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Chris Naylor
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I’m a British actor and artist. I play Harry Sullivan for Big Finish, and I love to paint and draw the heroes of my youth…
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The Fourth Doctor will return... 🌠 Click https://bgfn.sh/dwlpnews to find out about Tom Baker's INDOMITABLE Big Finish audio adventures due for release in June 2026.
January 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM
92 today! Happy birthday Tom. I’m hugely proud to have shared a microphone or two with the Fabulous Baker Boy - my childhood hero, and, it seems, my muse… You can get limited edition prints at Etsy - 20% off everything until the end of the month: www.etsy.com/shop/ChrisNa...
January 20, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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COVER REVEAL (unless you've already read this month's Vortex!) 👀 Click https://bgfn.sh/dwcclot to pre-order Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles: The Legacy of Time, due for release next month!
January 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
‘Famine, Pestilence, War, Disease and Death! They rule this world!’ It’s Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday - let’s celebrate with a limited edition print of the Master of the Macabre himself, Vincent Price, part of my Winter Sale at Etsy - 20% off everything: www.etsy.com/shop/ChrisNa...
January 19, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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Pedophile Protector AND Putin Puppet

#MultiTasking
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Fill that big hole on your wall! My Etsy sale is on now - 20% off everything until the end of the month, from the smallest mini-print to some nice big ‘uns, like these. Why not pop by and take a look?
www.etsy.com/shop/ChrisNa...
January 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Happy Birthday, Mr Bowie... My portrait of the Thin White Duke is available now at my Etsy store - with 20% off in my New Year Sale. Why not wander over and take a look:
tinyurl.com/2827kcd5
January 8, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Google the video & see for yourself.

This is not law enforcement. This is murder.

Sickening.
😡😡😡😡
January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM
It’s time for a New Year Sale! 20% off everything at my Etsy store, prints and originals, for the rest of the month. Why not wander over for a look? Follow the link in my bio, or copy and paste this one:
www.etsy.com/shop/ChrisNa...
January 3, 2026 at 5:52 PM
My Etsy store is open again, so why not wander over and take a look? There are plenty of prints and original art works like these (and not even a sniff of AI was involved): www.etsy.com/shop/ChrisNa...
#doctorwho #jamesbond
December 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Nearly 50 years later... a brand-new K9 audio adventure is out today!
'I thought to myself, my days as K9 will be numbered...' John Leeson thought robot dog would get axed from Doctor Who
Doctor Who legend John Leeson can't believe that K9 is still popular with fans 48 years after the robot dog made its debut in 1977 story The Invisible Enemy.
uk.news.yahoo.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Interview with John “K9” Leeson about his #DoctorWho work and returning to the role for Big Finish in “Smith & Sullivan”;
uk.news.yahoo.com/thought-myse...

His new adventures are available now.

Reunited: www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/s...

Presents of Mind: www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/d...
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Free excerpt! #DoctorWho Smith & Sullivan episode “Presents of Mind” from Big Finish.

www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/s...

Stars: John Leeson, Sadie Miller, Christopher Naylor, Annette Badland. Writer: Mark Wright. Director/producer: Jonathan S Powell. Script editor: Peter Anghelides.
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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🎅 IT'S CHRISTMAAAAAAS!! 🎅 Click https://bgfn.sh/xmas25 to find a fantastic festive anthology of full-cast audio drama in your stocking. Your Christmas Doctor Who special is OUT NOW! 🎄
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Two FREE #DoctorWho items of mine from Big Finish this month: Paul Spragg competition winner “The Wednesday That Wasn’t” (written by Luke Hollands) and an excerpt from “Smith & Sullivan: Presents of Mind” (written by Mark Wright).

www.bigfinish.com/whats_new/mo...
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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For those who enjoyed my Kennedy thread last night, I should say that the research was originally done for my #DoctorWho book Pull to Open, the story of the show's creation in 1963, which you can buy from @tenacrebooks.bsky.social. #DoctorWhoDay
Pull To Open: 1962–1963: The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who
‘Fresh and compelling… As definitive an account of those early years as I have read’ Toby Hadoke When Doctor Who began on Saturday November 23...
tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.

I'm quite pleased with this one...

www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Breaking news - November 1963
BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I’m very excited to be reading this wonderful new Doctor Who audiobook by Paul Hayes, which takes us right back to the early days…
A new little blog entry celebrating the unveiling of Lee Johnson's cover for my forthcoming BBC Audiobook Star Flight, along with the news that @chrisnaylor.bsky.social will be reading it: notanovelistyet.blogspot.com/2025/11/flig...
Flight Cover
The blog of writer and radio producer Paul Hayes.
notanovelistyet.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Just over a week until we bring this acclaimed reading to @leicestermuseums.bsky.social don't miss out on the final seats. #leicester
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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"You can hear echoes of M. R. James here," writes Steve Kinrade for Liverpool Noise, "but also something newer — a modern anxiety that hums beneath the surface".

Read the full review at bit.ly/43wZm3R

Many thanks to Steve for his wonderful words & also to Al Blundell for the fabulous photographs.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM