Recorded on: 25 and 29 July and 2 August 2024
Recorded at: The Soundhouse
Producer Jonathan S Powell said: "Planet Krynoid is Doctor Who's answer to The Last of Us and The Walking Dead, a heart-stopping vision of society's collapse under the weight of one of television's most terrifying creations: the Krynoid.
"The Krynoids themselves are terrifying because they do that great sci-fi thing of inverting the ordinary and making you petrified of pot plants. More than that though, they're a sentient infection utterly antithetical to our existence, for which we are woefully unprepared, which makes them the perfect monster to explore today, half a century on from their debut.
"I adore The Seeds of Doom - not just for its B-movie brilliance, but for the creeping feeling it evokes that this time, for the first time, the Doctor really might lose. That's what we've tried to convey in this set, that the gloves are off and nobody is safe."
Reece Shearsmith said: "I know a lot of actors on Big Finish’s roster - David Warner was a great friend, and he used to love doing them and would tell me about them: 'Why haven't you done one?' So I was thrilled to be asked to be in this. It's a really huge drama, it feels a proper disaster movie of the 1970s, like The Poseidon Adventure - things just get worse and worse.
"It's a thrill to be part of Doctor Who, it's an institution and it feels like you’ve made it as an actor if you're asked to be in this world. Hodan is a particular sort of character that Doctor Who is peppered with a lot of – cowards who have a noble intention but trample on people along the way. I've done one before actually, in Mark Gatiss’s TV episode Sleep No More. It’s a nice thing to play, because it's a very conflicted part."
Paul McGann added: "Doctor Who’s quite horrible, isn't it, really? When you think about it, it throws up some proper disgusting horrors. Plants that eat people!
"The best monsters work on a really visceral, almost childlike level. The Krynoids are like that. Who wants to be eaten by anything, never mind a huge plant?"
Reece Shearsmith, Em Prendergast, Rakie Ayola
Melody Chikakane Brown, Chloë Sommer, Sarah Whitehouse
Ian Conningham, Jonathan S Powell (producer), Sarah Whitehouse, Lucy Heath, Em Prendergast, Nye Occomore, Melody Chikakane Brown, Ben Crowe
Ian Conningham, Reece Shearsmith, Em Prendergast, Rakie Ayola, Nye Occomore, (Producer) Jonathan S Powell
