice. Save his companions... or himself.Big Finish have been producing Doctor Who audios since 1999, starring Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Tennant and John Hurt. The Doctor in this story is played by Sylvester McCoy, familiar to many viewers and audiences not only as the Doctor, but most recently as Radagast the Brown in Peter Jackson's blockbustingThe Hobbit movie trilogy! Although known to a generation of TV viewers as a significant talent in dance and light entertainment, Bonnie Langford's more recently been award-nominated for her work in BBC1's EastEnders. CAST: Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush), Morgan Watkins (Ruck), Anna Mitcham (Jan), Stirling Gallacher (Isobel), Nick Ellsworth (Arkallax).
When Ian Hibbert witnesses a man dumping a bag of rubbish outside his house he decides enough is enough. But after initiating a local clean-up campaign, he discovers, to his cost, that someone – or something – is resistant to his efforts. Lethally resistant.
Released in 2013, audio drama The Fixation is one of six stories that comprise the box set Hammer Chillers – Series One. The other stories are The Box by Stephen Gallagher, Sticks and Stones by Robin Ince, The Devil in the Darkness by Christopher Fowler, Spanish Ladies by Paul Magrs and Don’t Go There by Stephen Volk. The Fixation stars Miles Jupp (Ian Hibbert), Camille Coduri (Beth Hibbert), Ewan Bailey (Malcolm Beglin/DS Bob Sharpe), Jacqueline King (Barbara Whitlow), Lauren Kellegher (Sam Hibbert) and Danny Horn (Hoodie).
Ross Chapman is one of life’s losers. So when he survives a point-blank shooting, dons a superhero costume and becomes a crime-busting vigilante, something strange is clearly going on.
And Ross’s transformation isn’t the only odd thing happening in Cardiff. Time is distorting – around the city, some people are aging, dying and decomposing in a matter of minutes, while others are reverting to childhood.
Sgt Andy Davidson knows he’s out of his depth – so when Jack Harkness sweeps into the police station, he’s glad of the help that only Torchwood can provide. But for Jack the stakes are higher than ever. He’s seen a vision of Gwen, dead, murdered by an unknown gunman. And if he can’t solve the mystery of Mr Invincible, he can’t save her.
Released in 2012, this hour-long story, written specially for audio, is read by Tom Price, who played Sgt Andy Davidson in the hit BBC television series.
Strange things are happening in the pauper’s graveyard at Charnel’s End. There are hideous creatures in the undergrowth, a mysterious light emanating from the church, and something deadly beneath the ground itself. Someone from Litefoot’s past has come back to haunt him, and things may never be the same again…
Released in 2011, this Victorian-set audio drama features the characters Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot (from the hugely popular 1977 BBC TV Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang, which starred Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor) in one of their own series of adventures. The Necropolis Express was the second of four stories released as part of the box set Jago & Litefoot – Investigators of Infernal Incidents – Series Two and starred Christopher Benjamin (Jago), Trevor Baxter (Litefoot), Lisa Bowerman (Ellie Higson), Vernon Dobtcheff (Reuben Mord), David Collings (Gabriel Sanders) and Alex Mallinson (The Station Master).
When the TARDIS is buffeted by ‘time slippage’ the Doctor experiences a terrible vision of the end of everything. Tracking the source of the disruption, he, Amy and Rory arrive at what appears to be an English public school in the 1950s.
Upon further investigation, however, the time travellers discover that the prefects at this particular school carry guns, and that the school grounds are surrounded by an invisible forcefield. But it isn’t until the school is attacked by a swarm of foot-long, crab-like carnivores with spiny, armoured bodies that things really start to go wrong!
Written specially for audio, this hour-long story, released in 2012, features the 11th Doctor, as portrayed on TV by Matt Smith, and his companions Amy and Rory. It is read by Alexander Armstrong.
The TARDIS arrives in Arizona in 1905, where travelling showman Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer is offering the residents of Buzzard Creek the elixir of life. Winklemeyer also owns a unique carnival full of caged alien creatures. And in the Doctor’s companion Turlough he has found a brand new exhibit…
Part narration, part drama, this story, released as part of the boxset Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles – The Specials in 2011, stars Mark Strickson (Turlough) and Toby Longworth (Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer).
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You wouldn’t normally expect to find wild animals roaming free in Suffolk in the year 1911. But when the Doctor and Nyssa arrive they find themselves pursued through the English countryside by a hungry lioness. They soon discover they have landed in the private hunting grounds of the famous explorer Nathaniel Whitlock, who has brought together a motley group of acquaintances for a weekend’s shooting.
But one of Whitlock’s guests isn’t all that they seem. One of them wants the secrets of the Moonflesh, the strange red crystal discovered by Whitlock’s retainer, a Native American known as Silver Crow. Because the Moonflesh is reputed to have the power to call upon spirits from another realm…
…And soon the hunters will become the hunted.
Released in 2014, this 4-part audio drama stars Peter Davison (5th Doctor), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Tim Bentinck (Nathaniel Whitlock), Rosanna Miles (Phoebe Whitlock), John Banks (Silver Crow), Francesca Hunt (Hannah Bartholomew), Hugh Fraser (Edwin Tremayne) and Geoffrey Breton (Hector Tremayne).
Aquaphobia – an abnormal fear of water, or drowning.
Blattodephobia – the morbid fear of cockroaches.
Catoptrophobia – the fear of mirrors, or seeing one’s own reflection.
There’s a whole ABC of horrors at Bluefire House, as four young people, drawn together to this tumbledown hotel at the edge of nowhere, are about to discover. But what is the ancient, foul thing that has emerged from the wilderness to bring them here? And why does speaking of it only strengthen it?
The Doctor alone knows what lurks at the heart of Bluefire House. The monster of his childhood dreams is coming. And just this once, the Doctor is afraid.
Released in 2011, this 4-part audio drama stars Sylvester McCoy (7th Doctor), Timothy West (Dr Magnus Soames), Miranda Keeling (Number 5), Howard Gossington (Number 12), Ray Emmett Brown (Number 16), Amy Pemberton (Number 18) and Lizzy Watts (Eve Pritchard).
According to the guide books Stockbridge is the loveliest village in England. But something is coming to this rural idyll. Something which turns mild-mannered villagers into ravening zombies. It is a plague such as the Earth has never seen before, falling through history from a time when humanity’s greatest enemy was a race known as the Daleks.
Released in 2009, this 4-part audio drama stars Peter Davison (5th Doctor), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Keith Barron (Isaac Barclay), Liza Tarbuck (Lysette Barclay) and Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks.
Released in 2008, my first foray into scriptwriting was the 25-minute Doctor Who audio drama False Gods, starring Sylvester McCoy (7th Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Philip Olivier (Hex) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Howard Carter). One of four audio dramas released under the umbrella title Forty-Five (a number significant to each story and also a nod to the forty-fifth anniversary of the series itself), my story, set in 1902, concerns the opening of an ancient tomb by archeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt – a tomb whose discovery sheds new light on the history of the world as we know it.
My audio adaptation of M.R. James’s ‘A View From a Hill’, one of four stories in ‘The Conception of Terror’, won a New York Festival Radio Award (Gold) for Best Drama Download, and an Audio and Radio Industry Award (Silver) for Best Fictional Storytelling.
The four stories in this collection are:
Casting the Runes - adapted by Stephen Gallagher
When academic Jo Harrington (Anna Maxwell Martin) is sent a paper - The Truth of Alchemy, by Anton Karswell - for peer review, she pulls no punches. It has no place in a serious academic publication, and Karswell is a half-bright fool. However, when the editor writes a rejection note to Karswell, he inadvertently includes her entire email. Occultist Karswell (Reece Shearsmith) doesn’t take kindly to criticism.
On the tube home with her partner Edward Dunning (Tom Burke), Jo spots a poster with her name on it. It reads: 'In memory of Joanne Harrington, M.Litt, PhD, died September eighteenth, three days were allowed.' Is there anything that Edward can do to save Jo from this curse?
Lost Hearts - adapted by A. K. Benedict
Teenager Stephanie Elliot (Rosa Coduri) is taken to Aswarby House to be fostered by Mrs Bunch (Susan Jameson). Stephanie strikes up a friendship with Ben (Bill Milner), the adopted son of charismatic community leader Mr Abney (Jeff Rawle). He tells her that Mr Abney is a good man: he even took in a child refugee last year, but she ran away and stole from him. Stephanie is troubled by voices and visions of a dead girl clutching at her chest, and when Ben disappears she begins to suspect that all is not right in Aswarby House.
The Treasure of Abbot-Thomas - adapted by Jonathan Barnes
When former Somerton school pupil Greg Parsbury (Robert Bathurst) meets history teacher Mika Chantry (Pearl Mackie) at a memorial service for schoolmaster Sam Abbot-Thomas, he begs for her help. He has been sent a postcard by the estate of the mysterious and charismatic Abbot-Thomas. On it is a strange inscription in Latin, which he believes to be an inaugural clue in a treasure hunt: much like the elaborate treasure hunts Abbot-Thomas used to set back in the 1970s. There were rumours that Abbot-Thomas possessed a hidden fortune, and Parsbury and Chantry set out to find it.
A View from a Hill - adapted by Mark Morris
Comedian and podcaster Paul Fanshawe (Andy Nyman) and his wife, Sarah (Alice Lowe), visit the Cotswolds on holiday, trying to rebuild their lives after the death of their young son, Archie. Whilst out walking they spot a beautiful abbey across the valley on Gallows Hill, but when they reach it, they find the building is little more than rubble. While Sarah explores, Paul records commentary for his podcast. Sarah thinks she hears children’s laughter, but there’s no-one there. Later that night she listens back to the recording and hears a child’s voice whisper, 'Mummy.' Sarah is convinced that Archie is trying to reach them and wants to return to the ruins. But something far worse is waiting for them on Gallows Hill.
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