Robert Shearman

The two that I

immediately thought of were Paul Cornell and Rob Shearman.

Rob Shearman's never come back.

And Paul obviously misses series two, but might have been busy.

But yeah, I wondered if, yeah.

I

assume maybe Rob Shearman?

Maybe Rob Shearman.

Very, very similar.

It's Mr. Robert Shearman, everyone, if you haven't already guessed.

Hello.

How are you?

I would say, actually, going back to Jubilee, that's a really good jumping-on point anyway, because if you've watched the new series with Dalek... back in 2005, that is very much...

Well, it's based on the same writer, Rob Shearman.

Jubilee Story is kind of the blueprint for that.

And so it's a good way to kind of either revisit it because you're familiar with it or to jump on and feel comfortable with something that is not too outside of the ordinary.

And Phil says, Hi, both.

Hi.

Have you got any news on guests for the next Big Finish Day? Has anyone been confirmed that you can tell us about, or is it still a case of knowing things and not being allowed to say them? I'm thinking of coming along as I read online that you don't just get actors, but appearances from some of the people who make the audios, including the writers, directors and sound designers.

You hear their names for years and it would be nice to put faces to them.

It's, it's Rob-

It's Rob Shearman, come on

... it's always a fun chat.

Um, so yeah, thank you for joining us today.

Come back and join us next week, and, uh, see what, see what this, this Rob Shearman fellow's got to say for himself.

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Bloody novelizing The Power of Krill.

That's what we were looking at, you know, and that's what was so thrilling.

What I do remember, funny you mention that, just remembered, um, Russell took me and Steven and Rob Shearman and Paul Cornell out for, uh, an Indian.

Uh, it was called The Ch- the restaurant was called The Chula.

Mm.

If this was the only modern Ice Warrior story, I think we'd be missing out.

But same with Rob Shearman's Dalek.

I'd feel like if we only had Dalek and we didn't get Bad Wolf and the finale, then I'd feel like that season was missing out.

But it kind of...

I mean...

Chen I was thinking about this earlier because I'd been listening to the Missing Episodes podcast about Dalek's Master Plan again because it's brilliant I urge you to listen to those podcasts the Missing Episodes podcast that Tim Burrows puts together and their Master Plan one is a classic and they Tim Burrows from that disagrees with Rob Shearman and I when we talk about Mavic Chen in Dalek's Master Plan and the Daleks in episode 2 When Chin has outlived his use for this, he will be exterminated.

And I said, no, no, that undermines him.

And Tim sort of disagrees and said, no, the whole point is, you know, he's overreaching and we know it.

I, I, I see Susannah laughing, knowing the, the pain of a, of a, of a writer.

I have a, I have a running joke with my friend, the Doctor Who writer, Rob Shearman, where I say to him...

Well, so he says to me, uh, "You write nonfiction, that's easy.

You just write down what happened." And I say to him, "You're a fiction writer.