THIS WEEK: 17th – 24th July 2018




CAST & CREW NEWS
For the latest news of the Blakes 7 cast and crew, click Here






GOING OUT?

B7 40th Anniversary location visit to Puzzlewood, Clearwell Caves, Bream Scowles and Coleford Colliery on Saturday 23rd June. Everyone welcome - details on the Forum here: PUZZLEWOOD.

Julian Glover is among the guests at Return of the Garrison, at the National Space Centre, Exploration Drive, Leicester LE4 5NS on Saturday 23rd June 2018.

Jan Chappell is the narrator in Into the Melting Pot with The Telling at Stroud Green Music Festival. Sunday 24th June 2018. Details HERE.




STAYING IN?

HORIZON REWATCHES
The Northern Hemisphere continues its Season B rewatch with B12: The Keeper on Tuesday 19th June. Join us at 7.45pm BST for some medieval style entertainment and the location of Star One!

The Southern Hemisphere's Season A rewatch continues with the postponed A4: Time Squad at 6.30pm Australian time (AEST), 09.30am UK time (BST) on Saturday 23rd or 30th June, depending upon who's available to watch. Keep an eye on the forum for further announcements.

Jan Chappell was interviewed at the recent MCM Comic Con in Birmingham. You can watch her interview on YouTube HERE


FAN FICTION CHALLENGES – JUNE 2018
Try our challenges for June:
1. Word Prompt: Clone. The Clonemasters and the Auronar utilised cloning, it was even mentioned in everyone’s favourite episode, Animals. Who will you clone?  ?
2. Write a ficlet based on this scenario: Two choices. Neither is good. Our character/s must choose one. They have three minutes.
Post your ficlets HERE.
Grateful thanks to Horizon member purplecleric for organising the ficlet challenges, and to our members for their contributions!

ARTWORK FAN FICTION CHALLENGE – MAY/JUNE 2018
Write a ficlet based on this picture of Avon and Blake
Huge thanks to Horizon member Rainesz for letting us use her artwork!

Reminders:
Overlong ficlets may not fit in the monthly collections, so please try to limit your contributions to 500 words.
This is a family-friendly website so stories should be rated no higher than PG-13.
Comments and suggestions for future ficlet challenges are invited HERE
Previous Ficlet Collections can be read in Horizon's Fan Fiction Section.





BIG FINISH CLASSIC B7 AUDIO ADVENTURES

LATEST B7 RELEASES FROM BIG FINISH
Blake's 7 - Crossfire, Part Three, the third and final box set of episodes in the new full-cast series. Available now on CD and digital download from Big Finish.
You can listen to a trailer here: Trailer
and read our spoiler-free review here: Review.
Blake's 7 - Crossfire, Part Two, the second box set of episodes in the new full-cast series. Available now on CD and digital download from Big Finish. You can read our review HERE.
Blake's 7 - Crossfire, Part One, the first box set of episodes in the new full-cast series, is reviewed HERE.

Blake's 7 – The Way Ahead, a two-hour full cast 40th Anniversary audio drama. There's a spoiler-free review HERE.

Blake's 7 – Heroes - a new anthology of short stories. Available in hardback and eBook formats, and as an audiobook read by Michael Keating. You can read our review HERE.



B7 BLOGS, ARTICLES AND PODCASTS
They're back! @MakingBlakes7 on Twitter is now charting the production of Series 2 of Blake's 7, as it happened 40 years ago. Every memo, every script, every effect, every episode.
With rare photos and fascinating behind-the-scenes facts, this is a must-follow for all fans!

For our list of other Blakes 7 blogs and podcasts, click Here




DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Saturday 30th June 2018 - Roger Murray-Leach is among the guests at the Fantom Signing Spectular, St Michael’s Centre, 60 Elmwood Road, Chiswick, London W4 3DZ

Sunday 1st July 2018 Smallspace 7 is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of B7 with special guests Michael Keating and Roger Murray-Leach, sponsored by Ian Kubiak. Venue: Hanslope Village Hall, Newport Road, Hanslope, Bucks, MK19 7NZ. See Forum Thread here for details - Smallspace Chat

Saturday 16th July 2018 Jan Chappell plays Hildegard, the German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, Christian mystic and visionary in by The Telling's musical performance Vision: The Imagined Testimony of Hildegard of Bingen at Buxton International Music Festival, St John's Church, St John's Road, Buxton SK17 6XN. Details here: Jan Chappell and The Telling

27th - 29th July 2018 and Colin Baker and Julian Glover are among the guests at London Film & Comic Con, at London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London W14 8UX.

28th - 30th September 2018 - Cygnus Alpha 4.0, a full weekend celebration of B7's 40th Anniversary at the Holiday Inn, Brentford Lock, Commerce Rd, London TW8 8GA. With confirmed guests from B7's original cast and crew, together with writers, actors and the producer of the new Big Finish range of B7 audios, this is an event not to be missed! Join the chat on the Forum here: Cygnus Alpha 4.0 Chat.

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