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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

01:09:43

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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01:59:54

Hamster Book Club - Face of the Enemy by David A....

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2025/09/16

Where the book club learns to be REAL MEN! A McIntee love-in as we tackle one of his most celebrated and fun books; a ballsy, continuity filled, characterful piece with the best depiction of the Master in print. Badda-Badda-Badda!

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00:37:49

Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the...

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2025/09/14

Joe and Paul are heading for the biggest bang in history! My skystriker!

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00:31:03

Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the...

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2025/09/13

We're down in the caves, bullets are firing, the Cybermen are massacring the Vogans, Sarah is trying to get back to the Beacon, the Doctor is bomb-loaded and Harry Sullivan is very possibly an imbecile! It's all going on!

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01:01:04

The (X) Hamster Files - Squeeze (featuring Agent Morris)

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2025/09/12

Responsible for my every nightmare for about a decade - Eugene Victor Tooms! The baby faced, liver eating, body contorting mutant!

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00:30:44

Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the...

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2025/09/12

Sarah is infected, trapped with Harry on the planet of gold and the Doctor is sniffing out a traitor with a Cybermat. All the while the Cybermen loom ever closer...

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00:46:05

Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the...

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2025/09/11

Paul starts his Hamster journey in style as he heads straight for one of the most kicked Tom Baker worries to champion. Hoover attachments at the ready!

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01:10:01

Hamster Book Club - The Book of the Still by Paul...

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2025/09/08

On the Timelash’s Mark Donaldson & I discuss Bollywood, big concepts, romance and an idiosyncratic prose style! Boom Shakalaka!

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03:08:55

Strictly Come Hamster - Season Eight (featuring Toby...

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2025/09/07

The Master! Autons! The Master! The Keller Machine! The Master! Axos! The Master! IMC! The Master! Azal! And of course the most important thing of the season - the Master! Also, the true villain of the piece - the Doctor!

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00:53:17

The (X) Hamster Files - Deep Throat (featuring Agent...

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2025/09/06

The second episode of The X-Files comes under examination by the second contributor to this new paranormal Hamster thread...

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