A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
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A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Join Joe Ford as he waltzes all around the world (via whatever means the internet allows) and undertakes Doctor Who commentaries with a wide range of wonderful contributors. Fans, podcasters, online reviewers, writers, actors...the USP of this podcast is it's variety of guests and the fact that they...
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Talks to Joe M about his choice of Partners in Crime
‘I’m waving at fat!’ Joe joins me for 90 minutes of silliness and flirting as we navigate the weight loss business via Loony Tunes...let the madness b...
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of The Ribos Operation (4/4)
All but one doomed to die...thus written in this podcast. How did Martin manage to wrangle A Hamster with a Blunt Penknife out of Joe's hands? Sleight...
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of The Ribos Operation (3/4)
'They are not ice crystals!' Joe & Martin hit their favourite episode of the serial and are deeply moved by the introduction of Binro, and laughing th...
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of The Ribos Operation (2/4)
If you hang that little beauty around your neck you'll never suffer from the scringes, no matter how cold it be! Joe & Martin discover that no one mak...
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of The Ribos Operation (1/4)
All but one doomed to die...thus written! Joe & Martin are up to their old tricks again, selling planets, pulling the wool over evil despots and comin...
The Paradise of Death by Barry Letts (featuring Gareth Bowley, David Gillespie-Pratt & Dan Pinn)
Worthy of the bile that has been tossed its way...or an unpretentious fun adventure that is unfairly maligned? You mean to say you've been INTERVIEWIN...
Talks to Dylan Rees & Luke Molloy about their choice of The Star Beast
Be scared - the contentious trio come together. Once, Dylan declared this the worst Doctor Who story of all time! Luke LOVES it! And now Joe can see s...
Talks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Carnival of Monsters (4/4)
'Will you kind stop addressing me as the creature, sir, or I may get exceedingly hostile!' It's our last episode of this absolute classic; Drashig-led...
Talks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Carnival of Monsters (3/4)
‘And here Joe and Paul watch the Drashigs with keen interest…waiting for the cranial egg sacs to ovulate and they prepare their ascent to give birth t...
Talks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Carnival of Monsters (2/4)
This delightful romp continues...but nothing serious, nothing political! We just put on a show!
Talks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Carnival of Monsters (1/4)
‘Pooh!’ Are we on Metebelies Three or Inter Minor or on the Indian Ocean? What happened to the SS Bernice? Watch out, Paul, an enormous hand coming to...
Hamster Book Club - The Chimes of Midnight (featuring James Lark & Michael Mills)
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a Hamster Book Club Christmas Special! And this time we are seasonally themed with the superlative Christmas c...
Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Brain of Morbius (4/4)
A great lumbering monster that looks like it is made of butchers leftovers is on the move with the brain of the fearsome war criminal - Morbius - in h...
Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Brain of Morbius (3/4)
The brain matter has slapped on the floor! Condo has been shot in the stomach! Sarah can see again and he's behind you! And the Doctor does a little B...
Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Brain of Morbius (2/4)
There's something screaming murder in the cellar, the manservant is looking for his arm, the surgeon is slicing and dicing and the butchers shop has l...
Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Brain of Morbius (1/4)
There's a Sargasso Sea of spaceships, something is stirring in the laboratory, the Sisters are weaving their magic and a storm is brewing. Hold my han...
Hamster Book Club - The Adventuress of Henrietta Street by Lawrence Miles (featuring Elemental Mark Donaldson)
A rich, heady brew of sex, political detail, history, unknowable slathering horror, Gothic atmosphere and the absence left in the universe by the dest...
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Ark (4/4)
How will James cope with the numerous technical difficulties at the start of this episode - by trying out improvisational comedy!
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Ark (3/4)
Where are Melium and Baku? Why are the Monoids suddenly so stupid? Are there invisible people on Refusis II?
Hamster Book Club - ‘Trix’ - original short story
For Andrew, who has long been frustrated at a lack of backstory and explanation for Patricia ‘Trix’ MacMillan. So I thought I would write my own.
Happy Anniversary! The Day of the Doctor Commentary (with Dylan Rees & Iain Martin)
In a crossover with Too Hot for TV & We're All Stories in the End, Dylan, Iain and I have assembled to talk about the 50th anniversary special - The D...
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Ark (2/4)
The virus is spreading, the human race is falling, the Earth is burning and the Doctor's time is running out... Also one of the best cliffhangers of a...
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Ark (1/4)
Joe & James - in person! The intrepid explorers head to the Ark which itself heads away from a decaying planet Earth and Refusis II...
Hamster Book Club - Party Like Its 1998! (featuring Andrew Batty, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Jon Arnold)
The greatest gift we can think of - an anthology of short stories celebrating the eighth Doctor range. Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, Compassion, Anji Kapoo...
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of Image of the Fendhal (4/4)
This mammoth commentary comes to an end with a plethora of reasons to love this creepy, smart and funny tale. We're tossing salt (ahem), sucking in (a...
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of Image of the Fendhal (3/4)
'I will be a God!' Every horror trope imaginable descends on Fetch Priory; cults, eldrich horrors, slavering monsters, ghosts...and Martin and I are r...
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of Image of the Fendhal (2/4)
The menace is afoot with clicky technology summoning an ancient evil, Ma Tyler is on the move, and who the hell did let the Doctor go?
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of Image of the Fendhal (1/4)
We welcome Martin into the Hamster family, discover his Doctor Who journey and find out precisely what happened last night at Fetch Priory. 'A dead on...
Hamster Book Club - Rob Shearman Interview
Joe & James talk to one of their favourite authors about writing The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee, coming to terms with your own work, and the creat...
Hamster Book Club - Ghost Light by Marc Platt (featuring Anthony Carroll)
Quintessence of wickedness! Corruption incarnate! Until all the Atlas is pink! The Cream of Scotland Yard! Will Anthony and I finally get the answers...
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (6/6)
A brilliant ending to this six part classic...or a damp squib? And will Toby have the audacity to rewrite what is on TV to suit his reading of the sto...
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (5/6)
We're still mightily impressed with the production value, the thick atmosphere and the performances in this underground chiller...
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (4/6)
Joe Ford & Toby Hadoke are very different people. One crude & coarse, the other erudite & charming. One selling a podcast on gossip & scandal, the oth...
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (3/6)
Otherwise known as the one with the balloon people…although one of us was surprised by the reaction to the animation.
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (2/6)
Troughton is taking a week off but we are ably supporting by a host of fascinating guest characters...and more importantly we can watch this episode!
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (1/6)
Where we explore dark undergound passages, homicidal mythological creatures, sticky web and the joy of returned missing episodes...
Hamster Book Club Halloween Special - White Darkness by David A. McIntee (featuring James Lark & Michael Mills)
Real life historical atrocities rub shoulders with mythological and cosmic horror rub shoulders with James Bond spy thriller! There is much to discuss...
The (X) Hamster Files - Ghost in the Machine (featuring Agent Ioan Morris)
Evil sentient technology…a portent of the future? How does The X-Files tackle HAL? Agent Morris is with me to do all the hard work and let me take all...
Hamster Book Club - Vanderdekens Children by Christopher Bulis (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Jon Arnold & Andrew Batty)
War in the Hamster Book Club! As we explore Christopher Bulis' gaping orifice, there is a huge spread of opinions. Is this the Middest of all Doctor W...
Talks to Dr Simon Exton about his choice of The Moonbase (4/4)
That’s taken care of the Cybermen! The most powerful tea tray in history! Is gravity the best weakness of the Cybermen ever? And have you ever seen a...