Doctor Who: We're All Stories in the End

It's all over. The presents are already broken, the turkey is on a plate in the fridge, and your hangover is throbbing like a well-tuned Harley. Welcome to Boxing Day. The brilliant Kenny Smith joins me to talk all about the Cybermen, and David Banks, Glasgow, Linsey Dawn McKenzie, Dunoon, Bono, the board-game Mousetrap, The Wizard of Oz, Lady Gaga, and Kenny's podcast The Power of Three, and particularly his episode interviewing the author of this New Adventure from 1993. And for my best work, subscribe to The Flaneur, a new literary and cultural magazine type thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time to look at the all-time most loved Virgin New Adventure novel, Paul Cornell's Human Nature. Along the way, Lucy McCaul and I discuss covid, knitting, crime novels, book clubs, Looms, masculinity, Bruce Willis, "The Latin Invasion", Wolsey, the "Tenth Doctor", Nathan Bottomley (swoon), Bernie Winters and Schnorbitz, tender romance, the N-word, dormitory hangings, magic, John Levene and Benton & Hawthorne Investigate. And for my best work, subscribe to The Flaneur, a new literary and cultural magazine type thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the Festive Special you definitely didn't know you wanted! If you enjoy this, please check out The Flaneur for more stuff I've written. Happy Christmas everybody! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this month's edition of Bookfaced, Iain and Michael discuss David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, and that absolute belter, Doctor Who: Hope by Mark Clapham. Happy Thanksgiving! email: allstoriespod@icloud.com And for my best work, subscribe to The Flaneur, a new literary and cultural magazine type thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A very happy Doctor Who Day to all of you at home. In association with Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV and A Hamster With A Blunt Penknife, (two of the very best in the business) I present a November 23rd Special to celebrate 62 -can you believe that?- 62 years of Doctor Who. The pod-crash continues on Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV and concludes with a motherlovin' chunker of an audio commentary on A Hamster With A Blunt Penknife. Now do us a favour in return? I go on, I work me arse off for you. Cheers. Could you donate two pounds to these guys over here? JF, DR: Love you boys Xx In the Citadel of Dreams, I go walking in my sleep, through the valley of Doubt, to the river so deep... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy Hallowe'en! To terrify you all to within an inch of your lives, I'm joined by the nicest man in podcasting, Mr Dan Pinn, Mr. Kevin Jordan our tame book reviewer, and a surprise guest, to discuss that time when The Doctor, Fitz and Anji joined George Orwell to witness the Spanish Civil War. Will it be the winning side who write the history books? The losers? Or... someone else? And for my best work, subscribe to The Flaneur, a new literary and cultural magazine type thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Flight Through Entirety pin-up Nathan Bottomley joins me to be nine kinds of clever about the BBC Books 35th anniversary novel, 1998's The Infinity Doctors. The dreamy hunk Bottomley is always a joy to speak with and I hope y'all enjoy this little chat. I know today's not special for any of you, but it's special for me. Just don't ask me how old I am now. email: allstoriespod@icloud.com And for my best work, subscribe to The Flaneur, a new literary and cultural magazine type thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for one last episode of The High Council, as Ryan and I battle it out once and for all, to see who is truly the higher. This has grave, but oddly entertaining implications for our chat about Jim Mortimore's unpublished Past Doctors novel Burning Artemis, which crept out into the world in the year 2000 as Campaign. Stay tuned at the end for the VORLD-VIDE PREMIER of the new single "That's Mortimore" by THE VALEYARDBIRDS... And for my best work, subscribe to The Flaneur, a new literary and cultural magazine type thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Please subscribe to The Flaneur. That's literally all you need to do. Paid subscribers rule the universe, but of course free subscribers are...tolerated. For now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shut it, you shabby-looking shit, or I'll gut you with this bookies' pencil-stub. That's got your attention, hasn't it? I spend ages writing these episode descriptions and I'm fairly certain that no bugger reads them. Ah, first world problems... It's another mega-extended director's cut of a chat this month, as I sit down with Alex Wilcock (a self-confessed Virgin New Adventures supergeek) who even owns a t-shirt with all 61 NA covers proudly on display. We're talking about the 1995 New Adventure Head Games, by Steve Lyons, whose previous book in the range, 1994's Conundrum, is held in the highest regard by virtually everyone who's read it. While we discuss the return of Bonnie Langford's ebullient Bush, a genocide on Detrios, and a fight to the death between Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy (always bet on wiry strength, ferocity and speed over size or waistline) we also learn a lot about Alex's life, his wedding, his childhood and, erm, Liz Truss. This is a really fun chat, and that's before we find out where Kev's calling from this time. Enjoy the show, and come and say hi on Bluesky; I'm @theiainmartin.bsky.social email the show at: allstoriespod@icloud.com And for my best work, subscribe to The Flaneur, a new literary and cultural magazine type thing. Or, if you happen to be in the United States of America, join me on alternate Saturday evenings at Saints Row Brewery in Gaithersburg, MD. (A long-shot, of course, but you never know...) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What connects cricket, The Mary Whitehouse Experience and November Rain? It can only be the 50th Virgin New Adventure Happy Endings, a uniquely divisive book but a uniquely welcome celebration. Welcome, welcome, and do try not to shag the groom. email: allstoriespod@icloud.com And for my best work, subscribe to The Flaneur, a new literary and cultural magazine type thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More incoherent ass-casting from two exceedingly high gentlemen who want, despite their extreme limitations, to tell you all about 1993's aborted 30th anniversary special written by Adrian Rigelsford, for Tom Baker and Rik Mayall. And stay tuned for the world premiere of "Let's Kill the Doctor Again" by... Vervoid Revolver. And subscribe to The Flaneur, a new literary and cultural magazine type thing. It is, literally, my best work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Ryan myself at the secret intersection of Big Finish and the EDA's: The Company of Friends - Fitz's Story. Once again we battle extreme vertigo to bring you a focused, serious and insightful review. Once again, we fail. but stay tuned for the WORLD PREMIERE of the new single 'Velvet Paradox' by UBtype40. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This time we are once again veering off-course and looking at a different Doctor in fiction, this time the fourth Doctor who appears in a tale written by...the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker. I'm joined by the potty-mouthed irreverent scamp Harry from a famous 80's prog band to discuss this bizarre entry into the world of written Who. This is very much NSFW, for which I'm very sorry. It's all Harry's fault. He leads me astray, as you'll hear... Follow us at: BlueskySaint's Row Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Strap yourselves in, we're flying to Sarn. In this episode, the High Council meet to discuss the Twelfth Doctor story Sleep No More. It seemed poor in 2015, but has time been kind to this Mark Gatiss script? Plus, stay tuned at the end for the WORLD PREMIERE of the single "Morpheus Crisis" by 90's funk-rock band Faith No Morlock. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Star of the podcast Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV, Dylan "I'm not wanking off Sergeant Benton" Rees goes cheek to cheek with me to explore an old Doctor Who novel in all our smart and manly ways. This episode is sponsored by Saint's Row Brewery in Gaithersburg MD, and by the pop star Kate Nash's divine derriere. With our correspondent Kevin Jordan joining us from the hard shoulder of the M11. email: allstoriespod@icloud.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Iain and Ryan discuss BBCi's 2003 animated webcast The Scream of the Shalka with all the nonsense, tangents and factual inaccuracies we're coming to know and love in... The High Council. And stay tuned at the end for the WORLD PREMIERE of SHALKA POLICE by RADIOHEDIN. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deep in the enchanted forest the ugly sisters are tormenting Anji, Fitz accompanies two princes on a magical quest, and Doctor Know-it-all has Giant problems of his own. Sergeant-Major Ryan Blake of UNIT joins me to pick the bones out of this one. Follow us at: BlueskySaint's Row Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Like the Christ, Iain and Joe return quite unexpectedly to carry on where they left off. This episode goes a little bit NSFW, but let's hope no-one nails me to a tree over it, eh? Follow us at: BlueskySaint's Row Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The start of a new mini-series devoted to Doctor Who stories which aren't exclusively prose-based. The High Council, (Lord President Ryan Blake and me, Castellan Scoundrel) discuss TV stories, audios, animations, graphic novels, anything really. We hope you will join us up here at our elevated vantage point, way way up in the sky in geostationary orbit. Email us at: allstoriespod@icloud.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.