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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 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.

Tv & Film Tv Reviews
Update frequency
every day
Average duration
60 minutes
Episodes
1015
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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The Savages Omnibus (featuring Mark Rawlins)

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…

02:27:54  |   Wed 26 Mar 2025
Hamster Book Club - Terror of the Vervoids by Pip and Jane Baker (featuring Paul Quinn)

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…

01:34:53  |   Tue 25 Mar 2025
Talks to Pete Lambert & Toby Hadoke to celebrate Revelation of the Daleks (full commentary)

Talks to Pete Lambert & Toby Hadoke to celebrate Revelation of the Daleks (full commentary)

At Pete's request, we have assembled to talk about one of the most unusual Doctor Who stories of all time and just how many ways we love it...

02:15:47  |   Sun 23 Mar 2025
Hamster Book Club - The Romans & The Myth Makers by Donald Cotton (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Jon Arnold & Andrew Batty)

Hamster Book Club - The Romans & The Myth Makers by Donald Cotton (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Jon Arnold & Andrew Batty)

A fascinating pair of historical artefacts (both in content and as books) - most unlike your usual script to page Target and divisive reads amongst the book clubbers this week. Does taking a risk rea…

01:44:40  |   Fri 21 Mar 2025
The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords Omnibus (featuring Toby Hadoke)

The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords Omnibus (featuring Toby Hadoke)

Recorded two years ago - how time flies - we (mostly) wax lyrical about the closing two parter of series three. It was a time when we were both pinching ourselves at the shows success and loving what…

03:34:55  |   Tue 18 Mar 2025
Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Stranger - In Memory Alone

Talks to Dylan Rees about his choice of The Stranger - In Memory Alone

A huge Nicholas Briggs love in for a great script and brilliant guest turn. Easily our favourite of the Strangers - a creepy, beguiling SF mystery with a superb chance for Colin and Nicola to show wh…

00:55:19  |   Sun 16 Mar 2025
Hamster Book Club - Mutually Assured Destruction by Nick Walters (featuring Dylan Rees & Frazer Gregory)

Hamster Book Club - Mutually Assured Destruction by Nick Walters (featuring Dylan Rees & Frazer Gregory)

In a double bill with Too Hot for TV - it's Quarkmania! Joe, Dylan and Frazer embark on a Quark (and Dominator) filled spy thriller from the Lethbridge-Stewart range...

01:06:13  |   Fri 14 Mar 2025
Talks to Dylan Rees about The Stranger - More Than a Messiah

Talks to Dylan Rees about The Stranger - More Than a Messiah

Sophie Aldred as a sexy alien planet! Naked with Colin Baker! Nigel Fairs as a bereaved gay lover! Peter Miles & Barbara Shelley! And possibly Wookey Hole! Bring it on!

00:50:16  |   Fri 14 Mar 2025
Talks to Dylan Rees about The Stranger - Summoned By Shadows

Talks to Dylan Rees about The Stranger - Summoned By Shadows

Starring Colin Baker & Nicola Bryant as the Doctor & Peri...sorry the Stranger and Miss Brown! Joe & Dylan begin their great voyage to listen to a explore all six Stranger stories - starting with her…

00:43:29  |   Thu 13 Mar 2025
Strictly Come Hamster - 11th Doctor Special (featuring Frazer, Si, Mark, Luke & Jackson)

Strictly Come Hamster - 11th Doctor Special (featuring Frazer, Si, Mark, Luke & Jackson)

Bring forth the five biggest 11th Doctor fans - Frazer, Si, Mark, Luke & Jackson! This is the big one! Series five, six and seven discussed, Matt Smith examined, and the best story of the era decided…

02:38:10  |   Sun 09 Mar 2025
Hamster Book Club - Love & War by Paul Cornell (featuring Paul Quinn)

Hamster Book Club - Love & War by Paul Cornell (featuring Paul Quinn)

Joe & Paul head to Heaven to meet Benny, lose Ace and have a torrid and angst ridden love affair! Paul surprises himself by enjoying this a lot more than he remembered....Joe takes a little more conv…

01:12:16  |   Fri 07 Mar 2025
Talks to Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins about their choice of The Invisible Enemy (4/4)

Talks to Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins about their choice of The Invisible Enemy (4/4)

'Blow it up!' We reach the end of this incredible voyage with our sanity intact (just about), our inebriation faltering and our laughter flowing. Can we find 12 reasons to love this story?

00:33:56  |   Wed 05 Mar 2025
Strictly Come Hamster - Season Five (featuring Dylan Rees, Michael Mills & Elliot Mair)

Strictly Come Hamster - Season Five (featuring Dylan Rees, Michael Mills & Elliot Mair)

Monsters! Bases Under Siege! Evil Dictators! Intransigent Base Commanders! Joe, Dylan, Michael & Elliot tackle a classic season and see how it holds up with a modern eye...

03:06:09  |   Sun 02 Mar 2025
Talks to Jon Arnold, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Andrew Batty about their choice of The Invisible Enemy (3/4)

Talks to Jon Arnold, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Andrew Batty about their choice of The Invisible Enemy (3/4)

Join Joe, Jon, Luke & Andrew as they talk balls balls balls! If it isn't Michael Sheard's balls, its the ballsup of a terror attack on the medical facility, or the hairy bouncy balls of the Doctor's …

00:30:15  |   Fri 28 Feb 2025
Hamster Book Club - Eye of Heaven by Jim Mortimore (featuring Dr Philip Boyes)

Hamster Book Club - Eye of Heaven by Jim Mortimore (featuring Dr Philip Boyes)

Let's head to the high seas for an unusual Past Doctor Adventure as we see the world through Leela (and the Doctor's!) eyes first person. Is this the first great PDA?

01:41:24  |   Wed 26 Feb 2025
Talks to Andrew Batty, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Jon Arnold about their choice of The Invisible Enemy 2/4

Talks to Andrew Batty, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Jon Arnold about their choice of The Invisible Enemy 2/4

We’re off to space hospital to face terrorism and virus expansion…before being shrunk and injected inside the Doctor! What the hell is going on?

00:28:13  |   Sat 22 Feb 2025
Talks to Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins about their choice of The Invisible Enemy 1/4

Talks to Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins about their choice of The Invisible Enemy 1/4

The intrepid foursome embark on a Great Space Adventure! Contact has been made and Iceland’s Prawn rings will never be the same again.

00:32:42  |   Thu 20 Feb 2025
Hamster Book Club - Eaters of Wasps by Trevor Baxendale (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt, Dan Pinn & Gareth Bowley)

Hamster Book Club - Eaters of Wasps by Trevor Baxendale (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt, Dan Pinn & Gareth Bowley)

Bzzzzzz! It's one of Gareth and Dan's all time favourites but what will the book club think as they head to Marpling (geddit?) and face time travellers, bombs and mutant evil wasps?

01:41:34  |   Tue 18 Feb 2025
Strictly Come Hamster - Season 21 (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt, Paul Cresser & Steven B)

Strictly Come Hamster - Season 21 (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt, Paul Cresser & Steven B)

Join Joe, David, Paul & Steven as we face murderous reptiles, the menacing Malus, terrifying Tractators, deadly Daleks, cursed Kamelion & toxic Spectrox! But who will suceed?

03:56:12  |   Sun 16 Feb 2025
Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters (4/4)

Talks to Elliot about his choice of The Gunfighters (4/4)

Joe & Elliot; 'Til there's blood upon the sawdust...' The William Hartnell era love in concludes with more reasons to love the Gunfighters and the era than you can shoot a Buntline at...

00:41:43  |   Fri 14 Feb 2025
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