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I’ll Explain Later - conversations about Doctor Who
@illexplainlater.bsky.social
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A weekly Doctor Who podcast hosted by @mattnida.com and @jwestjourno.bsky.social. Listen to our back catalogue at https://illexplainlater.com/ and via all good podcatchers.
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE!! Yes, our I’LL EXPLAIN NOW strand finally kicks into gear for our review of WISH WORLD/THE REALITY WAR. @mattnida.com battles his guts and @jwestjourno.bsky.social *marvels* (geddit?!) at RTD’s influences. LISTEN NOW! illexplainlater.com
Promo pic for I’ll Explain Later’s Wish World/The Reality War episode, featuring a picture of Ncuti Gatwa as ‘John Smith’ in a pinstripe suit and bowler hat.
June 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The Barber certainly approves.
Photo of the Barber from Doctor Who episode ‘The Story & the Engine’.
May 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE!! I’ll Explain NOW is proud to present a double-header, exploring THE STORY & THE ENGINE and THE INTERSTELLAR SONG CONTEST: two lighthearted romps with barely a ripple of discourse about them. Listen now! illexplainlater.com
Promo pic for I’ll Explain Later’s double episode reviewing The Story & the Engine and The Interstellar Song Contest, with images of Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Rylan as Rylan.
May 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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*ILL* EXPLAIN LATER! Alas, a medical malaise - feared to be Spectrox toxaemia - has struck the @illexplainlater.bsky.social crew, so no The Story & the Engine hot take this week. But never fear - we’ll be back very soon to continue our Season Two/Series 15 chat!
Gif of the Fifth Doctor giving Peri that bat stuff to cure her Spectrox toxaemia in The Caves of Androzani.
May 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE!! I’ll Explain NOW returns to examine LUCKY DAY. Along the way: Matt reveals his nocturnal habits, John’s prejudices get an airing and Doctor Who’s ‘Withnail & I’ approach to political mistakes. illexplainlater.com
Promo picture for I’ll Explain Later’s Lucky Day review, featuring a photo of the Shreek roaring in Conrad’s face.
May 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE! I’ll Explain Now continues its ‘volcanic take’ run with a discussion on THE WELL. Along the way: imperial -metric conversion crisis, RTD’s Lynchian MO, and lingering sex scenes. Listen now! illexplainlater.com
Promotional picture for I’ll Explain Later’s review of The Well, with a photo of Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Varada Sethu as Belinda, both in spacesuits.
April 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE! From Chuck Berry to Chuck Jones, we at @illexplainlater.bsky.social offer an illuminating look at LUX. Along the way: Ribena concentrate, colliery bands and deep-fried bonce. LISTEN NOW! illexplainlater.com
Promo pic for I’ll Explain Later’s review of Lux, featuring an image or Mr Ring-a-Ding.
April 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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We should alert UNIT.
I’ll Explain Later co-hosts John West and Matt Nida mugging for a photo in front of a sign saying “WARNING ASBESTOS”.
April 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🚨 🚨 I’LL EXPLAIN NOW! @illexplainlater.bsky.social’s volcanic take on The Robot Revolution is live! French gîtes, Disney timidity and why RTD just isn’t political enough. Listen now! illexplainlater.com
Promo pic for I’ll Explain Later’s ‘The Robot Revolution’ review, with an image of Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra.
April 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Poster for Michael Flatley’s self-financed, winningly on-the-nose, spy thriller Blackbird, in which he starred (he also wrote and directed).
February 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE!! Don your togas and grab your sandals as @illexplainlater.bsky.social runs from THE FIRES OF POMPEII! Along the way: bingo cards, rewrites and Mariah Carey’s range. Listen now! illexplainlater.com
Promo pic for I’ll Explain Later’s The Fires of Pompeii episode with a snap of Phil Davis.
February 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE! Yes, we iron our chainmail and buff our swords to discuss THE CRUSADE! Along the way, @mattnida.com does his homework, @jwestjourno.bsky.social mucks up his French philosophers and Hartnell nixes the incest angle. Listen now! illexplainlater.com
Promo pic for I’ll Explain Later’s review of The Crusade, with a snap of Julian Glover as Richard I.
February 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Gatherings of the great and the geeky at the BFI on London’s South Bank as we gear up for a glorious screening of Spearhead From Space!
Promo pic of Jon Pertwee looking boss. Advert for the BFI screening, which includes a Q&A with Robin Squire and Caroline John’s daughter Daisy Ashford. Assembled Whovians in the BFI foyer.
February 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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🚨 NEW EPISODE! 🚨 Don your gas mask, chill the gin (not too much vermouth, mind) and get *In the Mood* as @illexplainlater.bsky.social meets THE EMPTY CHILD and jives as THE DOCTOR DANCES! Listen now! #DoctorWho illexplainlater.com
Promo picture for I’ll Explain Later’s The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances review episode, featuring the creepy kid in the gas mask.
January 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE! 🚨 🚨
Yes, dust off your trepidation, clear up the party detritus - it’s time to make a - or, in our case, review - RESOLUTION! Along the way: quantity surveying the parts making the sum, mirthless wifi ‘fun’ and too much family. Listen now! illexplainlater.com #DoctorWho
Promo image for I’ll Explain Later’s review of Resolution, featuring the DIY Dalek.
January 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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An emergency broadcast as the @illexplainlater.bsky.social crew bring JOY TO THE WORLD. A quickfire review taking in back bedrooms, eggnog fumes and the baby Jesus! Listen now! illexplainlater.com
Promo picture for I’ll Explain Later’s quickfire episode reviewing Joy to the World, with a photo of Nicola Coughlan.
December 27, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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🚨 NEW FESTIVE EPISODE! 🚨
Wake up from Clara’s tangerine dream and join @illexplainlater.bsky.social for Yuletide frolicks as we encounter LAST CHRISTMAS! Along the way, pervs sucked into the telly, earnest gift giving and a Greg Lake love-in. LISTEN NOW! illexplainlater.com
Image advertising I’ll Explain Later’s review of Last Christmas, featuring an image of Nick Frost as Santa.
December 23, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE!! 🚨 🚨
Dust off the tux, stow your tray tables and gawp at a cheap wire sculpture as @illexplainlater.bsky.social devours SPYFALL. Along the way: ‘Horrocks’ as a verb! Bad shoes! Accidental racism! LISTEN NOW! illexplainlater.com
Promo pic for I’ll Explain Later’s Spyfall review show, featuring a snap of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor in a dinner jacket and bowtie.
December 13, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE!! 🚨 🚨
Yes, cuckoo your way into a burgeoning romance, settle down on the sofa and soak up @illexplainlater.bsky.social’s review of THE LODGER! Along the way…Omelettes! Vuvuzelas! Who-based comic erotica! Listen now! illexplainlater.com
Promo image for I’ll Explain Later’s episode reviewing The Lodger, with a picture of Matt Smith as the Doctor and James Corden as whoever the fuck he was playing, both enjoying a game of footie.
December 6, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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Keep ‘em peeled on Friday for @illexplainlater.bsky.social’s episode reviewing THE DAEMONS. Science!
Magic!
BBC brand extension!
All this and more - subscribe via your podcatcher here: illexplainlater.com
Advert for the I’ll Explain Later episode reviewing The Daemons, featuring a particularly fruity looking Roger Delgado as Reverend Magister aka THE MASTER!
November 28, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Jodie Whittaker’s performance seems to channel quite a lot of Jane Horrocks’ Bubble and, as @usjay.bsky.social has pointed out, plenty of Su Pollard’s Peggy. We noted the same in our 2023 review of Legend of the Sea Devils - have a listen!
November 26, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Have a listen! We namecheck Horrocks and Pollard in this excerpt from our review of Legend of the Sea Devils last year. We can’t be alone.
November 26, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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The world may seem a bombardment of *negative* ions at the moment, but kick back and enjoy @illexplainlater.bsky.social’s THE FIVE DOCTORS episode, out now! Along the way: Why was Hurndall cast? Just how crap was Hurndall? And Hurndall - where it all went wrong? #DoctorWho
Promo image for I’ll Explain Later’s The Five Doctors episode, with a picture of Richard Hurndall grinning in an inane, un-Hartnell-esque manner. Promo image for I’ll Explain Later’s The Five Doctors (1983) episode, featuring that contemporary photo of Davison, Troughton and Pertwee pissing about with the Madame Tussauds waxwork of Tom Baker and First Doctor recast disappointment Richard ‘Dick’ Hurndall.
November 22, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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Within @illexplainlater.bsky.social, Matt has the more solid Whovian bona fides: he works in telly; he produced an actual documentary on Doctor Who! Me (@jwestjourno.bsky.social)? All I’ve got is that my house used to be owned by David Collings. (There isn’t a blue plaque.)
A signed picture of David Collings as Poul from “Robots of Death”. A rarer unsigned picture of David Collings as Mawdryn, from Mawdryn Undead.
November 19, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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And much like a pair of Levi’s, we’re both too expensive and irresistible. Plug and play to our latest episode now, where we talk THE ZYGON INVASION/INVERSION, discussing massive geopolitical metaphor and the purpose of drama WITH HILARIOUS CONSEQUENCES! illexplainlater.com
A screenshot showing our Bluesky follower count at 501. You know. Like the jeans. Picture of two zygons chatting, with a banner advertising I’ll Explain Later.
November 15, 2024 at 6:38 PM