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 released on CD and download by BBC Audio and has proven tremendously popular. Will joins regular host Dan ..read more

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 interview panel, with three unsuspecting guests, which you can get to enjoy now in full! Hear the boys’ que ..read more

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 from America who’s loved Doctor Who for years! Having worked for the “big two” and in television bring ..read more

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, Sarah and Simon welcome TARDIS expert, Tony Farrell to the show. There’s not much he doesn’t know abo ..read more

Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 139: With Stef Coburn Part One Incredible to think that after six decades, we’re still discovering new pictures, documents, and perspectives on classic Doctor Who Especially those earliest days, weeks, and months when the series was being put together by a shifting collective of people across the BBC. Aiming for that premiere date of 23rd November 1963. Or thereabouts! On this edition of the Fandom Podcast Network’s Doctor Who podcast, we offer the first part of a conversation with the son of a key figure in the genesis of the series, way back then. Stef ..read more

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 departing a burst of flames! Regular panellists Sarah Graham, Stephen Noonan and Dan Hadley get toge ..read more

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 regular host Dan Hadley and filmmaker/screenwriter Ian David Diaz for this inside story on the film: W ..read more

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 preview of “Whooverville 14”. Sharing the inside story on how this event has evolved from modest be ..read more

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 fourth incarnation, as played by Tom Baker, means so much to our panellists Stephen Noonan, Simon Horton ..read more

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 Finish Productions Stephen Noonan with regular host, broadcaster, and lifelong fan Dan Hadley. Listen ..read more