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 #1021 – Don’t Mention Dr. Who

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It’s a real grab bag of news this week with Peter Davison critiquing the current series of Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi being cool as hell at Glastonbury, and a truly mammoth editorial by Chris about the Blu-ray for The War Games in Colour and the cost thereof given that it is only one disc. Somehow we get an hour out of this, and we also have an extensive interview with long-time friends and Televisual Specialists John Williams and Neil Perryman about their new podcast where they watch every television show ever made – World of Telly!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• BBC statement on complaint about Ncuti Gatwa-Billie Piper regeneration coverage
• Peter Davison on the current state of Doctor Who
• Doctor Who Magazine Special #70: The Horror Issue due Sep 24
• Preview of ‘Night of the Shreek’ from the 2026 Doctor Who Annual
• The War Games in Colour North American Blu-Ray release
• Classic Second Doctor adventure ‘The Moonbase’ coming to vinyl
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Causeway due Nov 2025
• Doctor Who and sustainability
• Peter Capaldi onstage with Franz Ferdinand at Glastonbury
• Ncuti Gatwa introduces JADE at Glastonbury
• Laundry Files RPG 2nd Edition preorder announced – and Warren wrote for it!

Interview:

• World of Telly Podcast
• Neil Perryman
• John Williams

#70 #BBC #BigFinish #BilliePiper #BluRay #Cubicle7 #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #FranzFerdinand #Glastonbury #JADE #JohnWilliams #Merchandise #NcutiGatwa #NeilPerryman #PeteMcTighe #PeterCapaldi #PeterDavison #TheMoonbase #TheWarGames #WorldOfTelly

Radio Free Skaro #1006 – Hidden in Plain Sight

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It’s a week of podcast adjacent activity as the fine folk at the Merseyside Doctor Who Group shouted out this very podcast on the occasion of our breaching the transom of 1000 episodes, David Tennant hosts one Russell T Davies on his podcast and most importantly, fine gentlemen Neil Perryman and John Williams announce an oncoming storm known as World of Telly! Plus, we have news and base speculation about both the new Character Options 3rd Doctor and sonic and possible future iterations, crochet fan works, behind the scenes camera excitement from Terror of the Suburbs, and a chinwag with Steven Swaby from Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder, the new exhibit at San Diego Comic-Con Museum! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Merseyside Doctor Who Group
• David Tennant Does a Podcast With…Russell T Davies
• Neil Perryman and John Williams’ new podcast World of Telly coming soon
• The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Troughton Years available for pre-order
• Evolution of the Toy Dalek: Collecting Through The Ages released
• AmiguWHOmi: Crochet Adventures in Time and Space Paperback due Aug 21
• Crocheted Doctor Who
• Doctor Who: The Monster Makers Paperback due Sep 2
• Simon Guerrier’s photos from Terror of the Suburbs shoot
• Doctor Who The Third Doctor and Sonic Screwdriver from Character Options
• Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill no longer appearing at Calgary Expo, on the 2026 guest list
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Cosmos and Mrs Clarke due May
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Past Forward due June
• Simon Fisher-Becker died

Interview:

• Steven Swaby
• Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder

#BigFinish #BluRay #CalgaryExpo #davidTennant #DavidTennantDoesAPodcastWith #DoctorWhoWorldsOfWonder #JodieWhittaker #JohnWilliams #MandipGill #Merchandise #MerseysideDoctorWhoGroup #NeilPerryman #Obituary #RussellTDavies #Season7 #SimonFisherBecker #SimonGuerrier #StevenSwaby #TelosPublishing #WorldOfTelly