The Doctor Who Podcast turns its steely gaze towards the Big Finish Towers this week as we look at the latest trilogy of Big Finish audios featuring the 8th Doctor, Paul McGann.
The Silver Turk, The Witch from the Well and Army of Death fall under the watchful eye ofJames, Tom and Ian.
Just Trevor and James to keep you entertained this episode as we again delve into the mailbag and see what delights lay within.
We also have a chat about Barry, the star of a recent episode of Get Your House In Order, a series where experts try and declutter peoples lives and help them with their hoarding tendencies. Barry has Doctor Who stuff, a lot of Doctor Who stuff. Trevor and James talk about how successful the shows attempts were to help him with his overwhelming collection.
Our love affair with Tom Baker and Big Finish continues with Leeson, Trevor and James reviewing the latest batch of Fourth Doctor and Leela adventures.
Renaissance Man, Wrath of the Iceni and Energy of the Daleks are popped into the tape deck for a listen. What will the verdict be?
The DWP Campervan goes literary this week and is awash with a myriad of titles based on the adventures of the 9th Doctor, Christopher Eccleston and his various TARDIS crew.
The four novels we are reviewing, forming our look at the 9th Doctor book range are
Ian and Michele also get into the book reading fun and review Only Human by Gareth Roberts.
We also review a book from the mighty pen of John Barrowman and his sister Carole – The Hollow Earth. You also have the chance to win your very own copy of this book.
We were also very lucky to coax some of our fellow podcasters and dear friends of the show to provide some readings of the books being reviewed. Our thanks to Laura from the Oodcast, Chip from the 2Minute Timelord, Erik from the Doctor Who Book Club Podcast, Michele from the DWP and her son Ken! Thank you all!
James, Leeson and Ian were lucky enough to attend the Official Doctor Who convention in Cardiff recently and recorded a podcast while they were there.
James and Leeson chat about their experiences at the convention, whilst Ian was lucky enough to secure one of the passes to go and visit the TARDIS set. Ian recalls this once in a lifetime experience.
Plenty packed into this weeks episode for you to enjoy.
First up are two interviews, both recorded during Trevor’s trip to Toowoomba last month. The first is with David Riley, organiser for the Toowoomba Local Group of the Doctor Who Club of Australia. Trevor talks with David about how he set up the club and the wonderful community of fans that exists in this regional area.
Next up Trevor spoke to Geoff Campbell, who has produced a replica TARDIS which sits pride of place in his front yard. Trevor talks to Geoff about the background of the project, and the challenges he faced building this replica, as well as the worldwide community of TARDIS builders that exists.
Ian and Michele review a Big Finish Companion Chronicle – Solitaire.
Trevor and James review the DVD release of the classic Doctor Who story, The Sensorites.
A packed episode for you this week withJames, Leeson and Tom reviewing two recent DVD releases from 2entertain, collectively entitled ‘The UNIT Files’ Box Set.
Two stories make up this release, the Pertwee story Invasion of the Dinosaurs and the Tom Baker story The Android Invasion.
Michele also returns to the Campervan annex and talks about her time at the Gallifrey 23 convention.
This is the concluding episode of the DWPs look at the longest serving Doctor Who producer, John Nathan-Turner.
Trevor and James take up where Tom and Leeson left off last week and talk about the work of JNT during the eras of the 6th and 7th Doctors.
Michele and Ian also provide the second half of their review of the John Nathan-Turner memoirs.
As everyone comes down off their post-Gallifrey 23 buzz, the team at The Doctor Who Podcast embarks on a mini project – over the next two episodes we will be looking at the era of John Nathan-Turner, the longest serving producer of Doctor Who, and a figure that has been the subject of equal parts derision and praise ever since he took on the role in the early 1980s.
In this episode Leeson and Tom look at how John Nathan-Turner came to take on the role of Producer, and his time on the show up to the end of the Peter Davison era.
Ian and Michele also review the first half of the JNT Memoirs, a release from Big Finish (sadly no longer available) where John Nathan-Turner shares his candid memories of his time on the show.
Very exciting week here at the DWP Campervan as Trevor, Leeson and Ian kick back and review the new releases from the Big Finish range, Doctor Who audios featuring he of the long scarf and bags of confectionary, the fourth Doctor Tom Baker.
We have waited a very long time for Mr Baker to appear in a Big Finish audio. Just how did he fare?
The lost stories Foe from the Future and Valley of Death are reviewed, along with the first story from the regular season of new fourth Doctor adventures, Destination Nerva.
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