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IN MEMORIAM

Among other Doctor Who names who died in 2020, Dan Hennessy was killed in a car crash on New Year’s Day, aged just 29; as a sound engineer at London’s Soundhouse he worked on a number of Doctor Whothemed audio releases. Derek Acorah (3 January, aged 69) was the ‘spiritual medium’ and Most Haunted star who popped up in Army of Ghosts (2006). Nick Squires (8 March, 71) was camera operator on such shows as Bergerac, Campion and Lovejoy, prefacing all these as uncredited camera assistant on The King’s Demons (1983). Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, died on 4 April, aged 87; a fan of the programme, he accommodated the Doctor Who exhibition on his Longleat estate from 1974 to 2003, as well as the ground-breaking 20th anniversary event at Easter 1983. Tony Cash - who died at 86 on 16 April - was the celebrated arts documentarist who in 1977 produced the Melvyn Bragg-fronted documentary Whose Doctor Who for the BBC’s Lively Arts strand. And from the 1960s pop scene came Mike Lennox, who died at 80 in September; immediately prior to becoming a disc-spinning mainstay of the pirate station Radio London, he played a Thal in the 1965 . lm Dr. Who and the Daleks.

Three major names, lost this year, made one-o contributions to Big Finish’s ever-expanding range of audio dramas.

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