Reality Bomb - a Doctor Who podcast

On the fifty-fifth episode of Reality Bomb, Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont, emboldened by the #WhoAgainstGuns campaign, look around at the other ways Doctor Who fans are doing good. First we go back in time to learn more about the 1985 Fan Aid campaign to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief with then-organizer, now-author and writer Paul Cornell. Back in the present, we talk about the Whovian Ru...

On the fifty-fourth edition of Reality Bomb we have a special live episode recorded at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles with Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont. We start off by looking to the future of Doctor Who with Sage Young, Tai Gooden and Simon Fraser. In celebrating 30 years of Perivale's finest citizen, we have a quiz about all things Ace with Paul Cornell, Felicity Kuzinitz, Rob Shea...

On the fifty-third edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode that features Reality Bomb's new co-producer Joy Piedmont talking with Kim Rogers and Simon Fraser about Peter Capaldi's swansong, Twice Upon a Time, and how the twelfth Doctor's finale fared, how a less-than-progressive portrayal of the first Doctor worked, and what they're looking forward to based on Jodie Whittaker's brie...

On this special episode of Reality Bomb, Graeme Burk travels to Britain and takes the podcast with him! Graeme checks in with comic book artist Rachael Stott (Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Adventures, Sex Criminals) about how she's coping with Peter Capaldi's imminent departure and what she's looking forward to with the Christmas special and the new Doctor. Doctor Who writer and World Fantasy Awa...

On the fifty-first edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode that begins with the TARDIS landing on the runway as the thirteenth Doctor's costume debuts and we have fashionistas Joy Piedmont and Heather Berberet at the ready to give their thoughts. We're also talking with Lisa Gledhill about change, mindfulness, chase sequences and arachnophobia when Planet of the Spiders comes to the...

It's the fiftieth edition of Reality Bomb and we have a special live episode recorded in New York at Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen in Astoria, Queens with Graeme Burk and co-host Shannon Dohar! There's a new Doctor hype news quiz regarding the silly season's best stories following the announcement of Jodie Whittaker with Simon Fraser and Robert Smith? and friends; we have music and "The Song He Co...

On the forty-ninth episode of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode where we conclude our review of Series 10 with a discussion of the finale and the season as a whole with our intrepid reviewers Lindsey Mayers and Lori Steuart. We're also comparing notes about capital punishment, relationship sadness and tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolators when Rachel Donner brings Boom Town...

On the forty-eighth edition of Reality Bomb, we have our biggest episode yet as Sage Young, Petra Mayer and Angelique Roche welcome Jodie Whittaker as the thirteenth Doctor. We then talk with author Paul Condon about Jodie Whittaker's career highlights. And we talk about what it means to have a woman Doctor -- before and after the announcement of the new Doctor -- as we revisit the very first Real...

On the forty-seventh edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode that includes a discussion of series ten with Lori Steuart, Lindsey Mayers and Shannon Dohar that is replete with trenchant commentary, insight, apt metaphor and off-the-hook crazy theories. With news that China has bought a package of Doctor Who episodes that could potentially go til series 15, Graeme Burk talks with Spac...

On the forty-sixth edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode where Titan's Twelfth Doctor comic artist Rachael Stott, Angelique Roche and Titan's Tenth Doctor comic writer Nicholas Abadzis talk about what they love about Bill. We continue our review of series ten as our review team of Lori Steuart and Lindsey Mayers are joined by NPR books editor Petra Mayer. And carrot juice, carrot...

On the forty-fifth edition of Reality Bomb, we're kicking off our review of the latest season of Doctor Who thus far (all two episodes of it!) with our Series Ten review team, Lori Steuart and Lindsey Mayers. Also, Joy Piedmont talks with Tai Gooden about what might happen were the next Doctor be a person of colour. And we have a fairy tale of a lost child in a magical forest in London when Heathe...

On the forty-fourth edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode where we get excited about series ten with a panel that includes Lindsey Mayers, Joy Piedmont and Angelique Roche. We also travel to the canals of Venice (or a simulacrum of them in Croatia) when The Vampires of Venice comes to the Gallery of the Underrated with Kathleen Schowalter. And why is it that fans in North America...

On the forty-third edition of Reality Bomb we have a special live episode recorded at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles with Graeme Burk and co-host Shannon Dohar. We kick things off by talking to Lindsey Mayers, Sage Young and Titan's Twelfth Doctor Comic artist Rachael Stott about the announcement of Peter Capaldi's departure and what Capaldi meant to fans. We hold a special live editi...

On the forty-second edition of Reality Bomb, we're faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a Mr. Huffle as we discuss (or argue about) The Return of Doctor Mysterio with Joy Piedmont and David Barsky. Also, there's murder that's not cricket as author Glen Weldon (The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture) of NPR's podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour brings Black Orchid to the...

On the forty-first edition of Reality Bomb, we've got a blast from the past as Simon Fraser and Lori Steuart discuss the recent animated reconstruction of The Power of the Daleks. Also, the entire first season of Class is graded by Joy Piedmont and Robert Smith? And Chip Sudderth, ignoring the call from the Ood Sphere and avoiding his fate to rejoin Two-Minute Time Lord, finds a loophole in our "n...

On the fortieth edition of Reality Bomb, we're looking at the Doctor Who stories that we watch for comfort viewing with Lori Steuart, Sage Young and Kenyon Wallace. And the final segment of the the Key to Time season, The Armageddon Factor is in the Gallery of the Underrated with Doctor Who, Class and Torchwood author James Goss (writer of the upcoming novelization of Douglas Adams' The Pirate Pla...

On the thirty-ninth edition of Reality Bomb, we have first impressions of the new Doctor Who spinoff Class with NPR Books' Petra Mayer and Sage Young. And we're talking with a panel of educators and parents that includes Shannon Sudderth, Joy Piedmont and Jon Arnold about what's age appropriate when it comes to Doctor Who and Class. And are you a fan losing an argument? You have help from Pam Bran...

On the thirty-eighth edition of Reality Bomb we have a special live episode recorded in New York at The Way Station in Brooklyn with Graeme Burk and co-host Shannon Dohar. There's an interview on the 50th anniversary of the Doctor's first regeneration on the enduring potential of regeneration with NPR Books editor Petra Mayer and Verity! podcast's Deborah Stanish; a trivia contest on Doctor Who in...

On the thirty-seventh episode of Reality Bomb, we've given over the whole episode to revisit the best of our comedy sketches as selected by you, the listener! We go back through the past three years of Reality Bomb to our listen to our comedic highlights including, "How Dare You Steven Moffat!?", "Continuity Complaints Tribunal", Continuity Porn", "The Society for Scientific Accuracy in Doctor Who...

On the thirty-sixth episode of Reality Bomb, we've given over the whole episode to a special documentary that looks back on the special programs on Doctor Who made by Eric Luskin and New Jersey Network for PBS in the 1980s. We listen in on some of the best moments of these documentaries, talk to fans including Chris Hankenson, Drew Walco, Felicity Kuzinitz, Steven Schapansky and Warren Frey about...

On the thrity-fifth edition of Reality Bomb, we're puzzling about how Matt Lucas is going to play Nardole, given how little there is of him, and pondering the first Series 10 writers that have been announced with Richard Salter and Edie Nugent. We're looking back on Doomsday 10 years later with Head Over Feels ' Sage Young and Kim Rogers. And we wake up to the possibilities in what will probably b...

On the thirty-fourth edition of Reality Bomb, we're celebrating 500 issues of Doctor Who Magazine with Jim Sangster and Jon Arnold as they discuss the secret of DWM's longevity and the happiest times and places in the magazine's history. We also bring together NPR's Petra Mayer and Kathleen Schowalter to discuss their experiences as fans of the modern series coming to the classic series. And it's...

On the thirty-third edition of Reality Bomb, we're running through corridors with Bill, the new companion played by Pearl Mackie and then talking with Paul Condon, Lori Steuart and Shannon Dohar about who Bill might be and what we liked about Pearl Mackie in her debut teaser video. We're also talking about our hopes and fears about the upcoming spin-off Class with Sage Young, Joy Piedmont and Jon...

On the thirty-second edition of Reality Bomb, we're talking about the good, the bad and the timey-wimey of Steven Moffat's tenure on Doctor Who in a no-holds barred discussion between Petra Mayer, Anna Livingston and Lindsey Mayers. We're summoning Kronos when Young Sherlock author Andy Lane brings The Time Monster to the Gallery of the Underrated. And we're talking about what qualities we want in...

Sorry dear listeners. We've decided we need to take the month of February off. It was a hard decision but Alex and Graeme are hard at work on another project and their day jobs have been super-busy. With the hiatus on Doctor Who in 2016, we thought this might be a good opportunity to take a break. But, fear not, we'll be back in March (and Patreon subscribers, we'll be giving you something extra d...