The Ood Cast

“That is the best insult ever. You’re just far too clever and inventive…”

Remember the old days, when everyone’s favourite podcast with a tenuous Ood pun for a title used to release new stuff every week? We’re finding it hard to remember too. But those days are back!

We’ve talked Andy down from the ceiling, lifted Chris Alpha’s jaw from the carpet, dried Chris Sigma’s tears of joy and tempted Loz back to a studio environment with a promise that she can play Fruit Ninja afterwards if she’s good… and all to talk about The Impossible Astronaut for your listening pleasure.

Along the way we pack in a peek at a White House emergency, have a driving lesson, interview the newest creatures on the block and see what life was like for the Doctor-worshipping inhabitants of Easter Island. And that’s as well as the regular Ood Cast News and a musical treat…

It’s great to be back! Geronimo! Or something.

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“I’ve got scurvy now, scurvy is cool.”

Well here we go again …

Season Six is so close we can taste it. The expectation of its riches, its promises and dark rewards, fill our every waking moment. The sense of something spectacular is palpable. The ghost train is opening its doors…

Join The Ood Cast, as they guide you through the next seven weeks of televisual wonder in a preview episode gilded with the kind of balls-out crazy speculation that could get a person arrested. Prophets or madmen? Seers or fools? Decide for yourself as you hear what kind of hat the Doctor will wear in EVERY EPISODE, what’s impossible about the impossible astronaut and something about apricots.

All this and a review of the Doctor Who Experience PLUS highlights of Season Five recapped in a four minute mega-medley of over 35 popular tunes with the same chord sequence.

Remember what’s past, look to the future but beware SPOILERS.

(and by SPOILERS we mean, ill-informed guesswork and a sprinkling of nuts)

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“I think I can make the noise of a door creaking open with my hair…”

Bit of a weird one for you this week as The Ood Cast go back to basics. Four people, four microphones, in a room, talking. Yes, this is the Oods unplugged and unhinged without the aid of a script or a safety net.

(And because we recorded it three weeks ago we’re also woefully out of date when it comes to details of Season 6 so definitely no spoilers)

There’s even less cohesion than usual as Andy, Laura, Alpha and Sigma jump from one topic to the next with the linguistic grace of a herd of buffalos with big feet dancing swan lake on a minefield. Comments that have no immediate relevance, a review of Space & Time, hysteria, memoirs, podcest and a very special birthday wish all make an appearance.

And, okay, there are a few short sketches about the Brigadier and a cover of a song by the lovely folk at Radio Rassilon too.

But mostly it’s tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing…

We wouldn’t have it any other way.

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