{"id":1175,"date":"2015-07-27T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T20:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2015-07-27T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T20:25:10","slug":"ian-mcculloch-new-big-finish-survivors-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/27\/ian-mcculloch-new-big-finish-survivors-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McCulloch: new Big Finish Survivors interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest of a new series of interviews on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/big-finish-survivors\/cast_ian_mcculloch_series_two.html\"><em>Survivors<\/em> A World Away Big Finish mini-site<\/a>, in which cast and crew discuss work on the second series of Big Finish&#8217;s <em>Survivors<\/em> audio dramas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/big-finish-survivors\/cast_ian_mcculloch_series_two.html\">Ian McCulloch (Greg Preston)<\/a> takes issue with the idea that Greg should be thought of as &#8216;heroic&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The thing that has struck me when thinking about this in relation to the original series is actually how much of a bastard Greg could be. Looking back I can remember he killed people, suffocated a sick child, strangled someone with his bare hands, and passed on deadly diseases. For an action and adventure series, this was nasty stuff.<\/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=1176\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1176\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1176\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/27\/ian-mcculloch-new-big-finish-survivors-interview\/ian_mcculloch_big_finish_survivors_interview\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ian_mcculloch_big_finish_survivors_interview.jpg?fit=767%2C466&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"767,466\" 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;1437921234&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=\"Ian McCulloch &amp;#8211; 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<a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/27\/ian-mcculloch-new-big-finish-survivors-interview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ian McCulloch: 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-big-finish","category-cast-and-crew","category-interviews-cast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-iX","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\/1175","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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}