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Join Phil, James and Michele as they take a in-depth (well, as in-depth as it gets for us) look at this year’s upcoming Christmas Special, Joy to the World, starring none other than Ncuti Gatwa and Nicola Coughlan. No spoilers (mainly cos we don’t know any!), but we do talk about the promotional material already out there – that’s the preview in Doctor Who Magazine, the trailers and the media rounds that have been keeping Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies busy of late.

Episode 9 pf the DWP Echo Chamber will be online Wednesday, but then the next time the Campervan pulls into your feed will be Boxing Day when we review Joy to the World! Not long now brand new Doctor Who!

As always, get in touch with us be emailing us at the campervan at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, Tweeting us or by jumping into our Facebook Page and Group.

Enjoy the show – and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was released in 2003 and tonight, The Doctor Who Show team ends its trilogy of Alternate Galaxies episodes begun two months ago with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and continued last month with The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

We again examine the film in question from two different angles, with Dave not having seen the production before.

What are our thoughts on this film, its writing, its production, and its ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, and Andy Serkis, here in 2024?

If you’ve got an hour to spare, sit back, relax, and join us in an ALTERNATE GALAXIES episode that travels to Middle Earth for the final time - unless we do the Hobbit, but does anyone really want that?

Contact us any time: hello@theDWshow.net

We take a look back at the Big Finish Doctor Who related releases for the month of November 2024.

https://bigfinish.com/whats_new/month/11/2024

We are priviledged once again to be joined by two of the most important figures in Big Finish history, Gary Russell and Nicholas Briggs. They talk about their own releases for the month, Nick's Redux version of The Sirens of Time, and Gary's contribution to Gallifrey: Echoes Through Eternity, celebrating 20 years of Gallifrey.

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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 14.

This week we reach the final part of the monk’s trilogy Doctor Who: The Lie of the Land.

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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 13.

 This week, David & Matt sit down for something a little different as they rank each Holiday Special of new Who

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

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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 12.

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 11.

It’s Episode 8 of The Echo Chamber! James and Michele talk about Red Dawn by Justin Richards, released in May 2000.

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

1. Buy Red Dawn  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 10.

Paul, Giles, Rick and Richard return with some Greatly Intelligent chat about 11th Doctor tale The Name of the Doctor from Series 7, paired with 2nd Doctor story The Abominable Snowmen from Season 5, which we discussed last time (and a bit more this time too). There's a couple more snippets of Missing Episodes chat at the start and finish of the episode. 

Please like or share our podcast with people who will enjoy it, so we can build our listener base high for happiness. You can rate us directly on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser.com

Head over to https://www.bigfinish.com/, where we all love Paul's stories. You can pre-order his latest Companion Chronicle The White Ship here as part of the Families box set: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-families-3001

Rick posts on social media as @brickpandorica, where you can find fantastic pictures of his Lego models of Doctor Who moments.

Giles has 2 new children's books out, which you can find in all good bookshops and also at these links: Can We Live on Mars? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Mappers-Mappers-Making-Difficult-Understand/dp/B0C65GDB4G/ and Spin to Survive: Deep Space Danger https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spin-Survive-Destiny-Pop-Out-Fortune/dp/0711287767/. Far be it from us to suggest that these might make great Christmas presents for the enquiring mind in your family.

Richard has another podcast with co-hosts Emily & Nicola, called "If It's Hurting, It's not Working" and it's a fun and informative look at work - why we work, how we work, and what makes a great job. Go to https://ifhurtnotwork.podbean.com/ and https://ifhurtnot.work for more.

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

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 9.

This month we put our thinking caps on and discuss our top female villains in the series. Will we be obvious? Will we go off-piste? Maybe somewhere in between. Who would your picks be? Why not write in and let us know?

You can follow us on X @theDWshow and write to us about anything you like at: hello@theDWshow.net

It’s a banner weekend in Vancouver as one Taylor Swift graces Warren’s fair city with the final shows of the Eras Tour, and yet the Three Who Rule soldier on (and show just how out of touch they are) with talk of the new trailer for Joy To the World, Doctor Who showrunner holiday photoshoots, some The War Games in Colour backpatting and badinage, a truly inspiring Borad figurine, and the showcase of this episode, Steven’s interview from Chicago TARDIS featuring Season 25 luminaries Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Mark Ayres, and Dominic Glynn! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who Magazine #611 Released
• Doctor Who showrunners unite for exclusive Radio Times festive shoot
• Joy to the World trailer
• Joy to the World will go out at 5:10pm GMT Dec 25 on BBC One
• Joy to the World will drop at 9:10am PST/12:10pm EST on Disney+
• The Doctor Who Proms will go out Dec 24 at 4:10 PM GMT on BBC Two
• The War Games in colour will go out Dec 23 at 9pm GMT on BBC Four
• Josh Snares on the 50% Doctor Who Podcast talking about The War Games colourization
• Phil Sims won Best Design RTS award for Doctor Who
• Ncuti Gatwa nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for the Critics Choice TV Awards
• Harrop Buckley Borad figure available to preorder
• Joy to the World DVD/Blu-Ray preorders (Amazon UK), date not yet listed
• Season 9 UK Blu-Ray Standard Packaging due Feb 3
• Season 25 Blu-Ray US preorder (Amazon)

Interview:

• Chicago TARDIS
• Sylvester McCoy
• Sophie Aldred
• Mark Ayres
• Dominic Glynn

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 8.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Highlanders and the 1991 film Highlander 2: The Quickening, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:12 — Welcome!
• 02:09 – News:
• 02:23 — Doctor Who: Troughton’s colourful exit.
• 07:52 — Star Trek: Shatner returns.
• 11:28 — Doctor Who: More merch.
• 14:39 — Doctor Who RPG: Unofficial Eighth Doctor audio sourcebook.
• 16:58 — Dungeons and Dragons: Soon to be owned by Elon Musk?
• 18:49 – Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991 film).
• 34:23 – Doctor Who: The Highlanders.
• 48:35 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 52:10 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 52:57 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Star Trek.
• The Roddenberry Archive.
• Siskoid: Doctor Who RPG Expanded Universe Sourcebooks.
• Wikipedia: Hasbro.
• Wikipedia: Dungeons and Dragons.
• Wikipedia: The Highlanders (Doctor Who).
• BBC: Doctor Who – The Highlanders.
• Wikipedia: Highlander 2: The Quickening.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

This month we put our thinking caps on and discuss our top female villains in the series. Will we be obvious? Will we go off-piste? Maybe somewhere in between. Who would your picks be? Why not write in and let us know?

You can follow us on X @theDWshow and write to us about anything you like at: hello@theDWshow.net

We’ve spent the last twelve weeks enjoying some unexpected extra time with Peter Capaldi and friends, and so it’s finally time to kick back and chat about what we’ve loved, what we’ve learned, and (inevitably) who we’d snog. It’s the Series 10 Retrospective.

Notes and links

Thank you to the people who contributed their questions: Luke Hobbs, Si Hart and David Kitchen. And remember that we have a shiny new-ish Bluesky account, which is the best way to follow us online these days.

And for the very last time, probably, we reference Friend from the Future, a promotional short designed to introduce Bill Potts, first broadcast during Match of the Day on 23 April 2016, nearly a year before this season began. You can see the entire short here.

And just as a reminder, the Jenny Laird Award goes to a season or era’s most puzzling creative choice, and the Bonnie Langford goes to someone or something that is surprisingly and delightfully good.

Follow us

Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.com, Todd is at @toddbeilby.bsky.social and James is at @ohjamessellwood.bsky.social. 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 think of the right words later.

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.

The Three-Handed Game makes a triumphant return to your podcatcher with Part 2 of its The Pop Explosion triptych, Build a Better Mousetrap, in which Cathy Gale joins a motorcycle gang which is threatened by witches, which is a thing that basically happened all the time in the 1960s.

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

In this episode we are joined by Kenny Smith, editor of Big Finish Vortex Magazine and host of the Pieces of Eighth and Power of Three podcasts to talk about our memories and stand out moments from Big Finish Doctor Who over the last 25 years!

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⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/doctor-who-pieces-of-eighth/id1568889213⁠⁠

Thanks to our friends from The 50% Doctor Who Podcast for the clips from our Brisbane event with Sylvester McCoy. Be sure to watch to the end to see it! ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@50DoctorPodcast⁠

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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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 7.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Frazer (@FelixFrazer), Keith, James & Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) return to the anniversary series Once & Future for its coda, The Final Act which introduces the Fugitive Doctor to Big Finish.

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 6.

This week my new series re-watch reaches the second in the monk trilogy Doctor Who: The Pyramid at the End of The World.

You may wish to contribute to the show’s running costs, it’s Patreon is here https://www.patreon.com/tdrury

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On this month's Wanderers - And Now For The Big Finish podcast, the Wanderers review the  Doctor Who - Dark Gallifrey - The War Master audio adventure from Big Finish, as well as the finale to the Once and Future series, Coda!

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 in two weeks for the December edition of Wanderers - Crossing the Void! As always, you can send us feedback on Facebook at Wanderers in the 4th Dimension or on Twitter @Wanderin4d... and now on Bluesky @wanderin4d.bsky.social!

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 5.

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 5.

This week, David & Matt sit down to discuss the 6th story from season 21 of classic Doctor Who 'The Caves of Androzani'

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

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Paul, Giles, Rick and Richard return with some Greatly Intelligent chat about 2nd Doctor story The Abominable Snowmen from Season 5, which we'll pair in the next episode with 11th Doctor tale The Name of the Doctor from Series 7. There's even a soupcon of Missing Episodes chat at the end. 

Please like or share our podcast with people who will enjoy it, so we can build our listener base high for happiness. You can rate us directly on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser.com

Head over to https://www.bigfinish.com/, where we all love Paul's stories.

Rick posts on social media as @brickpandorica, where you can find fantastic pictures of his Lego models of Doctor Who moments.

Giles has 2 new children's books out, which you can find in all good bookshops and also at these links: Can We Live on Mars? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Mappers-Mappers-Making-Difficult-Understand/dp/B0C65GDB4G/ and Spin to Survive: Deep Space Danger https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spin-Survive-Destiny-Pop-Out-Fortune/dp/0711287767/. Far be it from us to suggest that these might make great Christmas presents for the enquiring mind in your family.

Richard has another podcast with co-hosts Emily & Nicola, called "If It's Hurting, It's not Working" and it's a fun and informative look at work - why we work, how we work, and what makes a great job. Go to https://ifhurtnotwork.podbean.com/ and https://ifhurtnot.work for more.

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

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 4.

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 4.

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 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.

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

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.

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.