Peter Anghelides

Peter Anghelides /ˌændʒɪˈliːdɪs/ is a writer, script editor and producer[1][2] best known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series Doctor Who and Blake's 7 for Virgin Books, BBC Books,[3][4] BBC Audio,[5] and Big Finish Productions.[6]

For Big Finish Productions, he is also producer for their Blake's 7 range of books and eBooks, audiobooks, and full-cast audios,[7][8][9] and producer of their Doctor Who Short Trips audiobooks range.[10][11]

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators[12] where he was also a conference keynote speaker[13][14][15] representing IBM in 2009. He received the ISTC's Horace Hockley Award in 2016.[12]

Work

Anghelides has written audio plays, short stories, audiobooks, and novels for BBC Books,[3] Big Finish Productions[6] and AudioGo[5] based on Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and Blake's 7.

He originally wrote and edited fanzines in the 1980s, including Frontier Worlds[16] (1979-1984) and subsequently In-Vision[17] (1988-1994) documenting the production history of the Tom Baker Doctor Who years.

Anghelides' first professionally published work was the short story "Moving On" (1996) in the third volume of the Virgin Decalog collections, which led to further short stories in the fourth collection and then in two of the BBC Short Trips collections that followed. In January 1998, his first novel Kursaal was published as part of BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series. Anghelides subsequently wrote two more novels for the range: Frontier Worlds in November 1999, which was named "Best Eighth Doctor Novel" in the annual Doctor Who Magazine poll of its readers;[18] and the The Ancestor Cell in July 2000 (co-written with departing editor Stephen Cole), which was placed ninth in the Top 10 of SFX magazine's "Best SF/Fantasy novelisation or TV tie-in novel" category of that year.

His 1998 story "Bounty" for BBC Audio's Earth & Beyond collection was the first original audio story performed by Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, and his 2008 audiobook Pest Control was the first original audio story performed by David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor.[19]

Originally penciled in as an author in the first set of Big Finish Productions full-cast Doctor Who audios in 1999,[20] Anghelides was unable to attend the planning meeting.[21] His first audio adventure for Big Finish was the 2002 Sarah Jane Smith: Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre.[22] His 2013 Warship was the first full-cast audio play for their Blake's 7 range.[23][24]

In 2007, he wrote the first Torchwood tie-in novel for BBC Books, Another Life, which went on to be a Sunday Times bestseller[25] in the UK. In 2008, he designed and wrote the tenth and concluding comic for a BBC Online series that featured on the Doctor Who website.[26]

Since 2021 he has been the Big Finish range producer[8] for Blake's 7, also working as commissioning editor on full-cast audios, audiobooks, printed novels, and new novelisations.[27][28] In 2022 he became producer[11] of their Doctor Who Short Trips range.

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Audiobooks

Audio plays

Comics

Non-fiction

References
  1. "Questions for: Peter Anghelides". BookBrunch. 4 April 2023.
  2. "Peter Anghelides". STARBURST Magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  3. "BBC – Cult – Doctor Who – Books – Peter Anghelides". BBC. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  4. "Peter Anghelides". penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  5. "Audible: Peter Anghelides". Audible. Retrieved 25 April 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "Peter Anghelides – Contributions – Big Finish". bigfinish.com. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  7. "Blake's 7". Hubs – Big Finish. Retrieved 24 April 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "Return to Zero Point!". News – Big Finish. 20 December 2023.
  9. Sirens of Audio, Producer Peter Anghelides Updates Us on The World of Blake's 7 | Big Finish, retrieved 25 April 2023
  10. "Doctor Who – Ranges – Short Trips – Big Finish". Big Finish.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. "Big Finish's 2022 Writing Opportunity is Still Open!". News – Big Finish. 23 June 2022.
  12. "A few comments on recognition" (PDF). ISTC Communicator: 7. Winter 2016.
  13. "Technical Communication UK 2009 [TechScribe technical writing]". techscribe.co.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. Ballard, Paul (June 2009). "Technical Communication UK – Latest". ISTC InfoPlus+: 3.
  15. Anghelides, Peter (1 January 2010). "Smart Authoring for a Smarter Planet". Slideshare. Retrieved 24 April 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. "Frontier Worlds – Fanlore". fanlore.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  17. "In-vision : the making of a television drama series | WorldCat.org". worldcat.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  18. "Whotopia – A Doctor Who Web Site". whotopia.co.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  19. "Peter Anghelides interview | Unreality SF". Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  20. Dinnick, Richard (2011). The Big Finish Companion Volume 1. Big Finish. ISBN 978-1-84435-524-2.
  21. "Sirens of Audio 137: Sarah Jane Smith | Series One | 20th Anniversary Special". Sirens of Audio. 11 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. "Interview: Peter Anghelides". BBC. 1 January 2004. Archived from the original on 6 April 2005.
  23. "Blake's 7 Audio Reunion". SFX Magazine. 8 June 2012.
  24. Attack, Scorpio (14 August 2015). "WRITING WARSHIP: INTERVIEW WITH PETER ANGHELIDES". scorpio-attack. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  25. "Christmas bestsellers: The top 5 bestselling titles of 2008 by genre". The Sunday Times. 28 November 2008.
  26. "Writers' Comics". BBC Doctor Who. 4 July 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. McArdell, Ian (21 December 2022). "Blake's 7: Origins – Terry Nation's first 14 scripts to be novelised". CultBox. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  28. Freeman, John (27 March 2023). "New "Blake's 7: Origins" limited edition book collection debuts from Big Finish". downthetubes.net. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  29. "Tennant to read 'Who' audio adventure". digital spy. 22 February 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2011.

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