This episode offers a 30-minute full synopsis of the 1997 BBC Books Doctor Who novel, Illegal Alien.

Since the book is now nearly 30 years old, we know many listeners may not have read it recently — or perhaps ever.

If you don’t want to feel left out of our Illegal Alien discussion on Sunday’s monthly show, this episode is the perfect way to refresh your memory or get up to speed beforehand.

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Which Doctor Who stories dig deepest into faith, gods, belief, and the divine?

From the black-and-white classics to the modern era, we’ve ranked our favourite episodes that wrestle with religion and unpack where each one takes the topic.

Got twenty minutes? Come with us.

And while you’re here... what would make your list? Drop us a line and tell us why.

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Join Dave from the Doctor Who Show, Rob and Mark from 42 to Doomsday, and Richard from Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast, after knocking back a few gin and tonics at Dave’s place and watching Paradise Towers.

The story sees the Seventh Doctor and Melanie Bush arrive in search of a swimming pool at the supposedly luxurious 22nd-century high-rise known as Paradise Towers.

Instead, they find a crumbling, graffiti-covered concrete jungle divided between rule-obsessed Caretakers, colour-coded girl gangs called the Kangs, and elderly “rezzies” with some rather alarming dietary habits.

So pour yourself a G&T and join us as we take the lift up to the pool in the sky and get to grips with one of the Seventh Doctor era’s most idiosyncratic tales.

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