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The Twelfth Doctor

Episode 253

A Peter Capaldi–Shaped Time Tunnel

After half a lifetime of waiting, the time has come for Peter Capaldi to finally take on the role he was born to play. But is twenty-first century Who ready for this spiky and unpredictable leading man and his sexy and unhinged mortal enemy? We’re about to find out — but first, let’s take a Deep Breath.

Episode 253: A Peter Capaldi–Shaped Time Tunnel · Recorded on Sunday 11 December 2022 · Duration 1:05:11 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 254

Animosity and Horror

This week, we’re joined by Adam Richard, shrunk to a microscopic size, and sent on a mission consisting mostly of ruthless moral self-examination. Meanwhile, somewhere else completely, a romcom is taking place. It’s Into the Dalek.

Episode 254: Animosity and Horror · Recorded on Sunday 8 January 2023 · Duration 0:48:51 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 255

Phallocentric Energy

This week, Nathan, Richard, Todd and Adrian Phoon leave the peasants of Worksop to their mud-eating and get together to ask themselves the questions Is the Doctor as big a hero as Robin Hood? and Is Robin Hood even real?, only to come up with some very surprising answers. It’s Robot of Sherwood.

Episode 255: Phallocentric Energy · Recorded on Sunday 8 January 2023 · Duration 0:52:44 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 256

Level of Ambiguity

This week, we’re joined under the Doctor’s bed by Fiona Tomney, to discuss whether monsters are real or imaginary or both, and to squee repeatedly over the Capaldi performance. It’s Listen.

Episode 256: Level of Ambiguity · Recorded on Sunday 15 January 2023 · Duration 1:02:12 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 257

Mr and Mrs Teller

Nathan, James, Peter and Simon come to in a bare darkened room full of mid-range sound recording equipment with no memory at all of how they got there, only to find — to their horror — that they have agreed to podcast about our next Doctor Who episode, Time Heist.

Episode 257: Mr and Mrs Teller · Recorded on Sunday 8 January 2023 · Duration 0:48:56 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 258

Both as Bad as One Another

This week, Pete Lambert and Hannah Cooper join us for a particularly embarrassing Coal Hill School parents’ evening, which goes horribly wrong when a Mechanoid is found roaming the premises. It’s The Caretaker.

Episode 258: Both as Bad as One Another · Recorded on Saturday 28 January 2023 · Duration 0:49:21 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 259

The Goldilocks Zone

This week, Nathan, Brendan, Simon and Colin are trapped in a room with only forty-five minutes to decide whether Kill the Moon is terrible or a towering work of genius. It goes quite well, surprisingly.

Episode 259: The Goldilocks Zone · Recorded on Sunday 29 January 2023 · Duration 0:57:25 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 260

Dangle Your Lallies

This week, a technologically-augmented interdimensional mummy runs amok on a replica of the Orient Express in space under the control of a terrifying alien intelligence or something. It’s a day at the office for Doctor Who, in Mummy on the Orient Express.

Episode 260: Dangle Your Lallies · Recorded on Sunday 30 April 2023 · Duration 0:45:57 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 261

The Prestige

This week, we’re doing some judicially-mandated cleaning up around a council estate in Bristol when we make some terrifying discoveries about the source and nature of the graffiti we’re painting over, and some even more terrifying discoveries about our own and our friends’ moral characters. Also, someone left the TARDIS prop from Logopolis Part 3 lying around here somewhere. It’s Flatline.

Episode 261: The Prestige · Recorded on Sunday 30 April 2023 · Duration 0:55:07 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 262

She Was the Hydrangeas All Along

It’s like the New Forest only newer, as well as more sudden and completely worldwide. But is it here for revenge, or to provide us with some much-needed help? Let’s find out as Mathew Hounsell and Kevin Burnard join us to discuss In the Forest of the Night.

Episode 262: She Was the Hydrangeas All Along · Recorded on Saturday 6 May 2023 · Duration 0:55:40 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 263

Terribly Gay

This week, Danny’s death is somehow made up for by the culmination of a season-long arc which finally brings Michelle Gomez properly into the limelight. It’s Dark Water.

Episode 263: Terribly Gay · Recorded on Sunday 4 June 2023 · Duration 1:01:12 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 264

Absolutely Ainley

It’s happened again: it’s the end of the season, and all our long-dead relatives have come back as Cybermen. Only this time, instead of hanging around the kitchen reeking of tobacco, they’re wandering through graveyards and — well, that’s it really, wandering through graveyards. Fortunately, Missy is here to liven things up a bit. It’s Death in Heaven.

Episode 264: Absolutely Ainley · Recorded on Sunday 4 June 2023 · Duration 0:53:09 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 265

New Life Crisis

Peter Capaldi’s Doctor might not be sure if he’s a good man, but can Nathan, Todd, Peter and Simon be sure if his first series is a good series? Let’s find out (while determining who to snog, marry and avoid on the way).

Episode 265: New Life Crisis · Recorded on Sunday 18 June 2023 · Duration 1:18:20 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 266

The Tangerine in the Window

It’s Christmas in July, and what could be more Christmassy than having your brains sucked out by predatory alien crabs? Why, Nick Frost as Santa, of course! So welcome, everyone, to your Last Christmas.

Episode 266: The Tangerine in the Window · Recorded on Saturday 17 June 2023 · Duration 0:55:12 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 267

Making My Head Hurt

So Doctor Who is back, doing the same old thing for another year, but this time we’re relitigating the main moral question of a thirty-year-old episode: can we kill a genocidal dictator even though he’s just a small child with a dirty face lost on a battlefield somewhere? Tom Spilsbury joins us to discuss The Magician’s Apprentice.

Episode 267: Making My Head Hurt · Recorded on Sunday 30 July 2023 · Duration 1:05:57 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 268

A Very Busy Barnaby Edwards

This week, the Doctor chats with Davros, Missy chats with Clara, and the four of us wonder if those chats are fun enough to sustain forty-five minutes of television. All while actually having quite a fun chat ourselves. It’s The Witch’s Familiar.

Episode 268: A Very Busy Barnaby Edwards · Recorded on Sunday 6 August 2023 · Duration 1:01:23 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 269

Baseless Criticism

This week, we’re playing Doctor Who madlibs — cowering in an UNDERWATER BASE, waiting for the ELECTROMAGNETIC GHOSTS to pick us off one by one. Fortunately, Peter Capaldi and some attractive young people are here to keep us entertained. We’re Under the Lake.

Episode 269: Baseless Criticism · Recorded on Sunday 13 August 2023 · Duration 0:50:36 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 270

Scottish Reasons

This week, a bone Vervoid joins in the fun as we travel back in time to Wales in 2015 pretending to be Scotland in 1980 pretending to be somewhere in the Soviet Union. And it’s hard to say which time paradox is the most annoying, the bootstrap one or the predestination one. Thank goodness Frazer Gregory is here to help us sort it all out — it’s Before the Flood.

Episode 270: Scottish Reasons · Recorded on Sunday 13 August 2023 · Duration 0:55:07 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 271

Eels with Jazz Hands

This week, we remind ourselves of what the Doctor stands for, as we watch him train up some very silly Vikings to be sweet and funny enough to see off an invasion by big stupid monsters with mouths full of teeth. Stacey Smith? joins us to discuss the story of The Girl Who Died.

Episode 271: Eels with Jazz Hands · Recorded on Sunday 27 August 2023 · Duration 0:52:42 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 272

John Scott Martin in a Zarbi Suit

It’s been a mere 900 years since last week’s episode, and it’s time to check in with Ashildr to see if she’s still the naive and loving young girl she was back in her Viking village days. Or — like the rest of us — has she simply turned into Peter Capaldi’s Doctor? It’s The Woman Who Lived.

Episode 272: John Scott Martin in a Zarbi Suit · Recorded on Sunday 10 September 2023 · Duration 0:53:31 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 273

Electrified Pubic Merkins

This week, we’ve invited twenty million Zygons over for cocktails, and now we’re starting to feel self-conscious about cooking up all that salt-and-pepper squid. And so soon we’re involved in an international political thriller that takes us from Fake New Mexico all the way to Madeupistan. It’s The Zygon Invasion.

Episode 273: Electrified Pubic Merkins · Recorded on Sunday 10 September 2023 · Duration 0:55:51 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 274

Orange Babies

This week, we’re all enjoying bombing and threatening one another, until the Doctor comes along and delivers a long speech about New Cruel People, which starts making us feel bad about ourselves. And fair enough. It’s The Zygon Inversion.

Episode 274: Orange Babies · Recorded on Sunday 17 September 2023 · Duration 0:54:41 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 275

The Cappuccino Thing

This week, in orbit of the planet Neptune, a Doctor Who story is created which kills literally everyone who watches it. Which is why we should probably have thought twice before inviting the lovely Jeremy Radick to discuss it with us.

Episode 275: The Cappuccino Thing · Recorded on Sunday 17 September 2023 · Duration 0:57:39 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 276

The Planet Quantos

This week, we’re hanging out in a mystical London street full of Sontarans, Judoon and Cybermen, investigating a murder with Johnny Spandrell — only to find, to our horror, that the murder hasn’t happened yet. And, of course, that it’s time for Clara Oswald to Face the Raven.

Episode 276: The Planet Quantos · Recorded on Sunday 29 October 2023 · Duration 1:00:19 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 277

The Time on Him

This week, Rob Valentine drops by to spend four-and-a-half billion years admiring how clever Steven Moffat, Peter Capaldi, Rachel Talalay and Murray Gold are. It’s Heaven Sent.

Episode 277: The Time on Him · Recorded on Sunday 12 November 2023 · Duration 0:58:31 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 278

The Shooting Gallery of Retired British Thespians

This week, the Doctor learns that mere relentless persistence is no match for the inevitability of loss, and a Doctor Who spinoff is created which we will never get to see. It’s Hell Bent.

Episode 278: The Shooting Gallery of Retired British Thespians · Recorded on Sunday 12 November 2023 · Duration 0:51:32 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 279

Allowed to Be the Doctor

From Skaro to Gallifrey, twelve episodes of one of the strangest seasons in Doctor Who’s history. What did we think, what did we learn, and what are we most looking forward to? And, as always, who would we snog, marry or avoid?

Episode 279: Allowed to Be the Doctor · Recorded on Sunday 26 November 2023 · Duration 1:15:19 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 280

He Finds a Way to Fix It

This week, the Doctor and River live happily ever after, and Jack Shanahan joins us to discuss The Husbands of River Song.

Episode 280: He Finds a Way to Fix It · Recorded on Wednesday 6 December 2023 · Duration 0:49:16 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 282

Finger on the Zeitgeist

This Christmas in July, we are joined by Adam Richard on a sleigh ride that flies right past the Marvel Cinematic Universe and lands on Margot Kidder’s rooftop in 1978. Which is, it turns out, not a bad place to be. It’s The Return of Doctor Mysterio.

Episode 282: Finger on the Zeitgeist · Recorded on Sunday 21 July 2024 · Duration 0:45:45 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 283

Just a Person

We’re back for the first episode of Peter Capaldi’s final year — a simple, well-told tale of Girl Meets Girl, Girl Becomes Puddle, Girl Loses Girl and, finally, Girl Goes off with Her Tutor on a Series of Adventures in Time and Space. Welcome aboard, Bill Potts. It’s The Pilot.

Episode 283: Just a Person · Recorded on Sunday 28 July 2024 · Duration 1:00:47 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 284

Happy to Be There

In a distant future where all life has been destroyed by technology, Brendan, James and Nathan sit down with their friend Bjay from The Bjay BJ Game Show to record a podcast about a Doctor Who episode called Smile.

Episode 284: Happy to Be There · Recorded on Sunday 4 August 2024 · Duration 0:58:59 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 285

The Ones That Make You Want to Raise Your Game

This week, we’re joined by Melvin Peña for a day trip to the Thames Frost Fair in 1814, expecting a jolly afternoon of daydrinking, sword swallowers and juicy sheep hearts, only to find ourselves tied to a bomb and engaged in an intriguing discussion about race, class, death and the ethics of killing. It’s Thin Ice.

Episode 285: The Ones That Make You Want to Raise Your Game · Recorded on Sunday 11 August 2024 · Duration 1:12:45 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 286

Pearl Clutching

This week, six millennials are astonishingly successful finding a large house to rent — the power points don’t work, there’s no mobile reception and the walls are quite literally made of alien woodlice. Oh, and it collapses into dust on their first night. It’s Knock Knock.

Episode 286: Pearl Clutching · Recorded on Sunday 25 August 2024 · Duration 0:46:30 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 287

Cowed or Crushed

Did you know that if we had a nickel for every Doctor Who episode in which you have to pay the Company for the right to breathe, we’d have ten American cents? Which still wouldn’t be enough — even with Kate Orman’s help — to pay for today’s supply of Oxygen.

Episode 287: Cowed or Crushed · Recorded on Sunday 25 August 2024 · Duration 0:56:27 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 288

Honour the Invisible

This week, Brendan, Nathan, Steven B and Johnny Spandrell penetrate the heart of the Vatican, only to discover that behind its dusty and arcane lore lies an eldritch horror that threatens the very idea of existence itself. It’s Extremis.

Episode 288: Honour the Invisible · Recorded on Sunday 1 September 2024 · Duration 1:05:01 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 289

Narrative Vamping

This week, Tom Salinsky joins us for a World War III–adjacent chat in Madeupistan, while a global apocalypse is self-organising somewhere in Yorkshire. Also, some scary people keep trying to invite us to a free Bible study. It’s The Pyramid at the End of the World.

Episode 289: Narrative Vamping · Recorded on Sunday 1 September 2024 · Duration 0:52:07 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 290

Vignettes from an Alien Invasion

The Earth has once again fallen under the thrall of some wizened cadaverous monsters, who demand our love, our loyalty, and our uncritical acceptance of the Great Monk theory of history. And the only way to throw off their yoke is with a lot of laborious exposition. It’s The Lie of the Land.

Episode 290: Vignettes from an Alien Invasion · Recorded on Sunday 8 September 2024 · Duration 0:54:32 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 291

Blaze of Glory

This week, we’re huddling with Toby Hadoke in a tent in a cave set somewhere on Mars, wondering what that massive gun is for and trying to decide which terrifying Imperial Majesty to give our fealty to. It’s Empress of Mars.

Episode 291: Blaze of Glory · Recorded on Sunday 20 October 2024 · Duration 0:53:27 · Download · Open in new window

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Episode 292

A Perfect Crucible

This week, John Dorney joins us in northern Scotland to investigate the disappearance of the Ninth Legion — only to discover that there are things here even more terrible than the Roman army, things that can only be fought with trust and empathy and music. It’s The Eaters of Light.

Episode 292: A Perfect Crucible · Recorded on Sunday 27 October 2024 · Duration 0:59:40 · Download · Open in new window

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