The Spirit of the Stairwell

“He fall into the crack and he never come back … that’s a-Rorrrrrrry …”

This week, the Ood Cast try and ignore the temptation to run around screaming like excited children (we did that after the recording had finished) and take a trip into a land of childhood memories and councils of war …

We see what would happen if the Anti-Doctor coalition had picked a different book from Amy’s shelves and our helpful fly-on-the-wall learns how all those different species put aside their differences to trap their slippery target.

We find time to talk about The Pandorica Opens too, of course, and the weekly song makes a triumphant return …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:38 — 29.3MB)

“I’m trying to think of a biscuit that rhymes with Pandorica …”

On this week’s sparkling Ood Cast, we embrace World Cup fever … and talk about “The Lodger”.

Join us as we find out what happened when the footballing might of Gallifrey’s sole player took on the ringers of Skaro’s planetary playmakers; blow the whistle on a secret habit that the Littlest Doctor thought he had hidden from everyone; discover what some football pundits made of James Corden’s constant presence on our screens at the weekend, sympathise with Laura’s sore throat, get slightly put off by the Master of theatrical gestures and also hear what topical thing Alpha thinks should be in the next series of Who.

So, squeeze yourself through those turnstiles, get a mug of bovril and settle down for kick off with the Ood Cast.

Plunger ball!

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“Finger nails are good at scratching …”

In this week’s Ood Cast, a host of stars…

We join Richard Curtis as he receives some feedback on his first draft of Vincent and the Doctor, talk about beauty and colour and other giant horse-turkey related nonsense and tag along with a tour of a rather interesting gallery.

And we’re joined by a star completely of his own making: Laura’s dad – who blows us away (like pencil shavings on his sketch pad) with this week’s song.

All that, plus the Ood Cast news and a very special visit from a tiny scale model TARDIS … carrying the one and only Littlest Doctor.

How can you not join us?

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“David Tennant will bring his flugelhorn.”

This week’s Ood Cast is a voyage of discovery.

We take a sneak peak into the TARDIS to see exactly what the Doctor said to Ambrose on the way home from her brave attempt to provoke an inter-species war; we find out what the machinery of the podcast would be like with an essential cog wiped from existence; discover that we can still be touched by an episode ending; present a fitting and lovely lament to the passing of a certain character; and more importantly, realise that it is still possible for one man to disappoint us and make our review section less excitable than usual …

(Begin fist shaking …)

All together now:

CHIBNALL!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:23 — 28.9MB)