Doctor Who: Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels Toby Hadoke

To celebrate a year of podcasting Toby Hadoke's Time Travels - not to mention 58 years of Doctor Who - here is one of the best bits of the Patreon exclusive podcast (Far) Too Much Information. This minisode is a re-recording - with loads of updates including new clips and interviews - of Toby's quest to find out everything about the Coal Hill Kids (the schoolchildren extras in the first episode), first released as part of the An Unearthly Child deep dive in (Far) Too Much Information. 

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This is quite a ridiculous thing to have done but that's just the sort of thing these podcasts are for. Look at that first episode, we know it so well - but who was the guy who does the funny Kenneth Williams noise? Who is the cool dark haired mystery girl with the arched eyebrow? And was one of this lot really the sister-in-law of Phil Collins? Oh yes. This is a work of lunacy that puts the lie to much of what is out there online, and speaks exclusively to one of the kids, the daughter of another and the widow of yet another. 
 


Put it like this, it's unlikely you'll find anything this arcane anywhere else. It's time for a school reunion, with the Class of '63...

You may remember that last November's special release was from this strand, (Far) Too Much Information, normally reserved for patrons. The job of tracking down all of the Coal Hill Schoolchildren from the very first episode was one that deserved a wider audience and so out it came. However, by November host Toby Hadoke still hadn't traced one of those history-making teenagers... and that one was a niggle. Well, she's a niggle no more, and so here is a re-edited and updated version of the first release which finally reveals what became of The Lonely Blonde. If you don't want to listen to the whole thing again, the new material is at 31.50.
 
Toby is raising money for medical aid to Ukraine by running the Manchester 10k on May 22nd 2022. Please donate here:
https://gofund.me/ac1c5539
Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron only podcast - Far Too Much information), regular AMAs and more. Tiers start form as little as £3 per month. 
patreon.com/tobyhadoke
 
Or there is Ko-fi for the occasionally donation with no commitments:
ko-fi.com/tobyhadoke
 
Follow Toby on Twitter
@tobyhadoke
And these podcasts
@HadokePodcasts
 
www.tobyhadoke.com for news, blog, mailing list and more. 
 

Indefinable Magic is a series of whimsical essays inspired, sometimes very tangentially, by Doctor Who. 
 


Episode 1.1 - Scouring the Shelves
 


Just finding Doctor Who stuff was hard in the old days: you had to get lucky at the newsagents, or happen upon an exciting new shop whilst on holiday, and you discovered the show piece by piece, often having to commit facts to memory. You had to be very dogged in your pursuit of the Doctor... in many ways, you almost had to become a stalker. 
 
Episode re-uploaded on 23/11/20 to get rid of a minor technical glitch near the beginning. 

Indefinable Magic is a series of whimsical and sometimes certifiably arcane ramblings about some aspect of Doctor Who - sometimes a personal reminiscence; sometimes a jokey thought; and sometimes an unnecessarily obsessive delve: but always done with a lightness of touch and devotion to the subject. This time, it's carrots. Yep, you read that right, the history of carrots in Doctor Who (I direct my learned colleague to the word "arcane" above). 

Indefinable Magic is a series of whimsical meanderings, which sees comedian Toby Hadoke rhapsodise arcana via childhood memories, a trivial quest or an overactive imagination. This episode will chime with anyone who has learnt a word thanks to Doctor Who, and even those who thought they'd learnt a word and didn't discover until years later that it actually meant something totally different. 
Please Note : This is a later edit than the one initially uploaded which had some technical ingloriousness at the end.

Another random series of thoughts inspired by Doctor Who - in this one, host Toby Hadoke connects the dots between Professor Bernard Quatermass, the first icon of BBC TV science fiction, and his sort-of offspring, Doctor Who. There are similarities, differences, and much to celebrate about both in this podcast that will serve as an introduction to the Quatermass serials for those who have never seen them, and an insightful and detailed examination off them for those who have... but always seen through the prism of a certain time traveller, who owes the professor a great deal...