RANI AND CLYDE

THE SCHOOLGIRL INVESTIGATOR AND THE PUNPERPETRATOR ARE BACK!

LAST SUMMER, 11 YEARS after filming wrapped on The Sarah Jane Adventures, Anjli Mohindra and Daniel Anthony were reunited for recording on an audio series for Big Finish: Rani Takes On The World. Volume one, Beyond Bannerman Road, sees an older Rani (who now has a successful podcast) investigating a flying saucer, a luxury island resort, and a haunted restaurant – with Clyde and mum Gita (Mina Anwar) in tow.

“She’s a freelance journalist who can’t quite help but keep being led on a trail to discovering alien meddling and having to sort it, basically,” Mohindra tells SFX.

Meanwhile, the boy who loved sketching superhero The Silver Bullet has made a career from it. “He’s matured – for the most part,” Anthony says. “His art is still a big factor in his life, and he’s doing well.”

It was a happy reunion – and a seamless one. “I was like, ‘Oh god, what does Rani sound like 10 years later? What’s her interaction with Clyde going to be like?’” Mohindra says. “Then we started doing a scene and it was like that decade in-between hadn’t happened.”

“It was like no time had passed,” Anthony concurs. “The chemistry was back – we just bounced off each other.”