Episode 140
Debbie Watling Hanging from a Crane
Sunday 21 October 2018
This week, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are cowering in the Anderson shelter in the backyard, listening to the sirens and wondering what on earth happened to that nice little tow-headed lad from number seventeen. Turn off your mobile phones and keep your hands and feet inside the light field — it’s The Empty Child.
Notes and links
Reference is of course made to several of Steven Moffat’s shows: the surpassingly brilliant Press Gang — when are we doing the Press Gang podcast? — and Coupling, which is not Moffat’s first attempt at sex comedy (see also Joking Apart, or don’t), but is definitely his most successful.
Fans of things with Daleks in them will enjoy Dark Eyes, another Big Finish box set extravaganza starring Paul McGann and some people, and some mutants in bonded polycarbide armour. It’s good, apparently.
Richard refers to John Boorman’s 1987 film Hope and Glory about a nine-year-old boy’s experience of growing up in London during the Blitz.
Big Finish again. Brendan refers to Joe Lidster’s The Siege of Big Ben, a Short Trips release read by Camille Coduri. He also mentions Erasure, which makes a cheeky reference to the original unfilmable script The Killer Cats of Gin-Seng, a story ultimately replaced by The Invasion of Time.
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Jodie into Terror
Over on Jodie into Terror, you can hear our alarmingly fresh take on this week’s new episode The Ghost Monument. We’ll be back on Tuesday with another upsettingly fresh take on Episode 3. You can find Jodie into Terror at jodieintoterror.com, @JodieIntoTerror and on Apple Podcasts.
Bondfinger
Over on Bondfinger, we’ve yet to release our new commentary on SPECTRE, but it won’t be long now. While you’re waiting, you can check out our commentaries on all of the previous Bond films, including those excellent ones starring a former Lord President of Gallifrey.
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