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'...Where the brass bands play, tiddly pom pom PROMS!'

This time around, Tarquin (Just. Don't. Ask.) and Tony have a look at A Thousand Tiny Wings - a play that raises some fascinating issues and really is one not to be missed. There's also feedback and a special treat for those unable to go to the Doctor Who Proms.......

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Summary:
Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn talk about the first two Doctor Who: The Adventure Games and FlashForward, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 00:42 — Welcome!
• 01:28 – News:
• 01:39 — Doctor Who: 2010 Christmas Special News.
• 03:35 — Doctor Who: Matt Smith to quit Doctor Who after his second season?
• 07:32 — David Tennant: New Marvel Avengers film role as Bruce Banner?
• 09:10 — Sylvester McCoy: A hobbit in new Hobbit film?
• 10:06 — Tron Legacy: More casting news.
• 12:15 – Doctor Who: The Adventure Games – City of the Daleks and Blood of the Cybermen.
• 25:20 – FlashForward: Season One wrap-up.
• 38:40 – Emails and listener feedback.* Hit us yourself atA show@StaggeringStories.net
• 67:47 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 68:14 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• Staggering Stories: Podcast Drinking Game, Third edition.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Katherine Jenkins.
• Wikipedia: Catherine Jenkins.
• Wikipedia: Matt Smith.
• BBC: Torchwood.
• Wikipedia: The Avengers (2012 film).
• Wikipedia: The Hobbit (2012 film).
• David Tennant.
• Wikipedia: Sylvester McCoy.
• Wikipedia: Tron.
• BBC: Doctor Who The Adventure Games.
• ABC: Flash Forward.
• Doctor Who MIDI Archive.
• Doctor Who Podcast Alliance.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.
• Twitter: Adam J Purcell.

This week's show is part audio dairy of my day literally spent waiting for a £5 ticket to the Dr Who Prom at The Royal Albert Hall and also once I'd got that ticket a joint review of the event with my friends Adam J Purcell and Fake Keith of The Staggering Stories Podcast.

Special commendation from me must go to my friends Sheldon Collins and Adam J Purcell who helped me hugely from not getting lost on the way home in a part of London I'm only vaguely familiar with.

You can find the Staggering Stories website, blog and podcast here http://staggeringstories.net/ I can highly recommend this show if you want a laugh during a long day at work.

You can see all of my videos of The Doctor Who Prom on my you tube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/tdrury

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week the end theme is Murray Gold's 2010 version of Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire's legendary theme to Doctor Who.

This week's show is part audio dairy of my day literally spent waiting for a PS5 ticket to the Dr Who Prom at The Royal Albert Hall and also once I'd got that ticket a joint review of the event with my friends Adam J Purcell and Fake Keith of The Staggering Stories Podcast.

Special commendation from me must go to my friends Sheldon Collins and Adam J Purcell who helped me hugely from not getting lost on the way home in a part of London I'm only vaguely familiar with.

You can find the Staggering Stories website, blog and podcast here http://staggeringstories.net/ I can highly recommend this show if you want a laugh during a long day at work.

You can see all of my videos of The Doctor Who Prom on my you tube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/tdrury

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week the end theme is Murray Gold's 2010 version of Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire's legendary theme to Doctor Who.

This week's show is part audio dairy of my day literally spent waiting for a £5 ticket to the Dr Who Prom at The Royal Albert Hall and also once I'd got that ticket a joint review of the event with my friends Adam J Purcell and Fake Keith of The Staggering Stories Podcast.

Special commendation from me must go to my friends Sheldon Collins and Adam J Purcell who helped me hugely from not getting lost on the way home in a part of London I'm only vaguely familiar with.

You can find the Staggering Stories website, blog and podcast here http://staggeringstories.net/ I can highly recommend this show if you want a laugh during a long day at work.

You can see all of my videos of The Doctor Who Prom on my you tube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/tdrury

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week the end theme is Murray Gold's 2010 version of Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire's legendary theme to Doctor Who.

T minus 155 days until The 2010 Christmas Special.

Welcome to -> HHG2W: Mostly Harmless Cutaway 21.4 <- Today Eric & co-host Josh Zimon's (@whomeJZ) saga continues as they attempt part 4 of their very first Doctor Who commentary. Prepare yourself for The Trial of a Time Lord, season 23's The Mysterious Planet story 144 episode 4.

This episode's artwork was provided by big time friend-of-the-show: Julian Chapman (@Braxietel)

WARNING: This commentary contains SPOILERS pertaining to Season 23 from September 6-27, 1986.

Disclaimer:

The drink continues to flow while in the mean time: Broken Tooth lives...

DON'T PANIC

Creator/Producer: Eric Escamilla
Email: EscoWHO ~at~ gmail ~dot~com
Skype username: bullitt33
Twitter: @Bullitt33
Facebook: Bullitt33

Co-host: Josh Zimon
Email: whomeJZ ~at~ yahoo ~dot~com
Twitter: @whomeJZ

Mostly Harmless Cutaway:
Email: guidetothewhoverse ~at~ gmail ~dot~com
Website: guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com
Twitter: @DoctorWhoMHC
Tumblr: doctorwhomhc.tumblr.com
Facebook: Doctor Who: Mostly Harmless Cutaway

MHC theme created by Eric Escamilla.
Anonymous cold open by Emily K. (@emilyooo )

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T minus 155 days until The 2010 Christmas Special.

Welcome to -> HHG2W: Mostly Harmless Cutaway 21.4 <- Today Eric & co-host Josh Zimon's (@whomeJZ) saga continues as they attempt part 4 of their very first Doctor Who commentary. Prepare yourself for The Trial of a Time Lord, season 23's The Mysterious Planet story 144 episode 4.

This episode's artwork was provided by big time friend-of-the-show: Julian Chapman (@Braxietel)

WARNING: This commentary contains SPOILERS pertaining to Season 23 from September 6-27, 1986. 

Disclaimer:

The drink continues to flow while in the mean time: Broken Tooth lives...

DON'T PANIC

Creator/Producer: Eric Escamilla
Email: EscoWHO ~at~ gmail ~dot~com
Skype username: bullitt33
Twitter: @Bullitt33
Facebook: Bullitt33

Co-host: Josh Zimon
Email: whomeJZ ~at~ yahoo ~dot~com
Twitter: @whomeJZ

Mostly Harmless Cutaway:
Email: guidetothewhoverse ~at~ gmail ~dot~com
Website: guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com
Twitter: @DoctorWhoMHC
Tumblr: doctorwhomhc.tumblr.com 
Facebook: Doctor Who: Mostly Harmless Cutaway  

MHC theme created by Eric Escamilla.
Anonymous cold open by Emily K. (@emilyooo )

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Welcome to Episode 3 of The Naked Geek hosted by David Monteith

Relax with a glass of whiskey and a little jazz as David talks about his latest thoughts inspired by some aspect of Geekdom.

Todays inspiration comes from the the movie Avatar with a nod to Aldebaran from Cinebook and the manga Lone Wolf & Cub

Music: The Pink Panther performed by Bobby McFerrin

Drink: 15yr old Glendronach

Welcome to Episode 3 of The Naked Geek hosted by David Monteith

Relax with a glass of whiskey and a little  jazz as David talks about his latest thoughts inspired by some aspect of Geekdom.

Todays inspiration comes from the the movie Avatar with a nod to Aldebaran from Cinebook and the manga Lone Wolf & Cub

Music: The Pink Panther performed by Bobby McFerrin

Drink: 15yr old Glendronach

Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 214
Running time: 1:56:02

Terry Molloy (Davros) interviewed (by Nick Joy), Doctor Who Adventure Games reviewed, Changes in the new series, feedback, and more!

Hosted by Louis Trapani, Ken Deep, and James Naughton.

Presented to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is a production of Art Trap Productions.

This podcast is made possible in part by and is brought to you by Podshock Supporting Subscribers and from donations from listeners like you.

This episode is brought to you by Audible.com. Visit http://www.audiblepodcast.com/arttrap for your FREE audio-book download with free trial.

This episode is also brought to you by Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy at http://dlair.net

Do you want the Enhanced Podcast AAC file format? Get our Enhanced Podcast version of this episode using our feed at http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/podshock/podshock.xml.

With Dave once again off on summer travels Barry is joined once again by Stacey, co-host of the awesome Small Press, Big Mouth podcast.

News

OK comics needs help, Flash Gordon film news, Has the Ridder been cast in Batman 3? and new Thor movie photos

Week that was

A look back at the epic show that was Firefly, Turf issue 2, Hellboy in Mexico and the Magic of Myths

Main Feature

We put together our ultimate dream con or "How Stacey learnt to dream bigger next time."

With Dave once again off on summer travels Barry is joined once again by Stacey, co-host of the awesome Small Press, Big Mouth podcast.

News

OK comics needs help, Flash Gordon film news, Has the Ridder been cast in Batman 3? and new Thor movie photos

Week that was

A look back at the epic show that was Firefly, Turf issue 2, Hellboy in Mexico and the Magic of Myths

Main Feature

We put together our ultimate dream con or "How Stacey learnt to dream bigger next time."

David and Marty review the Patrick Troughton story, The Invasion. Marty does his high speed review of New Who, covering the last 3 episodes of Matt Smith's first series as the Doctor. We read a ton of listener feedback emails and interview Daniel Hall from 2 Entertain about classic series Doctor Who DVDs, fandom, and American Conventions!

Buried in RTD and Benjamin Cook's The Writer's Tale (confession: I've only read the pre-specials hardback) is a salute to an unsung hero who left only to return as a full producer for the specials and Series 5: Gallifrey One 22 guest Tracie Simpson.

David and Marty review the Patrick Troughton story, The Invasion.  Marty does his high speed review of New Who, covering the last 3 episodes of Matt Smith's first series as the Doctor.  We read a ton of listener feedback emails and interview Daniel Hall from 2 Entertain about classic series Doctor Who DVDs, fandom, and American Conventions!

Right then, have an interview with Matthew Waterhouse. We managed to get him for a phone natter whilst he was at a book signing. In it he tells us a little about his books, his days on the show and also comments on how both he and his charecter, Adric, have been perceived down the years... Listen after the DWPA interview with Matthew as, hopefully, the two go together...

Note: Thie interview was done over the electric telephone, so there's a bit of scrunchle and other general radiophonic sounds...

T minus 157 days until The 2010 Christmas Special.

Welcome to -> HHG2W: Mostly Harmless Cutaway 21.3 <- Today Eric & co-host Josh Zimon's (@whomeJZ) saga continues as they attempt part 3 of their very first Doctor Who commentary. Prepare yourself for The Trial of a Time Lord, season 23's The Mysterious Planet story 144 episode 3.

This episode's artwork was provided by big time friend-of-the-show: Julian Chapman (@Braxietel)

WARNING: This commentary contains SPOILERS pertaining to Season 23 from September 6-27, 1986.

Disclaimer:

The drink continues to flow while in the mean time: Duggan lives...

DON'T PANIC

Creator/Producer: Eric Escamilla
Email: EscoWHO ~at~ gmail ~dot~com
Skype username: bullitt33
Twitter: @Bullitt33
Facebook: Bullitt33

Co-host: Josh Zimon
Email: whomeJZ ~at~ yahoo ~dot~com
Twitter: @whomeJZ

Mostly Harmless Cutaway:
Email: guidetothewhoverse ~at~ gmail ~dot~com
Website: guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com
Twitter: @DoctorWhoMHC
Tumblr: doctorwhomhc.tumblr.com
Facebook: Doctor Who: Mostly Harmless Cutaway

MHC theme created by Eric Escamilla.
Anonymous cold open by Emily K. (@emilyooo )

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And so it's come to this.

I mean, er...we are honored and pleased to have guest bartender Lillibet from the Professor Dave's Ark in Space podcast with us this evening as we explore the Ninth Doctor in "The Long Game."

Frankly, this show was a long time coming, as it was recorded almost three weeks ago and we've recorded Episode 23 since then (timey-wimey), and our memories of this recording are not all that fresh.  So fill this space with your comments regarding Christopher Eccleston, Simon Pegg, or maybe even something appropriate regarding this being the first member of the fairer sex along for the ride.  (We promised to be really, really polite or else we knew we'd end up with Professor's Dave boot up our ass.)

Hate us?  Or want to make passionate love to us?  Send us some email at tardistavern@gmail.com, join our Facebook page (we're tied with Professor Dave's page, let's beat 'em), or follow Sean on Twitter @tardistavern or Steve @SteveTARDIStvrn (no A or E in Tavern).

T minus 157 days until The 2010 Christmas Special.

Welcome to -> HHG2W: Mostly Harmless Cutaway 21.3 <- Today Eric & co-host Josh Zimon's (@whomeJZ) saga continues as they attempt part 3 of their very first Doctor Who commentary. Prepare yourself for The Trial of a Time Lord, season 23's The Mysterious Planet story 144 episode 3.

This episode's artwork was provided by big time friend-of-the-show: Julian Chapman (@Braxietel)

WARNING: This commentary contains SPOILERS pertaining to Season 23 from September 6-27, 1986. 

Disclaimer:

The drink continues to flow while in the mean time: Duggan lives...

DON'T PANIC

Creator/Producer: Eric Escamilla
Email: EscoWHO ~at~ gmail ~dot~com
Skype username: bullitt33
Twitter: @Bullitt33
Facebook: Bullitt33

Co-host: Josh Zimon
Email: whomeJZ ~at~ yahoo ~dot~com
Twitter: @whomeJZ

Mostly Harmless Cutaway:
Email: guidetothewhoverse ~at~ gmail ~dot~com
Website: guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com
Twitter: @DoctorWhoMHC
Tumblr: doctorwhomhc.tumblr.com 
Facebook: Doctor Who: Mostly Harmless Cutaway 

MHC theme created by Eric Escamilla.
Anonymous cold open by Emily K. (@emilyooo )

[Subscribe via iTunes]

It's our first classic series review. Offered up to The Beastmaster this week was "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". Also, during our drunken stumble towards some sort of a verdict, we talk of Twilight, Predators and our visit to the London Film and Comic Con.

News & Feature:
Join the boys as they trawl through the latest news including:

Zombies coming to Red Dead Redemption

Dragon Age Origins 2

Killzone 3 gets 2 player and 4 player co-op

UK Top 20 All Formats Charts run-down

Reviews:
In Buy, Rent or Avoid we review Crackdown 2 and Alan Wake

News & Feature:
Join the boys as they trawl through the latest news including:

Zombies coming to Red Dead Redemption

Dragon Age Origins 2

Killzone 3 gets 2 player and 4 player co-op

UK Top 20 All Formats Charts run-down

Reviews:
In Buy, Rent or Avoid we review Crackdown 2 and Alan Wake

In something of a continuation from our last episode, we decided to review the episodes of the second half of Series 5. Little did we know that the discussion would rage on for over 2 hours! So, we decided to split the episode into 2 parts, the first of which you find here. Nat, Katrina, and Erik natter away about "The Hungry Earth," "Cold Blood," and "Vincent and The Doctor."

Show Notes

Introduction

@ 1 minute - Who we are.

General Discussion

@ 1 minutes 45 seconds - An open call for Season 5 inspired creativity, especially items on personal blogs or other out of the way places.

@ 4 minutes 50 seconds - We begin with "The Hungry Earth," which gets compared to an EastEnders intro to The Phantom Menace. Whether that's a good or a bad thing, we'll let you decide. Plus, did the BBC make a mistake in letting everyone know that the Silurians were back?

@ 15  minutes - We start to move on in earnest to "Cold Blood," which comes in for a bit more criticism than we're accustomed to dispensing. In particular, did the Silurians get the relaunch and introduction to a new generation that they deserved?

@ 23 minutes 45 seconds - Rory's temporary death and the nature of the crack get looked at from all sorts of angles, prompting a lively discussion about "soft rewrites."

@ 39 minutes - "Vincent and the Doctor" takes its turn in the spotlight, with the space chicken, Vincent's illness, and the historical inaccuracy of the episode prompting strong reactions all around.

@ 59 minutes - A promise of more to come...

If you have any feedback about anything we’ve discussed, you can send messages on Twitter directed @BridgingTheRift, comment on this blog post or send short MP3 feedback to our GoogleMail address.  You can also "like" us on Facebook and leave comments there.

The Radio Free Skaro Classic Series Commentaries kept trucking along this week with a look at another Tom Baker story. The Robots of Death, a wonderful murder mystery, goes under examination in the form of the Three Who Rule jib-jabbering their way through four episodes of Chris Boucher goodness. Oh, and there's some like casting news... or something... about the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special. And Torchwood news. And DVD news. But that's all peanuts compared to robots! ROBOTS!

The Radio Free Skaro Classic Series Commentaries kept trucking along this week with a look at another Tom Baker story. The Robots of Death, a wonderful murder mystery, goes under examination in the form of the Three Who Rule jib-jabbering their way through four episodes of Chris Boucher goodness. Oh, and there's some like casting news... or something... about the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special. And Torchwood news. And DVD news. But that's all peanuts compared to robots! ROBOTS!

Badger Wig Alert! In fact, sod it, General Wig Alert! Awoooga!

Ahem...

So, anyway, this time around, Jo! and Tony talk Monster of Peladon. All six episodes of it. Including the Fight Of The Wigs. Oh dear.

Bob reviews The Maltese Penguin and there's feedback as well as the usual treats at the end....

We chat about the recent Flashing Blade picnic and news of our next event...

feedback please to show@flashingblade.org.uk

Summary:
Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins and Keith Dunn sit down, distraught, in front of Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens and spout our usual nonsense!

Amy’s being menaced by a head, River’s cosplaying and the Doctor’s afraid of what’s in Amy’s box. But enough of their problems, please sit down with us to enjoy The Pandorica Opensa|

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• BBC: Doctor Who a The Pandorica Opens.
• Doctor Who Podcast Alliance.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.
• Twitter: Adam J Purcell.

This week I visited the London Film and Comic Con, probably best described as not a fully fledged convention but a signing event with a large amount of dealers and guests ranging from film and tv to sports stars.

There were also some talks, not the word as these were of a Q&A nature not the interview/Q&A you would get at most conventions of the three I attended the being human one was probably the most interesting but sadly the recording is not great so I've saved you trying to struggle through the whole thing.

You can see my photos of the event here http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/sets/72157624398406013/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week I visited the London Film and Comic Con, probably best described as not a fully fledged convention but a signing event with a large amount of dealers and guests ranging from film and tv to sports stars.

There were also some talks, not the word as these were of a Q&A nature not the interview/Q&A you would get at most conventions of the three I attended the being human one was probably the most interesting but sadly the recording is not great so I've saved you trying to struggle through the whole thing.

You can see my photos of the event here http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/sets/72157624398406013/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.