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Stephen Gallagher’s two stories for Doctor Who – Warriors’ Gate and Terminus – are justly regarded as high points of the early 1980s on Doctor Who, and Gallagher has returned to the world of Warriors’ Gate for his new audio, The Kairos Ring. He chatted about the genesis of this story – as well as the new Warriors’ Gate audio and the Big Finish Lost Story Nightmare Country – with Paul Simpson earlier on today.

I always reckon that every piece of work becomes viable the moment you take two separate ideas, put them together and see them cross fertilise each other. And sure enough, that’s what happened, because Romana and Laszlo on their own with nothing to do wouldn’t have been a story and the Joshua story on its own with no wider context wouldn’t have been a story. But if you insert one into the other or blend one with the other or breed one with the other or whatever you want to call it, you’ve got something.

Click here to read the full interview, and for our reviews of all three, click here.