Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast

Utah, 2012. The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) arrive in an underground bunker owned by American billionaire Henry van Statten (Corey Johnson), who uses his wealth to collect alien artefacts. Here, they encounter the bunker's only living exhibit: a Dalek, which breaks loose and attempts to exterminate everyone in the bunker. Remembered as a classic episode from Christopher Eccleston’s run as the titular Time Lord, and one of the strongest stories in the entire

The Slitheen have taken over 10 Downing Street, driving humanity closer towards World War III. With the help of Harriet Jones MP (Penelope Wilton), The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) put everything on the line to prevent the end of the world.Does the second part of this two-part Slitheen story stand up? Will Natalia be able to think of a good fart joke? And, most importantly, was Idris Elba the most naked cat in CATS (2019)? Find out the answers to these questions and

After their adventure with Charles Dickens in 1869, The Doctor and Rose return to present-day London, only to find an alien invasion afoot. Can they survive the Slitheen? And is Aliens of London a good episode?

The dead are rising as The Doctor and Rose land in Cardiff, and Charles Dickens is caught in the middle. Does Mark Gatiss’s first episode hold up?

After her encounter with the Nestene Consciousness, Rose is swept away on her first adventure. But is The End of the World good?

In March 2005, the sci-fi cult classic television series DOCTOR WHO returned to British screens. Does the first episode of the revived series, Rose, stand up?

Join us as we watch and rank every episode of DOCTOR WHO, hosted by a British superfan and an understandably confused Polish woman who doesn’t know a TARDIS from a Terileptil.