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It is Thursday the 20th of April 2017 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking

Skeptics for the K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I am your host, Mike Hall with me today. Is Marsh. Hello. And Alice was on I didn't watch it yet I spent the whole

weekend basically watching the thick of it again just rewatching the thick of it so we've seen

keep the Peter Capaldi in a much better role it's near as as down at Doctor Who at this point, the thick of it.

It's got Chris Addison and he was in Doctor Who.

It's got...

Was he in Doctor Who? Yeah.

It's in Doctor About two seasons ago.

I've never seen Doctor Who.

This is why I'm not sure.

But yeah, I watched Dr. Who and I really enjoyed

Dr. Who. I was very excited by Dr. Who. It was fun. It was good. There's a new

assistant in it, right? There is a new assistant. I was worried about the new assistant.

Because in the mid 90, early 90s they had this spate of doing tomboyish

characters so you had ace and then you had ros and you had Benny and these kind of

tomboyish female companions in Doctor Who

as a kind of lazy way of writing strong female characters is just write them as

right them as men but change their gender and I was worried when they announced,

you know, the new assistance called Bill.

I thought, oh, they're not doing that lazy Tom.

Not that Tom Boys characters necessarily bad in itself,

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