As part of this, co-host Kenny Smith interviewed me about working with Jean on five Doctor Who audio productions for Big Finish, recorded between 2008 and 2012. What a happy, creatively satisfying time that all was. I'm so grateful to Jean and to everyone else involved.
We also hear from Jean herself, with a full hour of her being interviewed on stage by the great Jeremy Bentham at a convention in 2003. It's lovely to hear her on such sparkling form, exactly as sharp, incisive and impish as I remember her.
My tedious nerd brain delights at tales of location filming in Death Valley for The Twilight Zone and on the origins of Upstairs, Downstairs. She says her catsuit as Sara Kingdom in Doctor Who was brown (43.41) and that she was asked to stay on beyond her nine episodes in The Daleks' Master Plan but declined (46.26).
If you like that sort of thing, you can also watch Jean Marsh interviewed alongside Clive Swift by Matthew Swift after a screening of the Alfred Hitchock film Frenzy at the BFI on 31 August 2012. I was there, the last time I saw her and just before she fell ill. Hail and farewell, Jean.
(Image shows Simon Holub's magnificent cover artwork for Home Truths, the first thing I wrote for Jean Marsh.)
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