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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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All Episodes

00:55:19

Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Stranger...

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2025/03/16

A huge Nicholas Briggs love in for a great script and brilliant guest turn. Easily our favourite of the Strangers - a creepy, beguiling SF mystery with a superb chance for Colin and Nicola to show what they can do.

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01:06:13

Hamster Book Club - Mutually Assured Destruction by...

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2025/03/14

In a double bill with Too Hot for TV - it's Quarkmania! Joe, Dylan and Frazer embark on a Quark (and Dominator) filled spy thriller from the Lethbridge-Stewart range...

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00:50:16

Talks to Dylan Rees about The Stranger - More Than a...

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2025/03/14

Sophie Aldred as a sexy alien planet! Naked with Colin Baker! Nigel Fairs as a bereaved gay lover! Peter Miles & Barbara Shelley! And possibly Wookey Hole! Bring it on!

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00:43:29

Talks to Dylan Rees about The Stranger - Summoned By...

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2025/03/13

Starring Colin Baker & Nicola Bryant as the Doctor & Peri...sorry the Stranger and Miss Brown! Joe & Dylan begin their great voyage to listen to a explore all six Stranger stories - starting with hermitage and Michael Wisher!

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02:38:10

Strictly Come Hamster - 11th Doctor Special...

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2025/03/09

Bring forth the five biggest 11th Doctor fans - Frazer, Si, Mark, Luke & Jackson! This is the big one! Series five, six and seven discussed, Matt Smith examined, and the best story of the era decided! What surprises are in store?

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01:12:16

Hamster Book Club - Love & War by Paul Cornell...

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2025/03/07

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 remembered....Joe takes a little more convincing...

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00:33:56

Talks to Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins...

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2025/03/05

'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 12 reasons to love this story?

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03:06:09

Strictly Come Hamster - Season Five (featuring Dylan...

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2025/03/02

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 modern eye...

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00:30:15

Talks to Jon Arnold, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Andrew Batty...

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2025/02/28

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 the hairy bouncy balls of the Doctor's phagocytes!

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01:41:24

Hamster Book Club - Eye of Heaven by Jim Mortimore...

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2025/02/26

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 great PDA?

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00:28:13

Talks to Andrew Batty, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Jon Arnold...

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2025/02/22

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?

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00:32:42

Talks to Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins...

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2025/02/20

The intrepid foursome embark on a Great Space Adventure! Contact has been made and Iceland’s Prawn rings will never be the same again.

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01:41:34

Hamster Book Club - Eaters of Wasps by Trevor...

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2025/02/18

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 and mutant evil wasps?

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03:56:12

Strictly Come Hamster - Season 21 (featuring David...

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2025/02/16

Join Joe, David, Paul & Steven as we face murderous reptiles, the menacing Malus, terrifying Tractators, deadly Daleks, cursed Kamelion & toxic Spectrox! But who will suceed?

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00:41:43

Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters...

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2025/02/14

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 can shoot a Buntline at...

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00:37:53

Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters...

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2025/02/12

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 things interesting. Enter Johnny Ringo.

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01:44:49

Hamster Book Club - The Gunfighters by Donald Cotton...

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2025/02/08

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...

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00:34:32

Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters...

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2025/02/07

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 be lynched!

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00:42:06

Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters...

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2025/02/05

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 era via one of the best stories. Yeeeee-haaaaah!

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01:44:26

Hamster Book Club - Borrowed Time by Naomi Alderman...

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2025/02/04

So good I've released it twice...but with a brilliant Ken Moss clip at the start.

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