The Doctor Who Podcast Episode #355 – Spice Up Your Life! Mel B returns!

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Well, that was a surprise! This week saw the announcement that Bonnie Langford will reprise the role of Melanie Bush in the series of Doctor Who alongside Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor Who! Sadly the news broke too late for us to cover in any great detail, but Phil and James do discuss briefly at the top of the episode.

Michele then joins James to talk about the latest trailer, the titles of the upcoming specials and the latest casting news.

And feedback! We have a brand new Facebook Group (20 years late, we know) so we talk about some of the messages our wonderful listeners have been posting.

Then – it’s soapbox time! James and Michele talk about the Ninth Doctor range from Big Finish Productions. It’s been a while since we had a chinwag about the output from Big Finish without reviewing a specific release. So how has Christopher Eccleston’s return to Doctor Who landed with fans now we have nine box sets?!

Join us later this month for part two of our series, Once and Future Review! Chapter Two is being released on 14 June – our review will be online as soon as possible after that!

Get in touch with the Campervan in the usual ways – feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, on Twitter or via Facebook.

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The Doctor Who Podcast – Once and Future Review #1 – Past Lives

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Doctor Who’s Diamond Whobilee starts here! The wonderful creative powerhouse that is Big Finish Productions have released the first of a new monthly series of Doctor Who stories celebrating Doctor Who’s sixtieth anniversary. The range is called Once and Future, comprises eight parts. Part seven will be released to coincide with the anniversary itself and the final Coda – in November 2024!

Here in the campervan we are incredibly excited to announce we will be reviewing each monthly releases as and when they make it out into wild between now and November.

So why not listen along with us?! Each of our reviews will be as full as possible, so DO NOT LISTEN BEFORE YOU HAVE HEARD THE STORY!!!! You have been warned!

Part One, written by Robert Valentine is called Past Lives – and is available to own right now by visiting Big Finish’s website. As soon as your ears have digested the story, download our review and join in the celebration with Brent, Michele and Drew! Drop an email to us as feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com (with “Once and Future” in the subject field) and we’ll read your message and discuss your theories on next month’s review show!

All this as well as regular DWPs too!

Happy Anniversary!

The Doctor Who Podcast Episode #354 – Doctor Who Royalty!

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What’s this?! TWO episodes of DWP goodness in as many weeks?! What’s that saying about busses?! Well, never mind about busses, jump on board the DWP Campervan as we celebrate royalty in our own way!

Off the back of our comprehensive (!) Third Doctor Special, Phil, Michele and James travel forward in time to catch up with all things Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctor-related. Also covered – non-linear cryptic teaser-trailers, Ncuti’s costumes, casting news, photoshoots and possible musical episodes of Doctor Who!

If that wasn’t enough, tune in for an announcement about our coverage of Big Finish‘s 60th Anniversary seven part extravaganza, Once and Future. Yes, you can listen along with us, hear our reviews and let us know what you think over the next seven months or so. Exciting stuff as we get started on the 60th anniversary celebrations already!

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The Doctor Who Podcast Episode #353 – Jon Pertwee IS The Doctor!

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Jumping Jehoshaphat! Ka-Klakk, we’re back! Join the entire DWP team as we remissness about all things Third Doctor. With so many of us in the Campervan loving the Third Doctor, a show dedicated to the era is much overdue.

So join Drew and Michele as they review The Return of Jo Jones, the latest Third Doctor set from Big Finish – Phil and Ian as they head to the DWP’s favourite pub to record their memories of the era and of course, Brent and James as they talk about Jon Pertwee himself, his Doctor Who stories on television, Big Finish tales, Season 9 on blu-ray, the Brigadier, Sarah Jane Smith, Liz Shaw and Jo Grant – and all manner of other stuff in the unstructured DWP style that you have come to love!

So jump on board the Campervan for an hour of Third Doctor goodness!

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The Doctor Who Podcast Episode #352 – Russell and the Rumours

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It’s lazy days as we mark time while we wait for Doctor Who to return to our screens. Thankfully there seems to be a steady stream of hints about what’s to come. Join Michele, Ian, and Brent as they talk about the speculation reported in the Mirror and elsewhere about potential spin-off series and writers.

Then we turn from the unknown to the known as we discuss the upcoming Ninth Doctor adventures from Big Finish and a new Third Doctor season on Blu-ray. Finally, we look back at a couple of stand-out stories from Big Finish’s erstwhile Monthly Range. Michele and Ian go ’round and ’round with the 2007 release Circular Time and guest reviewer Adam shares his thoughts on 2012’s Protect and Survive, from his very own fallout shelter.

Don’t forget to check out James on Episode 69 of the Who & Company podcast – a must listen for the millions of fans of Dad’s Army and Doctor Who!

Don’t forget, you can get in touch with the Campervan by emailing us at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, Tweet @thedrwhopodcast or find us on Facebook.

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The Doctor Who Podcast Episode #345 – News, Rumours and Gardeners Worlds

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We’re back! Join James, Phil, Michele and Brent as they turn on the campervan’s a/c and dive into an unstructured meander through the worlds of Doctor Who. Neil Patrick Harris, the return of the Toymaker (or is it?!), Season 22 and Beep the Meep all feature in this latest geekout!

Brent and Michele jump on later in the episode to talk about the Third Doctor Big Finish Short Trip, Gardeners’ Worlds.

As always, we’d love to hear from you about anything Who related. Send an email to us at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, drop a note to us on Twitter or find us on Facebook.

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The Doctor Who Podcast Episode #344 – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Six (But Were Afraid to Ask)

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It’s a Sixth Doctor Special! Join Ian, Brent and Phil as they travel back to the 1980s to discuss two much maligned stories from Colin Baker’s era. Have they stood the test of time?! Tune in to find out – shortly after Phil has his say about David Tennant’s return to Doctor Who.

James and Michele take the opportunity to revisit an absolute classic Sixth Doctor story from Big Finish‘s back catalogue and discuss Jubilee. Hard to believe the story is approaching it’s own twentieth anniversary.

As always, we’d love to hear from you about anything Who related. Send an email to us at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, drop a note to us on Twitter or find us on Facebook.

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The Doctor Who Podcast Episode #343 – David Tennant is the Doctor – again!

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Join Ian and James as they catch up on the lastest news from the world of Doctor Who. David Tennant and Catherine Tate are back! But which Doctor? Which Donna?! And for that matter, which Rose?! Yes, Yasmin Finney has been cast as Rose – but perhaps not the one we were expecting?!

Brent and Michele also drop in to discuss the opening story in the new First Doctor box set from Big Finish, The Outlaws starring Stephen Noonan as the Doctor and Lauren Cornelius as Dodo!

What do you make of David Tennant’s return!? Does Stephen Noonan cut it as the First Doctor?! We’d love to hear from you! Send an email to us at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, drop a note to us on Twitter or find us on Facebook.

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The Doctor Who Podcast Episode #339 – Bad Wolf and Bootstraps

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Join James, Phil, Michele, Ian and Brent and for the latest day trip in the Campervan! There’s a Ninth Doctor theme this month with the return of Nine Lives

Before that, James and Phil meander through the recent 60th Anniversary rumours and make yet more baseless predictions that have not a single hope of coming true. Ian and Michele then return to discuss the penultimate story in Series 1, Bad Wolf – and then Brent then drops by and joins Michele in reviewing Her Own Bootstraps, a Ninth Doctor Short Trip Big Finish story by Amy Veeres.

You can get in touch with the campervan crew in the usual ways – send an email to feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, find us on Twitter or on Facebook.

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The Doctor Who Podcast Episode #337 – Forty Years of Five

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Join Phil, Michele, Ian, Drew and Brent as they take time out to celebrate the Fortieth anniversary of the Fifth Doctor – yes, it’s been forty years since we saw Peter Davison play the Doctor for the first time in Castravalva!

Debut Who returns with Black Orchid and then attention turns to Secrets of Telos, the first adventure in the celebratory release from Big Finish in the cryptically entitled “Forty“.

Drew and Brent drop by after returning from a trip to the 1960 with a ten minute review of the Tomb of the Cybermen.

Get in touch with the campervan in the usual ways, send an email to feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, find us on Twitter or on Facebook.

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