Doctor Who Radio

Hazel Pethig · Post by **Hazel Pethig** » January 4th, 2009, 10:54 pm

I'm looking for any old radio broadcasts of Doctor Who. It has to be free, of course. If any one can direct me to a website...??
Thank you in advance
Hazel

sjmarky · Post by **sjmarky** » January 6th, 2009, 8:51 am

Hazel Pethig wrote:I'm looking for any old radio broadcasts of Doctor Who. It has to be free, of course. If any one can direct me to a website...??
Thank you in advance
Hazel

Try doing a search at archive.org. They have other old radio shows there - X-Minus-1, Mindwebs, Dark Fantasy - maybe they have Doctor Who.

Hazel Pethig · Post by **Hazel Pethig** » January 6th, 2009, 12:14 pm

Thanks I checked, but its all just fan commentary. I was looking for actual radio broadcasts.
--Hazel

ExEmGe · Post by **ExEmGe** » January 6th, 2009, 12:40 pm

It's years since I looked at usenet but Google tells me there is a newsgroup alt.binaries.drwho You might try that

Cori · Post by **Cori** » January 6th, 2009, 12:48 pm

I know it's terrible, but I had no idea Dr Who was done on the radio ... I thought it was always just TV. If you find a link, Hazel, could you post it here too..?

Starlite · Post by **Starlite** » January 6th, 2009, 1:22 pm

http://radioarchive.cc/

They may have some stuff....

Esther

FNH · Post by **FNH** » January 8th, 2009, 2:54 am

It's not "old" Doctor Who but a more modern production, review and link here...

http://freeaudioreview.blogspot.com/2009/01/terror-of-artic-doctor-who.html

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russiandoll · Post by **russiandoll** » January 8th, 2009, 3:47 am

Like Cori, I wasn't aware that 'old' Dr Who? was ever on the radio at all. There have been some newly written episodes starring Paul McGann broadcast on BBC7 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio7/ in 2007 and 2008 (series list here), but it's not currently on air. When it is, each episode is available for free online listening (but I think not download) for 7 days after broadcast in the UK, but I don't know whether you'd be able to get them in the US or elsewhere.

Starlite · Post by **Starlite** » January 8th, 2009, 4:36 am

russiandoll wrote: but I don't know whether you'd be able to get them in the US or elsewhere.

The BBC are buggers about that... I can't watch any previews, interviews etc about the new Doctor Who series since I am in Canada. They seem to know my ip address and block it all.

Esther

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » January 8th, 2009, 12:00 pm

Starlite wrote:The BBC are buggers about that...

<---------------- That's kind of... because we pay for it all.

russiandoll · Post by **russiandoll** » January 8th, 2009, 12:59 pm

Yeh. And they need the money from programme sales to overseas broadcasters too, so you can't let any old Johnny Foreigner watch it for free on Our Internet

. (Though if Johnny Foreigner - or Esther Foreigner - got to see the previews at least, she could get even more excited about it and write urgent letters to Canadian TV companies telling them how much she wanted to see the series, and they might pay more for it...)

It is getting harder and harder, though, to see any good reason to own a TV and pay the licence fee when you can access all BBC radio and most TV shows - if you can wait till an hour or two after broadcast - without it. I'm not sure they've thought that through properly.

Post by **annise** » January 8th, 2009, 1:10 pm

Maybe they are planning to have an internet licence fee too

Anne

catchpenny · Post by **catchpenny** » January 8th, 2009, 2:23 pm

Doctor Who?

Starlite · Post by **Starlite** » January 8th, 2009, 3:12 pm

russiandoll wrote: It is getting harder and harder, though, to see any good reason to own a TV and pay the licence fee when you can access all BBC radio and most TV shows - if you can wait till an hour or two after broadcast - without it. I'm not sure they've thought that through properly.

Here in Canada, I can d/l the newest Doctor Who episode usually in 12 to 24 hours after it airs in the UK.

Esther

FNH · Post by **FNH** » January 9th, 2009, 9:16 am

annise wrote:Maybe they are planning to have an internet licence fee too
Anne

Seriously I wouldn't put it past them. The TV as it is now is doomed anyway, in a few years we'll be doing away with them and everything media will be internet delivered.

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