Sports, gambling, movie reviews and a little bit of comedy with The Blunt Doctor.
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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 persona ...
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Hamster Book Club - Time of Your Life by Steve Lyons (featuring Dan Pinn, Gareth Bowley & David Gillespie-Pratt)
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Join Joe, Dan, Gareth and David as we head to the depths of season 22 where the Doctor barely features, violence runs amok and nobody gets a happy ending...
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Do you like the NBA cup? Who's the best receiver in the game? Can the Chiefs get 3 in a row? Let's dive into it! Support The Blunt Doctor Show by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-blunt-doctor-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
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Joe & Si; 'Life is returning to the Ark, and soon to the world...' Doctor Who offers one of its most optimistic readings on the future, as the Wirrn are defeated by the last vestiges of humanity. Part four - Rebirth.
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Joe & Si; 'Get our...your...people to the Earth before the Wirrn...' Noah is turning into something nasty, malevolent and scheming. And it looks like nobody will survive. Part three - transformation.
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Strictly Come Hamster - Series Six (featuring Frazer Gregory, James Hadwyn-Bennett & Michael Storm)
4:55:58
Dare you come face to face with the Series Six Strictly Come Hamster? Join Joe & co-host Frazer with guests James & Michael as we face the Silence, Pirates, House, Gangers, the Kovarian Chapter, Hitler, Night Terrors, Older Amy, Nimon knockoffs and our greatest fears!
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Hamster Book Club - The Crooked World (Redux) by Steve Lyons featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Jon Arnold & Andrew Batty
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Th-th-th-th-that's all folks! This quirky, contemplative classic gets a second airing with three gorgeous chaps that wanted to give it some consideration. Plus, our top three Black Sheep covers.
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Hamster Book Club - The Year of Intelligent Tigers by Kate Orman (featuring Nathan Bottomley)
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Join Joe & Nathan as they head to the planet Hitchemus for a lesson in love, music and morality where the Tigers want to learn to play instruments, the people want revenge and planet wants everyone to talk...
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Joe & Si; 'You claim to be Med-Techs?' We continue our march through this classic with the introduction of some fascinating guest characters. Episode two; fleshing out the Ark.
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Joe & Si; 'What happened to the human race, Harry?' We undertake a commentary of this epic with a little help from the Hamster Community. Part one, atmosphere and suspense.
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Join Joe & Si as we head to 1950s gangland London and experience the great smog that destroyed a community. Beautifully drawn characters is the focus of our conversation. A very poignant book.
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'Because every Christmas is Last Christmas...' How on Earth will the deliciously funny and an smart Jack Coyer make me admit that Clara Oswald should be the showrunner of Doctor Who?
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Strictly Come Hamster - Christmas Special! Season 24 (featuring Mikey Smith, Robert Valentine and Toby Hadoke)
3:29:19
Join Joe, Mikey, Rob & Toby as they face terrifying Tetraps, officious Caretakers & clinical cleaning robots, genocidal guns for hire and frozen mercenaries! But which story will win the day in this Strictly Christmas Special?
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Join Joe & James as we brave the peaks and troughs and tumultuous buffeting of Pip and Jane Baker prose, perverse line readings, the abuse of punctuation and discover the the line between classics and tripe is very thin indeed.
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Talks to Dave Rennie, Lucy McCaul & Daniel Knight about their choice of The Enemy of the World (6/6)
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Joe, Dave, Lucy & Daniel; 'We're going to put you outside, Salamander. No friends, no safety, nothing...' How does this epic James Bond tribute come to a climax? With double crosses, mistaken identity, stolen identity, murder and a bally big explosion!
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Talks to Daniel Knight, Dave Rennie & Lucy McCaul about their choice of Enemy of the World (5/6)
30:23
Joe, Daniel, Dave & Lucy; 'Oh, I was. But I had a very enjoyable childhood...' We discuss the ambition of Salamander's plan, what a sleazebag Benik is and just what is the Harem of Troughton?
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Once Upon a Time in the Land of Hamstonia, Mills and Ford set off on a bitchy discourse to study the merits (or otherwise) of the first of the Bernice Summerfield New Adventures...
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Mark & Joe have been on the red carpet again! This time we cover everything from Star Wars to Chicago to The Talented Mr Ripley to Revenant!
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Join Joe, Rod, Jo & Si as we face time travelling Daleks, hermaphrodite Hexapods, sinking ships, ‘Mutt!’ and Ingrid Pitt’s astonishing talents! But who will be victorious?
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I am BACK, baby. It is time to dive in and go over everything that's important now that I am back: Belichick to UNC, The hottest Wemby take ever, and more - and you know who had to join me. Let's fucking do this. Support The Blunt Doctor Show by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-blunt-doctor-show This podcast is power…
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Talks to Daniel Knight, Lucy McCaul & Dave Rennie about their choice of The Enemy of the World (4/6)
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Joe, Daniel, Lucy & Dave; 'Because I hate Salamander probably even more than you do...' An astonishingly brutal episode in some ways and a bizarre and unpredictable in others. The team is back together to extol its virtues!
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Hamster Book Club - Doctor Who in Wonderland by Paul Magrs (featuring Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
1:44:53
Once Upon a Time four excited Paul Magrs fans went on a magical adventure featuring men turning into animals, Jabberwocky, hideous sea creatures, tea parties, beheading and midnight book shops...
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Talks to Dave Rennie, Daniel Knight & Lucy McCaul about their choice of The Enemy of the World (3/6)
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Joe, Dave, Daniel & Lucy; 'I'm going for a walk...it'll probably rain!' For a a long time the only slice of this story that existed, much to Barry Letts' shame. Turns out it is a bit of a comic gem...
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Hamster Book Club - James Lark Top & Bottom Ten Books! (Plus a brilliant short story from James' podcast Neurotic Literature)
2:50:36
James faces his greatest challenge yet - to summarise his favourite and least favourite Doctor Who books in a brilliantly unique and gorgeous countdown. Plus stick around at the end to see what a awesomely creative man James is himself.
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Hamster Book Club - Dr Who & the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks & The Dalek Generation (featuring Rod Brown, Gareth Bowley, Dan Pinn & David Gillespie-Pratt)
2:07:38
Prepare yourselves for five people to discuss three books - one they generally like, one they generally didn't and one...well press play.
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Two friends; different feelings about the Matt Smith era; the same consensus. A great book; full of wit, imagination, education and entertainment. This is how you do it.
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Talks to Daniel Knight, Lucy McCaul & Dave Rennie about their choice of The Enemy of the World (2/6)
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Joe, Daniel, Lucy & Dave; 'A volcano is a strange thing, my friend' The Doctor is out of action but Troughton is still busy with his mad accent, the volcanoes might not be as natural as we thought and Jamie and Victoria play spy.
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Talks to Lucy McCaul, Daniel Knight & Dave Rennie about their choice of Enemy of the World (1/6)
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Joe, Lucy, Daniel & Dave; 'It might cost you your life!' Double trouble as Patrick Troughton takes on the role of the villain and Barry Letts imagines he is directing a Bond movie for one week.
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Join Joe, Rod, Mark & Toby as we face devious Daleks, pesky Pirates, the maddest of mad scientists, shiny Cybermen, malicious Macra, misunderstood Chameleons and those dastardly Daleks again!
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And here's our Daniel with a quick reminder that the NSAs can cover quantum physics, existentialism, class commentary, slavery commentary and a whole host of creative funky ideas...plus the death of a regular!
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Joe & Jack; 'I'll explain later...' Wil the intrepid pair survive mutation, bandelip warheads, prolonged padding and misjudged love affairs?
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Joe & Jack; 'Save your breath for the Timelash, Doctor. Most people depart with a scream...' How many unambiguous pleasures can we drag from the carcass of Doctor Who in this superlatively terrible (and yet wonderful) story?
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In this crossover event with Too Hot for TV, Joe, Michael and Dylan head to the Tiger Moth to join the motley crew headed by Lisa Derane, joining forces with the Doctor, Benny, Chris & Roz, to face the Sontarans and Rutans! Busy day!
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Joe, Luke & Dylan; 'I want them here when the final key is inserted and my power is absolute...' Will Dylan absolve Joe of murder charges and will Luke be killed at the other end of a call? Will we have time to chip back to Arbitan and get the Conscience rocking?
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Joe, Luke & Dylan; 'I am that man!' The team are thrust straight into a murder mystery...and Joe is the chief suspect! Luckily Dylan is that man who can put together a rock solid alibi and Luke Molloy is obsessed with the murder weapon and the secrets that lie within...
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'All right, I'm in no hurry. There's no one coming to help you. I can wait...' Joe, Dylan & Luke get decidedly chilly as they face the evil molester and monster Vasor and Ice Guards as they traverse the Snows of Terror...
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Joe, Luke & Dylan; 'Look at these creepers!' The terrified trio enter a new deadly environment as arse grabbing statues, homicidal foliage and hunt the key scientific formulae threaten to take them down!
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Hamster Book Club - Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek by Lawrence Miles (featuring Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
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Join Joe, Andrew, Jon & Luke as the beefiest Doctor Who book comes to its conclusion. It's the longest, maddest, most ideas packed, shockingest Doctor Who book of all time. But how does it all end? Do the plots reach a satisfying conclusion?
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Just a quick update on what's happening on Hamster Patreon. Come and join the fun!
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Join Rod, Joe, Iain and Gareth as we face Atraxi, Smilers, Fatleks, Angels, Vampires (fish?), Dream Lords, Silurians, Depression, a Pantheon of bad guys and the sexual prowess Amy Pond!
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Joe, Luke & Dylan; 'Nothing but filthy rags!' Are things too good to be true for the intrepid trio as they head into Morphoton City and offered all manner of splendid food, BBV videos and BBC Books?
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Joe, Dylan & Luke; 'You will find the keys for me!' It's time for the intrepid trio to face the deadly dangers of Marinus! First up the vertiginous city of Arbitan with deadly traps, vicious Voord and epic assignments!
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Our wonderful Gareth dips into the Doctor Who literature archive to select his ten favourite and least favourite books.
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Joe & James; 'Your invention will take off like a rocket, Stevenson!' More japery, a Target reading you'll never forget, an obsession with Gary Cady's career and some pondering of where the plot has gone.
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Joe & James; 'Finito TARDIS! How's that for style!' You may think we might be gunning for Colin and Pip'n'Jane and the season...but you'd be wrong. We discuss why this is something of a minor classic.
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Join Joe and newcomer Matt Barber as they head to the Det-Sen Monastery and a whole new prospectus in technology based learning. Will Victoria get a happy ending?
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Our magnificent David has studied the Ancient Texts and come to some terrifying and shocking Truths about the best and worst of Doctor Who fiction...
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Join Rod, Joe, Ken & Mark as we face half faced men, a T-Rex in London, a good Dalek (?), an evil Sheriff, an undefined horror, a brain sucking beast and school dinners! But who will be victorious?
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'The charm was very clear. Binding his soul to rest in peace. Semper distans. To keep him away. But now, you've broken it...' Michael takes Joe on a whirlwind tour of Welsh history and folk horror, whilst discussing one of the creepiest and most adult Doctor Who episodes in some time.
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I promised I would say 'what an excellent choice!' a lot but this wonderful, barking, personal, controversial and hilarious top and bottom ten dragged all manner of reactions out of me!
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Of course you want to spend one more episode of in the company of Joe, Si & Frazer, Colin, Nicola, Lynda, Michael, Joan, Roger, Adam, Tony and Glen! It's the best time you could possibly spend!
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