{"id":1246,"date":"2015-11-28T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T11:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2015-11-28T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T11:20:52","slug":"paul-thornley-reflects-on-the-character-of-john-vinnie-vincent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/28\/paul-thornley-reflects-on-the-character-of-john-vinnie-vincent\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thornley reflects on the character of John &#8216;Vinnie&#8217; Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/big-finish-survivors\/cast_paul_thornley_series_three.php\" target=\"_blank\">new and exclusive interview<\/a> recorded at the Big Finish studios, Paul Thornley discusses his role as the chilling and &#8216;rage fuelled&#8217; Vinnie Vincent, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/releases\/v\/survivors-series-03-1090\" target=\"_blank\">series three of the <em>Survivors<\/em> audio adventures<\/a>. Says Thornley of the character of Vinnie, the would-be governor of post-apocalyptic Britain: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He thinks of himself as a &#8216;great thinker&#8217;, and as an astute mind. He sees Abby as the same. He sees something in her, and he can&#8217;t quite understand why she can&#8217;t see it in him. &#8220;The two of us \u2013 we could be great together!&#8221; &#8211; he reckons. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/big-finish-survivors\/cast_paul_thornley_series_three.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1247\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/28\/paul-thornley-reflects-on-the-character-of-john-vinnie-vincent\/s3_big_finish_survivors_series_three_paul_thornley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s3_big_finish_survivors_series_three_paul_thornley.png?fit=785%2C437&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"785,437\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&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=\"Paul Thornley reflects on the character of John &amp;#8216;Vinnie&amp;#8217; Vincent\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s3_big_finish_survivors_series_three_paul_thornley.png?fit=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s3_big_finish_survivors_series_three_paul_thornley.png?fit=785%2C437&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smd.urko.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s3_big_finish_survivors_series_three_paul_thornley.png?resize=785%2C437\" alt=\"Paul Thornley reflects on the character of John &#039;Vinnie&#039; Vincent\" width=\"785\" height=\"437\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s3_big_finish_survivors_series_three_paul_thornley.png?w=785&amp;ssl=1 785w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s3_big_finish_survivors_series_three_paul_thornley.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s3_big_finish_survivors_series_three_paul_thornley.png?resize=768%2C428&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>In a new and exclusive interview recorded at the Big Finish studios, Paul Thornley discusses his role as the chilling and &#8216;rage fuelled&#8217; Vinnie Vincent, in series three of the Survivors audio adventures. Says Thornley of the character of Vinnie, the would-be governor of post-apocalyptic Britain: He thinks of himself as a &#8216;great thinker&#8217;, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/28\/paul-thornley-reflects-on-the-character-of-john-vinnie-vincent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul Thornley reflects on the character of John &#8216;Vinnie&#8217; Vincent&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-big-finish","category-cast-and-crew"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-k6","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\/1246","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=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}