A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
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A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Join Joe Ford as he waltzes all around the world (via whatever means the internet allows) and undertakes Doctor Who commentaries with a wide range of wonderful contributors. Fans, podcasters, online reviewers, writers, actors...the USP of this podcast is it's variety of guests and the fact that they...
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The (X) Hamster Files - The Jersey Devil (featuring agent Jack Coyer)
What happens when Agent Coyer faces his first experience of The X-Files and comes up against Neanderthal woman?

Talks to Lee, Andy & Cam about their choice of The Mind Robber (5/5)
It's time to bring this piece of art to an end with a celebration of the many positives about the story, the man positives about Scotland, and the man...

Talks to Andy, Lee & Cam about their choice of The Mind Robber (4/5)
Lesson 42! It's time to beat up the Karkus, get trapped in a book and worry about a dollop of foamy spittle at the side of the mouth of a writer of we...

Hamster Book Club - The Eyeless by Lance Parkin (featuring Kieran Pell)
A surprisingly bleak, dystopian world with huge things to say about war, weapons of mass destruction, genocide and scientific responsibility...aimed a...

Talks to Glenn Fitzgerald about his choice of The Stones of Blood (4/4)
One of my favourite single episodes to record, beautiful Glenn reminds us of the joys of finding your tribe within Doctor Who fandom and how enriching...

Talks to Glenn Fitzgerald about his choice of The Stones of Blood (3/4)
The story takes a massive diversion into domesticity and science fiction as the Doctor and Amelia attempt to reach Romana in Hyperspace...

The (X) Hamster Files - Conduit (featuring Agent Iain Martin)
When Ruby goes missing in the woods, her mother becomes obsessed that she has been abducted. Scully is sceptical, but Mulder thinks this might be link...

Strictly Come Hamster - Season 16 (featuring Nathan Bottomley, Toby Hadoke & Ioan Morris)
Segments, assignments from God, Pirate planets, blood sucking stones, swordplay, giant farting squids and nuclear war! Everything is to play for in th...

Hamster Book Club - The Sleep of Reason by Martin Day (featuring Michael Mills & Dylan Rees)
Content Warning - reading contains material pertaining to self harm
One of us loved this book, one of us hated it and one of us sat squarely in...

Hamster Book Club - The Romans (Redux) by Donald Cotton (featuring James Lark)
The gauntlet has been thrown. A less than favourable episode released on Donald Cotton's books released and James Lark, in a fit of epistolary pique,...

Talks to Andy, Lee & Cam about their choice of The Mind Robber (3/5)
It doesn't exist! Our waltz through the Doctor's weirdest, most literate adventure continues. And we discover precisely what Andy is available for by...

Talks to Lee, Cam & Andy about their choice of The Mind Robber (2/5)
What fresh madness occurs when this foursome finally reaches The Land of Fiction? What can Joe be taught about football? And will Lee wow us all with...

Talks to Glen Fitzgerald about his choice of The Stones of Blood (2/4)
Sausage sandwiches clamped in our hands, we are facing off against globulin feeding Stones! I know that woman...

Talks to the Lee, Cam & Andy about their choice of The Mind Robber (1/5)
This was a delightful, slightly deranged, love in for this quirky, imaginative story. Expect gags, flirting, revealing information and trivia!

Talks to Glenn Fitzgerald about his choice of The Stones of Blood (1/4)
Joe meets gorgeous Glenn Fitzgerald in the countryside to have a flask of tea and a sausage sandwich and to chase about with sinister stones...

Hamster Book Club - The Androids of Tara by David Fisher (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt)
What has happened to our favourite lines? Fisher rewrites a rewrite and then rewrites Tom Baker's rewrite! But with charming prose, glorious backstory...

Strictly Come Hamster - 12th Doctor Finale (featuring Joumana, Frazer, Mark & Dan)
Four huge Peter Capaldi fans assemble to celebrate and cajole the members of the Ham Fam that say nasty things about their favourite and we battle it...

Talks to Jack Coyer & Steven B about their choice of The Awakening (2/2)
is this an atmospheric political statement of the time...or just a load of old tosh? Join Joe, Jack & Steven who investigate...

Talks to Steven B & Jack Coyer about their choice of The Awakening (1/2)
Devils in the church, ghosts in the crypt, demons from the far reaches of space…Joe, Steven and Jack investigate this atmospheric two parter…

Hamster Book Club - Face of the Enemy by David A. McIntee (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Andrew Batty & Jon Arnold)
Where the book club learns to be REAL MEN! A McIntee love-in as we tackle one of his most celebrated and fun books; a ballsy, continuity filled, chara...

Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the Cybermen (4/4)
Joe and Paul are heading for the biggest bang in history! My skystriker!

Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the Cybermen (3/4)
We're down in the caves, bullets are firing, the Cybermen are massacring the Vogans, Sarah is trying to get back to the Beacon, the Doctor is bomb-loa...

The (X) Hamster Files - Squeeze (featuring Agent Morris)
Responsible for my every nightmare for about a decade - Eugene Victor Tooms! The baby faced, liver eating, body contorting mutant!

Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the Cybermen (2/4)
Sarah is infected, trapped with Harry on the planet of gold and the Doctor is sniffing out a traitor with a Cybermat. All the while the Cybermen loom...

Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the Cybermen (1/4)
Paul starts his Hamster journey in style as he heads straight for one of the most kicked Tom Baker worries to champion. Hoover attachments at the read...

Hamster Book Club - The Book of the Still by Paul Ebbs (featuring Mark Donaldson)
On the Timelash’s Mark Donaldson & I discuss Bollywood, big concepts, romance and an idiosyncratic prose style! Boom Shakalaka!

Strictly Come Hamster - Season Eight (featuring Toby Hadoke, Luke Molloy & Chris Curtis)
The Master! Autons! The Master! The Keller Machine! The Master! Axos! The Master! IMC! The Master! Azal! And of course the most important thing of the...

The (X) Hamster Files - Deep Throat (featuring Agent Nathan Bottomley)
The second episode of The X-Files comes under examination by the second contributor to this new paranormal Hamster thread...

Hamster Book Club - Grave Matter by Justin Richards (featuring Jon Arnold, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Andrew Batty)
To Dorsill we go, stepping into the past
Where zombies roam, with brains their repast,
Peri persued, she needs to be fast,
Or else...

Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of Pyramids of Mars (4/4)
Is the last episode of this classic a disappointment or not? Does it become less Hammer horror and more Doctor Who?

Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of Pyramids of Mars (3/4)
The last, great episode of this story? Should Sarah be able to fire a gun? Did Tom need to dress up as a Mummy? Is this one of the best cliffhangers e...

Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of Pyramids of Mars (2/4)
And then the murders started...and never stopped. Bernard Archard returns as the animated human cadaver, Ernie Clements is crushed to death by tits an...

Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of Pyramids of Mars (1/4)
The delightful Rob Valentine joins me in celebrating this much vaunted classic by way of homework - we watched the Hammer film The Mummy and we're tal...

Hamster Book Club - Mean Streets by Terrance Dicks (featuring John Isles & Dylan Rees)
Here on the Mean Streets of Megacity, the line between justice and death is a thin one. And unearthing the secrets of The Project will go one way or t...

Strictly Come Hamster - Series 10b (featuring Si Hart, Daniel(s) Rawnsley & Knight & Elliot Mair
Passions rise as we discuss Monks, Ice Warriors, Celts and Cybermen. Is this bold and innovative, or half arsed and ugly? Joe, Si, the Daniel’s & Elli...

The (X) Hamster Files - The Pilot (featuring Agent Ioan Morris)
Right back to the beginning of the journey of The X-Files; where paranoia is rife, Mulder and Scully first meet, the Smoking Man makes his first appea...

Hamster@1000!
Happy 1000th episode to all of the Ham Fam! Celebrations, reminiscences, laughter, madness, and so many voices from the Ham Fam within. This is our hu...

Interview - Nicola Bryant & Nev Fountain
Where we talk all about their respective journeys through Doctor Who; actress, director, writer, Nev's wonderful new book, Lies & Dolls, Tales From th...

Talks to Paul Quinn about his choice of The Haunting of Villa Diodati
A seminal moment in literary history, and a prelude to a seminal moment in Doctor Who history; this atmospheric chiller comes under scrutiny by a top...

Hamster Update - 100th episode, Book Clubs, (X) Hamster Files & Patreon!
Rather than plaguing your social media feeds, here are all the Hamster updates - new pods, old pods moving, celebrations and community get togethers!