{"id":2712,"date":"2021-08-04T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1306719"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:19:08","slug":"david-tennant-to-face-derek-jacobis-master-in-new-doctor-who-story-15-years-after-their-tv-face-off","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/david-tennant-to-face-derek-jacobis-master-in-new-doctor-who-story-15-years-after-their-tv-face-off\/","title":{"rendered":"David Tennant to face Derek Jacobi\u2019s Master in new Doctor Who story 15 years after their TV face-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The Master and David Tennant\u2019s Doctor are set to showdown next summer. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By David Craig\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 04 August 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>Sir Derek Jacobi returns as The Master in a brand-new box set of <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/doctor-who\/&quot;\">Doctor Who<\/a> audio adventures due for release in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Serving as the protagonist in the Big Finish Productions-helmed series, he reprises his standout role in 2007 episode Utopia, where he played the unassuming \u201cProfessor Yana\u201d 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the episode, he was revealed to be The Master, hidden in plain sight, before regenerating into John Simm\u2019s incarnation.<\/p> <p>Tennant, who we all know served as the Tenth Doctor from 2005 to 2010, spoke about his guest-starring in the last of four new and exciting episodes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the joys of these Big Finish stories is that any little corner of the Doctor Who universe can be re-explored \u2013 and what a treat to get to do a story with Derek! There\u2019s something so vivid in those moments when Derek became the Master on TV. It feels very natural that that character should be expanded and have all these stories to tell because there was so much going on there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Producer Scott Handcock added: \u201cSelf-Defence has been a thrill to pull together. We have four brilliant scripts from Lou Morgan, Una McCormack, Lizbeth Myles and Lizzie Hopley and an incredible guest cast across the stories \u2013 plus the Tenth Doctor himself getting propelled back into the Time War for the box set\u2019s conclusion!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big Finish listeners can save money by ordering a bundle of both The War Master: Self-Defence and the as-yet-untitled eighth series for \u00a348 as collector\u2019s edition CD box sets or \u00a339 as digital downloads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The War Master: Self-Defence is now available for pre-order as a collector\u2019s edition four-disc box set (on CD at \u00a324.99) and as a digital download (at \u00a319.99), exclusively from <a href=\"\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Big Finish<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Master and David Tennant\u2019s Doctor are set to showdown next summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2713,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/david-tennant-to-face-derek-jacobis-master-in-new-doctor-who-story-15-years-after-their-tv-face-off.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/david-tennant-to-face-derek-jacobis-master-in-new-doctor-who-story-15-years-after-their-tv-face-off-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/david-tennant-to-face-derek-jacobis-master-in-new-doctor-who-story-15-years-after-their-tv-face-off-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/david-tennant-to-face-derek-jacobis-master-in-new-doctor-who-story-15-years-after-their-tv-face-off.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/david-tennant-to-face-derek-jacobis-master-in-new-doctor-who-story-15-years-after-their-tv-face-off.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/david-tennant-to-face-derek-jacobis-master-in-new-doctor-who-story-15-years-after-their-tv-face-off.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/david-tennant-to-face-derek-jacobis-master-in-new-doctor-who-story-15-years-after-their-tv-face-off.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Master and David Tennant\u2019s Doctor are set to showdown next summer.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/2712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}