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Journey to the Centre of the Podcast with Adam, Debbie and Mary. We also have feedback, news and what we watched this week. (This is episode 570 despite the misleading statement at the beginning of the show.01

This week, a bone Vervoid joins in the fun as we travel back in time to Wales in 2015 pretending to be Scotland in 1980 pretending to be somewhere in the Soviet Union. And it’s hard to say which time paradox is the most annoying, the bootstrap one or the predestination one. Thank goodness Frazer Gregory is here to help us sort it all out — it’s Before the Flood.

Notes and links

Like Steven B in our episode on Flatline, Frazer uses the Christopher Nolan film The Prestige (2006) as a way of understanding what Toby Whithouse is doing by setting up the bootstrap paradox at the start of this episode — it’s a magic trick.

Likewise, Frazer compares this story’s unresolved conclusion with the way that the Season 9 episode of The Simpsons Das Bus throws its ending away with a hilarious voiceover from James Earl Jones.

El Sandifer refers to the Fisher King as a Bone Vervoid in her TARDIS Eruditorum essay on this story. Bone Vervoid. Warning: she is considerably less kind to these two episodes than we have been.

Of course, A Long Tradition of Doctor Who Monsters That in Some Way Resemble Human Genitalia is the title of Flight Through Entirety Episode 168, and it refers to Human Dalek Sec in Evolution of the Daleks. It is currently the record-holder as the longest title of any episode of Flight Through Entirety.

We refer to some of Peter Serafinowicz’s earlier work, including his role as the voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace (1999), In 2002, he appeared in Look Around You, a spoof of educational science programmes for schoolchildren. And in 2007, he appeared in his own sketch comedy show on BBC Two, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, which introduced his character Brian Butterfield, who he continues to play on tour this year. The Butterfield Diet Plan is a must see.

Picks of the week

James

Fans of weird time paradoxes will also enjoy Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987), which, through a time paradox of its own, was the inspiration for Adams’s own Doctor Who stories, City of Death (1979) and Shada (1979, but in a nearby parallel universe).

Peter

Fans of weird time paradoxes will also enjoy the Sex in the City sequel TV series And Just Like That.

Nathan

Nathan picks the podcast Strong Songs, where enthusiastic and talented musician Kirk Hamilton analyses the music that he loves, in order to discover what it is that makes it great. Highly recommended.

Frazer

Like Nathan two weeks ago, Frazer recommends that you watch the wonderful new Star Trek series Strange New Worlds, which finished its second series earlier this year.

Follow us

Nathan is on ex-Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood,and Frazer is @FelixFrazer. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on X at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, Mastodon, and Bluesky, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll turn up at your place in the middle of the night with a Fender Stratocaster to explain the paradox of entailment.

And more

Jodie into Terror was our flashcast on every episode of the Whittaker era, recorded just a couple of days after the broadcast of the episode. Bondfinger is our James Bond commentary podcast, which also covers some of our favourite spy-fi TV shows of the sixties and seventies.

Maximum Power is a podcast about Blakes 7, a co-production with the Trap One Podcast. It’s on hiatus right now, but it will be returning with our coverage of Series C some time next month, we think.

And finally, there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we watch a credible and highly-regarded episode of The Original Series with a monster in it that makes that hydra thing in Time-Flight look horrifyingly realistic.

Journey to the Centre of the Podcast with Adam, Debbie and Mary. We also have feedback, news and what we watched this week. (This is episode 570 despite the misleading statement at the beginning of the show.01

Journey to the Centre of the Podcast with Adam, Debbie and Mary. We also have feedback, news and what we watched this week. (This is episode 570 despite the misleading statement at the beginning of the show.01

This week, a bone Vervoid joins in the fun as we travel back in time to Wales in 2015 pretending to be Scotland in 1980 pretending to be somewhere in the Soviet Union. And it’s hard to say which time paradox is the most annoying, the bootstrap one or the predestination one. Thank goodness Frazer Gregory is here to help us sort it all out — it’s Before the Flood.

Notes and links

Like Steven B in our episode on Flatline, Frazer uses the Christopher Nolan film The Prestige (2006) as a way of understanding what Toby Whithouse is doing by setting up the bootstrap paradox at the start of this episode — it’s a magic trick.

Likewise, Frazer compares this story’s unresolved conclusion with the way that the Season 9 episode of The Simpsons Das Bus throws its ending away with a hilarious voiceover from James Earl Jones.

El Sandifer refers to the Fisher King as a Bone Vervoid in her TARDIS Eruditorum essay on this story. Bone Vervoid. Warning: she is considerably less kind to these two episodes than we have been.

Of course, A Long Tradition of Doctor Who Monsters That in Some Way Resemble Human Genitalia is the title of Flight Through Entirety Episode 168, and it refers to Human Dalek Sec in Evolution of the Daleks. It is currently the record-holder as the longest title of any episode of Flight Through Entirety.

We refer to some of Peter Serafinowicz’s earlier work, including his role as the voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace (1999), In 2002, he appeared in Look Around You, a spoof of educational science programmes for schoolchildren. And in 2007, he appeared in his own sketch comedy show on BBC Two, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, which introduced his character Brian Butterfield, who he continues to play on tour this year. The Butterfield Diet Plan is a must see.

Picks of the week

James

Fans of weird time paradoxes will also enjoy Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987), which, through a time paradox of its own, was the inspiration for Adams’s own Doctor Who stories, City of Death (1979) and Shada (1979, but in a nearby parallel universe).

Peter

Fans of weird time paradoxes will also enjoy the Sex in the City sequel TV series And Just Like That.

Nathan

Nathan picks the podcast Strong Songs, where enthusiastic and talented musician Kirk Hamilton analyses the music that he loves, in order to discover what it is that makes it great. Highly recommended.

Frazer

Like Nathan two weeks ago, Frazer recommends that you watch the wonderful new Star Trek series Strange New Worlds, which finished its second series earlier this year.

Follow us

Nathan is on ex-Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood,and Frazer is @FelixFrazer. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on X at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, Mastodon, and Bluesky, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll turn up at your place in the middle of the night with a Fender Stratocaster to explain the paradox of entailment.

And more

Jodie into Terror was our flashcast on every episode of the Whittaker era, recorded just a couple of days after the broadcast of the episode. Bondfinger is our James Bond commentary podcast, which also covers some of our favourite spy-fi TV shows of the sixties and seventies.

Maximum Power is a podcast about Blakes 7, a co-production with the Trap One Podcast. It’s on hiatus right now, but it will be returning with our coverage of Series C some time next month, we think.

And finally, there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we watch a credible and highly-regarded episode of The Original Series with a monster in it that makes that hydra thing in Time-Flight look horrifyingly realistic.

Journey to the Centre of the Podcast with Adam, Debbie and Mary. We also have feedback, news and what we watched this week. (This is episode 570 despite the misleading statement at the beginning of the show.01

Journey to the Centre of the Podcast with Adam, Debbie and Mary. We also have feedback, news and what we watched this week. (This is episode 570 despite the misleading statement at the beginning of the show.01

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

Journey to the Centre of the Podcast with Adam, Debbie and Mary. We also have feedback, news and what we watched this week. (This is episode 570 despite the misleading statement at the beginning of the show.01

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

This week, a bone Vervoid joins in the fun as we travel back in time to Wales in 2015 pretending to be Scotland in 1980 pretending to be somewhere in the Soviet Union. And it’s hard to say which time paradox is the most annoying, the bootstrap one or the predestination one. Thank goodness Frazer Gregory is here to help us sort it all out — it’s Before the Flood.

Notes and links

Like Steven B in our episode on Flatline, Frazer uses the Christopher Nolan film The Prestige (2006) as a way of understanding what Toby Whithouse is doing by setting up the bootstrap paradox at the start of this episode — it’s a magic trick.

Likewise, Frazer compares this story’s unresolved conclusion with the way that the Season 9 episode of The Simpsons Das Bus throws its ending away with a hilarious voiceover from James Earl Jones.

El Sandifer refers to the Fisher King as a Bone Vervoid in her TARDIS Eruditorum essay on this story. Bone Vervoid. Warning: she is considerably less kind to these two episodes than we have been.

Of course, A Long Tradition of Doctor Who Monsters That in Some Way Resemble Human Genitalia is the title of Flight Through Entirety Episode 168, and it refers to Human Dalek Sec in Evolution of the Daleks. It is currently the record-holder as the longest title of any episode of Flight Through Entirety.

We refer to some of Peter Serafinowicz’s earlier work, including his role as the voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace (1999), In 2002, he appeared in Look Around You, a spoof of educational science programmes for schoolchildren. And in 2007, he appeared in his own sketch comedy show on BBC Two, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, which introduced his character Brian Butterfield, who he continues to play on tour this year. The Butterfield Diet Plan is a must see.

Picks of the week

James

Fans of weird time paradoxes will also enjoy Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987), which, through a time paradox of its own, was the inspiration for Adams’s own Doctor Who stories, City of Death (1979) and Shada (1979, but in a nearby parallel universe).

Peter

Fans of weird time paradoxes will also enjoy the Sex in the City sequel TV series And Just Like That.

Nathan

Nathan picks the podcast Strong Songs, where enthusiastic and talented musician Kirk Hamilton analyses the music that he loves, in order to discover what it is that makes it great. Highly recommended.

Frazer

Like Nathan two weeks ago, Frazer recommends that you watch the wonderful new Star Trek series Strange New Worlds, which finished its second series earlier this year.

Follow us

Nathan is on ex-Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood,and Frazer is @FelixFrazer. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on X at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, Mastodon, and Bluesky, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll turn up at your place in the middle of the night with a Fender Stratocaster to explain the paradox of entailment.

And more

Jodie into Terror was our flashcast on every episode of the Whittaker era, recorded just a couple of days after the broadcast of the episode. Bondfinger is our James Bond commentary podcast, which also covers some of our favourite spy-fi TV shows of the sixties and seventies.

Maximum Power is a podcast about Blakes 7, a co-production with the Trap One Podcast. It’s on hiatus right now, but it will be returning with our coverage of Series C some time next month, we think.

And finally, there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we watch a credible and highly-regarded episode of The Original Series with a monster in it that makes that hydra thing in Time-Flight look horrifyingly realistic.

Journey to the Centre of the Podcast with Adam, Debbie and Mary. We also have feedback, news and what we watched this week. (This is episode 570 despite the misleading statement at the beginning of the show.01

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

Hide with Adam and Kirby, we also have feedback and news.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

Cold War: Adam, Debbie, Mary and Kirby discuss, David Warner - I mean Cold War, we also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

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This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

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This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

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This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

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This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

The post Episode 564 – The Jumblies are Ripe for Conquest first appeared on Traveling the Vortex.

This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

The post Episode 564 – The Jumblies are Ripe for Conquest first appeared on Traveling the Vortex.

This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

The post Episode 564 – The Jumblies are Ripe for Conquest first appeared on Traveling the Vortex.

This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

The post Episode 564 – The Jumblies are Ripe for Conquest first appeared on Traveling the Vortex.

This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

The post Episode 564 – The Jumblies are Ripe for Conquest first appeared on Traveling the Vortex.

This week, we review the ongoing Once and Future story arc from Big Finish. This time it’s The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. 

Then we look at the next four parts of Doctor Who Magazine’s Liberation of the Daleks with parts 9 through 12.

Plus some recent news.

Enjoy!

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Dave Kitchen joins the Diddly Dummers with tales of his recent trip to Europe and to look back on 4th Doctor story “Masque of Mandragora”.

Listen/download on iTunes

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SHOW NOTES

(00:00:00) Our opening sketch was of course inspired by the garden party scene in “Russian Roulette”, S02E02 of “Secret Army”, a clip of which can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:03:53) Our guest on this podcast is none other than long-time FOTS Dave Kitchen from such podcasts as “The Doctor Who Show“, “Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast“ and “The Goodies Pirate Podcast“.

(00:06:47) Photos from Dave’s 2023 visit to Portmeirion can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:10:55) Photos from Dave’s 2023 visit to to (a) the site of Le Restaurant Candide, La Grande Place, Brussels, (b) the site of the Dalek’s emergence from the Thames in “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” TV serial, (c) the site of the Eye of Orion, and (d) Coal Hill School can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:46:45) This clip is from “The Patron of the Arts” from Series 2 of “Yes Prime Minister”.

(00:47:31) This clip is from “Zeus, By Jove”, episode 9 of the BBC’s “I Claudius” drama series.

(01:10:40) A clip of the scene where the Doctor lifts Sarah off the floor and swings her behind the TARDIS can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(01:15:18) “Secret Love” is a song composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for “Calamity Jane“, a 1953 musical film in which it was introduced by Doris Day in the title role.

(01:27:06) A longer version of this clip from “The Generation Game” can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(01:27:35) The brief parodies of “The Generation Game” by The Goodies can be seen about 20 mins into “The Goodies: Politics” (S08E01) and about 8 mins 30 secs into “The Goodies: Change of Life” (S09E05) 00:08:30 into the episode

The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.

Dave Kitchen joins the Diddly Dummers with tales of his recent trip to Europe and to look back on 4th Doctor story “Masque of Mandragora”.

Listen/download on iTunes

Listen/download on Spotify

Listen/download on Amazon Music

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

Find us on Instgram

Find us on our Instagram account here

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOW NOTES

(00:00:00) Our opening sketch was of course inspired by the garden party scene in “Russian Roulette”, S02E02 of “Secret Army”, a clip of which can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:03:53) Our guest on this podcast is none other than long-time FOTS Dave Kitchen from such podcasts as “The Doctor Who Show“, “Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast“ and “The Goodies Pirate Podcast“.

(00:06:47) Photos from Dave’s 2023 visit to Portmeirion can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:10:55) Photos from Dave’s 2023 visit to to (a) the site of Le Restaurant Candide, La Grande Place, Brussels, (b) the site of the Dalek’s emergence from the Thames in “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” TV serial, (c) the site of the Eye of Orion, and (d) Coal Hill School can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:46:45) This clip is from “The Patron of the Arts” from Series 2 of “Yes Prime Minister”.

(00:47:31) This clip is from “Zeus, By Jove”, episode 9 of the BBC’s “I Claudius” drama series.

(01:10:40) A clip of the scene where the Doctor lifts Sarah off the floor and swings her behind the TARDIS can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(01:15:18) “Secret Love” is a song composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for “Calamity Jane“, a 1953 musical film in which it was introduced by Doris Day in the title role.

(01:27:06) A longer version of this clip from “The Generation Game” can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(01:27:35) The brief parodies of “The Generation Game” by The Goodies can be seen about 20 mins into “The Goodies: Politics” (S08E01) and about 8 mins 30 secs into “The Goodies: Change of Life” (S09E05) 00:08:30 into the episode

The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.