In November 2024, I was invited onto popular Doctor Who fan podcast What’s In The Box? by host Jim Allenby, for what became a mammoth three part discussion about some of my favourite elements of the long running science fiction series.
You can find the podcast wherever you get your shows – just look for Episodes 69, 70 and 71.
Part 1: Why Doctor Who Made Me Left-Wing
In this first episode, Jim and I discuss the socialist politics of the final years of the classic era of the show, and how its stars Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred worked with script editor Andrew Cartmel and writers like Ben Aaronovitch and Stephen Wyatt to infuse the series with increasingly fascinating political concepts that left an indelible mark on my psyche.
