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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

01:30:36

Talks to Paul Arthur about his choice of Kerblam!

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2025/10/16

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 episode...

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00:58:58

The (X) Hamster Files - The Jersey Devil (featuring...

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2025/10/14

What happens when Agent Coyer faces his first experience of The X-Files and comes up against Neanderthal woman?

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00:44:50

Talks to Lee, Andy & Cam about their choice of The...

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2025/10/12

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 positives about Subbuteo!

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00:32:00

Talks to Andy, Lee & Cam about their choice of The...

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2025/10/11

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...

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01:30:11

Hamster Book Club - The Eyeless by Lance Parkin...

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2025/10/10

A surprisingly bleak, dystopian world with huge things to say about war, weapons of mass destruction, genocide and scientific responsibility...aimed at children?

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00:39:37

Talks to Glenn Fitzgerald about his choice of The...

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2025/10/09

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 be to your life...

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00:26:57

Talks to Glenn Fitzgerald about his choice of The...

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2025/10/08

The story takes a massive diversion into domesticity and science fiction as the Doctor and Amelia attempt to reach Romana in Hyperspace...

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00:49:45

The (X) Hamster Files - Conduit (featuring Agent Iain...

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2025/10/08

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 disappearance of his sister...

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03:28:48

Strictly Come Hamster - Season 16 (featuring Nathan...

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2025/10/05

Segments, assignments from God, Pirate planets, blood sucking stones, swordplay, giant farting squids and nuclear war! Everything is to play for in this astonishing season of Doctor Who...

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01:09:43

Hamster Book Club - The Sleep of Reason by Martin Day...

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2025/10/04

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 doesn't ever want to read another Doctor Who book after this. Can Doctor Who tackle mental health sensitively in prose?

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01:31:06

Hamster Book Club - The Romans (Redux) by Donald...

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2025/10/02

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 to build a defence for The Romans!

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00:30:09

Talks to Andy, Lee & Cam about their choice of The...

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2025/10/01

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 of the episode...

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00:37:56

Talks to Lee, Cam & Andy about their choice of The...

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2025/09/28

What fresh madness occurs when this foursome finally reaches The Land of Fiction? What can Joe be taught about football? And will Lee wow us all with his his incredible reading?

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00:28:27

Talks to Glen Fitzgerald about his choice of The...

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2025/09/27

Sausage sandwiches clamped in our hands, we are facing off against globulin feeding Stones! I know that woman...

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00:37:23

Talks to the Lee, Cam & Andy about their choice of...

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2025/09/25

This was a delightful, slightly deranged, love in for this quirky, imaginative story. Expect gags, flirting, revealing information and trivia!

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00:41:50

Talks to Glenn Fitzgerald about his choice of The...

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2025/09/23

Joe meets gorgeous Glenn Fitzgerald in the countryside to have a flask of tea and a sausage sandwich and to chase about with sinister stones...

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01:19:13

Hamster Book Club - The Androids of Tara by David...

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2025/09/22

What has happened to our favourite lines? Fisher rewrites a rewrite and then rewrites Tom Baker's rewrite! But with charming prose, glorious backstory and some brilliant new jokes. A piece of sunshine.

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02:44:13

Strictly Come Hamster - 12th Doctor Finale (featuring...

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2025/09/20

Four huge Peter Capaldi fans assemble to celebrate and cajole the members of the Ham Fam that say nasty things about their favourite and we battle it out through the runners up and winners to find our favourite 12th Doctor story!

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01:21:04

Talks to Jack Coyer & Steven B about their choice of...

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2025/09/18

is this an atmospheric political statement of the time...or just a load of old tosh? Join Joe, Jack & Steven who investigate...

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00:42:22

Talks to Steven B & Jack Coyer about their choice of...

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2025/09/17

Devils in the church, ghosts in the crypt, demons from the far reaches of space…Joe, Steven and Jack investigate this atmospheric two parter…

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