{"id":1172,"date":"2015-07-28T21:14:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2015-07-28T21:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T20:14:42","slug":"john-banks-new-big-finish-survivors-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/john-banks-new-big-finish-survivors-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"John Banks: new Big Finish Survivors interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/big-finish-survivors\/cast_john_banks_series_two.html\">new interview with John Banks<\/a> (Daniel Connor) discussing his work on the second series of Big Finish Survivors audio dramas has now been added to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/big-finish-survivors\"><em>Survivors<\/em>: A World Away Big Finish<\/a> mini-site. In the interview Banks expresses his delight at the reception of the first series:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I&#8217;ve looked on the Big Finish forum and at other places and seen some of the things that people have said about it \u2013 and that\u2019s been fantastic. And, obviously, new series have been commissioned \u2013 so we must be doing something right. It certainly gives you confidence going in; knowing that there is an audience who are wanting things to continue and to find out what will become of these characters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The second series of <em>Survivors<\/em> audios is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/releases\/v\/survivors-series-02-954\" target=\"_blank\">available from the Big Finish shop<\/a>, along with all the other current entries in the range.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=1173\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1173\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1173\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/john-banks-new-big-finish-survivors-interview\/john_banks_big_finish_survivors_interview\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/john_banks_big_finish_survivors_interview.jpg?fit=770%2C487&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"770,487\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Rich&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1437920092&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"John Banks &amp;#8211; Big Finish &amp;#8211; Survivors &amp;#8211; series two &amp;#8211; interview\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/john_banks_big_finish_survivors_interview.jpg?fit=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/john_banks_big_finish_survivors_interview.jpg?fit=770%2C487&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smd.urko.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/john_banks_big_finish_survivors_interview.jpg?resize=770%2C487\" alt=\"John Banks - Big Finish - Survivors - series two - interview\" width=\"770\" height=\"487\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/john_banks_big_finish_survivors_interview.jpg?w=770&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/john_banks_big_finish_survivors_interview.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/john_banks_big_finish_survivors_interview.jpg?resize=768%2C486&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new interview with John Banks (Daniel Connor) discussing his work on the second series of Big Finish Survivors audio dramas has now been added to the Survivors: A World Away Big Finish mini-site. In the interview Banks expresses his delight at the reception of the first series: I&#8217;ve looked on the Big Finish forum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/john-banks-new-big-finish-survivors-interview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Banks: new Big Finish Survivors interview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-big-finish","category-cast-and-crew","category-interviews-cast","category-post-apocalyptic-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-iU","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}