Ian Potter (writer)
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Ian Potter (born 20th century) is a UK-based writer and broadcaster, known for a series of short stories in the Big Finish Short Trips collection, Doctor Who fiction range.
He has also written for the BBC Radio 4 series Front Row, The Way It Is and Week Ending.
Work
[edit]Until September 2006, Potter was a television curator at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.
In television production he worked on Ads Infinitum for BBC Two, Trust Me I'm A Celebrity for BBC One, and Up Late for BBC Choice
As a sound designer for the company Big Finish Productions, Potter worked on the Doctor Who releases The Time of the Daleks, The Wormery and Unregenerate!; and the Judge Dredd releases Get Karter! and Grud Is Dead. As a writer for the company, he contributed the script "The Pelage Project" to the mini-series Counter-Measures and The Revenants, The Alchemists and The Sleeping City[1] for the Companion Chronicles range. He will be writing for the forthcoming Early Adventures range, contributing a First Doctor story entitled The Bounty of Ceres.[2]
Potter's short stories have featured in the collections Short Trips: Zodiac, Short Trips: Companions, Short Trips: The Muses, Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury, Short Trips: Farewells, The Panda Book of Horror and A Romance in Twelve Parts.
He wrote the radio programme No Tomatoes in 2007, a short-lived sketch show in which he also performed.[3]
In 2008, Potter wrote the television history book The Rise and Rise of The Independents for Guerilla Books.
In 2009, he had two documentaries and a play produced for BBC Radio 4 in 2009. Bill Mitchell: The Man Who Wrestled Pumas... Probably, In Search of the Wantley Dragon and Anti-Maccassars and Ylang Ylang Conditioner. Potter stood in for three weeks as presenter of BBC Radio 7's "The Comedy Club"; and contributed to the Radio 4 Archive on 4 profile of actor and writer Ken Campbell.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Ian Potter's website (archived 2007)
- Ian Potter at IMDb
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