I'm a musician, writer and sound engineer -
among other things - with clients including War Child, Academy Films, Big
Finish Productions, BBC Audiobooks,
BBCi, UK
Style, Covert Productions, Revelation
Films, Panini, Visual
Imagination and more. My own website can be found here,
and my music page on myspace, Codename:Icarus, can be found here. If you have sound enabled, you are likely to be currently hearing a suite of music from one of my productions. A piece of such music from the Doctor Who play Circular Time was included in the seventh episode of Penny
Broadhurst's Instant Classic podcast,
alongside comedy and music from Good Shoes, Sky Larkin, John Shuttleworth,
The Whip, Penny Broadhurst, The Delian Mode, Alan MX, Blue Sky Project, Albion
and others.
Recent audio drama productions are detailed below. Three of my productions for Big Finish in 2006,
Memory Lane, The Reaping and The Gathering came, respectively, third, second
and first in the Doctor Who Magazine Readers' Poll "Best Audio Play"
Category as published in DWM#384, June 2007. Forthcoming projects include
The Death Collectors, The Spider's Shadowand Kingdom of Silver. I recently worked on the promo and accompanying documentary material for the
new single by Keane, The
Night Sky, in aid of the charity War
Child. I have also recently been working on a number of short movie projects,
including Break-In, Sunday, My
Fifteen Minutes and the Big Issue/Barbican Film Festival award-winning
Speechless; more details and links as the various producers
make these available.
I was delighted to be invited to contribute to BBC Children
in Need's Doctor Who: A Celebration, the commemorative brochure
for the 2006 concert
of Murray Gold's Doctor Who music at the Wales Millennium Centre
in Cardiff.
Also out there now-ish: An
interview with television writer Rona Munro.
DOCTOR WHO: THE CONDEMNED
Manchester, 2008. The TARDIS lands inside a run-down tower block, beside a dead body – which leads to some awkward questions when the Doctor is found there by the police. Higher up in Ackley House, a girl named Maxine watches the Doctor being taken away in a squad car. Someone wants her to find out what happened in that room. A deadly conspiracy is at work – one whose effects will be felt far beyond the walls of Ackley House…
DOCTOR WHO: OLD SOLDIERS
Old soldiers, comrades in arms - the Brigadier saw many fall during his years with UNIT, but perhaps none more tragically than those at Kriegskind. Called to help when a friend falls ill, how can Lethbridge-Stewart fight an enemy that can breach every defence?
DOCTOR WHO: RETURN TO THE WEB PLANET
"It's an ancient name. From the dark time..."
It's been hundreds of years and several regenerations since the Doctor last visited the insect world of Vortis. Much has changed during his absence, but not necessarily for the better. This now green and pleasant land isn't the paradise it first appears. Something malevolent is living out in The Desolation... And the Doctor and Nyssa must solve the mystery before the City of Light is overrun.
DOCTOR WHO: HELICON PRIME
It's been a long time since Jamie McCrimmon remembered anything about his travels with the Doctor, but his visit to Helicon Prime just won't stay hidden... but why remember their murder investigation now?
DOCTOR WHO: MOTHER RUSSIA
It's 1812 and the Doctor, Steven and Dodo get ready to spend their winter in a Russian village. The French are on their way, but that's not the only invasion the travellers will have to deal with.
BERNICE SUMMERFIELD: THE FINAL AMENDMENT
Forget the war and death and boring stuff like that with another trip to the Braxiatel Collection!
"A welcome return of an old favourite!" – Earth Empire News
"A moving parable on what it is to be human in these ever-changing times." – BFM
"Glorious, crukking filth! Hooray!" – Moonmaker
"Something of a curate's egg." – Fandomania
Joined by friends old and new, Jason Kane returns for his 15th series! Will Benny find out about him and Bev? Or about him and Adrian? What is the mysterious connection between Joseph and Doggles? Will Brax ever reveal his sinister plans? And just who the hell is Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart?
DOCTOR WHO: 100
In 100 BC, The Doctor and Evelyn arrive in Rome, 101 BC, approximately, October. They meet a young lady of 19, Aurelia. She mentions her husband - Julius Caesar. Evelyn is excited, but her excitement soon turns to confusion. Surely you can't heal a wound in time with just a bit of sticking plaster? And in 100 Days of the Doctor, someone has assassinated the Doctor. And he only has 100 days to find out who did it.
DARK
SHADOWS: ANGELIQUE'S DESCENT
The first passions of Angelique and Barnabas are revealed at last... Growing
up in the island paradise of Martinique, Angelique Bouchard finds herself plunged
into a world of betrayal and corruption. Imprisoned by her cruel father, she
turns to the dark arts for solace, not knowing that a chance meeting with the
young Barnabas Collins will soon change her life forever.
BERNICE
SUMMERFIELD: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
They're saying it isn't a war. The Draconians have taken over the Braxiatel Collection, but they claim they come in peace.
Insurrectionary acts are easily being quelled - but the Draconian's new head of state on the Collection is troubled by a missing academic. Is Bernice Summerfield one of the revolutionaries, undermining the peaceful campaign? Where is she hiding, and who is protecting her?
And if she's nowhere to be found, why does he keep hearing her voice?
Meanwhile, an unlikely peacebroker struggles to cut a deal on the Mim Sphere. But how can Hass, the Collection's gardener, convince the Mim to back down when they think he's one of the enemy?
But the Collection is on the far side of the Mim blockade, and there's no possible way they can get through.
They'll just have to do something impossible…
BERNICE
SUMMERFIELD: THE TUB FULL OF CATS
Negotiations have failed and the Braxiatel Collection now sits within a warzone.
Bernice and Maggie are racing back to the Collection with something that may just help bring an end to all the fighting - or at least protect their home.
That something is a man, Maggie's father and the would-be killer of Bernice's own husband. His name: Irving Braxiatel.
But the Collection is on the far side of the Mim blockade, and there's no possible way they can get through.
They'll just have to do something impossible…
DOCTOR WHO: CIRCULAR TIME
Summer to winter, the seasons turn.
In the springtime of a distant future, the Doctor and Nyssa become embroiled in Time Lord politics on an alien world. During the stifling heat of a summer past they suffer the vengeful wrath of Isaac Newton. In the recent past, Nyssa spends a romantic golden autumn in an English village while the Doctor plays cricket. And finally, many years after their travels together have ended, the two friends meet again in the strangest of circumstances.
Four seasons. Four stories.
Now close the door behind you, you're letting the cold in...
DOCTOR WHO: MEMORY LANE
No summer can ever quite be as glorious as the ones you remember from when you were young, when a sunny afternoon seemed to last forever and all there was to do was ride your bike, eat ice-lollies and play with Lego. Tom Braudy is enjoying just such an afternoon when the
TARDIS lands in his Nan's living room and interrupts her in the middle of the snooker.
After they've apologised, the Doctor and his friends soon discover matters of far greater concern than the fact that their time machine is blocking Mrs Braudy's view of a thrilling century break. The street which Tom happily cycles up and down appears to have no beginning or end, and every single house on it is identical.
Is this the future of suburbia, or something even more sinister? Why doesn't Tom look as young as he behaves? And can anybody remember which house the TARDIS is in?
DOCTOR
WHO: THE GATHERING
On the morning of 22 September 2006, Tegan woke up. She was expecting to spend the day relaxing at home and, that evening, tolerate a party thrown to celebrate her 46th birthday. But things don't always go as expected - it's been over twenty years since she chose to leave the Doctor. She's got a job, mates... a life. Meanwhile her friend, Katherine Chambers, makes a decision that could change all their lives, and Tegan discovers that you can never really escape the past.
DOCTOR
WHO : THE REAPING
On the morning of 9 May 1984, Peri woke up. She was expecting to spend the day relaxing in Lanzarote and, that evening, leave her mother and stepfather to go travelling with some guys she'd only just met. But things don't always go as expected - as her friends and family discover when, four months later, she returns home having travelled further than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile her friend, Katherine Chambers, mourns her father and Peri finds herself meeting some other familiar faces.
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