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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 13:18:49 GMT
How about Adelaide: the City of Churches, Beaumont Children Mystery, Don Dunstan, Mary McKillop?
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Post by jasonward on Mar 4, 2017 13:45:33 GMT
How about Adelaide: the City of Churches, Beaumont Children Mystery, Don Dunstan, Mary McKillop? Writers are more likely to include a real life place in a story if they are familiar with that place, I expect you would have more Australia centric stories if BF had more Australian writers.
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Post by Tony Jones on Mar 4, 2017 14:46:18 GMT
Or even some more Australians apart from Tegan? I can only think of a couple set in Oz - a one-off Tegan and the Hex story with Ayers Rock.
Of course the argument about writers gets a bit flawed when you have stories set on alien worlds, but yes, it's easier to go for places you know. If I get to do more for BF I'm keen to get the Isle of Wight in as a location, for example.
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Post by jasonward on Mar 4, 2017 14:54:43 GMT
Of course the argument about writers gets a bit flawed when you have stories set on alien worlds, but yes, it's easier to go for places you know. If I get to do more for BF I'm keen to get the Isle of Wight in as a location, for example. Which is why I said "real life places", imaginary places are fairly easy to deal with for a writer in so much as its difficult for them to get it wrong, but as a writer, writing a story that takes places in a real world place, but one that is unknown the writer leaves the strong possibility that the story will appear odd or silly or just plain wrong to those who are familiar to the place. It also makes it difficult to describe and evoke the feel of a place when it's a real location that the author has no experience of. The reverse of that is also true, when the author is inspired by a location, it is going to be a location they have experienced in some way.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 15:11:41 GMT
Regretfully the Doctor has a "any more talk of executions and you'll make me your enemy" attitude as I'd love to see the Doctor and Tegan refer to having set the Paternoster Gang on the man who took the Beaumont Children.
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Post by pawntake on Mar 4, 2017 15:58:39 GMT
The Doctor meets Ned Kelly!! Works for me!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 16:05:19 GMT
he could visit the modern-day Ned Kelly attraction at the site:
"Look! a wishing well, Doctor!" Doctor: "While I’m here, I think I’ll make a wish… OH DAMN! I’m still in Glenrowan!"
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Post by constonks on Mar 4, 2017 16:07:39 GMT
How about Adelaide: the City of Churches, Beaumont Children Mystery, Don Dunstan, Mary McKillop? Writers are more likely to include a real life place in a story if they are familiar with that place, I expect you would have more Australia centric stories if BF had more Australian writers. You're right, of course. Where is Kate Orman, anyway?
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Post by omega on Mar 4, 2017 21:04:59 GMT
How about a story set in New Zealand, or the Pacific Islands? It doesn't always have to by the United Kingdom or America!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 4, 2017 21:57:07 GMT
Writers are more likely to include a real life place in a story if they are familiar with that place, I expect you would have more Australia centric stories if BF had more Australian writers. You're right, of course. Where is Kate Orman, anyway? Gary Russell lives down here too.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 4, 2017 22:00:55 GMT
Or even some more Australians apart from Tegan? I can only think of a couple set in Oz - a one-off Tegan and the Hex story with Ayers Rock. Of course the argument about writers gets a bit flawed when you have stories set on alien worlds, but yes, it's easier to go for places you know. If I get to do more for BF I'm keen to get the Isle of Wight in as a location, for example. Butcher of Brisbane is set, in part in Brisbane. the TARDIS actually lands on Whickham Terrance (Tegan sees the windmill) and then sees the Mighty Brown Snake (the Brisbane River) ... which gives any local acsense of the devastation wrought on the city .... because you CANT see the river from Whickham Terrace because of all the buildings. I also like lot think Findecker's lab is built in the Meyer Centre.
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Post by constonks on Mar 4, 2017 22:02:30 GMT
You're right, of course. Where is Kate Orman, anyway? Gary Russell lives down here too. And his latest DW novel featured Sydney, so that rather proves the point.
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Post by bobod on Mar 4, 2017 22:17:51 GMT
You're right, of course. Where is Kate Orman, anyway? Gary Russell lives down here too. Wrong Wales.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 5, 2017 0:22:54 GMT
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Mar 5, 2017 0:30:40 GMT
There must be loads of stuff in Australia for the Doctor.
Then again Ireland is just next door and he got there only three times (no idea if the books did, don't count them anyway). Once with 5,once with 7 and once with 8
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Post by bobod on Mar 5, 2017 1:15:35 GMT
Was true. True no longer. (True by Spandau Ballet has come on my television after I started this reply. True dat.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2017 1:58:51 GMT
How about Adelaide: the City of Churches, Beaumont Children Mystery, Don Dunstan, Mary McKillop? Writers are more likely to include a real life place in a story if they are familiar with that place, I expect you would have more Australia centric stories if BF had more Australian writers. Australian writer here, I think the very last place I'd talk about is Australia if I were writing for Big Finish. The people hold interest, but the events are more or less the same colonial stuff you'd find in any other country and there's only two-hundred or so years of it. Still... For those who are interested, there's Ned Kelly and his bushranger antics, Banjo Patterson who wrote Waltzing Matilda, Charles Kingsford Smith who made the first trans-pacific flight from the States to Australia, the Burke and Wills expedition that failed, Bennelong who assimilated into European culture acting as a go-between the Eora people and British settlers in New South Wales, Windradyne who lead the Bathurst frontier war... There are great swathes of Aboriginal history would have been fascinating to delve into, but a lot of the oral histories have since been lost or destroyed. Butcher of Brisbane is set, in part in Brisbane. the TARDIS actually lands on Whickham Terrance (Tegan sees the windmill) and then sees the Mighty Brown Snake (the Brisbane River) ... which gives any local acsense of the devastation wrought on the city .... because you CANT see the river from Whickham Terrace because of all the buildings. I also like lot think Findecker's lab is built in the Meyer Centre. Certainly makes sense given the bunker of a building it is. It's strange to picture the city in the middle of winter...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2017 4:21:27 GMT
The Doctor meeting Sir Don Bradman?
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Mar 5, 2017 5:46:35 GMT
I am from Adelaide.. oh the Beaumont Children Mystery.. thats been about 40ish years now and still no resolution.
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Post by gregm on Mar 5, 2017 6:35:52 GMT
Gary Russell lives down here too. Wrong Wales. It was the right Wales (the New South one) until fairly recently. Gary has been here for work purposes for a number of multi-month periods in the last few years - I believe he's back in the UK right now, and may be back in Australia again if and as work requires. Not that the location of the former producer for BF is necessarily relevant to where stories is necessarily relevant to the decisions of where future BF stories are set... BF have previously released stories written by Phil Pascoe and American-born but Australian resident Jon Blum (as well as Jon's wife, Kate Orman, already mentioned in this discussion).
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