A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast

A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast


Latest Episodes

Talks to Dan Pinn about his choice of Paradise Towers (3/4)
April 18, 2024

Joe & Dan; 'I am Kroagnon, the Great Architect, and I will put an end to you and everyone in Paradise Towers!' The plot starts to coalesce beautifully, the Doctor is pulling all the threads together and Kroagnon reveals his hand.

Talks to Dan Pinn about his choice of Paradise Towers (2/4)
April 17, 2024

Joe & Dan; 'Build High for Happiness!' Episode two and we're seeing a Doctor form before our eyes, much discussion of Richard Briers as the Chief Caretaker and how do we feel about that dark fairytale cliffhanger?

Talks to the glorious Dan Pinn about his choice of Paradise Towers (1/4)
April 15, 2024

Joe & Dan; 'Well you never can tell...' It's the dawn of a bold new era. Out with the camp, in with the urban comic book thriller. Maybe quite a bit of camp still. But brilliant worldbuilding, dialogue and an awesome Doctor emerging.

Strictly Come Hamster - Season 26 (featuring Luke Molloy & Daniel Knight)
April 14, 2024

Join Rod, Joe, Luke & Daniel as we go right to the end - the first time round! There podcasts out there were the opinions are burning, where the audience are amused and the charts are topped

Hamster Book Club - Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks
April 10, 2024

Joe, Andrew & Luke take to the mean streets and gothic forests to tackle gangsters and vampires and ponder the question...can anyone else do it quite like Terrance Dicks?

Omnibus! Full Circle featuring the glorious Si Hart
April 09, 2024

This is the closest Hamster has come to being a warm hug - it's Si Hart & season eighteen! I visited his house and we sat on his sofa and squeed about his favourite era of the show for two hours. Enjoy :-)

Strictly Come Hamster - Series 7A (featuring Mark Donaldson & Dave Rennie)
April 07, 2024

Join Rod, Joe, Mark & Dave as we say goodbye to the Ponds (slowly) by taking in the sights of the Dalek Parliament, dinosaurs on a spaceship, a western morality play, the Slow Invasion & detective noir New York. Together, or not at all!

Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of The Myth Makers (4/4)
April 06, 2024

Joe & David; 'Yes, there is. There's us. We can start again' We reach the end of our journey with a bloody massacre and the biggest tonal shift in the shows history. How does the series cope with the sting in this story's tail?

Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of The Myth Makers (3/4)
April 05, 2024

Joe & David; 'I'm afraid you're a bit late to say 'whoa' to the horse' Laughter and high jinks all the way as the Doctor comes up with a way to get out of a sticky situation...by condemning all the people of Troy! What came fir

Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of The Myth Makers (2/4)
April 03, 2024

Joe & David; She will bring nothing but doom, death and disaster! My education continue as David teaches me a brilliant way of bringing this story to life with the evidence that remains. What a guy.