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Trailer - The Doctor Who Creatives · A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast

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  Hello dear listeners, this is the dulcet will self SAT voice
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  of Paul Quinn who you may recognise from various Hamster
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  podcasts. It was I who poured score on the
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  resurrection of the Dialects and I who defended Orphan 55, and I
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  who brought in all those tedious literary references to Ghost
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  Light. And I'm here with Go Forward of
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  course the Father of Hamster to introduce our new insane
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  project, Hamster. Doctor Who creatives join Joe
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  and I as we go through every story of Classic Who and every
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  story of New Who. Looking at the creators who
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  produced those stories, the producers, the directors, the
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  script writers, the actors playing the Doctor, the actors
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  playing the companions and some wild cards.
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  Those actors who turn up in three or more stories.
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  And it won't just be the episodes that they appear in
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  that we talk about. We're looking at their wider
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  corpus of work. So the Barry Let's story is
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  going to be a three hour epic and the Paula Mall will be four
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  or five hours and won't be lucky if when you join us for that
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  one. I'm joined here by Joe for the
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  big FA Cup style draw to see what we're going to be talking
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  about next month. Hello, hello.
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  To give this a bit of context, Paul is currently holding a is
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  it Doctor Who experience? Yes, Sack full of.
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  This is how high tech we are. It's full of pieces of paper,
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  which we're going to select out each time.
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  And I'm assuming we're going to put at the end of each episode
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  where we're going next. So we'll do A tag, yeah.
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  A really long wheeled, long long winded FA Cup draw.
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  A really interesting way, a new way of looking at Doctor Who via
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  the creatives. And it's going to give us a
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  chance to look at their work, obviously on Doctor Who, but
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  some of their work outside Doctor Who and just give it a
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  bit of context. So come on, I'm excited.
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  Let's put the first name out. Put my hand in my sack.
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  Some of you will be thinking in terms of Alan Partridge where he
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  lists a lot of police detective programs from regional locations
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  and Tony has the hated head of BBC says Means.
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  We don't need any more TV detectives.
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  You might be thinking that about Doctor Who podcasting, but you'd
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  be wrong here. That's the first name I've drawn
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  out of my sack. If I can find something, he's
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  got to. It's John Hurt.
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  No. My God, John Hurt.
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  Well, how many movies can I watch in the next two weeks?
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  Do we need another name to go along with the War Doctor?
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  The one. Or shall we just go John?
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  I mean, John Hurt's had a long and prestigious career.
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  There's certainly an episode in John Hurt.
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  So are we going with John Hurt the War Doctor for the first
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  episode of Hamster? Because I've also heard his Big
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  Finish audios as well. So that's that's an hour
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  straight away and we can talk about the curious case of three
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  Doctor Who actors playing Winston Smith in adaptations of
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  1984. And it's sort of leaning into
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  what you were talking about the other day when you said, you
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  know, John, her, Peter Cushing, the, the sort of the most widely
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  respected actors that have taken a a few rare turns of playing
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  the Doctor. And this was such a coup for
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  Moffett. I mean, I think, I think there's
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  an hour a day of the Doctor alone, but absolutely there's a
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  lot of John Hurt's career. I haven't, I haven't explored as
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  well. He's a marvellous actor.
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  He's a genuine loss. I mean, I have an unfortunate
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  voice which sounds like I'm taking the piss.
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  So you've had to essentially explain the whole concept again
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  because it is like Henry's Cat came in to talk to people.
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  But John Hill is the most marvelous actor and and yeah,
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  from across his range of stuff here.
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  Alien The Elephant Man 1984 Champions Control in the film
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  adaptation of Ticker Taylor Soldiers by he's a genuine
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  genuine loss. The only time I kind of thought
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  he was a bit off was when he kind of got very annoyed on who
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  do you think you are When he discovered he wasn't actually
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  Irish though I've got a weird connection to that because
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  that's Westport which is where a lot of my family lives.
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  So I know that building very well so.
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  Well I think you are because I think you're far more away of
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  his career now. You give me 5 things to watch
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  like non Doctor Who thing so we can talk about.
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  Well we'll do it off camera, don't worry.
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  And then we'll do a bit of research.
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  We're we're going to be coming up with our first episode in the
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  next couple of weeks, So in about two weeks time, that'll be
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  coming out. And this is a very exciting
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  idea. And it's doubly exciting because
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  Paul, as I've recently said on Sy Hart's Journal of Impossible
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  Things, like Library of Impossible Things.
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  Sorry, Paul was my oldest friend.
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  I've known him since I was about four years old.
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  He's the man who introduced me to Doctor Who.
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  We went our our own paths for a long old time and This Is Us
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  coming back together. And finally the great work
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  begins. We do this all the way through.
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  It's at least 300 episodes. We will be very old men.
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  It will be like history today on the Mary Whitehouse experience
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  sketch, but with actually intelligent conversation, not
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  just stuff about that your mum. That is because that can't be
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  the case for either of us tragically canning, and that's
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  gone in a very dark direction very quickly.
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  I've I've already turned out nearly 700 episodes of how to
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  start. I'm sure we can do 300.
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  So John Hurt. Coming.
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  John Hurt. Five in the next couple of
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  weeks. Yeah, I can't wait.
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  Looking forward to it. That's such a good draw because
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  I was terrified it's going to be something.
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  Leslie Scott. I mean, big up to Norman Stone
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  because he has to deal with two of the worst stories to film and
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  I love Underworld, but that was a real, you know, he wasn't even
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  a proper director. You're talking about Norman
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  Stewart there, aren't you? Norman Stewart?
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  Not Norman Stewart. An actor, isn't he?
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  I am Norman Stewart. Oh, he's going off to a great
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  start, isn't he? And.
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  This is the exact factual accuracy you didn't have to
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  expect. No, actually I've quite the
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  reverse because I know, I know that you will bring your typical
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  smarts to this. Norman Stone.
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  He's he's in the Silurians, isn't he?
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  He's Colonel Baker. Oh, that's Norman Jones.
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  Oh well, who's Norman story for today?
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  Yes, answers on a postcard, please, to whoever Norman Stone
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  is. Please let us know who Norman
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  Stone is and join us in two. Weeks.
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  Are you there, Norman? It's John Hart with you.
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  For our first episode covering John Hurt.