Radio Free Skaro #747 – Fun Space Time Box
Now that the Doctor Who tweetalongs are winding down, we’re back to the Time of (Almost) No News, which seems apt given the Cavalcade of Things occurring in the real world at the moment, but there’s some Steven Moffat bonus content in the form of “The Best of Days”, a bonus bit of Nardole/Bill content, along with the script for “Blink,” one of his most lauded works, being available for download. Plus there’s some hot Rory content coming from Big Finish, learnin’ stuff from Twinkl and the BBC, and the antithesis of education in the form of…Fluid Links!
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- Gallifrey One hotel block goes on sale June 26
- The Best of Days by Steven Moffat
- The Best of Days will be Moffat’s last Who work
- Script for Blink released
- Season 14 UK Blu-Ray re-release
- Big Finish’s The Lone Centurion brings back Rory
- Educational DW resources released by Twinkl and BBC Studios
- Twinkl Doctor Who Educational resources
Radio Free Skaro #746 – The Man Who Wasn’t There
Sometimes the world outside our Doctor Who fandom has to be accounted for and engaged with. We hope we can bring some levity to your week nonetheless, but we implore you to do your own reading, research and thinking. We also have a miniscope with Steve Thompson, the (possibly fictional?) writer of “The Curse of the Black Spot”, “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS”, and “Time Heist”, and we will once and for all determine if he exists! Or will we?
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- Gallifrey One hotel block goes on sale June 26
- Final tweetalong for World Enough and Time & The Doctor Falls canceled
- World Enough and Time & The Doctor Falls scripts made available
- Black Girls Create tweetalongs
- The Secret of Novice Hame extra for New Earth/Gridlock
- The Guardian profiled Who fandom during lockdown
- TARDIS Touchdown Techniques extra for The TARDIS Chronicles
- The Faceless Ones DVD delayed in Canada
- Conundrum from the Doctor Who Audio Annual released for free
- Big Finish Time Lord Victorious announcement
- Big Finish Time Apart features a solo Fifth Doctor
- Doctor Who Pub Quiz Night in support of the Lily Foundation
- Black Girls Create
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Radio Free Skaro #744 – CSO Miami
The pandemic podcasts continue with this week’s guest Danica Leblanc, co-owner of Edmonton-based comic shop Variant Edition, who updates us on the trials of retail and general survival in the Time Of COVID. But we’re not alone, as there is a breaking Gallifrey One update, more tweetalongs, Big Finish announcements, new dollies coming to North America, assorted nonsense, and the continued excitement of our “Planet of the Daleks” Classic Series Commentary with special guest Paul Cornell!
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- Gallifrey One planning to go ahead for 2021
- An Adventure in Space and Time tweetalong happened May 23
- Doctors Assemble! extra from An Adventure in Space and Time tweetalong
- David Bradley message extra from An Adventure in Space and Time tweetalong
- The Fires of Pompeii tweetalong bonus content, The Descendants of Pompeii
- Listen tweetalong happened May 20
- A Poem by Steven Moffat for the Listen tweetalong
- Fear is a Superpower extra for the Listen tweetalong
- The Unsung Heroes of Doctor Who series from Fantom kicked off
- Six new Character Options action dollies sets due in June
- Peter Davison revamped his home recording studio
- Big Finish War Master volumes 5 and 6 announced
- Big Finish announces Master!
- Big Finish Masterful artwork released
- Big Finish The Doomsday Contract by John Lloyd announced
- Big Finish The Lovecraft Invasion announced
- 2021 Doctor Who annual available in September
- The TARDIS Chronicles Volume 1 by Paul Smith available
- Doctor Who The Monster Vault book due in October
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Radio Free Skaro #743 – Resting Prentis Face
The lockdown continues across the world, and this week we welcome one Erik Stadnik from the Czech Republic and Doctor Who: The Writer’s Room fame to regale us with tales of eastern European quarantine along with good natured badinage about this week’s news, which includes further tweetalongs, “Time Lord: Victorious” news, new Doctor Who video games, and a boatload of Who scripts from Series 12 for your enjoyment! And speaking of fun, we have the first two episodes of our “Planet of the Daleks” Classic Series Commentary with comedian, Who-storian, writer Toby Hadoke!
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- All Series 12 scripts available from the BBC Writer’s Room
- Segun Akinola took part in a Hollywood Reporter roundtable
- The Zygon Isolation bonus content from the Zygon Invasion/Inversion tweetalong
- The next tweetalong will be for The Fires of Pompeii
- The Radio Times is organizing a tweetalong for An Adventure in Space and Time
- Initial Time Lord Victorious books announced
- Maze Theory developing two new Doctor Who video games
- WhoLanta doing a virtual convention May 30
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Radio Free Skaro #742 – The Ogron Implosion
The Swarm continues, and with it comes fine Doctor Who-related content such as the tweetalong for “The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion” with one Peter Harness, who is also this week’s featured guest! (Stay tuned for the short discussion about Eurovision!) We also wrap up the first half of our epic Classic Series Commentary of “Frontier in Space” and “Planet of the Daleks” with Big Finish writer, Verity! co-host, and “The Time Monster” advocate Liz Myles!
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- Next Tweetalong is for The Zygon Invasion/Inversion with Peter Harness and Ingrid Oliver
- “Pompadour” bonus content for The Girl in the Fireplace
- Radio Times behind the scenes in 1970
- 2020 Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity from Big Finish
- New Who Talk releases for The Robots of Death and The Pirate Planet
- BBC releases Sci-fi-themed video conferencing backdrops
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Radio Free Skaro #741 – Sippy Cups on the Moon
This week, Deb Stanish of Verity! joins us to banter about news of a transmediatastic multiplatformeriffic project called “Time Lord: Victorious” which will span novels, comics, audio and escape rooms (somehow) and may be just the thing to fill the void left by No Doctor Who for the next little while! And if that’s not enough, how about some “The Power of the Daleks” Blu-ray news, a “Dalek” (by Rob Shearman) prequel, and another Dalek prequel (sort of) in the form of parts three and four of our commentary for “Frontier in Space” with friend of the show Kyle Anderson!
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- Time Lord Victorious debuts in September
- Time Lord Victorious produced by James Goss, with contributions by several companies
- Power of the Daleks Special Edition due in the UK July 6
- Doctor Who Magazine 551 released
- Telos Publishing put together a book on Doctor Who exhibitions
- Sven and the Scarf prequel to Dalek
- The Girl in the Fireplace tweetalong with Steven Moffat and Sophia Myles
- Big Finish’s Shadow in the Sun first story produced in the lockdown, due May 12
- Wally K Daly died
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Radio Free Skaro #740 – Danger: Bulk Flour
The love for Doctor Who and indeed humanity itself continues, with many a Doctor thanking the NHS for their sterling service this week, a new tweetalong with the inestimable Paul Cornell and his stories “Human Nature” and “The Family of Blood”, and extra bonus prequel/epilogue material for those same stories. And he’s not the only wordsmith cranking out the characters as Joy Wilkinson of “The Witchfinders” fame penned a short story as well! Plus there’s the first two parts of our “Frontier in Space” commentary! Let’s not forget our special guest Chip Sudderth, our fourth Beatle and eternal chum! He’s here for more than two minutes!
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- The Doctors say Thank You
- “The Simple Things” short story by Joy Wilkinson
- Farewell, Sarah Jane
- Lockdown tweetalong for “Dalek”
- Lockdown tweetalong for “Human Nature”/”The Family of Blood”
- “Shadow of a Doubt” prequel for Human Nature
- “The Shadow in the Mirror” epilogue for The Family of Blood
- Season 14 TARDIS console
- Calgary Expo cancelled
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Radio Free Skaro #739 – Lockdown of the Daleks
SwarmFest 2020 continues and with it we have a Doctor Who tsunami of tweetalongs, tie-ins, and tat, which makes up for conventions as far and wide as San Diego and London going online (in the case of DWAS’s CapitalCon) and just flat out not happening (SDCC). But if you’re looking for premium Doctor Who online content, we have our latest Miniscope examining the work of last week’s interview subject, Paul Wilmshurst, that work being his directorship of “Kill The Moon”, “Mummy on the Orient Express”, and “Last Christmas”! And if you like math, contagion, and the analysis of such things, we also have noted author, mathematician and man about town Robert Smith? popping by!
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- Ed Hime reportedly writing for Series 13
- “The Shadow Passes” short story by Paul Cornell
- Lockdown tweetalong for The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End
- New Sarah Jane Adventures content due
- Rory’s Story tie-in for The Doctor’s Wife tweetalong
- Suranne Jones’s message for The Doctor’s Wife tweetalong
- Neil Gaiman released some script pages and talked script changes during The Doctor’s Wife tweetalong
- A Heaven Sent tweetalong happened
- A Torchwood tweetalong for Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang also happened
- A lockdown singalong for Long Song from The Rings of Akhaten is in the works
- Sadie Miller to play Sarah Jane Smith in Big Finish’s Return of the Cybermen
- The Unofficial Master Annual 2074 released
- DWAS holding its Capital Convention online
- DWAS is resurrecting its TARDIS magazine/fanzine
- San Diego Comic-Con 2020 canceled
- Pip Baker died
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Radio Free Skaro #738 – Absence of the Daleks
As we continue to hide in our own personal escape pods from Swarm 2020, we’re joined my writer, playwright and Resurrector of the Daleks Robert Shearman, who tells us firsthand about dealing with COVID-19, finishing his new book “We All Hear Stories in the Dark”, and chimes in on the latest Who news and various other bits of balderdash. And not only that, we have an interview with Paul Wilmshurst, director of Series 8 episodes “Kill The Moon”, “Mummy on the Orient Express”, and “Last Christmas”!
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- The Doctor talks about self-isolation
- The Doctor talks about the NHS
- Steven Moffat penned “The Terror of the Umpty Ums”
- Big Finish “Wicked Sisters” brings together The Fifth Doctor and Leela
- 2020 Hugo Award finalists announced
- An Afternoon with Graeme Harper rescheduled for November
- Honor Blackman died
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Radio Free Skaro #745 – Ice Road Truckers
Posted on May 31, 2020 by Chris
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The Doctor Who tweetalongs organized by Emily Cook will continue until morale improves, which it has, due to tweetalongs! Specifically “New Earth”, “Gridlock”, and “The Rings of Akhaten” along with some Long Song bonus content. Want more? Noel Clarke interviews RTD and if you’re American, HBO Max has all of “new Who” (minus Series 12, out on Blu-ray next month) for you! Plus more Big Finish, DVD news, and Doctor Who on Turkish television along with the grand finale of our “Planet of the Daleks” commentary featuring..the Three Who Rule!
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