Reality Bomb Episode 062 – Live in Toronto 2
On the sixty-second edition of Reality Bomb we have a special live episode recorded at the Imperial Pub in Toronto with Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont. We interview a panel of fans including Lori Steuart, Rebecca Diem and Cadence Gillard about their first impressions of the new Doctor and the new season. Our fifth annual new season news hype quiz tasks Peter Hill, Cameron Dixon, Warren Frey and Heather Murray about the news that somehow escaped from Chris Chibnall’s grasp. Prisoners of Gravity and InnerSpace creator and comic book writer and ubergeek Mark Askwith discusses Doctor Who’s foray into superheroes by bringing The Return of Doctor Mysterio to the Gallery of the Underrated. Plus, we have musician David Lush (of Memorex) performing the Doctor Who theme live, a double shot of comedy, listeners Q and A and much more! It’s your favourite Doctor Who podcast… only live. In the centre of the universe!
On the sixty-first edition of Reality Bomb, Joy Piedmont talks to Den of Geek’s staff editor Kayti Burt and The Guardian’s senior social correspondent Martin Belam about the latest news of Doctor Who’s move to Sundays and the recent announcement of new writers and directors and what all this might mean for the series. Graeme Burk explores the question of whether Doctor Who fandom is toxic or could become toxic with Angelique Roche, Sage Young and Felicity Kuzinitz. And emeritus producer Alex Kennard returns to Reality Bomb in order that he might bring the now-forgotten revolutionary 2002 webcast Death Comes To Time to the Gallery of the Underrated. Plus, some anthropologists attempt to flush out some middle aged Doctor Who fans in the wild and more!
On the sixitieth edition of Reality Bomb, Joy Piedmont talks with author Jenny Colgan and Head Over Feels’ Kim Rogers about romance in Doctor Who and what defines it. Graeme Burk talks to Lindsey Mayers and Heather Berberet about their fondest hopes, deepest fears and wildest speculations for the new season. We reunite our “Twitch Team” of Helena Lane, Katherine Climpson, Evan Teng and Andrew Smith to discuss how Doctor Who in the ’70s and ’80s fared and the skittles-coloured Daleks invade the Gallery of the Underrated with Kelly Boaz. Plus our poet laureate, Chris Fosten, offers an ode to not knowing, and Miss Urquart investigates a locked room abduction on a podcast!
On the fifty-ninth edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode as, one year after they first talked about Jodie Whittaker’s casting in episode 048, Graeme Burk talks to Petra Mayer, Angelique Roche and Sage Young about the new Doctor’s debut at San Diego Comic Con… and the brace of teasers, trailers and news articles all saying very little but meaning so very much. Joy Piedmont talks to vlogger and member of Doctor Who Magazine’s Team Team Claudia Boleyn about the ways Doctor Who could improve representation in a variety of ways as we debut a new segment, Perception Filter: conversations about identity and Doctor Who. And Graeme reunites with Rob Jones and Shannon Dohar — his co-hosts from the music podcast, 
On the fifty-eighth edition of Reality Bomb, Graeme Burk brings together a group of fans who had largely never seen classic Doctor Who until they saw it on Twitch TV including Katherine Climpson, Helena Lane and Evan Teng to discuss the joys of 1960s Doctor Who alongside classic series writer Andrew Smith. Also, Adrienne Enderle talks about golf ball-munching herbivores, fathers with trowels, Egyptian queens and genocidal maniacs when Dinosaurs on a Spaceship comes to the Gallery of the Underrated. And Joy Piedmont looks into 
On the fifty-seventh edition of Reality Bomb, Joy Piedmont follows up on the recent rejuvenation of the Time Team in Doctor Who Magazine by assembling a focus group of twentysomethings– who have mostly never read DWM before– to see if the magazine connects with them. There’s a slow terror afoot (very round feet too!) when our pal (and co-host the 
On the fifty-sixth edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode which looks at the legacy and future of the Target Novels as Graeme Burk talks first with fans Jon Arnold and Christopher Bryant, and then with author Jenny Colgan, who wrote the recent adapation of The Christmas Invasion. We then look back to when Doctor Who broke bad and lost its arms, its legs, it’s everything as Doctor Who writer Andrew Smith brings Nightmare of Eden to the Gallery of the Underrated. And Joy Piedmont talks to Sage Young, Petra Mayer and Michelle Tidmore about Doctor Who actors and the appeal they have that bring fans to conventions and the stage door. Plus Bruce and Darren travel to a parallel dimension to get a shelf with uniform DVD and blu-ray spines…but at what cost?
On the fifty-fifth episode of Reality Bomb, Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont, emboldened by the #WhoAgainstGuns campaign, look around at the other ways Doctor Who fans are doing good. First we go back in time to learn more about the 1985 Fan Aid campaign to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief with then-organizer, now-author and writer Paul Cornell. Back in the present, we talk about the 
Even though we’ve released our special 13-part podcast commentary of The War Games, the Who Against Guns campaign is still running until March 31st. And we have a special giveaway to offer in the lead up for that, and this weekend’s marches across the US.