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The Doctor and Fitz are on the run, in Compassion, their new TARDIS.

She reacts badly when the Doctor tries to fit a randomiser into her, and throws her friends out onto an alien world.

Editor Steve Cole and author Nick Walters discuss this book, as well as Matt and Kenny's thoughts on it - plus the reviews from DWM and I, Who 2!

We continue with our Ian Marter discussion with a brief conversation about the debut of Harry Sullivan in "Robot"! But, before we get underway, we pick up where we left off with new details about Marter's time at St. Edmund Hall at Oxford University with the discovery that there is a recording on vinyl of Marter singing in You Can't Do Much Without a Screwdriver, an original musical staged by the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club at the Oxford Playhouse in May 1965. Marter played the lead character, Guy Ffolkes, an Amnesian nationalist, and sings "Bang On" with Jack and Harry, described as two villains in the playbill. There's a photograph of Ian with Adèle Geras née Weston on stage during the production. We also uncovered a photograph of young Ian with fellow Oxford students, Tamara Ustinov, John Dodgson, Anne Bibby, and Nick Elliott rehearsing for another play. Plus a photograph of Marter with actor Richard Burton in a local pub. Opening and closing music is "Mysterious Robots," composed by Dudley Simpson. We recorded this episode on 26 August 2024.

He wouldn't have gotten away with it, too! If it wasn't for those meddling kids and their crotchety old Time Lord! Yes, this week we watched The Sensorites! Honestly, a pretty good six-parter that wasn't exactly fast-paced and full of action, but also didn't really have pacing problems either. What it did have was one really crazy Sensorite who did not want humans (or their Time Lord) anywhere near their planet and he did some pretty Scooby villain stuff to stop them. Well, try and stop them at least. Anyway! Grab some Scooby Snacks and let's dive in!

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  An animation inspired geek out. This episode is as much about Luke and Michael talking about their shared background in animation as it is about the first three Wallace and Gromit films. T-shirts can be found here –  Follow us on twitter  Like us on  Review us on  Email the show –     

A Gallifrey One guest announcement tops the RFS headlines as Jenna Coleman aka Clara Oswald is set to arrive in Los Angeles this upcoming February! Plus Russell T Davies is in the latest SFX to explain how TV works to you nerds, so what better time for the Three Who Rule to add their uninformed insights to the pile? An Emperor Davros dolly is on the way from B&M, Ncuti Gatwa’s theatrical spectacular The Importance of Being Earnest heads for cinema screens and more, before a Classic Series Commentary on the penultimate episode of both “Planet of the Spiders” and the Jon Pertwee era! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Jenna Coleman announced as guest of Gallifrey One
• RTD says Season 3 renewal won’t come until after Season 2 airs
• BFI redux screening of The Happiness Patrol on September 29
• B&M 2024 Remembrance of the Daleks – Emperor Davros
• B&M 2024 The History of the Daleks #18
• Ncuti Gatwa’s The Importance of Being Earnest getting UK cinema release
• Doctor Who finalists for five BAFTA Cymru Awards (aka The Welshies)
• Breakdown of the first scene of The Power of the Daleks

Commentary:

• Planet of the Spiders Episode 5

Heaven Sent: Adam, Kirby and Mary chat about Peter Capaldi's virtually solo episode. We also have news and feedback.

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast.....

The Legend of Ruby Sunday - Audio Commentary

This week Phil is joined by his cohort James Rockliffe from the Doctor Who Podcast to take part in an audio commentary for The Legend of Ruby Sunday. The pair of them quite enjoyed this episode on original transmission, so are they still strutting like Susan Twist or is watching this like waiting for Sutekh's gift of a sandy demise?

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Guest what? Jeff is back to talk one of his favorite episodes.  Ross likes it a bunch too, It's Jodie's 2nd episode and the fam has ended up on the planet Desolation.  The guys have fun time chatting about this story.

 

 

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It's taken us a few years, but here's Something Who podcast bringing up the ton - yes, it's our landmark 100th episode!

And to mark the occasion, rumours of his demise having been greatly exaggerated, we also have the triumphant return of podcast regular Paul., alongside fellow regular Giles, returning guest Rick and the ever present Richard.

In this episode, we chat briefly about what we can readily recall about the first 100 episodes of the podcast and what it's meant to us. Then we look at 4th Doctor story The Stones of Blood from Season 16, which in the next episode we'll pair with 12th Doctor story Under The Lake / Before The Flood from Series 9.

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Head over to https://www.bigfinish.com/, where we all love Paul's stories.

Rick posts on social media as @brickpandorica, where you can find fantastic pictures of his Lego models of Doctor Who moments, such as the one forming our cover art this episode.

Giles' book A History of the Universe in 21 Stars: (and 3 Imposters) can be found in all good bookshops and also here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Universe-21-Stars-Imposters/dp/1787394654/

Richard has another podcast with co-hosts Emily & Nicola, called "If It's Hurting, It's not Working" and it's a fun and informative look at work - why we work, how we work, and what makes a great job. Go to https://ifhurtnotwork.podbean.com/ and https://ifhurtnot.work for more.

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://linktr.ee/beagarrido, where, among other artworks, you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

In this bonus interview, Eric Grissom (@egrissom) talks with Conrad (@hairofthehound_ ) about podcasting on The Old Doctor Who Show (@TODWShow), writing and designing comics, choose-your-own-adventure and roleplaying games, and takes us behind the scenes on his new graphic novel Goblin: The Wolf and the Well.    Eric's website: ericgrissom.com The Goblin graphic novels: realmofgoblin.com Follow The Old Doctor Who Show: theolddoctorwhoshow.com & youtube.com/@theolddoctorwhoshow   Eric also guests on the Trap One review of The Return of the Daleks Back-up Strips. iTunes http://rb.gy/dwv0xv Podbean http://rb.gy/qr97cg Spotify http://rb.gy/dwv0xvx

Cor blimey, guvnas, it's only another tip top installment of Stace & Barry In The Morning!

This episode, Stacey gets caught up in a Trap, Barry loves Friday, and our dynamic duo share their thoughts on the Sonic 3 trailer. (Spoiler alert: Stace is excited). All this, plus a truly baffling rewatch of Mission Impossible movies, and everybody loves The Bear. 

Grab a nice hot bevvy and start your day the Stace & Barry way!

Welcome to Part One of our intermittent ongoing look at The Trial of a Time Lord, a single 14-part Doctor Who serial that comprised the whole of Season 23, televised between September and December 1986, but broken up into four separate novelizations. Confusingly released out of order and non-consecutively.

Jim Sangster, Doctor Who Literature's multi-talented co-producer, logo designer, and in-house band, adapted and performed this week's introductory number, appeared as a talking head on the Trial of a Time Lord DVDs (recorded 16 years prior to the production of this episode), and is this week's guest. We'll about about Liverpool and its many connections to Doctor Who, and speculate just when does Trial take place relevant to the Sixth Doctor's own timeline?

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"Doctor Who – The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids" features near-pornographic cover art by Tony Masero.

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On the Trap One Bumper Backstrip Summer Special, Conrad (@HairoftheHound_) enlists the graphic and novel talents of Jeff Goddard (@CityOf_Jeff), Andy Lambert (@Zygon71) and Eric Grissom (@egrissom) to review the 'Return of the Daleks: The Complete Doctor Who Back-up Tales Volume 1'.   Bonus interview with Eric Grissom released Sunday 8th September 2024 Competition winner announced on Trap One Saturday 14th September 2024.   Check out Andy Lambert's art: www.deviantart.com/andy-lambert-art Check out Eric Grissom's work on www.ericgrissom.com & www.realmofgoblin.com Check out Jeff Goddard's (latest!) review of The Rescue: Dr Who Literature   Return of the Daleks Vol 1: available via Panini or Hive   Chicken Man (Grange Hill theme) by Alan Hawkshaw Left Bank Two (Gallery theme) by The Noveltones Doctor Who Metal Theme by inertia666 

We take a sidestep from Doctor Who this time and enter the world of The Tripods television series, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this month.

We'll be joined by Chris Jones, author of the forthcoming book "All For Nothing?", which will be released at a special Tripods fan event next week. The event will also feature appearances from all four principal cast members, together for the very first time since the show was filmed, as well as other cast and production crew.

We are also joined by Tripods superfan Will Hadcroft, better known to Doctor Who fans by his audio dramas The Resurrection Plant and Dark Contract.

To "cap" it off, we'll have a special focus on the sensational soundtrack for The Tripods, composed and arranged by Ken Freeman.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer and Ken Freeman.

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This week we begin coverage of Whooverville 15 with an appearance by Tommy Knight from The Sarah Jane Adventures.

 

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    This title was released in August 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 October 2024, and on general sale after this date. You have been brought to Secure Control Room B to respond to a simulated emergency. You will be able to issue orders and make real time decisions in a disaster scenario. Welcome to the end of the world. Shall we begin?  

This week, David & Matt sit down to review Doctor Who Series 14 as a whole - with thoughts from some of our listeners.

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• Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Eight Two featuring Carl, Cat, Sean, Josh, and Eric. Join us as we dive into a NEW Doctor Who story, discussing the seventh episode of Ncuti Gatwa's first season as the 15th Doctor, in Rogue! Let the banter begin!

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• @ProgNeg: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com
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• This discussion contains miscellaneous K-9 and Company, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Sherlock, Class, new WHO, and/or classic SPOILERS pertaining to Doctor Who. If you are 100% spoilerphobic to new & classic episodes not yet seen, do NOT complain to us. This episode is MOSTLY HARMLESS & contains EXPLICIT ideas, and as always expect strokes of innuendo throughout.

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• This episode was recorded June 21st, 2024.

 

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Join Ian and Michele for a catchup in the Campervan before we say so long to Summer 2024! The news, including the latest edition of The Doctor Who Proms, Series Three speculation and a glimpse into the DWP future are up for discussion.

Phil and Brent also drop by with their take on the Tales of the TARDIS edition of Pyramids of Mars.

We’ll be back with Episode 381 soon!

Enjoy the show.

This is Bags of Action. The podcast devoted to action movies, both old and new, but all of them are awesome! Pete and Steve return for a special episode of Bags of Action to discuss Beverley Hills Cop: Axel F. It's available now to watchon Netflix.

To talk about this episode and any other episode you can visit the Bags of Action Facebook group here - Facebook Group . If you would like to get in touch with the show you can follow us on Twitter @BagsofAction or you can email us at bagsofaction [at] gmail [dot] com or you could leave us a review on iTunes.

 

On this month's Wanderers - And Now For The Big Finish podcast, the Wanderers review the  Doctor Who - Eighth Doctor Adventures - Ravenous 3 boxed set from Big Finish!

Hosts:

• Trevor  Trevsplace
• Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Comic Conspiracy
• David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian   Twitch DraconianProgeny
• Connor YouTube: The Deadly Emerald

Join us in two weeks for the September edition of Wanderers - Crossing the Void! As always, you can send us feedback on Facebook at Wanderers in the 4th Dimension or on Twitter @Wanderin4d.

The Shadows of Avalon caused a lot of excitement when it was first announced.

Not only did it mark the return of Paul Cornell to writing Doctor Who, after his triumphant New and Missing Adventures work, but it brought back the Brigadier, and introduced a new incarnation of Romana.

It also had an astonishing daring moment that really did seem audacious at the time.

We're joined by editor Steve Cole, as Kenny and Matt discuss the novel and its impact, with archival quotes from Paul Cornell.

Erika and Steven dispense with the saxophones and somehow end up talking about “The Space Pirates.” Again.

XXX (4)

Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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Pamela Salem is an actress who starred in memorable roles in classic Doctor Who stories The Robots of Death and Remembrance of the Daleks.

She reprised her television roles for Big Finish in the spinoff series' Counter-Measures and The Robots.

Pamela passed away in February 2024.

We speak with several people who worked with her on television and audio, Louise Jameson, Sophie Aldred, Karen Gledhill and Ken Bentley.

We also share for the first time, video footage of our 2021 interview with Pamela for The SIrens of Audio Podcast.

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On a special field report from the BFI screening of The Happiness Patrol Pete (@Prof_Quiteamess), Si (@Si_Hart), Frazer (@FelixFrazer), Tom (@Aquatics64), Dan (@D_Hollingsworth), Andy (@zygon71), Matt (@Matt04896), Andy (@caffreys71) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) report from the Space Corridor!

The Radio Free Skaro crew dips further into their nostalhia-tinged well of archive videotape fetishism this week, in addition to deep analysis of the Youtube algorithm, Star Wars Outlaws, and Steven’s never ending quest to ignore current media trends and lose himself in production minutiae. And just to add to the second-hand smoke, rampant alcoholism and leaded gasoline, it’s back to 1974 for our Classic Series Commentary of “Planet of the Spiders”, Part the Fourth! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who BBC Proms
• RTD mentions the DW Prom will be on UK TV at Christmas
• BFI Blake’s 7 screening happening October 5
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Collection PDF Archive
• BBC Videotape editing training film c. 1967
• 1969 print interview with Frazer Hines discovered, with rehearsal shots from The Space Pirates
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Deadly Strangers due December 2024

Commentary:

• Planet of the Spiders Episode 4

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast....

Rogue - Audio Commentary

We continue our series of audio commentaries for Season 1 of Doctor Who and this time Phil is joined by special guest Richard Smith from the Something Who podcast for Rogue, starring Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson.

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Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review Big Finish’s The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers 2: The Casebook of Paternoster Row and the 2024 film Deadpool and Wolverine, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:03 — Welcome!
• 01:51 – News:
• 02:04 — Doctor Who: Spin-off gets more actors.
• 04:01 — Blake’s 7: Blu-ray collection begins.
• 07:37 — Star Wars: The Acolyte cancelled.
• 11:38 — Supacell: Netflix grants a second season.
• 12:40 — Hitchhiker’s Guide: New TV series officially dead?.
• 15:37 – The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers 2: The Casebook of Paternoster Row.
• 28:39 – Deadpool and Wolverine.
• 46:01 – Crumbly’s Corner.
• 49:53 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 50:26 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 51:07 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Blake’s 7.
• Star Wars.
• Wikipedia: The Acolyte (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Supacell.
• Wikipedia: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
• Big Finish: The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers 2: The Casebook of Paternoster Row.
• Wikipedia: Deadpool and Wolverine.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Myriad single tears later, an old man takes credit for the women doing all the work in this season finale

The post N187 Empire of Death appeared first on Who Back When | A Doctor Who Podcast.

Please give a warm Doctor Who Literature welcome to Jeff from Gallifrey's Most Wanted. The Rescue is one of Jeff's favorite Doctor Who episodes and it's great to hear him discuss.

Sampled is an audio encore of Jason's favorite Harvey Keitel interview.

You might also recognize some dialogue from The Big Lebowski.

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In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast....

Whooverville 15 Report

Phil & Scott have been at the Whooverville 15 convention in the Quad Derby today and this is the little report on todays events. And the pair of them had another great day out at this wonderful Doctor Who convention but it was bittersweet as the future of the convention venue, the Quad, is in jeopardy.   So if you are able, please donate to this amazing venue and help secure it's future by clicking on the links below:

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Waffle On about Weird Science

Another jump down the 1985 memory lane with this hit teen comedy from John Hughes. Its certainly of its time but wowzers it was a fun film to talk about. 

The lads first catch up on what they have seen at the cinema and on tv and then jump into this comedy. 

Meds and kell also tease about an event they may be involved in next year so stay tuned. 

This week the new series re-watch briefly returns with Doctor Who: Thin Ice.

 

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Well, folks, we were warned. We were warned that The Mutants was going to be a bit of a slog. And let us tell you, it was definitely a bit of a slog. Especially after Fear Her. But! It wasn't all bad. We worked our magic and found what we really enjoyed about this story: the costuming, the sets, Jo, Stubbs & Cotton, and just how utterly bonkers episode six is! So sit back, grab a cup of whatever makes you happy, and let's look at The Mutants!

It’s Episode 5 of the DWP Echo Chamber – the last in our first series dedicated to Big Finish’s Main Range. But don’t worry, we’ll be back with the next run of five episodes soon!

This time James and Michele talk about The Fearmonger by Jonathan Blum, the fifth story in this range.

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

1. Buy The Fearmonger by Jonathan Blum from Big Finish Productions for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!)
2. Listen to it!
3. Join us in the Echo Chamber, listen to what we thought and join in the discussion!

Enjoy the show.

Toni and Joe are joined by Adam Clegg to worship Satan and discuss the Doctor Who episodes The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit.

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The Doctor and Compassion have been separated from Fitz. They're on one world, he's on another, living his best life.

But what on earth is going on? Co-author Steve Cole talks to us about writing this EDA.

And we finally discover who Natalie Dallaire is - and she's 100% real!

  This title was released in July 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 August 2024, and on general sale after this date. Many have sought the legendary Dark Gallifrey over the millennia... but most have been lucky enough to fail. There is another who has his eyes on that glittering prize, however; one who knows how such power could be wielded - the Master himself! Intrigued by rumours of a hidden Gallifrey - the Dark Gallifrey of Time Lord myth - Bernice Summerfield resolves to find it. But as the Doctor points out, some things should never be found, and some doors should never be opened. Especially ones that want to be...

Barbara's penchant for historical re-enactment gets our intrepid time team into a spot of bother down old Mexico way.

While she cosplays as a dead bloke, the Doctor and Susan try to dodge a double wedding and Ian has to use his thumb for more than hitchhiking. 

Will Susan get spiked, Ian skewered and Babs bricked up?

Worse still, will the Doctor get hitched?

Will Tlotoxl change his name by Deed Poll or will Martin have a stroke?

And did Jim and Martin find The Aztecs to be like a comforting cup of cocoa or a goblet of cold poison?

Listen to find out! 

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We kick off our Ian Marter retrospective with a look at his time at Oxford University. Thanks to back issues of St. Edmund Hall Magazine, we uncover new information that places Marter at Oxford three years earlier than is widely and incorrectly reported in other published sources. From our research, we found that Marter was at St. Edmund Hall, aka Teddy Hall, from 1963-1966 and was heavily involved with drama in the college's John Oldham Society and the Oxford's drama cuppers.

Before Oxford, Marter went to school at the Beckenham and Penge Grammar School in Greater London and went to Oxford on a scholarship to study English language and literature. Among other highlights, Marter directed a well received production of John Osbourne's Luther in 1964 during the Trinity Term of his freshman year at the Oxford Playhouse. He also acted in productions of Fire in Heaven, The Sport of My Mad Mother, and Anton Checkov's The Cherry Orchard. In his final year at St. Edmund Hall, Marter co-starred in Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Gadot and was in Richard Burton's production of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe which was also released as a film in 1967, giving Marter his first screen credit. Marter was awarded a Class III degree from St. Edmund Hall, which may help explain why he never corrected the record about his time at Oxford.

After leaving Oxford in 1966, he landed an assistant stage manager job at the Bristol Old Vic and by the following year, he was acting once again. We briefly talk about his small role in the Vincent Price horror film, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and his reoccurring role in ITV's Crown Court where he played a police constable and then barrister, Quentin Ingrams, QC. Finally, we discuss being cast as Lt. John Andrews in "Carnival of Monsters" and how Doctor Who may have been different if he landed the role of Capt. Mike Yates a few years earlier. The opening and closing music is "Sinfonietta: IV. Allegrteto," composed by Leoš Janáček and performed by the Pro Arte Orchestra, which was the opening theme for ITV's Crown Court. We recorded this episode on 12-13 August 2024.

Warren has returned from his European travails, and just in time as casting for The War Between the Land and the Sea (henceforth known as TWBTLATS) is announced to much fanfare, A Disney poobah nods approvingly at Doctor Who as an idea, Catherine Tate herself hosts the BBC Proms, and Blake’s 7 news takes the internet (well, us) by storm with an amazing box set on the way for the UK (and North America?). All this as a preamble for some of the greatest acting in British televisual history as we commentate on Part Three of Planet of the Spiders!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Cast announcement for The War Between the Land and the Sea
• The War Between the Land and the Sea readthrough of all 5 eps happened Mon Aug 19
• Disney Chief Backs ‘Doctor Who’ As “Really Good Fit” After Ncuti Gatwa’s First Season
• Catherine Tate hosting the 2024 Doctor Who Proms Aug 26
• Radio Times’ Doctor Who Proms preview with Murray Gold
• Doctor Who: The Adventures Before Hardcover – 3 Oct. 2024
• Doctor Who: The Sequels Hardcover – 20 Mar. 2025
• Doctor Who Icons 1 Paperback – 24 Oct. 2024
• Doctor Who Icons 2 Paperback – 21 Nov. 2024
• Doctor Who Icons 3 Paperback – 24 April 2025
• Bad Wolf launches the Blaidd Writers Program, RTD will mentor winners
• Big Finish Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter: Saving Time due Oct
• Blake’s 7 Series A coming to Blu-ray on November 11 (UK)
• Blake’s 7 Series A collection trailer

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Dot and Bubble - Audio Commentary

Scott joins Phil this week to comment on Dot and Bubble, the next in our series of audio commentaries for the last season of Doctor Who, starring Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson.

Phil takes the opportunity to rant about the youth of today and social media, while Scott manages to horrify Phil with tales of a Youtube apology channel.

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In this episode we review the recent Big Finish releases in the Lost Stories range, the second Doctor adventures Operation Werewolf, and forerunner to The Three Doctors, Deathworld.

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Operation Werewolf - https://bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-operation-werewolf-2930

Deathworld - https://bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-deathworld-2929

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Welcome to an extra long episode of Doctor Who Literature, but one of the deepest and most rewarding ones we've ever produced.

The subject is the February 1966 Doctor Who episode The Massacre, a troubled production where the original author tried to disclaim credit, the video is lost and only a few publicity photos survived, and the surviving audio is hard to untangle as William Hartnell only appears in a small handful of scenes.

We have three guests this week to help unravel the story:

--Repeat DWLit guest Denise Sutton joins Jason for a specially-recorded live introduction in Central London.

--Repeat DWLit guest Ian Potter, a Black Archives writer, helps Jason try to unravel the troubled production (and troubled production team!) at the heart of the TV serial.

--The Rev. Jerrod Hugenot, an American Baptist minister and Doctor Who fan, whose surname ties into this story, helps us understand the historical and religious context of August 1572.

And although he doesn't appear in this episode, we could not have produced this week without James Cooray Smith, who ⁠literally wrote the book on The Massacre⁠.

We'll be back next week to cover another William Hartnell adventure, with a much shorter episode!

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This month we discuss the 1965 stage production, Curse of the Daleks, which was adapted into a Big Finish Audio in 2008.

Before then we have news and short topics and, after our thoughts on Curse of the Daleks, we have some listener emails, and what else we've been consuming in the world of entertainment. The usual shtick you've come to know and love from us. 

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On the brand new Trap One Podcast Pete (@Prof_Quiteamess), Conrad (@HairoftheHound_), Melvin (@kittenry) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) celebrate the vinyl release of The Highlanders with a look at this historic story.

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This week on this show more Worldcon coverage with a panel about returning to the Moon.

 

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  This title was released in May 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 July 2024, and on general sale after this date. The Doctor and River Song. Their lives are tangled, complex, intertwined. But this Doctor doesn't do domestics, and for once, River might have her work cut out. With time and space against them, these lovers are star-crossed in more ways than most. 4.1 Swipe Right by John Dorney There are strange rumours about the planet Crell. People have been vanishing. The mysterious Matchmaker is keen to get the populace paired up via his special dating app… but rejecting too many suitors can have fatal consequences. It’s precisely the sort of thing the Doctor would want to investigate. But unfortunately it’s also precisely the sort of thing River Song would want to investigate too. The Doctor and River are on a collision course - but this time it might not be a match made in heaven. 4.2 Face of the Apocalypse by Lizzie Hopley After locking onto an unusual algorithm, the TARDIS lands in a hi-security Intergalactic Bank where the computerised system only recognises one face - River Song. The Doctor discovers River dismantling the main computer and immediately suspects her of something dodgy… But a case of stolen identity becomes far more serious as River’s face starts to appear throughout history and the Bank vaults start filling up with Temporal Prisoners. Is River the victim of a sting or a bored computer nerd? One thing’s for certain, the ‘glitch’ is no longer a glitch and is on its way to destroying all of spacetime, starting with Prisoner Number One. 4.3 Archipelago by Tim Foley River Song has one last request. If the Doctor undertakes a dangerous journey with her on the planet Fortuna, she’ll never bother him again. But this is no ordinary voyage. As the storms batter their tiny vessel, the travellers are confronted with some brutal home truths. There is a captain in search of a husband. There is a ship in need of a light. And there are lovers lost in the maelstrom who will always be islands apart...