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Doctor Who 60th anniversary musical celebration coming in September

BBC Radio 2 announces an exciting new commission for autumn, Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration, a special concert to be held on Thursday, 28 September 2023, 7:30pm at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. The 2-hour, 30-minute concert will feature the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Singers, directed … >

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The CultBox Podcast Roundup – August 2023

Here’s our August 2023 Podcast Roundup – our favourites from the worlds of CultBox.  In no particular order, the picks this month are… Blank Podcast – Georgia Tennant Georgia Tennant speaks to Giles Paley-Phillips and Jim Daley on nepotism, recognising her privilege and learning to live with social anxiety. There’s also plenty on her career … >

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Doctor Who Annual 2024: cover and details

Official Doctor Who media accounts released a video revealing the cover image and a glimpse of the content of the Doctor Who Annual 2024. The cover contains images of the Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) with his sonic screwdriver and the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) in a new pose in his Doctor Who Christmas special costume. … >

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Travel In Hope audio review

In his tenth box set on audio, Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor relishes his adventures as he endeavours to Travel in Hope.  This trio of tales involves a haunted teleport relay, a spaceship depot murder mystery and the first steps of an old friend’s galactic career. Below There This story takes inspiration from Charles Dickens’ ‘The Signal-Man’, … >

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Sylvester: Who’s The Real McCoy?

Sylvester McCoy’s life story to be brought to the screen

Sylvester McCoy will tell his extraordinary life story in a very special film as a part of his 80th birthday celebrations. Entitled Sylvester: Who’s The Real McCoy?, the film sees McCoy telling his remarkable life story on screen — the first time he has released any kind of memoir — and the first ever movie … >

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Remastered Doctor Who Series 1-4 Blu-ray coming in November

Newly-upscaled versions of sixty Doctor Who episodes from the Ninth and Tenth Doctor’s eras are coming to Blu-ray to celebrate the programme’s 60th anniversary year. A trailer was released for the set celebrating the first five years of the Doctor Who revival from 2005-2010. The collection includes every episode and special from the first four … >

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Douglas Adams book, 42 now ready for release

42, the crowdfunded The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, is now ready for release — we bring you all the details you need More than two years ago we brought details of Kevin Jon Davies project to explore some of the many (many) documents Douglas Adams left to his alma mater (St Johns, Cambridge). … >

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The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon audio review

As the post-War Games Second Doctor continues to work for the Time Lords, he’s reunited with his former travelling companion – the hairy-legged highlander James Robert McCrimmon. Across three 2-part stories, the pair take on missions for the Time Lords including an undercover visit to a health resort and a planet shrouded in darkness. Jamie … >

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Doctor Who missing adventure ‘The Underwater Menace’ to be animated

The partially-missing Season 4 Doctor Who adventure from 1967, The Underwater Menace, will be animated with four new episodes in colour and high definition, released on DVD and Blu-ray. The original master recordings of all except episodes two and three of The Underwater Menace were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings … >

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