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 #1032 – By The Blood of the Sky Demon

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It’s another edition of Trivia, Mr. Fibuli! With Warren away in Mexico, possibly impersonating a false Aztec goddess, our friends Sarah, Kat, and Erika join the remaining members of the Three Who Rule for a rousing trivia game, with questions once again coming from Jacqueline Rayner’s 2013 Official Doctor Who Quiz Book. We also talk about a dollop of Dugga Doo merchandise now available on the official BBC Shop, a giant feature on Jodie Whittaker in the latest Doctor Who Magazine, and more!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• More Gallifrey One 2026 guest announcements: Frazer Hines, Miranda Raison
• Doctor Who Magazine #621 released
• Big Finish The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Return of the Doctor released
• Big Finish The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Lionesses in Winter due November 2025
• Big Finish: Torchwood – Salvage released
• New Lux and Dugga Doo merchandise available at the official BBC Shop
• Doctor Who: The Ark – Episode Showcase with live Q&A at Riverside Studios on October 4
• Doctor Who Am I available for free (with ads) on YouTube in some regions
• Through The Square Window podcast with Graham Kibble-White and Samira Ahmed launches September 17

Guests:

• Trivia, Mr. Fubuli
• Kat Griffiths
• Erika Ensign
• Sarah Murphy

#621 #BBCShop #BigFinish #DoctorWhoAmI #doctorWhoMagazine #ErikaEnsign #FrazerHines #GallifreyOne #GrahamKibbleWhite #KatrinaGriffiths #Merchandise #MirandaRaison #RiversideStudios #SamiraAhmed #SarahMurphy #ThroughTheSquareWindow

BBC News Presenters Back Demand For Strike Vote As Colleagues Face Compulsory Layoffs
#News #BBC #MartineCroxall #SamiraAhmed

https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-news-presenters-strike-vote-martine-croxall-1236444186/

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspense novel about book banning, activism, and standing up for what you believe. 

#SamiraAhmed #yalit #littlefreelibrary #bookdrop #bannedbook #littlebrownbook #bookstodon @bookstodon @yalit

This year, for the first time, British Sign Language interpretations were streamed live for all acts on the Glastonbury Pyramid Stage.

How does it enhance the experience for deaf music lovers?

From Front Row, Radio 4's week-night culture show, on BBC Sounds.

https://bbc.in/3KTL1Fh

#Glasto2023 #BSL #BritishSignLanguage #accessibility #LiveMusic #performance #BBC #gig #concert #deaf #SamiraAhmed #WilliamOgden #StephanieRaper

Fascinating find by Samira Ahmed of a 1963 live show by The Beatles - a few clips on Front Row and looking forward to hearing a cleaned up version if what Mark Lewisohn suggests is possible gets realised!

Listen to The Beatles playing for posh schoolboys!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kpq1

#TheBeatles #StoweSchool #FrontRow #BBCFrontRow #SamiraAhmed #MarkLewisohn