The Ood Cast

“I’m going to sex it right up … like a sexy bent shoe.”

That’s what happens when you leave two recently engaged Who fans alone with a microphone …

This week, Chris Sigma and Laura present a whole hodge podge of tidbits scattered from the final two episodes, present the winner of the lyrics competition, discover just how tantalising a cup of tea can be and listen to the existential crisis of a Star Whale. It’s a bit schitzophrenic- but with a person who’s had ten other personalities being our starting point, who can blame us?

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“It’s like dissecting a kitten. It’s just not as cute when it’s all in bits everywhere …”

On this week’s bumper and rather euphoric Ood Cast, the reverie of a season finale goes to our heads … or is that the wine?

Either way, we have loads of fun, and its probably unintelligible to anyone who wasn’t there. Sorry about that. Well, we’re not – you don’t have to pay for this …

As well as our late discussion of whether Steven Moffat pulled off his first attempt at a finale, we have a bit of a nose around a museum gallery of unusual fossils, find out how Rory gets on at a job interview, drop in on the results of the fire safety investigation into the TARDIS explosion and see how many of us it takes to stop Andy talking his way through the entire show.

We’re almost at the end of our season, with the finale just around the corner … but are we threatened by how good The Big Bang was?

You bet we are…

(This episode also features guest artwork by the extremely talented Mr Jonathan Monkhouse)

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“He fall into the crack and he never come back … that’s a-Rorrrrrrry …”

This week, the Ood Cast try and ignore the temptation to run around screaming like excited children (we did that after the recording had finished) and take a trip into a land of childhood memories and councils of war …

We see what would happen if the Anti-Doctor coalition had picked a different book from Amy’s shelves and our helpful fly-on-the-wall learns how all those different species put aside their differences to trap their slippery target.

We find time to talk about The Pandorica Opens too, of course, and the weekly song makes a triumphant return …

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“I’m trying to think of a biscuit that rhymes with Pandorica …”

On this week’s sparkling Ood Cast, we embrace World Cup fever … and talk about “The Lodger”.

Join us as we find out what happened when the footballing might of Gallifrey’s sole player took on the ringers of Skaro’s planetary playmakers; blow the whistle on a secret habit that the Littlest Doctor thought he had hidden from everyone; discover what some football pundits made of James Corden’s constant presence on our screens at the weekend, sympathise with Laura’s sore throat, get slightly put off by the Master of theatrical gestures and also hear what topical thing Alpha thinks should be in the next series of Who.

So, squeeze yourself through those turnstiles, get a mug of bovril and settle down for kick off with the Ood Cast.

Plunger ball!

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“Finger nails are good at scratching …”

In this week’s Ood Cast, a host of stars…

We join Richard Curtis as he receives some feedback on his first draft of Vincent and the Doctor, talk about beauty and colour and other giant horse-turkey related nonsense and tag along with a tour of a rather interesting gallery.

And we’re joined by a star completely of his own making: Laura’s dad – who blows us away (like pencil shavings on his sketch pad) with this week’s song.

All that, plus the Ood Cast news and a very special visit from a tiny scale model TARDIS … carrying the one and only Littlest Doctor.

How can you not join us?

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“David Tennant will bring his flugelhorn.”

This week’s Ood Cast is a voyage of discovery.

We take a sneak peak into the TARDIS to see exactly what the Doctor said to Ambrose on the way home from her brave attempt to provoke an inter-species war; we find out what the machinery of the podcast would be like with an essential cog wiped from existence; discover that we can still be touched by an episode ending; present a fitting and lovely lament to the passing of a certain character; and more importantly, realise that it is still possible for one man to disappoint us and make our review section less excitable than usual …

(Begin fist shaking …)

All together now:

CHIBNALL!

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“Right, we’re going to convert this woman, but we’ll start with the bikini areas …”

This week on The Ood Cast, we all go a bit mental. There’s a review of “The Hungry Earth” in which we mercilessly rip into Chris Chibnall before all agreeing that we rather liked the episode and some truly terrifying accent work.

Laura explains why Jon Pertwee reminds her of a sheep that does taekwondo, Andy makes one too many pun-based Dad jokes, Alpha educates us on the provenance of the Silurians and Sigma delves into the psychological differences between men and women when watching scenes involving physical pain.

There’s also some made up news, a subterranean job interview, a visit to the British Secret Service, a segment set behind the scenes at a Doctor Who production meeting and the results of our Underground song competition.

Did you miss us?

So much.

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“The only thing missing for me was three of them in a bath rolling down the hillside.”

On this week’s Ood Cast, we face the consequences of leaving too much psychic pollen lying around our perfectly appointed studio and that’s as well as dropping in on the Doctor “acquiring” said narcotic substance, hearing what happened to the frozen Peruvian folk band, discussing what we made of The Shaun of the Summer Wine (sorry, Amy’s Choice) and, last but not least, a visit from a legendary 70s rock group …

So, make your choice …

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“Funny how you can say something in your head, and it sounds … fine.”

We sharpen up our canines in this week’s Ood Cast – and that’s nothing to do with dogs and pencil sharpeners…

Join us to revel in Venetian wonder as we find out what the aftermath of the freak weather was for gondoliers, and how this event affected the course of opera… We drop in on another parents’ evening and hear what happened when a popular fishing programme took the show over to the waterways of Italy.

And that’s as well as the usual mix of Ood Cast news, song and aural dance…

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“Only in Doctor Who would you have a conversation … with a man in the process of having his neck snapped.”

Pull up a comfy chair and relax – it’s nice in here …

In this week’s Ood Cast, we treat you so very, very well. As well as the regular news and the usual review, we explore the musical side to the Byzantium with two songs – TWO!

We do actually talk a bit about Flesh and Stone too, as well as grabbing a sneaky peek at the future of Church fetes, and maybe … just maybe, there’s a Myrka joke hiding in there somewhere …

So, pour yourself something to calm the nerves and have a listen …

We’ll get you sorted out.

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