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- DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #196 – Up the Junction
Tony Jordan joins us to look back at the DWAS “Capitol Seven Wonders” convention in April.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:11:00) The cartoon of “Up the Junction” by The Squeeze can be seen on Youtube here.
(00:19:45) The “Guess Who Podcast” will be findable here.
(00:23:10) Photos of the Daleks at the convention can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:29:15) Sophie presenting Sylvester with his DWAS Lifetime Achievement award can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:31:20) Photos of Huw Dennis cosplaying can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:41:22) A photo of Paul Cornell receiving his Terrance Dicks Writers Award can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:57:35) The banner made by Connor Adkins can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
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10 May 2024, 9:28 am - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #195 – Raising Capitol
Tony Jordan from the Doctor Who Appreciation Society joins us to look forward to the Capitol Seven Wonders convention on 27/28 April.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:21:04) Tony’s interview with Steven Berkoff at Capitol 4 in 2019 can be found on the DWAS Youtube channel here.
(00:36:34) Tom’s Refurbishments.
(00:39:24) Here is Dave Kitchen’s snapped photo of someone in the Jodie autograph queue at SupaNova Melbourne reading our own Hayden’s magnum opus “A Child Out of Time: Growing Up With Doctor Who in the Wilderness Years” can be seen here.
(00:41:29) Glass Crocodile – stained glass suncatchers.
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16 April 2024, 5:23 pm - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #194 – Your Musing and Your Friend
The Diddly Dummers present 3 items for display at The Whoseum. Along the way, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of that cultural titan – Piccadilly Radio.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:06:11) The “Putting on the Ritz” scene from “Young Frankenstein can be seen here.
(00:08:52) The Rev’s plastic yellow robot radio can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:10:08) The BBC Radio 2 comedy series “A Proper Charlie” can be found here.
(00:10:45) Photos of Piccadilly Radio can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:14:00) The relevant film still from “Back to the Future” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:22:30) The Rev’s song in tribute to Arthur C Clarke and featuring Dave Myers can be found here.
(00:29:20) Photos of The Rev’s birthday tour of the Coronation Street set can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:31:30) The prints which The Rev bought from The Lowry can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:36:19) The custom-made figures used in Mark’s game can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:19:23) A selection of pages from the “Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:21:13) Volume 4 of “Vworp Vworp” magazine can be bought here. It includes “The Pollen Street Irregulars”, an analysis of the “Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus” by long-time friend of the podcast Simon Brett. Simon drew our 1963 variation (above) of the original Piccadilly Radio logo.
(01:43:05) The “Big Mong” gorilla in Caerphilly (a photo can be found on our Tumblr page here) was raised by Mark during his first podcast episode #60 (“Murray’s Mint”). The giant model gorilla apparently found abandoned more recently is reported here.
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1 April 2024, 11:59 am - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #193 – Shoo Pastry
Gareth Kavanagh and Ian Winterton join us to take a look back at the recently published Volume 6 of “Vworp Vworp” magazine and forward to the imminent “The Philip Hinchcliffe Years – The DNA of Doctor Who” book. “Gareth Kavanagh and Ian Winterton join us to take a look back at the recently published Volume 6 of Vworp Vworp magazine and forward to the imminent “The Philip Hinchcliffe Years – The DNA of Doctor Who” book.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Our guests on this podcast are friends of the show, Gareth Kavanagh and Ian Winterton of Cutaway Comics and Vworp Vworp fame.
(00:07:50) “A Meeting on the Common” is an 18 minute animation of the much loved alternative opening to Doctor Who, as told by David Whitaker in his classic 1964 novelisation “Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks”. The animation features on the free DVD accompanying the latest Vworp Vworp magazine (volume 6) and is directed and animated by Mel Meanley, adapted by Ian Winterton and stars Stephen Noonan (the Doctor), Adam Grayson (Ian), Helen Stirling-Lane (Barbara) and Kerry Ely (Susan)
(00:16:07) “An Exciting Adventure with David Whitaker” by Simon Guerrier celebrates the extraordinary, little-known life of one of its chief architects, David Whitaker. As the show’s first story editor, he helped to establish the compelling blend of adventure, imagination and quirky humour that made – and continues to make – the series a hit. David commissioned the first Dalek story, and fought for it to be made when his bosses didn’t like it. Regeneration, the TARDIS being alive, the idea of Doctor Who expanding to become a multimedia phenomenon in comics, books and films… David Whitaker was all over it. Yet very little was known about this key figure in Doctor Who history – until now. Why did he fall out with Irving Berlin? Was he really engaged to Yootha Joyce? And how did an assignment to Moscow badly affect his career? The book can be bought here.
(00:16:40) The penny which dropped midway through Doc’s surprisingly detailed telling of the blacklisting of David Whitaker following the Moscow conference turns out to have been perfectly correct. Doc’s wealth of information did indeed come entirely from Simon Guerrier‘s article “Mission to Moscow” which appeared in the BBC magazine “The Essential Doctor Who – Adventures in Space” (2017) and which Doc did indeed come upon while recently researching for our review of “Ambassadors of Death” for podcast 189. Simon’s article can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:37:35) Richard Lewis Hearne (1908 – 1979) was a British actor, comedian, producer and writer. He is best remembered for his stage and television character Mr Pastry. He was interviewed for the role of the Fourth Doctor after the departure of Jon Pertwee, but a disagreement over his interpretation of the role (he wanted to play the Doctor as Mr Pastry) led to no offer being made by the producer, Barry Letts. The role was subsequently offered to Tom Baker. In 1976, Richard Hearne appeared as Mr Pastry on the BBC’s old time music hall show, “The Good Old Days”.
(00:47:37) Arthur Atkinson was a fictional character from the BBC’s sketch comedy “The Fast Show”, played by Paul Whitehouse. He had a terrible singing voice and was made to mime to someone else’s material. Later, he would be cast in his own sitcom (Blame Arthur!) and would cameo in the 70’s sex comedy Confessions of a Door to Door Cucumber Salesman. He can be seen on Youtube here.
(01:26:20) “Cutaway Bunker Podcast”.
(01:32:30) Gareth appeared on our podcast #32 which can be found here.
(01:34:48) This is of course based on the “J. R. Hartley” Yellow Pages commercial.
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9 February 2024, 9:18 pm - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #192 – Operation Stone Age
On the podcast’s 10th anniversary, we are joined from the early history of Diddly Dum by the Rev to take a look at “The Church on Ruby Road”.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:15:49) The Rev interviewing Louise Jameson at Bridlington Comic Con 2021 can be seen on Youtube here.
(00:28:58) A photo of a youthful Doc with his DIY Dalek kit can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:31:20) “The Theme from Abslom Daak – Dalek Killer”, composed by Dominic Glynn and Martin Smith, and performed by The Slaves of Kane, was released in 1990 as part of a promotional flexi disc in Doctor Who Magazine. This sampled “Peaches” by The Stranglers with the Doctor Who theme.
(00:33:45) Mick Herron’s “Slough House” series of spy novels can be found here and has been adapted for TV as “Slow Horses” on Apple here.
(00:57:38) David Bowie talking about his first sight of The Rolling Stones can be seen here.
(01:05:42) A history of Manchester Town Hall’s giant Father Christmases can be found here.
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27 January 2024, 6:17 pm - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #191 – Commando Claus
Join us for our traditional Christmas podcast in which we take a general overview of the 3 anniversary specials and then dive into our games: “Guess Who?”, “Whoseum – Whose Scene, Hmm?” and our annual Gold Run looking back on the last year of podcasting.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:49:26) This clip of Hilda Ogden singing comes from this episode of “Coronation Street”.
(01:19:14) The longest standing tradition of the Diddly Dum Podcast is our Christmas Blockbusters Gold Run – a quiz on the previous year’s podcast in the style of TV’s “Blockbusters”. The game board for this year’s Gold Run can be found at the top of this blog entry.
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17 December 2023, 2:47 pm - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #190 – Hab Ich Das Recht
The Diddly Dummers are joined by long-term FOTS Suky Khakh to look back at 4th Doctor story “Genesis of the Daleks”.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:02:25) Our guest is Suky Khakh of the “Around the Console” podcast, the “Trek This Out” podcast and the “Take Your Seats” podcast.
(01:10:45) The Secret Lemonade Drinker was a UK TV advert from the 1970s.
(01:23:59) This recording of Bertrand Russell can be found here.
(01:25:26) The T S Eliot in a taxi anecdote is related by Kenneth Williams and is an extract from “An Audience With Kenneth Williams”.
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18 November 2023, 11:42 am - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #189 – Wink Wink Bang Bang
Tim Burrows of the Missing Episodes Podcast joins us to look at Third Doctor story “The Ambassadors of Death”.
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(00:00:00) Our guest on this podcast is FOTS Tim Burrows from the “Missing Episodes” podcast.
(00:15:10) Rather than write it ourselves, we thought it easier to lift this description from an online forum: “In 1992, a fan named Roger K. Barrett claimed to have a videotape of The Tenth Planet and offered to sell it to some Doctor Who fans and the BBC, including Ian Levine, a well-known fan and one time unofficial continuity adviser to the programme. However, Barrett turned out to be an alias and the existence of the episode a hoax. In a mini-documentary titled “Missing in Action” (aired during a 1993 BBC One repeat of Planet of the Daleks), Levine said that he experienced “the absolute utter depths of despair when we found out that it was just a blank tape and it was all a hoax”, expressing his desire to get hold of Barrett and “choke him until I found out why he misled everybody.” Unfortunately, hoaxes of this kind are not uncommon in Doctor Who fandom, with people like Barrett more than willing to exploit the hope that copies of the missing episodes may still exist somewhere waiting to be recovered.” The Missing in Action documentary can be seen here and the Roger K. Barrett stuff starts at about 00:04:25.
(00:34:07) The gorilla cage change scene from “Diamonds Are Forever” can be scene here.
(00:55:50) “Five Go Mad in Dorset” was the first of three Five Go Mad specials from the long-running series of The Comic Strip Presents… television comedy films. It first aired on the launch night of Channel 4 (0/11/1982).
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8 November 2023, 12:19 pm - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #188 – OK to Kid A
We are joined by Ian Winterton of Cutaway Comics fame to look at Fifth Doctor story “Castrovalva”.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Our guest on this podcast episode is FOTS Ian Winterton of Cutaway Comics fame. Cutaway Comics can be found here and here.
(00:13:42) Ian’s “Cutaway Bunker” podcast can be found here and here.
(00:17:49) The “Scarred for Life” podcast can be found here and here.
(00:20:16) The “Atomic Hobo” podcast can be found here and here.
(00:27:12) The fabulous “Vworp Vworp” magazine can be found here and here.
(00:31:00) Cutaway Comics’ kickstarter for “Inferno – The World Dies Screaming” can be found here.”
(01:26:40) The cover of the “Blue Peter Tenth Book” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
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29 October 2023, 6:58 pm - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #187 – Who’s the Nose?
Dave Kitchen joins the Diddly Dummers with tales of his recent trip to Europe and to look back on 4th Doctor story “Masque of Mandragora”.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:03:53) Our guest on this podcast is none other than long-time FOTS Dave Kitchen from such podcasts as “The Doctor Who Show“, “Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast“ and “The Goodies Pirate Podcast“.
(00:06:47) Photos from Dave’s 2023 visit to Portmeirion can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:46:45) This clip is from “The Patron of the Arts” from Series 2 of “Yes Prime Minister”.
(00:47:31) This clip is from “Zeus, By Jove”, episode 9 of the BBC’s “I Claudius” drama series.
(01:27:06) A longer version of this clip from “The Generation Game” can be seen on our Youtube channel here.
(01:27:35) The brief parodies of “The Generation Game” by The Goodies can be seen about 20 mins into “The Goodies: Politics” (S08E01) and about 8 mins 30 secs into “The Goodies: Change of Life” (S09E05) 00:08:30 into the episode
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7 October 2023, 9:02 am - DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 186 – Great Balls of Fire
The Diddly Dummers are joined by Mark from the “42 to Doomsday” podcast to take a look at 1984’s “Planet of Fire”.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Our guest on this podcast is none other than long-time FOTS Mark from the “42 to Doomsday” podcast.
(00:32:36) “Manic Miner“, “Jet Set Willy” and “Atic Atac” were computer games for the ZX Spectrum in the 1980s.
(00:39:40) Edward Highmore’s manspreading publicity photo can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
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