The Interstellar Song Contest

Season 2, Episode 6. First broadcast on Saturday 17 May 2025.

Episode 18 · Monday 19 May 2025.

This week, the 803rd Interstellar Song Contest is disrupted by a violent act of terrorism and then reinstated by an act of camp fabulosity, complete with comedy montage and everything. And then, to top it off, the [redacted] shows up.

Here’s the link to Simon’s interview with Eurovision runner-up Michael Ball on his weekly podcast In Conversation.

The Story & the Engine

Season 2, Episode 5. First broadcast on Saturday 10 May 2025.

Episode 17 · Monday 12 May 2025.

This week, in a barbershop in Lagos, we find a web of myths and stories — and a whole world — that we (at least) never knew existed.

Here’s a link to Inua Ellam’s story What I Did On My Holidays By Omo Esosa on the BBC website.

Lucky Day

Season 2, Episode 4. First broadcast on Saturday 3 May 2025.

Episode 16 · Monday 5 May 2025.

The Doctor and Belinda are back in 2007 this week, after missing Voyage of the Damned by only a few days, so we decide to to pop forward in time to early May 2025 to see how Ruby is getting on after her year of travelling with the Doctor. Turns out, not well. But fortunately she’s got a pretty and supportive new boyfriend. Men, eh?

The Well

Season 2, Episode 3. First broadcast on Saturday 26 April 2025.

Episode 15 · Monday 28 April 2025.

This week, Johnny Spandrell joins us as we stand around gazing into this deep hole in the ground, long enough for it to also start gazing back at us and complaining about the thing lurking behind our backs — a thing that’s unknowable, unreasonable and vile.

Lux

Season 2, Episode 2. First broadcast on Saturday 19 April 2025.

Episode 14 · Monday 21 April 2025.

Everyone’s breaking the fourth wall this week, with Alan Cumming escaping through the cinema screen to terrorise some white Floridians, and the Doctor smashing through our 55-inch OLED to admire our massive collection of Dapol figurines. And we all learn a valuable lesson about how much we love the Doctor, including Belinda.

The Robot Revolution

Season 2, Episode 1. First broadcast on Saturday 12 April 2025.

Episode 13 · Monday 14 April 2025.

And we’re back — just in time to see a young English nurse named Belinda Chandra kidnapped from her backyard and taken to a planet named almost exactly the same thing — a planet where, it happens, a whole new season of Doctor Who is kicking off. Let’s see how she gets on.

Joy to the World

2024 Christmas Special. First broadcast on Wednesday 25 December 2024.

Episode 12 · Saturday 28 December 2024.

Hope might be in short supply this Christmas, and so Steven Moffat is back for his ninth Christmas Special, with a message of hope — or possibly just a message of nuclear fusion. Also back are all his favourite heartwarming and exasperating tropes, along with just a soupçon of righteous anger. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Empire of Death

Season 1, Episode 8. First broadcast on Saturday 22 June 2024.

Episode 11 · Monday 24 June 2024.

This week, there’s a lot of hoovering to be done but nobody left alive to do it. So instead, let’s talk about how we felt about the final episode of Season 1 — a very happy ending or absolute terror?

The Legend of Ruby Sunday

Season 1, Episode 7. First broadcast on Saturday 15 June 2024.

Episode 10 · Monday 17 June 2024.

This week, Bonnie Langford is back. Sure, a terrifying and omnipotent doglike entity returns from the distant past (oh, okay 1975), but we’re all still mostly here for Bonnie, right?

Rogue

Season 1, Episode 6. First broadcast on Saturday 8 June 2024.

Episode 9 · Monday 10 June 2024.

This week, we join the largest off-world chapter of the Bridgerton Appreciation Society as they head off to Bath for a convention that features preening, squawking and murder, culminating (as is traditional) in an arranged marriage which looks set to be the highlight of the season. Meanwhile, the Doctor meets a handsome stranger, falls in love and loses him forever.