Part of the Big Finish family since the very beginning (as director of our debut title Bernice Summerfield: Oh No It Isn't!) Nick Briggs is our Co-Executive Producer, as well as a writer, actor, composer, sound designer and podcaster across all of Big Finish's ranges.

Last year, Nick achieved his long held ambition to create an audio reinvention of The Prisoner, the classic ITV series originally broadcast in 1967/8 which starred the legendary Patrick MacGoohan. The Prisoner: Volume 1 was released in January 2016 to great reviews and audience appreciation.

Now Nick is about to embark on the production of The Prisoner: Volume 2 and throughout the year, he'll be giving us exclusive updates from behind-the-scenes. This gives Big Finish listeners the chance to follow development of the eagerly awaited release from script to studio and beyond. Part 1 in this series can be read below – with the entire run of articles being chronicles in the behind-the-scenes section for The Prisoner: Volume 2.

Dateline: 28th January 2016 - 17.16 hours

I’m still buzzing from the great reviews of The Prisoner. It was a big risk making this series, and a lot of the initial reaction to the fact that we were producing it was understandably negative. As I said in an interview the other day, if I hadn’t actually been producing it myself, I would have had a negative reaction to it. And, as I said to fellow writer and all-round nice fellow Guy Adams the other day, if I’d really considered the risks involved in whether it would turn out to be well received or not, I think I wouldn’t have dared go near The Prisoner. I just had a sort of insatiable and perhaps insane drive to do it. Thank goodness those lovely people at ITV were convinced by me. Thanks, Giles, Maggy and Najmie!

But here it is. It’s widely praised and liked. That’s good enough for me. I feel a huge sense of relief and gratitude. My co-exec and best boss in the world, Jason Haigh-Ellery, has given the go-ahead for Volume 2 of The Prisoner. That’s not the only reason why I think he’s the best boss in the world, by the way!

I already have plans for the stories I’m going to do next time, but since those storylines haven’t been finished yet, I haven’t sent them to ITV. And if they haven’t been sent to ITV, I don’t know if they’re going to be approved yet. So… I’ll let you know what they are if and when they’re approved. But the rough plan is for four more stories, three of them adapted from original series episodes, with one entirely new. I have a feeling the adaptations will be looser this time, with even one of them having a different title as a result.

A huge contributing factor to the success of the series has been Mark Elstob as Number Six. And he’s definitely up for more. He’s already appeared at our event, Big Finish Day 8, and did a sterling job on stage, giving many insights into his work on the series.

Other huge contributing factors were composer Jamie Robertson and sound designer Iain Meadows. I’m hoping I can persuade them to come back. They did such brilliant work. I still can’t stop humming the new theme.

Also, I’ve told Jamie Anderson I’d love him to continue script editing and he seems fine with that.

Hopefully, by next time, I’ll have some news about storylines.

Naturally, I should end with…

Be seeing you!

The Prisoner: Volume 2 will be released in January 2017, and is available to pre-order now for just £25 on CD or £20 to download – containing four new stories inspired by the original TV series.

If you 'd like to ask Nick any questions on his work on The Prisoner, email us at enquiries@bigfinish.com – and Nick may be able to answer them in an upcoming edition of Nick's Notes.

Prisoner fans can also win the opportunity to visit the studio recording of The Prisoner: Volume 2 with our special Prisoner Competition – with today being the closing date for entries. All you have to do enter is send your thoughts or reviews of The Prisoner: Volume 1 to enquiries@bigfinish.com – with five runners up also winning a copy of The Prisoner: Volume 2. See here for full details.