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It’s Episode 7 of The Echo Chamber! James and Michele talk about The Genocide Machine by Mike Tucker, released in May 2000.

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

1. Buy The Genocide Machine from Big Finish Productions for just a few pounds.
2. Listen to it!
3. Join us in the Echo Chamber, listen to what we thought and join in the discussion!

Enjoy the show!

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 3.

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 2.

Steven is a special correspondent from Chicago TARDIS this week while Chris and Warren hold down their respective home forts in Edmonton and Vancouver to bring you news of Disney+ promoting Joy to the World(s), an onslaught of BBC Doctor Who programming around Xmas including the aforementioned special, The War Games In Colour, and the Doctor Who Proms! We’ve also got Big Finish news, an auction by Who director Rachel Talalay of one of her amazing gum bichromate prints of a TARDIS set photo, and from Lombard (Chicago’s Abbotsford) Steven’s interview with Sacha Dhawan and Jo Martin!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Disney+ Doctor Who promo
• Disney+ Doctor Who promo not a typo?
• BBC Christmas 2024 TV and iPlayer line-up, includes Joy to the World synopsis
• UK TV License fee to increase with inflation
• Special ‘Joy to the World’ Sonic Screwdriver available now
• Doctor Who at the Proms to run 109 minutes
• Space Babies script features a musical scene was cut
• Doctor Who Magazine 611 cover has callbacks to The Eleventh Hour
• Next Big Finish War Master box sets “His Greatest Trick” (due Oct/25), “Deeds Without Names” (due Oct/26)
• Big Finish Sirens in Time, the first release, gets special edition
• Doctor Who auction to support Children in Need happening Feb 2025
• Rachel Talalay-signed Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Gum Bichromate Print at auction, supporting ACLU of SoCal
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends goes out Dec 29 @ 4:45pm Dec 29

Interview:

• Chicago TARDIS
• Sacha Dhawan
• Jo Martin

Join Ian, James and Phil on board the Campervan as they catch up on the world of Doctor Who. Ncuti on Children In Need, Joy to the World, Deleted Scenes from Season 1/14/40 and a new version of The War Games all come under the usual DWP scrutiny.

Join us on Wednesday for Episode of The Echo Chamber when James and Michele talk about Big Finish‘s The Genocide Machine.

Enjoy the show!

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 1.

Happy American Thanksgiving to my listeners in the States.

For a Sylvester McCoy novelization on Doctor Who Literature, ya gotta have two guests, not just one. Jim Sangster and Jason Davis, both huge behind-the-scenes influences on the show, come together for the first time as we tackle Paradise Towers, the second serial from Doctor Who's controversial, divisive -- and delightful -- 24th season.

The vocals for this week's opening number are by Antony Owen. Music arranged by Jim Sangster.

Please visit Jason Davis at Humanity Is My Business and consider supporting his Patreon.

An interview with J.G. Ballard.

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I’m not trying to win. I’m not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It’s not because it’s fun and God knows it’s not because it’s easy. It’s not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it’s right! Because it’s decent! And above all, it’s kind. It’s just that. Just kind.

On a quiet farm on a distant spaceship, the Doctor makes his last stand. Because that’s what he always does. It’s The Doctor Falls.

Notes and links

Nathan compares the Missy/Master dynamic to a similar situation found in the late Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Second Chances, in which we meet a transporter clone of Commander Riker who is still in love with Deanna Troi, while his original version has long since moved on from that relationship. (We are yet to cover this one on Untitled Star Trek Project.)

He also compares the Missy/Master hug to a similar one from the Blakes 7 episode Traitor, in which Servalan snogs a character called Leitz, who is blackmailing her, and then stabs him in the back of the neck with a plastic crystal thing. We will talk more about this during our coverage of Blakes 7 Series D on Maximum Power, which starts just three weeks from today.

In The World Shapers (1987), a Doctor Who Magazine comic strip written by Grant Morrison, it is established that the Mondasian Cybermen were descended from the Voord from The Keys of Marinus.

Bill’s final speech to the unconscious Doctor at the end of this episode seems to allude to a similar speech from Moffat’s first Doctor Who story, The Curse of Fatal Death (1999), in which the Doctor’s companion Emma (Julia Sawalha) says “Doctor, listen to me. You can’t die, you’re too nice, too brave, too kind and far, far too silly. You’re like Father Christmas, the Wizard of Oz, Scooby Doo. And I love you very much. And we all need you, and you simply cannot die.” You can — and should — watch The Curse of Fatal Death on YouTube.

Picks of the Week

Todd

Todd recommends the Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol, which restores many deleted scenes and adds some clever and sympathetically designed new special effects. It’s available on the Season 25 box set of Doctor Who: The Collection. (Amazon UK) (Amazon US) (Amazon AU)

Peter

Peter recommends the Surgeons of Horror podcast series on Doctor Who, The Horror of Who, which has featured Brendan, Peter and Nathan. In the episode Hartnell’s Horror Part 4: The Cybermen, Peter explains what makes the Cybermen from The Tenth Planet so brilliant and effective.

Brendan

Brendan recommends George Sheard’s reimagining of these two episodes as a 1960s Doctor Who story as Genesis of the Cybermen: World Enough and Time Noir. Check out the trailer here.

Nathan

Nathan recommends our other Doctor Who podcast, 500 Year Diary, which will be taking over from Flight Through Entirety for a few years while FTE takes a well-earned break. In our first season, New Beginnings, we discussed six episodes in Doctor Who and its spinoffs, where a show is making a new or fresh start. We’ll be back with a second season early in 2025. Like and subscribe.

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And more

You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we enjoyed a widely-reviled episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called Ferengi Love Songs.

This time we go right back to the original Big Finish spinoff that started them all, Dalek Empire. We'll share our thoughts on the four individual episodes and chat with creator Nicholas Briggs about the evolution of the story.

We'll also take a look back at our most recent series of live events featuring Janet Fielding and Sylvester McCoy, and reflect on whether we were totally insane to attempt to take on five cities around Australia in three weeks.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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Episode 600 plus The Pilot. Adam, Kirby and Mary talk about the introduction episode of Bill Potts. We then gush about our achievement of reaching our 600th episode and we have some special audio guests such as Ncuti Gatwa, Colin Baker, Ian Kirk, Andy Nunney, Alan T Butcher and Billy Kirkbright. We talk about some of our memorable moments over the years and have a general chit chat. There is Adam's report about London Winter Comic Con.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Andrew and Guillaume from the Twelfth Doctor Fan Audios drop in discuss the two-part finale to their epic project.

Their website can be found here.

This week my new series re-watch reaches the first of Steven Moffat’s rather dark and thought provoking Monk trilogy Doctor Who: Extremis.

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The DWP Echo Chamber returns with Series Two! Welcome to another five episodes, released weekly over the next five weeks.

In Episode 6, James and Michele talk about The Marian Conspiracy by Jaqueline Raynor, released in March 2000 – the sixth story in Big Finish’s main range.

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

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

Enjoy the show.

Joe and Toni discuss young love, Torchwood Zero, and round things in the Doctor Who episodes Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.

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Waffle On about Legend

Welcome to this edition of Waffle On in which Meds and Kell talk about this 1985 Ridley Scott fantasy film Legend. Yes there is no Tom Hardy in this, just a Tom Cruise. 

We cover the European version of this film but do talk briefly about the two other versions and have a treat right at the very end for those who stay till after the credits.

Happy Doctor Who Day Weekend! And we celebrate with a bumper length episode! “The War Games” in Colour, coming December 23! (With a tiny bit of help from us…) Steven Moffat returning to Gallifrey One! Plus, a surfeit of Doctor Who tat to celebrate the show’s 61st anniversary, new and exciting action dollies, Jo Martin’s Big Finish debut, and the return of the increasingly irritating (for Warren) Trivia, Mr. Fibuli, with guest contestants Erika and Kat!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Steven Moffat announced as guest for Gallifrey One, replacing Phil Collinson
• Chicago TARDIS schedule announced
• The War Games in colour, 90-minute run time
• Doctor Who Season 1 deleted scenes
• Scripts for Doctor Who 60th Anniversary specials and Season 1 now available
• Doctor Who unveils all-new escape room with Fifteenth Doctor battling the Daleks
• Doctor Who Day gifts and offers
• Fifteenth Doctor Build-a-Bear now available
• Casio and Doctor Who countdown to Christmas with a limited edition gift package
• B&M 2024 Friends & Foes of The Doctor action dolly set
• B&M 2024 History of the Daleks Set 19 action dolly set
• Doctor Who: Daleks – The Ultimate Guide available now
• Doctor Who – Once and Future: Coda: The Final Act (Jo Martin’s Big Finish debut) is out now

Trivia Mr Fibuli:

• Erika Ensign
• Kat Griffiths
• Verity! Podcast

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: Planet of Giants and the 2013 film Pacific Rim, have some 30 second recommendations, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 00:54 — Welcome!
• 01:32 – News:
• 01:46 — BBC America: No longer part owned by the BBC.
• 03:38 — Star Wars: Andor’s number two dated.
• 04:53 — Tony Todd: DEAD!
• 07:11 — Elvis vs Zombies: New British film.
• 09:02 — Wicked: The film not the website.
• 11:49 – Doctor Who: Planet of Giants.
• 24:17 – 30 Second Recommendation: The Burning Girls.
• 25:52 – 30 Second Recommendation: 3 Body Problem.
• 26:44 – 30 Second Recommendation: Silo.
• 27:34 – Pacific Rim (2013 film).
• 40:32 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 47:19 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 48:00 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• Wikipedia: BBC America.
• Star Wars.
• Wikipedia: Andor (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Tony Todd.
• IMDb: Elvis Vs Zombies.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Planet of Giants.
• BBC: Doctor Who: Planet of Giants.
• Wikipedia: The Burning Girls.
• Wikipedia: 3 Body Problem (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Silo (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Pacific Rim (film).
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Having a first-time guest last week worked so well, that we've done it again this week: Jim Allenby from the What's in the Box? podcast, makes his Doctor Who Literature debut.

Our story for the week is The Smugglers, but Jim A. and I also recorded our conversation on November 23, 2024: Doctor Who's 61st anniversary, and, coincidentally, the 40th anniversary of Jason discovering the show to begin with. Jim A. and I discuss An Unearthly Child, our respective fandom origin stories, and the special edition announced on the anniversary and being released in December 2024: The War Games, in color, and with new footage!

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!

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"Doctor Who – The Smugglers" features cover art by Alister Pearson.

Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

You can catch all past episodes at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit.

Bob Baker and Dave Martin were a writing partnership that contributed many creative Doctor Who stories during the 1970s across the Pertwee and Baker Doctors including The Claws of Axos, The Mutants, The Armageddon Factor, and The Hand of Fear.

They were also responsible for the creation of K9, who first appeared in The Invisible Enemy and went on to become one of the most beloved characters in the Doctor Who universe.

Tonight, we examine how Bob and Dave came together, how they began writing for Doctor Who, what they wrote over a near decade partnership, and give some comment on each of the stories they wrote.

Before then, all the usual news and short topics you've come to expect, and after the Bob and Dave segment, we have listener feedback and what we've been watching this past month. A jam-packed episode! Tune in!

This week, things take an upsetting turn on Flight Through Entirety, as Bill is beset, in succession, by a nervous gunman, the master in latex (as usual), the passage of time, a creepy surgeon, and narrative inevitability. Also, the Masters are having an end-of-series party with the Cybermen again. It’s World Enough and Time.

Notes and links

For all four of us, the special effect shot of the hole in Bill’s chest is familiar from the Robert Zemeckis film Death Becomes Her (1992), in which Meryl Streep makes a similar hole in Goldie Hawn, which is for several reasons more hilarious and enjoyable.

Until this point, the canonical version of the Genesis of the Cyberman had been the Big Finish audio play Spare Parts (2002), written by Marc Platt and starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. It’s really brilliant, and not very expensive, which means you should definitely put it on your list.

And finally, the title of this story comes from Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” (1681), in which the poet imagines how he would love his mistress if their time was unlimited, and then describes the alacrity with which they should love each other, given that time is fleeting.

Follow us

Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.com and Todd is at @toddbeilby.bsky.social; Simon is on X as @simonmoore72. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam.

You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Bluesky, as well as on Mastodon, X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll make you wait years and years for Episode 298.

And more

You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we enjoyed a dumb and action-packed episode of Star Trek: Enterprise called Azati Prime.

The Diamond Whobilee is back! A year late!

Chapter 8 of Big Finish Productions monthly series of Doctor Who stories celebrating Doctor Who’s sixtieth anniversary, Coda – The Final Act was released earlier this week.

The campervan is buzzing with excitement as we review the final instalment of this range.

So why not listen along with us?! Our reviews will be as full as possible, so DO NOT LISTEN BEFORE YOU HAVE HEARD THE STORY!!!! You have been warned!

Part Eight, written by Tim Foley is available to own right now by visiting Big Finish’s website. As soon as your ears have digested the story, download our review and join in the celebration with Michele, James and Brent.

Drop an email to us as feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com (with “Once and Future” in the subject field) and we’ll read your message and discuss your theories on a future DWP!

Enjoy the show – and Happy (belated) Anniversary!

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

Welcome The First Doctor - An Unearthly Child

Completely ignoring the fact that they did another version of this about 30 episodes ago, Phil and Scott celebrate Doctor Who Day start their series of looking at how good how each Doctor's inaugral stories were at introducing them to the waiting world, with An Unearthly Child, starring William Hartnell. This was also Scott's first time watching this story in its entirety, so were cavemen and fire a good way to introduce the world to Doctor Who?

And in the news, Phil surprises Scott live on air with convention news and the announcement of Whooverville 16 in August 2025 and because Christmas is just around the corner, Doctor Who fans need gift ideas, so that means a long overdue peek into Omega's Tat Corner.

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#doctorwho #whoniverse #doctorwhoday

On the brand new Trap One Podcast US Jason and Mark explore the short story anthology The Adventures Before: Eight Tales that prelude the Greatest Adventures of the Doctor.

You can order the book here.

Lucy's story that is mentioned in this episode, Cold Comfort for Ace, can be read here.

The Pieces of Eighth Podcast which Jason recommends can be heard here.

This week my new series re-watch reaches Doctor Who: Oxygen.

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This week, David & Matt sit down to discuss the 7th story from season 19 of classic Doctor Who 'Timeflight' (Though Matt got confused and watched the wrong story!) Doctor Who theme by Ron Grainer, arranged by Alexander Erben. Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com Twitter: @timenorspacepod

 This week, David & Matt sit down to discuss the 7th story from season 19 of classic Doctor Who 'Timeflight' (Though Matt got confused and watched the wrong story!)

Doctor Who theme by Ron Grainer, arranged by Alexander Erben.

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com

On November's Wanderers - Crossing the Void podcast, we review and discuss:

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook
• Something Is Killing the Children hardcover #2
• Doors Floor 2

...and much (much) more!

Hosts:

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

Join us the first week of December as we continue our coverage of Big Finish’s Dark Gallifrey series with Dark Gallifrey: War Master, as well as concluding our coverage of the Once And Future series at long last with the final part of the story, entitled “Coda”.

Dave took a quick visit up to Sydney recently, and the 16th of November saw him catch up with Rob, in-person.

For this latest meeting, our fun, lo-fi, hotel room recording vibe is back. Strap in for, ‘Rob and Dave Unplugged 4’ where, this time around, the guys canvassed their social media followers for questions about anything and everything!

Come and spend some time with the guys, talking everything from favourite movies to why Rob doesn't go to live Doctor Who events.

Have a comment? hello@theDWshow.net

“Empire of Death” epitomized RTD’s approach to season finales that he deployed to popular (if not always critical) acclaim during his first stint as showrunner. What happened this time?

It's time to travel to Atlantis and battle the Master to save Kronos.  Ross is joined on this journey with Joumana Medlej.  He so happy she comes to talk about this time travel story and what is time.  She is the best guess for this story.  Give it a listen and find out why. 

Please check out Joumana" Link Tree linktr.ee/Majnouna

#DoctorWho #JoGrant #MikeYates #SgtBenton #TheBrigader #UNIT #TheMaster #Kronos #Atlantis #timetravel #Oxford #Whatistime?

The Return of Doctor Mysterio; Adam, Debbie, Kirby and Mary chat superheroes and we also have the Fan TC Con report, feedback and chitchat.

It’s an exciting week for Doctor Who content as a new “Joy to the World” clip surfaced on Children in Need featuring snark, dinosaurs, and a Silurian in a briefcase along with a teaser from the episode’s writer, one Steven Moffat! Plus a “Coming in 2025” trailer for Disney+ that does not feature Doctor Who at all? Controversial? Not really. Plus Ncuti Gatwa in Vanity Fair being handsome as usual, a sneak peek at updated Blake’s 7 effects, and an exciting adventure in space and time as we present a special anniversary-themed Classic Series Commentary of the raw pilot recording of “An Unearthly Child”, a flub-filled exploration of early 1960s television production!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One now on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads
• Gallifrey One call for panelists
• Doctor Who teaser on Children in Need
• Children in Need raised over £39M
• Steven Moffat teases “Joy to the World”
• Doctor Who not listed in Disney+ “Coming In 2025” Trailer
• Ncuti Gatwa profiled in Vanity Fair (paywall)
• Gatwa posted some clips of the Vanity Fair photoshoot
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Updated Effects
• Colin Baker reunited with his Doctor Who title sequence
• Big Finish: Faithful Friends due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Call Me Master: Inner Demons due Feb 2025
• AMC completes purchase of BBC America for $42M

Commentary:

• An Unearthly Child – The Pilot
• RFS Commentary on YouTube

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

Review - The Deadly Assassin

After nearly 13 years of podcasting, Phil and Paul finally get around to looking at The Deadly Assassin, the classic Doctor Who serial starring Tom Baker. However, is it really a classic or is a really slight story that everyone views with rose tinted specs? They discuss such points and also how a brave woman took on the confectionery giants and prevented Phil from being sick again.

Also, with news of certain classic stories being removed from iPlayer, the lads scratch their heads as to whether streaming really is the future of watching media and if the Russian state will come after them.

You can find us on X, Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky and Facebook.  Don't miss an episode by subscribing to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, plus many other podcatchers of your choice.

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Our old chum Suky Khakh joins us to take a look at the Third Doctor debut story “Spearhead from Space”. Along the way, Mark reports on a visit to Leadworth and we examine the blatant flirting between the Brig and Liz.

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SHOW NOTES

(00:00:00) Our guest is Suky Khakh of the “Around the Console” podcast, the “Trek This Out” podcast and the “Take Your Seats” podcast.

(00:00:00) The intro here is of course a tribute to “The Navy Lark”, a BBC radio comedy sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate broadcast between 1959 and 1977. For most of its run, the show starred Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray.

(00:05:59) St Fagans National Museum of History commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in Cardiff chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture, and architecture of the Welsh people. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. It consists of more than forty re-erected buildings from various locations in Wales, and is set in the grounds of St Fagans Castle, a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house. In 2011 Which? magazine named the museum the United Kingdom’s favourite visitor attraction. A six-year, £30-million revamp was completed in 2018 and the museum was named the Art Fund Museum of the Year in 2019.

(00:07:12) This is an except from Stewart Lee’s “Content Provider” comedy tour.

(00:12:55) This is the 1985 TV commerical for the 5-4-3-2-1 chocolate bar. As the name of the bar suggests, it consisted of five different parts; wafer, crispy rice, caramel, fondant, and milk chocolate. It was made by Crawford’s (who also made Bandit) at their Binns Road factory in Liverpool. The brand was sold to United Biscuits in 1960. Sadly, it was discontinued in 1989 due to poor sales.

(00:39:16) Rosa Lewis (1867–1952) was an English cook and owner of The Cavendish Hotel in London, located at the intersection of Jermyn Street and Duke Street, St. James. Known as the “Queen of Cooks”, her culinary skills were highly prized by Edward VII, with whom she was rumoured to have had an affair in the 1890s. She was also called “The Duchess of Jermyn Street.” She left school at 12 to go into domestic service, working her way up to cook. She claimed that the great chef Auguste Escoffier taught her about cooking. It was he who named her the “Queen of Cooks”. One of her employers was Lady Randolph Churchill. One day, Rosa chased Lady Randolph’s then ten-year-old, red-haired son Winston out of her kitchen, shouting “Hop it, copper knob.” The 1976-77 BBC television series, “The Duchess of Duke Street”, starring Gemma Jones, was loosely based on her life. It is said that some of the scenes in “Vile Bodies” by Evelyn Waugh, in which she appears as her fictional counterpart Lottie Crump, were also inspired by the Cavendish Hotel under Lewis’ management.

(00:53:36) “P.R.O.B.E.” is a series of direct-to-video science-fiction films mostly written by Mark Gatiss and produced by BBV Productions. It was the first live-action Doctor Who spin-off series. The series features Caroline John as Liz Shaw, working for the Preternatural Research Bureau. Many former Doctor Who actors, including former Doctors Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, appear in the series playing different roles. (Due to licensing restrictions, no overt reference to The Doctor is permitted.) Doctor Who alumna Louise Jameson co-stars with Caroline John in the original four films, as Patricia Haggard.

(01:05:21) This rallying call for the BBC bolshies comes from the end of the opening credits music of “Citizen Smith”, a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980. It starred Robert Lindsay as Walter Henry “Wolfie” Smith, a young Marxist “urban guerrilla” in Tooting, south London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara. Wolfie is a reference to the Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone, who used the pseudonym “Citizen Smith” in order to evade capture by the Dublin Castle administration. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front (the TPF, merely a small bunch of his friends), the goals of which are “Power to the People” and “Freedom for Tooting”.

(01:13:38) “Unman, Wittering and Zigo” is a 1958 radio play by the Anglo-Irish playwright Giles Cooper. A feature film version was released in 1971. The play is part of the curriculum for GCSE and Standard Grade English coursework in the United Kingdom and is frequently performed in public schools.

(01:17:38) The famous Hand of Sutekh makes its debut in episode 2 of “Spearhead from Space” as can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

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This month we combine a couple of suggestions from listeners and examine Doctor Who adventures that would have made a good yarn to set a regeneration in, versus what we actually got at the end of a Doctor's era. Can you think of any stories that fit this category?

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This week, John Dorney joins us in northern Scotland to investigate the disappearance of the Ninth Legion — only to discover that there are things here even more terrible than the Roman army, things that can only be fought with trust and empathy and music. It’s The Eaters of Light.

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Crash (2004) starts with a voiceover by Don Cheadle, laying out the terms of the metaphorical link between car crashes and human interactions generally. It’s not a very popular movie, not only because of its superficial approach to issues of race, but also because it won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Picture instead of Brokeback Mountain.

Richard mentions American YA fiction writer Scott Westerfield, particularly the Uglies series with its teenage protagonist. He also mentions William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, where a group of schoolchildren stranded without adults on a deserted island, quickly revert to savagery.

Brian Vernel was born in 1990, so he was 26 or 27 when he played Lucius in this episode, and 32 when he played far-right extremist Curly in the first season of Slow Horses in 2022.

Kar’s speech about the depredations of the Roman Army is taken from the Agricola by Tacitus, a short biography of his father-in-law, chronicling, among other things his campaigns in northern Britain. Tacitus depicts the Caledonian leader Calgacus making the speech just before the Battle of Mount Graupius, in which his forces were defeated by the Romans. You can read the speech in translation here.

This week’s monster is based on very common depictions found in Pictish carvings of an animal called the Pictish Beast. Some depictions are found among the carvings seen in this episode.

Tania Bell is a companion to the Eighth Doctor, first appearing in Big Finish’s Stranded in 2020 — the first transgender companion to appear in Doctor Who. She is played by Rebecca Root. John has written five stories for Tania: her second story Wild Animals, as well as The Long Way Round, What Just Happened?, Best Year Ever and Flatpack (in which she meets Christopher Ecclston’s Ninth Doctor).

John writes for Michelle Gomez as Missy in Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated and in Too Many Masters.

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You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

In the most recent episode of Maximum Power, Pete and Si interviewed two of the people involved in the creation of the new Blakes 7 Series 1 blu-ray box set — filmmakers Chris Chapman and Chris Thompson. We’ll be back to cover Series D next month.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we marvelled at a clever and enjoyable episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in which a new Emissary turns up and Miles welcomes Keiko back to the station — Accession.

After three boxsets and several guest appearances in other ranges, we thought it was high time we did a review of Stephen Noonan's First Doctor Adventures.

To help us do that, we are joined once again by the lovely Sarah from Type 40.

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