Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 169: Club Who with Dallas Jones Our Doctor Who podcast meets a true original for this latest long form conversation. Dallas Jones is an extraordinary fan and a fascinating man: full of stories of a lifetime loving the series and playing a considerable part in enduring Doctor Who, in his home country over the last five decades. As a founder member of the Docto...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 168: Disc Man with Ed Stradling Another terrific guest materialises for this long form conversation on a fascinating Doctor Who connection with regular Type 40 host and remote-control freak, Dan Hadley. Ed Stradling moved from a career in law, to producing for TV, fuelled by researching classic television and Doctor Who in particular. A key contributor and in...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 167: DWAS is 50! With Tony Jordan The Doctor Who Appreciation Society is 50 Years old and if that’s not a good enough reason to check back in with DWAS Co-ordinator Tony Jordan? When would be! Regular voices Antony Wainer and Dan Hadley are ready with the party poppers and loads of memories of membership cards, fanzines and badges past. Not that the longest e...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 166: Found! Missing Episodes Update Spring 2026 Doubtless you were as delighted as we were, to see the news of two fresh re-discoveries of previously lost classic Doctor Who episodes from 1965, a few weeks ago… Our Type 40 regular discussion panel couldn’t wait to get together and speculate on the where’s, how’s and when’s as the story was continuing to break...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 165: McGannuary! Wasting no time or space here on our long running Doctor Who podcast, celebrating 30 years of Paul McGann's much loved Doctor. A story that began one Wintery morning at Longleat House, continued on the streets of Vancouver before that final, fiery end! The filling in of the gaps inbetween, still going on, all these years later... Our panel re...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 164: Closing Time - The Randomiser Reviews The Randomiser is a confounding contraption alright! Looks like not much at all, but inside that metallic rectangle, bolted to the console, is mayhem to a Doctor Who fan. Whatever story it was YOU planned on watching next? Bump it, and join the Type 40 panel to review the latest story, chosen chosen FOR THEM complete...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 163: Reel Times with Keith Barnfather There’s the official Whoniverse of Doctor Who: on telly and in officially licensed media and extra programming: that’s big enough! But on the flipside exists an even larger, wilder and more industrious domain of the UNOFFICIAL… Our returning guest, Keith Barnfather has been there pioneering much of that! For over four dec...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 162: Tom Baker MBE with Oliver McNeil In early November 2025, the veteran character actor, arguably most famous Time Lord of the all, Tom Baker was formally honoured by the Crown with an MBE for Services to Television. With a small number of friends and colleagues in attendance... One of whom was photographer Oliver McNeil. Oliver's quite the character himsel...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 161: Planet of Evil Review Resuming our reviewing and revelling through time & space now, to tie in with the release of Season 13 of classic Doctor Who on Blu Ray: stopping off on the Planet Of Evil itself... The second story of this fan favourite run starring Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen gets quite a set of reactions from the regular Type 40 reviewers,...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 160: Saving Face   At the annual Edinburgh TV Festival for 2025 the BBC has had its usual formidable presence. Multiple executives talking telly! Given Doctor Who's very public problems in recent months, it's hardly surprising the topic came up several times. Key people involved in the future of the property as an ongoing television series addressed the fando...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 159: FAQ with Antony Wainer There can’t be many Doctor Who fans who’ve not found themselves on the other end of a grilling by friends, family, co-workers or other fans concerning their precise history with the series! And it’s so often the same batch of questions and queries fired our way in short order… They’re the most Frequently Asked Questions About Time...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 158: The Great Deflector Doctor Who: the world’s longest running, best loved Science Fiction and fantasy TV series – is on “Pause”. Following a disastrous relaunch co-production between BBC Studios, Bad Wolf Studios and Disney+ a little more than 18 months ago… What’s gone wrong? Why? Who’s to blame? That’s all up for debate! In the short term, all eyes and e...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 157: The State of 2025 with Ken Deep For Doctor Who Podcast Day 2025 To mark the 20th birthday of Doctor Who podcasting itself, one of the voices of that historic show, Podshock joins regular host Dan Hadley for this long form conversation. Exploring where the Doctor Who series and it's fandom find themselves, in the wake of that ending to yet another Doctor'...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 156: The Time Meddler Review Resuming our randomised, rambunctious revelling’s in Doctor Who adventures from across the decades on Type 40! Our regular panels primed, prepped and positively raring to go, for better or worse… The second season of the classic era closed out with The Time Meddler by Dennis Spooner. Taking the Doctor, his companion Vicki and stow...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 154: Quizzed with Daisy Ashford and Sadie Miller At Whooverville 15 It’s that time again: a special episode of our Doctor Who Podcast. recorded completely LIVE on stage with special guests and an audience of companions, friends and fellow fans at the hugely popular Whooverville convention… You regular hosts Simon Horton and Dan Hadley returned to QUAD in Derb...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 153: Survivors Type 40's long running Doctor Who commemorating another historic date and time in the history of the Whoniverse. On the 6th December 1989 the classic series was vanquished from the schedules of BBC1 after a 4 year battle against the odds... Survivors of that fateful period Simon and Dan get together with Sarah to revisit that strangely silent W...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 152: Joy to the World REVIEW Returning for 2025 and a BRAND-NEW SEASON of our long-running Doctor Who Podcast on the Fandom Podcast Network: it’s Type 40! With familiar voices and brand-new contributors alike. All gathering around the mic’s to cover the whole Whoniverse both on and off screen… Beginning with this full review of the latest Doctor Who Christmas...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 151: Mount Who – For Doctor Who Podcast Day 2024 Join us as we task ourselves with something truly monumental on this edition of Type 40: A Doctor Who Podcast! All marking Doctor Who Podcast Day for 2024! Regular panellists Sarah, Charlotte, Simon and Dan are all in session to deliberate on which four personalities from over 60 years of the Whoniverse would b...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 150: Space Babies Review For the 150th edition of our popular Doctor Who podcast, Type 40 on the Fandom Podcast Network, we begin covering the All-New 2024 season of episodes in depth! It’s been over two and a half years since the last full run of the series premiered. This one continues from where last Christmas’s special left off… To look at Space Babies, w...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 149: The Church On Ruby Road Review It’s practically impossible pleasing the entirety of Doctor Who fandom, but when Bad Wolf Studios and the BBC confirmed plans for the Doctor Who Christmas Special to return? It came pretty close. Staple of the British TV schedules for over a decade from 2005 onwards and much missed even by the general audience! On Christmas...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 148: One Vision New Season Preview 2024 With Ian Levine Our long running Doctor Who podcast returns to commence coverage of the Ncuti Gatwa era, beginning with this traditional preview of the first season premiering now on BBC iPLAYER and Disney+ The new era rather stalled on Boxing Day! Now we’ve official word of what’s to come in his first entire season of...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 147: With Ian Levine There’s been a massive amount of public interest surrounding Doctor Who since its debut. Association with it has both made and arguably ended fortunes. There are a select set of people who seem inseparable from it. Generally they’re those you’d think! Many household names and industry darlings. And then there’s Ian Levine… A tremendously...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 146: DWAS Reimagined with Tony Jordan Times are changing for The Doctor Who Appreciation Society! Perhaps the most monumental changes in the near 5 decades of this, the largest global fan club for dedicated followers of our favourite TV series. Whether you're a member, a lapsed member or a never-have-been a member? There's everything you could ever want to kn...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 145: Plant Life with Will Hadcroft Our first guest of 2024 on the Fandom Podcast Network’s long running Doctor Who show brings more than one story to tell! Writer Will Hadcroft’s been a fan of the series all his life. Despite being an author and publisher of several books in the last two decades, it’s been a long-held ambition to tell an original story of his...

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 144: & Company at Whooverville 14 Take your seat and listen up! It’s a special episode of our Doctor Who Podcast. The very first recorded completely LIVE on stage with special guests and an audience of companions, friends and fellow fans… Last Autumn we were invited to cover one of the biggest conventions of the Doctor Who calendar: the 14th Whooverville...