Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast

As The Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) make their Disney+ debut, Sam and Natalia look back at "Father's Day". The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) agrees to take Rose (Billie Piper) back to the day her father, Pete (Shaun Dingwall), died in 1987. After Rose intervenes to save her father, the fearsome Reapers attack, threatening the entire world. Written by DOCTOR WHO a...

After welcoming Adam Mitchell (Bruno Langley) aboard the TARDIS, The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) arrive on Satellite 5, a space station in the year 200,000, where news is broadcast across the universe by the nefarious Editor (Simon Pegg). Is THE LONG GAME an underrated classic? And can Sam and Natalia get through an entire episode without insulting Bruno Langley? D...

Utah, 2012. The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) arrive in an underground bunker owned by American billionaire Henry van Statten (Corey Johnson), who uses his wealth to collect alien artefacts. Here, they encounter the bunker's only living exhibit: a Dalek, which breaks loose and attempts to exterminate everyone in the bunker. Remembered as a classic episode from Christ...

The Slitheen have taken over 10 Downing Street, driving humanity closer towards World War III. With the help of Harriet Jones MP (Penelope Wilton), The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) put everything on the line to prevent the end of the world. Does the second part of this two-part Slitheen story stand up? Will Natalia be able to think of a good fart joke? And, most imp...

After their adventure with Charles Dickens in 1869, The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) return to present-day London, only to find an alien invasion afoot. Can they survive the Slitheen? And is Aliens of London a good episode? Don’t forget to follow, rate five stars and find us on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The dead are rising as The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) land in Cardiff, and Charles Dickens is caught in the middle. Does Mark Gatiss’s first episode hold up? Don’t forget to follow, rate five stars and find us on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After her encounter with the Nestene Consciousness, Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) is taken on her first adventure in the TARDIS with The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston). The rich gather to watch the Sun destroy planet Earth five billion years in the future. Is this episode pro-trans? And will Natalia like it more than she liked the previous episode? Don’t forget to follow, rate five stars and fin...

In March 2005, the sci-fi cult classic television series DOCTOR WHO returned to British screens with a new pilot episode, directed by Keith Boak and written by Russell T Davies. Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) is swept into the action when The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) arrives on Earth to prevent an Auton invasion of Earth. Does the first episode of the revived series stand up? Is it as good...

Join us as we watch and rank every episode of DOCTOR WHO series one, alongside the latest season with Ncuti Gatwa, hosted by a British superfan and an understandably confused Polish woman who doesn’t know a TARDIS from a Toclafane. Don’t forget to follow, rate five stars and find us on Instagram . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.