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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

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89 episodes

3 weeks ago

Type 40 is a Doctor Who Podcast from The Spacebook for The Fandom Podcast Network. On this show we take an in depth and extra-dimensional look at this beloved television series. The spin offs, the merchandise, even the fandom itself. Doctor Who's gone from home grown, family favourite to international entertainment legend. Shaping the landscape of the whole science-fiction and fantasy genre along the way for nearly 6 decades! Now step into our TARDIS to share these journeys and conversations here on Type 40: A fun, mix of reviews, interviews and feature episodes. With a regular panel of voices of all ages, from all over the world. United in their love of this adventure in space and time... Type 40 is available across all relative pod catchers and streaming platforms dimensions. Download or stream to listen and rock out with your Doc' out! Feedback via our social media platforms on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Type 40 is a Doctor Who Podcast from The Spacebook for The Fandom Podcast Network. On this show we take an in depth and extra-dimensional look at this beloved television series. The spin offs, the merchandise, even the fandom itself. Doctor Who's gone from home grown, family favourite to international entertainment legend. Shaping the landscape of the whole science-fiction and fantasy genre along the way for nearly 6 decades! Now step into our TARDIS to share these journeys and conversations here on Type 40: A fun, mix of reviews, interviews and feature episodes. With a regular panel of voices of all ages, from all over the world. United in their love of this adventure in space and time... Type 40 is available across all relative pod catchers and streaming platforms dimensions. Download or stream to listen and rock out with your Doc' out! Feedback via our social media platforms on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Episodes (20/89)

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #160: Saving Face

At the annual Edinburgh TV Festival for 2025 the BBC has had its usual formidable presence. Multiple executives talking telly! Given Doctor Who’s very public problems in recent months, it’s hardly surprising the topic came up several times. Key people involved in the future of the property as an ongoing television series addressed the fandom directly. We gathered a roundtable of our regular voices, moderated by host Dan Hadley, to explore the quotes and statements. Offering our observations and hopes or fears for the short term and long term future of the world’s best loved science-fiction and fantasy series...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #159: FAQ with Antony Wainer

There can’t be many Doctor Who fans who’ve not found themselves on the other end of a grilling by friends, family, co-workers or other fans concerning their precise history with the series! And it’s so often the same batch of questions and queries fired our way in short order… They’re the most Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travellers: the backbone of this strand of shows within our long running Doctor Who podcast, stretching right the way back. Blowing the dust off the casket to reach back to those scrolls, we’ve found the perfect person to relaunch the umbrella series. Our very own Antony Wainer!

1 month ago

1 hour 40 minutes

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #158: The Great Deflector

Doctor Who: the world’s longest running, best loved Science Fiction and fantasy TV series – is on “Pause”. Following a disastrous relaunch co-production between BBC Studios, Bad Wolf Studios and Disney+ a little more than 18 months ago… The Type 40 roundtable of Time Agents have gathered to process two interviews showrunner Russell T Davies has given, in recent weeks. For any indication as to where things are at with the Time Lord. Our discussion was recorded as live with regular host Dan Hadley taking comments from multiple platforms, back in the cloister room.

2 months ago

1 hour 14 minutes

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #157: The State of 2025 with Ken Deep

To mark the 20th birthday of Doctor Who podcasting itself, one of the voices of that first historic show drops in for this long form conversation. Exploring where the Doctor Who series and it’s fandom find themselves, in the wake of that ending to yet another Doctor’s tenure in the TARDIS... Ken Deep is a writer, convention organiser and educator who’s well known and respected within the Doctor Who community. He’s returned to our own podcast for this candid, no holds barred airing of differences! As well as to explore so, so much common ground: that which brings us all together, either behind the mic’s or hitting play? Doctor Who. Oh and Doctor Who podcasting itself, of course! All’s far from harmonious, out there in the Whoniverse. With everyone or anyone who knows anything at all, being tight-lipped! No danger of that on this special Doctor Who Podcast Day episode of Type 40 HERE:

3 months ago

2 hours 3 minutes 12 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #156: The Time Meddler Review

Resuming our randomised, rambunctious revelling’s in Doctor Who adventures from across the decades on Type 40! Our regular panels primed, prepped and positively raring to go, for better or worse… The second season of the classic era closed out with The Time Meddler by Dennis Spooner. Taking the Doctor, his companion Vicki and stowaway space pilot Steven back to 1066 where someone is meddling with Earth history?

4 months ago

1 hour 52 minutes 50 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #154: Quizzed with Daisy Ashford and Sadie Miller

You regular hosts Simon Horton and Dan Hadley returned to QUAD in Derby to host a panel with two terrific guests. Playing along with questions both serious and not so much, pulled from a TARDIS tin at complete random! Daisy Ashford and Sadie Miller are actresses who’ve become familiar to Doctor Who fans in recent years, playing Liz Shaw and Sarah Jane Smith on audio for Big Finish Productions. Great sports here with no scripts or the faintest idea what’s coming next!?

8 months ago

1 hour 1 minute 5 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #153: Survivors

Type 40’s long running Doctor Who commemorating another historic date and time in the history of the Whoniverse. On the 6th December 1989 the classic series was vanquished from the schedules of BBC1 after a 4 year battle against the odds... Survivors of that fateful period Simon and Dan get together with Sarah to revisit that strangely silent Winter’s night. Don’t worry: there are still plenty of great memories and stupid jokes! Does time heal?

9 months ago

1 hour 37 minutes 12 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #152: Joy to the World Review Special

Returning for 2025 and a BRAND-NEW SEASON of our long-running Doctor Who Podcast on the Fandom Podcast Network: it’s Type 40! With familiar voices and brand-new contributors alike. All gathering around the mic’s to cover the whole Whoniverse both on and off screen… Beginning with this full review of the latest Doctor Who Christmas Special, Joy to the World by veteran writer Steven Moffat. The second special to star Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor. Topping off a divisive year for our favourite Sci-Fi and Fantasy TV series!

10 months ago

1 hour 34 minutes 33 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #151: Mount Who – For Doctor Who Podcast Day 2024

Regular panellists Sarah, Charlotte, Simon and Dan are all in session to deliberate on which four personalities from over 60 years of the Whoniverse would be on the Mount Rushmore of Doctor Who? From both in front of and behind the cameras. Our panel evaluate their impact, performances, decisions and legacies as they go... Who made the cut? From the easy charm of Jon Pertwee to the enigmatic father figure of series creator Sydney Newman and the impossibly long legs of Karen Gillan? We’ll analyse each candidates’ unique contributions to the series.

1 year ago

1 hour 44 minutes 18 seconds

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #150: Space Babies - Review

For the 150th edition of Type 40 we begin covering the All-New 2024 season in depth! This one continues from where last Christmas’s special left off. We review Space Babies, written by series showrunner Russell T Davies, our panel come with radically contrasting takes. Will they find anything to agree on? Regular hosts Simon, Charlotte and Dan have a lot to say, as always! From the pairing of latest incarnation of the Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa with Millie Gibson as Ruby to the production design and how it measures up to season premieres past.

1 year ago

1 hour 46 minutes 25 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #149: The Church on Ruby Road Review Special

On Christmas Day 2023, we were served a steaming hot hour of snow, steeples, goblins and all the trimmings in The Church on Ruby Road written by returning showrunner Russell T Davies. Featuring the first full length adventure of our new Doctor and the debut of the series newest companion, Ruby Sunday. Now we bring you a full review of the special: our initial thoughts on Ncuti Gatwa’s incarnation of the Doctor and best guesses as to where things could go from here. Join regular host Dan Hadley with original co-host Kyle Wagner returning to the console room! Alongside the ever-insightful Charlotte Shields for some late Christmas cheer! Timed to coincide with Disney+ repackaging the special internationally to launch the first season of this all-important All New restart.

1 year ago

1 hour 57 minutes 17 seconds

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #148: One Vision With Ian Levine

Our long running Doctor Who podcast returns to commence coverage of the Ncuti Gatwa era, beginning with this traditional preview of the first season premiering now on BBC iPLAYER and Disney+ The new era rather stalled on Boxing Day! Now we’ve official word of what’s to come in his first entire season of the 15th Doctors adventures! And we’re not alone because our guest once again is fandom legend, Ian Levine: Saviour of the Daleks and one of Doctor Who most seasoned commentators. Who better for regular panellists Simon, Charlotte and Dan to decode the title teasers and hunt for answers to the questions on all our minds?

1 year ago

2 hours 27 seconds

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #147: With Ian Levine

There’s been a massive amount of public interest surrounding Doctor Who since its debut. Association with it has both made and arguably ended fortunes. There are a select set of people who seem inseparable from it. Generally they’re those you’d think! Many household names and industry darlings. And then there’s Ian Levine… A tremendously successful man in his chosen fields or Songwriting and Music Production. To fellow fans though, he’s perhaps a polarising yet undoubtedly fascinating person. He joins regular hosts Sarah, Simon and Dan for this extended exclusive new interview. Just as he’s wowing the Whoniverse with a brand-new project, to bring the missing episodes back to life. Where do we start? How on Earth could we finish?? What dirt could he dish? Is Ian Levine really the ultimate Doctor Who fan?

1 year ago

2 hours 6 minutes 16 seconds

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #146: DWAS Reimagined with Tony Jordan

Times are changing for The Doctor Who Appreciation Society! Perhaps the most monumental changes in the near 5 decades of this, the largest global fan club for dedicated followers of our favourite TV series. Whether you’re a member, a lapsed member or a never-have-been a member? There’s everything you could ever want to know about this timely reinvention of DWAS on the latest edition of Type 40: A Doctor Who Podcast. DWAS Co-ordinator Tony Jordan joins regular hosts Simon, Sarah and Dan to explain the vision of the future that’s being prepared for, as revealed earlier this week in a Special Announcement. Encompassing not just what it means to belong to the society itself, but also its long-standing magazine “Celestial Toyroom” among other things. It’s a bold plan and Tony makes for entertaining and authoritative company

1 year ago

1 hour 10 minutes 7 seconds

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #145: Plant Life with Will Hadcroft

Our first guest of 2024 on the Fandom Podcast Network’s long running Doctor Who show brings more than one story to tell! Writer Will Hadcroft’s been a fan of the series all his life. Despite being an author and publisher of several books in the last two decades, it’s been a long-held ambition to tell an original story of his own featuring the Time Lord… Happily, Doctor Who: The Resurrection Plant by Will Hadcroft was released on CD and download by BBC Audio and has proven tremendously popular. Will joins regular host Dan Hadley to take you inside the entire writing process, recap some of the creative challenges and disclose his influences and inspirations.

1 year ago

1 hour 33 minutes 35 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #144: Type 40 & Company at Whooverville 14

Last Autumn we were invited to cover one of the biggest conventions of the Doctor Who calendar: the 14th Whooverville event at Quad in Derby. Not only that: regular hosts Simon Horton and Dan Hadley hosted this interview panel, with three unsuspecting guests, which you can get to enjoy now in full! Hear the boys’ question, tease and test their panel: actor Tim Treloar who’s plays the Third Doctor in ongoing audio drama releases. Jonathan Carley’s likewise been acclaimed for his work as the War Doctor on the Big Finish range. Whilst Gary Russell is undoubtedly one of the most recognisable and reliable names in Doctor Who publishing. Our gratitude to The Whoovers convention organisers Stephen Hatcher & Andrew-Mark Thompson and everyone at Quad.

1 year ago

1 hour 34 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #143: With Christopher Jones

Christopher Jones is a comics professional: illustrator, storyboard artist and Educator from America who’s loved Doctor Who for years! Having worked for the “big two” and in television bringing to life some of pop cultures most colourful characters, he was a natural fit to draw classic incarnations of the Doctor. Now he’s returned to the Whoniverse as one of the creators involved in this exciting new graphic novel tying into the 60th anniversary, “Once Upon A Time Lord”. Christopher joins regular host, Dan Hadley to preview the book, tell the story of his action-packed career and disclose the extent of his passion for our favourite television series. It’s the ideal conversation to bring our coverage of Doctor Who’s diamond anniversary year itself to a close

1 year ago

1 hour 21 minutes 32 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #142: Whoniversal – 60 Years of Doctor Who

Finally we’re arrived at the desired co-ordinates: after the longest countdown in Doctor Who’s long history. There are three all-new diamond anniversary specials about to materialise and a great deal to look forward to over the coming months, as the series is reborn once again! Here we offer our fellow fans, friends and companions a special edition of the podcast marking our favourite TV series 60th anniversary... Join longtime hosts Sarah Graham, Simon Horton and Dan Hadley for a trip begins with the unveiling of the BBC’s dedicated hub for all things Doctor Who on the iPLAYER platform: The Whoniverse! Together they ask the question, what’s the perfect recipe for success in telling further adventures in space and time?

1 year ago

1 hour 59 minutes 14 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #141:TARDIS - Design Classic

Though our recent 60th birthday year shows concentrated on our leading men: those Doctor’s themselves. The series leading lady gets the spotlight all to herself this time, as we shower the TARDIS with the affection and attention she deserves! Regular hosts Dan, Sarah and Simon welcome TARDIS expert, Tony Farrell to the show. There’s not much he doesn’t know about the props, sets, stats and people who brought the concept to the screen for the very first time, back in 1963. So much so, BBC Wales drafted him to aid in recreating those sets for Twice Upon a Time.

2 years ago

1 hour 31 minutes 33 seconds

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #138: Father’s Day – Ninth Doctor Diamond Series Review

Christopher Eccleston’s take on the Time Lord was arresting, afflicted and yes: a little arsey. Making a massive impact on the viewing public over just three months in 2005 before departing a burst of flames! Regular panellists Sarah Graham, Stephen Noonan and Dan Hadley get together to recap this crucial time and review a standout episode from Series 1: Father’s Day by Paul Cornell… It’s a thorough discussion on a story quite unlike anything screened in the series long history, at time of transmission. But Is it still affecting? And is it good Doctor Who? You’ll get our opinions and memories delivered with the usual warmth, wit, and wisdom to stream or download HERE!

2 years ago

2 hours 18 minutes 4 seconds