| Shada "Douglas Adams Classic" Coming
to BBCi |
 Recording took place in mid-November
for the Eighth Doctor's online debut - a very special BBCi webcast
from Big Finish Productions.
Spring 2003 will see Paul McGann team up with Lalla
Ward's Romana and John Leeson's K9 in an
audio adapta-tion of Douglas Adams' lost
Season
Seventeen six-parter "Shada".
Swapping
Cambridge for Bristol, an impressive line-up
was assembled, including BAFTA-winning veteran actor James Fox; The Servant, Performance, Remains of the Day, A Passage to India)
as scatterbrained Time Lord Professor Chronotis. Fawlty Towers'
Manuel and ubiquitous television narrator Andrew Sachs dons hat, cape
and carpet bag as the
villainous Skagra, whilst comic actor Melvyn
Hayes, best remembered as 'Gloria' from It Ain't Half Hot Mum,
plays Wilkin the Porter. Ultraviolet, Pride and Prejudice and House of Cards star
Susannah Harker plays Claire Keightley, Harry Potter's Quidditch
captain Oliver Wood, alias Sean Biggerstaff, plays Cambridge student
Chris Parsons and, last seen in Doctor Who in the 1966's "The
Highlanders", distinguished actress and Watercolour Challenge host
Hannah Gordon makes a welcome return to the show providing the seductive
voice of Skagra's spaceship.
"This is a
tremendously exciting project" says director Nicholas Pegg. "We've
really pulled out all the stops on this one. We've had a fantastic time in the
studio and I hope people will agree that we've done justice to one of the
greatest writers Doctor Who was ever blessed with." |
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