Radio Free Skaro #1046 - Turf and Surf, The Second
Release Date: 12/17/2025
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It’s the return of STATS! as we ruminate over not just some frankly dismal Disney+ numbers for our beloved Doctor Who but a smattering of other genre offerings who stumbled or triumphed on the way to your eyeballs. Plus the Gallifrey One schedule is out, Blake’s 7 may be coming back, Rachel Talalay continues to win YouTube with a deep dive into Peter Capaldi’s “Be Kind” speech from “The Doctor Falls” in its various forms, and a.feature interview with Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White about their excellent podcast about archive UK telly, “Through the Square Window”! Links: ...
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Exciting Gallifrey One news this week as the one and only Freema Agyeman makes her long-awaited return to Los Angeles in February! Also, it would be remiss not to mention missives about the Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder exhibit in San Diego being extended, and CONsole Room in Minneapolis happening this coming weekend! Also Big Finish, the delightful Jodie Whittaker answering questions, but most importantly our final Miniscope on director Nick Hurran’s work on The Day of the Doctor! Links: Miniscope:
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It’s another exciting week of the Doctor Who interregnum of 2026 and we have exciting Gallifrey One guest updates, another great Rachel Talalay video involving Mondasian Cybermen, Bill Potts, and mirrors, some cryptic BBC App news we don’t fully understand, the usual Big Finish artwork overexamination, and the second part of our Nick Hurran Miniscope, featuring “Asylum of the Daleks” and “The Angels Take Manhattan”! Links: Miniscope:
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It’s the first podcast in this, the space year 2026, and the Three Who Rule have emerged from their New Year’s slumber to cogitate on new Gallifrey One announcements, recreated sets for The Feast of Steven and Rachel Talalay Youtube videos, a surfeit of Big Finish news, Toby Hadoke’s annual foray into memoriam with Absent Friends, and the first of our three part Miniscope series on Doctor Who director Nick Hurran, featuring “The Girl Who Waited” and “The God Complex”! Links: Miniscope:
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The Three Who Rule closes out 2025 with a diverting left turn into camp with a commentary for the Blake’s 7 episode “Gambit”, possibly the most outrageous sci-fi production the BBC produced in the 1970s. And who else to join us on this journey than Sarah and Sam of the Is It Camp?! podcast, where we ask the question: is this camp? (Spoilers: yes.) Links:
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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 24.
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(Our review of The War Between The Land and The Sea episode 5 is from 4:28 – 1:00:35) It’s the final episode of The War Between The Land and the Sea and with it our final review of this clash between Dirt and Wet for the future of…Doctor Who? Thrill to our musings along with David Tennant appearing on the Whoniverse Show, more Rachel Talalay video fun on the making of The Star Beast, Film is Fabulous hinting at new old things returning, upcoming Big Finish releases, and more! Links:
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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 23.
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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 22.
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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 21.
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It’s our review of The War Between The Land and The Sea, Episodes 3 and 4, and we have thoughts, opinions, grousings, and observations! As usual we’ve put a handy SoundWall ™ up at the beginning and end so if you wish to wait until Disney deigns to show the Doctor Who spinoff, we’re here to help and for the rest of you, dive in! Plus a look at the many different Cybermen in a new War Doctor Big Finish, Gallifrey One news, an upcoming Through the Glass Window Xmas episode featuring one Mark Gatiss, and more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Review: The War Between the Land and the Sea, Part Three
- Review: The War Between the Land and the Sea, Part Four
- Pete McTighe interview for TWB
- New Guests, Evening Events & Add-On Sales Begin for Gallifrey One
- The Black Archive #80 – Mawdryn Undead available
- Big Finish The War Doctor Rises: Cybergene released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: The Potential Daleks released
- Big Finish The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Run Fast, Be Kind begins July 2026
- Through The Square Window Christmas episode with Mark Gatiss on December 17
- TMDWP Returns Christmas Day