Doctor Who - Pieces of Eighth
- Description:
- Rebecca Chapman and Kenny Smith travel through time, space, comics, audios, books, records and more, as they chat about everything and anything to do with Paul McGann's eighth incarnation of Doctor Who
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- Episodes:
- 138
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:0:45:31
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:1:31:59
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 4 days, 8 hours, 41 minutes and 49 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 13 April 2024 (12:37pm GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 24 December 2023 (12:00am GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 6 days, 20 hours, 33 minutes and 13 seconds
Doctor Who - Pieces of Eighth Episodes
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3.3 Eater of Wasps
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 45 minutes and 32 secondsEATER of Wasps - the title of this Doctor Who adventure alone is enough to make you feel unwell... imagine having not just one wasp in your mouth, but lots of the stingy wee buggers?!
This week, Becca and Kenny discuss the 45th novel from the BBC Books range, Eater of Wasps, written by Trevor Baxendale.
The pair discuss their loathing of the titular insects, chat with Trevor, and bring you two scenes from the book, brought to life with narration and sound design.
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3.2 Mary's Story
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 37 minutes and 54 secondsOver the course of season three, we're going to be meeting the people involved in the making of the Big Finish Mary Shelley Trilogy, a trilogy in four parts.
Kenny and Becca kick off their journey with a trip to Austria, as we discover how Mary's Story came about, as Jonathan Morris reveals he wasn't intended to be involved as its writer, and sound designer Thea Cochrane (another Scottish person - so Kenny's pleased!) reveals how she did the sound design.
Brace yourselves - it's a stormy night out there at the Vila Diodati!
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3.1 The TV Movie soundtrack
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 40 minutes and 9 secondsPieces of Eighth returns for its third season, and we open with someone who was involved in the TV Movie.
The movie's soundtrack is one of the most popular things about it, so listen in and hear Becca get jealous of Kenny, as he spoke with John Sponsler, the co-composer on the 1996 score.
Our third run kicks off here - and we've got plenty more exclusive interviews lined up for this season.
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Optional Extras - episode two
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 25 minutes and 17 secondsJoin Character Options' Al Dewar and Big Finish's unofficial archivist Kenny Smith, as they take another trip back in time to chat about the origins of some Doctor Who action figurers.
This time, the pair discuss the figures related to the audio series - the Sixth Doctor in blue coat, as first seen in Real Time, plus the B&M twin packs featuring the Seventh, Eighth and War Doctors, plus new Daleks.
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3.0 Relative Dimensions
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 41 minutes and 35 secondsIt's Christmas time... there's no need to be afraid... apart from from a giant trans-dimensional fish which has escaped inside the TARDIS!
Join Kenny and Becca as they discover how Relative Dimensions came into being for the Big Finish Eighth Doctor Adventures range.
Christmas is a time for family, they say – which is why the Doctor has invited his granddaughter Susan, and great grandson Alex for Christmas dinner in his time and space machine. But who, or what, is the spectre at their yuletide feast?
Venturing deep into the dark heart of the TARDIS, Susan uncovers her past, Alex is told his future – and the Doctor finds himself caught in a deadly, dangerous present!
Our hosts meet writer Marc Platt and sound designer/musician Jamie Robertson.
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2.13 Matthew Jacobs (part two)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 28 minutes and 57 secondsThe second season of Pieces of Eighth comes to a close with the rest of our exclusive chat with the writer and co-producer of the Doctor Who TV Movie, Matthew Jacobs.
We chat about his feelings on the film now, how he came to embrace it, and we discover that he knows about Big Finish!
Plus, Becca and Kenny reveal when they'll be back, and what's in the next episode!
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2.12 Matthew Jacobs (part one)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 43 minutes and 25 secondsPieces of Eighth reaches the climax of its second season, and we welcome another guest who worked on the Doctor Who TV Movie.
This week, in the first of a two-part interview, we chat with Matthew Jacobs, the man who wrote the scripts for the film which introduced Paul McGann as the Doctor.
Plus, we have more of your TV Movie memories from where you were when it was first screened.
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Pieces of Eighth extra - The Night of the Doctor
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 18 minutes and 30 secondsBELIEVE it or not, November 14 marks eight years since The Night of the Doctor first appeared on YouTube and the BBC red button service.
Paul McGann's surprise/triumphant return to the part was a shock for many, and gave proper canonicity to his incarnation, with some having failed to recognise it (for some reason or another). And it also mentioned five Big Finish companions, which was rather lovely too.
To mark the event, we present a segment of The Power of 3, another Doctor Who podcast which our Kenny co-hosts, in which he and his co-conspirators Tom Harris and David Steel discuss the minisode.
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2.11 The Eleven
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes and 44 secondsTHIS week we celebrate the Time Lord who's arguably the Eighth Doctor's most memorable foe to date.
Yes, we're talking about The Eleven, that villain who retains his previous personalities when he regenerates, as they burst through at inopportune moments.
Played by Mark Bonnar, he joins us for a chat - and an exclusive introduction - and we also speak with Ken Bentley, who was involved with the creation of the character, and writer John Dorney.
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2.10 Telos A Story
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 19 minutes and 52 secondsBACK in the early 2000s, Telos Publishing was granted a licence by BBC Worldwide to print authorised Doctor Who novellas.
In this week's Pieces of Eighth, Becca and Kenny meet David Howe, the range's publisher and editor, and they speak about the three Eighth Doctor novellas published by the range, Riptide, Fallen Gods and Eye of the Tyger.
We speak with authors Jonathan Blum and Paul McAuley about working on the range, and we feature an archive radio interview with Riptide writer Louise Cooper, who sadly passed away in 2009.
Get ready for our longest episode yet, in a packed 80 minutes!
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2.9 Radio Gaga
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 35 minutes and 56 secondsBack in the noughties, BBC7 broadcast the old Doctor Who audio dramas Slipback, The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space to death.
This week, with speak with Martin Montague to find out how some Eighth Doctor audios from Big Finish found their way onto the station - and how the Lucie Miller series came to be.
And we've got trailers you've probably not heard before!
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Episode 2.4 - The Outtakes
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 22 secondsYOU'D never know it from our finished episodes, but Becca and Kenny are good friends who giggle a lot.
What you hear in the finished episodes isn't always exactly what gets recorded. Sometimes, just sometimes, they laugh at daft things, and you'd never know from the finished episode that anything every happened... Well, probably not...
Today, we present our first outtakes, from our episode about the TARDIS console... and the pair are laughing at silly innuendoes. Such children!
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2.8 The War Master
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 42 minutes and 17 secondsThe Eighth Doctor - one of the most joyous, vibrant incarnations of the Doctor, has come face to face with the most vicious of Masters on a couple of occasions.
We delve into the universe of the War Master, as Paul McGann faced off against Sir Derek Jacobi, in two Big Finish box sets, Rage of the Time Lords, and Hearts of Darkness.
We meet two of the writers, David Llewelyn and Lisa McMullan, to find out how these sets came together.
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Pieces of Eighth extra - 20 years of the Eighth Doctor at Big Finish
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 5 minutes and 51 secondsEarlier this year, your Pieces of Eighth co-host Kenny recorded an episode of another podcast he co-presents, The Power of 3, which marked 20 years of the Eighth Doctor at Big Finish.
He and co-conspirator David Steel look at Storm Warning, Sword of Orion, The Stones of Venice and Minuet in Hell, as well sharing their excitement at the return of Paul McGann to the part of the Doctor.
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2.7 The Bodysnatchers
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 36 minutes and 16 secondsZygons! The Skarasen! Professor Litefoot! Victorian London!
It sounds like a checklist for things that appear in some of the greatest Fourth Doctor stories, but they all come together in The Bodysnatchers, the third Eighth Doctor Adventure published by BBC Books, way back in August 1997.
Kenny and Becca are joined by the author of The Bodysnatchers, Mark Morris, as they look back on the novel - including a dramatic reading of a short section of the book!
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Pieces of Eighth extra - The Stones of Venice trailers
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 12 secondsWe continue to bring you rare material, with these trailers for The Stones of Venice, as originally broadcast on BBC Radio 7.
Four short, teasers, to get listeners hooked - aren't they great?
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2.6 All Hands On Deck
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 33 minutes and 35 secondsLast week, Pieces of Eighth took a step into the Time War... and this week, we're staying there.
However, we've gone from a full-cast adventure to a Short Trip, which was written by Eddie Robson, a man who's no stranger to writing Eighth Doctor full cast audios for Big Finish, and produced by Ian Atkins.
Join Becca and Kenny as they find out how Susan entered the Time War - and how she got a full-cast box set out of it too...
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Optional Extras 1 - B&M 2021 Wave 1
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 35 minutes and 24 secondsJoin Character Options' Al Dewar and Kenny Smith as they venture through the worlds of the plastic fantastic, as they look at the making of the Character Options Doctor Who figures.
Their journey begins with the first 2021 wave of B&M figures, comprising the First Doctor and two Sensorites, Ian Chesterton and a pair of Voord, plus the latest releases in the History of the Daleks series, from The Power of the Daleks and Day of the Daleks.
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Pieces of Eighth extra - Sword of Orion trailers
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 16 secondsWay back in 2005, several Eighth Doctor adventures starring Paul McGann and India Fisher, which were produced by Big Finish, were broadcast on BBC Radio 7.
To promote these, original trailers were produced, and here, for the first time, Pieces of Eighth have compiled the promotional pieces for that second story, Sword of Orion.
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2.5 The Sontaran Ordeal
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 28 minutes and 23 secondsWe join the Eighth Doctor on his first audio adventure set during the Time War.
Andrew Smith, writer of The Sontaran Ordeal, and Dan Starkey, who played Commander Jask in the adventure, join Becca and Kenny to explain how their involvement with this Big Finish release, part of the first series of Classic Doctors, New Monsters, came about.
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Pieces of Eighth extra - The Storm Warning radio trailers
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 6 secondsIn 2005, a number of Eighth Doctor adventures produced by Big Finish were broadcast on BBC Radio 7.
To promote these, original trailers were produced, and here, for the first time, Pieces of Eighth have compiled the promotional pieces for Storm Warning.
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2.4 The TARDIS console
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 31 minutes and 2 secondsBe honest - who hasn't dreamed of having their own TARDIS console to play with, with buttons to press and levers to switch?
But one man can do that every single day of his life, if he so chooses. This week, Pieces of Eighth meets Paul Salamoff, the man who owns the original TARDIS console from the TV Movie - as well as a few other screen-worn items.
FInd out just what he has in his amazing collection, aside from that glorious wooden console.
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2.3 The Radio Times Eighth Doctor Poll
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 40 minutes and 43 secondsEarlier this year, the Radio Times marked the end of Big Finish's monthly range with a series of polls to find the top five stories for each Doctor.
The Eighth Doctor was no exception, with The Chimes of Midnight taking the top spot, followed by The Silver Turk, The Natural History of Fear, Scherzo and Seasons of Fear.
This week, Becca and Kenny are joined by Matt Michael to give their thoughts on the top stories - as well as suggesting stories they thought could have been there too.
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2.2 Earth and Beyond
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 38 minutes and 41 secondsIn 1998, the most exciting thing in the world happened - Paul McGann returned as the Doctor... Well, sort of.
BBC Audio released a twin cassette story, featuring three Doctor Who short stories - Bounty, Dead Time and The People's Temple - all of which were read by Paul McGann. And, best of all, we heard McGann perform all-new lines as the Doctor, for the first time in two years in Dead Time, as he spoke with a future version of himself.
This week, Kenny and Becca have a chat with producer Steve Cole and writer Peter Anghelides, as they discover how this release came to be, and just who Andrew Martin is...
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2.1 Yee Jee Tso
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 40 minutes and 22 secondsIt's good news - Pieces of Eighth has been renewed and is back for a second season!
Over the course of the next 13 weeks, we're going to bring you all-new, exclusive interviews with the people who have made the Eighth Doctor who he is, whether as writers, actors, artists, musicians or anything else.
Having finished last season with a two-part Philip Segal interview, Rebecca and Kenny are continuing with people with TV Movie credits, as they chat with Chang Lee himself, Yee Jee Tso, from his home in Vancouver.
They talk about his casting, turning up late, working with Eric Roberts, the TARDIS set, and publishing his book of TV Movie photographs.
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1.13 Philip Segal (part two)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 39 minutes and 15 secondsDoctor Who TV Movie executive producer Philip Segal joins us from his home in the USA, for the second part of his exclusive chat with Pieces of Eighth.
He reveals how he felt the TV Movie rating could have gone in modern methods were taken into account, how he's about to build the TARDIS console room again, and how he looks back on the whole movie.
Find out more about Philip's work at www.sprueverse.com.
And we preview the first guest of season two, which will launch soon!
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1.12 Philip Segal (part one)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 39 minutes and 15 secondsWe reach the end of the first season of Pieces of Eighth, and we present the opening half of our exclusive chat with the man whose persistence led to the creation of the Eighth Doctor.
Executive producer Philip Segal is our special guest, and chats about his love of Doctor Who, working in television, meeting Alan Yentob, casting Paul McGann, and bringing the team together to create the TV Movie.
Plus we share your memories of the TV Movie, as your listeners join in the fun!
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1.11 Escape Velocity
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 26 minutes and 8 secondsThis week, Pieces of Eighth takes its first dip into the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, a series of original paperback novels featuring the Eighth Doctor, which were published by BBC Books from June 1997 until June 2005.
In that time, a total of 73 books were released, charting the adventures of the Doctor, with his friends, Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, Compassion, Anji Kapoor and Beatrix 'Trix' Macmillan. Along the way, they faced Daleks, the Master, Wirrrn, and new foes, like Sabbath - who stole the Doctor's second heart.
Becca and Kenny chat with Colin Brake, who penned Escape Velocity, the 42nd novel in the series, which concluded a story arc in which an amnesiac Doctor was trapped on Earth for a hundred years - and was finally reunited with Fitz, meets a new friend in Anji, and the TARDIS is restored.
Prophetically, it also features a space race between Pierre Yves-Dudoin and Arthur Tyler III, both competing to be the first privately funded man in space...
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1.10 The TV Movie Novelisation
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 44 minutes and 39 secondsKenny and Becca stay on Target in our latest episode.
They have a chat with Gary Russell, who novelised the TV Movie for BBC Books in 1996 and revamped it for the 2001 reprint from Target.
They're also joined by Anthony Dry, who created the amazing art for the reprint cover.
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1.9 The Scent of Blood
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 29 minutes and 32 secondsPieces of Eighth stays in audio territory - but probably not the one you were expecting.
Becca and Kenny this week venture into the lands of BBC Audio, as they discover how The Scent of Blood, released in 2019, came to be. Kenny has a chat with writer Andy Lane, before he and Becca chat with actor Dan Starkey, who narrates the adventure - and Becca tries not to fan girl while talking to Strax...
Plus, courtesy of sound designer and musician David Darlington, you can hear a clean version of the Doctor Who theme which appears in this story.
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1.8 Max Warp
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 32 minutes and 44 secondsPrevious episodes of Pieces of Eighth have touched on Big Finish adventures for the Eighth Doctor, but this week we cover our first full-length story in the form of Max Warp.
Becca and Kenny chat with writer Jonathan Morris about writing the script - and reveal its origins in an unused idea from several years beforehand - and musician Andy Hardwick tells it was it was like to write a theme tune that most definitely ISN'T the Top Gear theme.
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1.7 Solitaire
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 37 minutes and 5 secondsThis week's Pieces of Eighth takes another trip into the Big Finish universe, this time to feature the highly-acclaimed Companion Chronicle, Solitaire.
This week, Becca and Kenny discuss the tale, starring India Fisher as Charley Pollard and david bailey as the Celestial Toymaker. The reveal their mutual fear of puppets, have a chat with writer John Dorney, and cover artist Alex Mallinson who created the puppet for the cover.
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1.6 Flashpoint
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 33 minutes and 21 secondsPieces of Eighth heads into new territory this week, as we feature a Short Trip from Big Finish.
Flashpoint was read by co-host Kenny Smith's favourite, Sheridan Smith, so we have a chat with the range producer Ian Atkins, and writer Andrew Smith, about how Lucie Miller's return to Doctor Who came about.
We should point out that Becca is also part of the Smith family, as her dad is one.
So really, it's all about the Smiths this week (Morrissey not included).
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1.5 The Eighth Doctor Action Figures
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 30 minutes and 10 secondsWe celebrate the plastic fantastic this week in Pieces of Eighth.
Becca and Kenny are joined by Alasdair Dewar from Character Options, who explains the origins of the various action figures of the Eighth Doctor.
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1.4 Seán Carlsen and Narvin
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 38 minutes and 19 secondsEPISODE four of Pieces of Eighth sees us joined by an actor who has encountered Paul McGann's Doctor in two very different roles.
Seán Carlsen was first cast in The Natural History of Fear, in which he played a variety of roles, and made an impression producer/director Gary Russell, who subsequently cast him as CIA Co-ordinator Narvin in the Gallifrey spin-off series.
Narvin has since become one of Big Finish's most beloved original creations, and Sean joins us to share his experiences of working with Paul McGann and Sir Derek Jacobi, as well as meeting War Doctor Sir John Hurt.
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1.3 Living Legend
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 20 minutes and 2 secondsWe take our first tip into Big Finish Eighth Doctor territory, with a look back to a little gem from 2003.
Becca and Kenny are joined by producer/director Gary Russell, as well as Conrad Westmaas, who recalls his time in studio as Thon, in Scott Gray's witty 22-minute long episode.
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1.2 A Matter of Life and Death
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 41 minutes and 43 secondsWe promised to bring you all things related to the Eighth Doctor, and we most definitely are in this week's episode.
We discuss the Titan Eighth Doctor comic A Matter of Life and Death with the people who brought it to life, as writer George Mann and artist Emma Vieceli exclusively share their thoughts and experiences on creating an oft-forgotten little slice of Paul McGann's Doctor, set in the period before Night of the Doctor.
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1.1 The TV Movie
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 16 minutes and 27 secondsKenny and Becca are Doctor Who fans.
He's been a fan since 1978, and Becca was born in 1995, so their experiences of the show are completely different.
But something they both love is the Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann. In this podcast series, they will travel through time and space, finding the many different aspects of this incarnation of the Doctor who was only seen twice on TV - but has had more original adventures than virtually any other Doctor in different spin-off media.
So, get to know the pair of them, as Becca (in their podcast debut) and Kenny (editor of Big Finish's Vortex, and co-host of The Power of 3 podcast) crash land in San Francisco, on December 31, 1999... There's been a shooting - someone had better call a Doctor...