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

Monsters! Bases Under Siege! Evil Dictators! Intransigent Base Commanders! Joe, Dylan, Michael & Elliot tackle a classic season and see how it holds up with a modern eye...

Join Joe, Jon, Luke & Andrew as they talk balls balls balls! If it isn't Michael Sheard's balls, its the ballsup of a terror attack on the medical facility, or the hairy bouncy balls of the Doctor's phagocytes!

Let's head to the high seas for an unusual Past Doctor Adventure as we see the world through Leela (and the Doctor's!) eyes first person. Is this the first great PDA?

We’re off to space hospital to face terrorism and virus expansion…before being shrunk and injected inside the Doctor! What the hell is going on?

The intrepid foursome embark on a Great Space Adventure! Contact has been made and Iceland’s Prawn rings will never be the same again.

Bzzzzzz! It's one of Gareth and Dan's all time favourites but what will the book club think as they head to Marpling (geddit?) and face time travellers, bombs and mutant evil wasps?

Join Joe, David, Paul & Steven as we face murderous reptiles, the menacing Malus, terrifying Tractators, deadly Daleks, cursed Kamelion & toxic Spectrox! But who will suceed?

Joe & Elliot; 'Til there's blood upon the sawdust...' The William Hartnell era love in concludes with more reasons to love the Gunfighters and the era than you can shoot a Buntline at...

Joe & Elliot; 'People keep giving my guns and I do wish they wouldn't' We're in episode three territory now but it is timed bring in a fresh villain to keep things interesting. Enter Johnny Ringo.

Join Joe, Michael & James as they go shootin' and whorin' and spittin' and fightin' in a wild west adventures recalled by the great Doc Holliday...

Joe & Elliot; 'How do we proceed...?' The Doctor is holding up a bar full of cowboys with a buxom babe, Dodo is kidnapped by Doc Holliday & Steven is about to be lynched!

Joe & Elliot; 'How do I look?' 'God grief - absolutely absurd!' We're heading to Tombstone with a special mission - to celebrate the entire William Harntell era via one of the best stories. Yeeeee-haaaaah!

So good I've released it twice...but with a brilliant Ken Moss clip at the start.

Joe & Michael head to Mexico and discuss Frida Kahlo, short stories, the Chris Chibnall era, AI, and celebrity historicals!

There is an even mix of love, hate and ambivalence from Luke, Jon, Paul & Jason and we discuss everything from hideous child actors to poetry, science, fairytales, toxic relationships and suicide!

Joe & James; ‘Next time I shall not be so lenient!’ Our frolic through the fields of Tara reaches its climax with the swordfight to end all swordfights! Who will prevail? Dastardly Count Grendel or our hero, the time traveller the Doctor? And will James ever undo my shackles?

Joe & James; ‘The Counts just offered me the throne!’ Double crosses, doppelgängers and dilettante Doctors!

Join Joe & Nathan as they discuss regulars, a sharp, witty attack on Tolkien, CS Lewis, George Lucas & Hollywood, bestiality, furries and the train for dilettante adventurers!

Joe & James; ‘As beautiful as you and as deadly as the plague, if only she were real I’d marry her!’ More high jinks and sword-fightery as James and I continue our glorious sunny journey through the meadows and castles. Plus that hat!

Joe & James; ‘Tally ho…Tahiti…Tara!’ Wonderful James Lark, teacher and Who fan extraordinaire, lends his opinion to episode one of this delightful four part swashbuckling adventure.

Join Joe, Andrew, Jon & Luke as we tackle the worst Doctor Who book of all time as voted by readers of DWM. Gangsters, ghosts & catamites - oh my!

Join Joe, Jason, James & Ian as one of the most popular NSAs is discussed...but how will it fare with three book clubbers who have never read one of the New Series Adventures before?

Join Joe, Si, Luke & Paul as we face big green blobs, excitable prawns, flacid and erect penises, rampant inflation and tax, CSO city and an evil Doctor! Who will be victorious?

Come with Joe & Darren to the planet Albert where we explore the creepy and funny nature of fairy talesand endure a SF subplot bolted on at the same time!

Join Joe, Dan, Gareth and David as we head to the depths of season 22 where the Doctor barely features, violence runs amok and nobody gets a happy ending...