A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast

Stephen Gallagher reads from 'Warriors' Gate' Steve Cole 'The Wheel of Tara' Alex Hewitt 'Reading Games with Pip and Jane' Joe Lidster reads from 'Aliens of London' Gareth L. Powell reads from 'The Well' James Goss reads from 'Lux'

Robert Shearman reads from 'The Chimes of Midnight' John Grindrod 'Terror of the Blurboids' Nev Fountain 'The Policeman's Face Peeled Away...' Paul Quinn 'I see all the rumours about you are true...' - Trigger Warning Published with kind permission of the contributors

Gary Gillat - 'Opening Lines' Simon Guerrier - 'The Unseen Terrance Dicks' Jenny Colgan - Reading from 'Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone' Mags L. Halliday - 'Romancing the Target' Published with kind permission of the contributor.

A stunning latter day New Adventure that is written with mature prose, compelling characters and a surprising plot that defies all your expectations of the range.

Dalek box sets, shiny VHS’, therapy, terrible impressions, faux intellectuals and two musicians - this has it all!

Is this where the wheels start coming off as Joe (positive until now) starts to see the cracks, Jon has ammunition in his argument against the story...but Eddie remains steadfast that this is a banger.

Father and son combination of Jon & Eddie Arnold - watching Doctor Who together and having a huge difference of opinion! Who loves this one? And who thinks it is dogshit?

John returns to the bookclub to discuss the much celebrated Blood Heat only to find that the memory cheats and fatalism is a little out of fashion...

Our epic commentary on The Invasion reaches its climax and our intimate study of James' diary does too. How will the Cybermen be defeated? And will James get the girl?

This mammoth commentary reaches its penultimate episode. Will Tobias Vaughn succeed with his evil plans? And more importantly, with James get his happily ever after with Sally?

Joe declares this one of the best episodes of Doctor Who of all time, and James cannot disagree. We start with Cybermen menacing our friends in the sewers and end with them invading London!

Armed with advance copies, Michael and I discuss Lux the episode and the Target novelisation. A bold, stylish and nuanced take on the story. SPOILERS!

The Cybermen are here...but just enough to bring them out of the cocoon. Jamie & Zoe go on a foolhardy expedition with Isobel, and Vaughn's plan is coming to fruition...

A thank you to the existing Patreons and information for anyone else who might be interested!

he longest Doctor Who story, a pandemic fought year, and an epic fight for reality against Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Swarm & Azure and the Doctor's past...

Glorious Hamster debutant Liam talks about his love for late Tennant, wonderful stories about meeting the A-List cast and extols the virtues of this underrated gem.

Our Great Stranger journey comes to an end with this feature length 'epic.' Just how much fun can two tired and slightly hysterical fans have watching the climax of this saga?

What happens when you take the SF out of The Stranger and turn it into an episode of The Bill featuring Caroline John & Nicholas Briggs? Will Colin have a happy ending with Miss Frump?

BBV is back on Hamster! And rounding off our six Stranger commentaries we start with The Terror Game! Saul & Egan are on the scene! Louise Jameson is running a nightclub! And is this The Stranger's true origin story?

Joe & Michael embark on their first short story collection together - with a book that allegedly has a collection of stories that take place before Doctor Who televised adventures. We examine that and then some...

Top ho! Off to season seventeen for Kieran and I! Upper crust bumbling fools, time portals, evil smells and possessed policemen! Plus a passionate conversation about the author, and the reaction against him.

Another joyous commentary comes to an end with a hugely dramatic, murderous climax. Peri is dead, the Time Lords are accused, Crozier sips his tea. Where do we go from here?

Things are hotting up in the caves between Peri and Ycarnos and a rebellion is waiting to be forged. This was a story that each of us have struggled with at some point...so why are we having so much fun with it?

Joe & Michael speak to James Goss about his Doctor Who books past and present and in particular his upcoming Target novelisation of Lux. Due to the spoilers within, the Lux Book Club will come out on the publication date.

There are many horrific and shocking things about this story; mostly in this episode and how it treats the Doctor and Peri. But none of those are more terrifying than Frazer’s opening…