Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred answer Big Finish listeners' questions

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Sylvester McCoy has been playing the Seventh Doctor at Big Finish since 1999, featuring on the first licensed Doctor Who audio adventure, The Sirens of Time, with Peter Davison and Colin Baker.

On television (1987-1989), his Doctor was both a spoon-playing clown and a master of deep dark secrets. He toppled empires in a single night, entertained in the circus of the Gods of Ragnarok and played chess with the ancient and evil Fenric.

Despite telling Ace that they still had “work to do” as they strode away from her home town of Perivale, it was in this incarnation that the television series was rested. The Seventh Doctor went on to have many adventures in books, comic strips and on audio. He returned on the eve of the millennium to transport the remains of the Master back to Gallifrey. Emerging from the TARDIS, he was shot by a street gang and died on the operating table.

Sophie Aldred has played Dorothy "Ace" McShane at Big Finish since early 2000. The Doctor found Ace serving milkshakes on Iceworld in the TV story Dragonfire (1987), at the end of which she joined the Doctor on his travels.