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BBC7 presents Doctor Who and William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition

BBC7’s The Seventh Dimension have two specially commissioned treats this week:

Doctor Who: Human Resources – An Eighth Doctor Adventure
2 Parts – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Sunday at 6pm and 12am (UK Time)
Part one of a new two-part adventure of the vagabond Time Lord, look for part two next Sunday. The doctor’s companion Lucie has been headhunted by a respectable blue-chip firm in Telford, and the doctor confronts a terrifying enemy. Stars Paul McGann produced by Big Finish Productions.

Pattern Recognition
By William Gibson; Read by Lorelei King
5 Part reading – [ABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Monday to Friday at 6.30pm and 12.30am (UK Time)
Cayce Pollard is a coolhunter. Her gifts are an innate ability in pattern recognition, a skill essential in trendspotting, and a unique allergy to, and therefore an ability to identify, winning logos. These gifts make her an indispensable tool for multinational marketing magnates.

Both programs and all their parts are re-listenable via BBC7’s time-shifting “Listen Again” feature.

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Circus 13 Productions – An Audio Drama Collective

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Circus 13 Productions is a new amateur audio drama co-operative offering original and Fan-Fic shows. The group appears to be modeled on the successful Pendant Productions and Darker Projects audio theater groups, offering a mix of Fan-Fic and original series voiced by amateur actors. A difference I’ve noticed in their X-Men series Circus 13 makes extensive use of narration.

Shows with episodes out already include:

Assault A pair of thieves, decide to break into A.T.L.A.S. Labs, the most high-tech laboratories in the world, to steal some “toys” so they can sell them and live like kings the rest of their lives.

Quest For The Passion Stone A young man discovers he is the third incarnation of an already twice dead hero of a secret world called the Underhollow. It exists alongside, and sometimes in the “real” world.

Truck A bounty hunter traveling through time and space in order to track down the worst of the worst.

Circus 13 Presents An anthology series.

X-Men: Days of Future, Past! An adaptation of Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s comics tale.

James Bond: Casino Royale Bond is on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply ‘Le Chiffre’.

Also in the works are two more Fan-Fic shows: Doctor Who and Iron Man!

All programs can be downloaded from the website in MP3 format. So far, there’s only one podcast feed (for Assault):

http://circus13productions.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

BBC7’s The 7th Dimension transmits Doctor Who: Phobos on Sunday

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BBC7’s the 7th Dimension will be airing another original Doctor Who radio drama this Sunday.

Doctor Who – Phobos (an 8th Doctor Adventure)
By Eddie Robson; Performed by a Full Cast
Streaming Audio / Listen Again – Approx. 1 Hour [RADIO DRAMA]
BROADCASTER: BBC7
BROADCAST: Sunday at 6pm and midnight (U.K. Time)
The Tardis lands on Phobos, one of the moons of Mars – where the extreme sports athletes of the future indulge their passion for gravity-boarding and wormhole-jumping. But there’s something lurking in the shadows, something infinitely old and infinitely dangerous. It’s not for nothing that ‘Phobos’ is the ancient word for ‘fear’…

This will be available via the Listen Again service the day after it airs. And it will be released on CD by Big Finish in May 2007 (ISBN: 1844352595).

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Shamelessly stolen story from Slice Of SciFi – Daleks in Trek Verse?

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SFFaudio has shamelessly stolen this entire post from the awesome Slice of SciFi news website:

First it was the Klingon and the Romulan Empires, the Mirror Universe followed by the Borg and Dominion – but until now, Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets have never come up against an enemy as terrifying as this menace from outside the normal fabric of Trek’s space and time. The Daleks have Invaded.

Battlestar Galactica vrs. the Enterprise? Childsplay! Darker Projects takes a serious look at what would happen if the Daleks from the Doctor Who universe were to find themselves on the other side of a rift in the time/space continuum right smack in the Star Trek verse.

In “Gateway,” Part I of episode “Invasion,” when all contact is lost with the Starship Defiant and Starbase Gateway, the covert operatives of Section 31 are sent to investigate. Only to make a dark discovery. Aboard the Nosferatu, Section 31 investigates this rift and a new threat it has brought into an area of space that not even the Dominion want anything to do with.

Part 2 of “Invasion” is called “Doomsday Unleashed” and continues the story as the invading forces advance into the galaxy, Captain Dalonna considers making a deal with the Federation’s greatest enemy – if there is any hope of stopping them. Meanwhile Mak comes face to face with the one enemy he’d believed destroyed long ago.

Written and directed by Eric Busby, “Section 31″ from Darker Projects is one of the most creative and exciting audio fan productions on the net today and one which Slice of SciFi highly recommends for all Trek enthusiasts and lovers of great scifi serials.

Thanks for this story SoSF guys!

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Radio Times magazine is giving away Doctor Who audiobooks for Xmas

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Paul S. Jenkins, author of The Plitone Revisionist podiobook and host of The Rev-Up Review podcast writes in to say:

“Radio Times (the best UK weekly TV & radio listings magazine) is giving away a Doctor Who audio CD with each of the next four editions. The first is Part One of The Feast of the Drowned written by Stephen Cole and read by David Tennant, the current Doctor. Part Two will be free with the next edition, followed by The Stone Rose, also in two parts.

And here’s a peek…

Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned
By Stephen Cole; Read by David Tennant
2 CDs – [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audio / Radio Times
Published: December 2006
When a naval cruiser sinks in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose learns that the brother of her friend was among the dead. He appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast … the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser’s wreckage was towed up the Thames, what came with it? The river’s dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion …

Doctor Who: The Stone Rose*
By Jacqueline Rayner; Read by David Tennant
2 CDs – [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audio / Radio Times
Published: January 2007
Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum — a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the Tardis will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know
the future — a girl whose predictions are surprisingly accurate. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose — and Rose learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for …

* please note: art for The Stone Rose will be slightly different in the giveaway edition.

These are a £20.00 value put together! Yet another reason to visit the newstands across the pond.

Thanks so much Paul!

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Charity Doctor Who Concert available from BBC Radio Wales

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Doctor Who fans take note! A concert of Murray Gold’s Dr Who Music (BBC National Orchestra), hosted by the present incumbent David Tennant, has just broadcast from the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. It appears to feature a number of interviews and Q&A sessions with David Tennant and Russell T. Davies plus a number of other related audio items. The concert runs about 2.5 hours and is available on BBC Radio Wales ‘listen again‘ service.

Thanks Roy!

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