Something Who
By Richard Smith
Informative and entertaining Doctor Who podcast, typically discussing two linked stories, one from each of the Classic and New series
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Episode 77: Absolutely Capital!
Just a week after we gave you the first half, here's the original Something Who team chatting again about a couple of stories that are capitalist allegories. We finish off our look at 4th Doctor story The Sunmakers from Season 15, and then move onto … -
Episode 76: Plutocracy
After an interlude for several special episodes, we've brought back the original Something Who team, and after a close encounter with an AI bot we chat about a couple of stories that are capitalist allegories.First we'll look at 4th Doctor story The … -
Episode 75: Omnirumour 10th Anniversary Special Part 2
Here's part 2 of our Omnirumour 10th Anniversary Special. On 29th March 2013, the DWO fan site said that 'a classic series related announcement' was coming and hinted that it was missing episodes related. In June of that year, the Bleeding Cool websi… -
Episode 74: Omnirumour 10th Anniversary Special
On 29th March 2013, the DWO fan site said that 'a classic series related announcement' was coming and hinted that it was missing episodes related. In June of that year, the Bleeding Cool website ran a story suggesting that a large number of missing D… -
Episode 73: Doctor Who Am I?
Here's another of our special episodes. Over a year ago our podcast Twitter account was followed by Matthew Jacobs, the writer of the TV Movie. This was both exciting and terrifying in equal measure, as we'd just made an episode that featured the TV … -
Episode 72: Steve Manfred
After our chat last time about the story The Doctor's Wife, we were contacted by long time fan and sometime Something Who listener Steve Manfred, who had something of a hand in the genesis of the story. Steve discusses his friendship with the author … -
Episode 71: The Ghost in the Machine
Here's the second half of our chat about a couple of stories that question whether the TARDIS is sentient: 1st Doctor story The Edge of Destruction (or Inside The Spaceship or even Beyond the Sun if you prefer), from Season 1, and 11th Doctor outing … -
Episode 70: Fast Return
Richard's brought the Something Who team back together again quite quickly, but is it too fast a return? We settle in for a chat about a couple of stories that question whether the TARDIS is sentient: 1st Doctor story The Edge of Destruction (or Insi… -
Episode 69: 2022 Highlights
Here's a compilation of some of the highlights of Something Who from 2022. We had a range of great guests to join the regular team of Richard, Paul and Giles, including Gav Rymill, Tim Burrows, Ellie (Tardis Monkey), Gary Gillatt, Toby Hadoke and Ant… -
Episode 68: Rumours of our Extinction have been Greatly Exaggerated
It's the second half of the original Something Who team chatting about a couple of stories set on giant spaceships: 5th Doctor story Four to Doomsday, from Season 19, and 11th Doctor caper Dinosaurs on a Spaceship from Series 7A. This episode largely…