RANI AND CLYDE

THE SCHOOLGIRL INVESTIGATOR AND THE PUNPERPETRATOR ARE BACK!

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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.”

Looking back, Mohindra recalls having doubts when she first won the role. “At the time, because I was 18, I’d just graduated from watching children’s telly to watching