Strangers in Space: once a month, for sixty minutes*, J.R. Southall, Lee Rawlings, Simon Brett and Matt Barber talk about Doctor Who so you don't have to (*times may vary) Desert Planet Picks: once a week, a special guest chooses the eight items they'd take with them, if they were about to be maroon…
On the day Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister, we go back to his Party Pieces interview with The Quietus in 2022, and ask whether we think the man who chose to be represented by these thirteen records is the right man to represent us in the highest office in the country. Or maybe just give our opinions on his opinions. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Simon Brett and Eric Drass Party Pieces: https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/andy-burnham-bakers-dozen-favourite-music/
In the first half (albeit recorded second) of a Too Hot for TV crossover, we take a look at the ill-fated 1980s TV adaptation of John Christopher's The White Mountains trilogy Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees On tomorrow's episode of Too Hot for TV (recorded first), we'll be looking at the prequel novel and various comic strip adventures: https://linktr.ee/Dylan_Rees
With The Avengers now in the randomiser we take Who Review Extra all the way back to February of 1963, a time before Doctor Who even existed, to check out the Season 2 episode School for Traitors and see how it stands up against the style the series would hit later on Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
In the aftermath of MayGann, we take a look at Smart Money, the 1986 TV movie that predicts the hacker dramas of the 1990s and which is the first collaboration between TV movie writer Matthew Jacobs and Candyman director Bernard Rose Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber You can watch Smart Money here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1wVSRDFWc9E
England's chances in the World Cup, Nigel's farrago in Clacton, Ann Widdecombe's surprising connection to Doctor Who and more in this emergency unstoppable edition of Private Members Club Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
Paul McGann's very first screen appearance was in a Play for Today written by Wally K Daly (author of the ill-fated Doctor Who story The Ultimate Evil), and so we extended MayGann in order to take a look Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
The results of our listeners poll to find the most loved stories of the Jon Pertwee era Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
The second film in the DC Gunniverse seems to have stalled at the box office, and it can't just be down to embittered Snyder fans casting a hex upon it - indeed, our review team of four shrank to half its promised size when two didn't even bother to go see it. We decided to make up for their absence by talking longer Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake
Films about filmmakers are always intriguing, and back in 1990 the director of The Graduate collaborated with Carrie Fisher to tell a fictionalised account of her relationship with her mother Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett
Now that we've hit July, we can no longer claim it's MayGann, and so by way of saying goodbye we join Sylvester McCoy for his 1996 video diary in which we find him Bidding Adieu to the role of Doctor Who Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher
We talk about RTD's latest, with a little bit about Doctor Who at the start Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ian Winterton
Our summer of celebration of the TV movie and the surrounding wilderness years brings us to the last licensed-but-unofficial spin-off mini-movie that was made before Doctor Who returned to our screens in 2005, Dæmos Rising Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
Now that we're actually in May Week, here's a little bit more MayGann in the form of Geoffrey Sax's 2005 hit horror film White Noise Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
It only took three days from Andy Burnham's election in Makerfield, to Sir Keir Starmer resigning in Downing Street; for the second time in a week, there are too many developments in government for us not to talk about them Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ian Winterton
As May week kicks off in Cambridge, MayGann spreads its wings to include Steven Moffat's first turn behind the Doctor Who TV typewriter, The Curse of Fatal Death in 1999 Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher
The game of Prime Ministerial musical chairs appears to have begun again, and so we've dusted off our politics strand in order to have a conversation about it - once we can get onto the subject Presented by J.R. Southall, with Steve Hatcher
He-Man is once again holding aloft his magic sword and so we thought we would compare the new Masters of the Universe movie with its 1987 counterpart, to see which has the most fabulous secret powers Presented by Dylan Rees, with Ryan Blake and J.R. Southall
We take a look at three TV episodes Matthew Jacobs wrote for television after his work on the 1996 Doctor Who movie, a feature-length adaptation of Lorna Doone, an episode of Wexford and the Screen Two instalment Mothertime Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
The results of our quest to find our listeners' favourite tenth Doctor stories Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
Christmas is cancelled, and so we convened to discuss what this might mean for the future of Doctor Who Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
We catch up with Geoffrey Sax's career a decade after he directed the TV movie, to find him undergoing yet more behind-the-scenes interference on another adaptation of a beloved children's franchise Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
By way of tribute to the recently departed Anthony Head, our review of the early David Tennant story Presented by J. R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
We name the stories we think Matthew Jacobs might have chosen, had he been asked to supervise a season of Paul McGann episodes in the wake of the TV movie Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher
MayGann continues - if May Week hasn't happened yet, then we still consider it May - with our review of Paperhouse, Bernard Rose's beguiling but terrifying fantasy that was written by Matthew Jacobs Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
As the tumbleweeds gather around the forthcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, and a year passes since the show was last being broadcast on television, we take stock of the situation and the swirling rumours surrounding the lack of production Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber and the ghost of Steve Hatcher
Matthew Jacobs, writer of the TV movie, stops by for a chat about his career, his process and his influences - and of course about Doctor Who Presented by J.R. Southall
It's thirty years since Paul McGann's sole outing in a full-length Doctor Who story hit British television screens, so it's about time we took another look to see what we think of it in 2026 Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Geoffrey Sax, director of the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, talks about his career, his process and his influences, and a bit about Doctor Who too Presented by J.R. Southall The Disputation (as mentioned), in fuzzy vision, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p3WlesJgaI
We take a look at a couple of episodes Matthew Jacobs had written for television prior to his work on the Doctor Who TV movie, one for The Jim Henson Hour and the other an instalment of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees Â
A conversation about the "new" elements that comprised Doctor Who in the 1990s, and whether it was the right time for them Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Written by Meglos' Flanagan and McCulloch and overseen by Verity Lambert, and with Michael Gough, David Calder and Alan David among the supporting cast - not to mention Nigel Havers and Warren Clarke as the two leads - Sleepers appeared five years before the Doctor Who TV movie with Geoffrey Sax in the director's chair Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
Our appreciation of the work of Paul McGann continues as we try and find him in 2002's rights-grab Interview With a Vampire sequel Queen of the Damned, or indeed anything of merit Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees
The TV movie helped us make it through the wilderness years, but it's far from the only Doctor Who that was produced during the period Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
MayGann continues to rifle through the Paul McGann back catalogue, today's selection being the 1986 Alan Bleasdale serial that was largely responsible for launching McGann's screen career Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
MayGann continues with another movie starring Paul McGann, this time as a lesbian vampire hunting priest alongside Hall and Corden, in a film that couldn't possibly be as bad as we remembered it being - could it? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake, Luke Molloy and Dylan Rees
MayGann wouldn't be complete without a trip to the Old West, and the Doctor Who set that TV movie writer Matthew Jacobs visited as a child to watch his father as an actor Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher
MayGann continues with Paul McGann appearing in a 1997 film called Downtime, as reviewed here by the author of Downtime: The Lost Years of Doctor Who Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees Watch Downtime on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hwgXW7UHUpE
With new rumours swirling about where the future of Doctor Who might lie, we take a look at the latest evidence and discuss its potential Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
MayGann begins in earnest, with our review of Andrew Davies' 2002 adaptation of Sarah Waters' debut novel Tipping the Velvet, as directed by Geoffrey Sax Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
It's Dave Robicheaux agogo in an accidental double bill, after we decided to talk about Heaven's Prisoners (1996) to give Eric Roberts a little coverage before MayGann kicks off in earnest, and ended up recording a whole nother episode on its follow-up film, 2009's In the Electric Mist Presented by J.R. Southall, with Iain Martin and first Matt Barber then Ryan Blake
The randomiser decided that MayGann should begin a few days earlier than planned, so we find ourselves reviewing the eighth Doctor's six-minute resurrection during Doctor Who's fiftieth anniversary celebrations Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
Our thoughts on the recent live action adaptation of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary, from the duo who almost made Solo: A Star Wars Story Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
The results of our quest to find our listeners' favourite second Doctor stories Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
As we await the third adaptation in the modern Dune film series, we cast our minds back to David Lynch's badly received 1984 version and wonder if it's better than its reputation would suggest Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Scrubs is back after a sixteen year gap, but is it still doing its all on its own...? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Iain Martin
We go back back to 1988 to discuss the best-selling albums and singles and wonder what else people were listening to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass
The randomiser brings us to one of the lesser Sarah Jane Adventures, but will we get lost in Lost in Time? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
After 999 episodes on the podcast feed, we decided the 1,000th should be something momentous and mind-blowing - and then we recorded this instead. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Mark Donaldson and Iain Martin
A bit of a cult classic in a very Steven Moffaty sense, we went back for a second look at Christopher Smith's Triangle so you don't have to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees
In a repeat of our Series One poll from 2021, we countdown our listeners' favourite ninth Doctor stories Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
It's 75 years since The Thing from Another World crawled onto movie screens, so to celebrate this seminal year in sci-fi cinema we've taken another look at that, The Day the Earth Stood Still and When Worlds Collide Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
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