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 all bring their own unique perspective to the podcast. The guest chooses the story, be it one they love, hate or are completely indifferent, and amongst the gossip is trivia, critique and personal experience.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 1013
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Talks to Eddie & Jon Arnold about their choice of Midnight
Father and son come together for a cross generational battle of opinions...but who is a lover and who is a hater of this well regarded episode?
Talks to Jack Coyer & Steven B about their choice of The Family of Blood (2/2)
Contention abounds over God-like Doctors and just how much Paul Cornell wrote this teleplay but we can all decide that this is a staggering good production and worthy of its lofty reputation.
Talks to Steven B & Jack Coyer about their choice of Human Nature (1/2)
Two incredibly smart men tackle one of the most popular NuWho stories; with their trademark wit, observations and this time through the lens of an adaptation from page to screen.
Hamster Book Club - Shadow in the Glass by Stephen Cole and Justin Richards (featuring Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins)
We explore how responsibly Doctor Who can take on the Nazis, discuss this rushed but popular book and name our top three favourite Doctor Who book shock twists. Needless to say, SPOILERS.
Strictly Come Hamster Series 4B (featuring Daniel, Kieran, Frazer & Lee!)
In which we face giant wasps (I mean wasps that are giant!), shadows (Hey! Who turned out the lights?), the anonymous Midnight monster, alternative realities and Davros threatening the destruction of…
Hamster Book Club - Paradise Towers by Stephen Wyatt (featuring Michael Mills)
Joe & Michael head to Paradise Towers for a stay in its gleaming pools, squares and towers! Welcomed by contentious caretakers, kindly residents and sweet girl gangs. And a world class sauna in the b…
Hamster Book Club - Set Piece by Kate Orman (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Jon Arnold & Andrew Batty)
Join Joe, Luke, Jon & Andrew as we say goodbye to Ace from the New Adventures, discuss her characters success (or otherwise) and pick our bottom three NA covers...
Hamster Book Club - Battlefield by Marc Platt (featuring Michael Mills & James Lark)
God tier Doctor Who - and we're not mad. James & Michael have always loved this book and have enticed Joe to join them in happily declaring this one of the best Doctor Who books. Hyperbole? Press pla…
Strictly Come Hamster - Season Twelve (featuring Daniel Knight, Lucy McCaul, Jo Short & Elliot Mair)
Join Joe, Daniel, Lucy, Jo & Elliot as they face robot wielding Nazi’s, big bugs, sadistic Sontarans, Daleks & Cybermen! Who will be victorious?
Hamster Book Club - City of the Dead by Lloyd Rose (featuring Anthony Carroll)
Joe is joined by brilliant new bookclubber Anthony to discuss one of the creepiest, slyest, most hallucinatory Doctor Who books. Lloyd Rose stepped into the EDAs and shook things up...
Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of Spearhead from Space (4/4)
No more Meg! But plenty of death! A bus queue mown down! Will Joe & David survive their experience with the asshole of Death?
Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of Spearhead from Space (3/4)
Meg under fire! Barney attacked! Ransome dribbling coffee! That shot or Channing through the door! The stunning double Scobie cliffhanger! This story has it all.
Hamster Book Club - Verdigris by Paul Magrs (featuring Kieran Pell)
A podcast as lively, as smart, as silly, as scattershot and as barking as the book they are talking about! Allow me to introduce Kieran from Patreon as he embarks on a Paul Magrs classic...
Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of Spearhead from Space (2/4)
Meg in action! Don't think I'll have that dirty old box in my house! The Doctor nude! Blood all over the windscreen! Dummies springing to life! Is this a kids show anymore?
Talks to David Gillespie-Pratt about his choice of Spearhead from Space (1/4)
Join David & I as we explore the re-imagined Doctor Who for the 70s. The ‘We Stan Meg Seeley’ fan club starts here.
Toby Hadoke talks Quatermass!
To celebrate the lauch of Toby Hadoke's new book - The Quatermass Experiment - I would love to present to you the glorious episode of Hamster Extra where he discusses the four iterations of the show …
Hamster Book Club - The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides & Stephen Cole (featuring Mark Donaldson)
Mark steps into the book club with a nice easy read - voodoo cults, twisted versions of Fitz & the Doctor, a female TARDIS that Romana is attempting to force breed, an oncoming War and the destructio…
Strictly Come Hamster Series 4A (featuring Frazer Gregory, Daniel Rawnsley & Kieran Pell)
Join Joe, Frazer, Daniel & Kieran as we face Adipose, Pyrovilles, evil corporations, Sontarans and genetic warfare in the aim to crown the winner of this half season...with a very special guest star!…
The Savages Omnibus (featuring Mark Rawlins)
To celebrate the release of the animation, a re-release of the best time that Mark & I had discussing one of his favourites and one I have come to love through his eyes. 'Thank you, young lady, for m…
Hamster Book Club - Terror of the Vervoids by Pip and Jane Baker (featuring Paul Quinn)
I bring in one of the smartest men I know to critique the work of Pip and Jane Baker. With an enormous vagina on the cover, murder, mayhem and intrigue within its pages and conversations that conside…