This week Radio Free Skaro gets POLITICAL (not really) as we interview three-time mayor of Calgary and current Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi as he relates his massive love for one Doctor Who! Join us as we wax nostalgic about KSPS, his fondness for a certain scarf-wearing Doctor, and his take on amongst other things the latest Doctor Who Xmas special! Plus a Gallifrey One update, stats and media analysis, praise of Tubi, classic Canadian TV chatter, and more!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One Update, including 2026 and 2027 date changes
• RFS Gallifrey One Live Show Announcement
• Doctor Who finished 6th for Christmas Week with 5.911M viewers
• Classic Doctor Who removed from BritBox UK and ITVX Premium
• First weekly Dalek 1:2 scale kit is out now
• The Chimes of Midnight hardcover adaptation by Robert Shearman due Oct 9
• Jubliee hardcover adaptation by Robert Shearman due Oct 9
• Things Are Not Always What They Seem: The Writings and Politics of Malcolm Hulke by Michael Herbert due later in 2025 from Telos Publishing
• Barbara Clegg died Jan 7

Interview:

• Naheed Nenshi

It’s a glorious day as Tom Baker becomes a Member of theOrder of the British Empire and the Three Who Rule are here to celebrate this momentous occasion along with news of further Gallifrey One guests, Phil Collinson trolling us all with War Chief intrigues, Toby Hadoke’s annual In Memoriam, Big Finish news as usual and Episode One of our Classic Series Commentary of “The Moonbase”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Tom Baker awarded MBE for Services to Television
• More New Guests at Gallifrey One 2025
• Doctor Who Magazine 612
• Spearhead From Space screening at the BFI on February 1
• The Savages screening at the BFI on February 28
• Phil Collinson fuels the War Chief/Master link
• Toby Hadoke’s 2024 In Memoriam
• Toby Hadoke’s Arnold Yarrow obituary
• Jess Jurkovic: Record, Reuse, Recycle – 60s Doctor Who Incidental Music
• Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show released
• Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show behind the scenes
• Big Finish Paul Spragg Memorial Doctor Who – Short Trips: War Stories released

Classic Series Commentary

• The Moonbase Episode One

It’s the annual tradition of our Radio Free Skaro livestream with Steven, Warren, and special guest Kyle Anderson as they look at “Joy to the World,” the latest traditional Xmas special written by Steven Moffat, along with a tsunami of other Doctor Who content including the Doctor Who Proms, behind the scenes fun like Unleashed and The War Games in Colour! Also, Thrill to fulsome praise of The Space Pirates, and less enthusiastic about The Savages, which has nothing to do with any of the above!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• “Joy to the World” Review
• Doctor Who Season 2 Teaser
• Doctor Who Season 2: First Look
• Everything We Know About Doctor Who Season 2
• Doctor Who Unleashed: Joy to the World
• Doctor Who overnight viewing figures on BBC One – 4.11m, 6th for the day
• “The War Games” in Colour review
• The War Games in Colour available for pre-order in the UK
• Doctor Who at the BBC Proms review
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends goes out December 29 at 4:45pm

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 24.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 23.

Sad news this week as we mark the passing of both novelist David A McIntee and fellow podcaster Siobahn Gallichan, and we extend our sympathies to their loved ones at a difficult time. There’s also news of Season 7 coming to the Doctor Who Collection Blu-ray series, the lead up to Doctor Who Christmas Week (culminating in “Joy To The World” on Christmas Day), extended badinage about a mail order Dalek model kit that extends over the next decade(!), Tom Baker’s Xmas message, and an interview previewing “The War Games in Colour” with Mark Ayres and Kieran Highman!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• New trailer for “Joy to the World”
• Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who Podcast
• Russell T Davies and Writer Steven Moffat Tease Christmas Special
• Rose Ayling-Ellis MBE to guest star in Doctor Who Season 2
• Build your own 1:2 scale Dalek
• Season 7 Collection blu-ray set announced
• Season 7 PDF content, courtesy Richard Bignell
• Doctor Who Season 25 Canada preorder link, North American release due Feb 25
• Radio Times Tom Baker 50th Anniversary Bookazine
• Tom Baker Christmas 2024 message
• Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Dark Gallifrey: Missy Parts One to Three starts April 2025
• David A McIntee died
• Siobhan Gallichan died

Interview:

• Chicago TARDIS
• Mark Ayres
• Kieran Highman

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 22.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 21.