Talks to Michael Mills about Joe's choice of Lucky Day

Episodes

Strictly Come Hamster - Flux (featuring Dylan Rees, Lee McMenemy & Frazer Gregory)
6 Jul· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
he longest Doctor Who story, a pandemic fought year, and an epic fight for reality against Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Swarm & Azure and the Doctor's past...
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Talks to Our Liam about his choice of Planet of the Dead
4 Jul· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Glorious Hamster debutant Liam talks about his love for late Tennant, wonderful stories about meeting the A-List cast and extols the virtues of this underrated gem.
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Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder
2 Jul· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Our Great Stranger journey comes to an end with this feature length 'epic.' Just how much fun can two tired and slightly hysterical fans have watching the climax of this saga?
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Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Stranger: Breach of the Peace
1 Jul· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
What happens when you take the SF out of The Stranger and turn it into an episode of The Bill featuring Caroline John & Nicholas Briggs? Will Colin have a happy ending with Miss Frump?
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Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of Stranger: The Terror Game
29 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
BBV is back on Hamster! And rounding off our six Stranger commentaries we start with The Terror Game! Saul & Egan are on the scene! Louise Jameson is running a nightclub! And is this The Stranger's true origin story?
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Hamster Book Club - The Adventures Before (featuring Michael Mills)
27 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe & Michael embark on their first short story collection together - with a book that allegedly has a collection of stories that take place before Doctor Who televised adventures. We examine that and then some...
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Hamster Book Club - The English Way of Death by Gareth Roberts (featuring Kieran Pell)
25 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Top ho! Off to season seventeen for Kieran and I! Upper crust bumbling fools, time portals, evil smells and possessed policemen! Plus a passionate conversation about the author, and the reaction against him.
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Talks to Frazer Gregory & Si Hart about their choice of Mindwarp (4/4)
22 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Another joyous commentary comes to an end with a hugely dramatic, murderous climax. Peri is dead, the Time Lords are accused, Crozier sips his tea. Where do we go from here?
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Talks to Si Hart & Frazer Gregory about their choice of Mindwarp (3/4)
20 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Things are hotting up in the caves between Peri and Ycarnos and a rebellion is waiting to be forged. This was a story that each of us have struggled with at some point...so why are we having so much fun with it?
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Hamster Book Club - James Goss Interview
20 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe & Michael speak to James Goss about his Doctor Who books past and present and in particular his upcoming Target novelisation of Lux. Due to the spoilers within, the Lux Book Club will come out on the publication date.
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Talks to Frazer Gregory & Si Hart about their choice of Mindwarp (2/4)
19 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
There are many horrific and shocking things about this story; mostly in this episode and how it treats the Doctor and Peri. But none of those are more terrifying than Frazer’s opening…
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Talks to Si Hart & Frazer Gregory about their choice of Mindwarp (1/4)
18 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Si used to hate it and now he really likes it, Joe yo-yos about with it but currently LOVES it, Frazer has always been on the fence...what treasure can they dig out of this controversial story...
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Strictly Come Hamster - Tenth Doctor Special
15 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
The most popular Doctor Who of all time? Doctor Number Ten comes under the microscope and we determine the best (or at least our favourite) 10th Doctor story! Allonsy!
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Hamster Book Club - Dalek by Robert Shearman (featuring Anthony Carroll)
13 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
What happens when a Scot and an Englishman watch, listen and read to the same story? A grand time is had by both! The most unique Target novel? The darkest?
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Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Invasion (4/8)
11 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
The animation is back and somehow we're really happy about that! There is a brilliant action sequence that we can't see but the emergence of the Cybermen and Vaughn's plans are coming to fruition...no signs of this story running out of steam.
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Hamster Book Club - The Gallifrey Chronicles (Redux) by Lance Parkin (featuring Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
9 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
It's the end...but the moment has been prepared for. The eighth Doctor range comes to a close with a book that looks backwards to celebrate, forwards to the future and has a beautiful examination of the Doctor within...
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Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Invasion (3/8)
8 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
The Cybermen haven't arrived yet but we couldn't care one jot when Kevin Stoney and Peter Halliday are there to make laugh and cry! Join James and I as we dive into Doctor Who Spy-Fi!
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Talks to Michael Mills about Joe's choice of Lucky Day
6 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe's favourite episode of the season and Michael has lots to say about the fascinating content within. How were we tricked? What is the deal with Conrad? And just how did they make those monsters work?
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Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Invasion (2/8)
5 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Spy-Fi abounds! Will the Doctor and Jamie find Zoe & Isobel and save them from the clutches of Tobias Vaughn?
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Hamster Book Club - Warmonger by Terrance Dicks (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Andrew Batty & Jon Arnold)
3 Jun· A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe, Luke, Andrew & Jon face the most brutal fight in the Doctor's fight, a conflict so terrifying he has to form an alliance with Cybermen, Sontarans and Draconians and become a dictator! Issalon Kwai!
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Episodes

Strictly Come Hamster - Flux (featuring Dylan Rees, Lee McMenemy & Frazer Gregory)

Talks to Our Liam about his choice of Planet of the Dead

Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder

Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Stranger: Breach of the Peace

Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of Stranger: The Terror Game

Hamster Book Club - The Adventures Before (featuring Michael Mills)

Hamster Book Club - The English Way of Death by Gareth Roberts (featuring Kieran Pell)

Talks to Frazer Gregory & Si Hart about their choice of Mindwarp (4/4)

Talks to Si Hart & Frazer Gregory about their choice of Mindwarp (3/4)

Hamster Book Club - James Goss Interview

Talks to Frazer Gregory & Si Hart about their choice of Mindwarp (2/4)

Talks to Si Hart & Frazer Gregory about their choice of Mindwarp (1/4)

Strictly Come Hamster - Tenth Doctor Special

Hamster Book Club - Dalek by Robert Shearman (featuring Anthony Carroll)

Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Invasion (4/8)

Hamster Book Club - The Gallifrey Chronicles (Redux) by Lance Parkin (featuring Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins)

Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Invasion (3/8)

Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Invasion (2/8)

Hamster Book Club - Warmonger by Terrance Dicks (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Andrew Batty & Jon Arnold)