Jacqueline Rayner

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Jacqueline Rayner is a British producer and writer best known for her Doctor Who novels and radio plays. Rayner is one of a small group of female writers who earn sole credit for writing original Doctor Who novels.

She adapted the first season of Big Finish Productions' Bernice Summerfield series and writes books for Companion Chronicles. She was also a producer at BBC Worldwide, on the BBCi production called Real Time .

Career

She received her first professional recognition as a writer when she adapted Paul Cornell's Virgin New Adventure novel “Oh No It Isn't!” For audio format, the first publication of “Big Finish”. The novel contained the character of Bernice Summerfield and was part of a Doctor Who spin-off series . She wrote five of Bernice Summerfield's six audio adaptations and continued working for Big Finish before joining BBC Books on their Doctor Who series.

Her first novels were published in 2001, these are EarthWorld and The Squire's Crystal for Big Finish . Rayner wrote several other Doctor Who spin-offs and was for a while executive producer on the BBC for the Big Finish series of Doctor Who radio plays. In total, her work consists of five novels, a series of short stories and four original radio plays. Rayner has edited several anthologies of Doctor Who short stories, mostly for Big Finish, and worked for Doctor Who magazine. In addition to Doctor Who, her work includes the children's television book "Horses Like Blaze".

Doctor Who television series

With the launch of the new Doctor Who television series in 2005 and a postponement of BBC Who-related book production, Rayner became a regular contributor to the BBC's New Series Adventures along with Justin Richards and Stephen Cole . She also shortened some of the books that are now set to become audiobooks.

Audio roles in radio plays

Doctor Who radio plays

  • Doctor Who: The Marian Conspiracy (2000)
  • Doctor Who and the Pirates: Or the Lass That Lost a Sailor (2003)
  • 100 BC (2007)
  • The Doomwood Curse (2008)
  • The Transit of Venus (2009)
  • The Suffering (2010)
  • Love and War (2012) - (based on the novel by Paul Cornell)
  • Starborn (2014)
  • The Highest Science (2014) - (based on the novel by Gareth Roberts)
  • Whispers of Terror
  • The Holy Terror
  • Minuet in Hell
  • Dust breeding

Bernice Summerfield radio play

  • Oh No It Isn't! (1998) - (based on the novel by Paul Cornell)
  • Walking to Babylon (1998) - (based on the novel by Kate Orman)
  • Birthright (1999) - (based on the novel by Nigel Robinson)
  • Just War (1999) - (based on the novel by Lance Parkin)
  • Making Myths (1999)
  • Dragons' Wrath (2000) - (based on the novel by Justin Richards)
  • Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape (2004)
  • Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind (2005)
  • The Temple of Questions (2011)
  • Many Happy Returns (2012)

bibliography

Doctor Who novels

  • EarthWorld (2001)
  • Wolfsbane (2001)
  • Winner Takes All (2005)
  • The Stone Rose (2006)
  • The Last Dodo (2007)
  • Magic of the Angels (2012)
  • Step Back in Time (2012) - with Richard Dungworth

Bernice Summerfield novels

  • The Squire's Crystal (2001)
  • The Glass Prison (2002)

Other novels

  • Pet Rescue: Horses Like Blaze (2001)

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personal data
SURNAME Rayner, Jacqueline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British producer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century