Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 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? Regular panellist...
Jul 06, 2025•1 hr 53 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 154: Quizzed with Daisy Ashford and Sadie Miller At Whooverville 15 It’s that time again: a special episode of our Doctor Who Podcast. recorded completely LIVE on stage with special guests and an audience of companions, friends and fellow fans at the hugely popular Whooverville convention… 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 muc...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 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 hea...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 37 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 152: Joy to the World REVIEW 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 a...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 151: Mount Who – For Doctor Who Podcast Day 2024 Join us as we task ourselves with something truly monumental on this edition of Type 40: A Doctor Who Podcast! All marking Doctor Who Podcast Day for 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 evalu...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Season 3Ep. 83
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 150: Space Babies Review For the 150th edition of our popular Doctor Who podcast, Type 40 on the Fandom Podcast Network, we begin covering the All-New 2024 season of episodes in depth! It’s been over two and a half years since the last full run of the series premiered. This one continues from where last Christmas’s special left off… To look at Space Babies, written by series showrunner Russell T Davies our panel come with radically contrasting takes. Will t...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Season 3Ep. 82
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 149: The Church On Ruby Road Review It’s practically impossible pleasing the entirety of Doctor Who fandom, but when Bad Wolf Studios and the BBC confirmed plans for the Doctor Who Christmas Special to return? It came pretty close. Staple of the British TV schedules for over a decade from 2005 onwards and much missed even by the general audience! On Christmas Day 2023, we were served a steaming hot hour of snow, steeples, goblins and all the trimmings in Th...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 57 min•Season 3Ep. 81
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 148: One Vision New Season Preview 2024 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 ...
May 11, 2024•2 hr•Season 3Ep. 80
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 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...
Mar 26, 2024•2 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 79
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 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. DWA...
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 78
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 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 relea...
Feb 25, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 77
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 144: & Company at Whooverville 14 Take your seat and listen up! It’s a special episode of our Doctor Who Podcast. The very first recorded completely LIVE on stage with special guests and an audience of companions, friends and fellow fans… 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 intervi...
Jan 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 76
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 143: With Christopher Jones There’ve been Doctor Who comic strips for almost as long as there’s been Doctor Who! The Doctor’s have rarely been out of British comics since 1964. In recent decades the international comic book market also published a succession of titles in the Marvel or DC format, employing some of the industry's most exciting talents to write and draw! Christopher Jones is a comics professional: illustrator, storyboard artist and Educator fr...
Dec 29, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 75
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 142: Whoniversal – 60 Years of Doctor Who Special 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 Type 40: A Doctor Who Podcast marking our favourite TV se...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Season 3Ep. 74
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 141: TARDIS – Design Classic Marking the Diamond anniversary of the world’s longest running, best loved Sci-Fi & Fantasy Television series, Doctor Who now here at Type 40: A Doctor Who Podcast… 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, S...
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Season 3Ep. 73
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 138: Father’s Day – Ninth Doctor Diamond Series Review The 60th anniversary pf Doctor Who and the series All-New rebirth is close at hand! Time to set co-ordinates for the earliest days of the last restart this time on Type 40, with another entry in our Diamond Series of reviews! 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 ...
Oct 10, 2023•2 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 137: Dr. Who Rides Again! We bring you coverage of an exciting new, unofficial project recently announced and out filming at locations throughout Wales, this time on Type 40. “Dr. Who Meets the Scorpion” is described as “a 60-minute fan film based on the popular BBC TV serial – currently in production”. Bringing us a brand new incarnation of the Doctor, his new companion, some Daleks and even Robomen? Philip Roy is the writer, producer and director joins re...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 3Ep. 70
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 136: Whooverville 14 with Stephen Hatcher Nearly time for one of the most keenly anticipated occasions of the year in calendars of British based Doctor Who fans: 2023’s Whooverville convention takes place in Derby on 2nd September! This year with a festival of Doctors and other fantastic guests from the Whoniverse, joining in the fun with eager fans. Convention director and organiser Stephen Hatcher joins regular hosts Simon Horton & Dan Hadley for this...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 69
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 135: Image of the Fendahl – Fourth Doctor Diamond Series Review Later this year the 14th Doctor will thrill us in three brand new specials to mark Doctor Who’s 60th birthday. November can’t come fast enough! Best way to enjoy these last few months of an excruciating wait must be revisiting incarnations and adventures past: On this biggest ever edition of Type 40, we focus on arguably the most successful Doctor of them all, even to this day! The iconic fourt...
Aug 24, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Season 3Ep. 68
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 134: Trips of Our Lifetimes – For Doctor Who Podcast Day 2023 Beginning our sixth year covering the Whoniverse on the threshold of an exciting, All-new era for our favourite television series, Doctor Who here on Type 40. Timed to coincide with Doctor Who Podcast Day… What better time to re-introduce our regular panellists: longtime podcaster Sarah Graham and writer & producer Simon Horton. Along with actor, voice artist & actual Time Lord for Big Fi...
Aug 09, 2023•2 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 67
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 133: Death to the Daleks – Third Doctor Diamond Series Review As the 14th Doctor waits to take us on brand new adventures later in 2023 on television, with a further incarnation to follow shortly afterwards. This is an exciting time to be a Doctor Who fan! Here on Type 40, we’re passing the months until the Time Lord’s story resumes by revisiting times & spaces and faces past: The third actor to take the role, Jon Pertwee was an extraordinary man by any...
Aug 03, 2023•2 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 66
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 132: The State of 2023 – 5th Birthday News Catch-Up! For this fifth birthday edition of Type 40: your Doctor Who Podcast on the Fandom Podcast Network, regular host Dan Hadley reconnects with co-founder and co-host Kyle Wagner in the console room… Together the transatlantic two compare notes about recent happenings from the Whoniverse: the casting calls, the trailers, the rumours and intense speculation surrounding the rest of the year. So much of what’s to...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Season 3Ep. 65
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 132: Longing for Longleat The pair of eBooks looking at the original Blackpool Doctor Who Exhibition proved immensely popular with fans young and not so young! Now the team behind them return to Type 40 with the inside story of a third title, due to massive demand… Designer and artist Alex Collier and historian John Collier have compiled Longing for Longleat, and regular hosts Simon Horton & Dan Hadley are all ears, as ever! This time the goal is transp...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 64
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 130: Double Feature – Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD Six decades worth history of the world’s longest running Sci-Fi & Fantasy television series is rich with time warps and cultural events. Some impacted away from the sofa altogether! The Daleks had filled cinemas and stormed the silver screen once. Could they do it again a year later? “Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD” had more money, more Daleks, location shooting and a cast full of great British character ...
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 63
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 129: With Jeff Cummins Continuing our series of conversations with the biggest artists in Doctor Who’s long print history, Type 40 is thrilled to bring you a brand-new interview with master painter, illustrator and designer Jeff Cummins. Known for his evocative imagery for both the Target and New Adventures books, from the 70’s through to the 90’s, Jeff speaks to regular hosts Simon & Dan. Covering a colourful career full of instantly recognisable piece...
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Season 3Ep. 62
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 128: Nowhere to Ride – Planet of the Dead Review With a Fourteenth Doctor leading the charge, whilst a further incarnation waits in the wings, 2023 is going to make for a tumultuous 60th anniversary year. There’s still several months to wait until the story of the Time Lord continues. In the meantime, here on our Doctor Who podcast let us revisit times & spaces and faces past: As current and past Doctor, David Tennant marks a birthday of his own, regula...
May 22, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Season 3Ep. 61
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 127: With Tasha Achilléos Welcome to Type 40 and this latest conversation in the 60th anniversary year of our favourite television series. Of course, we don’t just celebrate the onscreen Whoniverse, but everything surrounding it too! The lives and contributions of the people that helped build and expand the modern mythology of the man in the blue box and what they’ve meant to us. Your regular hosts Simon Horton and Dan Hadley were honoured when Tasha Achill...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 3Ep. 60
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 126: Making a Drama w/Me & Him & Who Whoever said real-life time travel is impossible? Thanks to the combined talents of a creative and industrious producer, two superb character actors and a writer with masses of drama credits to his name, listeners of the new audio play “Me & Him & Who” can be transported back a few decades in time! To one particular place and spend time with two men, who worked to bring our favourite series back to the sc...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 59
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 125: Screentime Lord With more high-concept, high-momentum, big budget and hyped-up television than ever, fighting for the attention of even the most steadfast and true Doctor Who fan? How does one find the time to revisit our favourite adventures in space & time past! Let alone seriously consider mounting a rewatch of the entire canon… Regular hosts Dan & Simon find out when they get tips from guest Andy Fairclough. Andy’s marking the 60th annivers...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 58
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 124: With Dalek 6388 Let Type 40 help you EXTERMINATE a little of your day, here with the latest edition of our Doctor Who podcast. Where we help tell the story behind a one-of-a-kind website that’s served fans with unprecedented amounts of information and creativity for over two decades now… Jon Green created the website Dalek 6388 in 2002. It’s a domain that’s become a brand in itself! Which Jon, along with colleague Gav and various other friends and fans...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 57
