My Rose Tyler:
Dimension Cannon story, The Endless
Night, has just been released by Big Finish productions. It’s the first
story in a box set of four stories, concerning Rose’s adventures as she hops from
parallel universe to parallel universe to locate the Doctor (leading up to her finally
reaching the right universe in the TV story Partners
in Crime). So in a way we know how the quest ended... but, of course,
finding the right needle in an infinite haystack can’t have been
straightforward, plus there is the question of how Rose came to realise that Donna
Noble was of multi-dimensional significance...
I’ve previously blogged about the story here. The process of
writing it has already half-faded into the mists of time, which is lovely for
me because it means that when I listen to it, it will be like listening to
something new and I’ll get to laugh at my own jokes all over again.
My main memory is that I tied myself in geographical knots
trying to make it all work, as Russell T Davies’s decision to put Clive’s house
in Stoke Newington in the novelisation of Rose
had a kind of knock-on effect for everything in my story. There was a lot
of ‘Well, if x lives there, then y will have to live there, so that they will have to pass through z’ and so on. Important to get these things right!
There are all sorts of other subtle references and little nods to things in there. I was particularly proud to include an international TV News montage, as no Russell T Davies story is complete without one!
As you might expect, I’m desperately excited to hear the finished product (the
trailer here is all clips taken from my story). My story, and the others in the
box set, appear to have gone down extremely well so far. So please give it alisten, and if you enjoy it, please ascend to your nearest rooftop and shout it
out.