Radio Free Skaro

Description:: Radio Free Skaro is possibly the most popular, most prolific and charmingly irreverent (but never irrelevant) Doctor Who podcast around. Since August 2006, hosts Warren (in Vancouver, BC) and Steven (in Edmonton, AB) have provided listeners with their brand of amusing Doctor Who praise and punishment. A year later, Chris (in Amherst, NS) was added to the team, and The Three Who Rule were born. Recommended by Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Free Skaro provides an entertaining and diverting listen for the diehard or casual Doctor Who fan. New episodes usually appear on Sundays, following a loose magazine format of the three hosts discussing the news and events of the past week in the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the Sarah Jane Adventures. They have also recorded special commentary podcasts for classic series and new series episodes of Doctor Who along with interviews of some of the brightest of the Doctor Who luminaries. Radio Free Skaro is also the official podcast of Gallifrey One, the world's largest and longest-running annual Doctor Who convention.

Homepage: http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

RSS Feed: http://freyburg.libsyn.com/rss

Radio Free Skaro Statistics

Episodes:: 1762
Average Episode Duration:: 0:1:05:21
Longest Episode Duration:: 0:2:39:04
Total Duration of all Episodes:: 79 days, 22 hours, 59 minutes and 16 seconds
Earliest Episode:: 16 August 2006 (4:08am GMT)
Latest Episode:: 5 November 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Average Time Between Episodes:: 3 days, 13 hours, 40 minutes and 59 seconds

Radio Free Skaro Episodes

Radio Free Skaro #931 - Across the Whoniverse

5 November 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 40 minutes and 51 seconds

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It’s time for some Tales…of the TARDIS, as the Three Who Rule were thoroughly charmed by a nostalgia bomb measuring several megatons with appearances by former Doctors, companions and a Metebelis crystal! There’s also a tidal wave of news including SFX magazine’s many articles including interviews with RTD, David Tennant and Phil Collinson, novelizations of the three Tennant specials, audio documentaries, Billie Piper returning to Gallifrey One, and our feature look at the new Doctor Who reader Adventures Across Space and Time with Paul Booth, Joy Piedmont, Matt Hills, Tansy Rayner Roberts!

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Radio Free Skaro #930 - Remember, Remember the 25th of November

29 October 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes and 44 seconds

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As we crawl ever closer to the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who and three David Tennant specials the news has gone from a trickle to a flood and the Three Who Rule are struggling to stay above the waves of information and indeed, this very strained metaphor. We have a release date (November 25!), a Disney+ trailer, a press release, promo pics, writer news, BluRay and Big Finish updates, a Humble Bundle and most importantly, a project to create the longest Doctor Who scarf ever. Thrill to our debate as to what makes a “proper” Doctor Who scarf and discover if you are a Scarf Truther or merely sane.

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Radio Free Skaro #929 - Sunken Treasures

22 October 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 21 minutes and 22 seconds

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The controversy continues as An Unearthly Child remains AWOL on the BBC iPlayer, and further flashpoints occur as the Three Who Rule wildly speculate on the continued insistence of the BBC to pretend it’s still 2008 while Disney+ does whatever it’ll do in regards to airing the upcoming David Tennant specials and beyond. Plus animation, a Who exhibit at Riverside Studios, Vicki is back in Big Finish form and Warren has an interview with author DG Valdron about his three-book series diving deep into Doctor Who fan films, “The Pirate’s Histories of Doctor Who”!

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Interview:
- DG Valdron
- The Pirate’s Histories of Doctor Who
Radio Free Skaro #928 - The Tribe of None

15 October 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes and 38 seconds

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If you’re looking for new things to hum as you while away the days to the 60th anniversary and its specials, wait no more! The new arrangement of the Doctor Who theme tune is now in the wild, along with the Fifteenth Doctor’s theme just aching to bust out of your speakers and into your heart. You’ll need all that love because although the BBC will soon put almost all of Classic Who and the various spinoffs on the iPlayer, "An Unearthly Child" is a bone of contention between the son of writer Anthony Coburn and…the rest of the internet. Plus we have Disney+ intrigue and speculation, a new edition of Outside In, music and audio news, and part the fourth of Classic Series Commentary for "Mawdryn Undead"!

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Commentary:
- Mawdryn Undead, Part Four
Radio Free Skaro #927 - Fonts of Knowledge

8 October 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 24 minutes and 28 seconds

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It’s getting close to new Doctor Who and the 60th anniversary and it’s also getting close to new Gallifrey One, as seen by the first batch of guest announcements including Alex Kingston, Lalla Ward, Segun Akinola, and more! In 59th anniversary news, Doom’s Day comes to an end, there are new dollies on the way, and our special feature interview is a talk with Graham Kibble-White, Jack Kibble-White, and Stuart Manning about their upcoming book, Adventures in Type and Space! Fontacular!

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Radio Free Skaro #926 - Unconfidential

1 October 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 59 minutes and 31 seconds

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Doctor Who has been Unleashed! Yes, Confidential is returning in the form of Doctor Who: Unleashed and roaming around biting people and then having a nap or possibly catching a frisbee in its teeth. In reality a whole new generation of behind-the-scenes nerds will have a new look at the process of making Doctor Who, which is most exciting. There’s also the Doctor Who @60 concert, which is headed to the iPlayer and BBC Sounds on October 15 and will include the new Who theme along with other new and old material, which is most exciting. Plus Doctor Who RPG news, Simon Guerrier’s two new David Whitaker-themed books, another chapter in the ongoing Season 20 Blu-Ray scandal, and Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Mawdryn Undead”!

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Commentary:
- Mawdryn Undead, Part Three
Radio Free Skaro #925 - Phoenix Without Ashes

24 September 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 37 minutes and 1 second

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The time has come once again for everyone to lose their collective minds as a real, proper, UNIT-y, Toymaker-centric trailer graces our internet and airwaves featuring David Tennant, Donna Noble, Jemma Redgrave, and Ncuti Gatwa in two minutes and change of new footage! What did the Three Who Rule think? And what are their opinions on news such as a UK free live tv service over broadband, a Radio Times list of the top 100 television shows and radio programs, and what do they think about Big Finish Ood adventures featuring Torchwood! All of that is mere piffle however compared to the main event, a long-gestating analysis of Canadian sci-fi television “legend” The Starlost, featuring Steven, Warren, Harlan Ellison editor, author and friend Jason Davis and Incomparable host and producer Annette Wierstra. Prepare the Bounce Tube!

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Radio Free Skaro #924 - Rills on Film

17 September 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 7 minutes and 23 seconds

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Is a missing episodes return on the horizon via private film collectors? We talk to Tim Burrows of the Doctor Who Missing Episodes Podcast to learn more. It’s also a bumper crop of news this week as Miriam Margolyes is confirmed as the voice of Beep the Meep, Simon Guerrier measures the length, intensity and frequency of the Screams of Mel, Steven spends an inordinate amount of time cogitating about the upcoming Doctor Who Limited Edition New Who box set, we ponder the significance of Disney’s D23 being held at the same time as WorldCon in Glasgow (August 8-12, 2024), and more!

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Interview:
- Tim Burrows, Doctor Who: The Missing Episodes Podcast
Radio Free Skaro #923 - Force Sensitives

10 September 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 54 minutes and 43 seconds

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For the first time in almost 20 years, #WhoSpy has returned to give you all sneak peeks from behind the scenes of Doctor Who (from a year ago now, but still!) Plus we have new photos in EW that are ever-so-slightly different from what we’ve already seen of the three Tennant specials, a spurious rumor about Ryan Gosling in Doctor Who, and Jemma Redgrave saying “not really, no” to a UNIT spinoff, plus a BFI premiere, a yearbook, Dan Slott’s “Once Upon a Time Lord” is finally almost here, and Part the Second of our Classic Series Commentary for “Mawdryn Undead”!

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Commentary:
- Mawdryn Undead, Part Two
Radio Free Skaro #922 - The British Rocket Group

3 September 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 29 minutes and 44 seconds

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It’s a bumper crop of news this week with confirmation of Ncuti Gatwa’s second season being built as you read this, Rose Noble as played by Yasmin Finney, more Marvel and Disney+ machinations, and hold onto your wallets because Doctor Who: Magic the Gathering is due to arrive in October, if you haven’t already spent your cash on audio annuals, new Big Finish releases and a plane ticket to Chicago TARDIS to see Doctor Who legend Carole Ann Ford! All this, and we also have an extensive interview with one Toby Hadoke about all things Quatermass!

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Interview:
- Toby Hadoke
- The Quatermass Experiment 70th Anniversary
Radio Free Skaro #921 - Maudlin Undead

27 August 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 57 minutes and 53 seconds

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It’s a mystery that isn’t as the BBC publishes then pulls confirmation that Ncuti Gatwa’s first series will air in “Spring 2024”, as we all suspected. This had the unsurprising effect of clickbait farms pondering on Doctor Who’s future, which in actuality will also feature Big Brother and Dead Set’s own Davina McCall and Indira Varma! We also have a video essay about I, Claudius (because of course we do), details on the book launch of Simon Guerrier’s “David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television”, Big Finish endings and audiobook news, and most excitingly, Part One of our Classic Series Commentary of “Mawdryn Undead”!

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Commentary:
- Mawdryn Undead
Radio Free Skaro #920 - The Canadian Mafia

20 August 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 34 minutes and 52 seconds

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A new era of action dollies is upon us with more Daleks, Colin Baker with a new coat and and AND a Richard Hurndall dolly for all you devoted Hurndallists to enjoy (pineapple not included)! There’s also Blu-Ray uprez news, pointless banter about Supermen and 90s classic(?) film Hackers, Cutaway Comics releases and the main feature, an interview with “Pull to Open” author Paul Hayes about the birth of Doctor Who!

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Interview:
- Pull to Open by Paul Hayes
Radio Free Skaro #919 - Better Call Saul

13 August 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 34 minutes and 58 seconds

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Animated adventures are back! At least, The Underwater Menace is coming soon to DVD and Blu-ray, both in colour and black and white! There’s also a 60th anniversary concert on the way, an illustrated edition of Rose arriving on November 23, the sad news that luxury dollyists Big Chief Studios are shuttering their doors, some truly bizarre photos from the 1973 Radio Times retrospective on Doctor Who’s tenth anniversary, and the second of our two-part Miniscope on Saul Metzstein, featuring the esteemed director’s work “The Snowman”, “The Crimson Horror”, and “The Name of the Doctor”! Well, Trenza my Lores!

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Radio Free Skaro #918 - Once Upon a Time in the Metz

6 August 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 16 minutes and 47 seconds

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The news remains fallow in these Times of No Who Yet, but we do have missives from the further adventures of Doom’s Day, colourization of old episodes on many fronts, an action dolly magazine spectacular, Tom Baker’s son’s Who-themed Nottingham pub and part one of our Miniscope examination of director Saul Metzstein’s work, featuring “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” and “A Town Called Mercy”!

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Radio Free Skaro #917 - F for Fake

30 July 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes and 49 seconds

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Unlike last week’s veritable tsunami of info, this week we have a quieter news offering, including a staggeringly expensive 14th Doctor sonic screwdriver replica, more bon mots from Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa via Rolling Stone, Gav Rymill noodling with AI to recreate missing episodes (sort of), Doom working through her Day in game form, and the highlight of this week’s episode: an interview with skilled Photoshopist and bon vivant Andrew-Mark Thompson, author of “This Is A Fake – A Collection of Unreal Things”!

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Interview:
- Andrew-Mark Thompson
- This is a Fake!
Radio Free Skaro #916 - Electro Quarterstaff

23 July 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 57 minutes and 26 seconds

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After subjecting you to an intense bout of trivia last week, we have a surfeit and indeed a tsunami of News Content for you, including a new sonic for the Fourteenth Doctor, promo pics, a pink TARDIS Barbie cross-promotion, Ncuti Gatwa being funny and fashionable in a Rolling Stone UK interview, new books, audios, missing episode musings, a gigantic Blu-Ray set off all the Doctors from Eccleston to Whittaker, another Blu-Ray set for Season 20, and much, much more!

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Radio Free Skaro #915 - The King's Head

16 July 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 50 minutes and 57 seconds

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Several self-styled Doctor Who “experts” in the form of Warren, Chris, Kat and Erika square off against trivia master and Smug Poltroon Steven in our semi-annual trivia showdown aptly named “Trivia, Mr Fibuli”! Based on Jacqueline Rayner’s Doctor Who – The Official Quiz Book from 2014. Who will emerge triumphant in this contest of intellect, skill and pointless fact-knowing? Tune in and find out!
Radio Free Skaro #914 - Rate Limit Exceeded

9 July 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 50 minutes and 58 seconds

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The news is sparse this week, as sparse as the Thursday/Friday schedule for San Diego Comic Con, reflecting the general malaise of the entertainment media complex in these times of IP dominance and labour strife. But that won’t stop the Three Who Rule from giving their half-baked opinions on costuming, editing video tape via razor blades and gumption, the non-legacy of VR, and Threads, the latest in a long line of social media hellsites. So go on, skeet that toot into your eardrums, tweeps! Not the nighttime crowd, obviously.

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Radio Free Skaro #913 - Most People Depart With a Scream

2 July 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes and 40 seconds

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It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for…by the Three Who Rule who are ringing in Canada Day weekend by wringing out the very last vestiges of the Timelash, our popular(?) time-filling exercise in Doctor Who reflection. We also have news of Doctor Who mostly absent from SDCC, MIA for Fortnite, and country cousin Star Trek all but vanishing from Crave, which continues to be Canada’s HBO by going from quite decent to very crappy in under a year. Next week…not the Timelash, that’s for sure!

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Radio Free Skaro #912 - Halt H

25 June 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 12 minutes and 46 seconds

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It is a sad week for the media and for Steven as Disney and many Makers of Pretend aren’t going to San Diego Comic Con, which means Doctor Who likely won’t, which means Steven likely won’t. Curses! We do however have news of Doctor Who books, Big Finish and Paul McGann appearing at LI Who in costume as well as digressions into Canadian history and Pink Floyd (as you do) in the penultimate instalment of…the Timelash!

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Radio Free Skaro #911 - What Is Your Imurjinsee

18 June 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 22 minutes and 14 seconds

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While we wait for news regarding Doctor Who at San Diego Comic-Con (or not), The Three Who Rule managed to squeeze out more than an hour of top quality banter at Ncuti Gatwa’s nudity skills, Lenny Rush joining the Doctor Who cast, and the Timelash, which was stuffed to the gills with events of a chronological nature which were then commented upon! Want to hear derisive sneers about Strange New Worlds and Disney+ censorship of “The French Connection”, not to mention the Golden Age of McDonalds Ashtrays? This is the podcast for you!

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Radio Free Skaro #910 - One After 909

11 June 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 28 minutes and 30 seconds

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The Classic Companion Reunion Victory Tour as one Melanie Bush aka Bonnie Langford is set to join Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who for an adventure in space and/or time next year! Doom has also started experiencing their first of twenty-four hours of mayhem and of course we have the Timelash to entertain you with ad-hoc takes of time gone by. But more importantly, we have Gav Rymill of the Terry Nation Army in a return interview about his fantastic fan series of videos about Skaro’s crankiest denizens! Set aside a few rels and listen, won’t you?

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Interview:
- Gav Rymill and Terry Nation Army
Radio Free Skaro #909 - I've Got A Feeling

4 June 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 10 minutes and 34 seconds

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It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash!

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Radio Free Skaro #908 - Maggie Mae

28 May 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes and 22 seconds

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It’s the Eve of Doom’s Day as the BBC ramps up its transmedial multimodal whatsit starring Sooz Kempner for a debut on June 5th! The Three Who Rule cogitate on this monumental and somewhat confusing chronological crisis, along wth much more, including Indira Varma as the mysterious Duchess, Frazer Hines writing an Evil of the Daleks novelization, a contraband 1997 Doctor Who annual, Doctor Who and Top Gear going into the metaverse for some reason, the Revised Return of the Wife in Space, and the ever enjoyable Timelash!

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Radio Free Skaro #907 - Let It Be

21 May 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 19 minutes and 23 seconds

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It is one of the more fallow news weeks in recent memory as we have merely one Big Finish and a few novels to speak of, BUT that doesn’t stop the Three Who Rule from chewing up all of time and space with both the Timelash and and AND the return of Fluid Links! How does WKRP figure into the Tom Baker era? Why do Nimons wear loincloths? These questions and more are yours to hear and yell at in frustration!

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Radio Free Skaro #906 - Dig It

14 May 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds

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We now have titles for the upcoming Doctor Who David Tennant specials, and a teaser trailer featuring Beep The Meep, Neil Patrick Harris as whoever he might be, and not a whole lot else! Still, it’s something, as is Regency costumes on Ncuti Gatwa and Co., Disney+ losing money due to cricket (so we’ll blame that on the fifth Doctor) , Big Finish, NFTs, analog NFTs in the form of Doctor Who themed Magic: The Gathering cards, and as ever the Timelash, where we decided Alec Baldwin has been hoarding 16mm prints of missing episodes! It’s Wednesday, Lemon!

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Radio Free Skaro #905 - I Me Mine

7 May 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 1 minutes and 15 seconds

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It’s a race agains the clock as to the excitement of Chris and Steven and the consternation of Warren we recorded this episode right before Game Two of the Edmonton Oilers playoff series with Vegas and tensions were running high (except for Warren who couldn’t care less), but STILL we bring you news of a cryptic 60th anniversary teaser and Eurovision trailer yet to come, a fine Twitter thread from James Moran on the deplorable conditions UK television writers face as they watch the WGA strike in America, Jonathan Groff joins the Doctor Who cast to the delight of musical enthusiasts (not us) and of course we dive into history with The Timelash!

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Radio Free Skaro #904 - Across the Universe

30 April 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 27 minutes and 29 seconds

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A beloved tunesmith is back in action as Murray Gold returns to Doctor Who, the latest in a string of RTDists to join their blue box pals once more. If horror and panic is more your thing, the LAX Marriott does HOTELMAGEDDON as the first Gallifrey One room block will be available May 12, so gird your loins appropriately! Also there’s a Blue Peter contest, David Tennant’s hair is completely out of control, The Ultimate Adventure has been restored, and The Timlelash gives your the musings of three creaking skeletons who like their stories. Allons and indeed…y

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Radio Free Skaro #903 - Dig a Pony

23 April 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 6 minutes and 45 seconds

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It’s a week of casting and backsides this week as we see Jinkx Monsoon’s costume and Ncuti Gatwa’s…form-fitting costume dominate fan headlines, along with Fortnite news, Doom’s Day comic book shenanigans, a BBC brand manager job that involves driving a forklift(?), and perhaps the greatest heavy lifting of all…The Timelash!

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Radio Free Skaro #902 - Two of Us

16 April 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 33 minutes and 12 seconds

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It’s another fallow week of news in The Land of Who but that won’t stop us going on about Star Trek Picard, Star Wars Celebration and maybe even some BBC show where Steven Moffat won the Terrance Discks Award for Writers, a new batch of novels arrive for the 60th anniversary, Once Upon a Time Lord gains a cover, the Timelash does the thing it does (going through the years and making offhand remarks) and…for real this time, Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Planet of Giants”!

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Commentary:
- Planet of Giants episode 3 – Crisis
Radio Free Skaro #901 - The Jinkx of Monsoon

9 April 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 24 minutes and 32 seconds

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Chris is absent this week due to a case of the Post-UK Vocal Swarm but in his stead steps in Verity co-host and eminent contrarian Kat Griffiths to discuss Jinx Monsoon appearing in upcoming Doctor Who, Big Finish releases, random Star Wars musings as a torrent of information emerges from Star Wars Celebration in London, and, of course, the Timelash! Fear not, Chris is also back through the magic of time travel as we continue on with our Classic Series Commentary for Part Two of “Planet of Giants”!

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Commentary:
- Planet of Giants episode 2 – A Dangerous Journey
Radio Free Skaro #900 - 900 Year Diary

2 April 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 13 minutes and 40 seconds

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Amazingly, we’ve reached episode 900 of this here internet audio programme and we celebrate with not only the news of the day, including DWM tidbits, Big Finish and more audio fun, and the ever-present Timelash, but with the first of three exciting Classic Series Commentaries about the 1964 William Hartnell classic “Planet of Giants!”

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Commentary:
- Planet of Giants
Radio Free Skaro #899 - Doom Patrol

26 March 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 16 minutes and 10 seconds

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It’s All-900 Episode’s Eve, and we have news of….Doom. What is Doom? Who is Doom? Why is Doom? Join the Three Who Rule who endeavour to piece together this multimedia mystery, discuss Chris’s recent sojourn to the UK and Wales, wander through the Timelash as per usual…and that’s before we dive into Part the Second of our Lennie Mayne Miniscope!

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Radio Free Skaro #898 - Awarding the Mainprize

19 March 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes and 6 seconds

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What is Doom’s Day and does it have anything to do with Urbankans? Nothing presumably, as it is a new audio adventure teased mysteriously as of this recoding, but Steven and Warren shall pick apart what few clues they have as Chris is on Special Assignment and absent from most of the proceedings this week. We also have news of Henry-Tennant regeneration hijinks on Red Nose Day, a simply wonderful trailer for the new Series 9 collection, the ever-present Timelash, and Part One of our Miniscope on Doctor Who director Lennie Mayne!

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Radio Free Skaro #898 - Awarding the Mainprize

19 March 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes and 6 seconds

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What is Doom’s Day and does it have anything to do with Urbankans? Nothing presumably, as it is a new audio adventure teased mysteriously as of this recoding, but Steven and Warren shall pick apart what few clues they have as Chris is on Special Assignment and absent from most of the proceedings this week. We also have news of Henry-Tennant regeneration hijinks on Red Nose Day, a simply wonderful trailer for the new Series 9 collection, the ever-present Timelash, and Part One of our Miniscope on Doctor Who director Lennie Mayne!

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Radio Free Skaro #897 - Radio Freaks Skaro

12 March 2023 (6:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 5 minutes and 58 seconds

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It’s another exciting week of Doctor Who news as various content mills continue to draw the last bits of blood from the stone that is our Chris Chibnall interview, Russell T Davies says he’s focused on Doctor Who for “years to come,” Doctor Who: Lost in Time, a new mobile game that’s been on our phones for months launches, and a very expensive teddy bear set to arrive in time for the 60th anniversary! All this and the Timelash, where we do deep dives into the kind of minutiae you only get here, on Radio Freaks Skaro!

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Radio Free Skaro #896 - Walkman on Sunshine

5 March 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 50 minutes and 42 seconds

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We continue to bask in the glow of our Chris Chibnall interview at Gallifrey One and lo, so has the internet as excerpts appear around and about the internet in the form of news articles and Youtube commentary. But we trundle on towards the future with director announcements for the impending Gatwa Era and indeed the past with the Timelash and our Modern Series Commentary from the Capaldi classic “The Lie of the Land!” Monkadelic!

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Commentary
- The Lie of the Land
Radio Free Skaro #895 - The Exit Interview

26 February 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 54 minutes and 5 seconds

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It’s the week after Gallifrey One and we have an extra special treat for you, an hour-long interview with outgoing Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall! Listen to the man himself as he delves into the move from Xmas to New Year’s specials, dealing with COVID (and the making of the Doctor’s message to fans from her closet) and much, much more. We also have figurine and audio news, Doctor Who Am I on Blu-ray and the ever-present Timelash. Not bad for three exhausted malcontents!

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Interview:
- Chris Chibnall
Radio Free Skaro #894 - Cinema Verity

20 February 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 8 minutes and 24 seconds

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We wrap another year at Gallifrey One! And it’s a very special episode of the podcast because Deb, Erika, Kat, Liz, and Lynne from Verity! join Steven to recap their weekend as they head off on podcast hiatus, hopefully soon to return. Also, we have interviews with the great Bonnie Langford (attending her first Gallifrey One in 22 years!), Doctor Who comics artist Dan Slott, and Matthew Jacobs & Vanessa Yuille circle back on how much has happened since the launch of Doctor Who Am I. Next week: a feature length interview with former Doctor Who show runner Chris Chibnall…

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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One
Radio Free Skaro #893 - Whittaker & Whitaker

19 February 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 40 minutes and 21 seconds

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It’s the Sunday at Gallifrey One! Join us as Steven, Warren, and Chris recap the Friday and Saturday of the convention, from their live show hijinks on the Friday, Steven’s commentary panel with Chris Chibnall et al, Warren’s interview panels several actors from Who’s past, and the general vibe of Jodie Whittaker’s first ever Gallifrey One! And speaking of Whit(t)taker, Simon Guerrier tells us about the research he’s discovered about David Whitaker, Doctor Who’s first story editor! And coming soon: a feature length interview with former Doctor Who show runner Chris Chibnall…

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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One
Radio Free Skaro #892 - Get Back

18 February 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 52 minutes and 48 seconds

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It’s Gallifrey One time! And once again, it is our great honour to kick off Gallifrey One on the main stage on the Friday morning of this simply superlative convention. Listen as Colin Baker plays musical chairs and makes a punching bag out of Warren! Hear Sophie Alfred and Janet Fielding tell tales of returning to the show decades later! Find out how director Jamie Magnus Stone and production Dafydd Charmer coped with COVID while making Flux! And laugh as the Three Who Rule vamp to cover for the initial absence of Craige Els and Patrick O’Kane!

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Radio Free Skaro #891 - To Where You Once Belonged

12 February 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes and 21 seconds

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It’s the preamble to the most wonderful time of the year as we eschew the news of the week and go full bore with our annual Gallifrey One preview! Listen to us cogitate about the first Gally since 2020 (and the pandemic) to feature attendance by every single one of the Three Who Rule who will open the con with our live show Get Back at 10 a.m. Friday the 17th! As is tradition, we go through the stuffed to the gills schedule and highlight both things were looking forward to and panels, photo ops, commentaries and more that you might wish to attend, should you be in Los Angeles!

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Radio Free Skaro #890 - Mrah Business

5 February 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 1 minutes and 14 seconds

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It’s just under two weeks until the Three Who Rule descend upon the LAX Marriott for Gallifrey One….which is now sold out! In the meantime RTD hints at all of Doctor Who once again gracing the iPlayer, there’s mmmrahhhh business to speak of involving BBC Studios bigwig talk of growth, mergers and acquisitions and other such financial tomfoolery, along with an “impossible” new TARDIS set and The Timelash, where we travel back in time to guess and frankly make things up about the week in Doctor Who!

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Radio Free Skaro #889 - Spin City

29 January 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 7 minutes and 24 seconds

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Finally our live show can be revealed as we Get Back to Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, CA! Plus the Gally schedule is out in the wild, there are updates afoot about said convention, and RTD is confirming spinoffs but not confirming Edgar Wright as a future director, whatever misleading GQ headlines may imply. And to continue the string of new and exciting content Jo Jones appears in a trailer for the Season 9 – The Collection set, news of LI Who guests, and of course the feature we love and you tolerate, The Timelash!

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Radio Free Skaro #888 - The Number of the Meep

22 January 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 3 minutes and 14 seconds

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As we veer closer to Gallifrey One at the LAX Marriott, none other than Chris Chibnall, he who what ran Doctor Who most recently is on his way to Los Angeles to answer your (pre-approved, no comments please) questions! Plus we have news of new actors just announced by current/future Doctor Who showrunner Russell The Davies for upcoming Who, a tour of another showrunner’s writer’s room as Steven Moffat gave a tour of his scribbling nook and the Timelash, where we’ll probably talk about showrunners!

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Radio Free Skaro #887 - Aneurin in the Fire

15 January 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes and 54 seconds

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It’s a slow week for Doctor Who news but that won’t stop the Three Who Rule from prattling on about Gallifrey One and Long Island Who updates, an upcoming book about Doctor Who story editor and writer David Whitaker by one Simon Guerrier, and a deep dive into both forgotten and unused Doctor Who story titles of days gone by and the extensive writing career of one Ingrid Pitt! Myrka kicker, actor, and novelist, oh my!

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Radio Free Skaro #886 - In Vino Veritas

8 January 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes and 54 seconds

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We have an extra special third chair this week, as Erika Ensign of Verity! substitutes for Chris, give us an update on the status of said Doctor Who podcast, and we discuss all manner of Who news including the benefits of combined virtual and in-person cons, new guests coming to Gallifrey One (mere weeks away!) and an onslaught of tat including box sets, audio, digital histories and more! All this and the ever-present Timelash and a staggering web of Who actors related to, partnered with or married to other Who actors that’s sure to confustigate you with befuddlement!

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Radio Free Skaro #885 - Who's There?

1 January 2023 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 21 minutes and 26 seconds

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Happy New Year! It’s the beginning of 2023 so what better way to ring in the new year with two things recorded in 2022! First we have the Timelash, and then we bring you the adventures of PCap, Bill, and a bunch of wacky termite infested kids as they take on a haunted house, a weirdo landlord and more in our Modern Series Commentary for “Knock Knock”!

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Radio Free Skaro #884 - Holiday Special Deathmatch

27 December 2022 (7:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 9 minutes and 55 seconds

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Happy Holidays all and especially a Happy Boxing Day to those in Canada and the UK. And quite a sock to the jaw it was to see a Doctor Who 60th anniversary trailer on Xmas Day! Still nothing new with Ncuti Gatwa’s incarnation of the Doctor but we do have more of Tennant’s Who the 14th, Donna Noble, and most importantly, Beep The Meep! If that wasn’t enough, we’re joined by Kat Griffiths of Verity! and Erika Ensign of Verity!, Lazy Doctor Who, Total Party Kill and more for the first and only Doctor Who Holiday Death Match where we decide once and for all the all-time champion Xmas/New Year special! Get ready for fierce debate, divisive opinions and…maybe some boxing? Tune in and find out!

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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 24

24 December 2022 (4:00pm GMT)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 10 minutes and 43 seconds

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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 24.