Two audiobooks, two start of the CD extracts and two author interviews. The stories cover the start and end of the 60s teams.👍🏿 Good to contrast one seasoned scriptwriter with a scripting newcomer. I like the sound of them both. Play out, an early Icon track.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Back with a book that seems to fizz with ideas on how to resolve inconsistencies. Chunky interview with author Gary Russell is informative and funny.👏🏿 Good readings and reviews round out this edition. Sounds like it could be a fun book.👍🏿 Play out is a punky thrash. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Hopped back in time to the anticipation for the returning episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan.👍🏿 Loving the Sue Malden and Film Is Fabulous interviews giving incredible insight into their histories and aims.👏🏿 Plus the other range of comments, hints, and a jolly play out song. Excellent. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Trapsters convene a council and take a trip to the delights of Devil’s Planet.👍🏿 Good points well made in this examination of the returned episode and serial to date. Can’t be enough Katerina for me. Love the character journey and surprises in an entertaining episode.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦😈🪐 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Opened the cafe door to a fascinating place. Taken right back with a Grange Hill rush.👍🏿 Lovely to dive into all the shows and I was left with a hankering for more thanks to the amiable hosts. Lovely place to while away the hours with a pastry and a drink.👏🏿 Just get the accent right.🤭 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Another seasonal special, with coincidentally Doctor debut runs. Off the bat with in-depth intriguing answers from a couple of good guests.👍🏿 I don’t envy the choice from such a vast array but appreciate the sometimes offbeat answers.👏🏿 Entertaining listening as per usual. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Some new+ish Trapsters take on the start of The Daleks’ Master Plan. An intriguing take on the first episode as there is some critical grit amongst the praise. And it’s entertainingly delivered.👍🏿 Another good look at the recent return from fans with differing approaches to the era.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Power of 3, + 1, erm plus many, discuss the returned 2, + 1. The joys and otherwise of discovering and rediscovering The Daleks’ Master Plan in many forms.👏🏿 The surprises unfolding, plus the wow factor. A happy day.👍🏿 Play out❤️. Is it Obscure?😇 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Huzzah.👏🏿 HOME is a great venue. ❤️❤️➕🟦

Back on the bus with amiable trio of Rod, Mark and Si as four more stories get the remarkable Nostalgia Tours treatment.👍🏿 It’s another good bounce around the Whoniverse of highs and lows with rewatching ideas a plenty. Plus some Dicks love for an encore.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Part of the car trip North made extremely pleasant by Kenny & Si loving their retread of the novel.👏🏿 Interviews with the author are read out and Peter Anghelides has terrific memories.👍🏿 Plus the usual reviews and novel readings. Play out, a 70s blast of environmental rock. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚙📻

Bringing to a close my rewatch of the feature length Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple editions with The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side.🔍 The utterly brilliant Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.👏🏿 And the episodes stunningly pristine. Definitely worthy of a blu-ray release. Terrific television.👍🏿 🛋️❤️🫆📺

Opened the box on a quartet commentary for the first three episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan. A fun accompaniment to the seismic bliss of what is only just over a week ago.👍🏿 An extremely pleasant walk even if it was to a supermarket. I’ll be back here.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Thursday, Electric Ballroom, Camden, Pet Shop Boys in concert. Absolutely brilliant.👍🏿 Lovely to hear album tracks and B sides that don’t usually get a live airing. Tons of gems for the fans. What a back catalogue.❤️🎤🎹 Fab support with a DJ set from Princess Julia. Sublime evening.👏🏿

That’s tonight sorted❤️. 👏🏿 🎼🎹🎤

Orb has awoken, it’s getting hotter, and the bus gives us their version of a Heated Rivalry. A very funny and fiendishly difficult quiz follows.👍🏿 Round 2 lies.🤣 Is not the right answer...👏🏿 Kudos to the participants and their facts retention (or not). Heaps of fun for troubled times. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Sophie Aldred is heading to Dunfermline. An Ace afternoon is planned. Good to hear from the organiser and one of the guests. Plus there’s a lovely interview with Sophie on her Scottish connections as an additional curtain raiser.👍🏿 Sounds fun. Play out with a bit of saxy House.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

A Ncuti novel and another I like the sound of; fun adventure & dark secrets. Audio novel read sets the scene plus a chat with the editor in lieu of the author. Contemporary reviews round out a compact edition.🤞🏿 One for when my dust on the era has settled.👍🏿 Play out, a bouncy ad.😲 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Trapsters take on a season 15 in a season 13 setting and it looks to be jolly good. 👍🏿 The gang are having a great time ‘selling’ the material. Despite the spoilers I’m actually very inclined to add it to the teetering pile of delights and relive past glories.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Saturday was indeed Fabulous! The Daleks’ Master Plan looked great on the big screen and ep2 was a bump up from the iPlayer.💙 Informative and touching panels led by @tobyhadoke.bsky.social interspersed the episodes.👍🏿 Well done @filmisfabulous.bsky.social! Support their aims if you can.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚀📺👏🏿

Big screen glory coming up this afternoon at Riverside Studios for Doctor Who The Daleks’ Master Plan episodes 1-3 starring William Hartnell. Plus panels following each episode. All courtesy of Film is Fabulous. It should be another lovely afternoon of #DoctorWho. F ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚀📺👏🏿

Had a terrific time with The Daleks’ Master Plan 1-3 earlier. Quick scan of the apps of doom and it looks like the lovelies out there did too.👍🏿 In depth trawls later.🤔 Bravo to @filmisfabulous.bsky.social for the recovery.👏🏿 Send them a donation if you can.🤞🏿 Happy days indeed. ❤️❤️➕🟦

A fabulous recreation of Mission to the Unknown. Superb use of 1960s television techniques.👍🏿 The behind the scenes additional video is a treat too. A lovely lead in for The Daleks’ Masterplan episodes arriving shortly.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚀📺 youtu.be/NW8yk-m5Ig8

Took a trip in the past to a missing episode podcast for an episode that’s not quite missing.👍🏿 Great to hear a wealth of details on the original. Plus it’s also a good curtain raiser for the recreation of Mission to the Unknown.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Huzzah another author giving us a look behind the curtain.👏🏿 This time it’s the writer of the latest BF 12th Doctor tale. It’s an eerie look at grief. Great to hear Rafaella’s theatrical background and mythological interests as well as the Doctor Who story journey.👍🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

I’m late to the party again but still enjoyed what other people brought in. My own takes currently would be William Hartnell appearing in The Three Doctors. In the olden times this was seismic viewing of a legendary character you’d only heard about. ….more.

Kenny & Irredeemable Shag tackle the next Boucher book. Readings covering a past interview give a bit of author insight. Plus extracts from the book and reviews.👍🏿 It sounds like it will go quite high in the mythic pile.📚 Play out with a gothic classic.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Kenny & Michael Stevens a senior content producer at BBC Audio Books, DW, give a roundup of the range to date and what’s incoming.🤞🏿 The Satan Pit sounds intriguing. And Blake’s 7 audio books on the way.🚀 Play out with an Immaculate piece.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Trapster Trio tackle BBC audios with TARDIS teams at either end of the black and white era. 👍🏿 Lively summations and interactions make these sound fun tales so definitely worth a snoop at some point.👏🏿 Good times as the song goes. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

In the run up to the two missing episodes appearing on BBC iPlayer, stalwart Toby Hadoke gives us another musing. This time on Devil’s Planet with a spoiler free revision of his previous look at the recon edition.👍🏿 Now only 3 days before we see it too.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

In the S21 boxset vein with a tale rooted in S7. Available in many forms we get audiobook extracts here plus a chunky look at the story origins with the writer Gary Russell.👍🏿 And of course the usual critics and reader reviews. Play out with a telly score.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦📚 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Well here we go again with another test of patience and blood pressure via ticket buying. 😇 Huzzah though. 👏🏿

First visit and took my friend Tolu to @pandasbooksrecords.bsky.social in Levenshulme run by the lovely @paulmagrs.bsky.social and Jeremy Hoad. It’s great for a delve into books, records and cards. I got stuff.👍🏿 If you’re near Manchester then definitely worth popping over. Open Thursday-Sunday.👏🏿

Hello BST. Looks like I’ll be needing Steed’s brolly today. 🚶🏿‍♂️

A blustery afternoon out so good to be entertained by a turbulence of opinion on the bus. Four diverse tales get the treatment plus some pre birthday zeniths and nadirs for Robert Holmes.👍🏿 Lots to ponder and possibly refute.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Back with another 13th Doctor and Yaz tale. This time an eerie focus on the nature of grief and the morality of actions.👍🏿 Well drawn supporting performances enhance the ambiance. Plus another swipe at the series central mystery. Peppered with social commentary, it’s all good stuff.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

I was late, but worth the wait. On the bus with the fabulous Blake’s 7. A good bounce around the series with an episode from each season. Interesting handshakes and sighs abound.👍🏿 Plus plenty to giggle about amongst the discussions. Gold standard by 3.👏🏿 🚀7️⃣ 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

There’s something about writers discussing their craft that’s usually entertaining. So it was a terrific Monday afternoon at BFI Flare listening to Russell T Davies discussing his career to date.👏🏿 Great to get a 6m sneak preview of a scene from Tip Toe too.👍🏿
Plus some fab stuff to look back on. 🏳️‍🌈📺✍🏻

The bumper boxset look becomes a trilogy thanks to a late arriving interview with Dr Matthew Sweet.👍🏿 A lovely bit of background on his three interviews gracing the season 21 boxset. Definitely worth the wait for this coda. Play out with Swedish electro pop.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

The lovely folk at Trap One re-iterate the Film Is Fabulous statement. We also get to hear how they each first encountered TDM and expectations from the imminent release of the two episodes.👍🏿 Plus a wishlist for good measure.👏🏿 Glad to patiently support FiF. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

It’s been awhile since episode 3, but worth the wait. A change in emphasis, though still a lovely summary of convention going and collecting.👍🏿 Worth checking out a compact 30m.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦✍🏻 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Another S21 idea from William Emms. Good readings but not a brilliant story at this stage. It’ll be fascinating if we get to hear a ‘classic’ at this stage of development to see what the possibilities might be.🤞🏿 Play out artist I’ve not heard in ages, sent me on a collaboration trail.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Trapsters burrow into the season 13 boxset and unearth many pleasurable memories and happy times with a cracking set of stories.👍🏿 A near 2hr wallow in the good stuff of an overall box of delights.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Mr Bulis back delivering another ’boxset’ of extras for his novel. Information and recommendations, weaved into his readings.👍🏿 A font of knowledge with some fun speculations. Plus the usual reviews delivered by Kenny. Play out is a disco banger I’ve not heard in years.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦📚 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Bumper boxset deserves a part 2. Behind the scenes with the myth busting information titles on five stories from Mr Scoones, new alternative effects from Mr Thompson and special features from Mr Chapman.👍🏿 The stories behind the extras are just as fascinating. Play out is Xenomania pop.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦5️⃣ 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Counteracted the mowing with a podcast delight looking at the S21 set. We get fascinating behind the scenes info on each of the stories about sound design from Mr Ayres, photos from Mr Handley and pdfs from Mr Bignell.👍🏿 Play out is an unexpected pair.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦5️⃣ 🧑🏿‍🌾🎧📻

Jumped another time track and back into the history of this podcast.👍🏿 Having recently re-watched The Witchfinders this is a lovely look back examining the joys and criticisms with a terrific trio.👏🏿 Guess I’ll be delving around here again. ❤️❤️➕🟦🧙‍♀️ 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Sun’s out and this seasonal bus trip takes us to some gloriously unexpected and lovely handshakes and finger wags.👍🏿 Also I had a splurting laugh with an artefact of Rassilon. Thank you fun boy three.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Brilliant Friday night with the murderously good American Psycho musical at the Almeida. Arty Froushan is a charismatic lead unravelling through the piece with a terrific ensemble cast. The original music is electro-synth fitting with the time. If you can’t see the revival, check out the CD. 👏🏿🎼🎭🩸

Another gap with a quick podcast.👍🏿 I remember getting the news about this at work and how we thought it was worth the data to catch it asap. So much to admire in a short time.👏🏿 Though regrets it was so short. ❤️❤️➕🟦8️⃣ 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻