A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
By Joe Ford
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcastAug 22, 2022
Hamster Omnibus! Battlefield (featuring Mark Rawlins)
'And become his handmaidens...in hell!' Joe & Mark battle their way through camp and sorcery in this high octane, late classic adventure. Who will deliver the most quotes?
Talks to 2/3rds of The Polis Box about Lee's choice of The War Machines (4/4)
Talks to 2/3rds of The Polis Box about Lee's choice of The War Machines (3/4)
Joe, Lee & Cam; 'They look as if they're preparing an arsenal to blow up London.' Are War Machines cut price Daleks? Why precisely is WOTAN doing this and to what end? And why is Michael Ferguson one of the best directors Doctor Who ever scored?
Hamster Book Club - Goth Opera (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins & Andrew Swann)
Join Joe, Luke & Andrew as we face creatures of the night with a taste for blood, colons (ask Andrew) and universal domination. Is this the classic of repute? Extract by Ken Moss.
Talks to 2/3rds of The Polis Box about Lee's choice of The War Machines (2/4)
Joe, Cam & Lee; 'It was if something enormous and terrific was trying to absorb me!' We get onto the thorny subject of Dodo's departure, how Hartnell is still the man and just how important branding is for evil super computers. Cam explains what a heterosexual mouth is.
Talks to 2/3rds of The Polis Box about Lee's choice of The War Machines (1/4)
Hamster Extra - Freebie! Hamster at the Movies
Talks to the Dream Team Si Hart & Frazer Gregory about their choice of The Five Doctors
Strictly Come Hamster - Series Nine (featuring Pete Lambert & J.R. Southall
Hamster Book Club - Survival (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt)
Join Joe & David as we succumb to our animalistic instincts, risk a very boring return home and end up in a fight for our lives on the Planet of the Cheetah People! Reading by Ken Moss.
Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Underwater Menace (animated 4/4)
Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Underwater Menace (animated 3/4)
Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Underwater Menace (animated 2/4)
Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Underwater Menace (animated 1/4)
Hamster Book Club - Time & Relative (featuring Michael Mills)
Join Joe & Michael as they head out into the Cold to face the prejudices of the 1960s, try and convince that strange old man in the junkyard that humanity is worth saving and navigate teenage life in a strange land.
Talks to Dan Pinn about his choice of Paradise Towers (4/4)
Joe & Dan; 'You couldn't even design a simple doorknob!' How does this plot all come together - with all the factions joining forces to defeat the evil Kroagnon of course! We watch as this script completes its journey very neatly.
Talks to Dan Pinn about his choice of Paradise Towers (3/4)
Joe & Dan; 'I am Kroagnon, the Great Architect, and I will put an end to you and everyone in Paradise Towers!' The plot starts to coalesce beautifully, the Doctor is pulling all the threads together and Kroagnon reveals his hand.
Talks to Dan Pinn about his choice of Paradise Towers (2/4)
Joe & Dan; 'Build High for Happiness!' Episode two and we're seeing a Doctor form before our eyes, much discussion of Richard Briers as the Chief Caretaker and how do we feel about that dark fairytale cliffhanger?
Talks to the glorious Dan Pinn about his choice of Paradise Towers (1/4)
Joe & Dan; 'Well you never can tell...' It's the dawn of a bold new era. Out with the camp, in with the urban comic book thriller. Maybe quite a bit of camp still. But brilliant worldbuilding, dialogue and an awesome Doctor emerging.
Strictly Come Hamster - Season 26 (featuring Luke Molloy & Daniel Knight)
Hamster Book Club - Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks
Joe, Andrew & Luke take to the mean streets and gothic forests to tackle gangsters and vampires and ponder the question...can anyone else do it quite like Terrance Dicks?
Omnibus! Full Circle featuring the glorious Si Hart
This is the closest Hamster has come to being a warm hug - it's Si Hart & season eighteen! I visited his house and we sat on his sofa and squeed about his favourite era of the show for two hours. Enjoy :-)
Strictly Come Hamster - Series 7A (featuring Mark Donaldson & Dave Rennie)
Join Rod, Joe, Mark & Dave as we say goodbye to the Ponds (slowly) by taking in the sights of the Dalek Parliament, dinosaurs on a spaceship, a western morality play, the Slow Invasion & detective noir New York. Together, or not at all!
Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of The Myth Makers (4/4)
Joe & David; 'Yes, there is. There's us. We can start again' We reach the end of our journey with a bloody massacre and the biggest tonal shift in the shows history. How does the series cope with the sting in this story's tail?
Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of The Myth Makers (3/4)
Joe & David; 'I'm afraid you're a bit late to say 'whoa' to the horse' Laughter and high jinks all the way as the Doctor comes up with a way to get out of a sticky situation...by condemning all the people of Troy! What came first - myth or the idea?
Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of The Myth Makers (2/4)
Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of The Myth Makers (1/4)
Omnibus! Day of the Daleks featuring Gary Russell
Joe & Gary head to Auderley House for this omnibus Hamster edition and face things that go bump in the night. Or possibly guerrillas from the the future. And Daleks.
Strictly Come Hamster - Season 17 (featuring Mark Cockram & Dan Pinn)
Talks to Simon Moore about his choice of Terror of the Zygons (4/4)
Talks to Simon Moore about his choice of Terror of the Zygons (3/4)
Joe & Simon; 'God Lord...and we left Miss Smith at the castle!' We are beguiled by the atmosphere conjured up by Geoffrey Burgeon in this story, but also the delightful Sarah/Harry chemistry, and our brooding, hilarious lead.
Talks to Daniel Rawnsley about his choice of Rose
Hamster Book Club - The Eight Doctors (with Michael Mills)
Talks to Simon Moore about his choice of Terror of the Zygons (2/4)
Talks to the awesome Simon Moore about his choice of Terror of the Zygons (1/4)
Omnibus! The Talons of Weng Chiang (featuring Luke Molloy & Mark Rawlins)
It's time for another omnibus edition of Hamster as we tread the Victorian cobbles and face murderous puppets, join forces with impresarios and pathologists and give me your answer do!
Hamster Book Club - Warriors' Gate & Beyond
Join Joe, Luke & Andrew as we traverse E-Space and find ourselves dicing with slave traders and ex slavers in a fight for contracting space and no exits. Reading by Ken Moss.
Strictly Come Hamster - Season Six (featuring Gary Russell & Daniel Rawnsley)
Talks to Jason Thompson about his choice of The Sea Devils (6/6)
Talks to Jason Thompson about his choice of The Sea Devils (5/6)
Talks to Jason Thompson about his choice of The Sea Devils (4/6)
Talks to Jason Thompson about his choice of The Sea Devils (3/6)
Talks to Jason Thompson about his choice of The Sea Devils (2/6)
Talks to the glorious Jason Thompson (in person!) about his choice of The Sea Devils (1/6)
Hamster Book Club - The Gallifrey Chronicles
Talks to Dylan Rees & Luke Molloy about their choice of Hell Bent
Talks to Luke Molloy & Dylan Rees about their choice of Heaven Sent
Strictly Come Hamster - Series 2 (starring Si Hart & Mark Rawlins)
Talks to the delightful Jack Rees about his choice of Kill the Moon
Talks to James Lark about his choice of Delta & the Bannermen (3/3)
Joe & James; 'Here's to the Future...Love is the answer!' We're blissfully in love with this story at this point - where bees and rock and roll combine to bring down a genocidal war fleet. Let's have space buns and tea on Mars.