Power of 3

Peter Capaldi is back - not as the Doctor, but for the release of his second album, Sweet Illusions. He's been doing some publicity for the album, and the Power of 3 has been granted permission to use 15 minutes of an interview he gave to Paul Trainer of GlasgowWorld, about the release. Paul - a friend of our Kenny's for some 30 years - joins us for a conversation about the interview, meeting Pete...

Jeff Cummins is a legend in not just the world of Doctor Who art, but in music too. Jeff today tells us about his incredible career, which has seen him paint iconic covers for Target books like The Horror of Fang Rock and The Talons of Weng-Chiang, as well as The Three Doctors reprint, to New Adventures, and working for a certain Mr Paul McCartney. His new book The Invisible Artist - Outside the B...

Today's book club adventure takes us into the era of Sylvester McCoy. We take a look at the BBC's first Seventh Doctor story in the Past Doctor Adventures range, where he and Ace encounter the Cybermen and Nazis. But in World War 2. Not in Windsor. We're joined by co-author Mike Tucker and Steve Cole - at the same time! - to discuss this novel.

We return to our classic Doctors in sequence today, after last week's jump back to tie in with Season 7 on blu-ray. Today, we're looking at a Sixth Doctor novel that should never have existed, until another author was held up and couldn't make his deadline. Steve Cole joins us to explain how Justin Richards approached him to write The Shadow in the Glass, and how they worked together to create one...

With Season 7 having arrived on blu-ray this week, we're bringing you a bonus episode with another Auton attack. We're delighted to be joined by the fantastic Mike Tucker, who tells us all about his latest work, a story for BBC Audiobooks. Are you ready to enter the House of Plastic?

The concluding part of our preview of the Season 7 blu-ray set is here! Today, we're joined by our old pals Richard Bignell, Chris Chapman and Toby Hadoke, to discuss their work on the PDFs, documentaries and Behind the Sofa, amongst other things. Richard reveals some fascinating insights, and it might be worth checking out our 122nd episode too, The Lost World, which has inspired some of the PDF...

Season 7 on blu-ray is so close, you can almost feel its fire... We bring you the first of two episodes looking at the creation of this highly-anticipated released, featuring the first four stories of the Third Doctor's era. Peter Crocker joins us to go into depth about restoring the visuals for this release, his biggest challenge to date, while producer Simon Guerrier teases details about new doc...

The Daleks are back to face the First Doctor! We're looking at new BBC Aubiobook, Agent of the Daleks, which is performed by Maureen O'Brien. We speak to writer Steve Lyons about this release, which is available to purchase from today, 6 March 2025, from all good retailers. And probably a few average ones as well! You can find out more here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/464135/doctor-who-agent-...

With Season 7 being released on blu-ray today, we're heading back to the days of Jon Pertwee's first season as the Doctor. Here, we have him facing UNIT's Russian counterparts, the CIA, the alien Waro, and a host of other problems. And the Brigadier even gets to go off and have his own mini-adventure too! We speak with co-writer Martin Day about The Devil Goblins From Neptune, which launched the B...

We continue to count our way up through the Doctors on our Book Club episodes, as we reach the fifth incarnation today. The acclaimed horror writer Mark Morris joins us once again, as he talks about his second Doctor Who novel. As ever, we have a couple of readings, plus contemporary reviews and what readers think on Goodreads.

Silver Nemesis is a story we've featured a lot on the Power of 3 over the last few months. We've talked to its writer Kevin Clarke, Cyberleader David Banks, and discussed some of the new features to accompany it. Now, we speak with James Cooray Smith, who's written a Black Archive entry on it, giving insightful analysis of what we got to see in Doctor Who's 25th anniversary story. You can order a...

Our Book Club Mondays welcome back the always delightful Christopher Bulis. Fifty years ago, Tom Baker's first season was airing, so we drop into the events of season 12, to join the Doctor, Sarah and Harry on their adventures. We discuss A Device of Death with Chris, who performs several readings from his 1996 novel, one of the last Missing Adventures from Virgin.

We're back with Character Options's Al Dewar, as we turn back the clock to some previous releases. Today, we're putting series five under the microscope, as we discuss the various figure releases from Matt Smith's first season as the Doctor. Find out about the TARDIS console room, and the flight control TARDIS too!

We're going back to the seventies for today's Power of 3 book club. We board the number 22 bus to Putney Common, and join Iris Wildthyme and her friend Tom, as they encounter an exiled traveller in time and space, known only as 'the Doctor'. The Doctor, with his friend Jo, along with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Captain Yates and Sergeant Benton must defend the Earth from the Master... Author Pau...

The Power of 3 has hit the road once again. Dave and Kenny made the trip down the M74/M6 to Manchester, for John Nathan-Turner Day, which was held at the Anthony Burgess Institute. They discuss Me and Him and Who, Stephen Wyatt's play about JNT and his partner Gary Downie, and speak with producer Gareth Kavanagh about it, as well as Stephen, actor Richard Unwin who plays JNT, and JNT's biographer...

Our book club release today take a look at the Second Doctor adventure Combat Rock. Author Mickey Lewis joins us to discuss his work on this novel, which features cannibalism and other adult themes. This episode contains darker content which may not be suitable for younger listeners. And in a complete coincidence of timing, Mickey also appears in Doctor Who Magazine issue 613, discussing his work...

He's back - again! Character Options's Al Dewar returns to the Power of 3 to discuss action figures once more. Al replies to more of your questions, giving honest answers, with some yeses, nos, and maybes. New Adventures Seventh Doctor? Baines? The Flood? Twelfth Doctor in a waistcoat? Mel? Kate Stewart? TARDIS consoles? We answer these, and much more!

After a look at some new series books on the Power of 3 book club, we return to the First Doctor's era. Today, we are joined by Simon Guerrier to discuss his novel The Time Travellers, which features the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara. We've a couple of readings from the novel by James Hadwen-Bennett (his full fan-made reading without sound design is available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?l...

There's no hiding the fact that John Nathan-Turner is one of the most controversial figures in the history of Doctor Who. As the show's producer from 1980-1989, he cast three Doctors, a host of companions, and became a fixture at conventions on both sides of the Atlantic. However, Richard Marson's biography revealed a darker side to John and his partner Gary Downie, as JNT suffered from an alcohol...

Our book club listening takes us into the era of the Thirteenth Doctor, for just the third time. We've previously featured David Solomons's novels, which were aimed at younger readers, so this is our first dip into the run of three BBC Books. We speak to Steve Cole about writing Combat Magicks, and returning to the post of project editor on the Doctor Who novels.

We welcome back Al Dewar for another of our semi-regular podcast series, Ask Al. This is where we give Al your questions about the Character Options action figures, without him knowing them in advance, and you get his full responses. We've still got lots of questions here, so we'll be using them next time! (Today's guest theme... What if Tomita did a Doctor Who Theme, by George C Music)

We're back looking at the novels of the Twelfth Doctor era. Today, Deep Time goes under the microscope, as we speak with author Trevor Baxendale. We also feature two clips from the official BBC audiobook release, read by Dan Starkey. As ever, we feature the contemporary DWM review, and what reviewers on Goodreads have said about it too...

Doctor Who fans can be so creative - look at the way the Blu-ray collection is meticulously restored. But Jess Jurkovic is doing something entirely different - this accomplished jazz pianist is painstakingly recreating Dudley Simpson's Doctor Who scores, for the piano. He joins us today to talk about his work, and the episode concludes with his highlights from Fury from the Deep. Find out more abo...

We head back to the era of the Tenth Doctor, as we look another of the original novels published in 2007. Writer Paul Magrs joins us to discuss his fun novel, with serious undertones, which features Barbara the vending machine and Toaster the sunbed. This is a fantastic interview with Paul, who shares the ups and downs of writing for licenced tie-in novels, compared to the days when the Eighth Doc...

Happy New Year! We kick off 2025 with an episode feature the Power of 3 OG - yes, we've persuaded Grandfather Time himself, Tom Harris, to make an appearance, to join Dave and Kenny. The trio give their reactions to the Season 7 Blu-Ray reveal - and it's fair to say, they're all fairly happy. Even Tom!