Doctor Who Audio Adventures Live

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Produced by Big Finish, AEG Presents, and Fourth Wall Live under license from BBC Studios.

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Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring an enjoyable, accessible environment for all our visitors.

The show is seated, with a limited number of wheelchair spaces available. Please contact the venue directly to secure a space. Box Office on 020 7730 4500.

Please find further details on the venue and their access scheme here: Cadogan Hall Access Information

Barnaby Edwards

Barnaby Edwards
Director

Barnaby Edwards is an actor, director, writer and producer. His association with Big Finish began in 1998 when he acted in their second-ever production, Beyond the Sun. A quarter of a century - and over 200 productions - later, he continues to pop in to act, direct, write or steal their biscuits.

Staying in the world of Doctor Who, Barnaby has been the BBC’s principal Dalek Operator for over 30 years - starting with 30 Years in the TARDIS in 1993 and continuing through every Dalek episode of the new series, right up to 2023’s Children in Need sketch, Destination - Skaro.

Other acting credits include: It’s a Sin, Children of Men, Hollyoaks, EastEnders, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare’s Globe), Macbeth (Cambridge Arts), The Sandman (Audible), Live A Live (Nintendo) plus over 200 audiobooks. His narration work has garnered him an Audie, a Guardian Best Audiobook and an Earphones award.

Other directing credits include: Dying Light 2 (Techland), King’s Bounty 2 (1C Entertainment), The Box of Delights (Big Finish), The Waringham Chronicles (Audible), Caliber (1C Game Studios), Watership Down (Blackstone), This Much Is True and Oh Miriam! (both with Miriam Margolyes), and dozens of theatre shows.

Barnaby is also a painter.

For more information, please visit his website: barnabyedwards.co.uk

Robert Valentine
Writer and Producer

Robert Valentine is a writer, director and producer. As well as writing numerous Doctor Who adventures for Big Finish Productions, his other writing credits include Albion: The Legend of Arthur (Audible UK), Hypnopolis and Hypnopolis II: Utopia in Progress (BMW), Murmurs (BBC Sounds), and the dramatic segments of docudrama What Walls Hold for BBC Radio 3. He also adapted the classic fantasy novel Howl’s Moving Castle for BBC Radio 4. His alternative-history Cold War thriller series Red Moon (Wireless Theatre) won the 2019 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Online Audio Drama.

Lizzie Worsdell

Lizzie Worsdell
Supervising Producer

Lizzie Worsdell is an award-winning actress and producer who gained an Associate’s degree from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Los Angeles and a Masters in Filmmaking (Distinction) from Raindance, London.

After working as an actress in London and LA, she made her producing debut on the short film “Disarm” starring Sophia Myles. Several of her films are currently doing the festival circuit including BAFTA and BIFA qualifying ‘The Carer’ directed by Game of Thrones’ Amrita Acharia and starring Industry’s Priyanga Burford.

She founded her own production company Eldub Films in 2020 and recently started working as Supervising Producer at Big Finish Productions.

Lizzie is passionate about making female-centred work and representing a side of society that isn’t typically shown on screen.

John Ainsworth

John Ainsworth
Senior Producer

John Ainsworth has been working with Big Finish since 1998 and is an experienced and enthusiastic media professional who specialises in producing multicast audio dramas and audiobooks. To date, has produced over 100 productions, working with some of the UK’s best actors and readers. In addition to audio books and dramas, John has produced the voice work for video games and animation. He has also worked in publishing as a magazine and book editor.

Jason Haigh-Ellery

Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive Producer and Chairman of Big Finish

Jason is an award-winning producer (recipient of an Olivier Award, three Whatsonstage Awards, a Chicago International Television Drama Award and two BBC Audio Drama Awards) with many companies in the entertainment space, including the world’s largest independent audio drama production company working regularly with media corporations such as the BBC, ITV and MGM on Doctor Who, The Avengers, Stargate, Space:1999 and original series such as The Confessions of Dorian Grey. He has produced 16 West End shows and 30 touring shows including Burlesque, Footloose – the musical, Yes Prime Minister, The Ladykillers, Bonnie and Clyde, Fame, Flashdance, Rock of Ages, Curtains, Jeeves and Wooster and New Boy. In television, Jason has produced the original series Prisoner Zero for ABC and Netflix, seven animated Doctor Who serials for the BBC and the hit teen drama More Than This for Paramount+ as well as a number of reality shows. He was also Executive Producer on the films The Time of Their Lives distributed by Universal Pictures and starring Joan Collins and Pauline Collins and Mrs. Lowry and Son starring Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave.

NICHOLAS BRIGGS

NICHOLAS BRIGGS
The Daleks

Nicholas Briggs, also known to Doctor Who fans as the voice of the Daleks, Cybermen, Judoon, Ice Warriors and other monsters, has been writing and directing for Big Finish since the company’s first foray into audio drama back in 1998. He directed the first Bernice Summerfield adventure and then, in 1999, wrote, directed and provided the sound design and music for the first Doctor Who audio drama, The Sirens of Time — to this day, one of the company’s highest-selling titles. And he’s been the creative force behind many of Big Finish’s landmark releases ever since (including the 50th Anniversary Doctor Who story The Light at the End, Sir John Hurt’s War Doctor series as well as the acclaimed audio reimagining’s of The Prisoner and Space: 1999, plus his Audie Award-winning adaptation of The War of the Worlds, The Martian Invasion of Earth.)

ALEX MACQUEEN

ALEX MACQUEEN
The Master

Alex Macqueen is a BAFTA nominated actor best known for his roles in The Thick Of It (BBC), Hunderby (Sky Atlantic), The Inbetweeners (Channel 4), and Sally4Ever (HBO). His film credits include Downton Abbey: A New Era, Downhill opposite Will Ferrell, Youth opposite Michael Caine, and All Is True opposite Kenneth Branagh.

In 2013, he was cast as the 'Master' in the Doctor Who audio series produced by Big Finish, a role he continues to reprise to this day. Other voice work includes the animated series Hilda, and numerous BBC radio plays, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman.

Alex will soon be seen in That Christmas, an animated Richard Curtis film, and The Feud, a tense new thriller series for Channel 5.

INDIA FISHER

INDIA FISHER
Charley Pollard

India Fisher's performance as Peril Bellamy impressed director Gary Russell in the Monthly Adventure, Winter for the Adept, leading to her being cast as Paul McGann's first companion. The Edwardian Adventuress Charlotte Elspeth Pollard went on to travel with the Sixth Doctor, and then had her own spin-off series.

Selected credits outside the Whoniverse: Blake’s 7, Earthsearch, Masterchef, The Girl on the Train, Make or Break, Dead Ringers, The Dumping Ground.

PAUL MCGANN

PAUL MCGANN
Eighth Doctor

Paul McGann reprised his part as the Doctor for Big Finish in 2001. With the show off air at this point, Big Finish took up the slack producing new series of Doctor Who. In 2013, Paul returned to the role on television in The Night of the Doctor with Steven Moffat name-checking his Big Finish companions Charley, C'rizz, Lucie, Tamsin and Molly. He has featured in a number of ongoing series, including audios with Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller, and in the box sets The Eighth Doctor Adventures – Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition, Ravenous and Stranded. Paul’s Doctor has also encountered his future wife River Song in several releases, as well as his old TV Movie rival the Master played by Eric Roberts.