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Episode 1: Eat Your Vegetables

It's Doctor Who's least popular Doctor in one of its least popular seasons, and introducing possibly its least popular companion. But is it really as bad as all that? We face the terror of Terror of the Vervoids, with special guest Ben McKenzie (Splendid Chaps, Night Terrace).

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<h2>This is a link to a kickstarter, in its last day (+ a few hours), to fund a phenomenally well-deserved third series for an absolutely incredible time(&space) travel comedy audio drama, made by an indie production company, where the ‘ship’ is a relatively ordinary Australian house & its unwitting crew, at least to begin with, are the house’s new owner, Dr Anastasia Black, recently retired from a top-secret organisation, & Eddie Jones, a student doing door-to-door sales, who happens to pick just the right/wrong house at exactly the right/wrong moment. </h2><p id="geom_inter_14_1574228154705_92"><br/></p>There have been 2 series, both now broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra’s ‘Seventh Dimension’ & I’ve heard all of them (apart from 1 episode of series 1 that I missed part of), as well as 3 mini-series and a live episode (which I haven’t heard yet as I’ve only just bought them by pledging), & they’re all brilliant (the ones I’ve heard and surely also the ones I haven’t).<p id="geom_inter_16_1574228156404_64">The show takes some of its cues from Doctor Who, because the people behind it, Splendid Chaps Productions, are fans & started off with a live DW podcast which they take their name from, but is very much its own thing & you don’t need to like DW or even sf at all tbh to like this. At least as far as I’m concerned but I actually do like both those things so may not be best judge lol. It also stars Neighbours’ Jackie Woodburne whose presence, contextually, must be somewhat of a coup but as I’m a horrible philistine with regard to British soaps let alone the Australian ones it really doesn’t mean much to me. She is brilliant as Anastasia though, portrays the character exactly right & having an older woman as a time traveller & as the knowledgeable capable one is rarely seen/heard & wonderful (& it ends up being 2 knowledgeable capable women in Night Terrace eventually, but spoilers, sweetie - I am indeed <i>that</i> person with the River Song references, it turns out) - & yes I know Jodie Whittaker means the Doctor them/herself is a woman now but Night Terrace predates her (2013) and anyhow it’s different, she’s so very alien & Dr Anastasia Black could not be more human which is important too </p><h2 id="geom_inter_21_1574228199018_1">I realise a lot of folks on tumblr don’t have any/much spare money so this is probably a long shot but it might reach someone who is interested and can afford to donate, and as an added incentive all the rewards tiers get you the new season (and rewards obviously scale up from there, i’m sure you get how a kickstarter works, with an option to add previous seasons or even all of their previous Night Terrace releases as an add-on to your chosen tier for an extra donation - although i guess not to the tier that is just seasons 1-3). You can also hear series 1 episode 1 for free on their <a href="https://www.splendidchaps.com/night-terrace/>website"</a>, <a href= bandcamp and on the kickstarter itself.</h2><p>I get that this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea (and again that not everyone can afford these things) but if maybe you know someone who might like this, the Splendid Chaps would, I’m sure, and certainly I would be grateful if you passed it on in whatever form. Even just plain reblogging could help get the message out, but as ever please don’t feel pressured to do things that are beyond your finances/capablities - you come first a a person not as a tool to fund/promote this</p>

A third series of the award-winning time travel audio comedy Night Terrace, starring Jackie Woodburne. As heard on BBC radio!

This is a link to a kickstarter, in its last day (+ a few hours), to fund a phenomenally well-deserved third series for an absolutely incredible time(&space) travel comedy audio drama, made by an indie production company, where the ‘ship’ is a relatively ordinary Australian house & its unwitting crew, at least to begin with, are the house’s new owner, Dr Anastasia Black, recently retired from a top-secret organisation, & Eddie Jones, a student doing door-to-door sales, who happens to pick just the right/wrong house at exactly the right/wrong moment.

There have been 2 series, both now broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra’s ‘Seventh Dimension’ & I’ve heard all of them (apart from 1 episode of series 1 that I missed part of), as well as 3 mini-series and a live episode (which I haven’t heard yet as I’ve only just bought them by pledging), & they’re all brilliant (the ones I’ve heard and surely also the ones I haven’t).

The show takes some of its cues from Doctor Who, because the people behind it, Splendid Chaps Productions, are fans & started off with a live DW podcast which they take their name from, but is very much its own thing & you don’t need to like DW or even sci-fi/sf at all tbh to like this. At least as far as I’m concerned but I actually do like both those things so may not be the best judge lol. It also stars Neighbours’ Jackie Woodburne whose presence, contextually, must be somewhat of a coup but as I’m a horrible philistine with regard to British soaps let alone the Australian ones it really doesn’t mean much to me. She is brilliant as Anastasia though, portrays the character exactly right & having an older woman as a time traveller & as the knowledgeable capable one is rarely seen/heard & wonderful (& it ends up being 2 knowledgeable capable women in Night Terrace eventually, but spoilers, sweetie - I am indeed that person with the River Song references, it turns out) - & yes I know Jodie Whittaker means the Doctor them/herself is a woman now but Night Terrace predates her (2013) and anyhow it’s different, she’s so very alien & Dr Anastasia Black could not be more human which is important too

I realise a lot of folks on tumblr don’t have any/much spare money so this is probably a long shot but it might reach someone who is interested and can afford to donate, and as an added incentive all the rewards tiers get you the new season (and rewards obviously scale up from there, i’m sure you get how a kickstarter works, with an option to add previous seasons or even all of their previous Night Terrace releases as an add-on to your chosen tier for an extra donation - although i guess not to the tier that is just seasons 1-3). You can also hear series 1 episode 1 for free on their website, bandcamp and on the kickstarter itself.

I get that this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea (and again that not everyone can afford these things) but if maybe you know someone who might like this, the Splendid Chaps would, I’m sure, and certainly I would be grateful if you passed it on in whatever form. Even just plain reblogging could help get the message out, but as ever please don’t feel pressured to do things that are beyond your finances/capablities - you come first a a person not as a tool to fund/promote this

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nightterrace dance party gif!

... for those of you who aren’t aware, some of these splendid chaps are the Splendid Chaps, and they are currently halfway funded in a Kickstarter for season two of their hilarious and clever original sci-fi audio comedy, Night Terrace. The Lee Stickometer is at 51% and the shenanigans can only get shenaniganier from here on in. More info on the Kickstarter at this link here, or you can listen to season 1, episode 1 of Night Terrace here. It’s the most fun you can have by sticking things in your ear holes for 26 minutes! (Especially if that’s already a fetish for you. But even if it isn’t, Night Terrace is pretty damn good.) (Also, it has Susan from Neighbours!)

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Catching up!

We fell off the Tumblr wagon a bit with posting our episodes, so we're finally catching up! You can still see them on our web site of course, but you'll see them here too. And we might post some more Doctor Who stuff, even though we've finished making Splendid Chaps. It's not as though Tumblr has enough Doctor Who, right?

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Splendid Chaps finally makes it to new Who! Hosts Ben McKenzie, John Richards and Petra Elliott discuss Christopher Eccleston and women in Doctor Who (and didn’t we need more time for that huge topic!) with guests Karen Pickering, Celeste Liddle and Tansy Rayner Roberts! It’s the ninth live Splendid Chaps episode, recorded at the Gasometer Hotel in Melbourne on September 15, 2013. Plus a surprise musical performance from two of the chaps! Oh, and fair notice: this one gets a bit more sweary than usual.

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Hosts Ben McKenzie, John Richards and Petra Elliott discuss the Paul McGann telemovie, and then bring in guest scientists Jack Scanlan, Alan Duffy and Allie Ford to talk science in Doctor Who as part of National Science Week! It's the eighth live Splendid Chaps episode, recorded at Bar Open in Melbourne on August 11, 2013. Plus prizes, Ben's scrapbook, the secrets of lab coats, audience questions and Hannah Pelka-Caven performs a haunting version of the song shared by the Seventh and Eighth Doctors in the telemovie, "In A Dream".

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Part two of our latest episode, Seven/Religion, in which guests Paul Callaghan and Dave Bloustien are joined by the Reverend Doctor Avril Hannah-Jones to talk about religion in Doctor Who with hosts Ben McKenzie, John Richards and Petra Elliot. Plus, the audience has their say - in more than just words - and Lee Zachariah and Adam Rudegeair (aka “Electric Menorah”) perform a lovingly crafted and incredibly nerdy tribute to Seven. (By which we of course mean the Seventh Doctor, not Seven of Nine. We're not crossing the streams.)

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Hosts Ben McKenzie, John Richards and Petra Elliott discuss Sylvester McCoy’s time as the Doctor in this, the first part of our seventh live Splendid Chaps episode, recorded at The Public Bar in Melbourne on July 14, 2013. Yes, this was one of our biggest and most in-depth shows yet, and so we’ve decided to split it in half. In part one, our guests are author and game designer Paul Callaghan and television writer and comedian Dave Bloustien. Watch out for part two next week!