Doctor Who: The Ood Cast

"David Tennant will bring his flugelhorn." This week's Ood Cast is a voyage of discovery. We take a sneak peak into the TARDIS to see exactly what the Doctor said to Ambrose on the way home from her brave attempt to provoke an inter-species war; we find out what the machinery of the podcast would be like with an essential cog wiped from existence; discover that we can still be touched by an episod...

"Right, we're going to convert this woman, but we'll start with the bikini areas ..." This week on The Ood Cast, we all go a bit mental. There's a review of "The Hungry Earth" in which we mercilessly rip into Chris Chibnall before all agreeing that we rather liked the episode, some truly terrifying accent work, Laura explains why Jon Pertwee reminds her of a sheep that does taekwondo, Andy makes o...

"The only thing missing for me was three of them in a bath rolling down the hillside." On this week's Ood Cast, we face the consequences of leaving too much psychic pollen lying around our perfectly appointed studio and that's as well as dropping in on the Doctor "acquiring" said narcotic substance, hearing what happened to the frozen Peruvian folk band, discussing what we made of The Shaun of the...

"Funny how you can say something in your head, and it sounds ... fine." We sharpen up our canines in this week's Ood Cast - and that's got nothing to do with dogs and pencil sharpeners... Join us to revel in Venetian wonder as we find out what the aftermath of the freak weather was for gondoliers, and how this event affected the course of opera... We drop in on another parents' evening and hear wh...

"Only in Doctor Who would you have a conversation ... with a man in the process of having his neck snapped." Pull up a comfy chair and relax - it's nice in here ... In this week's Ood Cast, we treat you so very, very well. As well as the regular news and the usual review, we explore the musical side to the Byzantium with two songs - TWO! We do actually talk a bit about Flesh and Stone too, as well...

"I can save the day from ANYTHING!" Dare you come out from behind that sofa? Of course you should. We've got a new Ood Cast for you. And this week, we talk about every aspect of "The Time of Angels" except for the angels themselves, we welcome the first Dalek agony aunt, face up to the most daunting Who villain ever and the littlest Doctor pays us a visit... We also eavesdrop on the end of a long...

"Would you like some cake? Dalek cake?" Yep, the Daleks are the scariest of all the enemies the Doctor has ever faced. And they now serve Earl Grey ... This week on the Ood Cast, the boys are left alone to discuss Victory of the Daleks, we get a Speech Therapist to analyse the speech patterns of the tin-plated despots in an attempt to see whether their problems are just psychological, and we're tr...

"What do you save? Humanity or a huge manatee?" Tired of hearing the same four voices week in, week out on The Ood Cast? Well, this week we do away with Chris Alpha entirely and replace him with a nice man from the BBC. Our new friend Geoff is polite, well spoken and enthusiastic. His hobbies include underground travel, cyber begging and annoying David Tennant. And boy does he have a story to tell...

"Automatically, as soon as you heard it, you had your pulse rising, you were jollied along, it was like riding a horse full tilt into the jaws of danger." Finally, we have new Doctor Who to talk about. After a year of intermittent fits and starts, one-off specials and tortured swan songs, we've suddenly got pure unadulterated Who delivered direct to our brain boxes, jolting us out of our navel-gaz...

"Wide-spread contagion amongst cast and crew, means that Silurians are being made to wear verruca socks whilst on set." How excited are we? I mean, just how EXCITED are we?! With just a handful of days until the new series starts, we’ll tell you exactly how excited we are in this week’s Ood Cast. But that’s not all we have to say. We’ll talk about news things – in our own way; knitted, sewn and ge...

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do." If this episode of the Ood Cast was a breakfast cereal, it'd be so packed full of nuts, chocolate shavings, oats, wheat,...

"I like to think of the Doctor as a Liver Fluke. Now if you don't know what a Liver Fluke is, it looks a bit like a fried mushroom and you tend to find them in abattoirs ..." This week on the Ood Cast we discuss Chris' attempt at a unified theory of time travel within the Doctor Who universe. That's right, we spend half an hour earnestly debating a fictional concept. That's how we roll on the Ood...

“There’s texture to it, there’s weirdness to it, there’s a Hinchcliffe Doctor Who-ness about it.” And so with the grinding and wheezing of millennia-old engines, the second season of the Ood Cast pulls itself into corporeal existence. This week on the show we get a bit over-excited about the new series, wave aside petty disputes about season numbers and bow ties, reaffirm our mission statement to...

“Perhaps it's time. This is only the furthest edge of the Time War. But at its heart, millions die every second. Lost in bloodlust and insanity. With Time itself then resurrecting them, to find new ways of dying, over and over again. We have become a travesty of life. Isn't it better to end it? At last?” The end of an era, the passing of a baton. Another man saunters off. This week, the intrepid c...

It is said that in the final days of Planet Earth, everyone had bad dreams... To the west of the north of that world, the human race did gather in celebration of a pagan rite. To banish the cold and the dark. Each and every one of those people had dreamt of the terrible things to come. But they forgot, because they must. They forgot their nightmares, of fire, and war, and insanity. They forgot. Ex...

Tap tap tap tap. Tap tap tap tap. Do you remember the old days of "Classic Who"? You know, the days when budgets were the size of your mum's weekly housekeeping allowance which meant that stories were claustrophobic and terrifying, even when the monsters occasionally seemed to be constructed from items you saw her making a cake with the week before? No? Well, it doesn't matter... Not all of us do...

It's episode three of The Ood Cast and this week we're talking about the first installment in the 'He will knock 4 times' saga that ends the Tenth Doctor's life - the aptly named Planet of the Dead. Flies in boiler suits, dodgy CGI, a wrecked double decker bus, Lara Croft and fires of iniquity all feature in our rambling review of the story. Allies are made, old enemies revealed and friendships te...

A hearty, and slightly world-weary welcome to you.  Think back to Christmas Day 2008. The evening. There you are - on the sofa – feeling a bit bloated because your nan insisted that you had that third helping of turkey and at least two goes at the Christmas pud. You’re becoming steadily more pickled as the afternoon draws on, and your eyes are feeling a bit heavy. Then something lovely hits your s...

It’s here. The Ood Cast: Episood 1. (That's right, we're busting out puns right from the get go - that's just how we roll.) The most important thing we want everyone to know before we start (and we say it on the podcast too) is that we love the show. Utterly. Even when we are disappointed by what we see, we love it. Even, it seems, when we have quite large, uber-geeky reasons for never wanting to...