Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

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Radio Free Skaro is possibly the most popular, most prolific and charmingly irreverent (but never irrelevant) Doctor Who podcast around. Since August 2006, hosts Warren (in Vancouver, BC) and Steven (in Edmonton, AB) have provided listeners with their brand of amusing Doctor Who praise and punishment. A year later, Chris (also in Edmonton, AB) was added to the team, and The Three Who Rule were born. Recommended by Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Free Skaro provides an entertaining and diverting listen for the diehard or casual Doctor Who fan. New episodes usually appear on Sundays, following a loose magazine format of the three hosts discussing the news and events of the past week in the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the Sarah Jane Adventures. They have also recorded special commentary podcasts for classic series and new series episodes of Doctor Who along with interviews of some of the brightest of the Doctor Who luminaries. Radio Free Skaro is also the official podcast of Gallifrey One, the world's largest and longest-running annual Doctor Who convention.

  1. 1d ago

    Radio Free Skaro #1076 - The Ceefax Initiative

    The UK is awash in televisual Mrrahhh Business this week as Sky is set to purchase ITV for $2.13 billion and what better "experts" to weigh in on the subject than three Canadians with a passing familiarity with the industry? Plus a surfeit of Troughton-era goodness in the form of a massive production diary of the era by author David Brunt and a Doctor Who: Legends special featuring Ol' Two himself. We also have blatant foreign election interference as we endorse Count Binface and poorly explain what Ceefax is to the younger generations who do not in any way care! All this AND part one of our Classic Series Commentary for the newly released special edition of "Warriors Of The Deep"!! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon 'Doomsday' 20 years on – remembering the final adventure of the Doctor and Rose Sky acquires ITV for $2.13 billion BBC "Discussing" Partnership With Channel 4 in Streaming Race for Scale Doctor Who: Legends – Patrick Troughton available July 16 The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Troughton Years available August 14 Dalek 63-88: How One Director Made '60s Doctor Who Look Like Cinema Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers available now Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master – Part One released Commentary Warriors of the Deep Part One

    1h 23m

  2. Jul 5

    Radio Free Skaro #1075 - Open Wide for Some Soccer

    We're Breaking Circuits over here at Radio Free Skaro Towers, with a web-based UNIT story setting up the whole shebang and a new Titan Comics adventure (which we have read in preview form) soon to come! While TWBLATS has yet to grace North American bandwidth via Disney+, the BBC Writers Room site has provided scripts for you to peruse! Plus Steven Moffat continues his unofficial Doctor Who appreciation tour with a guest appearance on Peter Purves' podcast, Blake's 7 Series C Blu-Ray available for preorder in the US, and the conclusion of our Classic Series Commentary for part four of Spearhead From Space! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Circuit Breaker: An Introduction Doctor Who Circuit Break #1 available July 8 from Titan Comics Doctor Who: 20 Years On – The Tenth Doctor BFI event Aug 15, tickets on sale July 9 The War Between the Land and the Sea scripts available on the BBC Writers Room site Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O'Clock released Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides due August 2026 Steven Moffat on Peter Purves' podcast Target Book Club 2026 happening October 24 in London Blake's 7 Season C available for US preorder, quotes Dec 1 release Blake's 7: Revenge of the Mutoes & Other Stories audiobook coming July 23 Justin Richards obituary Big Finish tribute to Justin Richards Commentary Spearhead From Space, Episode 4

    1h 13m

  3. Jun 28

    Radio Free Skaro #1074 - The Happy Days-verse

    It's a bumper crop of news this week despite a complete lack of Doctor Who…except for Circuit Breaker, which begins by way of an online game where you join UNIT! Plus a fine interview with Steven Moffat on the Whoniverse Show, some fine Big Finish Zaprudering, and some truly insane talk about both a possible (but thankfully never followed up on) Doctor Who-Star Trek crossover and a deep investigation into the Happy Days animated universe! Don a leather jacket and say "Wonzie" with us! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Bad Wolf producing The Other Bennet Sister Christmas special in July There were ideas for a Doctor Who/Strange New Worlds crossover Doctor Who Magazine #631 Jo Martin DWM interview excerpt Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker begins Steven Moffat on The Whoniverse Show Steven Moffat improvs a Doctor Who story Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Gallifrey: War Room: Loyalties available now Big Finish: Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon released Big Finish: Torchwood: Legacy due Sep/Oct 2026 David Daker died April 30 Whocast (German Doctor Who podcast) celebrates 20 years on July 3 Simon Guerrier delivered a talk about David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks at the York Festival of Ideas

    1 hr

  4. Jun 21

    Radio Free Skaro #1073 - Cancel Culture

    If you thought a complete vacuum of Doctor Who news would stop the Three Who Rule from prognostication based on the vapours and some recent UK media podcast analysis about the BBC tendering process, boy howdy you would be wrong! Thrill to our educated guesses as to where we go from here in a fractured media landscape! Puzzle over the tender process! Draw no real conclusions! Plus part the third of our Spearhead from Space Classic Series Commentary! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Rest is Entertainment podcast on the Doctor Who farrago The War Between not in the Disney+ schedule for July How I Filmed This – Rachel Talalay – Regenerating Doctor 12 to Doctor 13 First Doctor Who Collect & Build Set to be released June 29 Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks – Part Three released Commentary: Spearhead From Space, Episode 3

    1h 17m

  5. Jun 14

    Radio Free Skaro #1072 - This Song May Be Over

    It's (not) the end, but the moment has been prepared for! Well, not as such but a press release from the BBC confirms what we long suspected: there will not be a Christmas special nor were plans for one ever seriously pursued. Sad news to be sure, but we've cobbled together industry and wider fan reaction along with our own lengthy takes tinged with what we'd like to think is both optimism and realism. More importantly, we have former Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury to give us his rather more informed take on the whole situation. Brave Heart, Tegan, after all somewhere the tea is getting cold.  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon An update on the future of Doctor Who 'Doctor Who' Set To Be Off Air For Years Amid A Creative Regeneration That's Failing To Spark Enthusiasm Among Producers Russell T Davies on Instagram: "For the record, there was no script" Russell T Davies: Doctor Who hasn't been cancelled Bad Wolf Studios post on Instagram Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who news Andy Pryor also leaving Doctor Who Variety: 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Not Going Forward as Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf Exit Series 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Canceled, As Russell T Davies & Bad Wolf Exit BBC Sci-Fi Series Vinay Patel on the stress of making Doctor Who BBC tendering process explained Doctor Who's Billie Piper Stunt Was Never Going to Pay Off by Kyle Anderson Doctor Who premiered on AMC+ in the US only Recovered: Doctor Who Special with Film Is Fabulous in Leicester Aug 15 The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television by Russell T Davies due Oct 8 Big Finish: Planet Krynoid – Survivors released Big Finish: The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Reunion due Aug 2026 Big Finish: The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill due August 2026 Nicola Bryant did the narration for The Ultimate Evil Lifelong Doctor Who collection fetches £49,000 Sir Sherlock – The Sickle and the Sea Kickstarter, fully funded in less than a day Michael Keating obituary by Toby Hadoke Gene Shalit died Interview: Tom Spilsbury

    1h 56m

  6. Jun 7

    Radio Free Skaro #1071 - Minimal Editing

    The rumours and nonsense continue to bubble up from the internet swamps this week with claims of the Christmas Special shot in a minimal style, a fake news release to irritate us all, and actual footage of RTD saying there will be a BBC press release in a week or two. The Three Who Rule dig deep and are quite skeptical of all this torpor (other than RTD's almost certainly correct claim) as well the usual Big Finish and Dalek 63-88 updates and Part the Second of our Classic Series Commentary for Spearhead from Space! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon RTD says to expect a press release about Doctor Who in the next couple weeks "BBC Announces Doctor Who Christmas Special to Mark End of an Era" fake press release The Doctor Who Gossip No One Is Talking About – Because No One Knows About It Dalek 63-88: Why The Daleks' Master Plan Makes No Sense – The Galactic Warfare Problem Big Finish Day 2027 will be April 17, 2027 Big Finish: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Lethal Progress released Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: New Pathways due Nov 2026 Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: River and Rory due Jan 2027 Anthony Stewart Head 1954-2026 Commentary: Spearhead from Space, Episode 2

    1h 5m

  7. May 31

    Radio Free Skaro #1070 - Do They Know It's Christmas?

    Jingle bells are probably silent this Christmas as, if RTD's hinting in the UK media has led the Three Who Rule to conclude, after Mr. Davies stating he won't be filming anything this year, so…whither Doctor Who Christmas Special? We get after it! We also look into the spectacular looking 4K release of the 1996 TV Movie, our thoughts on the Mandolorian and Grogu, the usual Big Finish Zaprudering, and an interview with Sophie Aldred, Paul Cornell and author Adrian Tchaikovsky and their involvement in the Salvation's Child graphic novel! Space Comics! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Radio Times report on supposed upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special Russell T Davies on LBC: "I'm not filming anything until 2027" Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann on the Whoniverse Show Jonathan Helm on the Doctor Who TV Movie pre-titles sequence Doctor Who TV Movie 4K review Doctor Who Magazine 630 released Doctor Who (1963-1996) coming to Britbox in Australia in June Doctor Who Adventures: Save the Humans! due Aug 18 Cybertropolis The Art & Times of the Cybermen from Andrew Skilleter due autumn 2026 Big Finish: Torchwood: Fare Well released Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers due July 2026 Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident due July 2026 Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Planet Killers due October 2026 Paradise Towers: Unalive the Multiverse Kickstarter from Cutaway Comics Marcia Lucas passes away Interview: Salvation's Child graphic novel Paul Cornell Sophie Aldred Adrian Tchaikovsky

    1h 23m

  8. May 24

    Radio Free Skaro #1069 - Thunderballs, I Calls 'Em

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Radio Free Skaro is possibly the most popular, most prolific and charmingly irreverent (but never irrelevant) Doctor Who podcast around. Since August 2006, hosts Warren (in Vancouver, BC) and Steven (in Edmonton, AB) have provided listeners with their brand of amusing Doctor Who praise and punishment. A year later, Chris (also in Edmonton, AB) was added to the team, and The Three Who Rule were born. Recommended by Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Free Skaro provides an entertaining and diverting listen for the diehard or casual Doctor Who fan. New episodes usually appear on Sundays, following a loose magazine format of the three hosts discussing the news and events of the past week in the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the Sarah Jane Adventures. They have also recorded special commentary podcasts for classic series and new series episodes of Doctor Who along with interviews of some of the brightest of the Doctor Who luminaries. Radio Free Skaro is also the official podcast of Gallifrey One, the world's largest and longest-running annual Doctor Who convention.

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  • Creator
    The Three Who Rule
  • Years Active
    2007 - 2026
  • Episodes
    1.3K
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Radio Free Skaro
  • Show Website
    Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

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