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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
Hamster Book Club - Love & War by Paul Cornell (featuring Paul Quinn)
Joe & Paul head to Heaven to meet Benny, lose Ace and have a torrid and angst ridden love affair! Paul surprises himself by enjoying this a lot more than he…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins about their choice of The Invisible Enemy (4/4)
'Blow it up!' We reach the end of this incredible voyage with our sanity intact (just about), our inebriation faltering and our laughter flowing. Can we find…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season Five (featuring Dylan Rees, Michael Mills & Elliot Mair)
Monsters! Bases Under Siege! Evil Dictators! Intransigent Base Commanders! Joe, Dylan, Michael & Elliot tackle a classic season and see how it holds up with a…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Jon Arnold, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Andrew Batty about their choice of The Invisible Enemy (3/4)
Join Joe, Jon, Luke & Andrew as they talk balls balls balls! If it isn't Michael Sheard's balls, its the ballsup of a terror attack on the medical facility, or…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Eye of Heaven by Jim Mortimore (featuring Dr Philip Boyes)
Let's head to the high seas for an unusual Past Doctor Adventure as we see the world through Leela (and the Doctor's!) eyes first person. Is this the first…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Andrew Batty, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Jon Arnold about their choice of The Invisible Enemy 2/4
We’re off to space hospital to face terrorism and virus expansion…before being shrunk and injected inside the Doctor! What the hell is going on?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins about their choice of The Invisible Enemy 1/4
The intrepid foursome embark on a Great Space Adventure! Contact has been made and Iceland’s Prawn rings will never be the same again.
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Eaters of Wasps by Trevor Baxendale (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt, Dan Pinn & Gareth Bowley)
Bzzzzzz! It's one of Gareth and Dan's all time favourites but what will the book club think as they head to Marpling (geddit?) and face time travellers, bombs…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season 21 (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt, Paul Cresser & Steven B)
Join Joe, David, Paul & Steven as we face murderous reptiles, the menacing Malus, terrifying Tractators, deadly Daleks, cursed Kamelion & toxic Spectrox! But…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters (4/4)
Joe & Elliot; 'Til there's blood upon the sawdust...' The William Hartnell era love in concludes with more reasons to love the Gunfighters and the era than you…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters (3/4)
Joe & Elliot; 'People keep giving my guns and I do wish they wouldn't' We're in episode three territory now but it is timed bring in a fresh villain to keep…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Gunfighters by Donald Cotton (featuring Michael Mills & James Lark)
Join Joe, Michael & James as they go shootin' and whorin' and spittin' and fightin' in a wild west adventures recalled by the great Doc Holliday...
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters (2/4)
Joe & Elliot; 'How do we proceed...?' The Doctor is holding up a bar full of cowboys with a buxom babe, Dodo is kidnapped by Doc Holliday & Steven is about to…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters (1/4)
Joe & Elliot; 'How do I look?' 'God grief - absolutely absurd!' We're heading to Tombstone with a special mission - to celebrate the entire William Harntell…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Borrowed Time by Naomi Alderman (featuring Iain Martin)
So good I've released it twice...but with a brilliant Ken Moss clip at the start.
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Frida Kahlo & the Skull Children by Sophie McKenzie (featuring Michael Mills)
Joe & Michael head to Mexico and discuss Frida Kahlo, short stories, the Chris Chibnall era, AI, and celebrity historicals!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster Series 8b (featuring Jon Arnold, Luke Sims-Jenkins, Paul Quinn & Jason Thompson)
There is an even mix of love, hate and ambivalence from Luke, Jon, Paul & Jason and we discuss everything from hideous child actors to poetry, science…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Androids of Tara (4/4)
Joe & James; ‘Next time I shall not be so lenient!’ Our frolic through the fields of Tara reaches its climax with the swordfight to end all swordfights! Who…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Androids of Tara (3/4)
Joe & James; ‘The Counts just offered me the throne!’ Double crosses, doppelgängers and dilettante Doctors!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Mad Dogs & Englishmen Redux by Paul Magrs (featuring Nathan Bottomley)
Join Joe & Nathan as they discuss regulars, a sharp, witty attack on Tolkien, CS Lewis, George Lucas & Hollywood, bestiality, furries and the train for…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Androids of Tara (2/4)
Joe & James; ‘As beautiful as you and as deadly as the plague, if only she were real I’d marry her!’ More high jinks and sword-fightery as James and I continue…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Androids of Tara (1/4)
Joe & James; ‘Tally ho…Tahiti…Tara!’ Wonderful James Lark, teacher and Who fan extraordinaire, lends his opinion to episode one of this delightful four part…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Ghosts of N-Space by Barry Letts (featuring Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
Join Joe, Andrew, Jon & Luke as we tackle the worst Doctor Who book of all time as voted by readers of DWM. Gangsters, ghosts & catamites - oh my!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Touched by An Angel by Jonathan Morris (featuring Jason Thompson, James Lark & Ian Winterton)
Join Joe, Jason, James & Ian as one of the most popular NSAs is discussed...but how will it fare with three book clubbers who have never read one of the New…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season Fifteen (featuring Si Hart, Luke Molloy & Paul Quinn)
Join Joe, Si, Luke & Paul as we face big green blobs, excitable prawns, flacid and erect penises, rampant inflation and tax, CSO city and an evil Doctor! Who…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Grimm Reality by Simon Bucher-Jones & Kelly Hale (featuring Darren Brewer)
Come with Joe & Darren to the planet Albert where we explore the creepy and funny nature of fairy talesand endure a SF subplot bolted on at the same time!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Time of Your Life by Steve Lyons (featuring Dan Pinn, Gareth Bowley & David Gillespie-Pratt)
Join Joe, Dan, Gareth and David as we head to the depths of season 22 where the Doctor barely features, violence runs amok and nobody gets a happy ending...
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Si Hart about his choice of The Ark in Space (4/4)
Joe & Si; 'Life is returning to the Ark, and soon to the world...' Doctor Who offers one of its most optimistic readings on the future, as the Wirrn are…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Si Hart about his choice of The Ark in Space (3/4)
Joe & Si; 'Get our...your...people to the Earth before the Wirrn...' Noah is turning into something nasty, malevolent and scheming. And it looks like nobody…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Series Six (featuring Frazer Gregory, James Hadwyn-Bennett & Michael Storm)
Dare you come face to face with the Series Six Strictly Come Hamster? Join Joe & co-host Frazer with guests James & Michael as we face the Silence, Pirates…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Crooked World (Redux) by Steve Lyons featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Jon Arnold & Andrew Batty
Th-th-th-th-that's all folks! This quirky, contemplative classic gets a second airing with three gorgeous chaps that wanted to give it some consideration…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Year of Intelligent Tigers by Kate Orman (featuring Nathan Bottomley)
Join Joe & Nathan as they head to the planet Hitchemus for a lesson in love, music and morality where the Tigers want to learn to play instruments, the people…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Si Hart about his choice of The Ark in Space (2/4)
Joe & Si; 'You claim to be Med-Techs?' We continue our march through this classic with the introduction of some fascinating guest characters. Episode two…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Si Hart about his choice of The Ark in Space (1/4)
Joe & Si; 'What happened to the human race, Harry?' We undertake a commentary of this epic with a little help from the Hamster Community. Part one, atmosphere…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Amorality Tale by David Bishop (featuring Si Hart)
Join Joe & Si as we head to 1950s gangland London and experience the great smog that destroyed a community. Beautifully drawn characters is the focus of our…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Jack Coyer about his choice of Last Christmas
'Because every Christmas is Last Christmas...' How on Earth will the deliciously funny and an smart Jack Coyer make me admit that Clara Oswald should be the…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Christmas Special! Season 24 (featuring Mikey Smith, Robert Valentine and Toby Hadoke)
Join Joe, Mikey, Rob & Toby as they face terrifying Tetraps, officious Caretakers & clinical cleaning robots, genocidal guns for hire and frozen mercenaries!…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Time and the Rani by Pip and Jane Baker (featuring James Lark)
Join Joe & James as we brave the peaks and troughs and tumultuous buffeting of Pip and Jane Baker prose, perverse line readings, the abuse of punctuation and…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Dave Rennie, Lucy McCaul & Daniel Knight about their choice of The Enemy of the World (6/6)
Joe, Dave, Lucy & Daniel; 'We're going to put you outside, Salamander. No friends, no safety, nothing...' How does this epic James Bond tribute come to a…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Daniel Knight, Dave Rennie & Lucy McCaul about their choice of Enemy of the World (5/6)
Joe, Daniel, Dave & Lucy; 'Oh, I was. But I had a very enjoyable childhood...' We discuss the ambition of Salamander's plan, what a sleazebag Benik is and just…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Oh No It Isn't by Paul Cornell (featuring Michael Mills)
Once Upon a Time in the Land of Hamstonia, Mills and Ford set off on a bitchy discourse to study the merits (or otherwise) of the first of the Bernice…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster At the Movies Part Three (with Mark Rawlins)
Mark & Joe have been on the red carpet again! This time we cover everything from Star Wars to Chicago to The Talented Mr Ripley to Revenant!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season Nine (featuring Jo Short & Si Hart)
Join Joe, Rod, Jo & Si as we face time travelling Daleks, hermaphrodite Hexapods, sinking ships, ‘Mutt!’ and Ingrid Pitt’s astonishing talents! But who will be…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Daniel Knight, Lucy McCaul & Dave Rennie about their choice of The Enemy of the World (4/6)
Joe, Daniel, Lucy & Dave; 'Because I hate Salamander probably even more than you do...' An astonishingly brutal episode in some ways and a bizarre and…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Doctor Who in Wonderland by Paul Magrs (featuring Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
Once Upon a Time four excited Paul Magrs fans went on a magical adventure featuring men turning into animals, Jabberwocky, hideous sea creatures, tea parties…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Dave Rennie, Daniel Knight & Lucy McCaul about their choice of The Enemy of the World (3/6)
Joe, Dave, Daniel & Lucy; 'I'm going for a walk...it'll probably rain!' For a a long time the only slice of this story that existed, much to Barry Letts'…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - James Lark Top & Bottom Ten Books! (Plus a brilliant short story from James' podcast Neurotic Literature)
James faces his greatest challenge yet - to summarise his favourite and least favourite Doctor Who books in a brilliantly unique and gorgeous countdown. Plus…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Dr Who & the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks & The Dalek Generation (featuring Rod Brown, Gareth Bowley, Dan Pinn & David Gillespie-Pratt)
Prepare yourselves for five people to discuss three books - one they generally like, one they generally didn't and one...well press play.
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Borrowed Time by Naomi Alderman (featuring Iain Martin)
Two friends; different feelings about the Matt Smith era; the same consensus. A great book; full of wit, imagination, education and entertainment. This is how…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Daniel Knight, Lucy McCaul & Dave Rennie about their choice of The Enemy of the World (2/6)
Joe, Daniel, Lucy & Dave; 'A volcano is a strange thing, my friend' The Doctor is out of action but Troughton is still busy with his mad accent, the volcanoes…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Lucy McCaul, Daniel Knight & Dave Rennie about their choice of Enemy of the World (1/6)
Joe, Lucy, Daniel & Dave; 'It might cost you your life!' Double trouble as Patrick Troughton takes on the role of the villain and Barry Letts imagines he is…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season Four (featuring Mark Donaldson & Toby Hadoke)
Join Joe, Rod, Mark & Toby as we face devious Daleks, pesky Pirates, the maddest of mad scientists, shiny Cybermen, malicious Macra, misunderstood Chameleons…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Pirate Loop (featuring Daniel Rawnsley)
And here's our Daniel with a quick reminder that the NSAs can cover quantum physics, existentialism, class commentary, slavery commentary and a whole host of…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to the magnificent Jack Coyer about his enforced torture of Timelash (2/2)
Joe & Jack; 'I'll explain later...' Wil the intrepid pair survive mutation, bandelip warheads, prolonged padding and misjudged love affairs?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Jack Coyer about his enforced torture of Timelash (1/2)
Joe & Jack; 'Save your breath for the Timelash, Doctor. Most people depart with a scream...' How many unambiguous pleasures can we drag from the carcass of…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Shakedown by Terrance Dicks (featuring Michael Mills and Dylan Rees)
In this crossover event with Too Hot for TV, Joe, Michael and Dylan head to the Tiger Moth to join the motley crew headed by Lisa Derane, joining forces with…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Luke Molloy & Dylan Rees about their choice of The Keys of Marinus (6/6)
Joe, Luke & Dylan; 'I want them here when the final key is inserted and my power is absolute...' Will Dylan absolve Joe of murder charges and will Luke be…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Luke Molloy & Dylan Rees about their choice of The Keys of Marinus (5/6)
Joe, Luke & Dylan; 'I am that man!' The team are thrust straight into a murder mystery...and Joe is the chief suspect! Luckily Dylan is that man who can put…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Dylan Rees & Luke Molloy about their choice of The Keys of Marinus (4/6)
'All right, I'm in no hurry. There's no one coming to help you. I can wait...' Joe, Dylan & Luke get decidedly chilly as they face the evil molester and…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Luke Molloy & Dylan Rees about The Keys of Marinus (3/6)
Joe, Luke & Dylan; 'Look at these creepers!' The terrified trio enter a new deadly environment as arse grabbing statues, homicidal foliage and hunt the key…