THIS WEEK: 12th - 20th May 2018




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






GOING OUT?
B7 40th Anniversary location outing to Winspit Quarry, Dorset on Saturday 19th May. Everyone welcome! Details on the Forum here: WINSPIT.

Jan Chappell is the narrator in Into the Melting Pot with The Telling at The Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common North Side, London SW4 0QW, on Sunday 20th May. Details HERE.

Glynis Barber plays Alice Russell, opposite Martin Shaw, in Gore Vidal's political thriller The Best Man at the Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Ave, London WC2N 5DE until 25th May 2018.



STAYING IN?

HORIZON REWATCHES
The Northern Hemisphere continues its Season B rewatch with B7: Killer on Tuesday 15th May . Join us at 7.45pm BST for a plague, locusts and Michelin Men.

The Southern Hemisphere's Season D rewatch concluded with D13: Blake on 12th May. We're now going way back to the beginning (see what I did there?) with A1 The Way Back on Saturday 19th May. Join us at 6.30pm Australian time (AEST), 09.30am UK time (BST) to see how it all began...

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


FAN FICTION CHALLENGES – MAY 2018
Try our challenges for May!
1. Word Prompt: Sacrifice. Dominion, power, sanction and influence; strong themes that appear in many forms throughout B7. What control will it exert in your piece?
2. Write a ficlet centered around Cygnus Alpha.
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 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
Highly recommended: @MakingBlakes7 on Twitter. The year is 1977. We're charting the production 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 26th May 2018 - Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette and Stephen Greif are among the guests at London MCM ComicCon at ExCeL London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London E16 1XL .

Friday 8th June 2018 - Jan Chappell plays Hildegard, the German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, Christian mystic and visionary in by The Telling's musical performance Vision at Stroud Green Music Festival. Details here: Jan Chappell and The Telling

8th - 9th June 2018 Julian Glover is among the guests at Utopia 2018, at Eynsham Hall, North Leigh, Witney, Oxfordshire OX29 6PN.

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

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

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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