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Christmas time is here and Scott and Randy are back with this year’s Christmas special, “A Christmas Carol”. Amy and Rory are trapped on a starship that is going to crash and only one man can stop it, but he doesn’t exactly in the Christmas spirit. Can the Doctor show him the meaning of Christmas and convince him to help in time? Are flying sharks better than reindeer? Why are bow ties so cool? Find out, in the newest episode of The Doctor's Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next Week: Series 6 trailer!!

Now what else would any self-respecting Doctor Who podcast be doing this time of year?

Apart from fighting over the last scraps of christmas turkey and filling the recycle bins to overflowing with paper, James and Tom also review the Doctor Who christmas special for 2010, cunningly titled A Christmas Carol

Now what else would any self-respecting Doctor Who podcast be doing this time of year?

Apart from fighting over the last scraps of christmas turkey and filling the recycle bins to overflowing with paper, James and Tom also review the Doctor Who christmas special for 2010, cunningly titled A Christmas Carol

It's the Pharos Project Christmas booze up!

This week,

We prove once and for all that some dogs are indeed only for Christmas as we look at 1st episode of the new K-9 series.

There are present givings, part poppers and cracker pullings and Barry Manilow delivers some fun Pharos Project facts.

Congratulations to Chris from Radio Free Skaro and "friend of the show", David Perry for being the only people to get last time's secret word correct. This time, please include the word "dangleberry" in any feedback.

P.S. A dog is not really just for Christmas and anyone found to be abandoning animals will have us to answer to.

Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 232
Running time: 1:31:30

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special) reviewed, live feedback, and more.

Hosted by Louis Trapani and Dave Cooper.

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2010 was a great year for Doctor Who, and it was capped off by what all three hosts of Radio Free Skaro (and many, many others on the internet) consider to be the finest Doctor Who Christmas Special to date. A Christmas Carol had it all - strong story, superb writing, great performances, and was never in danger of jumping the very rickshaw pulling shark that featured several times in the episode. The Three Who Rule discuss all of this and more with great gusto, and give a few hints of their podcast plans for the year to come...

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

2010 was a great year for Doctor Who, and it was capped off by what all three hosts of Radio Free Skaro (and many, many others on the internet) consider to be the finest Doctor Who Christmas Special to date. A Christmas Carol had it all - strong story, superb writing, great performances, and was never in danger of jumping the very rickshaw pulling shark that featured several times in the episode. The Three Who Rule discuss all of this and more with great gusto, and give a few hints of their podcast plans for the year to come...

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

2010 was a great year for Doctor Who, and it was capped off by what all three hosts of Radio Free Skaro (and many, many others on the internet) consider to be the finest Doctor Who Christmas Special to date. A Christmas Carol had it all - strong story, superb writing, great performances, and was never in danger of jumping the very rickshaw pulling shark that featured several times in the episode. The Three Who Rule discuss all of this and more with great gusto, and give a few hints of their podcast plans for the year to come...

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

It was certainly a Christmasy Christmas special Steven Moffat provided us this year, although it DID bear a few resemblances to one from a few years ago. Here's my take on "A Christmas Carol." Many, many thanks to BBC America, Worldwide, and the mothership in Cardiff for bringing the show to the U.S. on the original trasmission date!

My mini review of Doctor Who:A Christmas Carol the 2010 the 2010 Christmas Special, also on the show this week The Q&A from the BFI Premiere of this episode and some messeges to mark the 50th anniversary of Tim's Take On...

End theme tune is a remix of the Doctor Who Theme by Tony Gallichan of The Flashing Blade Podcast, Tony can be contacted here show@flashingblade.org.uk

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

My mini review of Doctor Who:A Christmas Carol the 2010 the 2010 Christmas Special, also on the show this week The Q&A from the BFI Premiere of this episode and some messeges to mark the 50th anniversary of Tim's Take On...

End theme tune is a remix of the Doctor Who Theme by Tony Gallichan of The Flashing Blade Podcast, Tony can be contacted here show@flashingblade.org.uk

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

My mini review of Doctor Who:A Christmas Carol the 2010 the 2010 Christmas Special, also on the show this week The Q&A from the BFI Premiere of this episode and some messeges to mark the 50th anniversary of Tim's Take On...

End theme tune is a remix of the Doctor Who Theme by Tony Gallichan of The Flashing Blade Podcast, Tony can be contacted here show@flashingblade.org.uk

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

Welcome to Episode 5 of The Naked Geek hosted by David Monteith

For the 2nd year running, The Naked Geek delivers an alternative Christmas speech.

Today's inspiration comes from The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks and Dr Fate from DC Comics by J M DeMatteis & Shawn McManus

For those who have bought the Geek Syndicate iPhone app I have included the first chaoter of Sword of Shannara

Music: Here Comes Santa Claus by the Ramsey Lewis Trio

Drink: Well it's not whiskey

Welcome to Episode 5 of The Naked Geek hosted by David Monteith

For the 2nd year running, The Naked Geek delivers an alternative Christmas speech.

Today's inspiration comes from The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks and Dr Fate from DC Comics by J M DeMatteis & Shawn McManus

For those who have bought the Geek Syndicate iPhone app I have included the first chaoter of Sword of Shannara

Music: Here Comes Santa Claus by the Ramsey Lewis Trio

Drink: Well it's not whiskey

Summary:
Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn talk BBC Four’s Dirk Gently, play a Doctor Who quiz, Swanee-Kazoo and Top Trumps, find some general news, and a variety of other festive stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:18 — Welcome!
• 02:35 – News:
• 02:43 — Rentaghost: WB working on a film version.
• 03:36 — Doctor Who: On BBC Radio 4′s Thinking Allowed.
• 04:21 — Torchwood: Two new major casting announcements.
• 05:23 — Stargate Universe: Dead.
• 08:46 – Festive Game: Doctor Who Top Trumps.
• 20:08 – BBC Four’s Dirk Gently.
• 27:13 – Festive Game: Swanee-Kazoo.
• 34:18 – Quiz: Name that Doctor Who character and story.
• 42:25 – Christmas Card, Emails and listener feedback.* Hit us yourself atA show@StaggeringStories.net
• 83:53 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 76:57 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• Staggering Stories: Podcast Drinking Game, Fourth edition.
• Wikipedia: Rentaghost.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• BBC: Thinking Allowed.
• BBC: Torchwood.
• Syphy: Stargate Universe.
• Wikipedia: Top Trumps.
• BBC: Dirk Gently.
• Wikipedia: I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue: Swanee-Kazoo.
• ‘Who’ – Is The Man Cast.
• The Flashing Blade Podcast.
• The Tin Dog Podcast.
• Titanium Bunker.
• The Cultdom Collective Podcast.
• Professor Dave’s Ark in Space.
• Doctor Who Podcast Alliance.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.
• Twitter: Adam J Purcell.

We return from our unannounced hiatus to wish you season's greetings and announce our imminent relaunch with an exciting new 'audio zine' format coming in 2011.

To give you a little preview of things to come Nat, Erik and Katrina read the first three parts of a longer Eleventh Doctor Christmas fan fiction story by LiveJournal user betawho, Wherever It's Christmas.

Show Notes

Introduction

@ 1 minute 17 seconds - Nat welcomes all listeners and announces the new fandom-focused 'audio zine' format coming in 2011.

Bridging the Rift is changing, plans are afoot to reboot our universe and regenerate into an all new format with less of a focus on the content of each Doctor Who, Torchwood or Sarah Jane series and more of a perspective on the fandom, its activities and its culture. We're planning to be a little less like a discussion podcast and a little more like an 'audio zine', with several shorter segments across each 'issue'. And much like zines, we're looking for writers to submit personal stories or articles on fandom's culture and history, correspondents to report on different types of fan activities and for more of a variety of fan creativity to feature within our virtual pages. 

Wherever It's Christmas by Betawho

Fan fiction will be a regular feature of our new format, so as a preview of things to come and a festive present from us to you, we give our first Bridging the Rift fan fiction reading, the first three parts of a seven part Eleventh Doctor Christmas story by LiveJournal user Betawho:

http://betawho.livejournal.com/

@ 2 minutes 50 seconds - Nat reads part one of Wherever It's Christmas by Betawho:

http://betawho.livejournal.com/25578.html

“We missed Christmas!” Amy declared from the top of the stairs.

Rory and the Doctor looked up from where Rory was handing the Doctor tools as the Time Lord fixed something under the console.

“Nonsense,” the Doctor said, “this is a time machine, it can be Christmas anytime you want.”

@ 7 minutes 40 seconds - Erik continues the story with part two...

http://betawho.livejournal.com/25740.html

“But we can't,” Rory protested. “It’s 60 feet tall!” He stared up at the huge pine tree the Doctor had chosen. 

“It’ll fit in the Tardis,” the Doctor said, hands in his pockets looking up at his tree with satisfaction.

“Even if it’ll fit in the console room, how would we get it through the door?” Rory asked.

@ 13 minutes 50 seconds - Katrina concludes our reading with part three...

http://betawho.livejournal.com/25936.html

Amy hung the last decoration and stepped back.  It was the most beautiful Christmas tree she'd ever seen.  And it was entirely covered in junk.

Well, not entirely, she admitted.  They had managed to find one box of old Victorian Christmas ornaments.  But the rest was pure improv, sparkly bits ranging from fluid links to fiber optic cables that the Doctor had wired up to flash in different colors.  They had even made some tinsel out of some silvery, shredded alien packing material.

Read the remaining four parts of the story at betawho.livejournal.com starting here:

http://betawho.livejournal.com/26348.html

Call For Content and Contributors

@ 17 minutes - Nat expands on our new audio zine format and calls on potential contributors to get in touch.

If you've particularly enjoyed reading any Doctor Who, Torchwood or Sarah Jane Adventures fan fiction that you think would be a good fit for Bridging the Rift please do get in touch, and if you could write articles or essays, could be a correspondent for a particular subject or have any other suggestions for content that might fit our new fandom-focused audio zine format do please pass them on by email to our GoogleMail address, in the comments at our Wordpress blog or directed @BridgingTheRift on twitter.

We'd love to show off the talents of fan artists by including different cover artwork for every issue, so if you're an artist or photomanipulation wizard who'd like to get involved, and especially if you could help us develop a new logo, please do drop us an email.

Trocking Out

@ 18 minutes 24 seconds - If you're in the mood for some christmas music, we heartily recommend the Trocklafane podcast, the only podcast dedicated solely to Doctor Who trock music whose christmas special is out now at trocklafanepodcast.wordpress.com or on iTunes, you may also enjoy the fabulous Oodcast's christmas single, It's Bigger On The Inside available at theoodcast.com.

See you all in 2011!

It's our Christmas show. Oh dear. Anyway, we look, as required by law, at The Horns Of Nimon, Wyn's parent or guardian gets in touch, there's a Festive missive from Mr. Chinn at the Ministry and all sorts of goodies... Be aware: this show contains singing. Um... Sorry about that...

It's just one day until Christmas and the Doctor Who special A Christmas Carol so I preview that episode in this episode, as well as talking about the Australian TV series K9.
Sections

• 0:00:00 Intro
• 0:01:35 A Christmas Carol
• 0:09:09 K9
• 0:11:13 Closing

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Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 231
Running time: 0:33:56

A 2010 holiday edition of Doctor Who: Podshock featuring Matthew Waterhouse and an interview with Paul Slocum by Anthony S Burdge, and more.

Hosted by Louis Trapani.

Presented to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is a production of Art Trap Productions.

This podcast is made possible in part by and is brought to you by Podshock Supporting Subscribers and from donations from listeners like you.

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Note: In order to get this episode out quickly for the holidays, there is no enhanced version, only the MP3 version.

Episode 3. Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time! Here it is, the long awaited (by some) episode 3. See what Rich and Ben have in their festive sack for all you lucky people! Any feedback/recommendations can be sent toprojected.ramblings@gmail.com or to twitter.com/Richnerd

Episode 3. Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time! Here it is, the long awaited (by some) episode 3. See what Rich and Ben have in their festive sack for all you lucky people! Any feedback/recommendations can be sent toprojected.ramblings@gmail.com or to twitter.com/Richnerd

Join the guys in their final show of 2010. This episode, we discuss some of the big news - including a look at Drake's Deception and Amaechi previews Dead Space 2.

Our main this week is a look back at the games of 2010, we pick our favourite games from a variety of categories before settling on The Next Level Game of the Year.

The review this month is Tron Evolution - find out what Barry and Ant thought of the game.

Hope you all have a great Christmas and an even better New Year. See you next year.

Join the guys in their final show of 2010. This episode, we discuss some of the big news - including a look at Drake's Deception and Amaechi previews Dead Space 2.

Our main this week is a look back at the games of 2010, we pick our favourite games from a variety of categories before settling on The Next Level Game of the Year. 

The review this month is Tron Evolution - find out what Barry and Ant thought of the game.

Hope you all have a great Christmas and an even better New Year. See you next year.