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Hidden In Plain Sight: Capaldi & McGann in Christmas Poster?

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Why are Paul McGann and Peter Capaldi hiding in the new Doctor Who Christmas special poster? Released today, to images are available to promote The Time of the Doctor.

The first is a portrait of Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman, with a ghostly Peter Capaldi staring from the embers behind the Cyberman’s head. Accompanying this is a landscape version, in which Paul McGann’s face can be seen in the flames of another fire.

While Steven Moffat said at the weekend’s Doctor Who Celebration event that we wouldn’t be seeing Paul McGann again, this image perhaps hints that he hasn’t gone just yet…

One Doctor at a time is the real rule – ‘Who would be on the lunchbox?’ is always my question when we talk about having more than one Doctor.

Of course, as we all know, The Moff Lies.

(With thanks to Paddy)

Update: Make Your Own Mind Up!

Someone, somewhere, said “fake”.

We’ll ignore how rude that is; this isn’t a two-bit Tumblr.

Instead, you guys make your own minds up with the images from the BBC:

Portrait
Landscape

Feel free to download and inspect.

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Christmas Episode Named: The Time Of The Doctor [VIDEO]

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

We’ve barely said goodbye to The Day of the Doctor - but today the BBC has confirmed the name of the final Matt Smith episode of Doctor Who, accompanied by striking artwork…

Expected to air on Christmas Day, the episode will feature Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and Silents. It will also mark the end of the current Doctor’s life and feature Smith’s replacement, Peter Capaldi. You can get a flavour by clicking play above.

Starring Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman, the episode also features Orla Brady (Fringe, Sinbad), with Digital Spy exclusively revealing that:

Brady’s character is someone from the Doctor’s past, with the plot of the festive episode revolving around her.

Speculation has been rife: if this is a character known to Doctor Who fans, then the smart money is on:

Romana
The Rani
Jenny

Here’s the newly-released synopsis:

Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe’s deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars – and amongst them, the Doctor.

Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.

We have but a month left of the Eleventh Doctor…

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Miss Doctor Who on The One Show? Catch Up Now! [VIDEO]

James Lomond is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Topical magazine program, The One Show, went all-Who last Wednesday with special guests John Hurt and Jenna Coleman! Check below for a TARDIS-based Moffat interview with the Tom Baker-esque Gyles Brandworth (he’s a bit eccentric). The Moff discusses scaring the kids, the limits to Time Lord regenerations and -crucially- confirms whether or not the Doctor is half-human.

The show is currently available on BBC iPlayer and you can click below for a highlight – a rare performance of the Doctor Who theme (or themes) from the Radiophonic Workshop. It comes replete with live percussionist and a Tomb-style Cyberman who looks like he’s wandered into the chill-out section of a rave…

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Competitions All Week On Kasterborous!

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

To celebrate Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary and to make a bit of space here at Kasterborous Towers, we’re giving away a load of anniversary merchandise throughout this week.

Look out for books, magazines, games and even toys…

First up, head to our forum where two copies of The Doctors – The Archive are up for grabs – closes 11.59pm on Sunday, December 1st.

On Tuesday, we’ll be offering the chance to win the complete collection of eleven BBC Books released to celebrate 50 years.

Wednesday you will be able to make your claim on a 500 piece Doctor Who jigsaw.

This Thursday grab the opportunity to win the brand new Doctor Who Top Trumps Turbo game.

Friday rounds off our giveaway with a mammoth collection of merchandise from Character!

Don’t miss out – check back all week for your chance to win,

 

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Moffat: The Doctor Has Used Up His Regenerations

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

It’s the end – but with the casting of Peter Capaldi, the moment has been prepared for.

Nevertheless, Steven Moffat has hinted that the meta-crisis regeneration and the reveal of the War Doctor has pushed back the Doctor’s ability to survive his impending death.

Doctor Who‘s mythology was enhanced in 1977 serial The Deadly Assassin in which it was established that Time Lords can only regenerate 12 times – after this, it really is the end.

With the 2008 meta-crisis regeneration in 2008 (The Stolen Earth, Journey’s End) and the addition of John Hurt’s War Doctor in The Name of the Doctor/The Day of the Doctor, the man we’ve called Eleven since 2010 is in fact number thirteen – and the last of the Time Lords has no more regenerations to cheat death.

Says a BBC source:

There have been two David Tennant Doctor Whos technically and with John Hurt playing another Doctor in the film, it basically means he can’t regenerate again.

The riddle of the regeneration problem, something fans have talked about for decades, will be faced head on at Christmas. There is going to be another huge cliffhanger and somehow Peter Capaldi has to join and the series has to continue.

The show’s big fans, known as Whovians, won’t believe their eyes at Christmas.

So, that must mean the end of Doctor Who, right?

Well, of course it doesn’t. There’s another Doctor waiting, a new face ready to emerge at Christmas.

Not convinced? Well, here’s what the Moff had to say:

The 12 regenerations limit is a central part of Doctor Who mythology – science fiction is all about rules, you can’t just casually break them.

So if the Doctor can never change again, what’s Peter Capaldi doing in the Christmas special?

It looks as though there will be a fascinating story ready to play out – and we’ll learn a little bit more about that tomorrow…

(Via The Mirror)

 

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Reviewed: The Enemy of the World on DVD

Elton Townend Jones is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

You’re a Doctor Who fan, so it probably won’t have escaped your notice that two ‘lost’ stories from the much-lionised Patrick Troughton era were recently recovered amid a flurry of press and publicity that almost threatened to melt the internet – twice.

Back from wherever telly-we’re-never-going-to see-again lives came the all-time most-wanted ‘lost story’, the apparently unassailable The Web of Fear (yeah, some might say, just like Tomb of the Cybermen was unassailable – until we saw it…) and its intriguing but less well-regarded season-mate The Enemy of the World.

They were back and it was about time and we were so, so lucky to be able to have them again.  Even now, it’s pretty hard to tell whether or not we’d know they were back at all just yet, if not for the press leak that fuelled the so-called ‘omni-rumour’ (of 109 recovered episodes, apparently) and the wildfire press and fan attention (Internet Melt 1) that pinned down the BBC and those-in-the-know-that-didn’t-mind-lying-about-it-to-those-not-in-the-know and practically forced them to reveal that something had been returned.  What follows, as you no doubt know, was a very twenty-first century development, and that was the ‘rush release’ of said stories onto iTunes for download into the hand of hungry – perhaps even greedy – fans such as you or I before any whole or part of them could find themselves pirated onto YouTube or whatever, but mostly because they wanted to be kind to us and make sure we had them as soon as possible (Internet Melt 2).  Yeah, that just might be true, that they had our interests at heart.  Who could, in all faith, deny that?  I mean, it’s not like they were going to be releasing them on proper DVDs any time soon, was it?

It’s been a month since we all downloaded these recovered stories from iTunes because the BBC wanted to be kind to us and make sure we had them as soon as possible.  They had our interests at heart.  Who could, in all faith, deny that?  I mean, it’s not like they were going to be releasing them on DVD any time soon, was it?

Well, it’s been about a month, maybe six weeks since we all downloaded these recovered stories and realised that the ugly sister – The Enemy of the World – was actually way better than its much-feted sibling.  You’ve shelled out your hard-earned and those without Apple computers have growled and cursed at the inadequacies of the iTunes experience, but in the end, those nice folks at the BBC rewarded you with perhaps one of the most striking bits of 1960s telly you’re ever likely to see, let alone one of the most accomplished bits of Doctor Who…

The Enemy of the World, written by David Whitaker – perhaps the biggest single influence on early Doctor Who – and directed by future producer Barry Letts, marking his place as one of the series’ most inventive and creative directors, is relentlessly and magnificently epic.  Those who read Ian Marter’s excellent 1980s novelisation might have suspected as much, but this one just keeps on moving, full of intrigue, excitement, double-cross, red herrings, and twists and turns aplenty.  At its simplest – because you’ve all seen it, so not much point in me telling you at great length – the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive in Australia in the year 2018, where it turns out the Doctor is the exact double of would-be world dictator Ramon Salamander.  At the request of Salamander’s enemies, the Doctor impersonates Salamander and travels across continents in an attempt to expose the villain’s dark secrets and reveal the hand behind a number of volcanic disasters to recently have beset the world.

Letts uses every directorial and visual trick in the book to keep the story moving at an exciting pace – the helicopter P.O.V in episode one is jaw-dropping on its own (yes – they have a helicopter!  And a hovercraft!), as are the back projections used to fill out the park and the jetty, the model shots and visual effects used to effectively portray Salamander’s ‘lift’ into his underground base, and the final TARDIS effects sequences.  All of this stuff, if you’ve never seen it before, elicits whoops and coos of wonder.

Whitaker’s script is weighty and powerful, recalling his historical tales from the William Hartnell period more than anything else, and the cast is varied and as original a bunch of characters as Doctor Who will see at this point in its history.  Comic actor Bill Kerr fills Giles Kent with a desperate edgy steel, Milton Johns is deliciously sadistic as Benik, Carmen Munroe eats up the screen as the gorgeous and impressive Fariah, while Reg Lye’s Griffin is just adorable.  The real acting kudos must of course go to Patrick Troughton, who does do an amazing job as both the Doctor and Salamander – he really does make them utterly distinct.

There are some beautiful production designs from Christopher Pemsel and costumes from Martin Baugh, both of which combine to give us an almost Captain Scarlet/Gerry Anderson near-future.  If you want to be picky, perhaps the only things that let the production down are Colin Douglas as Donald Bruce and the fact that some of the underground dwellers (Adam Verney and Margaret Hickey) are a little wooden, wet, or just too earnest.  But in terms of the allegedly brilliant Season Five, The Enemy of the World wins out by the sheer freedom it allows its creators – no boring base under siege for six weeks here (and this comes as a refreshing change after the one-note dross of The Ice Warriors); this is an exciting, varied epic adventure that spans a world and is rich with very Who-ish ideas – and, most noticeably, some of the sudden deaths and acts of violence are actually rather striking, if not downright shocking.  The Enemy of the Worldis Doctor Who doing a proper theatrical drama – a full-on Revenge Tragedy – and doing it incredibly well.

But like I said at the top of this review, you already know this, because you’ve already spent £17 downloading it and gorging yourself on it because, like me, you didn’t want to be the only fan who hadn’t seen it when the buzz was happening a few short weeks ago.

Well, now the Beeb want to sell you it again.  They want you to shell out £20rrp and do it all over again.  And who can blame them?  I mean, it’s what you want, isn’t it?  The DVD?  So it can sit on your nice, chronologically organised shelf?  Not like that messy downloady thing cluttering up your laptop files, no thank you…

But that’s OK, buying it twice is fine because you’re a completist and you’re looking forward to the Extras.  Quite right too.

 

The Enemy of the World DVD Extras

A single shiny disc with a picture on it and words that tell you what it is you’re putting into your player.
A plastic case in which to keep your shiny disc safe.
A cover with words and pictures on it telling you all about the shiny disc you’re putting into your player.
An insert with words and pictures on it telling you all about the, yeah, you get the picture…
Coming Soon Trailer for The Web of Fear (which you’ve seen three times now and already own).

I’m being a little sarcastic, of course, but there aren’t even Production Subtitles or a Commentary track.  I don’t expect miracles – I know these things take time – but am I alone in thinking I would have been happy to wait a year or so until such items could be assembled?  Surely you think the same?

On the plus side, if you manage to get hold of the ‘Limited Edition’  with an alternative cover, you don’t get any other DVD content, but you do get a nice, specially commissioned ‘Enemy of the World’ t-shirt.  Which is nice.  If you’re not interested in proper clothes.

All in all then, an undeniably disappointing release of Patrick Troughton’s finest hour (or three) as Doctor Who and one of the series’ most epic and satisfying adventures.  This – if you don’t already have it (really?!) is a Must-Own.

Completist? You can order The Enemy of the World for just £13.75 from Amazon now!

 

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Rare Doctor Who Photo Prints Available Now!

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

To celebrate Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary, The Daily Mirror has released a special magazine collecting together rarely-seen photos from their archives. It’s a surprisingly impressive collection and anyone particularly impressed can order prints from mirror-photos.co.uk.

The Doctors: The Archive features behind-the-scenes photos from serials like The Gunfighters, Terror of the Zygons, Delta and the Bannermen and Boom Town. There are also some lovely photos of the First Doctor in The Web Planet, the Third Doctor facing up to the Daleks and Matt Smith and Karen Gillan visiting the Daily Mirror offices.

Perhaps my favourites are of a War Machine chasing a pram-pushing woman down the street, a line of dancing Cybermen from Silver Nemesis, a cricket-playing Fifth Doctor, and Wendy Padbury and her legs. Just because.

The prints can be ordered framed or on canvas, but there are several cooler options, including the selected photo on a t-shirt, mug, mouse mat, or even a jigsaw.

They’re really quite nifty.

There’s even something there for you Seven Keys to Doomsday fans.

While the magazine is £4.99, prices for the prints range from £9 to £99.99.

Look out for an opportunity to win a copy of the magazine soon on Kasterborous!

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Introducing: An Unearthly Child (Part Three)

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, we’ve looked back at some of the important, fan-favourite tales of all of time and space, taking on one Doctor each month, including The Moonbase, Frontier in Space, Remembrance of the Daleks and The Vampires of Venice. And it all concludes with this month’s An Unearthly Child… (Don’t forget to check out Part One and Part Two!)

The basics of Doctor Who were coming together and in August 1963, Waris Hussein, director, contacted the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in regard to what sound would be needed for An Unearthly Child…

Vworp! Vworp! Vworp!

Producer, Verity Lambert, was keen to use Ron Grainer to write the theme tune music, and staff at the Radiophonic Workshop realised it: namely, Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills. Grainer was suitably impressed with Derbyshire’s imagining (which incorporated plucked strings, white noise and test-tone oscillators, which are used to calibrate musical equipment, at different speeds, sliced and edited together on analogue tape), famously asking, “Did I write that?”

To which she replied –

“Most of it.”

The dematerialisation noise of the TARDIS, meanwhile, was created by Brian Hodgson by dragging his mother’s back door keys along the strings of an old piano, before adding electronic effects including echoes.

On 20th August, the first studio session of Doctor Who began at Ealing, a test of the original title sequence. Bernard Lodge, the designer, worked alongside Verity and other technicians to create the effect, and recently told Radio Times:

“It wasn’t initially my job, but a colleague couldn’t do it for some reason and so knowing that I was interested in science fiction, he asked me to take it on. I met with Verity Lambert and she said she wanted me to take a look at this process called “howlaround”, which had been developed by a technician called Ben Palmer. She thought it might be incorporated into the opening titles… These shapes; magic, just magic.”

‘Howlaround’ was a technique in which a video camera is pointed at its own monitor to create an incredible abstract pattern, and was used throughout the First and Second Doctor’s eras. Lodge remembers having to edit the titles down to just 20 seconds:

“I came up with the title and we found that the symmetrical lettering, too, created its own howlaround and we used this along with a pen torch to create more pattern. I thought it would be good to have the Doctor’s face coming out of the pattern, but Verity thought it would be too scary and I think she was right because when my kids saw just the shapes they were scared. Later on though when Patrick Troughton became the Doctor we plucked up courage and used his face in the new title sequence. That was a combination of the howlaround and a crumpled piece of polythene to break up the face as the light passed across it. We were very inventive in those days, always messing around and experimenting.”

19th September saw four very important ‘firsts’: the first filming of Doctor Who commenced; and it was simultaneously the very first cliffhanger! The film sequence stars Leslie Bates as the shadow of a caveman watching the TARDIS first materialise, as the first actor to be recorded for inclusion in the show.

Other ‘firsts’, trivia fans, include:

On 20th September, William Hartnell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford and William Russell all met for the first time.
The following day, first rehearsals began, though actual recording of the main team started on Friday 27th September.
As the policeman wandering through Totter’s Lane, Reg Cranfield is the first actor seen on-screen in Doctor Who, but is uncredited (as are his further roles in stories like The Invasion and The Green Death).
Barbara Wright says the first words in Doctor Who: “Wait in here please, Susan. I won’t be long.”
It’s the first and only time the Doctor is seen to smoke a pipe.

The Pilot

An Unearthly Child was originally recorded a month before full filming on the series began. However, this initial shoot was bedevilled with technical errors; a particular problem occurred with the doors of the TARDIS control room, which would not close properly, instead randomly opening and closing throughout the early part of the episode. Two versions of the scene set in the TARDIS were recorded, along with an aborted first attempt to start the second version. In fact, five different ‘pilot’ episodes have been released to the public in subsequent years!

After viewing the episode, Sydney Newman met with Verity Lambert and Waris Hussein, detailing the many faults he found with this initial effort and ordered that it be mounted again; a consequence of this was the delay of the show’s planned 16th November premiere. It was never intended as a ‘pilot,’ since the practise of producing pilots did not exist in Britain in the 1960s due to cost and limited filming schedules.

Sydney particularly didn’t like how harsh and ‘alien’ the Doctor was, seeing him instead as a father-figure who hadn’t realised his heroic side yet. William Hartnell agreed:

“I didn’t like the initial script and I told them so. It made the old man too bad-tempered. So they gave me carte blanche to introduce more humour and pathos into the part.”

During the weeks between the two tapings, changes were made to costuming, effects, performances, and the script. Differences a modern-day audience would find most notable in the pilot episode include:

The opening theme features a loud thunderclap;
As the policeman does his rounds in the opening scene, the air is clear, whereas it’s a foggy night in the transmitted episode;
The policeman is first played by Fred Rawlings (The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve), but in the transmitted show, by Reg Cranfield (The Underwater Menace; The Deadly Assassin), due to Rawlings being unavailable for the re-mounting dates;
The Doctor and Susan are said to be from the 49th Century (replaced in the transmitted episode by them being from “another time, another world”);
Instead of reading (and finding a mistake in) a book about the French Revolution, Susan splashes ink on a piece of paper, makes a Rorschach blot test from it then draws a hexagonal design – before screwing the paper up;
After putting his key in the TARDIS lock, the Doctor begins to withdraw the entire mechanism from the door (an idea later picked up in The Sensorites);
The Doctor simply wears an ordinary suit, whilst Susan wears a formal long-sleeve dress;
The TARDIS dematerialisation sound is a random mix of bleeps and tones intermixed with brief snatches of the now-iconic ‘Vworp!’ effect;
As the Doctor goes to dematerialise, Susan, Ian and Barbara all try to pull him from the controls. In the final version, only Susan realises what he is doing and tries to stop him.

Further errors include Jacqueline Hill getting caught in a doorway, a camera banging into scenery at Totter’s Lane Junkyard, William Russell knocking over a mannequin that sits next to the TARDIS, and a few dialogue mistakes.

A version edited together the first half of the taping with one of the two completed second halves was first broadcast on 26th August 1991 (to mark the closure of Lime Grove Studios), later released on the VHS compilation, The Hartnell Years. The 2005 DVD, The Beginning, contained two versions of the pilot: an unedited studio recording including all takes of the second part and a newly-created realisation using the best footage from the original recordings with additional editing and digital adjustments to remove blown lines, technical problems and to reduce studio noise. Both were remastered using VidFIRE technology that simulated the original video look of the 1963 production.

Great Men Are Forged In Fire

Of course, it’s entirely appropriate that the very first storyline – arguably called either An Unearthly Child or 100,000 BC – goes back to the Stone Age and when humanity made a big leap for survival. The control of fire was one of mankind’s earliest discoveries, and its application was manifold: most importantly, it gave us heat and light, and vitally, allowed us to cook.  It also gave us the means to heat-treat weapons and tools, as well as make ceramics. Furthermore, it could be used to repel predators.

It perhaps even gave us an advantage over the Neanderthals when the tribes of homo sapiens migrated from Africa some 50,000- 60,000 years ago to a colder Europe.

Mastering the use of fire certainly was an important part of our evolution. That doesn’t mean that everyone happily embraced fire; it was unknown and capable of great destruction.

That conflict of idea, and that fear of the future, is what An Unearthly Child is all about; being out of your depth – but still trooping on and doing your best… which just about sums up the early days of our favourite show.

The loss of cast members; ever-changing production teams; controversies; cancellation; renewed hopes; missing serials; new directions: Eleven incredible Doctors; One Time Lord.

Doctor Who’s genesis is a long and winding journey, but it was certainly worth every second.

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PodKast Says Happy Birthday, Doctor Who! [UPDATED]

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Every so often, the podKast likes to go live on Google Hangouts – and what better excuse than to discuss Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary episode The Day of the Doctor?

Here, James McLean, Brian Terranova and Kasterborous editor Christian Cawley discuss the feature-length episode, read out comments from those watching live and also spend a few moments on An Adventure in Space and Time and The Five(ish) Doctors – Reboot. We also cover various continuity questions raised by the Doctor’s successful saving of Gallifrey.

If you prefer the audio version of the podKast, worry not – it is now available to you via the player below:

Kasterborous PodKast Series 3 Episode 43 Shownotes

An Adventure in Space and Time on BBC iPlayer
An Adventure in Space and Time Reviewed
The Day of the Doctor on BBC iPlayer
The Five(ish) Doctors – Reboot on BBC iPlayer

 

 

Listen to the PodKast

There are several ways to listen. In addition to the usual player above, we’re pleased to announce that you can also stream the podKast using Stitcher, an award-winning, free mobile app available for Android and iPhone/iPad. This pretty much means that you can listen to us anywhere without downloading – pretty neat, we think you’ll agree! (Note that it can take a few hours after a new podKast is published to “catch up”.)

What’s more, you can now listen and subscribe to the podKast via our Audioboo channel! Head to http://audioboo.fm/channel/doctorwhopodkast and click play to start listening. You can also comment and record your own boos in response to our discussions!

Meanwhile you can use the player below to listen through Audioboo:

You haven’t clicked play yet?! What are you waiting for? As well as our new Stitcher and Audioboo presence you can also use one of these amazingly convenient ways to download and enjoy this week’s podKast.

Use the player in the top right of the Kasterborous home page, or visit the podKast menu link.
Listen with the “pop out” player above, which also allows you to download the podKast to your computer.
You can also take advantage of the RSS feed to subscribe to the podKast for your media player, and even find us on iTunes!

Incidentally, if you are listening on iTunes, please take the time to leave a rating and review and help us to bring in new listeners to the podKast!

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PodKast Says Happy Birthday, Doctor Who!

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Every so often, the podKast likes to go live on Google Hangouts – and what better excuse than to discuss Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary episode The Day of the Doctor?

Here, James McLean, Brian Terranova and Kasterborous editor Christian Cawley discuss the feature-length episode, read out comments from those watching live and also spend a few moments on An Adventure in Space and Time and The Five(ish) Doctors – Reboot. We also cover various continuity questions raised by the Doctor’s successful saving of Gallifrey.

We’ll have the audio version of the PodKast for you on Monday – until then, hit play to enjoy us in a visual form!

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