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Join us in the campervan as we conclude our coverage of Doctor Who: Flux and get ready for the the beginning of the end of the 13th Doctor’s era! Michele, Brent, Ian and James take you through their final Flux thoughts (for now)!

As always, we’d love to hear from you. Drop us your thoughts and we’ll discuss in an upcoming DWP. Email us at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, get in touch on Twitter or search for us on Facebook.

Enjoy the show!

Join us in the campervan as we conclude our coverage of Doctor Who: Flux and get ready for the the beginning of the end of the 13th Doctor’s era! Michele, Brent, Ian and James take you through their final Flux thoughts (for now)!

As always, we’d love to hear from you. Drop us your thoughts and we’ll discuss in an upcoming DWP. Email us at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, get in touch on Twitter or search for us on Facebook.

Enjoy the show!

Jump on board the campervan as we conclude our coverage of Doctor Who: Flux and get ready for the the beginning of the end of the 13th Doctor’s era! Michele, Brent, Ian and James take you through their final thoughts (for now!).

As always, we’d love to hear from you. Drop us your thoughts and we’ll discuss in an upcoming DWP. Email us at feedack@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, get in touch on Twitter or search for us on Facebook.

Enjoy the show!

Here's a compilation of some of the highlights of Something Who from 2021.

It was the year that Gav was persuaded to join the existing team of Richard, Paul and Giles. We have a discussion about the merits of Richard Martin as a director on Doctor Who, Chris Chapman explains how he told the story of Elisabeth Sladen in his documentary "Our Sarah Jane", we chat about The Crimson Horror, including our various meetings with Matthew Sweet, Tim joins us for The Gunfighters, while Gav rants about its historical accuracy, Paul Hayes talks about his book "The Long Game" and we discuss some issues with Mawdryn Undead.

Peruse our back catalogue for the full versions of all of these clips and, if you enjoy them, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or similar platform.

The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.

Show Notes & Links:

• Director Jamie Magnus Stone has good ideas
• We don’t know much about the Crimean War but did know about Florence Nightingale & *should* have known about Mary Seacol 
• Sydney Newman wanted the show to have a ‘strong informational core based on fact’
• Not like Back to the Future 
• Mary Seacoll was played by Sara Powell
• Oscar Isaac doesn’t write scripts 

We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

Show Notes & Links:

• Director Jamie Magnus Stone has good ideas
• We don’t know much about the Crimean War but did know about Florence Nightingale & *should* have known about Mary Seacol 
• Sydney Newman wanted the show to have a ‘strong informational core based on fact’
• Not like Back to the Future 
• Mary Seacoll was played by Sara Powell
• Oscar Isaac doesn’t write scripts 

We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

March 1974 saw two Target novelization releases; Episode 6 covered one of those, Malcolm Hulke's Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon. This week we jump back in time from the 30th century to the 22nd and take a long look at Terrance Dicks' Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks. A remarkable book, one of Terrance's longest, this expands greatly on the troubled TV production, adding a prologue and epilogue not seen on TV, and giving us Terrance with some of his most evocative prose ever.

The first half of the episode features Jason's trademark deep dive into the book's prose.

For the second half, we're joined this week by Tony Whitt of the Doctor Who Target Book Club podcast (@DWTARGETBC). Tony's excellent Target podcast previously covered this book -- and paid tribute to Terrance Dicks in general -- in 2019, and you can find that episode here:

https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbc/ep-59-day-of-the-daleksdicks-tribute-wlarry-vanmersbergen

Review of S13 E01 — The Halloween Apocalypse

• Some are quite invested in the Thasmin ship 
• As many were with Rose 
• We are still processing our feelings about the Timeless Child  & Division 
• Time Lords first appeared in The War Games 
• The COVID-19 impact on Doctor Who is a story still untold 
• Doctor Who has a long history on the ABC in Australia 
• A Thanos version of the Red Skull in an episode with a colour palette reminiscent of Guardians of the Galaxy
• Segun Akinola continues to deliver
• Dan Starkey looked truly disgusting
• The Doctor was once Lord President of the Time Lords 
• The Sontarans first appears in The Time Warrior 
• Paternoster Gang! Paternoster Gang! 
• Russell T. Davies foreshadowed his return as show runner with this Instagram Post
• The Cloister Bell tolls in the most serious of emergencies 
• The Mad Mole was a posthumous nickname for Joseph Williamson 
• Vortex Energy had less impact here than in Bad Wolf

We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

Steven and Erika wrap up their very-mini-marathon of Christmas Day Doctor Who by completing “The Three Doctors”. Such delight!

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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Erika and Steven continue the Christmas 2021 celebration with more Doctor Who 10th-year celebration!

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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Steven and Erika celebrate Christmas with a celebratory story to commemorate the 10th season of Doctor Who!

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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Welcome to the 15th episode of a short podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in between our regular monthly shows.

In today’s podcast, Rob sits down with Dylan Rees to talk about the letters to DWM in December of 1998. You might know Dylan as the author of 'Downtime: The Lost Years of Dr Who' or the host of the podcast 'Dr Who: Too Hot For TV' which Rob listens to avidly.

This is Doctor Who without a safety net. The conversations could go anywhere the guest wants them to go.

This is Primary Sources.

A happy Christmas to all of you at home! It’s Christmas 2021, and thanks to the circumstances of the world, it may well be going off the rails for you! So let’s sit back, set the year-o-meter to 2005, and watch along with us as we provide for you a commentary for the first Doctor Who Christmas special – the original, you might say – Russell T Davies’ first foray into a Doctor Who Yuletide tradition, “The Christmas Invasion”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Christmas Invasion

A happy Christmas to all of you at home! It’s Christmas 2021, and thanks to the circumstances of the world, it may well be going off the rails for you! So let’s sit back, set the year-o-meter to 2005, and watch along with us as we provide for you a commentary for the first Doctor Who Christmas special – the original, you might say – Russell T Davies’ first foray into a Doctor Who Yuletide tradition, “The Christmas Invasion”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Christmas Invasion

When loveable middle-class white lady Sue Brockman (Claire Skinner) loses her husband Pete (Hugh Dennis) after his plane goes missing over the English Channel, she decides to withhold that information from her children (Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche and Ramona Marquez), because she is afraid it might ruin their Christmas (which it totally would). But her world is soon turned upside-down by a mysterious stranger (a very young Prince Philip in his first television role), who beguiles the children with hot and cold running lemonade before whisking them off to an extraterrestrial forest which is about to have massive vats of acid dumped on it. Meanwhile, surprisingly, obnoxiously messianic lion Aslan (Liam Neeson) is nowhere to be found. Mark McManus and Pete Lambert guest star. It’s The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

Notes and Links

Here’s The Young Ones parodying The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Claire Skinner also started in the Outnumbered Christmas Special The Broken Santa in 2011, which was watched by 8.47 million people. (This episode of Doctor Who was watched by 10.77 million viewers. So take that, Claire.)

Bill Bailey, who plays Droxil in this episode, admits publicly that he is a massive Doctor Who fan, which we think is terribly brave. Here he is playing the Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz. You really need to watch it.

Arabella Weir starred as the Doctor in a Big Finish audio story called Exile, part of its Doctor Who Unbound series. Pete was not impressed.

Wizards vs Aliens was created by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford in 2012, in a way to replace The Sarah Jane Adventures after the death of Lis Sladen. Its second episode, Grazlax Attacks, was a hilarious rip-off of Gremlins (1984).

And finally, the prequel scene to this episode was included in the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Doctor Who Series 7 in both the US and UK.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Pete is @Prof_Quiteamess, and Mark is @QuarkMcMalus. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

Pete and Mark are frequent contributors to the Trap One Podcast, and can both be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast, Maximum Power.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll come over to your house again and be so quirky and zany that your children will end up loving us much more than they love you.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We will be releasing our take on the New Year’s Day Special Eve of the Daleks sometime very early in January.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We just released a new episode a couple of days ago, a spoilerrific roundtable discussion of the most recent James Bond film No Time to Die.

We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which has finished its coverage of Series A of Blakes 7, and which will be returning to discuss Series B early in the new year.

And finally, there’s our new Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we had a great time watching an episode of the hilarious Star Trek cartoon series Lower Decks — I, Excretus.

When loveable middle-class white lady Sue Brockman (Claire Skinner) loses her husband Pete (Hugh Dennis) when his plane goes missing over the English Channel, she decides to withhold that information from her children (Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche and Ramona Marquez), because she is afraid it might ruin their Christmas (which it totally would). But her world is soon turned upside-down by a mysterious stranger (a very young Prince Philip in his first television role), who beguiles the children with hot and cold running lemonade before whisking them off to an extraterrestrial forest which is about to have massive vats of acid dumped on it. Meanwhile, surprisingly, obnoxiously messianic lion Aslan (Liam Neeson) is nowhere to be found. Mark McManus and Pete Lambert guest star. It’s The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

Notes and Links

Here’s The Young Ones parodying The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Claire Skinner also started in the Outnumbered Christmas Special The Broken Santa in 2011, which was watched by 8.47 million people. (This episode of Doctor Who was watched by 10.77 million viewers. So take that, Claire.)

Bill Bailey, who plays Droxil in this episode, admits publicly that he is a massive Doctor Who fan, which we think is terribly brave. Here he is playing the Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz. You really need to watch it.

Arabella Weir starred as the Doctor in a Big Finish audio story called Exile, part of its Doctor Who Unbound series. Pete was not impressed.

Wizards vs Aliens was created by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford in 2012, in a way to replace The Sarah Jane Adventures after the death of Lis Sladen. Its second episode, Grazlax Attacks, was a hilarious rip-off of Gremlins (1984).

And finally, the prequel scene to this episode was included in the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Doctor Who Series 7 in both the US and UK.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Pete is @Prof_Quiteamess, and Mark is @QuarkMcMalus. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

Pete and Mark are frequent contributors to the Trap One Podcast, and can both be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast, Maximum Power.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll come over to your house again and be so quirky and zany that your children will end up loving us much more than they love you.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We will be releasing our take on the New Year’s Day Special Eve of the Daleks sometime very early in January.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We just released a new episode a couple of days ago, a spoilerrific roundtable discussion of the most recent James Bond film No Time to Die.

We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which has finished its coverage of Series A of Blakes 7, and which will be returning to discuss Series B early in the new year.

And finally, there’s our new Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we had a great time watching an episode of the hilarious Star Trek cartoon series Lower Decks — I, Excretus.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler, the Real Keith Dunn and Steven Clare review the Big Finish Doctor Who audio The One Doctor and the 1964 film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, play some games, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 02:45 — Welcome!
• 03:39 – News:
• 03:47 — Doctor Who: Big Finish extended.
• 05:51 — Shatner: In Space!
• 07:05 — Ghosts: Go fourth.
• 07:47 — Chris Achilléos: DEAD!
• 11:29 — When Otters Attack!
• 13:27 — Star Wars: Hotel hiccups.
• 15:19 — Sylvester McCoy: The Munster.
• 16:14 – Christmas Crackers.
• 19:34 – Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
• 36:35 – Game: Keith Gets Electrocuted.
• 39:03 – Presents!
• 44:08 – Game: TV incidental music quiz.
• 50:13 – Doctor Who: The One Doctor (Big Finish).
• 60:22 – Game: Swanee Kazoo.
• 64:22 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 77:21 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 78:20 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Big Finish.
• William Shatner.
• Wikipedia: Ghosts (2019 TV series).
• Wikipedia: Chris Achilléos.
• Wikipedia: Otter.
• Star Wars.
• Wikipedia: Sylvester McCoy.
• Wikipedia: Christmas Crackers.
• Wikipedia: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
• Big Finish: The One Doctor.
• Wikipedia: I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue: Swanee-Kazoo.
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

When loveable middle-class white lady Sue Brockman (Claire Skinner) loses her husband Pete (Hugh Dennis) when his plane goes missing over the English Channel, she decides to withhold that information from her children (Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche and Ramona Marquez), because she is afraid it might ruin their Christmas (which it totally would). But her world is soon turned upside-down by a mysterious stranger (a very young Prince Philip in his first television role), who beguiles the children with hot and cold running lemonade before whisking them off to an extraterrestrial forest which is about to have massive vats of acid dumped on it. Meanwhile, surprisingly, obnoxiously messianic lion Aslan (Liam Neeson) is nowhere to be found. Mark McManus and Pete Lambert guest star. It’s The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

Notes and Links

Here’s The Young Ones parodying The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Claire Skinner also started in the Outnumbered Christmas Special The Broken Santa in 2011, which was watched by 8.47 million people. (This episode of Doctor Who was watched by 10.77 million viewers. So take that, Claire.)

Bill Bailey, who plays Droxil in this episode, admits publicly that he is a massive Doctor Who fan, which we think is terribly brave. Here he is playing the Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz. You really need to watch it.

Arabella Weir starred as the Doctor in a Big Finish audio story called Exile, part of its Doctor Who Unbound series. Pete was not impressed.

Wizards vs Aliens was created by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford in 2012, in a way to replace The Sarah Jane Adventures after the death of Lis Sladen. Its second episode, Grazlax Attacks was a hilarious rip-off of Gremlins (1984).

And finally, the prequel scene to this episode was included in the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Doctor Who Series 7 in both the US and UK.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Pete is @Prof_Quiteamess, and Mark is @QuarkMcMalus. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

Pete and Mark are frequent contributors to the Trap One Podcast, and can both be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast, Maximum Power.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll come over to your house again and be so quirky and zany that your children will end up loving us much more than they love you.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We will be releasing our take on the New Year’s Day Special Eve of the Daleks sometime very early in January.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We just released a new episode a couple of days ago, a spoilerrific roundtable discussion of the most recent James Bond film No Time to Die.

We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which has finished its coverage of Series A of Blakes 7, and which will be returning to discuss Series B early in the new year.

And finally, there’s our new Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we had a great time watching an episode of the hilarious Star Trek cartoon series Lower Decks — I, Excretus.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

This Christmas the boys sit down to review the 1999 Red Nose Day special 'The Curse Of Fatal Death'.

David discusses his love of 'Paddington 2' whilst Matt spreads Christmas cheer by declaring his intention to crush a new enemy of the pod!

Donate to the Wheelie Big Quiz below:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/timenorspacepod

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com

Twitter: @timenorspacepod 

When loveable middle-class white lady Sue Brockman (Claire Skinner) loses her husband Pete (Hugh Dennis) after his plane goes missing over the English Channel, she decides to withhold that information from her children (Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche and Ramona Marquez), because she is afraid it might ruin their Christmas (which it totally would). But her world is soon turned upside-down by a mysterious stranger (a very young Prince Philip in his first television role), who beguiles the children with hot and cold running lemonade before whisking them off to an extraterrestrial forest which is about to have massive vats of acid dumped on it. Meanwhile, surprisingly, obnoxiously messianic lion Aslan (Liam Neeson) is nowhere to be found. Mark McManus and Pete Lambert guest star. It’s The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

Notes and Links

Here’s The Young Ones parodying The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Claire Skinner also started in the Outnumbered Christmas Special The Broken Santa in 2011, which was watched by 8.47 million people. (This episode of Doctor Who was watched by 10.77 million viewers. So take that, Claire.)

Bill Bailey, who plays Droxil in this episode, admits publicly that he is a massive Doctor Who fan, which we think is terribly brave. Here he is playing the Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz. You really need to watch it.

Arabella Weir starred as the Doctor in a Big Finish audio story called Exile, part of its Doctor Who Unbound series. Pete was not impressed.

Wizards vs Aliens was created by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford in 2012, in a way to replace The Sarah Jane Adventures after the death of Lis Sladen. Its second episode, Grazlax Attacks, was a hilarious rip-off of Gremlins (1984).

And finally, the prequel scene to this episode was included in the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Doctor Who Series 7 in both the US and UK.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Pete is @Prof_Quiteamess, and Mark is @QuarkMcMalus. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

Pete and Mark are frequent contributors to the Trap One Podcast, and can both be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast, Maximum Power.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll come over to your house again and be so quirky and zany that your children will end up loving us much more than they love you.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We will be releasing our take on the New Year’s Day Special Eve of the Daleks sometime very early in January.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We just released a new episode a couple of days ago, a spoilerrific roundtable discussion of the most recent James Bond film No Time to Die.

We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which has finished its coverage of Series A of Blakes 7, and which will be returning to discuss Series B early in the new year.

And finally, there’s our new Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we had a great time watching an episode of the hilarious Star Trek cartoon series Lower Decks — I, Excretus.

A little special Christmas cheer for our listeners. In this special Side Trip, we review the Big Finish Subscriber Short story, The Christmas Dimension featuring the Third Doctor and Liz. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

The post Side Trip 41 – The Christmas Dimension appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.

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.

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.

Waffle On about True Romance.

Hello and welcome to this edition of Waffle On in which Meds and Kell chat away about this brilliant and often over looked 1993 film, True Romance. In the lads opinion this is the perfect love story. Forget your love actually and Hallmark channel movies get this Quentin Tarantino script and Tony Scott vision down your heart valves. 

Please do join our Facebook group if you can, if not share our podcast with those you like, or even dislike. 

Merry Christmas to you all. 

„Das ist ein guter Plan, der mich schon komplett überfordert hat.“

Die älteren Semester unter unseren Hörern werden es noch kennen: „Warten aufs Christkind, mit dem Li-La-Laune-Bär“. Also kommt mit uns auf eine kleine Zeitreise und wartet mit dem Whocast auf das Christkind. Leider ohne den Bären, aber dafür mit einem weihnachtlichen Review, Post, Gewinnspielen, Gewinnspielauflösungen, einem Weihnachtslied, Kolja, Harald, Mary, André, Dave und Raphael. Außerdem gibt es eine wundervolle Weihnachtsgeschichte und Stargäste aus 58 Jahren Doctor Who… So die TARDIS uns nicht im Stich lässt…

Been to the movies this holiday season? Chances are you saw Spider-Man: No Way Home

Dave and his Space Fall: A Blake's 7 Podcast co-host, Richard, discuss the film here.

BTW, it's almost a year since we did an episode of Alternate Galaxies (it was December 31, 2020 when we looked at The Mandalorian Series 2), so this is a welcome return to our feed. Hopefully we'll have more Alternate Galaxies content in 2022, with a quieter year for Doctor Who ahead.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

This week on the show my Christmas special part one of my review of the year aka what I’ve been up to in 2021.

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It's Christmas time... there's no need to be afraid... apart from from a giant trans-dimensional fish which has escaped inside the TARDIS!

Join Kenny and Becca as they discover how Relative Dimensions came into being for the Big Finish Eighth Doctor Adventures range.

Christmas is a time for family, they say – which is why the Doctor has invited his granddaughter Susan, and great grandson Alex for Christmas dinner in his time and space machine. But who, or what, is the spectre at their yuletide feast?

Venturing deep into the dark heart of the TARDIS, Susan uncovers her past, Alex is told his future – and the Doctor finds himself caught in a deadly, dangerous present!

Our hosts meet writer Marc Platt and sound designer/musician Jamie Robertson.

It's time for cheer and wonderment, and ghosts! This week we take a break from talking Who and talk about a Christmas movie with all the feels, Last Christmas. And joining in on the conversation is our old friend Kris Puddicombe!

And we play some holiday games at the end of the episode too!

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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 23.

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 23.

On the ninety-fifth edition of Reality Bomb, we're talking about all things Flux: the uber-serialized nature of it, the characters, how the Doctor's new backstory works in it... all the things. It's a deep dive into the special serial that made up Series 13 with Kayti Burt, Evan Teng and KatyBeth Schmid. We also talk with author Paul Hayes about his new book The Long Game: the Inside Story of How the BBC Brought Back Doctor Who and the obstacles the show faced in coming back to TV in the late '90s including a Doctor Who film in development hell, confusion about the rights to the series and indifference within BBC culture to science fiction. And writer and renaissance man Graham Kibble-White emerges from a maze that looks like a 1980s hotel to bring The God Complex to the Gallery of the Underrated. Plus Priya Deonarain offers an editorial on what she thought about Flux when all was said and done. All this plus an experiment to give people Flux in its purest form!

BONUS CONTENT: We have a special animated version of this month's Gallery of Underrated on Vimeo!

Doctor Who: Short Trips

The Parliament of Rats

by Daniel O'Mahoney

Originally published in print in 1998 by BBC Books. 

Theme music by GeorgeCMusic - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgSc-nU-Gr3mwtiBvTDBaZA

Email: sirensofaudio@gmail.com

Website: https://www.sirensofaudio.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/audiosirens

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audiosirens/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/audiosirens

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrU3MLlOeJTLnAbLl35QgeQ

Clips and music are copyright BBC and Big Finish. No infringement is intended.

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 22.

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 22.

****Please note! We're taking next week off for the holidays. If you celebrate, we hope you enjoy whatever you're celebrating! If you don't celebrate, we hope you have a fantastic week!****

It's been a while since we've answered your questions. So join Deb, Erika, Kat, and Tansy as we respond to you! That's right, it's another edition of Ask Verity! Anything! We crowd-sourced more questions and answer some of them here on the podcast. (The rest have been added to the spreadsheet for future use, so thank you for all of them!)

Do you have questions for a future AVA? Let us know in the comments!

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GORGEOUS pic of Louise Jameson Extra-special thanks to this week's editor, Steven Schapansky of Castria! Support Verity! on Patreon

Our eighth Christmas podcast is full of the presents, memories and advent crowns. Mark has invented a brand new game. And all topped off with the annual Gold Run looking back on the year.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:07:10) A photo of Doc’s Secret Santa gift can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:10:53) A photo of Hayden’s Secret Santa gift can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:13:55) A photo of Mark’s Secret Santa gift can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:16:47) “War of the Daleks” is a kind of sci-fi Space-Ludo with Dalek. The game involves moving card Dr Who figures around a circular playing area aiming to get to the “control center” whilst avoiding the Daleks. The Daleks themselves are faithful plastic renditions about three quarters of an inch tall, inserted into concentric slots cut into the board. When the pale blue “control centre” hub in the middle of the board is rotated, the card disc underpinning these concentric slots also rotate, causing the Daleks to move around the board and “capture” hapless players. If a player makes it to the central hub, they have a chance to destroy the control centre by lifting it up. Doing so reveals four panels one of which depicts the “King Dalek.” If he’s next to you he exterminates you and you start again!

(00:20:00) A photo of Kroton, Hayden’s emaciated Dapol Cyberman, can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:23:18) Doc took far too much time out of editing our last podcast to fake a 20 year old tweet from his dad, flogging his valued Beano collection. The tweet can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:24:00) Pink Floyd followed up 1995’s “Pulse” album with another live album in the new millennium: “Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81,” a document of the band’s performances at Earl’s Court, London, two decades earlier. The album was released in Europe on March 27, 2000; in the United States on April 18. Hayden discovered that his dad appears on the album cover art photos as he attended this live show. The relevant photo can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:26:08) Of the seven Dalek “annuals” published, Doc is referring here to the four published between 1976 and 1979. The 1970s annuals were far more narratively integrated than the 1960s efforts. They tell the tale of the Anti-Dalek Force (ADF) and have a regular “cast” that includes Space Major Joel Shaw and Mark Seven, an android agent.

(00:27:05) TARDIS money box.

(00:27:25) Cyberman door guard.

(00:27:50) “Doctor Who and the Pescatons” first original, officially licensed audio drama based upon Doctor Who. Originally released by Argo Records, the story featured Tom Baker and Elisabeth Salden, as the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. It was divided into two episodes, complete with opening and closing themes, simulating the televised series. The radio-cassette player which Doc received that Christmas (1976?) and for which the accompaniment was this Pescatons audio cassette can be seen here.

(00:35:30) The BookTrust Christmas appeal raises money to send surprise festive book parcels to children who are vulnerable or in care. This year, it’s even more vital to support children who may not be looking forward to Christmas. And so we plan to give out more parcels than ever before and to reach 16,000 children – that’s 1,750 more than last year. Half will be sent to children in care who may be spending their first Christmas away from their families, and the other half will be given out through community foodbanks to children in families facing challenging circumstances. Donate £10 to send one book parcel to one child. Any additional funds raised by the appeal will support our work with children through the year.

(00:38:06) This recording of Tom Baker encountering a former child in care on Oxford Street comes from his 2010 “In Confidence” interview with Laurie Taylor which can be seen here.

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

Richard arrives in the Something Who bunker and unfortunately breaks the fourth wall at the time of year you really struggle to get a builder.

This is our Christmas special, comparing the first Doctor Who Christmas episode of all - 1965's The Feast of Steven, Episode 7 of the epic Daleks' Master Plan - with the Christmas Invasion, the the first Christmas special of the modern era from 2005. With excursions into Terry Nation's comedy, Hancock and variety shows.

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Giles' book A History of the Universe in 21 Stars: (and 3 Imposters) can be found in all good bookshops and also here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Universe-21-Stars-Imposters/dp/1787394654/

Gav's book Doctor Who: Dalek Combat Training Manual can be found here (other retailers are available) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785945327/

Also find his excellent YouTube series Terry Nation Army here: https://youtube.com/user/Dalek6388. And they've started a new podcast here: https://dalek6388.podbean.com/ which you should definitely listen to, once you've heard this.

And head over to https://www.bigfinish.com/, where we all love Paul's stories, especially for the Doctor Who and Jago and Litefoot ranges.

Richard's other podcast is 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. And also what makes a great workplace, how to turn things round when we're not enjoying our work and, in the end, how we can all make our work better. Got to https://ifhurtnotwork.podbean.com/ and https://ifhurtnot.work for more. Episode 4 is all about Christmas and you can hear a trailer in the middle of this episode.

The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.