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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…
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- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek by Lawrence Miles (featuring Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
Join Joe, Andrew, Jon & Luke as the beefiest Doctor Who book comes to its conclusion. It's the longest, maddest, most ideas packed, shockingest Doctor Who book…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Patreon Update
Just a quick update on what's happening on Hamster Patreon. Come and join the fun!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Series Five (featuring Iain Martin & Gareth Bowley)
Join Rod, Joe, Iain and Gareth as we face Atraxi, Smilers, Fatleks, Angels, Vampires (fish?), Dream Lords, Silurians, Depression, a Pantheon of bad guys and…
- 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 (2/6)
Joe, Luke & Dylan; 'Nothing but filthy rags!' Are things too good to be true for the intrepid trio as they head into Morphoton City and offered all manner of…
- 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 (1/6)
Joe, Dylan & Luke; 'You will find the keys for me!' It's time for the intrepid trio to face the deadly dangers of Marinus! First up the vertiginous city of…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Gareth Bowley Top and Bottom Ten Books
Our wonderful Gareth dips into the Doctor Who literature archive to select his ten favourite and least favourite books.
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Mark of the Rani (2/2)
Joe & James; 'Your invention will take off like a rocket, Stevenson!' More japery, a Target reading you'll never forget, an obsession with Gary Cady's career…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of The Mark of the Rani (1/2)
Joe & James; 'Finito TARDIS! How's that for style!' You may think we might be gunning for Colin and Pip'n'Jane and the season...but you'd be wrong. We discuss…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Downtime
Join Joe and newcomer Matt Barber as they head to the Det-Sen Monastery and a whole new prospectus in technology based learning. Will Victoria get a happy…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - David Gillespie-Pratt Top and Bottom Ten Books
Our magnificent David has studied the Ancient Texts and come to some terrifying and shocking Truths about the best and worst of Doctor Who fiction...
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Series 8A (featuring Ken Moss & Mark McManus)
Join Rod, Joe, Ken & Mark as we face half faced men, a T-Rex in London, a good Dalek (?), an evil Sheriff, an undefined horror, a brain sucking beast and…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Halloween Special! 73 Yards featuring Michael Mills
'The charm was very clear. Binding his soul to rest in peace. Semper distans. To keep him away. But now, you've broken it...' Michael takes Joe on a whirlwind…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Rod Brown's Top and Bottom Ten Doctor Who Books
I promised I would say 'what an excellent choice!' a lot but this wonderful, barking, personal, controversial and hilarious top and bottom ten dragged all…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Si Hart & Frazer Gregory about their choice of The Mysterious Planet (4/4)
Of course you want to spend one more episode of in the company of Joe, Si & Frazer, Colin, Nicola, Lynda, Michael, Joan, Roger, Adam, Tony and Glen! It's the…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
What's happening in Hamster Patreon?
A very small episode telling you all about the Hamster Patreon page and what is happening there. Come and join the fun!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Frazer Gregory & Si Hart about their choice of The Mysterious Planet (3/4)
Joe, Frazer & Si; 'My head hurts abominably, Sarah-Jane!' Mystery within mystery! What has been bleeped from the evidence? And what has been bleeped from this…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Si Hart & Frazer Gregory about their choice of The Mysterious Planet (2/4)
Joe, Si & Frazer; 'I really think this could be the end!' At the heart of this story is a shrewd character who is constantly outwitting everybody else…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Interference Book One by Lawrence Miles (featuring Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
Doctor Who is interrogated, huge ideas blossom and burst, Sarah re-imagined, Sam on form, Fitz is lost and the Doctor has his dignity shafted twice over. Plus…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Frazer Gregory & Si Hart about their choice of The Mysterious Planet (1/4)
Joe, Frazer & Si; 'Nothing can be eternal...' New titles, new format, new Doctor & Peri, peppy dialogue, a lighter touch and a host of great actors. The…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season Thirteen (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt & Dan Pinn)
Join Rod, Joe, David & Dan as we face blobby foetuses, antimatter creatures, android duplicates, Gods from the Dawn of Time, Mr Butchers Leftovers & Homicidal…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Managra by Stephen Marley (featuring Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
Two lovers, one huge liker and one what the hell is this book...a diversity of opinions on this eccentric, imaginative and flowery novel! Also, we rank our…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Dan Pinn Top and Bottom Ten Books
Not only the gorgeous story of how Dan came to read Doctor Who books but a triumphant and surprising top and bottom ten list, and he ranks the ranges too.
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Jack Coyer & Steven B about their choice of The Time Monster (6/6)
Joe, Jack & Steven; 'And where, for heaven's sake, is Sergeant Benton!' 'The baby! We forgot the baby!' It's the culmination of six episodes of japes, time…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Steven B & Jack Coyer about The Time Monster (5/6)
Joe, Steven & Jack: 'Your pardon. I took you for another. I knew Galleia once, you see. The woman, not the queen.' We're in Open University Shakespeare…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch (featuring Jason Thompson, James Lark & Ian Winterton)
Join Joe, Jason, James & Ian as we read and critique the very first New Adventure - and it's a Target novel! Brilliant character insight, dynamic Dalek POVs…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Steven B & Jack Coyer about The Time Monster (4/6)
Joe, Steven & Jack; 'English! But backwards!' Is this the most pointless 25 minutes of Doctor Who ever or a chance for three of the best regulars to strut…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Jack Coyer & Steven B about their choice of The Time Monster (3/6)
Joe, Jack & Steven; 'KRONOS!' How many episodes can this story spend running on the spot but still entertaining us to an absurd degree? Is this Sergeant…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Si Hart Top and Bottom Ten Books
Asked to rank his top and bottom ten Doctor Who books, Si Hart faces his greatest challenge yet on Hamster. How many times will his choices shock me?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season 3A (featuring Tim Burrows & Frazer Gregory)
Join Rod, Joe, Tim & Frazer as we enter a turbulent period of the shows early history but a fruitful creative patch. We face Rills, Daleks, Greeks, more…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Steven B & Jack Coyer about their choice of The Time Monster (2/6)
Joe. Steven & Jack; 'Fur and all!' Time for episode one! Or is it episode minus one? What's that? It's masquerading as episode two? But what about when episode…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Jack Coyer & Steven B about their choice of The Time Monster (1/6)
Joe, Jack & Steven; 'Come, Kronos! Come!' What madness is this when two of the smartest men in podcasting come together to extol the virtues of this bit of old…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Anachrophobia by Jonathan Morris (featuring Agent Mills)
Join us we take you on a tour of creepy time travel experiments, life stealing clock faced men and a chance to turn back time. Also we answer the question how…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to James Lark about his choice of Eve of the Daleks
Time loops! Romance! Daleks! Fireworks! Death, death and more death! It's New Years Eve and we're in computer game territory as we have the best time dodging…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Steven B ranks his top and bottom ten Doctor Who Books!
The gorgeous Steven B takes us on the whirlwind tour of the highs and lows of Doctor Who books, with an additional top ten Target list too! A thoughtful, funny…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Series Three (featuring Paul Quinn & Dylan Rees)
Join us as we battle Judoon, Macra, Lazarus, the Family of Blood, the Weeping Angels, the Master and a host of controversial opinions as Rod, Joe, Paul & Dylan…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Liberation of the Daleks (featuring Michael Mills)
Joe & Michael enter the Dalek Dome and face the deadly human race at their exploitative, torturous worst! The newly regenerated Doctor comes under the…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Ruby Red (featuring Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
Tying in with the latest season of Doctor Who, what does the BBC have to offer for its young adult market? Join me, Andrew, Jon & Luke to find out. Also we…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Omnibus! The Caves of Androzani (featuring Mark Dodyk)
It's time for another omnibus edition of Hamster and this time with an absolute classic. Mark and I extol its many virtues and explain why this probably…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Jon Arnold Ranks his Top and Bottom Ten Doctor Who Books
Erudite, funny and charming book clubber Jon Arnold assembles his favourite and least favourite Doctor Who books. He also tackles his ranking of the ranges.
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season 23 (featuring Matt Michael and Daniel Rawnsley)
Repositioned planets, perishing Peris, petrifying plants and power man conspirators! What will Rod, Joe, Matt & Daniel make of Trial of a Time Lord? And who…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Beast of Fang Rock by Andy Frankham-Allen (featuring Michael Mills)
It had to happen. We had to reach a book we really disliked. But Michael & I explain what didn't work for us here and how the premise of the Lethbridge-Stewart…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Ten Little Aliens by Stephen Cole (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins & Andrew Batty)
The book club reaches the end of the first Doctor's life with a mash up of Aliens and Agatha Christie, choose your own adventure and magazine! What will we…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Omnibus!
It's the first meeting with one my favourite podcasters and now my good friend, the magnificent Dylan Rees. And we have six episodes of Daleks, romance…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Film Club - Deep Blue Sea
There is a new Patreons Only Film Club in town and after watching the film together we will be discussing the movie. This week - Deep Blue Sea! How thin is the…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Series 7b (featuring Mark Dodyk & Cameron from The Polis Box)
Be warned! We face corrupt Wi-fi, evil Sun Gods, Ice Warriors, monsters in love, corrupt junkers, mad Dame Diana, Cybermen and a cadaverous Richard E Grant!…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Dylan Rees & Mark Rawlins about their choice of Wartime (and other spin off media)
'My name is Jooooohhhnnnnn!' Joe, Dylan & Mark; heading to the woods for a spooky short. Has John Levene aged into the role? Is this how you make a cheap…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Omnibus! Dr Who & the Silurians (featuring Toby Hadoke)
Who else but the masterful, anecdote driven and fact happy Toby Hadoke could captivate you for almost five hours about this superb story. I hope you're as…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Goth Opera Audio (with Finish Big!)
Join Joe, Luke & Andrew along with Mark Rawlins from Finish Big to discuss the latest Audio Adaptation from Big Finish. How does it compare to the book?
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season 14 (starring Lee McMenemy & Lucy McCaul)
Join Rod, Joe, Lee & Lucy as we dance our way through Mandragora, Kastrians, disgraced former supervillains, psychologically unstable computers, deadly robots…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Luke Sims-Jenkins Top & Bottom Ten
With the whole body of Doctor Who literature to choose from - what will Luke's top and bottom ten stories be? Shocks and surprises in store!
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Frazer Gregory about his choice of The Happiness Patrol (3/3)
Joe & Frazer; 'It's not me you're running away from, is it?' We reach the conclusion of this amazing story, and Frazer has one last to chance to convince…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Frazer Gregory about The Happiness Patrol (2/3)
Joe & Frazer; 'I can do you an Ace Sigma on the miracle survival act...' Things are rolling, the Doctor is making political moves, Helen A is getting desperate…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Frazer Gregory about his choice of The Happiness Patrol (1/3)
Joe & Frazer; 'I want to make them very very unhappy!' It's time to talk about Frazer's favourite Doctor Who story of all time? Will Frazer's persuasive…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Series 11 (featuring Geoff Cockwill & Ian Winterton)
Join Joe, Rod, Geoff & Ian for madness, laughter and chaos as we dance around Jodie Whittaker's first season facing Space Racists, the Pting, the Morax and…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club Top Tens! (featuring Andrew Batty)
Enter the unexpected and fantastic world of Andrew Batty, a prolific Hamster book clubber and all round wonderful chap, and discover his top and bottom ten…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - War of the Daleks by John Peel (featuring Ken Moss)
Join Joe & Ken as we take a waltz through every scintilla of Dalek continuity and even do some retconning along the way! It's time to face the War of the…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - The Stranger by Portia Da Costa (featuring Jon Arnold)
Join Joe & Jon as we explore the moist and distinctly perky world of Doctor Who erotica. This episode contains much talk of a sexual nature. If you press play…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Hamster Book Club - Imaginary Friends by Jacqueline Rayner (featuring Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
Join Joe, Andrew and Luke as we head back to the 1960s where it all began to read a short but powerful novella about how the Doctor touched the lives of one…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Strictly Come Hamster - Season 19 (featuring Nathan Bottomley & Robert Shearman)
Join Rod, Joe, Nathan & Rob as they head to Castrovalva, Doomsday, Deva Loka, the Manor, another Manor, the Freighter and prehistoric Earth! Which story will…
- A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Talks to Si Hart about his choice of Time and the Rani (2/4) LIVE
Joe & Si; 'You know, don't you?' The most pantomimic episode of Doctor Who ever? Is that a problem...or just deliriously funny? Joe & Si don't have one spark…