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With the Corona virus still raging Nuge and Ant take a another look at ways geeks can help. 

Geekdom vs Covid19 - a guide to the ways geeks are helping out.

Em Spearhead from Space, primeiro arco da 7ª temporada, temos a estreia do 3º Doutor, Jon Pertwee, ao lado do Brigadeiro Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) e a entrada da nova companion Liz Shaw (Caroline John)! Pela primeira vez em cores, Doctor Who traz uma trama envolvendo a Consciência Nestene e os Autons, além do uso do filme de 16 mm e repleto de cenas externas!

Em Spearhead from Space, primeiro arco da 7ª temporada, temos a estreia do 3º Doutor, Jon Pertwee, ao lado do Brigadeiro Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) e a entrada da nova companion Liz Shaw (Caroline John)! Pela primeira vez em cores, Doctor Who traz uma trama envolvendo a Consciência Nestene e os Autons, além do uso do filme de 16 mm e repleto de cenas externas!

Em Spearhead from Space, primeiro arco da 7ª temporada, temos a estreia do 3º Doutor, Jon Pertwee, ao lado do Brigadeiro Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) e a entrada da nova companion Liz Shaw (Caroline John)! Pela primeira vez em cores, Doctor Who traz uma trama envolvendo a Consciência Nestene e os Autons, além do uso do filme de 16 mm e repleto de cenas externas!

Em Spearhead from Space, primeiro arco da 7ª temporada, temos a estreia do 3º Doutor, Jon Pertwee, ao lado do Brigadeiro Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) e a entrada da nova companion Liz Shaw (Caroline John)! Pela primeira vez em cores, Doctor Who traz uma trama envolvendo a Consciência Nestene e os Autons, além do uso do filme de 16 mm e repleto de cenas externas!

The Doctor, Travis, and Roman are summoned by two old friends from UNIT to the Red Archive in Chernobyl, Russia, to fend off an alien incursion. But all is not what it seems.

Editing and Sound Design: David King.
Theme music arrangement: Drew Krassowski.
Additional music: Luke Baldridge.
Recorded at Geeky Teas & Games in Burbank, CA.

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Times are tough, and we are too tired for major homework. So join Deb, Erika, Lynne, and Tansy as we answer your questions! That's right, it's another edition of Ask Verity! Anything! We crowd-sourced some questions, and we answer some of them here on the podcast. (The rest have been added to the spreadsheet for future use, so thank you for all of them!) We also try to recruit audience assistance to come up with the Doctors as drinks and as dogs. Please tweet us your comparison pictures!

Do you have questions for a future AVA? Let us know in the comments!

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Reality Bomb Episode 054 – Live at Gallifrey One (in which Erika Defends "The Ribos Operation") Extra-special thanks to this week's guest editor, Steven Schapansky of Castria! Support Verity! on Patreon

Back again with a companion piece to last week's chat with Chris Chapman. I plucked up the courage to ask, Toby was extremely kind to say yes, so here's a conversation with Toby Hadoke about his experience in front of the camera on the extra films for the Doctor Who DVD and Blu-ray series.

Toby discusses the background to his involvement in the range, and we talk about Living With Levene, Looking for Peter, Hadoke vs HAVOC, Treasures Lost and Found, A Weekend With Waterhouse, The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited and Looking For Lennie. Toby also mentions a documentary from the upcoming Season 14 set, Whose Doctor Who Revisited. We also get to hear about the genesis of Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf and many other tales. He's warm and funny and it's a tonic for these troubled times.

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The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.

The Master, Ruth Doctor and the Loan Cyberman all come to a head in this week's episode. 

Were the storylines wrapped up successfully? Did the Doctor get a chance to shine while saving the day? How do you feel about the ground shaking changes to the show? We get in to it.

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The Master, Ruth Doctor and the Loan Cyberman all come to a head in this week's episode. 

Were the storylines wrapped up successfully? Did the Doctor get a chance to shine while saving the day? How do you feel about the ground shaking changes to the show? We get in to it.

Be sure to rate us on iTunes, Stitcher, Podbean, Google Play and Spotify!

We want to hear from you!  Find us at your favorite social media outlets:

Facebook - facebook.com/wdwnpod Twitter - @wdwnpod Website - wdwnpod.com

Or email us at wdwnpod@gmail.com

Special Thanks to the Jackpot Golden Boys for our theme.  Find more of their great work on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/jackpot

Or on their website - http://www.jackpotgoldenboys.com

Erika and Steven finally get back to watching this Doctor Who serial from 1971. Sadly (for Erika, at least), they also have to listen to it.

GGG (4)

Host Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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Trailer for the Season 3 finale of The Chronicles of Oz. Based on L Frank Baum's Ozma of Oz.

Time's up. Ozma must enter the ornament chamber and play the Nome King's grotesque game. She's lost her friends, lost her courage... what does she have left?

Kirsten Page is Ozma of Oz. Trailer also features Rob Lloyd, David Coonan, Aron Toman, Jennifer Alyx and Stuart Anderson.

Sound recording by Daniel Burnett, sound design by David Nagel and Aron Toman, music by Tony Diana.

For more episodes, visit chroniclesofoz.com

Trailer for the Season 3 finale of The Chronicles of Oz. Based on L Frank Baum's Ozma of Oz.

Time's up. Ozma must enter the ornament chamber and play the Nome King's grotesque game. She's lost her friends, lost her courage... what does she have left?

Kirsten Page is Ozma of Oz. Trailer also features Rob Lloyd, David Coonan, Aron Toman, Jennifer Alyx and Stuart Anderson.

Sound recording by Daniel Burnett, sound design by David Nagel and Aron Toman, music by Tony Diana.

For more episodes, visit chroniclesofoz.com

Chris Chibnall’s vision for Doctor Who unfolded over a ten episode arc that was Series 12 of Doctor Who. Join us as we take a look back at some of the best and worst moments from this series.  What did we like?  What did we dislike?  Why is Kyle feeling disconnected from Doctor Who?  Can Clarence and Lee solve the mystery before it’s too late? Find out as we review Doctor Who Series 12.  Plus, listener feedback from social media and longtime supporter, Matthew Turnage. Hosted by Lee Shackleford, Kyle Jones, and Clarence Brown. The Discussing Network proudly presents Discussing Who Episode 188.

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Doctor Who: Podshock (Kyle & Lee)

The TechPedition Podcast (Clarence)

The Relativity Podcast (Lee, Clarence, & Kyle)

Discussing Trek: A Star Trek Discovery Podcast (Clarence & Kyle)

Terminus: A Doctor Who Podcast (Nicole)

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Interested in more Doctor Who Comics? Visit our friends at Titan Comics. Titan publishes comics featuring the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctors. They also publish comics featuring Sherlock, Penny Dreadful, and more! Check them out and tell them that Discussing Who sent you.

WifiSciFi

Love audio drama in podcast format? The hosts of Discussing Who will be a part of WifiFiSciFi in Seattle, Washington on April 25, 2020. To find out more, www.wifiscifi.org 

On the seventy-eighth edition of Reality Bomb, Lacy Baugher and Sage Young come together one last time to discuss the final episodes of series 12, the finale, the change to the Doctor's backstory and more. Joy Piedmont gets Graeme Burk to sit on the other side of the microphone alongside Robert Smith? to discuss their new episode guide to the modern series, Who is the Doctor 2. And the AV Club's Caroline Siede stops by the Gallery of the Underrated to discuss the Matt Smith / James Corden bromance-with-Cybermen, Closing Time. Plus we go behind the scenes at a Big Finish production meeting!

Be well, stay safe everybody. 

On the seventy-eighth edition of Reality Bomb, Lacy Baugher and Sage Young come together one last time to discuss the final episodes of series 12, the finale, the change to the Doctor's backstory and more. Joy Piedmont gets Graeme Burk to sit on the other side of the microphone along Robert Smith? to discuss their new episode guide to the modern series, Who is the Doctor 2. And the AV Club's Caroline Siede stops by the Gallery of the Underrated to discuss the Matt Smith / James Corden bromance-with-Cybermen, Closing Time. Plus we go behind the scenes at a Big Finish production meeting!

Be well, stay safe everybody. 

The Fam don some Cybersuits to save the human race.  All the while the Doctor must confront a continuity bomb. Oh, the Master teaches the Cybermen to bring the bling.

The Fam don some Cybersuits to save the human race.  All the while the Doctor must confront a continuity bomb. Oh, the Master teaches the Cybermen to bring the bling.

In this special episode of Radio Free Skaro, we present our contribution to the recent Who For Schools initiative with our commentary for the 2006 Doctor Who episode “School Reunion”! But there’s a twist! Listener Drew Walko helped to support the campaign and so gave each of the Three Who Rule a secret phrase to try to insert into the podcast. Can you guess what each phrase is? Can we? Listen and find out, and thank you for your support for Who For Schools!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
• Doctor Who S02E03 “School Reunion”
• Who For Schools

In this special episode of Radio Free Skaro, we present our contribution to the recent Who For Schools initiative with our commentary for the 2006 Doctor Who episode “School Reunion”! But there’s a twist! Listener Drew Walko helped to support the campaign and so gave each of the Three Who Rule a secret phrase to try to insert into the podcast. Can you guess what each phrase is? Can we? Listen and find out, and thank you for your support for Who For Schools!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
• Doctor Who S02E03 “School Reunion”
• Who For Schools

In this special episode of Radio Free Skaro, we present our contribution to the recent Who For Schools initiative with our commentary for the 2006 Doctor Who episode “School Reunion”! But there’s a twist! Listener Drew Walko helped to support the campaign and so gave each of the Three Who Rule a secret phrase to try to insert into the podcast. Can you guess what each phrase is? Can we? Listen and find out, and thank you for your support for Who For Schools!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
• Doctor Who S02E03 “School Reunion”
• Who For Schools

The crossover we’ve all been waiting for.

I was a fugitive once. The cops came to my house, told me I was wanted for stealing toilet paper during a time of crisis. I, of course, denied it and jumped out the window. Pretty sure I broke my ankle on the way down but I didn’t have time to verify. Some say I’m still running to this day, although I think the police have other toilet paper thieves on their hands now. It’s Fugitive of the Judoon written by Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall and aired on January 26, 2020.

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Doctor Who © The BBC
Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.
The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Segun Akinola.

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Mankind looks to the stars because of Clara's disregard for democracy, but you can't make a human space exploration omelette without cracking a few moon eggs.

The post N111 Kill The Moon appeared first on Who Back When | A Doctor Who Podcast.

This week, while Nathan’s lying on the couch hungover, James is in an ecstatic vaporous trance, and Brendan’s admiring his latest avant-garde objet d’art, we are unexpectedly joined by friend-of-the-podcast, Erik Stadnik, who we hope will (eventually) find it in his heart to save us from the latest impending apocalypse, The Fires of Pompeii.

Notes and links

Strap yourself in. There’s a lot this week.

The Doctor’s previous and completely contradictory visit to Pompeii is chronicled in the first Big Finish audio starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford, called The Fires of Vulcan.

Roman historian Mary Beard defines the Dormouse Test like this: “[In a modern recreation of ancient Rome,] how long is it before the characters adopt an uncomfortably horizontal position in front of tables, usually festooned with grapes, and one says to another: ‘Can I pass you a dormouse?’'”

Here is a 3D recreation of the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii. It’s seen better days, to be honest.

This article appeared just days before our recording: the remains of one victim found in Herculaneum revealed that their owner’s brain turned to glass in the heat of the eruption.

David Whitaker was, in many ways, the creative genius who gave us Doctor Who, and in his very early novelisation, Doctor Who and the Crusaders, he not only gives his take on how history works, he also explains the morality of the Doctor’s historical adventures. A must-read.

Caroline Simcox finds a new way to approach historical Doctor Who adventures in Big Finish’s The Council of Nicaea. Son of the Dragon, by Steve Lyons, covers similar territory.

Tat Wood’s About Time 9 is the (sort of) definitive guide to Series 4 and the 2009 specials. No sign of About Time 10 yet, but we’re desperately hoping it will arrive before 2021.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood and Brendan is @brandybongos. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

Erik is @sjcAustenite on Twitter, and appears by arrangement with an impressive number of podcasts, including The Writer’s Room, which discusses the writers of Doctor Who and The Outer Limits, So Much Stuff to Sing, about the American Musical, and The Real McCoy, which has released two episodes since we recorded this one, on Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or challenge you to a yo’ mamma competition the likes of which you’ve never seen.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We just released our first episode for the new year, in which we slur incoherently during the first ever episode of Roger Moore’s The Saint.

This week, while Nathan’s lying on the couch hungover, James is in an ecstatic vaporous trance, and Brendan’s admiring his latest avant-garde objet d’art, we are unexpectedly joined by friend-of-the-podcast, Erik Stadnik, who we hope will (eventually) find it in his heart to save us from the latest impending apocalypse, The Fires of Pompeii.

Notes and links

Strap yourself in. There’s a lot this week.

The Doctor’s previous and completely contradictory visit to Pompeii is chronicled in the first Big Finish audio starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford, called The Fires of Vulcan.

Roman historian Mary Beard defines the Dormouse Test like this: “[In a modern recreation of ancient Rome,] how long is it before the characters adopt an uncomfortably horizontal position in front of tables, usually festooned with grapes, and one says to another: ‘Can I pass you a dormouse?’”

Here is a 3D recreation of the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii. It’s seen better days, to be honest.

This article appeared just days before our recording: the remains of one victim found in Herculaneum revealed that their owner’s brain turned to glass in the heat of the eruption.

David Whitaker was, in many ways, the creative genius who gave us Doctor Who, and in his very early novelisation, Doctor Who and the Crusaders, he not only gives his take on how history works, he also explains the morality of the Doctor’s historical adventures. A must-read.

Caroline Simcox finds a new way to approach historical Doctor Who adventures in Big Finish’s The Council of Nicaea. Son of the Dragon, by Steve Lyons, covers similar territory.

Tat Wood’s About Time 9 is the (sort of) definitive guide to Series 4 and the 2009 specials. No sign of About Time 10 yet, but we’re desperately hoping it will arrive before 2021.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood and Brendan is @brandybongos. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

Erik is @sjcAustenite on Twitter, and appears by arrangement with an impressive number of podcasts, including The Writer’s Room, which discusses the writers of Doctor Who and The Outer Limits, So Much Stuff to Sing, about the American Musical, and The Real McCoy, which has released two episodes since we recorded this one, on Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or challenge you to a yo’ mamma competition the likes of which you’ve never seen.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We just released our first episode for the new year, in which we slur incoherently during the first ever episode of Roger Moore’s The Saint.

This week, while Nathan’s lying on the couch hungover, James is in an ecstatic vaporous trance, and Brendan’s admiring his latest avant-garde objet d’art, we are unexpectedly joined by friend-of-the-podcast, Erik Stadnik, who we hope will (eventually) find it in his heart to save us from the latest impending apocalypse, The Fires of Pompeii.

Notes and links

Strap yourself in. There’s a lot this week.

The Doctor’s previous and completely contradictory visit to Pompeii is chronicled in the first Big Finish audio starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford, called The Fires of Vulcan.

Roman historian Mary Beard defines the Dormouse Test like this: “[In a modern recreation of ancient Rome,] how long is it before the characters adopt an uncomfortably horizontal position in front of tables, usually festooned with grapes, and one says to another: ‘Can I pass you a dormouse?’”

Here is a 3D recreation of the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii. It’s seen better days, to be honest.

This article appeared just days before our recording: the remains of one victim found in Herculaneum revealed that their owner’s brain turned to glass in the heat of the eruption.

David Whitaker was, in many ways, the creative genius who gave us Doctor Who, and in his very early novelisation, Doctor Who and the Crusaders, he not only gives his take on how history works, he also explains the morality of the Doctor’s historical adventures. A must-read.

Caroline Simcox finds a new way to approach historical Doctor Who adventures in Big Finish’s The Council of Nicaea. Son of the Dragon, by Steve Lyons, covers similar territory.

Tat Wood’s About Time 9 is the (sort of) definitive guide to Series 4 and the 2009 specials. No sign of About Time 10 yet, but we’re desperately hoping it will arrive before 2021.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood and Brendan is @brandybongos. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

Erik is @sjcAustenite on Twitter, and appears by arrangement with an impressive number of podcasts, including The Writer’s Room, which discusses the writers of Doctor Who and The Outer Limits, So Much Stuff to Sing, about the American Musical, and The Real McCoy, which has released two episodes since we recorded this one, on Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or challenge you to a yo’ mamma competition the likes of which you’ve never seen.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We just released our first episode for the new year, in which we slur incoherently during the first ever episode of Roger Moore’s The Saint.

This week, while Nathan’s lying on the couch hungover, James is in an ecstatic vaporous trance, and Brendan’s admiring his latest avant-garde objet d’art, we are unexpectedly joined by friend-of-the-podcast, Erik Stadnik, who we hope will (eventually) find it in his heart to save us from the latest impending apocalypse, The Fires of Pompeii.

Notes and links

Strap yourself in. There’s a lot this week.

The Doctor’s previous and completely contradictory visit to Pompeii is chronicled in the first Big Finish audio starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford, called The Fires of Vulcan.

Roman historian Mary Beard defines the Dormouse Test like this: “[In a modern recreation of ancient Rome,] how long is it before the characters adopt an uncomfortably horizontal position in front of tables, usually festooned with grapes, and one says to another: ‘Can I pass you a dormouse?’”

Here is a 3D recreation of the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii. It’s seen better days, to be honest.

This article appeared just days before our recording: the remains of one victim found in Herculaneum revealed that their owner’s brain turned to glass in the heat of the eruption.

David Whitaker was, in many ways, the creative genius who gave us Doctor Who, and in his very early novelisation, Doctor Who and the Crusaders, he not only gives his take on how history works, he also explains the morality of the Doctor’s historical adventures. A must-read.

Caroline Simcox finds a new way to approach historical Doctor Who adventures in Big Finish’s The Council of Nicaea. Son of the Dragon, by Steve Lyons, covers similar territory.

Tat Wood’s About Time 9 is the (sort of) definitive guide to Series 4 and the 2009 specials. No sign of About Time 10 yet, but we’re desperately hoping it will arrive before 2021.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood and Brendan is @brandybongos. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

Erik is @sjcAustenite on Twitter, and appears by arrangement with an impressive number of podcasts, including The Writer’s Room, which discusses the writers of Doctor Who and The Outer Limits, So Much Stuff to Sing, about the American Musical, and The Real McCoy, which has released two episodes since we recorded this one, on Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or challenge you to a yo’ mamma competition the likes of which you’ve never seen.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We just released our first episode for the new year, in which we slur incoherently during the first ever episode of Roger Moore’s The Saint.

This week, while Nathan’s lying on the couch hungover, James is in an ecstatic vaporous trance, and Brendan’s admiring his latest avant-garde objet d’art, we are unexpectedly joined by friend-of-the-podcast, Erik Stadnik, who we hope will (eventually) find it in his heart to save us from the latest impending apocalypse, The Fires of Pompeii.

Notes and links

Strap yourself in. There’s a lot this week.

The Doctor’s previous and completely contradictory visit to Pompeii is chronicled in the first Big Finish audio starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford, called The Fires of Vulcan.

Roman historian Mary Beard defines the Dormouse Test like this: “[In a modern recreation of ancient Rome,] how long is it before the characters adopt an uncomfortably horizontal position in front of tables, usually festooned with grapes, and one says to another: ‘Can I pass you a dormouse?’”

Here is a 3D recreation of the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii. It’s seen better days, to be honest.

This article appeared just days before our recording: the remains of one victim found in Herculaneum revealed that their owner’s brain turned to glass in the heat of the eruption.

David Whitaker was, in many ways, the creative genius who gave us Doctor Who, and in his very early novelisation, Doctor Who and the Crusaders, he not only gives his take on how history works, he also explains the morality of the Doctor’s historical adventures. A must-read.

Caroline Simcox finds a new way to approach historical Doctor Who adventures in Big Finish’s The Council of Nicaea. Son of the Dragon, by Steve Lyons, covers similar territory.

Tat Wood’s About Time 9 is the (sort of) definitive guide to Series 4 and the 2009 specials. No sign of About Time 10 yet, but we’re desperately hoping it will arrive before 2021.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood and Brendan is @brandybongos. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

Erik is @sjcAustenite on Twitter, and appears by arrangement with an impressive number of podcasts, including The Writer’s Room, which discusses the writers of Doctor Who and The Outer Limits, So Much Stuff to Sing, about the American Musical, and The Real McCoy, which has released two episodes since we recorded this one, on Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or challenge you to a yo’ mamma competition the likes of which you’ve never seen.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We just released our first episode for the new year, in which we slur incoherently during the first ever episode of Roger Moore’s The Saint.

This week, while Nathan’s lying on the couch hungover, James is in an ecstatic vaporous trance, and Brendan’s admiring his latest avant-garde objet d’art, we are unexpectedly joined by friend-of-the-podcast, Erik Stadnik, who we hope will (eventually) find it in his heart to save us from the latest impending apocalypse, The Fires of Pompeii.

Notes and links

Strap yourself in. There’s a lot this week.

The Doctor’s previous and completely contradictory visit to Pompeii is chronicled in the first Big Finish audio starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford, called The Fires of Vulcan.

Roman historian Mary Beard defines the Dormouse Test like this: “[In a modern recreation of ancient Rome,] how long is it before the characters adopt an uncomfortably horizontal position in front of tables, usually festooned with grapes, and one says to another: ‘Can I pass you a dormouse?’”

Here is a 3D recreation of the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii. It’s seen better days, to be honest.

This article appeared just days before our recording: the remains of one victim found in Herculaneum revealed that their owner’s brain turned to glass in the heat of the eruption.

David Whitaker was, in many ways, the creative genius who gave us Doctor Who, and in his very early novelisation, Doctor Who and the Crusaders, he not only gives his take on how history works, he also explains the morality of the Doctor’s historical adventures. A must-read.

Caroline Simcox finds a new way to approach historical Doctor Who adventures in Big Finish’s The Council of Nicaea. Son of the Dragon, by Steve Lyons, covers similar territory.

Tat Wood’s About Time 9 is the (sort of) definitive guide to Series 4 and the 2009 specials. No sign of About Time 10 yet, but we’re desperately hoping it will arrive before 2021.

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Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler, the Real Keith Dunn and Steven Clare look back at Doctor Who: Series 12 (2020), talk about their time at the Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng Chiang event at the BFI Southbank, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:31 — Welcome!
• 02:35 – News:
• 02:48 — Doctor Who: Series 12 Soundtrack.
• 03:52 — Inside No. 9: Renewed for two more series.
• 05:01 — Roy Hudd: DEAD!
• 06:08 — Doctor Who: Blu-ray boxset nearly had wrong artwork.
• 06:30 — Star Wars: Skynet takes over Battlefront 2.
• 07:12 — Filming put on hold due to plague.
• 08:46 — Doctor Who Conventions: Many postponed.
• 09:28 — Doctor Who: Soundtrack releases for The Sunmakers and The Visitation.
• 11:29 – Doctor Who: Series 12 roundup.
• 28:49 – Hello, Head of Pertwee!
• 30:17 – Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng Chiang at the BFI.
• 45:47 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 45:59 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 47:46 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Doctor Who (series 12).
• Silva Screen: Doctor Who Series 12 Soundtrack.
• Wikipedia: Inside No. 9.
• Wikipedia: Roy Hudd.
• Wikipedia: Star Wars Battlefront 2.
• Wikipedia: The Talons of Weng Chiang.
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Not only do we review Big Finish release #29 The Chimes of Midnight, we discuss some of Robert Shearman's other writing, including a 5 minute clip from the 1998 BBV audio, Punchline, available from Audible. 

Also discussed was the 2000 release, The Holy Terror.

Our quick tip for this episode is Donna Noble: Kidnapped, released in March 2020. 

Intro & Outro music by Husky by the Geek.

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