Something Who

Back again with a companion piece to last week's chat with Chris Chapman. I plucked up the courage to ask, Toby was extremely kind to say yes, so here's a conversation with Toby Hadoke about his experience in front of the camera on the extra films for the Doctor Who DVD and Blu-ray series.

Toby discusses the background to his involvement in the range, and we talk about Living With Levene, Looking for Peter, Hadoke vs HAVOC, Treasures Lost and Found, A Weekend With Waterhouse, The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited and Looking For Lennie. Toby also mentions a documentary from the upcoming Season 14 set, Whose Doctor Who Revisited. We also get to hear about the genesis of Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf and many other tales. He's warm and funny and it's a tonic for these troubled times.

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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.

In these extraordinary times, here's something lovely that I'm sure you'll enjoy. Thankfully "social distancing" doesn't get in the way of podcasting and Chris Chapman very kindly agreed to chat with me about his work on the Doctor Who: The Collection Blu-ray sets.

Chris discusses how his films are driven by love for the series and explains the background behind making some of them. We talk about A Weekend with Waterhouse, Looking for Lennie, The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited, Keeping Up With The Joneses, 3 versions of The Writers' Room and Showman. Chris also trails a couple of documentaries from the upcoming Season 14 set, Whose Doctor Who Revisited and Our Sarah Jane, plus a feature to accompany the Fury From The Deep animation.

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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.

Hoping to ease the disappointment surrounding the postponement of this weekend's Terrance Dicks Celebration event, I've dusted off this recording I made of a panel held at the London Comic Con last October celebrating Terrance's life and work. I hope it goes some way towards filling the gap.

The panel was hosted by Matthew Sweet, with contributions from Emma Reeves, Paul Cornell, Mike Tucker and Katy Manning. 

The audio quality is frankly poor, but I've done the best I can to reduce the interference and with a bit of persistence and concentration it's entirely possible to follow the conversation.

This podcast is available entirely for free and I make nothing from it, but in the spirit of the Celebration event, I'm pledging to donate 10p for every download we get (up to a maximum of 500) to Terrance's chosen charity of Save the Children.

I think it's a great conversation and tribute to Terrance and I hope you enjoy it.

In the sketch, it's almost curtains for Series 12, as it comes into contact with another series where things have taken a rather different turn... Meanwhile Richard, Giles and Simon bring you our review of The Timeless Children, thoughts at the end of Series 12 and looking forward to future developments. And then it's on to the Tenth Planet, the First Doctor's swansong, if we can still call him that after last Sunday.

Richard, Giles and Simon review the latest episode of Doctor Who - Ascension of the Cybermen. It's back to Chibbers for this one, with all the good and bad that entails. Inevitably we touch on Big Finish, plotting, character development and where is this season heading to? Please like or share our podcast with people who will enjoy it. You can rate us directly on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser.com

The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and the closing music is possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme from Richard on ukulele and kazoo.

Guess what? It's the return of Paul, fresh from his recent sojourn in LA, who joins Simon, Giles and Richard to review the latest episode of Doctor Who - The Haunting of Villa Diodati. Everyone loves Maxine Alderton's first entry to the canon and while we wonder how it took Chris Chibnall so long to find a script like this, we detour into Latin and Greek and, of course, Big Finish. It's our longest short episode by some distance!

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The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and the closing music is possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme from Richard on ukulele and kazoo.

Richard, Giles and Simon return with Something Who Episode 13. After a couple of shorter podcasts, it's back to our classic format as we review the latest episode of Doctor Who - Can You Hear Me? - twinned with a classic story, The Crusade. There's a lot of positivity about. Simon also prompts a discussion about what makes a historical story and we discuss some of our favourites. There's also time for a quick encounter with Shakespeare and David Whitaker.

Simon and Giles are back with Richard for a quick chat about the latest Doctor Who story, Praxeus. It's fair to say that opinions were mixed, but we still had some fun with it.

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The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and the closing music is possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme from Richard on ukulele and kazoo.

Simon and Giles are back with Richard for a brief chat about this week's extraordinary episode, Fugitive of the Judoon, and to engage in the same lurid speculation as every other group of Doctor Who fans the world over.

Making a modest virtue of our relative tardiness, we were able to chew over Chris Chibnall's comments as reported in the UK Mirror.

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The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and the closing music is possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme from Richard on ukulele and kazoo.

Giles and Simon are back with Richard to chat about Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror and The Horror of Fang Rock, two stories set in the Edwardian era and with an electrical bent. And somewhere in the middle, fans of Doctor Who's missing episodes should listen for an outbreak of Omnihumour.