Episodes

  • 469: Doctor Who: Lux reviewed, with guest Rick Lundeen

    469: Doctor Who: Lux reviewed, with guest Rick Lundeen
    Apr 22 2025
    Doctor Who Series 15's second episode, Lux, is the subject of discussion this week. James McLean welcomes this week's guest, Rick Lundeen, for quite a deep and wide-ranging chat about the episode and Doctor Who's current status.

    Rick is a writer and artist with quite a considerable body of work behind him. Among those include work with Christian Cawley on the Time Leech comic strip way back in 2009, and his incredible adaptation of The Daleks' Master Plan. Rick also writes regularly for The Doctor Who Companion, where he has contributed over 100 articles.

    He also has some interesting thoughts on Doctor Who!

    Shownotes
    • Doctor Who: Lux - BBC iPlayer, Disney+
      • Rick Lundeen art
      • The Swede

    You can also watch the video version of this review of Lux, exclusive to our Patreon, which is free to join and affords access to our podcast early, ad-free, and with extra content each week.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • 468: Robot Revolution: is Doctor Who on the right track?

    468: Robot Revolution: is Doctor Who on the right track?
    Apr 15 2025
    James and Magnus discuss the first episode of Doctor Who S15, Robot Revolution, which introduces a new companion, Belinda Chandra, and ends with quite the cliffhanger.

    This is an in-depth discussion of the episode, covering everything from the visual style to the themes of coercive control and loss.

    Members of our free Patreon heard this episode first. Sign up at patreon.com/kasterborous for early episodes, ad-free, and often with extra material.

    Shownotes
    • Doctor Who Robot Revolution on BBC iPlayer

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 467: Is this the end of Doctor Who? PLUS: Series 15 preview

    467: Is this the end of Doctor Who? PLUS: Series 15 preview
    Apr 11 2025
    This week's podcast was supposed to be Christian chatting with the Doctor Who Companion's Philip Bates about Doctor Who Series 15... and then Newsround published a brief chat with Russell T Davies.

    Suddenly, we had to talk about the possibility that Doctor Who Series 15 might be the last, certainly as far as the current production setup is concerned, and maybe longer term, too.

    So, the episode kicks off with Christian and James (which you may have already seen in the video chat earlier), then moves onto a previously recorded chat with the DWC editor.

    Shownotes
    • Russell T Davies chats to Newsround
      • Last week's episode: Is Doctor Who's time running out?
    • Doctor Who modern episodes ranked
    • Doctor Who Companion turns 9

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    56 mins
  • 466: Is Doctor Who's time running out? Plus Beatles, Quatermass & Battle of Britain secrets!

    466: Is Doctor Who's time running out? Plus Beatles, Quatermass & Battle of Britain secrets!
    Apr 7 2025
    In this week's podcast, Christian and James discuss Russell T Davies recent remarks concerning Doctor Who's future.

    After that, the podcast continues with Christian highlighting a few interesting things he's come across recently, including a Beatles demo reel, a new Quatermass book from Toby Hadoke, and a Battle of Britain documentary tied to the promotion of a new combat flight simulator.

    Bonus content in the Patreon edition
    For patrons, we also have a video version of Christian and James' discussion which is something we're planning to do more often.

    Our Patreon is free — you can sign up at www.patreon.com/kasterborous to get episodes early, ad-free, and extended.

    Shownotes This week's useful links:

    • Russell T Davies chats at Doctor Who S15 launch
    • Missing Believed Wiped podcast
      • Beatles Anthology reissue
    • Pre-EMI Beatles demo turns up in the USA
    • The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic
    • Scramble: Battle of Britain "Lens On" documentary

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    40 mins
  • 465: Adrian Munsey on Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age

    465: Adrian Munsey on Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age
    Mar 31 2025
    Adrian Munsey, the director and writer of the Sky Arts series Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age joined James McLean to explore his four-part documentary.

    We previously shared the raw video version of this chat. Here is the audio podcast, for more convenient listening.

    The series starts on April 3, 2025 on Sky Arts, and runs for four weeks. Further details can be found on Kasterborous. Incidentally, we've learned that the Douglas Adams documentary The Man Who Imagined Our Future is screening before Wonderland. Might as well make a night of it!

    This podcast went live first on our Patreon. Join us free at www.patreon.com/kasterborous, where you’ll also find our podcasts are early, ad-free, and often with extra material!

    Shownotes
    • Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age
    • Trailer

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    47 mins
  • 464: Single takes: Aliens on Sodor

    464: Single takes: Aliens on Sodor
    Mar 24 2025
    This week, Christian Cawley and James McLean mull over the impact of the single take shot in new Netflix drama Adolescence. Single takes, also known as one-shots and continuous shots, have appeared in many movies and TV shows, from Marvel's Daredevil to Alfred Hitchcock's Rope to Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, and many other besides.

    It has been technically difficult to achieve, especially for British TV, but we wonder if its employment in this series might inspire similar approaches from directors.

    Oddly, we also talk about Thomas the Tank Engine's geography, and the 1986 sequel to Alien, James Cameron's Aliens.

    Patreon edition
    For patrons, we also have an extended edition, which looks more at the long takes in Adolescence and their potential impact from a cinematography and narrative point of view.

    Our Patreon is free -- you can sign up at www.patreon.com/kasterborous to get episodes early, ad-free, and extended.

    Shownotes

    • Aliens
    • Thomas the Tank Engine
    • Adolescence

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    36 mins
  • 463: PODCASTHON SPECIAL: Is Pierce Brosnan part of the future of James Bond?

    463: PODCASTHON SPECIAL: Is Pierce Brosnan part of the future of James Bond?
    Mar 17 2025
    Hello! This is our brand new podcast, which not only talks about James Bond, but also supports Podcasthon.

    James McLean and Christian Cawley reconvene this week to discuss the events surrounding Amazon's purchase of Eon, and the resulting rumours. While we unsurprisingly dwell on the tempting notion of Pierce Brosnan returning as an older James Bond, there is also time to discuss the world of Bond spin-offs.

    Because, ladies and gentlemen, you may not know this, but we *have* been here before...

    Did you know, all our podcasts launch earlier on Patreon? Join us free at www.patreon.com/kasterborous, where you’ll also find podcasts with extra material! For example, the Patreon version of this edition has five minutes worth of extra material.

    What is the Podcasthon?
    James and Christian were approached to take part in the Podcasthon some weeks ago, and thought it was a great thing to do. Each podcast taking part selects a charity (ours is CentrePoint), and records a podcast specifically for the event. The Podcasthon team then use social media to spot our tagging of the podcast, and share it, and the drive raises awareness of all the charities selected by the podcasters.

    Originally a French-language "athon", the Podcasthon is being done by hundreds of podcasts this year, and we're in very esteemed company, so we've tried to behave. As this is a special podcast, the Spotify/Apple version will be identical this week.

    Shownotes


    • Podcasthon
    • Eon/MGM/Amazon news
    • Brosnan on return
    • The Rock (Connery/Cage)
    • Ripper Street
    • Star Trek Discovery
    • Our favourite Bond movies
    • Who on Earth is Tom Baker?
    • How to play GoldenEye 007 in 2025
    • James Bond RPG book
    • James Bond graphic novels
    • Mission Impossible
      • 1960s series
      • 1980s series
      • Tom Cruise series

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    56 mins
  • 462: Box of Delights RPG, Fighting Fantasy back in print, and Avengers curiousities

    462: Box of Delights RPG, Fighting Fantasy back in print, and Avengers curiousities
    Mar 10 2025
    This week, Christian Cawley looks at some new Box of Delights material, a Fighting Fantasy books Kickstarter, a rediscovered Top of the Pops episode, and a new book about The Avengers (not the lycra superheroes).

    Did you know, all our podcasts launch earlier on Patreon? Join us free at www.patreon.com/kasterborous, where you’ll also find podcasts with extra material!

    Shownotes
    • Ncuti Gatwa, Disney, and Russell T Davies rumours podcast
    • AI's role in the search (and recreation) of lost Doctor Who episodes
    • The Box of Delights RPG
    • The Box of Delights features on BBC podcast
    • Fighting Fantasy gamebooks reissued with Kickstarter campaign
    • Catan Masterpiece Series Kickstarter
    • 1938 BBC broadcast picked up in New York
    • Lost episode of Top of the Pops from 1976
    • Avengers Escapades
    • Lost Talking Heads session tapes found
    • Film Is Fabulous "Cultural Significance"
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    30 mins
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