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IT'S CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAS! We're continuing our countdown to the festive season with the Eighth Doctor, as we take a look at one of his Christmas specials.

We're looking at Better Watch Out and Fairytale of Salzburg, from Ravenous 2, as the Krampus rises and nothing stands in its way as it looks to destroy the world... only once man can stop him, and it's not the man you were expecting...

Writer John Dorney joins us for a natter, as does Robert Whitelock, who plays the Krampus and a host of other parts in this adventure. Benji Clifford tells us about how he sound designed the story, and composer Jamie Robertson talks us through his creative process, in a bumper episode. 

Waffle On about Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer

Hello and welcome to our Christmas edition and its a bumper bonus episode full of fun and Waffles. On this episode Meds and Kell chat away about two of their favourite comedians (and light entertainers) Vic and Bob. They hit our screens back in the late 80's and our two Wafflers were in sixth form at school at the time (and nothing seems to have changed in their childish minds) so it left a lasting impression. 

Along with the main topic of chat the lads talk about the new Avatar film, some recent movie news and they read an email from our resident man in the asylum Rob K. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. 

Jim and Martin spring a festive surprise with some new Krynoid PodCast material!

They scan the snowless Snowdonian slopes for monstrous myths and find the Doctor giving an old friend a bell, Victoria repeating herself and Jamie threatening everyone with a bagpipe recital.

But did The Abominable Snowmen thaw their cockles or give them the cold shoulder. Listen to find out! 

00:00 Intro and context

07:38 A walkthrough of the story

1:15:15 A review of the story

2:08:18 A discussion of the animation

2:13:46 Summing up and scores

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Merry Christmas and have a wonderful 2023!

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 22.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 22.

The Diddly Dummers gather for their traditional Christmas podcast and, having looked at the latest news, they begin the fun and games.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:07:15) Paul Darrow’s most extreme overacting can be seen here.

(00:10:15) The appearance of The Stranglers on the Dutch Show “Top Pop” in 1977 can be seen here.

(00:32:21) Our Penny Mordaunt quiz question on Twitter can be found here.

(00:37:58) Our podcast’s new Mastodon account can be found here.

(01:10:15) The longest standing tradition of the Diddly Dum Podcast is our Christmas Blockbusters Gold Run – a quiz on the previous year’s podcast in the style of TV’s “Blockbusters”. The game board for this year’s Gold Run can be found at the top of this blog entry.

(01:24:10) All the references to Advent Crowns and Blue Peter and the Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band are inspired of course by the traditional “Blue Peter” show nearest to Christmas of which examples can be seen here.

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

IT PROBABLY hasn't escaped your notice, but we're just three days away from Christmas, so it's time we got into the festive spirit.

Today, we bring you a reading of a complete Christmas Short Trip, Decorative Purposes. It was the twenty-first short story in the Big Finish printed anthology Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas, published in 5 December 2007. It was written by Eddie Robson and featured the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller (Kenny's so excited!).

After our reading, Eddie joins us for a chat, so sit back, get those chestnuts roasting on an open fire, and enjoy...

Richard's on a mission from Dodd to bring back the original Something Who team for a chat about a couple of stories set on giant spaceships: 5th Doctor story Four to Doomsday, from Season 19, and 11th Doctor caper Dinosaurs on a Spaceship from Series 7A. As per recent convention, this episode is the first half of that conversation, featuring Four to Doomsday.

Please like or share our podcast with people who will enjoy it, so we can build our listener base high for happiness. You can rate us directly on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser.com

Giles' book A History of the Universe in 21 Stars: (and 3 Imposters) can be found in all good bookshops and also here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Universe-21-Stars-Imposters/dp/1787394654/

Head over to https://www.bigfinish.com/, where we all love Paul's stories.

Richard has another podcast with co-host Emily, 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. And also what makes a great workplace, how to turn things round when we're not enjoying our work and, in the end, how we can all make our work better. Go to https://ifhurtnotwork.podbean.com/ and https://ifhurtnot.work for more.

Our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find on Twitter using @BeaGarrido00, where, among other artworks, you can get hold of the prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 21.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 21.

With Tennant and Tate back next year, we thought it was time to revisit Donna's last appearance. Join Deb, Erika, and Kat as we discuss our feelings about this story and how they've changed over the years.

How do you feel about "Journey's End" (and "The Stolen Earth") in particular, Donna's fate? Drop us a tweet or let us know in the comments!

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Happy Things

• Deb encourages everyone to "shop small" and find fan creators to patronize!
• Kat & Erika love this year's Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar!

Extra-special thanks to this week's editor, Steven Schapansky of Castria! Support Verity! on Patreon

Monts and Nuge bring your their last foray into the world of geekdom for 2022. Buckle up fellow geeks!

News

• The boys take a look at what's going on with the DC Extended Universe

Week that Was

• Attak on Titan
• Once and Future
• Our Final Halloween
• Star Trek: Prodigy
• Warrior Nun

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Here it is folks the entire collection of all the A-Z segments of the show from earlier in the year. In this episode David & Matt cover the letters A-H from episodes 165 to 191.

Doctor Who theme by Ron Grainer, arranged by Alexander Erben.

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TODAY we have our final Short Trip, as we look at The Queen of Eros from Short Trips and Sidesteps.

We bring you a full reading of the story, with sound design, followed by a chat with author Trevor Baxendale, and, of course, editor Steve Cole.

And that it - the complete run of Sam and the Eighth Doctor on their own!

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 20.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 20.

On this holiday episode of Reality Bomb, Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont are here for fans experiencing the absence of any Doctor Who special this holiday season by re-presenting some past segments from Reality Bomb's vaults to do with the Doctor Who Christmas specials including Mark Askwith and Nikki Stafford's discussion of the tenth anniversary of the Christmas Specials recorded in 2015 at our live Christmas special (Episode 030A) in Toronto. We also go back to one of Sage Young's first Reality Bomb segments with her Gallery of the Underrated on The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe from Episode 018. And Joy's documentary from Episode 085 examines what made the Doctor Who Christmas specials, well, special. And we have Spoiler Cops: Die Hardly from Episode 018. Plus Joy and Graeme share favourite moments from Christmas specials and play a holiday version of This-or-That... and Graeme tells a holiday-themed Joel and Carlie story!

WE MAY have finished our run of episodes looking at the Eighth Doctor and Sam's adventures in full novel form, but we're completists. There's still gaps.

We continue our look at the official BBC Short Trips, as we look at Femme Fatale, by Paul Magrs, as the Doctor and Sam encounter Andy Warhol and Iris Wildthyme.

We've a full reading of the story, by James Hadwen-Bennett, followed by chats with editor Steve Cole and Paul.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 19.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 19.

WE'VE comprehensively covered the first 18 EDAs with the Doctor and Sam... but we don't want to stop there!

There's still a few stories featuring this pair to be covered, before Fitz arrives, so we're turning our eye to the world of Short Trips. We've previously covered Bounty, Dead Time and The People's Temple, and since we're completists, it would be wrong not to do their other adventures, published in the BBC Short Trips books.

Today, we've got Steve Cole telling us about Model Train Set, as well as a chat with its author, Jonathan Blum.

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Cosplayer Christmas as Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson aka The Doctor and Ruby Sunday’s respective costumes have been revealed! Listen to two fashion illiterates and one Certified Dandy speculate on what it all means and mostly just deciding they look neat. Also we mourn the loss of Chris Boucher, cogitate upon the mysterious winnowing down of Who content on many services worldwide as the Disney Plus transition looms, and the ever-popular Timelash!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• 2022 Fluid Links Advent
• Ncuti Gatwa/Millie Gibson costume press release
• Ncuti Gatwa/Millie Gibson costume reveal video
• Chris Boucher died
• Is Doctor Who leaving Crave January 6?
• Only three episodes left on TVNZ; Eve of the Daleks leaving January 1
• Most of what’s left of Doctor on ABC iView is leaving by January 9
• Some Classic Doctor Who specials leaving BritBox UK on December 25
• New Season 2 Blu-Ray trailer from Benjamin Cook
• Big Finish War Doctor stories on Radio 4 Extra & BBC Sounds from Dec 17
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Return of Jo Jones due February 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The First Doctor Adventures: The Demon Song due February 2023
• Big Finish Worlds of Doctor Who – Rani Takes on the World: Beyond Bannerman Road due April 2023
• Big Finish Torchwood: The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello due Feb 2023
• Big Finish Torchwood: Among Us – Part 1 due May 2023
• Jane Sherwin died

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Cosplayer Christmas as Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson aka The Doctor and Ruby Sunday’s respective costumes have been revealed! Listen to two fashion illiterates and one Certified Dandy speculate on what it all means and mostly just deciding they look neat. Also we mourn the loss of Chris Boucher, cogitate upon the mysterious winnowing down of Who content on many services worldwide as the Disney Plus transition looms, and the ever-popular Timelash!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• 2022 Fluid Links Advent
• Ncuti Gatwa/Millie Gibson costume press release
• Ncuti Gatwa/Millie Gibson costume reveal video
• Chris Boucher died
• Is Doctor Who leaving Crave January 6?
• Only three episodes left on TVNZ; Eve of the Daleks leaving January 1
• Most of what’s left of Doctor on ABC iView is leaving by January 9
• Some Classic Doctor Who specials leaving BritBox UK on December 25
• New Season 2 Blu-Ray trailer from Benjamin Cook
• Big Finish War Doctor stories on Radio 4 Extra & BBC Sounds from Dec 17
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Return of Jo Jones due February 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The First Doctor Adventures: The Demon Song due February 2023
• Big Finish Worlds of Doctor Who – Rani Takes on the World: Beyond Bannerman Road due April 2023
• Big Finish Torchwood: The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello due Feb 2023
• Big Finish Torchwood: Among Us – Part 1 due May 2023
• Jane Sherwin died

Merry Christmas!  We have made it back to the time of the 11th Doctor and we have Christmas Special to talk about, Christmas Carol. Ros and Vic chat about their favorite lines, moments,  Doctor Who Specials,  verisons of A Christmas Carol.  All that and other seasonal tangents.

#doctorwho #merrychristmas #christmas #achristmascarol #ebonezerscrooge

Our picks

A Christmas Carol 1984 with George C. Scott

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087056/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

A Christmas Carol 1951 with Alistair Sims

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5

A Muppet Christmas Carol 1992

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104940/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 18.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 18.

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

Andor Review Episodes 11-12

Phil finally reaches the end of watching Andor on Disney Plus and for him the penny has now dropped! But in what way? Did he end up loving this series or did it drop harder than that Wampa's arm that Luke Skywalker cut off?

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

Andor Review Episodes 11-12

Phil finally reaches the end of watching Andor on Disney Plus and for him the penny has now dropped! But in what way? Did he end up loving this series or did it drop harder than that Wampa's arm that Luke Skywalker cut off?

We lost two big names connected with Classic Doctor Who this week: episode writer and novelist Chris Boucher, and actor Jane Sherwin. This episode features audio clips from Boucher's "The Robots of Death", and of Sherwin (with Frazer Hines and Graham Weston) in "The War Games".

My guest this week is Jason McLaughlin (@JangoMac72), one of my fellow co-hosts from The Trap One Podcast, and the impresario behind Bearded Geek Toy Reviews over on YouTube. "UK Jason" offers us a tour of his recording studio and his impressive array of genre memorabilia.

Topics discussed this week include the great Saturday morning TV shows of Sid and Marty Krofft, specifically "Far Out Space Nuts" and "Land of the Lost". UK Jason also takes his turn at "20 Questions", with surprising results.

We also have Listener Mail, Jason's review of the "Stones of Blood" novelization, and much much more.

"Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
Doctor Who Literature is now a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.
You can catch all past episodes at https://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.

In every era of Doctor Who there are stories which, for whatever reason, aren't as well remembered as others. They're the ones you skip over when you're browsing your DVDs, wondering what you should slip on. Maybe it's because of other, "better" episodes in the same season. Maybe it's received fan wisdom putting you off. Maybe you had a genuinely bad experience with the story in the past.

Tonight, however, we turn our mind to stories that are underrated and which you might not be too keen on choosing for your viewing pleasure... yet you should. We blaze through all 13 Doctors, presenting 26 choices for your perusal.

Before then, of course, we also talk some recent Doctor Who news, including details of how long Ncuti Gatwa's first series will be, Christmas specials for years to come, and the sad passing of legendary series writer, Chris Boucher.

Tune in, drop out, and contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

THE FACE-EATER is the 18th and final novel in our run of episodes looking at the early Eighth Doctor Adventures, and his stories with Sam Jones.

We're joined, as ever, by range editor Steve Cole, and writer Simon Messingham talks us through his journey as a Doctor Who writer - and we find out which of his good friends became a 21st century TV series writer. 

It's the end of our current run looking at the books, but is it the end of season five? Tune in and find out!

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 17.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 17.

Producer of The Worlds of Blake's 7, Peter Anghelides, chats with us about the most recent stories in the range as well as the release of the new hardcover novels. 

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IT WOULD be fair to say that Beltempest is a Doctor Who novel with a high-concept science fiction idea at its heart. There's no moustache-twirling villains, or bases under siege.

Not only is Beltempest a story of note, but this is an episode with a difference - we don't have a 'live' interview with author Jim Mortimore, but he kindly agreed to record his answers to the questions, which we sent him, and we've created a full chat with him.

As ever, Steve Cole tells us about things from his side as the range editor too, for another engrossing chat.