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.

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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.

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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!

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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...

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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?

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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.

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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...

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