Radio Free Skaro #1060 – Mad About Nothing

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It’s been a week since missing episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan revealed themselves to the public to great excitement and joy and indeed a Film of Fabulous! screening of said episodes on April 4 sold out near-instantly upon its announcement. We also have news of an ex-Google chief possibly taking the helm at the BBC, The War Between still being MIA from Disney+, the usual Big Finish over-examining, and our feature interview with The Long Game and Pull to Open author Paul Hayes, here to discuss the production of 1956 CBC production Flight Into Danger, starring one James Doohan and produced by future (at the time) Doctor Who producer Sydney Newman! CanCon, baby!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Film is Fabulous statement about the Doctor Who recovery
• Film is Fabulous short restoration clips
• Film is Fabulous Daleks’ Master Plan screening Apr 4, sold out
• Gallifrey One 2027 tickets on sale
• BBC Close To Hiring Ex-Google Chief Matt Brittin As Next Director General
• The War Between the Land and the Sea not on the Disney+ April schedule
• Paul Cornell’s Saucer Country comic optioned for TV series
• Big Finish: David Tennant returns as the Tenth Doctor, new 12-part series coming 2027
• Big Finish: The First Doctor Adventures: Beware the City of Illusions out now
• Big Finish: UNIT – Brave New World: Knightfall out now
• Blake’s 7 Series C available to preorder, release date TBD

Interview:

• Paul Hayes
• Flight Into Danger
• Doctor Who: Star Flight by Paul Hayes

Big Finish’s Doctor Who License Extended, Ensuring New Stories Until At Least 2035

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Radio Free Skaro #1054 – The Doctor Is Worth The Monsters

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It’s Gallifrey One time! While the Canadian contingent in Los Angeles this year was low (including both Warren and Chris, who like many Canadians chose not to frequent the environs of our troubled neighbours), Steven represented both the Embassy of Radio Free Skaro, and the nation of Canada (the latter unofficially). Erika from Verity! and Chip from 2MTL join Steven in recapping this weekend’s convention, including talks of panels, and going inside with the many main stage interviews that Steven performed.

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One

Radio Free Skaro #1053 – Shiny Happy People

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It’s that time of year again, the annual Gallifrey One preview show, and even though only one of our august number is braving the geopolitical winds of Canada-U.S. kerfuffles (Steven, if you’re keeping track) that won’t stop us from overanalyzing the schedule and pointing out all the highlights! Plus a surfeit of Big Finish releases, a destroyed Dalek dolly along with 1980s Tegan, some musical deep dives, and more! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One
• 2026 Doctor Who Yearbook
• Character Options Doctor Who Tegan Jovanka and Destroyed Dalek released
• Big Finish – Torchwood: Everyone’s Dead on Floor 3 out now
• Big Finish – Doctor Who – Short Trips Rarities: An Eighth Doctor Collection out now
• Big Finish – Doctor Who – The Eleventh Doctor Adventures: The First Question due Mar 2026
• Big Finish – The Worlds of Doctor Who – Zygon Century: Transformation due Apr 2026
• Tom Baker and John Leeson in upcoming audio drama Sir Sherlock: The Red Letter Day due Mar 2026
• Jess Jurkovic’s Tristram Cary video
• Twenty Thousand Hertz episode about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
• Blu-Ray Collection fan-made inserts

#ActionDollies #BBCRadiophonicWorkshop #BigFinish #BluRay #CharacterOptions #doctorWhoMagazine #GallifreyOne #JessJurkovic #JohnLeeson #Merchandise #TomBaker #TristramCary #TwentyThousandHertz

Radio Free Skaro #1052 – The Minnesota Fighting Saints

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It’s the return of STATS! as we ruminate over not just some frankly dismal Disney+ numbers for our beloved Doctor Who but a smattering of other genre offerings who stumbled or triumphed on the way to your eyeballs. Plus the Gallifrey One schedule is out, Blake’s 7 may be coming back, Rachel Talalay continues to win YouTube with a deep dive into Peter Capaldi’s “Be Kind” speech from “The Doctor Falls” in its various forms, and a.feature interview with Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White about their excellent podcast about archive UK telly, “Through the Square Window”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One schedule released
• Gallifrey One Kaffeeklatsch Sign-Ups, New Guests, Schedule Updates, New Receptions & Other Events and MORE!
• BBC Group and YouTube announce new strategic partnership
• ‘Blake’s 7’ Reboot In The Works From Peter Hoar, Jason Haigh-Ellery, and Matthew Bouch
• Disney+ Season 1 viewing figures leak
• Doctor Who Magazine Special 72 – the 2026 Yearbook
• Rachel Talalay: Unseen, Uncut Dailies & Edits: The Doctor Falls “Be Kind” Speech
• Aliens of London, The Satan Pit, and The Time of Angels novels and audio CDs coming March 26
• Alex Kingston on The Whoniverse Show
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The First Doctor Unbound: Return to Marinus out now
• Big Finish: The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard – Series One released
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Lethal Progress due June 2026

Interview:

• Through the Square Window
• Graham Kibble-White
• Samira Ahmed

#AlexKingston #AliensOfLondon #BBC #BigFinish #BlakeS7 #Disney #doctorWhoMagazine #GallifreyOne #GrahamKibbleWhite #RachelTalalay #SamiraAhmed #TheSatanPit #TheTimeOfAngels #TheWhoniverseShow #ThroughTheSquareWindow #YouTube

Radio Free Skaro #1051 – A Big Red Button

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Exciting Gallifrey One news this week as the one and only Freema Agyeman makes her long-awaited return to Los Angeles in February! Also, it would be remiss not to mention missives about the Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder exhibit in San Diego being extended, and CONsole Room in Minneapolis happening this coming weekend! Also Big Finish, the delightful Jodie Whittaker answering questions, but most importantly our final Miniscope on director Nick Hurran’s work on The Day of the Doctor!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Freema Agyeman Returns to Gallifrey One
• Paul Kasey and Charlie Condou announced for Gally
• CONsole Room: January 23-25 in MSP
• Worlds of Wonder’ exhibit to be extended until January 2027 at Comic-Con Museum
• Jodie Whittaker answers Big Finish listeners’ questions
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Ride or Die out now
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Violet Hour due March 2026
• Big Finish – UNIT: Brave New World: Knightfall due Mar 2026
• Derek Martin died age 92
• Marcus Gilbert died age 67

Miniscope:

• Nick Hurran, Part 3
• The Day of the Doctor

#BigFinish #CharlieCondou #CONSoleRoom #DerekMartin #FreemaAgyeman #GallifreyOne #JodieWhittaker #MarcusGilbert #Miniscope #NickHurran #Obituary #PaulKasey #TheDayOfTheDoctor #WorldsOfWonder

Radio Free Skaro #1050 – Harsh Language

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It’s another exciting week of the Doctor Who interregnum of 2026 and we have exciting Gallifrey One guest updates, another great Rachel Talalay video involving Mondasian Cybermen, Bill Potts, and mirrors, some cryptic BBC App news we don’t fully understand, the usual Big Finish artwork overexamination, and the second part of our Nick Hurran Miniscope, featuring “Asylum of the Daleks” and “The Angels Take Manhattan”! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ian McNeice, Kai Owen, Ricco Ross added to Gallifrey one guest list
• Go behind the scenes as Fourth Doctor Tom Baker receives his MBE
• Doctor Who Magazine 625
• BFI Warriors of the Deep screening Feb 28, tickets on sale Jan 15
• The War Between overall viewing figures
• BBC Studios expands pay model to the BBC App in the US
• Rachel Talalay: What to do when the plans don’t work? Bill Potts-Cyberman reveal
• Big Finish Audio Novellas The Time-Splitters and Dimension 13 released
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard: Series One coming January 22
• Gregory de Polney (D84 in Robots of Death) died Jan 1

Miniscope:

• Nick Hurran, Part 2
• Asylum of the Daleks
• The Angels Take Manhattan

#AsylumOfTheDaleks #BBC #BBCStudios #BFI #BigFinish #doctorWhoMagazine #GallifreyOne #GregoryDePolney #IanMcNiece #JanetFielding #KaiOwen #Miniscope #NickHurran #Obituary #PeterDavison #RachelTalalay #RiccoRoss #Stats #TheAngelsTakeManhattan #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #TomBaker #WarriorsOfTheDeep