{"id":36182,"date":"2023-08-25T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1879800"},"modified":"2023-08-26T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T10:50:31","slug":"christopher-eccleston-nicola-walker-and-more-join-doctor-who-audio-story","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/christopher-eccleston-nicola-walker-and-more-join-doctor-who-audio-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Eccleston, Nicola Walker and more join Doctor Who audio story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ninth Doctor star paid tribute to the late David Warner. <\/p>

By David Craig\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 25 August 2023 at 15:00 PM<\/p>

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Christopher Eccleston, Nicola Walker and the late David Warner are among the Doctor Who<\/a> icons set to star in the next episode of Big Finish\u2019s Once and Future storyline.<\/p>\n

The 60th anniversary event<\/a> finds The Doctor in a Time Lord field hospital during the catastrophic Time War, where his body glows with a powerful energy \u2013 but it\u2019s no regeneration.<\/p>\n

Instead, The Doctor\u2019s past faces begin to haphazardly appear with no clear pattern, prompting him to go on a journey to uncover who or what could have caused this overwhelming degeneration.<\/p>\n

The next chapter \u2013 titled Time Lord Immemorial \u2013 is written by Lisa McMullin and has the following synopsis:<\/p>\n

\u201cSlipping between bodies, the Ninth Doctor finds his TARDIS caught between universes as the cosmos starts to break down. A Doctor from another reality arrives and they join forces with Liv Chenka and the Lumiat to find the cause.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone has desecrated the mythical Hall of the Time Lord Immemorial, where the sands of time from the multiverse are held. And those sands are running out\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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David Warner and Christopher Eccleston star in Doctor Who: Once and Future.<\/span><\/figcaption> Big Finish<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Legendary actor David Warner, who passed away in July 2022<\/a>, gives his final Big Finish performance as the Unbound Doctor in this episode, with co-star Eccleston hailing his incredible talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quite emotional for me to work with David Warner, an actor I grew up as a child watching and admiring,\u201d he said. \u201cTo share the Doctor with him was special. If ever there was an actor who should have played the Doctor, it was David Warner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Producer David Richardson added: \u201cBringing the Ninth Doctor and the Unbound Doctor together was inspired by the friendship between Chris and David.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have known each other well for some years and it was a treat to bring them together in the studio. To benefit from these two greats acting opposite each other was irresistible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Powell, who features as the eponymous Time Lord Immemorial, also paid tribute to Warner.<\/p>

He said: \u201cDavid Warner and I first met in 1978 when we did The 39 Steps, when I was playing Richard Hannay and he was playing the villain. It was great fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few years later, I played Frankenstein [for Showtime in the USA] and he played the creature. We haven\u2019t worked together since. It was really nice to catch up with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eccleston<\/a>\u2018s former Our Friends in the North co-star Gina McKee also features in Time Lord Immemorial as The Lumiat; an exciting new addition to the Doctor Who universe.<\/p>\n

Script editor Matt Fitton explained: \u201cThe Lumiat is writer Lisa McMullin\u2019s creation who is, in a way, the Master\u2019s version of the Valeyard \u2013 in that she\u2019s the opposite of everything the Master stands for. The Lumiat is an insufferably good version of the Master or Missy!\u201d<\/p>