The tenth box Jago
& Litefoot box set includes a story by yours truly, The Year Of The Bat. It’s full of
little twists and surprises so I can’t really describe it in great detail. It’s
a standalone story, and is the result of me putting together various ideas that
I hadn’t previously found a home for, and finding to my relief that they fitted
together in such a neat way that it looked like I had planned it deliberately.
Amongst other things, it features our two heroes as young men; but of course they
can’t meet face-to-face because they didn’t know each other in The Talons Of Weng-Chiang? Or can they?
So please buy it. I’ve listened to it and it’s marvellous,
everyone is very good, the direction is very good, the music and sound design
are very good, it’s Jago & Litefoot,
what more can you ask for?
In the bonus features, the script editor of the range,
Justin Richards, mentions that The Year
Of The Bat came about because the story I’d initially submitted had been
rejected for being too ordinary. This is indeed the case! Of course, I think that
the story, The Claws Of The Scarab, would
have been excellent but I appreciate that my opinion is a little subjective! It
was homaging all those Egyptian-themed Victorian novels like The Beetle and The Jewel Of The Seven Stars.
I quite like the idea of there being a ‘Great Lost Jago & Litefoot Adventure’; it’s still on my hard drive, should
Big Finish need another Jago & Litefoot story in a hurry, or
maybe one day I’ll stick it up on this blog.
But the point is, because it was rejected for being too
ordinary, I wrote The Year Of The Bat, which
not only goes out of its way not to be ordinary, but which is much, much better.
