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

Content Warning - reading contains material pertaining to self harm One of us loved this book, one of us hated it and one of us sat squarely in the middle but doesn't ever want to read another Doctor Who book after this. Can Doctor Who tackle mental health sensitively in prose?

The gauntlet has been thrown. A less than favourable episode released on Donald Cotton's books released and James Lark, in a fit of epistolary pique, decides to build a defence for The Romans!

It doesn't exist! Our waltz through the Doctor's weirdest, most literate adventure continues. And we discover precisely what Andy is available for by the end of the episode...

What fresh madness occurs when this foursome finally reaches The Land of Fiction? What can Joe be taught about football? And will Lee wow us all with his his incredible reading?

Sausage sandwiches clamped in our hands, we are facing off against globulin feeding Stones! I know that woman...

This was a delightful, slightly deranged, love in for this quirky, imaginative story. Expect gags, flirting, revealing information and trivia!

Joe meets gorgeous Glenn Fitzgerald in the countryside to have a flask of tea and a sausage sandwich and to chase about with sinister stones...

What has happened to our favourite lines? Fisher rewrites a rewrite and then rewrites Tom Baker's rewrite! But with charming prose, glorious backstory and some brilliant new jokes. A piece of sunshine.

Four huge Peter Capaldi fans assemble to celebrate and cajole the members of the Ham Fam that say nasty things about their favourite and we battle it out through the runners up and winners to find our favourite 12th Doctor story!

is this an atmospheric political statement of the time...or just a load of old tosh? Join Joe, Jack & Steven who investigate...

Devils in the church, ghosts in the crypt, demons from the far reaches of space…Joe, Steven and Jack investigate this atmospheric two parter…

Where the book club learns to be REAL MEN! A McIntee love-in as we tackle one of his most celebrated and fun books; a ballsy, continuity filled, characterful piece with the best depiction of the Master in print. Badda-Badda-Badda!

Joe and Paul are heading for the biggest bang in history! My skystriker!

We're down in the caves, bullets are firing, the Cybermen are massacring the Vogans, Sarah is trying to get back to the Beacon, the Doctor is bomb-loaded and Harry Sullivan is very possibly an imbecile! It's all going on!

Responsible for my every nightmare for about a decade - Eugene Victor Tooms! The baby faced, liver eating, body contorting mutant!

Sarah is infected, trapped with Harry on the planet of gold and the Doctor is sniffing out a traitor with a Cybermat. All the while the Cybermen loom ever closer...

Paul starts his Hamster journey in style as he heads straight for one of the most kicked Tom Baker worries to champion. Hoover attachments at the ready!

On the Timelash’s Mark Donaldson & I discuss Bollywood, big concepts, romance and an idiosyncratic prose style! Boom Shakalaka!

The second episode of The X-Files comes under examination by the second contributor to this new paranormal Hamster thread...

To Dorsill we go, stepping into the past Where zombies roam, with brains their repast, Peri persued, she needs to be fast, Or else death will catch up and forever last...

Is the last episode of this classic a disappointment or not? Does it become less Hammer horror and more Doctor Who?

The last, great episode of this story? Should Sarah be able to fire a gun? Did Tom need to dress up as a Mummy? Is this one of the best cliffhangers ever?

And then the murders started...and never stopped. Bernard Archard returns as the animated human cadaver, Ernie Clements is crushed to death by tits and Warlock is throttled at the behest of his oldest friend...

The delightful Rob Valentine joins me in celebrating this much vaunted classic by way of homework - we watched the Hammer film The Mummy and we're talking about inspiration!

Here on the Mean Streets of Megacity, the line between justice and death is a thin one. And unearthing the secrets of The Project will go one way or the other...