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A check-in after November 5, a promise about Empire of Death, and thoughts about the way forward.

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After a chance meeting at the War Machines event at Riverside Studios, Richard speaks with journalist and author Jonn Elledge, a regular on the podcast Paper Cuts.

We have free ranging chat based on the loose theme of Jonn's latest book, A History of The World in 47 Borders, discussing how Jonn became a Doctor Who fan, how Doctor Who deals with the topic of borders and how, like any listener to this podcast, at all times at least 30% of Jonn's brain is dedicated to some aspect of Doctor Who. 

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Jonn's most recent book, and the one we discuss on the episode is A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps, which you can find here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-World-47-Borders-Stories/dp/B0CJVM68BN/. It's been shortlisted by Foyles for their Book of the Year - find out more here: https://www.foyles.co.uk/highlights/foyles-books-of-the-year 

Jonn also mentions on the podcast Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them, which he wrote with Tom Phillips: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conspiracy-History-Boll-Theories-Fall/dp/B09L34BR8G/ and The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything: All the Facts You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Compendium-Not-Quite-Everything-Wanted/dp/B09BWZNR29/

If you want to hear Jonn on Paper Cuts, search on any podcast app or follow this link: https://www.podmasters.co.uk/papercuts 

Richard has another podcast with co-hosts Emily & Nicola, 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. Go to https://ifhurtnotwork.podbean.com/ and https://ifhurtnot.work for more.

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

Although we've provided Amazon links for convenience, Jonn's books can be found at all good bookshops (and a few bad ones).

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Hannah (@MrsSimonTemplar) and Dan (@D_Hollingsworth) report from the Pandorica 2024 convention, with special guests @thatcedric, @RealFloppyLion & @tardis_monkey.

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Things have taken a turn for the truly awful in the world this week, but Radio Free Skaro is here to assuage your worries (Steven) or at least acknowledge them (Warren). If you’re looking to distract yourself from the latest grim fandango, we have news of deleted scenes coming November 23, unaired footage of David Tennant running around the TARDIS set in “The Star Beast”, props on the auction block, Big Finish art critiques, and an interview with Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-Ray contributors Jonathan Helm, Chris Chapman, and Chris Thompson! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who deleted scenes coming November 23
• Doctor Who Magazine 610 released
• Doctor Who: Daleks – The Ultimate Guide due November 21
• TARDIS prop from “Eve of the Daleks” up for auction for Children in Need
• Doctor Who Unaired footage: introduction to the TARDIS from the Star Beast
• Big Finish Companion Chronicles: Families due Apr 2025
• Big Finish Short Trips 2024 winner announced, will be released for free Dec 29
• Blake’s 7 Production Diary – Series B available now
• The Andrew Skilleter Doctor Who Art calendar 2025 available

Interview:

• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-ray
• Jonathan Helm
• Chris Chapman
• Chris Thompson

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler and Keith Dunn review the Big Finish play Doctor Who: The Axis of Insanity and the 2024 film Joker: Folie à Deux, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:30 — Welcome!
• 03:11 – News:
• 03:25 — Doctor Who: More stories are disappeared from the iPlayer.
• 06:20 — Good Omens: Third season replaced by TV movie.
• 08:41 — Doctor Who: Stuff of Legends live-ish recording.
• 13:12 – Joker: Folie à Deux.
• 37:53 – Jean and Fake Keith’s John Barrowman experience.
• 44:42 – Doctor Who: The Axis of Insanity (Big Finish).
• 60:43 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 64:23 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 65:05 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Good Omens (miniseries).
• Big Finish: The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show.
• Wikipedia: Joker: Folie a Deux.
• John Barrowman.
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Axis of Insanity.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Our third of four episodes in our Trial of a Time Lord season features the conclusion of the Trial arc... but not the conclusion of the novelizations of the Trial arc.

The traditional American protest song "John Brown's Body", sampled in this episode, is from the ⁠Pete Seeger recording⁠.

And, with that out of the way, let's talk Doctor Who Literature with Mark and Conrad from ⁠The Trap One Podcast⁠.

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"Doctor Who – The Ultimate Foe" features cover art by Alister Pearson.

Doctor Who Literature is a member of the ⁠Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network⁠.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was released in 2002 and tonight, The Doctor Who Show team continues its trilogy of Alternate Galaxies episodes began last month with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and again examines the film from two different angles, with Dave not having seen the production before now.

What are our thoughts on this film, its writing, its production, and its ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Christopher Lee, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Brad Dourif, Karl Urban, and Andy Serkis, here in 2024?

If you’ve got an hour to spare, sit back, relax, and join us in an ALTERNATE GALAXIES episode that again travels to Middle Earth.

Contact us any time: hello@theDWshow.net

This week, we’re huddling with Toby Hadoke in a tent in a cave set somewhere on Mars, wondering what that massive gun is for and trying to decide which terrifying Imperial Majesty to give our fealty to. It’s Empress of Mars.

Notes and links

Lucifer Box is the protagonist of three spy novels by Mark Gatiss set in the early twentieth century, The Vesuvius Club (2004), The Devil in Amber (2006) and Black Butterfly (2008).

Empress of Mars first aired on 10 June 2017. Two days earlier, there was a general election, in which Theresa May’s Conservative government was returned to power with a slightly reduced majority. May had become prime minister of the UK in July 2016 and had begun the process of leaving the EU by triggering Article 50 in March 2017. The UK formally left the EU on 31 January 2020, just two days before Praxeus aired.

One of the clear inspirations for the premise here is H G Wells’s novel The First Men in the Moon (1901), in which a penniless writer and his eccentric inventor neighbour travel to the moon and meet its indigenous inhabitants, who are unimpressed with what they hear about our social and political systems on earth. A film adaptation First Men in the Moon (1969) was co-written by Quatermass’s Nigel Kneale and featured music by Laurie Johnson, who will be familiar to fans of The Three Handed Game. There was also a television adaptation in 2010, written by Mark Gatiss and starring both him and Rory Kinnear.

Other inspirations include Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter novels, starting with A Princess of Mars in 1912, in which a Civil War veteran from Virginia is transported to Mars and becomes involved in various wars and areopolitical struggles. There are eleven books in the series, culminating in John Carter of Mars in 1964.

And just one more possible inspiration: She (1887), by H Rider Haggard, about the search for a white sorceress who rules a tribe in a remote part of Africa.

Katy Manning played an Ice Warrior queen for Big Finish, in a box set called The Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond the War Games, released in 2020.

According to Toby, Anthony Calf, who plays Godsacre here, was also in The Visitation. He played Charles, the son of John Savident’s Squire in the opening scenes of Part 1, and it was indeed his first television role.

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You can find out everything about Toby Hadoke at his website tobyhadoke.com, and you can catch up with his podcasts at Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels. A publication date for the first volume of Toby’s book series on Quatermass will be announced very soon.

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You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

Last weekend, a new episode of Maximum Power was released, in which Pete and Si interviewed two of the people involved in the creation of the new Blakes 7 Series 1 blu-ray box set — filmmakers Chris Chapman and Chris Thompson. We’ll be back to cover Series D next month.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we raised the occasional eyebrow as a shapeshifting red octopus ran amok on the Enterprise in an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series called The Survivor.

To celebrate 25 years of Doctor Who at Big Finish, Philip and Dwayne take a look back at the first two monthly adventures, The Sirens of Time by Nicholas Briggs, and Phatasmagoria by Mark Gatiss.

We’ll also jump down the rabbit hole and read out a few of our YouTube audience comments, and we’ll share what we’ve been listening too, watching and reading recently.

Our interview with Barnaby Eaton-Jones on Greatest Show in the Galaxy sequel, Children of the Circus, can be found here: ⁠https://www.sirensofaudio.com/2024/09/barnabyeaton-jones.html⁠

Dwayne’s reading of Doctor Who – Short Trips: The Last Days can be found here: ⁠https://youtu.be/bsHG6Ydp17I?si=QX_RuiEsp73rngK5 ⁠

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  13.6 The Face in the Storm by Sarah Grochala (2 parts) 1916 and the TARDIS has landed in the cargo hold of the SS Maycrest, a ship transporting soldiers across the Atlantic. Except that’s not all that’s being transported across the ocean. Because the Doctor and his friends find a strange crate in the hold, a crate that's unnaturally cold. But the contents of the crate are not the ship’s biggest secret. Nor it’s deadliest threat... 13.7 Dominant Species by John Dorney (4 parts) It has been a long time since the invasion of Taleeria. The population is enslaved and subject entirely to the will of the conquerors - the Dominators and their deadly robot servants, the Quarks. The Doctor, Harry and Naomi stumble into this perilous scenario and are soon separated... but freeing the people of Taleeria should be business as usual, shouldn't it? Where the Dominators are concerned, things may not be so simple... **Please note: the Collectors' Edition CDs are strictly limited to a pressing of just 1,500 copies**