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''.

Biography

Her first professional writing credit came when she adapted Paul Cornell's

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'' for the audio format, the first release by Big Finish. (The novel featured the character of

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and was part of a spin-off series from ''Doctor Who''.) She went on to do five of the six Bernice Summerfield audio adaptations and further work for Big Finish before going to work for

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on their ''Doctor Who'' lines. Her first novels came in 2001, with the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel '' EarthWorld'' for BBC Books and the Bernice Summerfield novel '' The Squire's Crystal'' for Big Finish. Rayner has written several other ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs and was also for a period the executive producer for the BBC on the Big Finish range of ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas. She has also contributed to the audio range as a writer. In all, her ''Doctor Who'' and related work (Bernice Summerfield stories), consists of five novels, a number of short stories and four original audio plays. Rayner has edited several anthologies of ''Doctor Who'' short stories, mainly for Big Finish, and done work for ''

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''. Beyond ''Doctor Who'', her work includes the children's television tie-in book ''Horses Like Blaze''. With the start of the new television series of ''Doctor Who'' in 2005 and a shift in the BBC's ''Doctor Who'' related book output, Rayner has become, along with Justin Richards and Stephen Cole, one of the regular authors of the BBC's

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. She has also abridged several of the books to be made into audiobooks. Rayner was a member of the original Time Team of ''Doctor Who Magazine''.

Selected works

* ''

'' (1998) – audio play (based on the novel by Paul Cornell) * ''Bernice Summerfield: Walking to Babylon'' (1998) – audio play (based on the novel by Kate Orman) * ''Bernice Summerfield:

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'' (1999) – audio play (based on the novel by

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) * ''Bernice Summerfield:

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'' (1999) – audio play (based on the novel by Lance Parkin) * ''Bernice Summerfield: Making Myths'' (1999) – audio play * ''Bernice Summerfield: Dragons' Wrath'' (2000) – audio play (based on the novel by Justin Richards) * ''Doctor Who: The Marian Conspiracy'' (2000) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: EarthWorld'' (2001) * ''Pet Rescue: Horses Like Blaze'' (2001) * ''Bernice Summerfield: The Squire's Crystal'' (2001) * ''Doctor Who: Wolfsbane'' (2001) * ''Bernice Summerfield: The Glass Prison'' (2002) * ''Doctor Who: Doctor Who and the Pirates: Or the Lass That Lost a Sailor'' (2003) – audio play * '' Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape'' (2004) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: Winner Takes All'' (2005) * '' Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind'' (2005) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: The Stone Rose'' (2006) * ''Doctor Who:

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'' (2007) * ''Doctor Who:

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'' (2007) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: The Doomwood Curse'' (2008) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: The Pictures of Emptiness ( The Darksmith Legacy Book 8)'' (2009) * ''Doctor Who: The Transit of Venus'' (2009) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: The Suffering'' (2010) – audio play * ''Bernice Summerfield: The Temple of Questions'' (2011) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: Love and War'' (2012) – audio play (based on the novel by Paul Cornell) * ''Doctor Who:

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'' (2012) * '' Doctor Who: Step Back in Time'' (2012) – with

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* ''Bernice Summerfield: Many Happy Returns'' (2012) – audio play (with Xanna Eve Chown, Stephen Cole, Paul Cornell,

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, Rebecca Levene, Justin Richards,

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and Dave Stone) * ''Doctor Who:

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'' (2014) – audio play * ''Doctor Who: The Highest Science'' (2014) – audio play (based on the novel by Gareth Roberts)

References

External links

Interview with Jacqueline Rayner
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