The First Doctor Adventures: Volume One
While Twice Upon a Time will be Peter Capaldi’s last performance as the Twelfth Doctor for the foreseeable future, it’s far from being all over for David Bradley’s take on the First: straight after the Christmas Special, he returns in The First Doctor Adventures, a new audio series featuring the original TARDIS crew. Completing the cast are Claudia Grant, Jamie Glover and Jemma Powell, who last starred alongside him as actors Carole Ann Ford, William Russell and Jacqueline Hill in An Adventure in Space and Time – the 2013 dramatisation of Doctor Who’s origins.
“When we did An Adventure in Space and Time, there was no indication that it had a future,” recalls Claudia. She plays Susan, the role originated by Ford, in The First Doctor Adventures. “I think we all hoped that it would go on, just because we all had so much fun and got on so well, but you always hope – you never think it will actually happen.” Jamie, who inherits Russell’s role of Ian Chesterton, remembers more optimism. “I think there were a few whispers – ‘Maybe we should try and recreate the Marco Polo episodes’ – and stuff like that,” he says, “but I couldn’t tell how serious they were at the time.”