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Matt and Kenny discuss the concluding adventure on the Compassion Arc, as the Doctor returns to Gallifrey.

And special guests Steve Cole and Peter Anghelides discuss the writing of the novel.

In this edition of The Echo Chamber, James and Michele talk about Sword of Orion by Nicholas Briggs, released in February 2001 – the seventeenth story in Big Finish’s Main Range but the first to feature the return of the Cybermen!

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

1. Buy Sword of Orion from Big Finish Productions for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!)
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 time we continue down the rabbit hole of Doctor Who that Could Have Been but Never Was and take a peek inside the Leekley Bible (no, that's not the one in your motel room nightstand!) that would have potentially been made into the 8th Doctor's first season on Fox here in America had the TV movie done better than it did. Let's just say that the classic stories chosen to be remade and updated to that 90s American TV sensibility...well, they were some interesting choices!

    The Sixth Doctor

Wild speculation abounds as rumours of the BBC and Bad Wolf “it’s not you, it’s me” -ing each other surface given the somewhat mid (as the kids say) reception to the latest iteration of Doctor Who, The Three Who Rule have theories a-plenty as to the show’s next steps, anchored by nothing but their half-formed notions of media literacy (and some inside knowledge). Besides that, we have more exciting Big Finish previews, a Verity! mention on UK game show “The Chase” and the first part of our Class Series Commentary for seminal 1970s serial “The Sun Makers!”

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Film is Fabulous now able to accept donations as a charitable trust
• Film is Fabulous on Doctor Who missing episodes
• Verity! appears as a clue to a question on The Chase
• BBC seeks to exit agreement with Bad Wolf?
• Legendary Location Hunting with Tia Kofi – The Whoniverse Show
• The Missing Episodes Podcast returns after a long hiatus
• The Peter Purves podcast debuted
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: The Last Days of the Powell Estate out now
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dare You due Dec 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The First Doctor Unbound: Return to Marinus due Jan 2026
• Titan Comics: Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox, issue 1 due Nov 5
• Titan Comics: Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox, issue 2 available for pre-order

Commentary:

• The Sun Makers

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast....

Who's He? On The TV | Thunderbirds - 60th Anniversary

Phil celebrates the 60th anniversary of the classic TV series Thunderbirds, created by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson and he tells of the impact it had on his life.

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On this episode Si, Frazer, Tom and Andrew mark the release of The Moonbase on vinyl with a discussion of this classic 1967 Patrick Troughton story.

You can order the vinyl edition here #ad

This week we return to our Whooverville 16 coverage with a chat to composer and musician Brian Hodgson.

 

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The Rev and Mark return from Bridlington Comic Con with tales a plenty. In tribute to Christopher H Bidmead, we take a look at “Keeper of Traken”.

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(00:06:38) Photos from 2025’s Bridlington Comic Con can be found on our Tumblr page here and here and here.

(00:09:20) Our own Rev’s interview with Nigel Plaskett and Hartley Hare at Bridlington can be seen on Youtube here.

(00:11:20) “Knights of God” was a British science fiction childen’s TV serial, produced by TVS and first broadcast on ITV in 1987. It was written by Richard Cooper. Set in the year 2020, it showed a Britain ruled by the Knights of God, a fascist and anti-Christian religious order that came to power during a brutal civil war twenty years previously. The full series, admittedly of dodgy quality, can be found on Youtube here.

(00:14:22) Nigel Plaskett’s appearance in the 1970s Vicks Sinex nasal spray commercial can be seen here.

(00:20:30) Allan and Erica’s “Tony Slattery Rambling Club Podcast” with Paul Carmichael carries on the legacy of their friend, the magnificent Tony Slattery! Each episode, they dive into delightful discussions, often accompanied by a special guest, as they navigate the quirky wonders of the Dewey Decimal System—guided by their magical (and rather tatty) bingo machine, voiced by the legendary Stephen Fry! You can become a member of the Rambling Club and obtain your signed membership card, club badges, access to episodes a month in advance, exclusive episodes you won’t hear anywhere else, monthly AMA’s and much more by heading over to www.patreon.com/slatterylive.

(00:21:22) The vampire Lalla Ward cover from issue 17 of “House of Hammer” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:28:31) The papier maché Dalek tableau which Mark presented to the Whoseum in podcast #60 can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:30:55) Emily and Justin’s bespoke papier maché “Total Pap” website can be found here.

(01:11:55) ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me” music video whose winking so profoundly disturbed our Mark can be seen here.

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

Weapons, Tar, The Life of Chuck, The Miniaturist, Alien: Earth, Dexter: Resurrection, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Smoke, Black Mirror: Bandasnatch, Black Mirror: Plaything

https://m.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=tindogpodcast&_pgn=1&isRefine=true&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l49496 REVIEW First broadcast in 1975, ITV children's series Sky followed a time-travelling alien boy with solid blue eyes and psychic powers, who found himself on Earth in the wrong period of history. Fifty years later, Sky has been reborn. But why now? And what does Sky want with the old man living in the sheltered accommodation who used to fight to save planet Earth from destroying itself... Apotheose Two teenagers, the executive of Youngwell Corporation, a discredited journalist and an old man in a nursing home are brought together when a mysterious voice calls from within an ancient burial mound in the heart of Stanton Cheyney. The crows are flying, the public are chanting, and something malevolent is about to make itself known... Deitropism Sky is reunited with old friends and is now a TV superstar. A spy has infiltrated Youngwell Corporation and Jack Diver is trying to uncover secrets. Someone has a secret wrapped inside their genes and someone else is going to discover that the trees are not quite what they seem... Calyx As the survivors of mankind struggle to live beneath the biomass of plant life that literally envelops the planet, cutting off the sunlight and the air, an old enemy of Sky’s finally manifests, determined to make things worse. As the hunt for the Juganet becomes more and more desperate, Bex Briggs discovers that one should never stand still for too long in this terrifying new world order... Sky created by Bob Baker & Dave Martin © 1975 Recorded on: 15-17 January 2025 Recorded at: The Soundhouse Video: Behind the scenes at Sky Writer, director and co-producer Gary Russell said: "There's a golden decade of kids' TV between 1972 and 1982, much of it produced by HTV and Patrick Dromgoole, often written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin. One of those gems was Sky, a show that displayed an intelligence and sophistication that many other ITV companies tried to emulate, but rarely did. "The ultimate outsider, Sky was neither good nor evil, neither a hero nor a villain. The same goes for the other characters around him: Arby, Goodchild, the Briggs family – there are marvellous moral ambiguities about all of them. "I love the original; it was a show I had grown up on and seen a thousand times, because I've got it on a nice shiny disc. Jason Haigh-Ellery turned around to me one day and said, 'Look, we've got the rights from Bob Baker to do a new version of Sky.' I think he could see the passion and fervour and begging in my eyes. He said, 'Do you want to do it?', and I said yes, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I'd been thinking since 1975 about what you could do with this show, so I was very keen to sit down and get on with it. "Jason said to me, 'Do you want to do a remake?', and I said 'No, I want to do a sequel.' I wanted to pick the story up 50 years later, and therefore I knew that the only character I needed to bring back – other than Sky, obviously – was Arby. The idea of Arby, the hero of the original, being this broken old man sitting in a nursing home somewhere – I thought, that’s your good launch pad. It's about a redemption for him." "To be asked to find out what happened next, and the effect Sky's parting gift to Arby might have on a human, was too good an offer to say no to. I love these characters passionately and it's a joy to be able to tell these latest chapters in their lives – the first audio serial I've ever written for Big Finish." His co-producer Dominic G. Martin added: "The tale of Sky is an absolute belter of a story! I was born long after it aired, and despite growing up on a lot of classic TV, I only learned about Sky from Gary Russell. Hearing that Bob Baker and Dave Martin were the original serial's writers made me instantly excited to get involved. "It's a such a fascinating concept that you could pull off in any era with all its mysteries and dynamic characters. The whole cast was magnificent in the recordings – they were such a delight to work with, and I would love to think that the new series is not only a loving tribute to the work of Baker and Martin, but also builds on that grand story that they set up back in the 1970s, while keeping it accessible for a whole new generation to get immersed in." Lead actor Cloud Quinn takes over the role played by Marc Harrison in the original TV series. He said: "Sky definitely piqued my interest. I watched a little on YouTube and I read the novel of the original 1970 series, and I just loved the imagination of it. "It felt very challenging for children, but in a good way, opening their horizons to the big issues of the day around space flight and nuclear power and continuous industrialisation, and what that meant for the natural world – obviously that remains very, very relevant today. Edwin Flay, who plays Arby Vennor, added: "The audio revival is very well crafted in that you don’t need to have seen the original, but it grows from it, it feeds on it, and it brings all of the concerns very much up to date. The way our two characters have evolved from the original series and the journeys they’ve been on in the interim give it a lot of its meat for me, certainly. "In the original series, Arby Vennor was young, vibrant, and kind – a very straightforward, uncomplicated character – and now his experience has left him a broken shell. Exploring that, as he finds his drive and his sense of self again, has been a pleasure." Cloud Quinn (Sky) Edwin Flay (Arby Vennor) Caitlyn Galvin (Gabby Evans) Rachel Handshaw (Rhea Holmes) Jessica Hayles (Bex Briggs) Sanjay Lago (Krish Nadar) Dominic Martin (Reporter) Fiona McClure (Nurse / Brenda Simms) Samuel Morgan-Davies (Kyle Brannock) Tara Ward (Miss Cornell) Conrad Westmaas (Jack Diver)

https://m.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=tindogpodcast&_pgn=1&isRefine=true&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l49496 REVIEW First broadcast in 1975, ITV children's series Sky followed a time-travelling alien boy with solid blue eyes and psychic powers, who found himself on Earth in the wrong period of history. Fifty years later, Sky has been reborn. But why now? And what does Sky want with the old man living in the sheltered accommodation who used to fight to save planet Earth from destroying itself... Apotheose Two teenagers, the executive of Youngwell Corporation, a discredited journalist and an old man in a nursing home are brought together when a mysterious voice calls from within an ancient burial mound in the heart of Stanton Cheyney. The crows are flying, the public are chanting, and something malevolent is about to make itself known... Deitropism Sky is reunited with old friends and is now a TV superstar. A spy has infiltrated Youngwell Corporation and Jack Diver is trying to uncover secrets. Someone has a secret wrapped inside their genes and someone else is going to discover that the trees are not quite what they seem... Calyx As the survivors of mankind struggle to live beneath the biomass of plant life that literally envelops the planet, cutting off the sunlight and the air, an old enemy of Sky’s finally manifests, determined to make things worse. As the hunt for the Juganet becomes more and more desperate, Bex Briggs discovers that one should never stand still for too long in this terrifying new world order... Sky created by Bob Baker & Dave Martin © 1975 Recorded on: 15-17 January 2025 Recorded at: The Soundhouse Video: Behind the scenes at Sky Writer, director and co-producer Gary Russell said: "There's a golden decade of kids' TV between 1972 and 1982, much of it produced by HTV and Patrick Dromgoole, often written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin. One of those gems was Sky, a show that displayed an intelligence and sophistication that many other ITV companies tried to emulate, but rarely did. "The ultimate outsider, Sky was neither good nor evil, neither a hero nor a villain. The same goes for the other characters around him: Arby, Goodchild, the Briggs family – there are marvellous moral ambiguities about all of them. "I love the original; it was a show I had grown up on and seen a thousand times, because I've got it on a nice shiny disc. Jason Haigh-Ellery turned around to me one day and said, 'Look, we've got the rights from Bob Baker to do a new version of Sky.' I think he could see the passion and fervour and begging in my eyes. He said, 'Do you want to do it?', and I said yes, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I'd been thinking since 1975 about what you could do with this show, so I was very keen to sit down and get on with it. "Jason said to me, 'Do you want to do a remake?', and I said 'No, I want to do a sequel.' I wanted to pick the story up 50 years later, and therefore I knew that the only character I needed to bring back – other than Sky, obviously – was Arby. The idea of Arby, the hero of the original, being this broken old man sitting in a nursing home somewhere – I thought, that’s your good launch pad. It's about a redemption for him." "To be asked to find out what happened next, and the effect Sky's parting gift to Arby might have on a human, was too good an offer to say no to. I love these characters passionately and it's a joy to be able to tell these latest chapters in their lives – the first audio serial I've ever written for Big Finish." His co-producer Dominic G. Martin added: "The tale of Sky is an absolute belter of a story! I was born long after it aired, and despite growing up on a lot of classic TV, I only learned about Sky from Gary Russell. Hearing that Bob Baker and Dave Martin were the original serial's writers made me instantly excited to get involved. "It's a such a fascinating concept that you could pull off in any era with all its mysteries and dynamic characters. The whole cast was magnificent in the recordings – they were such a delight to work with, and I would love to think that the new series is not only a loving tribute to the work of Baker and Martin, but also builds on that grand story that they set up back in the 1970s, while keeping it accessible for a whole new generation to get immersed in." Lead actor Cloud Quinn takes over the role played by Marc Harrison in the original TV series. He said: "Sky definitely piqued my interest. I watched a little on YouTube and I read the novel of the original 1970 series, and I just loved the imagination of it. "It felt very challenging for children, but in a good way, opening their horizons to the big issues of the day around space flight and nuclear power and continuous industrialisation, and what that meant for the natural world – obviously that remains very, very relevant today. Edwin Flay, who plays Arby Vennor, added: "The audio revival is very well crafted in that you don’t need to have seen the original, but it grows from it, it feeds on it, and it brings all of the concerns very much up to date. The way our two characters have evolved from the original series and the journeys they’ve been on in the interim give it a lot of its meat for me, certainly. "In the original series, Arby Vennor was young, vibrant, and kind – a very straightforward, uncomplicated character – and now his experience has left him a broken shell. Exploring that, as he finds his drive and his sense of self again, has been a pleasure." Cloud Quinn (Sky) Edwin Flay (Arby Vennor) Caitlyn Galvin (Gabby Evans) Rachel Handshaw (Rhea Holmes) Jessica Hayles (Bex Briggs) Sanjay Lago (Krish Nadar) Dominic Martin (Reporter) Fiona McClure (Nurse / Brenda Simms) Samuel Morgan-Davies (Kyle Brannock) Tara Ward (Miss Cornell) Conrad Westmaas (Jack Diver)

Welcome to another series of The Doctor Who Podcast – The Echo Chamber! Series Four, to be precise.

In this edition, James and Michele talk about Storm Warning by Alan Barnes, released in January 2001 – the Sixteenth story in Big Finish’s Main Range – and Paul McGann’s very first Big Finish story!

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

1. Buy Storm Warning from Big Finish Productions for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!)
2. Listen to it!
3. Join us in the Echo Chamber, listen to what we thought and join in the discussion!

Enjoy the show!

  enjoy Quiz number 2     

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In a show of mercy by the wayward forces of the universe, the news list is short and sweet this week as we delve into new Gallifrey One guests, Ncuti Gatwa’s Scottish BAFTA nomination, our usual forensic examination of Big Finish covers, and our feature, an interview with Doctor Who writer Beth Axford about her latest work, the Official Doctor Who Quiz Book and well as her upcoming work of fiction, Doctor Who: Firefall! Extra special Canadian content contained therein! 

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Sarah Sutton, Alexander Devrient announced for Gallifrey One 2026
• Ncuti Gatwa nominated for BAFTA Scotland Audience Award for Doctor Who
• Big Finish Call Me Master: Monsters released
• Big Finish Bernice Summerfield: The Dalek Eternity 1 released
• Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Space Security Service: Bret Vyon Lives! due Jan 2026
• Big Finish Companion Chronicles: The Legacy of Time due Feb 2026

Interview:

• Beth Axford
• The Official Doctor Who Quiz Book
• Doctor Who: Firefall

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast....

Review - AWOL

This week, Phil and Paul listen to another Short Trips story from Big Finish and this time it's AWOL, starring Jon Culshaw. Phil really loves this audio drama, so he was interested in Paul's take on this story which fills in the blanks between the third Doctor stories The Silurians and The Ambassadors of Death and fleshes out the relationship between the Doctor and the Brigadier.  And as a bonus, they introduce everyone to the phrase "the reverse Paddington".

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• It's Prognosis Negative Episode Five Four, featuring Isaac and Eric. Join us as we take a look at the 2010 film, Tron Legacy. Dive in and discover if we go type O Neg or Pos!

 

• This is a Non-canonical ProgNeg. 

 

• This discussion was recorded on Sept. 9th, 2025.

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Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler, the Real Keith Dunn and Scott Fuller review Doctor Who: Father’s Day and the last six episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 3, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:01 — Welcome!
• 01:40 – News:
• 01:43 — The Muppets: 50th anniversary special.
• 02:42 — Tomb Raider: Lara Croft TV series coming.
• 04:03 — Foundation: Fourth season coming.
• 05:52 — Doctor Who: BBC Three repeating New Who Series 5 (Smith and Gillan era).
• 09:40 — Stan Lee: Back, in AI hologram form.
• 15:58 – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 3 episodes 5-10.
• 56:12 – Doctor Who: Father’s Day.
• 73:45 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 74:22 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 75:23 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

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• Wikipedia: The Muppets.
• Wikipedia: Tomb Raider.
• Wikipedia: Foundation (TV series).
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Stan Lee.
• Star Trek.
• Wikipedia: Father’s Day (Doctor Who).
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We take a closer look at two Big Finish Doctor Who Monthly range stories, The Doomsday Quatrain and House of Blue Fire.

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On this episode US Jason, Denise, Adam, Ian and Si pay tribute to the late Doctor Who writer and script editor Christopher H. Bidmead.

 

Links:

Jonathan Morris' blog post about Christoper H. Bidmead is here.

You can find Jim Sangster's 'Ghastly Woke Zombie' T-shirt here.

Order An Eternal Golden Braid from Amazon #ad

 

Doctor Who Literature episodes on Bidmead's Target novelisations:

Logopolis

Castrovalva

Frontios

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  This title was released in September 2025. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 30 November 2025, and on general sale after this date. Esther and Cody are on the run from their care home. Esther wants to find their parents, Cody wants to finish the latest series of his podcast. Stumbling on a junkyard of alien artefacts, Esther and Cody's lives take a sudden turn. Scrap merchant Jed has spent years trying to awaken a particularly sullen object. But the Torchwood SUV has a message for Esther and Cody. Please note: the collector's edition CD is strictly limited to 1,000 copies    (Esther)  (Cody)  (The SUV) (Jed)     Senior Producer Cover Art by Director Executive Producer Music by Producer Script Editor Sound Design by Written by Theme Music by

  This title was released in September 2025. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 30 November 2025, and on general sale after this date. Esther and Cody are on the run from their care home. Esther wants to find their parents, Cody wants to finish the latest series of his podcast. Stumbling on a junkyard of alien artefacts, Esther and Cody's lives take a sudden turn. Scrap merchant Jed has spent years trying to awaken a particularly sullen object. But the Torchwood SUV has a message for Esther and Cody. Please note: the collector's edition CD is strictly limited to 1,000 copies    (Esther)  (Cody)  (The SUV) (Jed)     Senior Producer Cover Art by Director Executive Producer Music by Producer Script Editor Sound Design by Written by Theme Music by

This week the Shada tour returns as we walked round historic Cambridge and dodged the rainy weather.

 

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Joe and Toni discuss the Rule of Two Thirds, Master Exposure, and the Doctor Who episode Utopia.

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Friends, we have been talking about this idea for at least a year and now we are finally here. EPISODE 350!! In this episode, we each pick three unproduced Doctor Who stories, flesh them out, fancast them, and pitch them to each other. This was so much fun to pull together and record! If you know anyone at Big Finish, have them call us!

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With the Doctor Who Season 13 Bluray Collection set on the horizon, we try to bring you a taste of the Terror of the Zygons event at the BFI, with Pete, Conrad, James, Mark D, Dan, Hannah, Chris, Si, Tom and Ben!

It’s an soundtastic week for Doctor Who with not only a bumper crop of Big Finish announcement but also BBC audiobook excitement, comic book to audio adaptations, plus some expensive dollies, comic books in digital form and (back to audio) an interview with Michael Stevens, the senior content producer at BBC Audiobooks! It’s almost too much aural content to handle! So handle it! 

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who Season 13 Collection UK release date: October 20
• Tom Baker video from BFI Terror of the Zygons event
• BBC Three repeating Doctor Who on Saturdays from Sep 27, starting with Matt Smith’s run
• Fifteenth Doctor Sixth Scale Statue
• Meep 6″ Titan Vinyl preorder
• Doctor Who: The Vampire Plants & Other Stories: Doctor Who Audio Annual Audio CD – Unabridged due Dec 4
• Doctor Who The Mind Trap: 2nd Doctor Audio Original Audio CD by John Peel – Unabridged due Jan 1
• Doctor Who: Star Flight: 1st Doctor Audio Original Audio CD by Paul Hayes – Unabridged due Mar 5
• Big Finish The Lost Stories: Alixion released
• Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: Master! Part Three released
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: Empty Vessels due December
• Big Finish The Second Doctor Adventures: The Potential Daleks due Dec 2025
• Big Finish Doctor Who: Christmas – It’s a Wonderful War and Other Stories coming for Christmas
• Doctor Who Titan Comics collection coming to Neon Ichiban
• RTD to receive Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Welshies Oct 5
• 10 Years of Bad Wolf event at Wolf Studios on October 16, tickets sold out
• Chris Chibnall: In Conversation Oct 2 in Salisbury
• ‘Into the Whoniverse’ Panel Series at the Comic-Con Museum Oct 18

Interview:

• Michael Stevens – Senior Content Producer at BBC Audiobooks

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast.....

Review - Dead Media

This week, Phil and Scott turn their attention to a 12th Doctor Short Trip story from Big FInish, Dead Media. Starring Jacob Dudman as the 12th Doctor, this sees the Doctor in an adventure at St. Lukes University before he met Bill Potts. Old audio formats feature heavily in this story (it's a cassette is it?), which might frighten younger listeners. But our reviewing duo drift away and talk about no Doctor Who on the telly, despite Phil's best efforts not to.

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Join the entire Campervan Crew for a bumper episode of the DWP – and a very special guest! Yes, join Drew, Brent, James, Ian, Michele, Phil – and Ashley Frieze as they discuss…. get ready for this!

1. Feedback!
2. The Return of the Doctor – the second Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz story from Big Finish
3. How Doctor Who is doing Stateside and what’s the best way to keep it current?! Specials? A Paul McGann series?!
4. The first Doctor story The Ark!

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This week more Whooverville 16 coverage with an appearance by Matthew Waterhouse.

 

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The lads are back with all the geek news and reviews from the murky underbelly of geekdom.

News Thunderbirds turns 60

Week That Was Foundation Superman Dept Q Thursday Murder Club Lois Lane: Enemy of the People

  Ulysses encounters a seemingly lifeless world. He discovers that its people were once famed for their medical technology, prompting Yumi to take her brother Numinor there to revive him. But the gods have left a nasty surprise.

  Ulysses encounters a seemingly lifeless world. He discovers that its people were once famed for their medical technology, prompting Yumi to take her brother Numinor there to revive him. But the gods have left a nasty surprise.

It’s another edition of Trivia, Mr. Fibuli! With Warren away in Mexico, possibly impersonating a false Aztec goddess, our friends Sarah, Kat, and Erika join the remaining members of the Three Who Rule for a rousing trivia game, with questions once again coming from Jacqueline Rayner’s 2013 Official Doctor Who Quiz Book. We also talk about a dollop of Dugga Doo merchandise now available on the official BBC Shop, a giant feature on Jodie Whittaker in the latest Doctor Who Magazine, and more!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• More Gallifrey One 2026 guest announcements: Frazer Hines, Miranda Raison
• Doctor Who Magazine #621 released
• Big Finish The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Return of the Doctor released
• Big Finish The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Lionesses in Winter due November 2025
• Big Finish: Torchwood – Salvage released
• New Lux and Dugga Doo merchandise available at the official BBC Shop
• Doctor Who: The Ark – Episode Showcase with live Q&A at Riverside Studios on October 4
• Doctor Who Am I available for free (with ads) on YouTube in some regions
• Through The Square Window podcast with Graham Kibble-White and Samira Ahmed launches September 17

Guests:

• Trivia, Mr. Fubuli
• Kat Griffiths
• Erika Ensign
• Sarah Murphy

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, the Real Keith Dunn and Scott Fuller review Doctor Who: The Elite (Big Finish) and the first five episodes of Alien: Earth, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:11 — Welcome!
• 01:57 – News:
• 02:11 — Doctor Who: Disney still dragging it out.
• 04:30 — Futurama: New season coming.
• 06:44 — Christopher H. Bidmead: DEAD!
• 09:40 — Star Trek: Trying to establish Star Trek Day.
• 11:01 — Star Trek: LEGO.
• 11:39 — Star Trek: Scouts children’s series.
• 13:37 – Doctor Who: The Elite (Big Finish).
• 28:40 – Alien: Earth (episodes 1-5).
• 47:05 – Riddler’s Ruminations: Alien: Earth
• 55:49 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 69:37 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 70:39 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Futurama.
• Wikipedia: Christopher H. Bidmead.
• Star Trek.
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Elite.
• Wikipedia: Alien: Earth.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

This week more Whooverville 16 coverage with a chat to actress Steph De Whalley best known as Anita in Doctor Who: Joy to The World.

 

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  REVIEW   This title was released in September 2025. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 30 November 2025, and on general sale after this date. Having saved the peaceful Zaarians from an evil alien threat, the Doctor and Yaz sail off to their next adventure. Only this time, Yaz wonders if they're moving on, or running away. Convincing a grudging Doctor to return to the planet, they are shocked to find the Zaarians in turmoil. What did the Doctor do? Why is the city in ruins? And what's that voice in Yaz's head...? **Please note: the collector’s edition CD is strictly limited to 1,500 copies**

  REVIEW   This title was released in September 2025. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 30 November 2025, and on general sale after this date. Having saved the peaceful Zaarians from an evil alien threat, the Doctor and Yaz sail off to their next adventure. Only this time, Yaz wonders if they're moving on, or running away. Convincing a grudging Doctor to return to the planet, they are shocked to find the Zaarians in turmoil. What did the Doctor do? Why is the city in ruins? And what's that voice in Yaz's head...? **Please note: the collector’s edition CD is strictly limited to 1,500 copies**

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A couple days late, but worth the wait! As we reach the cusp of episode 350, we first look at the Jon Pertwee story Colony in Space. It's a little bit of a middling story, but there are some notable firsts, some great action, and a surprising amount of shoot outs!

In this edition we remember the contributions of Christopher H. Beadmead to Doctor Who. From Script Editor for Season 18 to his three TV stories, Logopolis, Castrovalva and Frontios, to his audio adventures Renaissance of the Daleks and The Hollows of Time, we give our views, "warts and all", as JNT would say.

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Troy has just released his second novel entitled "Gus and the Burning Stones".

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Erika and Steven reach the mid-point of the last 6-parter structured like this one. Turns out there’s a lot to talk about here in the middle!

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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