Hamster Book Club Halloween Special - White Darkness by David A. McIntee (featuring James Lark & Michael Mills)

More episodes from "A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast"

• 

  Hamster Book Club Halloween Special - White Darkness by David A. McIntee (featuring James Lark & Michael Mills)

  vor 2 Tagen

  2:04:44

  Real life historical atrocities rub shoulders with mythological and cosmic horror rub shoulders with James Bond spy thriller! There is much to discuss in this neglected and surprisingly contentious book...
• 

  The (X) Hamster Files - Ghost in the Machine (featuring Agent Ioan Morris)

  10/27/2025

  50:32

  Evil sentient technology…a portent of the future? How does The X-Files tackle HAL? Agent Morris is with me to do all the hard work and let me take all the credit!
• 

  Don't miss an episode of “A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast” and subscribe to it in the GetPodcast app.

  
• 

  Hamster Book Club - Vanderdekens Children by Christopher Bulis (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Jon Arnold & Andrew Batty)

  10/26/2025

  2:00:59

  War in the Hamster Book Club! As we explore Christopher Bulis' gaping orifice, there is a huge spread of opinions. Is this the Middest of all Doctor Who writers...or are there some surprises?
• 

  Talks to Dr Simon Exton about his choice of The Moonbase (4/4)

  10/25/2025

  35:39

  That’s taken care of the Cybermen! The most powerful tea tray in history! Is gravity the best weakness of the Cybermen ever? And have you ever seen a bigger ray gun?
• 

  Talks to Dr Simon Exton about his choice of The Moonbase (3/4)

  10/25/2025

  30:43

  What the hell her the ingredients of a Polly cocktail? Is this her best episode? And are Jamie and Ben both in love with her?
• 

  Hamster Book Club - The Last Dodo by Jacqueline Rayner (featuring Gareth Bowley, Dan Pinn & David Gillespie-Pratt)

  10/23/2025

  2:10:27

  A throwaway New Series Adventure or a moving lesson in the human races extinction list? We tackle the thorny subject of extinction, of museums, and of conservation in this surprisingly touching book.
• 

  The (X) Hamster Files - Shadows (featuring Agent Frazer Gregory)

  10/21/2025

  50:20

  The first supernaural case in The X-Files - a woman haunted by her murdered boss who is trying to protect her from the people who killed him. Is this so serious that Frazer's journey will end before it begins?
• 

  Talks to Dr Simon Exton about his choice of The Moonbase (2/4)

  10/20/2025

  26:12

  Our discussion of this under appreciated story continues as we figure out…it’s in the sugar! Troughton charms, and his scenes with Polly charm the most.
• 

  Strictly Come Hamster - the rest of Hartnell (Jon Arnold, David Gillespie Pratt & Frazer Gregory)

  10/19/2025

  3:51:48

  The maddest, most contentious, most laughter filled Strictly yet! How can the fag end of Hartnell provoke so many potent opinions?
• 

  Talks to Dr Simon Exton about his choice of The Moonbase

  10/17/2025

  36:07

  Grab your Polly cocktails, zip up your quilted spacesuits, avoid the Phantom Piper...we're heading to the moon!