Coming to Gallifrey One – Radio Free Skaro: Behind The Magic
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| The 26 Seasons of Gallifrey One is set to take place from February 13-15 at the LAX Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and for the fourth year in a row, Radio Free Skaro is proud to kick off the convention on the main stage at 10:30am on Friday, February 13! The show will be called RADIO FREE SKARO: BEHIND THE MAGIC, and will feature a host of behind the scenes guests who have been responsible for making Doctor Who over the years! Appearing with us on stage will be: |
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Series 8 Panel, Featuring Rachel Talalay, Jamie Mathieson, and Peter Harness Rachel Talalay (director of “Dark Water” and “Death in Heaven”), Jamie Mathieson (writer of “Mummy on the Orient Express” and “Flatline”), and Peter Harness (writer of “Kill The Moon”) lead off our show with tales and insight on the making of the most recent series of Doctor Who. |
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Andy Pryor One of the first people contacted by Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner to work on the new series of Doctor Who back in 2003, Andy Pryor has been involved in the casting of virtually every single actor to appear in Doctor Who for the past 8 series, including the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors. |
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Chip Sudderth of Two-Minute Time Lord
Our friend Chip (who is also our technical producer) returns to the stage this year with a presentation of his popular podcast Two-Minute Time Lord! Chip’s previous appearances have been very popular with audiences at the show and listening later on the podcast, and we’re delighted to welcome Chip back to the show. |
  Danny Hargreaves, Arwel Wyn Jones, and Claire Pritchard As art director on Doctor Who, Arwel Wyn Jones spends his time making sure the sets and locations look good and believable. Danny Hargreaves, the special effects supervisor on Doctor Who, then comes along and blows it all up. Both aspects of making (and unmaking!) Doctor Who will be covered with these fine gentlemen, and Claire Pritchard will describe what goes into designing the makeup design on Doctor Who! |
It all kicks off at 10:30am on Friday, February 13 in the Main Programming Hall at Gallifrey One. Get there early!
Stay tuned to Radio Free Skaro and radiofreeskaro.com for further details about the show, and visit the Gallifrey One website (www.gallifreyone.com) for updates on the convention itself. See you all there!
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Radio Free Skaro #457 – I Heard It Through The Irvine
< As the countdown to Gallifrey One ramps up, so too do new guest announcements, including Torchwood alumni Naoko Mori (Tosh) and McCoy era script editor Andrew Cartmel! In other news, riots and other carnage were avoided after Netflix renewed their rights to Doctor Who and a host of other BBC properties which were due to expire at the beginning of February. After the civil unrest and damage caused by the recent Oscar snub of the LEGO movie, we should all be relieved that everything worked out. But lo, there are also interviews from Chicago TARDIS in this episode of Radio Free Skaro, and they are thus: Mat Irvine, Doctor Who special effects whiz from the 1970s and 1980s, and a panel featuring Annette Badland of Aliens of London and Boom Town fame, Sonita Henry from The Time of the Doctor and Ellie and Joseph Darcey-Alden, the young wards of Victorian Clara Oswald in the Snowmen! |
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– Toby Whithouse 2-parter…Filming! Interviews: – Annette…Badland! |
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Radio Free Skaro #456 – Love And Monsters
< To the excitement of all and sundry, or at least the 3,500 people attending Gallifrey One in under a month’s time, it was recently announced that John Barrowman, Captain Jack Harkness himself, will be gracing the LAX Marriott for his first ever appearance at North America’s leading Doctor Who convention. The news of Barrowman’s visit to the City of Angels churned the Three Who Rule to a totally hetero, manly and strapping lather and only the titanic dullness of of statistics could cool them down. But hark! There was yet more excitement, as Camille Coduri’s interview with Steven onstage at Chicago TARDIS features in this week’s episode! Anecdotes, tales and japery await! |
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– BBC America…Ratings Record! Interview: |
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Radio Free Skaro #455 – Andrew Smith, When The Mists Fell
< Fancy a return to Alzarius? We did, so we contacted classic Doctor Who and Big Finish writer Andrew Smith about “Mistfall,” his upcoming Big Finish audio play which sends the Fifth Doctor, Turlough, Nyssa and Tegan back to E-Space. Andrew also joins us to look at the news of the week, including stats, plush Tennants, and a possible controversy concerning Netflix! Toby Hadoke also makes a special appearance to reflect with Steven on the life and times of Bernard Kay, the accomplished actor who appeared in The Daleks, the Crusade, The Faceless Ones and Colony in Space, and who sadly passed away this week. Enjoy, and look forward to next week, where we continue our Chicago TARDIS interviews with the fantastic Camille Coduri! |
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– Last Christmas…BBC Ratings! Guests: |
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Radio Free Skaro #454 – Tangerine Dream
< Mind games, face huggers and tangerines…that’s what passes for Christmastime when the Doctor gets involved. Sarcastic elves, a sassy Santa, and questionably CG reindeer round out Doctor Who’s dip into surreality on this latest Xmas special, “Last Christmas”, from the pen of Steven Moffat and directed by Paul Wilmshurst. So what did the Three Who Rule, brains slowed by turkey and Tofurky, think of P-Cap’s first foray into Yuletide adventure? Down some egg nog, tear yourself away from erudite political discussion with the relatives, and have a listen! |
| Show Notes:
– Doctor Who…Last Christmas! |
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From The Vault: Calgary Expo 2013 Torchwood and Sylvester McCoy Panels
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Turn the clock back almost two years ago and you may remember that our very own Steven moderated two panels at Calgary Expo in April 2013 – the Torchwood panel with John Barrowman, Eve Myles, and Gareth David-Lloyd (the panel took place in the Calgary Corral in front of about 4,000 people!) and the Sylvester McCoy panel. While both audio recordings of these appeared on previous Radio Free Skaro episodes, FlipOn TV has made professional video recordings of these events available on their YouTube page! Check them out below:
Calgary Expo 2013 – Torchwood panel w/John Barrowman, Eve Myles, and Gareth David-Lloyd (moderated by Steven Schapansky)
Calgary Expo 2013 – Sylvester McCoy panel (moderated by Steven Schapansky)
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Radio Free Skaro #453 – Eight Is Enough
< With mere days to not only “Doctor Who: Last Christmas” but also our review of said Xmas special and even more thrillingly, our Patreon-inspired (and cringe-inducing) commentary for the infamous 1993 Children in Need special “Dimensions in Time,” the Three Who Rule ably tackled the last Fluid Links segment of the year! Questions, inquiries, posers and puzzlers abound as this Series 8 focused Q&A takes centre stage for this pre-holiday bit of RFS shenanigans. Also news, dolly derision, comic book neatness and a cool teaser for a War Doctor short film coming next year! Whee! |
| Show Notes:
– Series 9…First Episode Title Revealed! |
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Gallifrey One 2015 Guest Update – Director Rachel Talalay is Coming To Gallifrey One!
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| Gallifrey One has announced a couple of big behind the scenes names as guests for the upcoming convention in less than two months’ time! |
 Rachel Talalay is an American-born US/UK dual citizen who actually teaches film studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. She has been involved in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise since the very beginning, and was hired to direct the two-part Series 8 finale, “Dark Water” and “Death in Heaven”. This will be Rachel’s first appearance at Gallifrey One. |
| Arwel Wyn Jones was the supervising art director on Doctor Who from 2005’s “The Runaway Bride” through to the Series 4 finale “Journey’s End” in 2008. He also worked as production designer on The Sarah Jane Adventures for Series 2 and 3. Since 2010, he’s been the production designer for Steven Moffat’s other hit BBC show, Sherlock. This will be Arwel’s first appearance at Gallifrey One. |
| Also announced was actor Colin Spaull, who appeared in 1985’s “Revelation of the Daleks” and the 2006 two-parter “Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel”. Check out the full list of guests on the Gallifrey One website. Stay tuned to Gallifrey One and Radio Free Skaro for future guest announcements! |
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Radio Free Skaro #452 – In the Nick of Time
< It’s beginning to feel a lot like Last Christmas, which is dominating both our thoughts and the promotional efforts of the BBC Publicity department. Maybe that’s why most of our news is focused on that upcoming holiday where they show a new Doctor Who story and some other, largely irrelevant events rides its coattails. Plus there’s news of a Doctor Who theme park, which is greeted by the confusion and derision only three middle aged nerds with no concept of what the kids today are into could muster. All that questionable content, and an interview from Chicago TARDIS with the voice of the Daleks, Cybermen and countless other creatures, Nick Briggs, who is also one of the main creative forces behind Big Finish! What are you waiting for? |
| Show Notes:
– Last Christmas…Clip! Interview |
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Show Notes:
– The story behind…Dimensions in Time!
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