Doctor Who – The Regeneration Game

Origin Story

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary, History

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Travel into the furthest reaches of space and time as we investigate the history of Doctor Who. From its inception in 1963, as a longshot gamble to fill a hole in the teatime schedule, to its current status as British television’s biggest international drama, we track the story of the eccentric alien with two hearts and what the Doctor’s adventures have to say about modern Britain. Doctor Who was the brainchild of a group of outsiders and it maintains that provocative sensibility today under Russell T. Davies, with an increasingly pointed and explicit political agenda. What are its core values and ideas? How does it balance consistency with change? And how does one programme get away with promoting such a radically progressive message inside the otherwise anxious BBC? This is the story of one of the weirdest and most beloved characters in popular fiction, in all its timey-wimey goodness. Find yourself a decent spot behind the sofa and we’ll begin… Reading list John Higgs – Exterminate/Regenerate (2025) Dorian Lynskey – ‘Once Upon a Time Lord’, Empire magazine (2013) An Adventure in Space and Time, written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Terry McDonough, BBC (2013) • Support Origin Story on Patreon • Get the Origin Story books on Fascism, Centrism and Conspiracy Theory Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Produced by Simon Williams. Music by Jade Bailey. Art by Jim Parrett. Logo by Mischa Welsh. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.0	I'm Dorian Linsky.
0:43.9	And I am Ian Dunton.
0:45.3	Ian, what do you have for us this time?
0:48.6	Dr. Ho?
0:50.3	I would do the theme tune.
0:51.7	I could be a bit like,
0:52.7	Woo-B-B-B-da-da-o-do-loo-oo.
0:58.3	Please don't stop listening. I'm begging you.
1:00.9	There'll be no more of that.
1:05.0	You're not a super fan, are you? But I think you do like it. Is that right?
1:08.7	I like it like normal people like Doctor Who.
1:11.5	Yeah.
1:11.9	As in, you know, I grew up with it.
1:15.0	I really liked watching the, I think there was to me some repeats if I actually look at
1:19.1	the timeline because there's a doctor's no member that I just wasn't born for.
1:23.1	But I really remember loving, you know, John Pertwey and Tom Bacon.
1:26.3	I'm really watching it all the way through until...
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