Podcast appearances and mentions of shannon dohar

Zip up your vest and look out for dinosaurs—Random Pursuit is back with some silly questions and some very dark ones. At one point, Steven asks “What is wrong with Trivial Pursuit!?” Related: content warning for harm to a pet. Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Brian Warren, Glenn Fleishman, Kirsten Goruk, Sage Young and Shannon Dohar.

Zip up your vest and look out for dinosaurs—Random Pursuit is back with some silly questions and some very dark ones. At one point, Steven asks “What is wrong with Trivial Pursuit!?” Related: content warning for harm to a pet. Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Brian Warren, Glenn Fleishman, Kirsten Goruk, Sage Young and Shannon Dohar.

It is good to know things, right? Shannon Dohar returns to offer her insight into Little Red's realization that she's been forced to grow up quicker than she would have liked. You can listen to Shannon's podcast, So Much Stuff to Sing, here: https://somuchstufftosing.libsyn.comAnd you can follow Shannon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sdohar/And you can also follow the podcast there: https://www.instagram.com/somuchstufftosing/We are using four productions to frame our discussion of Into the Woods.The Original Broadway Cast (1987) starring Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, and Chip Zien.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://bit.ly/46hBVdXOr listen to it on Spotify: https://bit.ly/48HHfsEOr buy it on Amazon: https://bit.ly/3ZEDtMFThe Broadway Revival (2002) starring Vanessa Williams, Kerry O'Malley, and Stephen DeRosa.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://bit.ly/3RL3rwbOr listen to it on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3rISQHdOr buy it on Amazon: https://bit.ly/3rzQg6zThe film adaptation (2014) starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and James Corden.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://bit.ly/3PPFPE6Or listen to it on Spotify: https://bit.ly/48C44y2Or buy it on Amazon: https://bit.ly/46hu14rThe Broadway Revival (2022) starring Patina Miller, Sara Bareilles, and Brian d'Arcy James.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://bit.ly/3F13gVZOr listen to it on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3ZKqd9uOr buy it on Amazon: https://bit.ly/3LMvs2wSend feedback to puttingittogetherpodcast@gmail.comKeep up to date with Putting It Together by following its social media channels.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/puttingittogetherpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/sondheimpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sondheimpodcast ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

On the one hundred and twelfth edition of Reality Bomb, we talk to classical musician Elizabeth Reid McQuillan about the new version of the Doctor Who theme and what makes the Doctor Who theme so popular. We chat with Graham Kibble-White, co-author of the new bookazine Adventures in Type and Space, about how the book came together, and how some of the greatest title sequences in Doctor Who's history came together, with exclusive clips of Graham's interviews with the legendary Bernard Lodge and Peter Govey. And we reconvene the Reality Bomb Book Club as Shannon Dohar and Martin Hajovsky discuss Russell T Davies' and Benjamin Cook's behind the scenes look at the making of series four, Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale. Plus: Graeme Burk examines the origins of the oooo-eee-oooos and the dumba-ba-dums that make up the Doctor Who theme to see how it connects with Murray Gold's latest version ... and we discover, the hard way, that there are some things in the world of Doctor Who that are more ridiculous than any comedy sketch we can make.

On the one hundred and tenth edition of Reality Bomb, we're celebrating our tenth anniversary with our longest episode yet and featuring "ten for ten"-- ten segments that look back on ten years of Reality Bomb, introduced by contributors and friends of the programs. This episode includes: Romance in Doctor Who (from episode 060) - Jenny Colgan and Kim Rogers talk about how, why and should romance be in Doctor Who. Introduced by Kim Rogers Planet Who: Le Fandom Français (from epsiode 077) - We talk to Pauline Serizel from Pepperpot about French fandom as chronicled in a recent documentary. Introduced by David Matthewman F*ck That Guy (from episode 055) - One of our most...enduring? comedy sketches starring Shannon Dohar and Kim Rogers. Introduced by Deb Stanish The Doctor Who Theme (from episode 005) - Alex Kennard's audio essay on how the Doctor Who theme came to be and why it works so well. Introduced by Alex Kennard Con Safety and Doctor Who Conventions (from episode 071) - A panel from our special episode on con safety with Felicity Kuzinitz and Sage Young. Introduced by Sage Young Gallery of the Underrated: The Chase (from episode 048) - featuring BBC presenter and author Matthew Sweet. Introduced by Jim Sangster Variations on a Timeless Child: When Bad Retcons Happen To Good People (from episode 083) - Petra Mayer looks back on her worst day... as a Doctor Who fan. Introduced by Martin Hajovksy Spoiler Cops: Revenge With a Vengeance - Part Two The Vengeancing (from episode 030) - can Detective McDonough clear her name? starring Lizbeth Myles, Bill Evenson, Erik Stadnik, Alex Kennard and Felicity Brown. Introduced by Bill Evenson Excerpt from our "Calling the World" documentary (from episode 064). Introduced by Heather Berberet Editorial - A Life in Fandom (from episode 024 live in New York). Introduced by Shannon Dohar

Sometimes you get just a little obsessed with creating something that you lose yourself. You also lose those around you. Shannon Dohar returns to try and explain the mania George finds himself in and brings up her own personal experience as evidence. You can listen to Shannon's podcast, So Much Stuff to Sing, here: https://somuchstufftosing.libsyn.comAnd you can follow Shannon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sdoharWe are using three productions to frame our discussion of Sunday in the Park with George.The Original Broadway Cast (1984) starring Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters.You can listen to it on Apple Music: apple.co/3K4RV9aOr listen to it on Spotify: http://bit.ly/3MkBw3kOr buy it on Amazon: https://bit.ly/40ZSZCcThe London Cast Recording (2006) starring Alistair Harvey and Jenna Russell.You can listen to it on Apple Music: http://bit.ly/3MdxzgSOr listen to it on Spotify: http://bit.ly/40FTrFWOr buy it on Amazon: https://bit.ly/3GjeXbyThe Broadway Revival (2017) starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford.You can listen to it on Apple Music: http://bit.ly/3nC63zdOr listen to it on Spotify: http://bit.ly/40Jj7ScOr buy it on Amazon: https://bit.ly/3Mr9inoSend feedback to puttingittogetherpodcast@gmail.comKeep up to date with Putting It Together by following its social media channels.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/puttingittogetherpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/sondheimpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sondheimpodcast ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Maybe the moon is cheese? Shannon Dohar returns to try and make sense of how Act 2 of Merrily We Roll Along starts. You can listen to Shannon's podcast, So Much Stuff to Sing, here: https://somuchstufftosing.libsyn.comAnd you can follow Shannon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sdoharWe are using three productions to frame our discussion of Merrily We Roll Along.The Original Broadway Cast (1981) starring Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, and Lonny Price.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/merrily-we-roll-along-original-broadway-cast-recording/738703005Or listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3KZq3isCTbYMzGvnXkTfNr?si=u2vq6PhGTCeyOW9W8mTnhwOr buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Merrily-Roll-Along-Original-Broadway/dp/B01KB0V58O/The Off-Broadway Revival cast (1994) starring Malcolm Gets, Amy Ryder, and Adam Heller.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/merrily-we-roll-along-the-new-cast-recording-1994-off/1440771486Or listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/51xg0INwgGytnQTHm2N0Tc?si=Vv_WetrCQ9OaTmgtpBTpZQOr buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Merrily-Roll-Along-Cast-Recording/dp/B000026G4K/The Encores! revival (2012) starring Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/merrily-we-roll-along-2012-new-york-cast-recording/542006479Or listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2ouySS4WHFplUHtwduvPKx?si=SLaweV0XRomMEvIPXqlpDAOr buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Merrily-Roll-Along-Encores-Recording/dp/B007Q1IT1I/Our sponsors this week are: Park Power - https://parkpower.ca - your friendly, local utilities provider in Alberta. Offering Internet, Electricity, and Natural Gas with low rates, awesome service, and profit-sharing with local charities. Alberta Blue Cross - https://www.ab.bluecross.ca - Alberta Blue Cross group benefit plans are easy to manage, anywhere, anytime and on any device, making it easy for you and your employees to access. Send feedback to puttingittogetherpodcast@gmail.comPutting It Together is a proud member of The Alberta Podcast Network: Locally grown. Community supported. Here's their link again: https://www.albertapodcastnetwork.comRecorded by Media Lab YYC. Media Lab is a production company. They help you tell your story. They do this by assisting in the creation of videos and podcasts. Find more information at: http://medialabyyc.comKeep up to date with Putting It Together by following its social media channels.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/puttingittogetherpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/sondheimpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sondheimpodcast ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

On the one hundredth edition of Reality Bomb we have a special live episode recorded at QED in Astoria in Queens in New York City! Join Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont as they talk to Sage Young and Shannon Dohar about the top stories in Doctor Who during the past 100 episodes of Reality Bomb. We also talk to Tom Dickinson, Alyssa Franke and Rachel Donner about the future of Doctor Who and its fandom. And Verity!'s Deborah Stanish interviews Joy, Graeme and Alex Kennard about Reality Bomb and what goes on behind the scenes to make the podcast over the past nine years. And we have the return of Pam Brandeis: Fan Attorney; Spoiler Cops find themselves in a very meta caper and Bruce and Darren try to stop the creation of Reality Bomb. All this plus special guest Sophie Aldred talks about The Happiness Patrol in the Gallery of the Underrated! 

Doctor Who Literature is delighted and overjoyed to bring you Jason's interview with Philip Hinchcliffe, the man who produced "The Seeds of Doom" for television and who then wrote the novelization. This half-hour was one of the high points of Jason's decades as a fan and we couldn't be happier to share it with you. Our guest conversation this week is with Shannon Dohar (@SDohar), a Doctor Who fan in New York City, whose voice you can also hear on the musical podcasts Deeper Cuts and So Much to Sing About. What was it like reading the novelizations and New Adventures in the US before the New Series hit it big here? What are our thoughts on the Chris Chibnall era? How much does Philip Hinchcliffe and his era's stories mean to us today? Spoiler alert: Quite a bit. And how does Shannon fare on a game of "Twenty Questions"? Lastly, Jason reviews the "Seeds of Doom" novelizations and talks about the different needs of a six-week TV serial versus a 120-page adaptation. Special thanks to David Barsky for the production of this episode.

What sudden realization is Sweeney Todd coming to? And how does that affect the rest of the show. Shannon Dohar joins Kyle to figure that out and marvel at how different actors have interpreted this song. You can listen to Shannon's podcast, So Much Stuff to Sing, here: https://somuchstufftosing.libsyn.comAnd you can follow Shannon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sdoharYou can purchase Stephen Sondheim's first book of lyrics, Finishing the Hat, by going here: https://amzn.to/2LB9ZJoWe are using three productions to frame our discussion of Sweeney Todd.The Original Broadway Cast (1979) starring Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, and Victor Garber.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/sweeney-todd-the-demon-barber-of-fleet-street/1086882395Or listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2q6InM859RCsSQOjHWNHk2?si=Yn1oBG-bRASlNC_UPIUEAwOr buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Todd-Original-Broadway-Recording/dp/B01C6YV96Q/The Broadway revival (2005) starring Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris, and Alexander Gemignani.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/sweeney-todd-the-demon-barber-of-fleet-street/118106545Or listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1kA4RO70idrEQkOX3zlRfa?si=5MO05RHdRpSwqWDYCtMnNwOr buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Todd-Stephen-Sondheim/dp/B0012ELMK0/The film version (2007) starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Alan Rickman.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/sweeney-todd-the-demon-barber-of-fleet-street/269842191Or listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5cQlLa7mNMZuOrLLRFr43y?si=x8vtz8OPRFS2rgfhd3I8PQOr buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Barber-Street-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B0011ZWOPM/Our sponsors this week are: Edmonton Community Foundation - https://www.ecfoundation.org - ECF connects you to the resources you need. With our help, donors are able to make the best decision for their funds. Students can find the grants that help them succeed. Charities are able to fund their latest projects. We build relationships that strengthen the Edmonton community — because connecting people is what we do best. Park Power - https://parkpower.ca - your friendly, local utilities provider in Alberta. Offering Internet, Electricity, and Natural Gas with low rates, awesome service, and profit-sharing with local charities. Send feedback to puttingittogetherpodcast@gmail.comPutting It Together is a proud member of The Alberta Podcast Network: Locally grown. Community supported. Here's their link again: https://www.albertapodcastnetwork.comRecorded by Media Lab YYC. Media Lab is a production company. They help you tell your story. They do this by assisting in the creation of videos and podcasts. Find more information at: http://medialabyyc.comKeep up to date with Putting It Together by following its social media channels.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/puttingittogetherpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/sondheimpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sondheimpodcast★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

To kick off this season, I'm joined by Shannon Dohar (http://www.themomentpod.com/guests/shannon-dohar), to discuss a moment from The Day of the Doctor, the 50th anniversary special from 2013, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Tom Baker as the Curator. We discuss the magic of Tom Baker's voice, the ways we respond to art, and what exactly makes a great curator. You can follow Shannon on Twitter at @sdohar (http://twitter.com/sdohar). Special Guest: Shannon Dohar.

Each week on The Moment, I speak with a different guest about an individual moment in an episode of Doctor Who that means a lot to them. Season 3 premieres January 6th, 2021. Featured voices: * Tom Dickinson (https://www.themomentpod.com/hosts/tom-dickinson) * Merlin Mann (https://twitter.com/hotdogsladies) * Delia Gallegos (https://twitter.com/deliaistyping) * Sanjay Lago (https://www.sanjaylago.co.uk) * Paul Cornell (https://www.paulcornell.com) * Adrienne Enderle (https://twitter.com/alwaysadrienne) * Shannon Dohar (https://twitter.com/sdohar) Featured music: * "Fishing Take Down (https://open.spotify.com/track/2WkXgVyMkLGiWcAhuxprfn?si=dHxWHS-GR4m9u8-gxoopKg)" by Segun Akinola * "Lo-fi Chill Beats for Time And Space Travel" by Telesnaps.

Sometimes, you find yourself growing up. You realize that some of the things you believed and thought were solid in your life really aren’t – and in fact are even harmful to you. You find you have to question those things to create a new path for yourself. You’ve got to start again. This was Graeme’s experience at the end of his high school years and the beginning of his college years. Sting’s 1987 record …Nothing Like the Sun was Graeme's "first grown-up record" and was an important part of his personal soundtrack at the time when he was calling his belief system into question. This is an album that also touches on life-changing events and challenges to meet a world that is often perplexing, cruel, and sometimes even violent. How did this album help Graeme create clarity during a tumultuous time in his life? How did the Deeper Cuts trio process the music? Did it go straight to the heart? Or does Graeme dance alone on this one? There’s only one way to find out! Join our new main host Shannon Dohar (alongside Rob Jones and Graeme Burk) for this first episode of our fourth (!) season. Our Spotify Playlist will have the albums we're looking at this season, along with the songs from our COVID Sessions earlier this year.

On the seventy-ninth edition of Reality Bomb, we decided to cheer ourselves up during the pandemic by doing a live episode of Reality Bomb... over Zoom. Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont are joined by Kim Rogers, Shannon Dohar, Alex Kennard and Bill Evenson as they talk about the Doctor Who we're watching or experiencing that provides comfort. Bill brings the 1965 Peter Cushing movie Dr. Who and the Daleks to the Gallery of the Underrated. And we play Doctor Who fan version of "Never have I ever..." Plus the return of "F*ck that guy"! We also have a video version of this episode if you want to watch!

Friends! Because we're all having a rough go of it socially distancing, we thought we'd give you a little extra treat. The commentary we normally do once a month for our Patreon patrons is free for all to hear! And it's a good one. We talked about the Doctor Who episode "Oxygen" for our Who for Schools raffle winner, and for the commentary, Erik and Kyle are joined by podcast superstars Joy Piedmont and Shannon Dohar! Enjoy their commentary and some general Who chatter afterward. Stay safe and stay healthy!

On the seventy-third edition of Reality Bomb we have a special live episode recorded at the Stone Creek Bar and Lounge in New York with Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont. First, we bring together NPR Books editor Petra Mayer, Marvel Comics writer Dan Slott and Bustle's movies editor Sage Young to discuss where things go from here with Doctor Who series 12. Then we subject Nick Abadzis, Shannon Dohar and Chip Sudderth to our fiendishly hard music quiz. And we talk with The Moment's Tom Dickinson about the end of Whofaldi and the Hybrid as he brings Hell Bent into the Gallery of the Underrated. Plus we have a bonus quiz with Rachel Donner and Edie Nugent and a double shot of comedy with Kim Rogers, Adrienne Enderle, Edie Nugent, Chip Sudderth, Jason Miller, Shannon Dohar and Tom Dickinson! 

The world of Doctor Who was thrown aback this week with news that beloved television writer and novelist Terrance Dicks passed away at the age of 84. Dicks’ contribution to the show and indeed many of our childhoods can’t be overestimated, from his time working with Barry Letts during the 1970s to his prodigious run on the Target novelizations, “The Five Doctors”, the New Adventures…the mind reels. We also continue our Series 11 commentary series with a look at “The Ghost Monument”, featuring Deeper Cuts host and Head Over Feels Tony Stark consulting expert Shannon Dohar! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still available – Terrance Dicks died – Robert Shearman writes about Terrance Dicks – Season 26 announced for Blu-Ray release – Season 26 Blu-Ray trailer, by Pete McTighe – Season 26 Blu-Ray clean artwork – BFI Curse of Fenric screening – Season 23 Blu-Ray UK release pushed back 2 weeks – Series 11 nominated for 4 Welsh BAFTAs – NYCC exclusive Tzim Sha Funko Pop – Quiz of Rassilon, with RFS contribution Commentary: – The Ghost Monument – Shannon Dohar

Some music in our lives gets us at a young age. It bonds itself to our DNA for the rest of our lives, connecting us with memories of unfiltered teenaged joy, posters plastered onto bedroom walls, and the reckless abandon of dance moves and hairbrush microphones in front of the mirror. Our first pop album is all about the heart and about the enthusiasm that came so naturally to us when we were kids. Immortal boyband Backstreet Boys and their 1998 self-titled debut was an impactful force along these lines for our Shannon Dohar. But what does the rest of the Deeper cuts trio think about this unabashed late 90s pop classic? What does it have to teach us about the nature of pop music and its irresistible call to the dance floor? Get it goin’ on right now and have a listen to find out! Don't forget to check out our Spotify Playlist for Season 3 which has all the songs on this album and, as the season progresses, most of the other albums you'll hear as well. 

Segun Akinola's Series 11 music - Shannon Dohar, friend of TWiTT, co-host of the Deeper Cuts album review podcast, and frequent Reality Bomb contributor, flexes her musical muscles and discusses with us Segun Akinola’s music from Episode 1 to the New Year’s Special. What makes him the right composer for today’s Doctor Who, and how hard was it to make the transition from 10 seasons of Murray Gold? Regenerations can be challenging—but this new soundscape is worthy of celebration…. Host Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke with Shannon Dohar.

On the fifty-ninth edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode as, one year after they first talked about Jodie Whittaker's casting in episode 048, Graeme Burk talks to Petra Mayer, Angelique Roche and Sage Young  about the new Doctor's debut at San Diego Comic Con... and the brace of teasers, trailers and news articles all saying very little but meaning so very much. Joy Piedmont talks to vlogger and member of Doctor Who Magazine's Team Team Claudia Boleyn about the ways Doctor Who could improve representation in a variety of ways as we debut a new segment, Perception Filter: conversations about identity and Doctor Who. And Graeme reunites with Rob Jones and Shannon Dohar -- his co-hosts from the music podcast, Deeper Cuts -- to talk about Doctor Who's new composer Segun Akinola and how his work on other shows might connect with his work on series 11. Plus we have coverage from the SDCC press conference, Listeners' Letters, a song and scenes from a meeting you won't want to miss!

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 Shearman and Rachel Donner. Controversy comes to the Gallery of the Underrated (live in the room!) when the Verity! podcast's Erika Ensign offers The Ribos Operation for consideration. We have a live edition of Listener's Letters adjudicated by Paul Cornell and a bonus quiz with Shannon Dohar and Deb Stanish. Plus we have a double shot comedy from Kim Rogers, Andy Hicks, Felicity Kuzinitz, Edie Nugent, Chip Sudderth, Liz Myles, Bill Evenson, Robert Smith? and special guest star Richard Ashton! SPECIAL NOTICE Reality Bomb is also proud to support #whoagainstguns, an initiative to encourage Doctor Who fans to take action against gun violence. An all-star cast of over 40 Doctor Who podcasters, writers and fans are coming together to record a podcast commentary of a Classic Who story. The podcast will only be released to listeners who provide a donation to an organization committed to ending gun violence. For more details visit the Who Against Guns webpage.

Classical music. It’s old. It’s complex. It can be intimidating. But somehow, the best of it goes beyond mere academic appreciation and makes you feel things. This is especially true if, like our Shannon Dohar, you get to participate in it. Shannon performed Beethoven’s Mass in C as a member of a choir and this piece became a signpost for her to what the possibilities are, helping her to form an appreciation for music as a whole. In episode 8 of Deeper Cuts, we talk about classical music and its relationship to the feels. We talk about how sacred music of all kinds intersect along common musical lines. Somehow, we talk about hockey and baseball, too. And we also talk about how music like this can be truly communal. So, take your place in the choir and we’ll begin.

Location, location, location. Sometimes, a record is vivid enough to make you feel as though you’re in one as you listen. Maybe it can even help you make sense of your physical location, too. For Rob Jones, XTC’s eminently pastoral and Anglocentric 1999 album Apple Venus Volume 1 provided both of those things to him as a Canadian living in England trying to decode his surroundings and his life at the same time. As usual, Rob is joined by co-hosts Graeme Burk and Shannon Dohar who talk about cultural context, ecstatic lyrical imagery, all things British, and literary references that fascinate and confound all at once. Open your ears, if not your Norton Anthologies, and have a listen.

Very often, we outgrow the place where we’re from. That can be one of the signs that we’ve come of age. But leaving an old familiar place and finding a home in a new one is rarely simple, especially when you’re young. That’s the subject of our discussion around The Weakerthans’ 2000 album Left and Leaving, a go-to album for our own Shannon Dohar. In the episode, we talk about the minutiae of life as expressed in “found lyrics”, densely packed metaphors, emotional awkwardness and missed connections, and the nature of coming-of-age tales in general. So, don’t sit on the fence (between past and present tense…). Get stuck in, good listeners!

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 Couldn't Be Arsed to Write" with Cat Smith; a journey to the 1920s and Agatha Christie in the Gallery of the Underrated with This Week in Time Travel's Alyssa Franke; and a discussion of multi-Doctor stories with the nearly-late Petra Mayer, Sage Young and Nick Abadzis. Plus the new game all the kids are playing with Kim Rogers, Kathleen Schowalter, Joy Piedmont and Andy Hicks; Listneners Q and A with Alex Kennard... and a few other surprises! It's your favourite podcast, but it's live...and celebrating the big five-oh!

Ten months after our year with the Beatles, Graeme Burk and Rob Jones are back with Shannon Dohar to talk about their new music podcast, Deeper Cuts. Every week on Deeper Cuts, Graeme, Rob and Shannon will listen to an album that meant something one to them and discuss what it means to them now. The show features albums from every genre, every era, just as long as the album is of importance to one of our panel. It's a podcast very much in the style of A Year With The Beatles and we hope you'll check it out. While we're here for a visit, Graeme, Rob and Shannon also discuss Graeme's abortive attempt to follow the band's post-Beatle career and the 50th anniversary remix of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Giles Martin. If you want to check out Deeper Cuts, visit our website at www.deepercutspodcast.com RSS Feed: deepercuts.libsyn.com/rss

Everyone needs a role model. This is true even those who become role models themselves later on including Shannon Dohar. At one time, Ani DiFranco’s 1995 album Not A Pretty Girl served as her template, including the cover art that informed her ideal wardrobe! Shannon, Graeme, and Rob discuss the album that explores the complexity of adult relationships, control over one’s own work, and coming-of-age in an often cruel and morally questionable world. We talk about open tunings, earnest lyrics, various genres found in the music itself, and (of course) how this record connects with Shannon and with her two companions long after the age of purposefully ripped t-shirts and bangles has passed.

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 Space producer (and co-creator of Prisoners of Gravity) Mark Askwith about what Doctor Who, and television, might be like in the future. And welcome campers to Shangri-La! Delta and the Bannermen comes to visit the Gallery of the Underrated with author Paul Condon! Plus: our season of Spoiler Cops comes to an exciting two-part finale!

"The Pyramid at the End of the World" reviewed, Sarah Dollard interviewed, and the Second Doctor discussed - A 5,000-year-old pyramid drops into existence in a single day as a harbinger of apocalypse. We talk about this part-two-of-three and whether it addresses the questions about “consent” it raises. Also in this feature-length podcast: We talk to Sarah Dollard, writer of this season’s “Thin Ice,” and Reality Bomb’s Shannon Dohar and Graeme Burk explore the Received Fan Wisdom about the Second Doctor! Host Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke with Rachel Donner, Sarah Dollard, Shannon Dohar and Graeme Burk.

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 edition of our 3rd Annual New Series News Hype Quiz with Steven Schapansky, Erik Stadnik, Deb Stanish and Jon Arnold. Attack of the Cybermen is in the Gallery of the Underrated thanks to Warren Frey. And we have a live edition of Listeners Letters with special guest Paul Cornell! Plus a double shot of comedy and a bonus quiz with Nick Abadzis and Gillian Morshedi! It's your favourite Doctor Who podcast but it's live...at Gallifrey One!

In the twelfth and final month of our year with the Beatles, Graeme Burk and Rob Jones are joined one last time by Shannon Dohar to discuss the Beatles final album (at least according to release date) Let It Be. The three get into a … spirited discussion of the merits (or lack thereof) of Phil Spector's after-the-fact production of the album and talk about their favourite songs (with Graeme, again, taking on all comers about “The Long and Winding Road”!) as well as the less recommended but still notable tracks. And they talk about whether, under the strictest of definitions, this can be considered the Beatles' swansong. For extra-credit homework, Graeme, Rob and Shannon look back on this past year with the Beatles and reflect on the Beatles' journey and its pivotal moments and what this year meant to all of them. This is the final episode of A Year With The Beatles. We'd like to thank all the people who helped us in our discussions of the Beatles over the past year and to thank all of you good people for listening to us. We would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and we hope we've passed the audition.

In the eighth month of our year with the Beatles, Graeme Burk and Rob Jones are joined once again by Shannon Dohar to talk about Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in a far-ranging conversation that considers how it changed the record album, the qualities that make it unique, its contribution to the Summer of Love, the songs that deserve to be a museum and the songs that you want to take on a desert island. And we get a jump on all the thinkpieces coming next year about how Sgt. Pepper changed the face of popular music completely. For extra-credit homework, Graeme, Rob and Shannon watch Eric Idle's 1978 Beatles parody mockumentary The Rutles - All You Need is Cash and recall its funniest scenes and the amazing songs by Neil Innes and they ponder why it works so well as a parody of the fab four.

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 comics with Titan's Doctor Who comics' Nick Abadzis and Simon Fraser and The Beat's Edie Nugent; a conversation on head canon and what that means with Angelique Roche, Sage Young, Kathleen Schowalter and Simon Fraser; and LI Who's own Ken Deep is in the hot seat as Warriors of the Deep is in the Gallery of the Underrated. All this plus the music of Cat Smith and a rap battle extraordinaire with Andy Hicks (who wrote it) and Cat Smith and Kim Rogers. And Graeme reads from his adolescent fan fiction! It's your favourite Doctor Who podcast but it's live...in Brooklyn! NOTE: Graeme's 1984 drawing of 'his' Doctor in his fan fiction can be found on our facebook page

As a supplement to our fifth episode, Graeme Burk and Rob Jones talk with Shannon Dohar about films that have been about the formation of the Beatles or the relationships between the Beatles, particularly 1979's The Birth of the Beatles, 1990's The Hours and the Times, 1994's Backbeat, 2001's Two of Us and 2009's Nowhere Boy. Graeme, Rob and Shannon discuss what makes a film about the Beatles compelling, how historically accurate does such a film have to be (and how close to the actual musician does a portrayal have to be) and what are the best films about the fab four they've seen.

In the fifth month of our year with the Beatles, Graeme Burk and Rob Jones are joined once again by Shannon Dohar for their discussion of Help! They talk about several songs on the album -- including "Help!", "I Need You" and "I've Just Seen a Face" -- that solidify the direction of the band. They also talk about the Beatles' flexibility with genre and what made "Yesterday" the song that not only changed the trajectory of the Beatles, but that of popular music. For extra-credit homework, Graeme, Rob and Shannon all watched the 1965 film Help! and delighted in the Marx Brothers-esque antics of John, Paul, George and Ringo. They discuss what would make this different to TV shows like The Monkees and how this film might have shown the fissures in the group that would manifest in the second half of the 1960s.

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 Arnold. And what happens when a bunch of peace-loving people in togas made from curtains get bullied by sociopaths armed with deadly filing cabinets? The Dominators is examined in this month's Gallery of the Underrated with writer Anna Livingston. All this, plus Miss Urquart, investigating murder most foul on a very long-winded Doctor Who podcast!

In the third month of our year with the Beatles, Graeme Burk and Rob Jones are talking with Shannon Dohar about A Hard Day's Night, which is the four lads' first album with all original songs as well as the tie-in to their first feature film. There's a small dispute about whether the album innovates, a discussion of Lennon-McCartney's growth as lyricists, a discussion of surprising songs and much more. For extra-credit homework, Graeme, Rob and Shannon all watched the 1963 film A Hard Day's Night and marvelled at the band's adeptness with film comedy and the uncommonly good script by Alun Owen and discussed whether this film laid the groundwork for the band's eventual demise.

John talks with special guest Shannon Dohar about her impressions of GallifreyOne. The guest from the Sisterhood of Karn was Clare Higgens. Did we overcome sobriety? Did we take the sound of airplanes taking off from LAX? Only one way to find out! 

On the thirty-first edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode that starts with a discussion with Keynon Wallace and Nikki Stafford about Doctor Who's new showrunner (in 2018) Chris Chibnall. Then, we're looking back at this past Christmas and The Husbands of River Song with Angelique Roche and Tammy Cunningham. Plus Lindsey Mayers, Shannon Dohar and Rebecca Diem go back and revisit the speculations they made about Series 9 last September and The Android Invasion is in the Gallery of the Underrated courtesy of Jim Sangster. All this and the world's most popular podcast examines a fan argument, week by week!

On the twenty-ninth edition of Reality Bomb we continue our journey through Series 9 with a panel discussion featuring NPR Books editor Petra Mayer, Shannon Dohar and Lindsey Mayers. Also, Alex Kennard talks with Robert Smith? about the recently published Outside In 2: 125 unique perspectives on 125 modern Doctor Who stories by 125 writers. And author and former Big Finish producer and Doctor Who script editor Gary Russell is bringing The Monster of Peladon to the Gallery of the Underrated. Plus: the return of Spoiler Cops! TORONTO AREA FRIENDS AND ENEMIES: We have a live show in Toronto on Sunday, November 22nd at 2 pm at the Victory Cafe (581 Markham Street). Hope to see you there!

On the twenty-seventh edition of Reality Bomb, Rebecca Diem, Shannon Dohar and Lindsey Mayers speculate on practically everything about the upcoming season! We continue to brace for the arrival of Series 9 with our 2nd annual New Season Hype News Quiz, with Petra Mayer, Simon Fraser and Alex Kennard braving the challenge. And Angelique Roche is talking about Jenny when The Doctor's Daughter comes to the Gallery of the Underrated. Plus, the interviewer becomes the interviewed when Graeme Burk and Robert Smith? talk about their new book The Doctors Are In to Erika Ensign. All this and another infomercial you don't want to tune out!