The Doctor Who Podcast

What a weekend, courtesy of Mr Russell T. Davies and The Guardian! Join Ashley and Brent as the now former showrunner junks our recording schedule with (incredibly interesting) interview promoting his memoires ! Memoires, at 63?! Madness. Anyway Doctor Who features heavily in the extract published by the Guardian – great Who news for the Campervan to chew over. Along with coverage of the cel...

Thursday 17th September 2026 – the most anticipated Invitation to Tender of all time was published by the BBC! Yes, the future of Doctor Who is up for grabs – the BBC intend to award a contract to produce our favourite show for at least one series. Join James , Phil and Brent as they get together to talk Time Lord Tenders in the greatest Doctor Who drama since The Reality War. Yes, the...

Join James and Phil as they hop into the Campervan to catch up on what’s happening (or what’s not happening) in the world of Doctor Who. Tender talk is rife throughout fandom, but what exactly IS going on with our favourite show?! Is anything actually happening? When will hear anything that promises new Doctor Who on our telly screens? Meanwhile, Michele and Ashley check in and review...

Welcome to the latest episode of The DWP Echo Chamber!! In this final edition of Series , James and Michele talk about …ish by Phil Pascoe , released in August 2002 – the thirty fifth story in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward – Buy …ish from  Big Finish Productions  for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of cou...

Welcome to the latest episode of The DWP Echo Chamber!! In this edition, James and Michele talk about Spare Parts by Marc Platt , released in July 2002 – the thirty fourth story in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward – Buy Spare Parts from  Big Finish Productions  for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!) L...

Welcome to Episode 426 of the Doctor Who Podcast! Join Drew as we (finally) formally welcome Ashley to the DWP Campervan. And of course, they get stuck into irreverent Doctor Who geekery from the outset. For those of you that don’t know, Ashley has been providing the DWP with witty-ditties for the show, and songs for Big Finish stories The Echo Chamber – goodness knows how many he has...

Welcome to the latest episode of The DWP Echo Chamber!! In this edition, James and Michele talk about The Maltese Penguin by Robert Shearman , a bonus from Big Finish released in July 2002 (not November, as Big Finish say on their website!) and is number thirty three and a half in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward – Buy The Maltese Penguin from  B...

Welcome to the latest episode of The DWP Echo Chamber!! In this edition, James and Michele talk about Neverland by Alan Barnes , released in July 2002 and is the thirty third story in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward – Buy Neverland from  Big Finish Productions  for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!) Listen to it! Jo...

Welcome to the latest episode of The DWP Echo Chamber!! In this edition, James and Michele talk about The Time of the Daleks by Justin Richards , released in May 2002 – the thirty second story in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward – Buy The Time of the Daleks from  Big Finish Productions  for just a few pounds (if you don’t ow...

Welcome to the latest Series (Series 7 to be precise) of The DWP Echo Chamber!! We are back with a new series of episodes, coming your way each Wednesday for the next few weeks! Hooray! In this edition, James and Michele talk about Embrace The Darkness by Nicholas Briggs , released in April 2002 – the thirty first story in Big Finish’s Main Range. Listening instructions are very straig...

Nine Lives returns! Join Michele and Ashley as they discuss the latest Ninth Doctor and Rose story from Big Finish Productions , Thirteen O’Clock by Robert Valentine – but not before they’ve talked about the recently launched multi-media Fugitive Doctor series, Circuit Breaker . One of Mr Valentine’s previous stories from the Back to Earth boxset , Station to Station, also...

Join Michele and James as they bring you the eagerly anticipated and much delayed Episode 424 of the The Doctor Who Podcast! Given the (relatively) recent news that the 2026 Christmas Special is no more, DWP424 has been a kinda-casualty in our scheduling. So we will now bring you our “tell all” interview with Ashley in a later episode – although his presence is very much felt thr...

The week has been rather eventful in the Worlds of BBC Television’s Doctor Who! Join James , Brent and Michele as they try to unpick what has transpired. Enjoy!

This ol’ internetty thing has been positively *alive* with Doctor Who rumours over last few weeks. What’s happening with this year’s Christmas edition of our beloved show?! After Ncuti Gatwa’s fleeting incarnation morphed into Billie Piper at the end of The Reality War last year, the BBC shared their post-Disney+ masterplan for Christmas 2026 and beyond. Journey back to Oct...

It’s all Big Finish here in the DWP Campervan! Or mostly. Join Ashley and Ian as they talk about the latest Ninth Doctor and Rose release, Pandemonium – and then Phil and James take over the driving and review Aegis, the latest Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz story. In between the two, Brent jumps in with his thoughts on the two recently recovered episodes of The Dalek Master Plan ! We&#8217...

In this final edition of Series Six of the The DWP Echo Chamber,  James  and  Michele  talk about  Seasons of Fear , by  Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox released in March 2002 – the thirtieth story in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward – Buy  Season of Fear from  Big Finish Productions  for just a few pounds (if you don’...

In this edition of the The Echo Chamber,  James  and  Michele  talk about  The Chimes of Midnight , by  Robert Shearman , released in February 2002 – the twenty ninth in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward – Buy  The Chimes of Midnight  from  Big Finish Productions  for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already o...

There are Masters and Plans everywhere this episode! Join James , Michele and Phil for Part 4 of Talkin’ bout Regeneration and they reach the glorious double-bill of era-ending stories, The End of Time and Power of the Doctor. However, that’s not before Ian volunteers for Round One of DWP Mastermind and answers as many Who related questions as he can in four minutes! Enjoy.

In this edition of the The Echo Chamber, Ashley and Michele talk about Invaders from Mars by Mark Gatiss , released in January 2002 – the twenty eighth in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward – Buy Invaders from Mars from  Big Finish Productions  for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!) Listen to it! Join us in the E...

In this edition of the The Echo Chamber, James and Michele talk about The One Doctor by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman , released in December 2001 – the twenty seventh in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward – Buy The One Doctor from  Big Finish Productions  for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!) Listen to it!...

Welcome to the latest Series (Series 6 to be precise) of The DWP Echo Chamber!! We are back with a new series of episodes, coming your way each Wednesday for the next five weeks! Hooray! In this edition, James and Michele talk about Primeval by Lance Parkin released in November 2001 – the twenty sixth story in Big Finish’s Main Range! Listening instructions are very straightforward &#8...

Join James and Michele for an unplanned, unscripted episode of the DWP! Mainly because we didn’t find the time to record the content for the *scheduled* Episode 421! Inevitably with this presenter pairing, conversation heads towards Big Finish, but then takes an unexpected turn into the use of comedy in Doctor Who! Jump on the board and enjoy a cosy fireside chat about when comedy has worked...

Join Phil as he takes over the driving and takes the Campervan for a spin around the newly returned episodes of The Dalek Master Plan, this time with his teenage son Scott, for whom the episodes are the first recovered episodes in his lifetime! Will he care?! How to they hold up in his view? Jump on board to find out. Enjoy!

It’s Dalek Master Plan Day! This morning, the two recently recovered episodes of the 1965 story, The Dalek Master Plan, were made available on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the Doctor Who Classic You Tube Channel in the United States. Michele and James have watched them both – jump on board the campervan to hear their initial reaction!

Join James and Phil in the as they take the DWP Campervan out for its latest spin. A quick update on the latest on the recovery of the two previously missing episodes of The Dalek Masterplan , the release of Season 21 on Blu Ray and a review of The Violet Hour , the fifth in Big Finish ‘s Thirteen Doctor and Yaz series in the latest instalment of Whittaker’s Dozen. All this – and...