Original Blake’s 7 star Michael Keating is returning to the role of Vila Restal for Big Finish’s Blake’s 7 audio series which starts next year.

Keating maintains his record of working in each incarnation of the show: he appeared in every episode of the original series, returned in the BBC Radio plays, and even showed up in B7 Productions’ prequel to their revamped series, When Vila Met Gan. He will be narrating Nigel Fairs’ Solitary, one of three stories in the first collection of audiobooks which will be released in February 2012.