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A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Join Joe Ford as he waltzes all around the world (via whatever means the internet allows) and undertakes Doctor Who commentaries with a wide range of wonderful contributors. Fans, podcasters, online reviewers, writers, actors...the USP of this podcast is it's variety of guests and the fact that they all bring their own unique perspective to the podcast. The guest chooses the story, be it one they love, hate or are completely indifferent, and amongst the gossip is trivia, critique and personal…
Episodes
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Paul Dunn & Peter Ould about their choice of State of Decay (2/4)
What on earth word the names Joe Ford, Paul Dunn and Peter Ould become over the years? Is Aukon horny for Adric? Is Camilla horny for Romana?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Peter Ould & Paul Dunn about their choice of State of Decay (1/4)
Peter dazzles with his first Hamster recording, Paul is in the hot seat asking the questions, but and we head into E-Space for a chilling tale of vampires and…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Jack Coyer about his choice of The Witchfinders
Jack isn't the biggest fan of the 13th Doctor's era, but he does really enjoy this episode and we thought we would have some fun picking both of those stances…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Joe M about his choice of The Fires of Pompeii
An ambitious production, a poignant emotional core, fierce regulars, a stunning guests cast and a complex dilemma...is this the best historical of the new…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Joe M about his choice of Partners in Crime
‘I’m waving at fat!’ Joe joins me for 90 minutes of silliness and flirting as we navigate the weight loss business via Loony Tunes...let the madness begin.
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of The Ribos Operation (4/4)
All but one doomed to die...thus written in this podcast. How did Martin manage to wrangle A Hamster with a Blunt Penknife out of Joe's hands? Sleight of…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of The Ribos Operation (3/4)
'They are not ice crystals!' Joe & Martin hit their favourite episode of the serial and are deeply moved by the introduction of Binro, and laughing their heads…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of The Ribos Operation (2/4)
If you hang that little beauty around your neck you'll never suffer from the scringes, no matter how cold it be! Joe & Martin discover that no one makes a fool…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of The Ribos Operation (1/4)
All but one doomed to die...thus written! Joe & Martin are up to their old tricks again, selling planets, pulling the wool over evil despots and coming from…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
The Paradise of Death by Barry Letts (featuring Gareth Bowley, David Gillespie-Pratt & Dan Pinn)
Worthy of the bile that has been tossed its way...or an unpretentious fun adventure that is unfairly maligned? You mean to say you've been INTERVIEWING me?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Dylan Rees & Luke Molloy about their choice of The Star Beast
Be scared - the contentious trio come together. Once, Dylan declared this the worst Doctor Who story of all time! Luke LOVES it! And now Joe can see some…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Carnival of Monsters (4/4)
'Will you kind stop addressing me as the creature, sir, or I may get exceedingly hostile!' It's our last episode of this absolute classic; Drashig-led…
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcastTalks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Carnival of Monsters (3/4)
‘And here Joe and Paul watch the Drashigs with keen interest…waiting for the cranial egg sacs to ovulate and they prepare their ascent to give birth to the…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Carnival of Monsters (2/4)
This delightful romp continues...but nothing serious, nothing political! We just put on a show!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Carnival of Monsters (1/4)
‘Pooh!’ Are we on Metebelies Three or Inter Minor or on the Indian Ocean? What happened to the SS Bernice? Watch out, Paul, an enormous hand coming to pick us…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Chimes of Midnight (featuring James Lark & Michael Mills)
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a Hamster Book Club Christmas Special! And this time we are seasonally themed with the superlative Christmas chiller…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Brain of Morbius (4/4)
A great lumbering monster that looks like it is made of butchers leftovers is on the move with the brain of the fearsome war criminal - Morbius - in his head!…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Brain of Morbius (3/4)
The brain matter has slapped on the floor! Condo has been shot in the stomach! Sarah can see again and he's behind you! And the Doctor does a little British…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Brain of Morbius (2/4)
There's something screaming murder in the cellar, the manservant is looking for his arm, the surgeon is slicing and dicing and the butchers shop has lost its…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Brain of Morbius (1/4)
There's a Sargasso Sea of spaceships, something is stirring in the laboratory, the Sisters are weaving their magic and a storm is brewing. Hold my hand, please…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Adventuress of Henrietta Street by Lawrence Miles (featuring Elemental Mark Donaldson)
A rich, heady brew of sex, political detail, history, unknowable slathering horror, Gothic atmosphere and the absence left in the universe by the destruction…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Ark (4/4)
How will James cope with the numerous technical difficulties at the start of this episode - by trying out improvisational comedy!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Ark (3/4)
Where are Melium and Baku? Why are the Monoids suddenly so stupid? Are there invisible people on Refusis II?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - ‘Trix’ - original short story
For Andrew, who has long been frustrated at a lack of backstory and explanation for Patricia ‘Trix’ MacMillan. So I thought I would write my own. Go wild.
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Happy Anniversary! The Day of the Doctor Commentary (with Dylan Rees & Iain Martin)
In a crossover with Too Hot for TV & We're All Stories in the End, Dylan, Iain and I have assembled to talk about the 50th anniversary special - The Day of the…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Ark (2/4)
The virus is spreading, the human race is falling, the Earth is burning and the Doctor's time is running out... Also one of the best cliffhangers of all time !
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Ark (1/4)
Joe & James - in person! The intrepid explorers head to the Ark which itself heads away from a decaying planet Earth and Refusis II...
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Party Like Its 1998! (featuring Andrew Batty, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Jon Arnold)
The greatest gift we can think of - an anthology of short stories celebrating the eighth Doctor range. Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, Compassion, Anji Kapoor, Iris!…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of Image of the Fendhal (4/4)
This mammoth commentary comes to an end with a plethora of reasons to love this creepy, smart and funny tale. We're tossing salt (ahem), sucking in (ahem)…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of Image of the Fendhal (3/4)
'I will be a God!' Every horror trope imaginable descends on Fetch Priory; cults, eldrich horrors, slavering monsters, ghosts...and Martin and I are raring to…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of Image of the Fendhal (2/4)
The menace is afoot with clicky technology summoning an ancient evil, Ma Tyler is on the move, and who the hell did let the Doctor go?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Martin Parsons about his choice of Image of the Fendhal (1/4)
We welcome Martin into the Hamster family, discover his Doctor Who journey and find out precisely what happened last night at Fetch Priory. 'A dead one what…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Rob Shearman Interview
Joe & James talk to one of their favourite authors about writing The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee, coming to terms with your own work, and the creating…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Ghost Light by Marc Platt (featuring Anthony Carroll)
Quintessence of wickedness! Corruption incarnate! Until all the Atlas is pink! The Cream of Scotland Yard! Will Anthony and I finally get the answers we seek…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (6/6)
A brilliant ending to this six part classic...or a damp squib? And will Toby have the audacity to rewrite what is on TV to suit his reading of the story?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (5/6)
We're still mightily impressed with the production value, the thick atmosphere and the performances in this underground chiller...
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (4/6)
Joe Ford & Toby Hadoke are very different people. One crude & coarse, the other erudite & charming. One selling a podcast on gossip & scandal, the other on…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (3/6)
Otherwise known as the one with the balloon people…although one of us was surprised by the reaction to the animation.
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (2/6)
Troughton is taking a week off but we are ably supporting by a host of fascinating guest characters...and more importantly we can watch this episode!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Toby Hadoke about his choice of The Web of Fear (1/6)
Where we explore dark undergound passages, homicidal mythological creatures, sticky web and the joy of returned missing episodes...
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club Halloween Special - White Darkness by David A. McIntee (featuring James Lark & Michael Mills)
Real life historical atrocities rub shoulders with mythological and cosmic horror rub shoulders with James Bond spy thriller! There is much to discuss in this…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
The (X) Hamster Files - Ghost in the Machine (featuring Agent Ioan Morris)
Evil sentient technology…a portent of the future? How does The X-Files tackle HAL? Agent Morris is with me to do all the hard work and let me take all the…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Vanderdekens Children by Christopher Bulis (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Jon Arnold & Andrew Batty)
War in the Hamster Book Club! As we explore Christopher Bulis' gaping orifice, there is a huge spread of opinions. Is this the Middest of all Doctor Who…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Dr Simon Exton about his choice of The Moonbase (3/4)
What the hell her the ingredients of a Polly cocktail? Is this her best episode? And are Jamie and Ben both in love with her?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Last Dodo by Jacqueline Rayner (featuring Gareth Bowley, Dan Pinn & David Gillespie-Pratt)
A throwaway New Series Adventure or a moving lesson in the human races extinction list? We tackle the thorny subject of extinction, of museums, and of…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
The (X) Hamster Files - Shadows (featuring Agent Frazer Gregory)
The first supernaural case in The X-Files - a woman haunted by her murdered boss who is trying to protect her from the people who killed him. Is this so…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - the rest of Hartnell (Jon Arnold, David Gillespie Pratt & Frazer Gregory)
The maddest, most contentious, most laughter filled Strictly yet! How can the fag end of Hartnell provoke so many potent opinions?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Dr Simon Exton about his choice of The Moonbase
Grab your Polly cocktails, zip up your quilted spacesuits, avoid the Phantom Piper...we're heading to the moon!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Kerblam!
Politics, adventure, a McCoy love in, sinister robots, terrorism, love...this one has it all! Paul steps into the Ham Fam and discusses a much undervalued…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
The (X) Hamster Files - The Jersey Devil (featuring agent Jack Coyer)
What happens when Agent Coyer faces his first experience of The X-Files and comes up against Neanderthal woman?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Lee, Andy & Cam about their choice of The Mind Robber (5/5)
It's time to bring this piece of art to an end with a celebration of the many positives about the story, the man positives about Scotland, and the man…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Andy, Lee & Cam about their choice of The Mind Robber (4/5)
Lesson 42! It's time to beat up the Karkus, get trapped in a book and worry about a dollop of foamy spittle at the side of the mouth of a writer of weeklies...
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Eyeless by Lance Parkin (featuring Kieran Pell)
A surprisingly bleak, dystopian world with huge things to say about war, weapons of mass destruction, genocide and scientific responsibility...aimed at…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Glenn Fitzgerald about his choice of The Stones of Blood (4/4)
One of my favourite single episodes to record, beautiful Glenn reminds us of the joys of finding your tribe within Doctor Who fandom and how enriching it can…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Glenn Fitzgerald about his choice of The Stones of Blood (3/4)
The story takes a massive diversion into domesticity and science fiction as the Doctor and Amelia attempt to reach Romana in Hyperspace...
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
The (X) Hamster Files - Conduit (featuring Agent Iain Martin)
When Ruby goes missing in the woods, her mother becomes obsessed that she has been abducted. Scully is sceptical, but Mulder thinks this might be linked to the…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season 16 (featuring Nathan Bottomley, Toby Hadoke & Ioan Morris)
Segments, assignments from God, Pirate planets, blood sucking stones, swordplay, giant farting squids and nuclear war! Everything is to play for in this…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Sleep of Reason by Martin Day (featuring Michael Mills & Dylan Rees)
Content Warning - reading contains material pertaining to self harm One of us loved this book, one of us hated it and one of us sat squarely in the middle but…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Romans (Redux) by Donald Cotton (featuring James Lark)
The gauntlet has been thrown. A less than favourable episode released on Donald Cotton's books released and James Lark, in a fit of epistolary pique, decides…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Andy, Lee & Cam about their choice of The Mind Robber (3/5)
It doesn't exist! Our waltz through the Doctor's weirdest, most literate adventure continues. And we discover precisely what Andy is available for by the end…