Bernice Summerfield

I think Dean here is winning for closest... person has been to the crooked putter that has got in contact with us so far 20 minutes away is so close we were looking for somewhere to eat that night if only i'd known you would have kept driving he did apparently let's see if i can arrange another visit with a customer there there we go this is destiny and it had to be dean didn't it it had to be dean dean is is on your shoulders now It says here, by the way, as per Jonathan's suggestion for a big finish day there, the Crooked Putter is right next to an area called Surprise.

So it could be a Bernie Summerfield themed event.

It's all coming into...

It's written in the stars.

Who's that, actually? Which

is Bernice Summerfield.

I was going to talk about her.

She's in Big Fish, but she was in the books as well.

character.

Yeah, archaeologist in the future, so she does get to meet with her once or twice.

Is her best stuff in Big Finish or the books, do you think? well i've not really read many of the books and she has an entire audio spin-off i've not listened to so that's very hard to say but it's probably her spin-off actually the stuff i have mainly listened to is sort of she had a second spin-off the new adventures of bernice summerfield which sets one and two and seven and ace but then three to seven were with the Unbound Universe Doctor, played by David Warner, to whom she was married.

So that helps their dynamic.

Yeah.

I just see her name I just see Barrowman Barrowman apologies Lisa only Doctor Who on screen credit for Lisa however she has done extensive audio work including playing the highly acclaimed Bernice Summerfield with Big Finish she's also directed an obscene amount of audio stories if you go on to her TARDIS fan wiki page yeah obviously the number of stories that she's voiced in there's quite a few because the Bernice Summerfield series went on for quite a while

mm-hmm

The number that she has directed, it just keeps going.

He needs someone with a proven knack for thinking on their feet, navigating dangerous social environments, and surviving tight corners.

He needs Professor Bernice Summerfield.

Which leads to a breathtaking transition.

Yeah.

From...

Big finish, we have the Doomsday Manuscript, which was a Bernie Summerfield story.

The 8th of March, which featured women of Doctor Who, to celebrate International Women's Day.

The Chameleon Empire, featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Chameleon.

Television appearance, survival, the final broadcast story of the original Doctor Who era, a role involving telepathic communication, predatory feline civilizations, and the general social difficulties associated with being a cheetah person and paramedic Sandra Mute in Casualty.

Subject subsequently became a significant presence within the wider Doctor Who audio universe, most notably as Professor Bernice Summerfield, archaeologist, adventurer, academic, habitual magnet for impossible situations, and person who might reasonably have expected better from the universe by now.

Big Finnish classification, actor, director, writer and highly experienced architect of audio-based peril.

Subject has directed several hundred audio productions across Doctor Who, Bernice Summerfield, science fiction, fantasy, horror and related narrative environments.

Directorial methodology appears to involve extracting maximum emotional and spatial information from voices, silence, timing, and the careful placement of people who are about to discover something unfortunate.

Known strengths?

Character interpretation.

vocal control, narrative judgment, and the ability to make an apparently ordinary sentence sound as though it has just acquired dangerous historical significance.