December 18, 2015

Paradise Towers Commentary

UPDATE: The original zip file (up until Friday afternoon) had a bad version of Episode 4. That’s fixed in the zip, but if you downloaded it and need episode 4, that’s available on its own right here.

Jack and I are back again to blather all over perfectly good Doctor Who episodes, this time having frankly an excess of fun watching Paradise Towers, which is simply a wonderful and brilliant piece of television that we should be overjoyed to have in the world and anyone who disagrees should be fed to the tentacle beasts at the heart of modernism.

Anyway, download a .zip of all four commentary tracks right here. Awesome. You’re so cool now.

Also, Jack Graham fans, which is to say anyone with taste, should make sure to check him out on the Oi Spaceman! podcast where he talks Planet of the Ood, which is another story that’s just an expression of pure fucking joy. Grab that here.

And now to sit down and record the Christmas Special Shabcast.

Yes. That is a thing.

God help us all.

Elizabeth Sandifer

Elizabeth Sandifer created Eruditorum Press. She’s not really sure why she did that, and she apologizes for the inconvenience. She currently writes Last War in Albion, a history of the magical war between Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. She used to write TARDIS Eruditorum, a history of Britain told through the lens of a ropey sci-fi series. She also wrote Neoreaction a Basilisk, writes comics these days, and has ADHD so will probably just randomly write some other shit sooner or later. Support Elizabeth on Patreon.

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11 Comments

Daniel
December 18, 2015 @ 9:53 am

Look forward to listening! Link doesn’t work however 🙁

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Frezno
December 18, 2015 @ 3:28 pm

The first three parts are very good, but then the audio file for episode 4 cuts off about 8 minutes in. Hope that gets sorted because it’s otherwise a fantastic bit of commentary. Are these continuing on into the TV Movie and new series?

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- Jack Graham
  December 18, 2015 @ 4:16 pm
  
  Yes, TV Movie next. It’ll be the second podcast I’ve done about the TV Movie, which is not something I thought I’d ever say.
  
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- Jane Campbell
  December 18, 2015 @ 6:03 pm
  
  Episode 4 is truncated for me, too.
  
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- Elizabeth Sandifer
  December 18, 2015 @ 7:07 pm
  
  Fixed.
  
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Dadalama
December 18, 2015 @ 7:29 pm

The cursive “doctor” should have been neon pink actually.

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dm
December 18, 2015 @ 10:33 pm

Another great commentary, but I could listen to Jack reading the telephone directory

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Roderick T. Long
December 24, 2015 @ 10:31 pm

Are you going to review the new film version of Ballard’s “High-rise”?

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- Elizabeth Sandifer
  December 24, 2015 @ 11:49 pm
  
  Jack and I are both quite keen on talking about that film.
  
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  - Jack Graham
    December 25, 2015 @ 9:29 pm
    
    I am tentatively planning a Shabcast on the subject of that film. Phil’s in if he wants to be.
    
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Mike
December 30, 2015 @ 4:35 pm

I don’t know how interested you are in keeping up the Eruditorum Press podcast between seasons of Doctor Who, but I think these episode commentaries would be a good approach.

(Being able to listen through the podcast rather than as mp3 files that I download would also make it a lot easier for me to listen!)

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