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Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

The Three Who Rule

300 episodes

Radio Free Skaro is possibly the most popular, most prolific and charmingly irreverent (but never irrelevant) Doctor Who podcast around. Since August 2006, hosts Warren (in Vancouver, BC) and Steven (in Edmonton, AB) have provided listeners with their brand of amusing Doctor Who praise and punishment. A year later, Chris (also in Edmonton, AB) was added to the team, and The Three Who Rule were born.

More about the show

Recommended by Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Free Skaro provides an entertaining and diverting listen for the diehard or casual Doctor Who fan. New episodes usually appear on Sundays, following a loose magazine format of the three hosts discussing the news and events of the past week in the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the Sarah Jane Adventures. They have also recorded special commentary podcasts for classic series and new series episodes of Doctor Who along with interviews of some of the brightest of the Doctor Who luminaries. Radio Free Skaro is also the official podcast of Gallifrey One, the world's largest and longest-running annual Doctor Who convention.

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  1. Radio Free Skaro #1091 - There's No Fighting in The Reality War Room

    · 2 h 14 min

    For one week only, the Three Who Rule are reunited (and it feels sensibly fine) as Warren returns from his adventures as an Associate European only to have Chris soon toodle off for his own Continental Sojourn! But in…

  2. Radio Free Skaro #1090 - The Imagination Station

    · 1 h 24 min

    Christmas is saved! The official Doctor Who YouTube Channel (don't forget to subscribe) and Big Finish have come together to present a new audio Christmas story starring Christopher Eccleston and Carole Ann Ford. We…

  3. Radio Free Skaro #1089 - Werewolves of Zephon

    · 1 h 39 min

    Three big Doctor Who stories share the spotlight this week! Deadline reports that both Jed Mercurio's Hat Trick Mercurio and STV Studios are two of the interested bidders to make Doctor Who, the first image and details…

  4. Radio Free Skaro #1088 - You Just Hope It Will Generate Content

    · 1 h 46 min

    Doctor Who is dead, long live Doctor Who! Russell T Davies speaks of the end of his time on Doctor Who in an excerpt from his new book, while Bad Wolf's Jane Tranter laments the dismantling of the most recent TARDIS…

  5. Radio Free Skaro #1087 - Circuit Broken

    · 2 h 03 min

    It's the end, but the Circuit has been prepared for! Big Finish concludes the Fugitive Doctor's multi-month, multi-platform saga with audio play Full Circuit and Short Circuits, a couple of audiobooks. Plus "The Satan…

  6. Radio Free Skaro #1086 - Tender Mercies

    · 1 h 56 min

    Big news! The moment has been prepared for by a cabal of BBC pencil pushers as the official Doctor Who Invitation To Tender was released to all and sundry! Steven and Warren pick apart the document with a fine tooth…

  7. Radio Free Skaro #1085 - Bayeux Tapestry Fanfic

    · 1 h 03 min

    A light week of Doctor Who related banter as we soldier through continued Circuit Breaker fun, speculate wildly about the upcoming Blakes 7 Series 3 Collection that was officially announced this past week, the usual…

  8. Radio Free Skaro #1084 - Banks Holiday

    · 1 h 53 min

    As befits these dog days of Doctor Who, we start this episode delving into both Edmonton infrastructure projects and the 60th anniversary of Star Trek, before summarily slapping ourselves upside the head and reporting…

  9. Radio Free Skaro #1083 - Journey Through Ignorance

    · 1 h 19 min

    The War between the Galactic Republic (Canada) and the Trade Federation (America) continues and is finally affecting things that actually matter like Doctor Who as Catherine Tate and other guests have bowed out of…

  10. Radio Free Skaro #1082 - Quietly Not Happening

    · 1 h 34 min

    Despite the continuing lull in Doctor Who content we've got a bumper crop of stuff to talk about this week, including a missing episodes saga of sorts from Steven with many twists, turns, and 3/4" U-Matic tapes! the…

  11. Radio Free Skaro #1081 - A Celebration

    · 2 h 58 min

    It's a landmark episode of Radio Free Skaro as we mark 20 years of blabbing into microphones about the greatest television show ever made, that there Doctor Who, with a touch of reminiscing and reflection on our…

  12. Radio Free Skaro #1080 - Rather Smart and Clever

    · 1 h 16 min

    It's the end of an era but the moment has been prepared for as the trailblazing Verity! crew release their final episode capping more than a decade of smart talk about Doctor Who from six awesome ladies. Pay tribute to…

  13. Radio Free Skaro #1079 - Brave Heart, Tegan

    · 1 h 07 min

    We're breaking circuits once more as we cover both the new Audiobook Doctor Who: The Deadliest Weapon and preview a new Titan comic in the sprawling saga of Circuit Breaker starring Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor!…

  14. Radio Free Skaro #1078 - I See That You Know Your Judo Well

    · 1 h 42 min

    The TARDIS is in Glasgow this week as both the King and Queen of England opened the Commonwealth Games and Sylvester McCoy (in costume and adorned with a traffic cone) calls out all the Scottish Doctors by name, as is…

  15. Radio Free Skaro #1077 - Business Business Business

    · 1 h 29 min

    Do you want to hear about MRAHHH BUSINESS regarding BBC Studios and the BBC's annual report for the better part of an hour? Well, you're going to, along with keen insights into the NHK man prowling Tokyo looking for…

  16. Radio Free Skaro #1076 - The Ceefax Initiative

    · 1 h 23 min

    The UK is awash in televisual Mrrahhh Business this week as Sky is set to purchase ITV for $2.13 billion and what better "experts" to weigh in on the subject than three Canadians with a passing familiarity with the…

  17. Radio Free Skaro #1075 - Open Wide for Some Soccer

    · 1 h 13 min

    We're Breaking Circuits over here at Radio Free Skaro Towers, with a web-based UNIT story setting up the whole shebang and a new Titan Comics adventure (which we have read in preview form) soon to come! While TWBLATS…

  18. Radio Free Skaro #1074 - The Happy Days-verse

    · 1 h 00 min

    It's a bumper crop of news this week despite a complete lack of Doctor Who…except for Circuit Breaker, which begins by way of an online game where you join UNIT! Plus a fine interview with Steven Moffat on the…

  19. Radio Free Skaro #1073 - Cancel Culture

    · 1 h 17 min

    If you thought a complete vacuum of Doctor Who news would stop the Three Who Rule from prognostication based on the vapours and some recent UK media podcast analysis about the BBC tendering process, boy howdy you would…

  20. Radio Free Skaro #1072 - This Song May Be Over

    · 1 h 56 min

    It's (not) the end, but the moment has been prepared for! Well, not as such but a press release from the BBC confirms what we long suspected: there will not be a Christmas special nor were plans for one ever seriously…

  21. Radio Free Skaro #1071 - Minimal Editing

    · 1 h 05 min

    The rumours and nonsense continue to bubble up from the internet swamps this week with claims of the Christmas Special shot in a minimal style, a fake news release to irritate us all, and actual footage of RTD saying…

  22. Radio Free Skaro #1070 - Do They Know It's Christmas?

    · 1 h 23 min

    Jingle bells are probably silent this Christmas as, if RTD's hinting in the UK media has led the Three Who Rule to conclude, after Mr. Davies stating he won't be filming anything this year, so…whither Doctor Who…

  23. Radio Free Skaro #1068 - They're Not Real Bats

    · 1 h 39 min

    Doctor Who is back! At least in the United States, by way of AMC+ which will be the exclusive streaming home of Doctor Who (2005-2022). No word if it'll show up on AMC+ Canada, which does in fact exist, but we're used…

  24. Radio Free Skaro #1067 - Beryllium Atomic Clock

    · 1 h 20 min

    If you're looking for a deep dive into the glorious 4K (in the UK at least) return of Doctor Who: The Movie (1996) you've come to the right place! We have an epic interview with film restoration expert Paul Vanezis all…

  25. Radio Free Skaro #1066 - A Space Helmet for a Cow

    · 1 h 26 min

    The worlds of Doctor Who collide once more as the BBC launches into new Fugitive Doctor adventures via Circuit Breaker, a multi-platform saga in the tradition of Time Lord Victorious and Doom's Day,.The Three Who Rule…

  26. Radio Free Skaro #1065 - Maximum Power

    · 1 h 26 min

    More exciting coverage of missing episodes….but this time not Doctor Who! Yes, a cutting copy of a 1968 episode of Morecambe & Wise has been discovered. But while a missing episode has been born anew, the past must…

  27. Radio Free Skaro #1064 - Not Simply To Amuse

    · 1 h 32 min

    Are you tired of old men ranting about the current state of both Doctor Who and Star Trek? Well, brace yourself for more as Screen Rant of all places has a well-thought out piece about the future of both franchises and…

  28. Radio Free Skaro #1063 - Brought To You By The Letters G and I

    · 1 h 04 min

    In the wake of not only the glorious return of both missing episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan to the Doctor Who archive but also four brave astronauts (one of them Canadian!) to the Earth, we're back to our usual…

  29. Radio Free Skaro #1062 - The Daleks Will Stop at Anything

    · 1 h 22 min

    The time has come and the two previously missing but now gloriously present episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan, namely The Nightmare Begins (Episode 1) and Devil's Planet (Episode 3), are here to be viewed and…

  30. Radio Free Skaro #1061 - Beloved In The Local Film Community

    · 1 h 13 min

    Our deepest of dives into the wilds of missing episodes continues as our feature interview this week is with John Franklin of Film is Fabulous!, who chats all about the organization's mission, the complicated saga of…

  31. Radio Free Skaro #1060 - Mad About Nothing

    · 1 h 27 min

    It's been a week since missing episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan revealed themselves to the public to great excitement and joy and indeed a Film of Fabulous! screening of said episodes on April 4 sold out…

  32. Radio Free Skaro #1059 - The Ghasting of the Flabbers

    · 1 h 20 min

    It is indeed an amazing week in the world of Doctor Who as two (!) episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan, specifically episodes 1 and 3, have been resurrected into the daylight through the good work of Film Is Fabulous!…

  33. Radio Free Skaro #1058/A - News Bulletin! Two Missing Doctor Who Episodes Returned!

    · 5:37 · Bonus

    BREAKING NEWS! Two previously missing episodes of Doctor Who have been returned to the BBC Archives! Episodes One and Three of The Daleks' Master Plan were found in a film collection obtained by Film is Fabulous, and…

  34. Radio Free Skaro #1058 - Pier Pressure

    · 1 h 11 min

    Happy Magna Carta Day, everyone! One of them, anyway. Now that that's out of the way, there's heated debate on The Billie Piper Matter in both The Sun and The Telegraph, and the Three Who Rule add their shopworn takes…

  35. Radio Free Skaro #1057 - UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose

    · 1 h 08 min

    As world events trend ever downwards, you can always count on the Three Who Rule to not only give you the latest exciting news from the world of Doctor Who, such as Murray Gold reporting there are numerous versions of…

  36. Radio Free Skaro #1056 - We'll Always Have The Sandbaggers

    · 1 h 29 min

    It's a banner day for Wilderness Years junior campers as the 35mm prints of the TV Movie have been lovingly scanned and become a 4K release on Blu-Ray, at least in the UK (for now). Plus there's a new documentary on…

  37. Radio Free Skaro #1055 - Terra Firma

    · 1 h 00 min

    The Three Who Rule are reunited as Steven reports back from his sojourn into the depths of Los Angeles and Gallifrey One and Chris and Warren regale him with tales of The Android Invasion and Warriors of the Deep…

  38. Radio Free Skaro #1054 - The Doctor Is Worth The Monsters

    · 58 min

    It's Gallifrey One time! While the Canadian contingent in Los Angeles this year was low (including both Warren and Chris, who like many Canadians chose not to frequent the environs of our troubled neighbours), Steven…

  39. Radio Free Skaro #1053 - Shiny Happy People

    · 1 h 35 min

    It's that time of year again, the annual Gallifrey One preview show, and even though only one of our august number is braving the geopolitical winds of Canada-U.S. kerfuffles (Steven, if you're keeping track) that…

  40. Radio Free Skaro #1052 - The Minnesota Fighting Saints

    · 1 h 40 min

    It's the return of STATS! as we ruminate over not just some frankly dismal Disney+ numbers for our beloved Doctor Who but a smattering of other genre offerings who stumbled or triumphed on the way to your eyeballs.…

  41. Radio Free Skaro #1051 - A Big Red Button

    · 1 h 25 min

    Exciting Gallifrey One news this week as the one and only Freema Agyeman makes her long-awaited return to Los Angeles in February! Also, it would be remiss not to mention missives about the Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder…

  42. Radio Free Skaro #1050 - Harsh Language

    · 1 h 33 min

    It's another exciting week of the Doctor Who interregnum of 2026 and we have exciting Gallifrey One guest updates, another great Rachel Talalay video involving Mondasian Cybermen, Bill Potts, and mirrors, some cryptic…

  43. Radio Free Skaro #1049 - Nothing At All. Ever.

    · 1 h 34 min

    It's the first podcast in this, the space year 2026, and the Three Who Rule have emerged from their New Year's slumber to cogitate on new Gallifrey One announcements, recreated sets for The Feast of Steven and Rachel…

  44. Radio Free Skaro #1048 - A Roller Rink in Kingston

    · 1 h 01 min

    The Three Who Rule closes out 2025 with a diverting left turn into camp with a commentary for the Blake's 7 episode "Gambit", possibly the most outrageous sci-fi production the BBC produced in the 1970s. And who else…

  45. Radio Free Skaro – 2025 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 24

    · 6:37 · Bonus

    This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we'll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 24.

  46. Radio Free Skaro #1047 - Turf and Surf, The Third

    · 1 h 23 min

    (Our review of The War Between The Land and The Sea episode 5 is from 4:28 – 1:00:35) It's the final episode of The War Between The Land and the Sea and with it our final review of this clash between Dirt and Wet for…

  47. Radio Free Skaro – 2025 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 23

    · 7:16 · Bonus

    This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we'll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 23.

  48. Radio Free Skaro – 2025 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 22

    · 4:55 · Bonus

    This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we'll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 22.

  49. Radio Free Skaro – 2025 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 21

    · 6:07 · Bonus

    This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we'll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 21.

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