On the Time Lash

On the Time Lash episodes:

• 04.30.2024

  In the Time Lash #4 - Luke Molloy

  Mark is joined by Doctor Who podcaster at large, Luke Molloy, to discuss his five entries to be thrown into the Time Lash. It's a wide ranging discussion that takes in the topics of who's the best actor to play...

  
• 04.12.2024

  In The Time Lash #3 - Joe Ford

  Ben and Mark invite Joe Ford from Hamster With A Blunt Penknife to submit his five choices to go into the Timelash. Mammary madness, unconvincing urchins, aural wallpaper, violent content and performative negativity all face the Timelash, but will they...

  
• 03.29.2024

  In The Timelash #2 - Mark Donaldson

  Mark is next up to submit five things they don’t like about Doctor Who to be thrown In the Timelash. It's a wide-ranging discussion that takes in some heavy topics, the brave new world of online fandom, worldwide release windows,...

  
• 03.15.2024

  In The Time Lash #1 - Ben Verth

  In the first of a brand new series, the Lash Lads invite guests to submit five things they don't like about Doctor Who to be thrown In the Time Lash.Tired tropes, ill-informed cultural myths, and fan "wisdom" all come under...

  
• 02.21.2024

  Norman Wisdom vs. The Space Nazis (Daleks in Colour)

  To celebrate the release of The Daleks in Colour on Bluray and DVD this week, Ben and Mark are joined once again by Mark Harrison to discuss how well it updates a 1965 classic, and what it has in common...

  
• 11.23.2023

  The Eight Wankers

  To celebrate 60 years of Doctor Who, On the Time Lash, Too Hot For TV, The Polis Box, and I Hate Doctor Who are sent to the Degsestial Death Zone for a battle of wills against the fearsome Degsestial Funmaker...

  
• 11.22.2023

  Colin's Wispy Chest

  Continuing their celebrations of Doctor Who's 60th anniversary, Ben and Mark take a sideways and boozy trip into the divergent universe of BBV.Exploring the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who's 30th anniversary, they tackle the de facto multi-Doctor story: The Airzone...

  
• 11.21.2023

  146: Uncle Winky Was Right

  "I was the fan, and I enjoyed being serviced"After a decade, Ben and Mark bring On the Time Lash's NuWho Watchthrough to an end with a discussion of The Power of Doctor, paired up with Big Finish's wildly experimental 40th...

  
• 11.05.2023

  145. Worshipping A Shit Tentacle

  In the penultimate On the Time Lash, Ben and Mark buckle their swashes and tackle tentacles as they discuss Legend of the Sea Devils and The Power of Kroll. Topics under discussion include: Is Yaz and the Doctor's romance a...

  
• 10.26.2023

  144. Beef N Beans N Discarded High Heels

  Ben and Mark tackle two stories that place Doctor Who monsters in storage - Eve of the Daleks and Carnival of Monsters!Ben takes against Nick's troubling trophy collection, Chris Chibnall gleefully subverts the Doctor Who base under siege story, and...

  
• 10.05.2023

  Get Tae Flux - Chapter 5: The Daleks' Fluxing Masterplan 2

  In the final part of On the Time Lash's Get Tae Flux miniseries, Ben and Mark discuss the tonal tightrope that Dennis Spooner walks while bringing The Daleks' Masterplan to its conclusion. Is Sara Kingdom's death justified? Is Donald Tosh...

  
• 07.30.2023

  Get Tae Flux - Chapter 4: The Daleks' Fluxing Masterplan

  As the Get Tae Flux season continues, Ben and Mark pair Doctor Who: Flux with The Daleks' Masterplan. In a slight break with the format, the first half sees the Lash Lads fulfill one of Degsey's best challenges yet. In...

  
• 07.16.2023

  Get Tae Flux - Chapter 3: Mother Fluxer

  Ben and Mark wrap up the Flux part of their GTF event series with a chat about "Survivors of the Flux" and "The Vanquishers". While it may have its flaws, they find that it's a tour de force performance...

  
• 06.19.2023

  Get Tae Flux - Chapter 2: It's One Fluxing Thing After Another

  In Chapter 2 of our very special Flux season, Ben and Mark discuss "Once, Upon Time" and "Village of the Angels". Should Doctor Who always be playing it safe like in Angels? Or should it be aiming for the fences...

  
• 05.28.2023

  Get Tae Flux - Chapter 1: For Flux Sake

  In the first of a six part On the Time Lash experiment, Ben and Mark take to YouTube and Facebook to discuss Flux and The Daleks' Masterplan. This is a slightly edited version of that YouTube recording.Chapter 1 covers The...

  
• 05.06.2023

  138. Sexy Wrong 'Uns

  WARNING: Contains Scenes Of A Sexual NatureBen and Mark are joined in their hotel room by Luke Molloy, formerly of the Lost on Gallifrey podcast to discuss 'Revolution of the Daleks' and 'Planet of the Daleks' on the eve of...

  
• 01.03.2023

  137.2 Ol' Ping-Pong Eyes

  In part 2 of our festive special, Ben, Mark and JR Southall return to discuss fan controversy 1970s style, by way of Robert Holmes' The Deadly Assassin. As a controversial moment in Doctor Who history, it's gone on to define...

  
• 12.25.2022

  137.1 When A Timeless Child Is Born

  In the first part of a 2-part festive special, Ben and Mark are joined by J.R Southall from the Strangers in Space podcast for a Christmas argument all about The Timeless Children.Under discussion: Doesn't the Timeless Children just return the...

  
• 12.12.2022

  136. Cliffs Chibnall

  Ben returns from Patagonia with news of Ryan Sinclair, and also to discuss Ascension of the Cybermen and Revenge of the Cybermen with Mark and a returning Dylan Rees from Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV. In a sprawling discussion,...

  
• 11.28.2022

  135. Posh Fanwank

  Ben's stuck in Patagonia with Ryan Sinclair, so Mark's joined by Dylan Rees from Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV to discuss two stories that introduce Mary Shelley to the Cybermen - The Haunting of Villa Diodati and The Silver...

  
• 10.31.2022

  Most WHOnted

  In a special Halloween spooktacular, Ben and Mark take a terrifying trip to Doctor Who's Most Haunted locations. Expect monkey possession, falling pottery, wildly rocking cribs, Ben's former career as a Plague Doctor, a bin liner full of haunted toys...

  
• 10.23.2022

  134. Malus, Malus, Who The F*ck is Malus?

  Ben and Mark sit down and talk about their feelings by way of Can You Hear Me? and The Awakening. Under discussion: What could the Doctor possibly say to Graham about cancer? The perils of using "opening up" as an...

  
• 09.25.2022

  133. Up His Astronaut Suit

  Ben and Mark tackle the big environmental issues as they discuss Praxeus and Planet of Giants. Wouldn't Praxeus have been better if they'd kept the Autons in? What was it about the idea of Planet of Giants that made it...

  
• 09.12.2022

  132. Pricks

  Ben and Mark let the listeners decide this episode's pairing with Fugitive of the Judoon, resulting in them having to chat about Meglos.Under discussion: Jason Bourne in Space, ITV Light Entertainment figures interacting, creepy cakemakers, and cacti.Also: Did JN-T require...

  
• 07.31.2022

  131. Hipster Historicals

  Ben and Mark discuss the Doctor Who sub-genre of the Hipster Historical by way of 'Nikola Tesla's Night Of Terror' and 'The Visitation'. How well do both stories succeed in informing and entertaining audiences about less famous historical celebrities?Ben finds...

  
• 06.26.2022

  130. Benni-Verthy-Vici

  Ben and Mark are joined by the internet's foremost 'Orphan 55' expert Pete Lambert of the Trap One podcast to discuss all-inclusive holidays, Greta Thunberg, spunk gags, and much, much more in Ed Hime's difficult second episode. In the second...

  
• 05.21.2022

  129. Doctor Who: Banged Up Abroad

  In many ways, it's all been building to this. The 12th series of On the Time Lash opens with Mark finally coming face to fist with Eric Saward and Ben getting to call people SPIES.In a packed show, Ben and...

  
• 05.15.2022

  128. Dicking Around In A Victorian House

  After an unintentionally long gap, Ben and Mark are back to discuss two types of Whittaker Dalek stories. Jodie Whittaker's first festive special 'Resolution' and David Whittaker's 'The Evil of the Daleks'.While building up their own hangovers, the Lash Lads...

  
• 02.20.2022

  127. Ravioli in My Colon

  Ben and Mark bring Series 11 to a close with two tales of spiritual saps being taken for a ride by old enemies of the Doctor. In The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos, Graham and Ryan get a satisfying ending...

  
• 01.23.2022

  126. Let Bigon Be Bigon

  Ben and Mark can find nothing with the emotional complexity to compare with It Takes You Away and so pair it with another story featuring a frog on a chair, Four to Doomsday.Comparing Jodie Whittaker with Peter Davison sparks some...

  
• 12.19.2021

  125. Mud

  In a very special seasonal episode, Ben and Mark welcome writer and director Joy Wilkinson to the podcast to discuss writing The Witchfinders, the mechanics of the S11 writer's room, British history and folklore as well as her own love...

  
• 11.21.2021

  Kerb!am Uniqueness Nerve Taxation

  Ben and Mark are joined by Steven from New to Who to discuss the BBC's perceived political bias through the prism of 'Kerblam!' and 'The Sunmakers'.Isn't the system actually the problem? Is it enough in 2018 to just make a...

  
• 10.31.2021

  123. Horrendous Histories

  Religious tensions, post-colonialism, court intrigue, unimaginable slaughter. It should be a right bloody laugh as Ben and Mark discuss 2018's 'Demons of the Punjab' and 1966's 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. Ben and Mark have nothing but praise...

  
• 09.28.2021

  122. Happy Ugly Cry

  After some hot off the presses RTD reactions, Ben and Mark are joined by Pting expert Millie McKenzie to discuss 'The Tsuranga Conundrum' and 'Nightmare of Eden'.Is 'The Tsuranga Conundrum' really as bad as everyone says it is? The discussion...

  
• 09.06.2021

  121. Mar-A-Lago in Sheffield

  In a creepy crawlie special, Ben and Mark discuss two giant insect stories by way of 'Arachnids in the UK' and 'The Web Planet'. Is 'Arachnids in the UK' even a pun? And is 'The Web Planet' actually just Doctor...

  
• 08.22.2021

  120. Rosé for Rosa

  Ben and Mark tackle quite the tonal tightrope as they discuss 2019's 'Rosa' and 1965's 'The Romans'. Dodging both white liberal hand wringing and patronising audiences of colour, Ben and Mark attempt to discuss the importance and freshness of 'Doctor...

  
• 08.01.2021

  Swift Hauf - Chibnall Out!

  In a very special bonus episode Ben and Mark try to unpack all the news from a packed and slightly chaotic week in Doctor Who. They've become everything they said they'd never be...Under discussion: San Diego Comic Con, Series 13,...

  
• 08.01.2021

  119. A Tubigrip in a Bush

  Ben and Mark continue the Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall era with looks at two races against time without much urgency - 'The Ghost Monument' and 'Enlightenment'.Struggling to study for their NVQs, Ben and Mark tackle dodgy portrayals of coordination disorders, one...

  
• 07.27.2021

  99.2 Cotton, Ky, Jo

  Bang the War Gong! Ben and Mark are back with Lee, Dave and Cameron of The Polis Box to discuss The Mutants. Following an impromptu Jon Pertwee themed round of Would I Lie to You? they discuss the end of...

  
• 07.27.2021

  99.1 Titavate the Fronds

  Ben and Mark are joined by rival Scottish Doctor Who podcast The Polis Box to discuss 'The Zygon Invasion/Inversion'. Will the Lash Lads put aside their differences with Lee, Dave and Cameron as they sit down and talk? Well, yes,...

  
• 07.16.2021

  118. Whittaker's World

  Ben and Mark return to cast their bloodshot, drunken eyes over the Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall era as they pair ‘The Woman Who Fell to Earth’ and ‘Time and the Rani’ – two series openers that will eventually lead to the...

  
• 05.02.2021

  117. Live, Laugh, Logopolis

  Ben and Mark are joined by artist, model maker and friend of the show Millie McKenzie to bid a fond, melancholic farewell to Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat and Tom Baker.Is ‘Twice Upon a Time’s meta look at the show’s history...

  
• 04.18.2021

  116. Body Horror with Ben and Mark

  Two fine examples of body horror, Ben and Mark discuss Cyber origins by way of 'World Enough and Time'/'The Doctor Falls' and the Big Finish audio 'Spare Parts'. As well as discussing the inevitability of the Cybermen, they also discuss...

  
• 04.04.2021

  115. Romans in the Gloamin'

  Ben and Mark discuss two TARDIS trips to bonnie Scotland by way of 'The Eaters of Light' and 'The Highlanders'. As they're roman in the gloaming, they chat about Peter Capaldi's old-school charm, the National Theatre of Scotland, the Falkirk...

  
• 03.21.2021

  114. Briggsit

  Ben and Mark tackle two Doctor Who stories placed at Britain's exit and entrance into the Europe - The Empress of Mars and The Curse of Peladon. What do these two stories tell us about exceptionalism, federalism and the ideal...

  
• 03.07.2021

  113. Poppin' a Cap in P Cap

  Ben and Mark discuss two benevolent dictatorships as they tackle 'The Lie of the Land' and 'The Macra Terror'? Does the Monk trilogy reach a satisfying conclusion? Were British holiday camps all that bad?Under discussion: Would the Monk arc have...

  
• 02.21.2021

  112. Claws of Axos Meets It's a Knockout

  Ben and Mark discuss hangovers, wasted potential and climates of fear as they try to spin a few hours out of ‘The Pyramid at the End of the World’ and ‘Warriors of the Deep’.Ben and Mark try to criticise the...

  
• 02.07.2021

  111. Shrugging Priest

  Ben and Mark compare holiday destinations, discuss Catholicism and their own audiences with the Pope as they discuss 2017's 'Extremis'- Just how difficult is it to get information from a book in 2017? Is this just a Greatest Hits collection...

  
• 01.25.2021

  110. Walnut Baby

  It's space, the final frontier as Ben and Mark traverse two less than utopian visions of mankind's future via 'Oxygen' and 'Colony in Space' from a less than utopian present. Is 'Oxygen' just 40 minutes of set-up for one gag?...

  
• 01.17.2021

  109. Spooky Hoose 3: Soor Ploom

  In the first of another round of Lockdown Lashes, Ben and Mark tackle some creepy goings on in an old house and a murderous rampage in a spooky lighthouse as they discuss 'Knock Knock' and 'Horror of Fang Rock'.Just how...