Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Episode 91: Series 13 Preview We’re here: the most divisive screen era in Doctor Who history resumes from Sunday 31st October with the premiere of Series 13. A six-part, epic saga the like of which we’ve never seen before! So outgoing showrunner Chris Chibnall insists… Our podcast has been with you every step of the way, as Jodie Whittaker’s era began with so much promise. We have been less than i...

Episode 90: Second Coming II - Save Doctor Who? On the 90th edition of our Doctor Who podcast we go back to the headline making news from a couple of weeks ago: when Russell T Davies stunned the whole of the international TV industry! Announcing his return to the series, as showrunner in time for a special occasion in 2023... Now the shock has subsided we have more questions; we've been digging a...

Episode 89: From Nerva with Love with Christopher Naylor It’s inevitable you’ll get into a spot of bother travelling with the Doctor! Any companion will confirm. Regular Type 40 hosts Dan and Sarah hope to pick up a few tips on how to get out of it again, when they meet actor and voice artist Christopher Naylor… Christopher gamely lets us in on how he set about re-creating the character of the Doc...

Episode 88: Second Coming *BREAKING NEWS SPECIAL! Racing back to the controls of the Type 40 and it's all hands on the console; imaginations whirling and mouths running on this brand new edition of our Doctor Who podcast! Covering the exciting BREAKING NEWS story NO ONE saw coming... 12 years since The End of Time closed out the first generation of the revived series, the showrunner who claimed he...

Episode 87: Northern Soul We’re enjoying the return of Doctor Who’s prodigal son, Christopher Eccleston in 2021 so much! Whether delighting fans at signings, speaking from the heart on convention panels or serving wrong doer’s their just desserts on audio for Big Finish? Chris seems to be having the time of his life… On this edition of the podcast, Sarah, Simon and Dan regroup to sift through the...

Episode 86: Whostock 83 with Phil Newman It’s often said the 80’s revival has lasted twice as long as the decade itself. Whether its movies standing the test of time or music filling playlists of even those of us born years after Live Aid happened! We Doctor Who fans revisit the tales of the JNT era, over and over! But there’s some stories forever time-locked and only available to those who were t...

Episode 85: Blackpool Revisited with Alex Storer & John Collier This time last year an eBook was published that enchanted any Doctor Who fan compelled to download it. Now the gents behind Blackpool Remembered are back with a follow up publication and a return trip to our show! Illustrator and writer Alex Storer and researcher and designer John Collier re-join regular hosts Simon & Dan to preview B...

Episode 84: Happy Times – Summer 2021 News & Rumour Catch-Up! It’s the height of Summer, yet it feels like Christmas around the console room with the possibility of a bright new future for Doctor Who on TV in the air. Time for our midyear catch up with all the latest news from the vortex! We talk about all the HUGE announcement of the departure of both Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall...

Episode 83: Unlocked with Keith Barnfather & Neil Cole 2020 was a time-space co-ordinate none of us will ever forget. In the grip of a global health crisis, Doctor Who fans across the world bandied together from their own homes to support one another by creating, celebrating and sharing. Taking care of one another in our own resourceful and sometimes bonkers way! Someone who instantly recognised t...

Episode 82: The Big Three It’s time for Type 40: your Doctor Who podcast from the Spacebook for the Fandom Podcast Network. And on this special third birthday party edition, regular host Dan Hadley puts up the bunting and invites some family round for a catch-up!   Sarah Graham’s choosing the music, naturally! But special guests, Kyle Wagner and Kevin R. Reitzel of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Po...

Episode 81: Hooked on Classics Heading into the second half of 2021 and maybe you’ve noticed, as we have how the Doctor Who universe has experienced a time-shift of its own lately? As month after month new releases are announced, scheduled and teased… Blu rays, vinyl’s, audiobooks and figurines are just some of the goodies tempting us to pre-order. It seems but the greatest buzz around the series...

Episode 80: KKLAK! Uncovered – Our Book Review For this 80th edition of our Doctor Who podcast for The Fandom Podcast Network we’ve gone extra dimensional again, ourselves! Bringing you this conversation in both audio form, here on the pod catcher of your choice and as a video. You can see us as well as hear us over on our YouTube channel! As if that wasn’t enough, as a follow up on one of our mos...

Episode 79: Northern Star Slipping back out of a tricky Time-Eddy and onto your pod-catcher comes the latest edition of our Doctor Who podcast. With regular hosts Dan Hadley and returning favourite Sarah Graham… It’s an incredible 17 years since the casting of Salford born actor Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. Breaking the mould and heralding the biggest comeback in fantasy TV history! He was...

Episode 78: FAQ’s About Time Travellers IX Neil Cole Crack open the casket and unravel those sacred scrolls bearing the Type 40 Frequently Asked Questions, here on our Doctor Who podcast this time! With another intrepid Time Traveller poised to fill in the blanks, their way… And we’re delighted to welcome back the extraordinary Neil Cole to the show! It’s been years since he was last on Type 40. I...

Episode 77: Legacy Home Media with Richard Molesworth We are delighted to be celebrating the comeback of the Blu-ray range of Doctor Who: The Collection box sets from BBC Studios with returning guest voice and project manager on those releases, Richard Molesworth. Richard kindly takes us on a journey not just through the processes involved in putting the brand new Season 8 discs together, but stre...

Episode 76: Jail Time – Revolution of the Daleks Review There’s space at the console of the Type 40 reserved for you, on the latest edition of our Doctor Who podcast: Yes, it’s a long awaited full review of the 2021’s feature length New Year’s Day special, Revolution of the Daleks starring Jodie Whittaker and returning legend John Barrowman… Seeing as it’s the first new chunk of the TV series in m...

Episode 75: Happy Place Tumbling out of the vortex and into your ears: it’s our Doctor Who podcast! After several trips through the decades lately, it’s time to check back in with present day. For a general catch-up and look at the cataclysmic rumours circulating the longest running sci-fi and fantasy series in the world as the New Year began… Regular host Dan Hadley talks with Simon Horton about...

Episode 74: The Game Masters Unfinished business! The history of the world’s longest running Science Fiction and Fantasy series is mined with such. Few projects are more dreamt about than the planned final meeting of the Doctor with his Master, in the latter days of the Jon Pertwee era. An epic finale viewers and the actors were denied by a tragic accident. To mark the centenary of Roger Delgado w...

Episode 73: K9 and Company at 40 There’s a special place in the hearts of all Doctor Who fans for the Doctor’s most diminutive of companions: the remarkable, electronic, robotic dog K9. The appeal of this character both at the Doctor’s feet and in his own right is undeniable and evergreen! So popular was he that long before Captain Jack bounded into the Torchwood hub, Class assembled or Sarah Jane...

Episode 72: Chris Achilleos Truly thrilling adventures in time and space and conversation on this edition of our Doctor Who podcast, as we welcome a very special guest. A man with decades’ worth of experience in the art and design industry and a gallery’s worth of evocative, bold and consummate imagery to his credit. A proportion of which is extra special to Doctor Who fans. Particularly, though n...

Episode 71: Christmas Party 2020 Make sure you’ve a mug of something hot to sip and a bobbly to pop on, for this wintry journey aboard our Doctor Who podcast! There’s a stocking full of candid Christmassy talk from across all of space and time, just waiting by our fireside… Huddle in and share the gift of conversation here with friends and fellow fans on this as-live edition, presenting our Christ...

Episode 70: Missing Episodes with Richard Molesworth It’s a reality that haunts Doctor Who fans: how large quantities of the series earliest episodes officially no longer exist. Wiped, taken or destroyed over a period of time as part of a general housekeeping and money saving initiative at the BBC itself, decades ago. Writer and lifelong fan Richard Molesworth is the man who’s written the definiti...

Welcoming listeners and companions, old and new to a new beginning for Type 40: Materializing on the pod catcher of your choice again for a new series. Now with our own feed, a new sound and new look! But the same blend of reviews, discussions and interviews. There's plenty of treats and surprises to come, we promise. What better way to begin Season 3 of our Doctor Who Podcast than to talk "Multi-...