Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro – Details, episodes & analysis

Warren has returned from his European travails, and just in time as casting for The War Between the Land and the Sea (henceforth known as TWBTLATS) is announced to much fanfare, A Disney poobah nods approvingly at Doctor Who as an idea, Catherine Tate herself hosts the BBC Proms, and Blake's 7 news takes the internet (well, us) by storm with an amazing box set on the way for the UK (and North America?). All this as a preamble for some of the greatest acting in British televisual history as we commentate on Part Three of Planet of the Spiders!

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• Cast announcement for The War Between the Land and the Sea
• The War Between the Land and the Sea readthrough of all 5 eps happened Mon Aug 19
• Disney Chief Backs 'Doctor Who' As "Really Good Fit" After Ncuti Gatwa's First Season
• Catherine Tate hosting the 2024 Doctor Who Proms Aug 26
• Radio Times' Doctor Who Proms preview with Murray Gold
• Doctor Who: The Adventures Before Hardcover – 3 Oct. 2024
• Doctor Who: The Sequels Hardcover – 20 Mar. 2025
• Doctor Who Icons 1 Paperback – 24 Oct. 2024
• Doctor Who Icons 2 Paperback – 21 Nov. 2024
• Doctor Who Icons 3 Paperback – 24 April 2025
• Bad Wolf launches the Blaidd Writers Program, RTD will mentor winners
• Big Finish Jenny – The Doctor's Daughter: Saving Time due Oct
• Blake's 7 Series A coming to Blu-ray on November 11 (UK)
• Blake's 7 Series A collection trailer

Commentary:

• Planet of the Spiders Episode 3

While Warren tours Europe, after having chatted with Doctor Who scribes Paul Cornell and LM Myles at Worldcon (which you can hear on this podcast), Doctor Who composer (and Edmonton native) Sam Watts steps in as co-host! Hear of Tales of the TARDIS, Sarah Jane Adventures, and other audio delights as news of a new Jodie Whittaker Blu-ray set is announced, overseas filming for The War Between the Land and the Sea is confirmed, and is a renewal for a third season of Doctor Who or perhaps another new spinoff in the works?

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who Magazine 607
• Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker Years on Blu-ray due November 5 (US)
• Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker Years on Blu-ray due November 5 (Canada)
• The Tom Baker Collection Deluxe 4CD Set due Sep 27
• Big Finish to temporarily roll back website to previous version
• Doctor Who: On Ghost Beach: 15th Doctor Audio Original due November 7
• Doctor Who: Sting of the Sasquatch: 15th Doctor Audio Original due Nov 7
• Doctor Who: The Official Quiz Book due Mar 20, 2025
• David Whitaker by Simon Guerrier Paperback Edition Who Shop pink and grey cover variants

Guest:

• Sam Watts

Interview:

• Paul Cornell
• Liz Myles

It's the penultimate episode of Doctor Who Season 1 and the mysteries are piling up in UNIT HQ! Who or what is Susan Twist? What about the cloaked lady who may or may not be Ruby's mum? Why in the name of all the gods in the pantheon is Sutekh causing trouble and blinged out in Disney finery? The Three Who Rule don't have the answers but they do have baseless speculation and a bunch of irrelevant Classic Who references to tide us over until next week! Plus some book and comic and Big Finish stuff but let's be real…..SUTEKH'S BACK! 

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• Magna Carta Day
• Review: Doctor Who S1E07 "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"
• Reminder: A new Tales of the TARDIS episode airing on BBC Four on June 20
• Doctor Who: Print The Legend now available
• BBC Books to publish four Target Doctor Who novels featuring the Fifteenth Doctor
• Doctor Who: The Official Guide coming August 15
• Doctor Who: Annual 2025 coming September 5
• Doctor Who: Fifteen Doctors 15 Stories coming September 19
• Cutaway Comics Paradise Towers: Volume 1: Paradise Found graphic novel due Oct 30
• Cutaway Comics Lytton: Volume 1 graphic novel due Oct 30
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – Conspiracy of Raven due July 2024
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Susan's War: Family Ties due August 2024
• Next Time: "Empire of Death", Saturday, June 22 at 640pm on BBC One

Amazingly, we've reached episode 900 of this here internet audio programme and we celebrate with not only the news of the day, including DWM tidbits, Big Finish and more audio fun, and the ever-present Timelash, but with the first of three exciting Classic Series Commentaries about the 1964 William Hartnell classic "Planet of Giants!"

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• The Timelash
• Doctor Who Magazine 589 released
• Directors discuss the new TARDIS set
• Casting news from Doctor Who Magazine
• Doctor Who Am I available
• Radiophonic Workshop videos on BBC Archive YouTube Channel
• Serpent Crest 10 LP set due May 26
• Big Finish Rani Takes on the World: The Revenge of Wormwood due April 2023

Commentary:

• Planet of Giants

It's All-900 Episode's Eve, and we have news of….Doom. What is Doom? Who is Doom? Why is Doom? Join the Three Who Rule who endeavour to piece together this multimedia mystery, discuss Chris's recent sojourn to the UK and Wales, wander through the Timelash as per usual…and that's before we dive into Part the Second of our Lennie Mayne Miniscope!

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• The Timelash
• Doom's Day coming soon

Miniscope:

• Lennie Mayne
• The Three Doctors
• The Hand of Fear

What is Doom's Day and does it have anything to do with Urbankans? Nothing presumably, as it is a new audio adventure teased mysteriously as of this recoding, but Steven and Warren shall pick apart what few clues they have as Chris is on Special Assignment and absent from most of the proceedings this week. We also have news of Henry-Tennant regeneration hijinks on Red Nose Day, a simply wonderful trailer for the new Series 9 collection, the ever-present Timelash, and Part One of our Miniscope on Doctor Who director Lennie Mayne!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• BBC Doctor Who "Doom's Day" teaser
• Doctor Who: Four from Doom's Day: Doom's Day Audio Original
• Doctor Who on Red Nose Day
• Doctor Who bosses 'planning UNIT spin-off with Jemma Redgrave'
• New trailer for the Doctor Who Series 9 collection
• DWM Special on Doctor Who Showrunners
• BF Doctor Who – The War Doctor Begins: Comrades-in-Arms due May 2023
• BF Torchwood: Among Us – Part 2 due June 2023
• Kit Pedler in BBC story about pollution from 1971

It's another exciting week of Doctor Who news as various content mills continue to draw the last bits of blood from the stone that is our Chris Chibnall interview, Russell T Davies says he's focused on Doctor Who for "years to come," Doctor Who: Lost in Time, a new mobile game that's been on our phones for months launches, and a very expensive teddy bear set to arrive in time for the 60th anniversary! All this and the Timelash, where we do deep dives into the kind of minutiae you only get here, on Radio Freaks Skaro!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Russell T Davies's focus is on Doctor Who for 'years to come'
• Moffat to write for Series 15?
• Red Nose Day to show off new 14th Doctor costume
• Big Finish The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Pioneers due May 2023
• Doctor Who Redacted renewed for Season 2, but not with Ella Watts as producer
• Doctor Who Annual 2024 due Sep 7
• Doctor Who: Lost in Time mobile game launches
• The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Bear by Steiff

We continue to bask in the glow of our Chris Chibnall interview at Gallifrey One and lo, so has the internet as excerpts appear around and about the internet in the form of news articles and Youtube commentary. But we trundle on towards the future with director announcements for the impending Gatwa Era and indeed the past with the Timelash and our Modern Series Commentary from the Capaldi classic "The Lie of the Land!" Monkadelic!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Radio Times: Chris Chibnall wanted to bring back Doctor Who spin-offs
• Radio Times: Doctor Who: Flux was almost axed, reveals Chris Chibnall
• Julie Anne Robinson officially unveiled as director for Block Three
• Ben Chessell announced as director for Block Four
• Doctor Who Magazine 588 released
• Fan animation of the first 10 minutes of The Celestial Toymaker
• Part 2 of The Celestial Toymaker animation
• Audio adaptation of The Making of Doctor Who coming June 1
• Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: Past Lives details announced due May 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Unleashed due May 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: Prisoners of London by Matthew Waterhouse due July 2023

Commentary

• The Lie of the Land

It's the week after Gallifrey One and we have an extra special treat for you, an hour-long interview with outgoing Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall! Listen to the man himself as he delves into the move from Xmas to New Year's specials, dealing with COVID (and the making of the Doctor's message to fans from her closet) and much, much more. We also have figurine and audio news, Doctor Who Am I on Blu-ray and the ever-present Timelash. Not bad for three exhausted malcontents!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Gallifrey One
• Chris Chibnall
• Scifi Collector to relaunch Doctor Who figurines
• The Amazing World of Doctor Who record store day release
• Doctor Who Magazine Complete History issues 41-60 collection released
• Doctor Who Am I iTunes pre-order
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Doctor Chronicles: The Tenth Doctor: Defender of the Earth due November 2023
• Big Finish Once and Future guest cast announced

Interview:

• Chris Chibnall

We wrap another year at Gallifrey One! And it's a very special episode of the podcast because Deb, Erika, Kat, Liz, and Lynne from Verity! join Steven to recap their weekend as they head off on podcast hiatus, hopefully soon to return. Also, we have interviews with the great Bonnie Langford (attending her first Gallifrey One in 22 years!), Doctor Who comics artist Dan Slott, and Matthew Jacobs & Vanessa Yuille circle back on how much has happened since the launch of Doctor Who Am I.

Next week: a feature length interview with former Doctor Who show runner Chris Chibnall…

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• Gallifrey One