Reality Bomb

On the fifty-fourth edition of Reality Bomb we have a special live episode recorded at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles with Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont. We start off by looking to the future of Doctor Who with Sage Young, Tai Gooden and Simon Fraser. In celebrating 30 years of Perivale’s finest citizen, we have a quiz about all things Ace with Paul Cornell, Felicity Kuzinitz, Rob Shearman and Rachel Donner. Controversy comes to the Gallery of the Underrated (live in the room!) when the Verity! podcast’s Erika Ensign offers The Ribos Operation for consideration. We have a live edition of Listener’s Letters adjudicated by Paul Cornell and a bonus quiz with Shannon Dohar and Deb Stanish. Plus we have a double shot comedy from Kim Rogers, Andy Hicks, Felicity Kuzinitz, Edie Nugent, Chip Sudderth, Liz Myles, Bill Evenson, Robert Smith? and special guest star Richard Ashton!

Gallifrey Stands, an ad-hoc coalition of Doctor Who fans and podcasters is proud to announce “Who Against Guns”, an initiative to encourage Doctor Who fans to take action against gun violence.

An all-star cast of over 40 Doctor Who podcasters, writers and fans are coming together to record a podcast commentary of a Classic Who story. The podcast will only be released to listeners who provide a donation to an organization committed to ending gun violence.

For more details visit the Who Against Guns webpage.

On the fifty-third edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode that features Reality Bomb’s new co-producer Joy Piedmont talking with Kim Rogers and Simon Fraser about Peter Capaldi’s swansong, Twice Upon a Time, and how the twelfth Doctor’s finale fared, how a less-than-progressive portrayal of the first Doctor worked and what they’re looking forward to based on Jodie Whittaker’s brief debut. Meanwhile, Lindsey Mayers and NPR Books Editor Petra Mayer are on hand for another edition of Are These Rumours Hot or Not? as they discuss what few rumours have made it out from Chris Chibnall’s tight lid on production and judge them (thoroughly). And the Gallery of the Underrated reaches a milestone with its 50th segment as writer, designer and Doctor Who fan (and the designer of Reality Bomb’s logo and graphics) Scot Clarke comes back to do his look back on the Idiot’s Lantern he was supposed to have done in episode 002! Plus: we have an instructional recording on how to speak like Jodie Whittaker, and a popular radio show and podcast examines the history of artificially intelligent Doctor Who fans!

We’re back! After our massively successful live show at Gallifrey One last year, we’re returning to Saturday night in Program Room “D” to the world’s best Doctor Who convention.

It will have all the things you love about Reality Bomb live: unfiltered and uncensored conversation about Doctor Who, comedy, trivia, music and much more. Further details to come! We look forward to seeing you there!

On this special episode of Reality Bomb, Graeme Burk travels to Britain and takes the podcast with him! Graeme checks in with comic book artist Rachael Stott (Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Adventures, Sex Criminals) about how she’s coping with Peter Capaldi’s imminent departure and what she’s looking forward to with the Christmas special and the new Doctor. Doctor Who writer and World Fantasy Award winning author Robert Shearman discusses Turlough, the Black Guardian and multiple Brigadiers when he brings the timey-wimey-before-it-was-called-that story Mawdryn Undead to the Gallery of the Underrated. And Graeme journeys to Cardiff to visit some Doctor Who and Torchwood locations!

On the fifty-first edition of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode that begins with the TARDIS landing on the runway as the thirteenth Doctor’s costume debuts and we have fashionistas Joy Piedmont and Heather Berberet at the ready to give their thoughts. We’re also talking with Lisa Gledhill about change, mindfulness, chase sequences and arachnophobia when Planet of the Spiders comes to the Gallery of the Underrated. And Lindsey Mayer’s evaluates the latest rumours about Doctor Who and judges whether they’re hot or not. Plus Bruce and Darren try to save Shada and we bid a fond farewell to our esteemed co-producer Alex Kennard.

We’ve been asked by hundreds of listeners one listener what songs were on our live episode 050 in New York. Here’s what you heard:

• “Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon” – Donald Cotton and Tristram Cary, adapted by Alex Kennard
•  “Split into Fractions” – Curve
• “Something to Remember Me By” – The Horrors
• “Music” – Madonna
• “Sweet Poison” – Dragonette
• “Once in a Lifetime” – Talking Heads
• “Swingin’ Safari” – Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra
• “Propaganda” – Sepultura
• “I Thought You Were My Boyfriend” – The Magnetic Fields
• “Turn Up The Radio” – OK Go

Alex picked out all but the sketch music (by Bert Kaempfert) and the outro (by OK Go). Which sums up Graeme and Alex’s musical tastes perfectly, when you think about it.

It’s the fiftieth edition of Reality Bomb and we have a special live episode recorded in New York at Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen in Astoria, Queens with Graeme Burk and co-host Shannon Dohar! There’s a new Doctor hype news quiz regarding the silly season’s best stories following the announcement of Jodie Whittaker with Simon Fraser and Robert Smith? and friends; we have music and “The Song He Couldn’t Be Arsed to Write” with Cat Smith; a journey to the 1920s and Agatha Christie in the Gallery of the Underrated with This Week in Time Travel’s Alyssa Franke; and a discussion of multi-Doctor stories with the nearly-late Petra Mayer, Sage Young and Nick Abadzis. Plus the new game all the kids are playing with Kim Rogers, Kathleen Schowalter, Joy Piedmont and Andy Hicks; listeners’ Q and A with Alex Kennard… and a few other surprises! It’s your favourite podcast, but it’s live…and celebrating the big five-oh!

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Legs! We’ve still got legs!

We’re moving away from using the website created by our podcast provider, Libsyn, to a proper website that enables us more flexibility and looks better overall.

Special thanks to Scot Clarke, our designer for several pieces of strategic advice. Scot designed our logo and has done all our graphics for the past four years. (If you ever need a designer, let us know, we’ll hook you up.)

On the forty-ninth episode of Reality Bomb, we have a super-sized episode where we conclude our review of Series 10 with a discussion of the finale and the season as a whole with our intrepid reviewers Lindsey Mayers and Lori Steuart. We’re also comparing notes about capital punishment, relationship sadness and tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolators when Rachel Donner brings Boom Town to the Gallery of the Underrated. Once again, the interviewer becomes the interviewed as Graeme Burk talks with the Coal Hill AV Club Podcast host Andy Hicks about the book about Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman that Graeme worked on, Head of Drama. And Joy Piedmont talks about representation, Bill and the series 10 finale. Plus the return of Listeners Letters with Graeme and Alex Kennard and see the titanic fight to the death of… reasonable fans.