Name Ian Potter | Role Writer | |
Books The rise and rise of the independents | ||
Ian Potter (born 1968 in Liverpool) is a UK-based writer and broadcaster, best known for a series of short stories in the Big Finish Short Trips Doctor Who fiction range. He has also written for the BBC Radio 4 series Front Row (radio), The Way It Is and Week Ending.
Work
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 he worked on the releases Doctor Who - The Time of the Daleks, Judge Dredd - Get Karter!, Doctor Who - The Wormery, Judge Dredd - Grud is Dead and Doctor Who - Unregenerate!. 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 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.
His 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 also wrote the Radio programme 'No Tomatoes' in 2007; a short running sketch show in which he also performed.
In 2008 he 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' and also 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.