Episode 4
Why Can’t I Wear Trousers?
Sunday 27 July 2014
This episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan tackle the difficult subjects of ants and fraternity as they discuss three ant-astic stories from the middle of Doctor Who’s second season: The Romans, The Web Planet and The Crusade. So tune up your lyres, pull up a dormouse, and listen along. There’s a bit of that cold peacock left in the fridge, I think.
Buy the stories!
The Rescue/The Romans (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)
The Web Planet (Amazon US, but it’s insanely expensive, for some reason) (Amazon UK, ah, that’s better)
The Crusade soundtrack on Audible (Amazon US) (Amazon UK). The two extant episodes can be found on the Lost in Time box set. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)
The Romans
The comprehensive and definitive Wikipedia articles on Nero and The Great Fire of Rome
Who on earth is Dot Cotton? And why does she look so much like that narrow-hipped vixen Lady Eleanor?
The incomparably brilliant I, Claudius can be watched in full on YouTube.
The Big Finish audio The One Doctor, starring Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford and TV’s Nero Christopher Biggins
Spartacus (1960). The hilariously homoerotic scene Richard mentions can be found on YouTube, as an extract from the film The Celluloid Closet (1995).
The Web Planet
An excellent article on The Web Planet’s ratings and audience appreciation figures
A free book version of Paul Ernst’s Raid on the Termites on Project Gutenberg
Domingo Gonzales’s The Man in the Moone on Wikipedia
The incomparable Georges Méliès, inventor of special effects on film. His most famous film is La voyage dans la lune.
William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence (“God appears & God is light”)
New Age writer Eckhart Tolle
The Gaia Hypothesis, which was just beginning to be developed by James Lovelock at about the time that The Web Planet was first broadcast
The Big Finish audio Return to the Web Planet, starring Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton and Sam Kelly
The lovely Barbara Joss, who played Nemini. Her book My Left Breast: How Breast Cancer Transformed My Life is out of print, but you can see its Goodreads page here.
The Crusade
Doctor Who and the Crusaders by David Whitaker (Amazon US) (Amazon UK).
More Wikipedia goodness: this time about Pope (Keith) Urban II, The Third Crusade, and Scheherazade.
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