Joining me is long-time Doctor Who author Jonathan Blum, back for his third appearance. One of Jason's favorite Doctor Who TV episodes and novelizations is the subject of this week's episode. 'Doctor Who and the Sunmakers' features cover art by Andrew Skilleter. Jim Sangster has gone ahead and designed the Ghastly Woke Zombie T-shirt.Īnd friend of the podcast Brian Burkart has given us the K-9 Roomba. You bet we are! And even more of that this week. Last week, one memorably cranky reviewer on Apple Podcasts described my guests as 'ghastly woke zombies'. Please purchase Lewis' Black Archive volume on Sun Makers here. What is The Sun Makers on TV? A simple satire on 1970s' British taxation? A subversive takedown of capitalism? Colonialism? All of these things? Lewis Baston has written the book on this story - literally - and is back this week to discuss with us.

You can read Waris Hussein's 1963 diaries here.Īlso mentioned in this episode is David Gerrold's very funny book about the genesis of Star Trek: TOS 'The Trouble with Tribbles'. You can hear a lot of Frazer's recent appearances on other Doctor Who podcasts such as WHO Corner to Corner.Īnd Jim Sangster who contributed the excellent show open this week, can recently be heard on Reality Bomb and the Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast. Joining me this week is Frazer Gregory We have an epic discussion of 'Time-Flight' the book and TV, and play an involved game of 'Target Books First Lines' - turning the tables on Frazer after he sprung this game on ME on an earlier episode. It's 1983! And the second-ever novelization of a Peter Davison story, released just in time for the end of TV's Season 20. Please e-mail the pod at can catch all past episodes at. Graeme references the 1964 documentary on Culloden, which can be found here.ĭoctor Who Literature is now a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network. Groucho Marx duets with his then 8-year-old daughter on a song from The Mikado. Simon Guerrier recently tweeted out the first page of David Whitaker's unfinished novelization of 'The Enemy of the World'. We both read out favorite passages from the book - and then quickly get off on several wide-ranging tangents, before coming back to the greatness of 'Castrovalva'.

Especially the novelization, says my guest this week, Graeme Burk from Reality Bomb.

the Season 19 premiere, 'Castrovalva', and its novelization, are right up there. As much as I love Season 18 and its novelizations.

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