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  • 471: Doctor Who: Lucky Day with DWC's Philip Bates

    471: Doctor Who: Lucky Day with DWC's Philip Bates
    2025/05/05
    This week, James McLean is joined by Doctor Who Companion editor Philip Bates to discuss the latest episode, Lucky Day.

    They cover everything from twists and turns to the now-perennial question: will Doctor Who continue beyond this series?

    Patreon subscribers, will also be able to see this conversation, if preferred, in video format.

    Shownotes
    • Doctor Who: Lucky Day on BBC iPlayer and Disney+
    • The Doctor Who Companion

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    1 時間 10 分
  • 470: Exploring Doctor Who: The Well with guest James Whittington

    470: Exploring Doctor Who: The Well with guest James Whittington
    2025/04/29
    Episode 3 of Doctor Who Series 15, The Well, has aired in the UK and worldwide on the Disney+ service, and is ripe for discussion. What impact has this episode has, and can James McLean discern it?

    This week, James is joined by James Whittington, a writer who worked with us back in the days of our old website. He also writes for the Legend TV channel, among other things, and has plenty of thoughts about Doctor Who...

    Shownotes
    • Doctor Who: The Well on BBC iPlayer (UK) and Disney+ (Worldwide)
    • Legend TV
    • James Whittington on X: @jamesywhitt

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    1 時間 28 分
  • 469: Doctor Who: Lux reviewed, with guest Rick Lundeen

    469: Doctor Who: Lux reviewed, with guest Rick Lundeen
    2025/04/22
    Doctor Who Series 15's second episode, Lux, is the subject of discussion this week. James McLean welcomes this week's guest, Rick Lundeen, for quite a deep and wide-ranging chat about the episode and Doctor Who's current status.

    Rick is a writer and artist with quite a considerable body of work behind him. Among those include work with Christian Cawley on the Time Leech comic strip way back in 2009, and his incredible adaptation of The Daleks' Master Plan. Rick also writes regularly for The Doctor Who Companion, where he has contributed over 100 articles.

    He also has some interesting thoughts on Doctor Who!

    Shownotes
    • Doctor Who: Lux - BBC iPlayer, Disney+
      • Rick Lundeen art
      • The Swede

    You can also watch the video version of this review of Lux, exclusive to our Patreon, which is free to join and affords access to our podcast early, ad-free, and with extra content each week.

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    1 時間 13 分
  • 468: Robot Revolution: is Doctor Who on the right track?

    468: Robot Revolution: is Doctor Who on the right track?
    2025/04/15
    James and Magnus discuss the first episode of Doctor Who S15, Robot Revolution, which introduces a new companion, Belinda Chandra, and ends with quite the cliffhanger.

    This is an in-depth discussion of the episode, covering everything from the visual style to the themes of coercive control and loss.

    Members of our free Patreon heard this episode first. Sign up at patreon.com/kasterborous for early episodes, ad-free, and often with extra material.

    Shownotes
    • Doctor Who Robot Revolution on BBC iPlayer

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    1 時間 10 分
  • 467: Is this the end of Doctor Who? PLUS: Series 15 preview

    467: Is this the end of Doctor Who? PLUS: Series 15 preview
    2025/04/11
    This week's podcast was supposed to be Christian chatting with the Doctor Who Companion's Philip Bates about Doctor Who Series 15... and then Newsround published a brief chat with Russell T Davies.

    Suddenly, we had to talk about the possibility that Doctor Who Series 15 might be the last, certainly as far as the current production setup is concerned, and maybe longer term, too.

    So, the episode kicks off with Christian and James (which you may have already seen in the video chat earlier), then moves onto a previously recorded chat with the DWC editor.

    Shownotes
    • Russell T Davies chats to Newsround
      • Last week's episode: Is Doctor Who's time running out?
    • Doctor Who modern episodes ranked
    • Doctor Who Companion turns 9

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    56 分
  • 466: Is Doctor Who's time running out? Plus Beatles, Quatermass & Battle of Britain secrets!

    466: Is Doctor Who's time running out? Plus Beatles, Quatermass & Battle of Britain secrets!
    2025/04/07
    In this week's podcast, Christian and James discuss Russell T Davies recent remarks concerning Doctor Who's future.

    After that, the podcast continues with Christian highlighting a few interesting things he's come across recently, including a Beatles demo reel, a new Quatermass book from Toby Hadoke, and a Battle of Britain documentary tied to the promotion of a new combat flight simulator.

    Bonus content in the Patreon edition
    For patrons, we also have a video version of Christian and James' discussion which is something we're planning to do more often.

    Our Patreon is free — you can sign up at www.patreon.com/kasterborous to get episodes early, ad-free, and extended.

    Shownotes This week's useful links:

    • Russell T Davies chats at Doctor Who S15 launch
    • Missing Believed Wiped podcast
      • Beatles Anthology reissue
    • Pre-EMI Beatles demo turns up in the USA
    • The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic
    • Scramble: Battle of Britain "Lens On" documentary

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    40 分
  • 465: Adrian Munsey on Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age

    465: Adrian Munsey on Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age
    2025/03/31
    Adrian Munsey, the director and writer of the Sky Arts series Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age joined James McLean to explore his four-part documentary.

    We previously shared the raw video version of this chat. Here is the audio podcast, for more convenient listening.

    The series starts on April 3, 2025 on Sky Arts, and runs for four weeks. Further details can be found on Kasterborous. Incidentally, we've learned that the Douglas Adams documentary The Man Who Imagined Our Future is screening before Wonderland. Might as well make a night of it!

    This podcast went live first on our Patreon. Join us free at www.patreon.com/kasterborous, where you’ll also find our podcasts are early, ad-free, and often with extra material!

    Shownotes
    • Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age
    • Trailer

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    47 分
  • 464: Single takes: Aliens on Sodor

    464: Single takes: Aliens on Sodor
    2025/03/24
    This week, Christian Cawley and James McLean mull over the impact of the single take shot in new Netflix drama Adolescence. Single takes, also known as one-shots and continuous shots, have appeared in many movies and TV shows, from Marvel's Daredevil to Alfred Hitchcock's Rope to Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, and many other besides.

    It has been technically difficult to achieve, especially for British TV, but we wonder if its employment in this series might inspire similar approaches from directors.

    Oddly, we also talk about Thomas the Tank Engine's geography, and the 1986 sequel to Alien, James Cameron's Aliens.

    Patreon edition
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    Shownotes

    • Aliens
    • Thomas the Tank Engine
    • Adolescence

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    36 分