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In the next The Benji and Nick Show the boys continue their commentary (part four) on Doctor Who – Planet of the Daleks. Emails to podcast@nicholasbriggs.com

In tomorrow’s The Benji and Nick Show the boys will be discussing Eldorado, amongst other cult TV. Eldorado is a British soap opera originally broadcast on BBC One in 1992/93. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa Eldorado in Spain, it follows the lives of British and European expatriates. Emails to

The Sirens of Audio, a Doctor Who Audio Universe Podcast, interview Nick on his new creation, The Human Frontier. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-sirens-of-audio/e/70156009?autoplay=true Released at the end of May 2020, The Human Frontier is Nicholas Briggs’ epic new original drama spanning the vastness of space and a millennium of time through the eyes of two very different groups

Verdict: Intensely ambitious, narratively complex and gripping, Human Frontier works on every level. The cast are fantastic, the direction is urgent without sprinting and the writing deals with character, theme, concept, and occasional tentacles, with equal grace. It absolutely deserves a second season, but remains a complete, and intensely enjoyable, experience in and of itself.

Sci-Fi Bulletin interview Nick on his new Big Finish release, The Human Frontier Big Finish Creative Director and Executive Producer Nicholas Briggs is the creator, writer, director and composer for the latest Big Finish Originals story, The Human Frontier. Shortly before its release, Nicholas Briggs chatted at length with Paul Simpson and in the first

Big Finish: The Human Frontier The Human Frontier is part love story, part murder mystery, and part war tragedy. All good storytelling works on two levels — allegory and surface-level narrative. When absorbing a story, people make a choice. Do they focus on the allegory, the surface level narrative, or both equally? For me, focusing

In this week’s The Benji and Nick Show, Benji and Nick give their final commentary on Episode 4 of Doctor Who: The Sun Makers (BBC 1977). Email them at podcast@nicholasbriggs.com

The Human Frontier, written and directed by Nick, is out NOW! An epic science fiction story spanning hundreds of years of future history, The Human Frontier is a culture-clash of people from hundreds of years apart coming face to face. It’s also a love story, a story of a struggle for power and a futuristic

Next time on The Benji and Nick Show, the boys will be chatting about The Thing, an American science fiction horror film first broadcast in 1982. Based on the 1938 John W Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, The Thing tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter a parasitic

This week in The Benji and Nick Show, the boys will be talking about Press Gang, a children’s television comedy drama broadcast originally from 1989–1993. Written by Steven Moffat, the programme is based on the activities of a newspaper, the Junior Gazette, produced by pupils from the local comprehensive school. The series has today attracted