Radio Free Skaro #1056 – We’ll Always Have The Sandbaggers

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It’s a banner day for Wilderness Years junior campers as the 35mm prints of the TV Movie have been lovingly scanned and become a 4K release on Blu-Ray, at least in the UK (for now). Plus there’s a new documentary on The War Between on Youtube for North Americans pining to see…well, anything about them there Homo Aquas, a new Rachel Talalay video revealing “The Star Beast” directorial trickery, and most excitingly, an interview with journalist Paul Kirkley about the current state of the UK industry. Hint…it ain’t great! Set your VCR to channel 3 to find out more!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who: The Movie has been newly restored for 4K and Blu-ray
• Doctor Who: The Movie 4K trailer
• The War Between the Land and The Sea – Deep Dive
• The War Between not airing in March 2026 on Disney+
• How I Filmed This – Rachel Talalay: The Star Beast: The Cardboard Box Problem
• Big Finish: From the Worlds of Doctor Who – Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks due Apr-Jun 2026
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – Time War Uncharted: Branches due May 2026
• Big Finish: Star Cops – Conflict: Shadow of the Moonlight released
• World of Telly – Season 2 Trailer

Interview:

• Paul Kirkley
• We’re seeing the future of British TV – and it’s American
• Deadline: British TV Dramatists Lament “Austerity” Era As They Navigate Funding Crisis With No Easy Solutions
• The New Statesman: Netflix is not going to destroy traditional broadcasting – because not everyone wants to watch US TV

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 #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

Radio Free Skaro #1049 – Nothing At All. Ever.

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It’s the first podcast in this, the space year 2026, and the Three Who Rule have emerged from their New Year’s slumber to cogitate on new Gallifrey One announcements, recreated sets for The Feast of Steven and Rachel Talalay Youtube videos, a surfeit of Big Finish news, Toby Hadoke’s annual foray into memoriam with Absent Friends, and the first of our three part Miniscope series on Doctor Who director Nick Hurran, featuring “The Girl Who Waited” and “The God Complex”! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One Guest and Programming Update
• The Feast of Steven Lost Sets Recreated: Doctor Who’s Missing Christmas Episode Revealed
• Rachel Talalay: Bonus: Unaired footage from Director’s Cut of Heaven Sent (with explanation)
• Rachel Talalay: More questions and behind the scenes on my TARDIS experiences.
• Sophie Aldred on Celebrity Mastermind (Specialist Subject: Sylvester McCoy)
• Celebrating 25 Years of Bernice Summerfield at Big Finish
• Big Finish annual Paul Spragg Memorial winner “The Wednesday that Wasn’t” available free
• Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Zygon Century: Transformation due Apr 2026
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends 2025 – The 7th Dimension – Part 1
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends 2025 – The 7th Dimension – Part 2
• Toby Hadoke’s In Memoriam video

Miniscope:

• Nick Hurran, Part 1
• The Girl Who Waited
• The God Complex

#BBC #BerniceSummerfield #BigFinish #GallifreyOne #JodyHouser #Mastermind #MatthewJacobs #Miniscope #NickHurran #Obituary #PhilipSegal #RachelTalalay #SophieAldred #TheDaleksMasterPlan #TheFeastOfSteven #TheGirlWhoWaited #TheGodComplex #TobyHadoke

Radio Free Skaro #1047 – Turf and Surf, The Third

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(Our review of The War Between The Land and The Sea episode 5 is from 4:28 – 1:00:35)

It’s the final episode of The War Between The Land and the Sea and with it our final review of this clash between Dirt and Wet for the future of…Doctor Who? Thrill to our musings along with David Tennant appearing on the Whoniverse Show, more Rachel Talalay video fun on the making of The Star Beast, Film is Fabulous hinting at new old things returning, upcoming Big Finish releases, and more!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Review: The War Between the Land and the Sea, Part Five
• Interview with Gugu Mbatha-Raw about becoming Salt
• ‘The War Between the Land and the Sea’ coming to UK Blu-ray on Feb 23
• Blue Zoo Animation Studio wins pitch to produce Doctor Who CBeebies animation
• Interview with composer Lorne Balfe
• New episode of The Whoniverse Show with David Tennant
• Rachel Talalay: Part 2: Original footage and details on the ‘impossible’ shot
• Doctor Who: A trio of mysteries in The Ice Warriors
• Film is Fabulous to catalogue three more collections in 2026
• Most of the Matt Smith era era now on Hoopla
• Doctor Who: Stormcage due Feb 12
• Big Finish The Lost Stories: The Collected Sixth Doctor 1 due Feb 2026
• Big Finish UNIT Eras due Apr 2026
• Amanda Brotchie died
• Gil Gerard died

#80 #AlexKingston #AmandaBrotchie #BigFinish #BluRay #CBeebies #doctorWho #FilmIsFabulous #GilGerard #GuguMbathaRaw #Hoopla #LorneBalfe #MattSmith #Obituary #RachelTalalay #TheIceWarriors #TheStarBeast #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #TheWhoniverseShow

Radio Free Skaro #1044 – FIFA Peace Prize

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It’s War Between Eve! Naturally, since we haven’t seen any of the Soggiest Saga yet, we go on about the highs (OG Star Wars rerelease in 2027!) and lows (Netflix buying Warner Bros) before celebrating Jo Martin attending Gallifrey One, the impending Season 21 Collection Blu-ray set, more Rachel Talalay shot analysis from “The Star Beast,” and the finale of our re-examination of Torchwood: Children of Earth, Day Five!  

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Jo Martin announced for Gallifrey One
• Season 21 is the next instalment in Doctor Who: The Collection Blu-ray range; March 16 in the UK
• The Fifth Doctor vs. the Daleks – The Collection: Season 21 Announcement Trailer
• Doctor Who Magazine 624 released
• Innes Lloyd documentary “The Producer” airing on BBC Four on December 23
• The Ice Warriors episode one also airing Dec 23
• Rachel Talalay: A Shot that (Almost) Couldn’t be Done – The Star Beast
• Doctor Who Humble Bundle
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dare You
• Big Finish Doctor Who: Christmas – It’s a Wonderful War and Other Stories released
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends 2025 Episode 1
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends 2025 Episode 2

Review:

• Torchwood: Children of Earth, Day Five
• Children of Earth scripts on BBC Writer’s Room
• Radio Free Skaro Wednesday Cutaway – The Ballad of Jack and Ianto
• Radio Free Skaro presents Bridging the Rift

#bbc #bbcFour #bigFinish #bluRay #bridgingTheRift #doctorWhoMagazine #gallifreyOne #humbleBundle #innesLloyd #joMartin #rachelTalalay #radioFreeSkaro #season21 #theIceWarriors #tobyHadoke #torchwoodChildrenOfEarth

Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman – „Sherlock“ (Serie, 2010-2017)

Dieses Comeback von Sherlock Holmes war ja nicht einfach nur ein modernes Update einer alten Kultfigur, sondern auch ein Spiegel der britischen Gegenwart. Cumberbatch als hochverdichtete Version eines Einzelgängers. Überlegen. Cool. Unbeirrbar. Die Obsession über das unnahbare Genie zeigt aber auch eine Kultur, die Gefühle misstrauisch beäugt und Nähe nur dann zulässt, wenn sie sich sofort wieder weg‑ironisieren lässt. Trotzdem – oder gerade deshalb – ein Meilenstein europäischer TV-Produktionen und ein kulturelles Phänomen ganz für sich selbst. (ARD, Wh.)

Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-sherlock-serie-2010-2017/

Radio Free Skaro #1043 – Tip Toe and Son

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It’s a veritable tsunami of The War Between the Land and the Sea news this week, including a trailer, a new episode of the Whoniverse Show, Turf and Surf behind the scenes VAM, a reassurance from RTD that yes, he will eventually write a 2026 Xmas special, deleted scenes, dollies, figurines, AND part the fourth of our retrospective of Children of Earth! Have a listen, and then take a nap!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• New trailer for The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Behind the Scenes of The War Between The Land And The Sea
• The Whoniverse episode on The War Between
• Titles and synopses for The War Between Episodes 1-4 released
• Title and synopsis of The War Between Episode 5
• The War Between soundtrack releases digitally December 5
• Doctor Who Series 10 soundtrack releases on Dec 12
• Russell T Davies has plot of 2026 Christmas Special worked out, will write script early next year
• Season 2 Deleted Scenes
• Season 2 scripts added to the BBC Writers Room
• Character Options Doctor Who Constable Zreeg and Sergeant Zogroth Wrarth Warrior Set
• Panini Doctor Who: UNIT Declassified due Dec 4
• Doctor Who – The Early Years bookazine from The Radio Times
• Doctor Who Series 1-4 + some specials now on Hoopla is some areas
• TARDIS Display Case with Figurines of 17 Doctors coming Spring 2026
• Rachel Talalay: Tenth Anniversary of Heaven Sent
• Big Finish Torchwood: The Flawless Man released
• Big Finish Short Trips: Impeccable and Other Stories due Feb 2026

Review:

• Torchwood: Children of Earth, Day Four
• Children of Earth scripts on BBC Writer’s Room
• Radio Free Skaro Wednesday Cutaway – The Ballad of Jack and Ianto
• Radio Free Skaro presents Bridging the Rift

#bigFinish #bridgingTheRift #characterOptions #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #heavenSent #hoopla #merchandise #rachelTalalay #radioFreeSkaro #radioTimes #russellTDavies #season2 #series10 #series9 #theStarBeast #theWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #theWhoniverseShow #torchwoodChildrenOfEarth

Radio Free Skaro #1042 – Will You Still Need Me?

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Happy Doctor Who Day, everyone! The Three Who Rule celebrate the 62nd birthday for our favourite television show as only Doctor Who fans can, by morosely speculating on the show’s increasingly grim prospects in light of an ever-changing media landscape. Fun! Plus we look into Rachel Talalay’s and Dalek 63-88’s latest lovely Youtube videos, the newly released schedule for Surf and Turf, audio fun with The Wheel in Space on vinyl and various Big Finish bits and bobs, and Day Three of our Torchwood: Children of Earth retrospecticus!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Interview with BritBox CEO, signals BritBox not interested in co-producing Doctor Who (paywall)
• New Bad Wolf private holdings company created for 2026 Doctor Who special
• Deadline: Traditional U.S. Networks Swoop For British TV As Content Sales Top $1B
• The TARDIS lands at Stonehenge for Doctor Who Day
• Tom Baker reflects on time in TARDIS after receiving MBE
• Rachel Talalay: My trips on 4 TARDISES. Q&A and more. Part 1
• Dalek 63-88: The Forgotten 60s Dalek: Uncovering Dr. Barnardo’s Hidden Dalek Story
• Missing classic adventure ‘The Wheel in Space’ comes to vinyl on February 16
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Causeway out now
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: Anniversary – A 2005-2025 Doctors Collection released

Review:

• Torchwood: Children of Earth, Day Three
• Children of Earth scripts on BBC Writer’s Room
• Radio Free Skaro Wednesday Cutaway – The Ballad of Jack and Ianto
• Radio Free Skaro presents Bridging the Rift

#badWolf #bigFinish #bridgingTheRift #britbox #dalek6388 #doctorWho #doctorWhoDay #merchandise #rachelTalalay #radioFreeSkaro #theWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #theWheelInSpace #tomBaker #torchwood #torchwoodChildrenOfEarth #tubi

Radio Free Skaro #1018 – Gallifroogle

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Doctor Who Season 2, and the Ncuti Gatwa era, are over, Billie Piper is The Doctor (maybe?) and the Three Who Rule are left to pick up the pieces and look at the Doctor Who Unleashed – 20 Years in Wales retrospective, Amanda-Rae Prescott’s critique of the Fifteenth Doctor era for Den of Geek, more Dugga Doo shenanigans, a look at friend of the show Rachel Talalay’s use of the “oner” in the TV show Without a Trace, and more, merely setting the stage for the return of Fluid Links!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Steph de Whalley appearing at Gallifrey One
• Doctor Who Unleashed – 20 Years in Wales
• Season 2: Epilogue
• Amanda-Rae Prescott’s critique of The Fifteenth Doctor era
• A Tour of the Rani’s Bone Palace with Jonah Hauer-King
• Dugga Doo Jumps Into the Doctor’s Timestream
• Doctor Who and the Dugga Doos (Reconstruction)
• Rachel Talalay: How a One-er becomes Whatever: Without A Trace
• Who Me! by David J Howe due Oct 9
• Doctor Who: Jubilee Paperback due Mar 5 2026
• Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight Paperback due Mar 5 2026
• Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster: 4th Doctor Novelization Audio CD – Unabridged due Sep 4
• Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures: Bad Terms due Aug 2025
• Prentis Hancock 1942-2025
• Fluid Links

#AmandaRaePrescott #BBC #BigFinish #DavidJHowe #doctorWho #DoctorWhoUnleashed #FluidLinks #GallifreyOne #JonahHauerKing #Jubilee #Merchandise #Obituary #PrentisHancock #RachelTalalay #RobertShearman #Season2 #StephDeWhalley #TerrorOfTheZygons #TheChimesOfMidnight #TheRealityWar #WishWorld