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  • 497: Sarah Jane Smith, AI upscaling, and will personal websites return?

    497: Sarah Jane Smith, AI upscaling, and will personal websites return?
    2025/12/15
    This week's Doctor Who podcast is a collection of chats that were held back for Patreon members. So, yes, you've heard some of these before -- but the listeners on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all the other places you get podcasts, have not.

    As such, this podcast is free to listen to on Patreon and wider afield -- and if you want to get additional chats like this at the end of your usual podcast, then you can join our Patreon for this and other extra material with most podcasts, and access the Kasterborous Archive.

    Christian Cawley chats with James McLean and Philip Bates, with Just Sarah, the AI upscaling on Doctor Who Blu-rays, and the notion of personal, independent websites returning to the fore (think MySpace, Geocities, etc.)

    Patreon and Apple Podcasts Most episodes of our podcast go out on Patreon first. You can hear the show there several days earlier, often with video, and usually with additional material.

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    40 分
  • 496: The War Between the Land and the Sea preview

    496: The War Between the Land and the Sea preview
    2025/12/09
    Christian is joined by The Doctor Who Companion editor Philip Bates to preview The War Between the Land and the Sea and shared some expectations.

    Shownotes
    This week, we refer to:

    • The War Between the Land and the Sea
    • Just Sarah
    • Doctor Who Stars in Ads
    Patreon and Apple Podcasts
    This podcast went out on Patreon first. You can hear the show there several days earlier, often with video, and usually with additional material.

    We'd really appreciate your help in raising our profile on the Apple platform, so please leave a review. If you don't already subscribe, you should -- it alerts you when new episodes are available.

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    38 分
  • 495: Doctor Who cutscenes, classic Christmas trailers, and Teletext...

    495: Doctor Who cutscenes, classic Christmas trailers, and Teletext...
    2025/12/03
    James and Christian are back with a new chat, looking at Doctor Who cutscenes (and the whole cutscene reveal culture), classic BBC One Christmas trailers, Teletext (!) and a few other things.

    Shownotes
    • Vintage BBC Christmas trailers
    • Woolworths 1981 Christmas ad (ft Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Anita Harris, et al)
    • Teletext VHS recovery

    Patreon and Apple Podcasts
    As ever, this podcast went out on Patreon first. You can hear the show there several days earlier, often with video, and usually with additional material.

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    30 分
  • 494: Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who legacy feedback and VHS omnibus edition memories

    494: Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who legacy feedback and VHS omnibus edition memories
    2025/11/25
    Christian Cawley and James McLean look at some of your comments on our recent episodes, mostly concerning Ncuti Gatwa's legacy in Doctor Who.

    We also look at the existence of 90 minute omnibus editions of classic Doctor Who and their presentation as "gifts" to fans, 40 years after very similar edits were released on VHS to cries of "sacrilege!"

    Shownotes
    • William Shatner in Airplane 2
    • Free Enterprise trailer
    • What will Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who legacy be?



    Patreon and Apple Podcasts
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    40 分
  • 493: Tom Baker MBE, Sea Devils repeated, Pondcast, and more

    493: Tom Baker MBE, Sea Devils repeated, Pondcast, and more
    2025/11/17
    This week's show rounds up the latest Doctor Who related headlines, and features Christian Cawley hosting solo.

    Shownotes
    • Tom Baker receives MBE
    • The Sea Devils gets 90 minute edit for TV
    • The War Between the Land and the Sea launch Date
      • Etymology of homo
    • Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill launch Pondcast
    • Sophie Aldred in Doctor Who-themed short for Children in Need

    As ever, this podcast went out on Patreon first. You can hear the show there several days earlier, often with video, and usually with additional material.

    We'd really appreciate your help in raising our profile on the Apple platform, so please leave a review.

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    29 分
  • 492: What will Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who legacy be?

    492: What will Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who legacy be?
    2025/11/11
    With just 18 episodes under his belt and moving on at a time when the show's future was temporarily in doubt, Gatwa's story isn't completely new to the show -- it has echoes of 1985.

    But with the actor apparently now done with Doctor Who and the show struggling to achieve the same levels of adoration we saw previously with its (perhaps outgoing) showrunner, we wonder how Gatwa's episodes will be looked upon in years to come...

    Shownotes
    • The Rest is Entertainment on "The Future of Doctor Who"
    • Disney sources on Doctor Who's ditching
    • Bonnie Langford talks Reality War reshoots

    As ever, the longer edition of this podcast went out on Patreon first. There is also a video of that chat.

    We'd really appreciate your help in raising our profile on the Apple platform, so please leave a review.

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    33 分
  • 491: Doctor Who is back in 2026, but where will it stream?

    491: Doctor Who is back in 2026, but where will it stream?
    2025/11/02
    We've had the good news about Doctor Who's long-term survival, but we still don't know who will run it, or where it will stream...

    This week, Christian Cawley and James McLean bring you a long discussion about the recent news from the BBC, as well as speculating on where the next iteration of Doctor Who might be streamed.

    We also consider the approach the upcoming CBeebies animation show might take, in light of the abandoned Nelvana animation, Lance Parkin's 1998 novel "The Infinity Doctors," and the K-9 TV series.

    Shownotes

    • Doctor Who Confirmed to Return in 2026, But Has Been Dropped by Disney+
    • The Future of Doctor Who, 2026 And Beyond: What We Know and What We Don’t Know
    • Bad Wolf
    • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount+
    • The Infinity Doctors by Lance Parkin
    • K-9 TV show

    Due to this being quite a topical and important discussion, we've done something different this week.

    The full length video version is free on our Patreon!

    As is now customary, the full length audio is exclusive to Patreon -- but you can get an idea of what to expect with that video.

    Also, a video edit closer in length to this public audio edition is also available on our Substack.

    This means everyone can get a sample of what Patreon subscribers enjoy -- early episodes, video content and ad-free, too.

    Sign up to enjoy extra content and access the growing Kasterborous Archive.
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    31 分
  • 490: Tranter vs Shearman, missing eps, and AI upscaling creepiness

    490: Tranter vs Shearman, missing eps, and AI upscaling creepiness
    2025/10/31
    Was Robert Shearman really "rude" when he expressed an opinion about his relationship with Doctor Who? Are missing episodes being liberated from private collectors?

    And do classic series Blu-ray releases really need AI upscaling?

    Christian Cawley and James McLean mull this over in this week's Kasterborous podcast.

    Shownotes
    • Rob Shearman express Doctor Who frustration
    • Jane Tranter: Rob Shearman comments "rude"
    • Existence of more Doctor Who missing episodes confirmed
    • Sora 2 AI explained

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    45 分