I'll Explain Later: conversations about Doctor Who
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I'll Explain Later: conversations about Doctor Who
I'll Explain Later is a podcast all about Doctor Who. Every week, hosts John West and Matt Nida pick over a Doctor Who story from sixty-plus years of adventures, and try to answer a crucial question - why are we still watching this kid's show all these decades later? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
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Wish World / The Reality War
As Mrs Flood kept reminding us, the finale was on 24th May 2025, but a combination of jetlag and food poisoning conspired to keep our thoughts from yo...
The Story and The Engine / The Interstellar Song Contest
After a week's break, we return to the fray with a conversation about the two most recent episodes of Doctor Who - The Story and The Engine and The In...
Lucky Day
We hit the halfway point of Doctor Who's 2025 season with a podcast episode about Lucky Day, an episode about a podcast. Along the way we discuss cowa...
The Well
On this week's I'll Explain Now instalment, we review the latest episode of the 2025 series of Doctor Who - The Well. Along the way we discuss radical...
Lux
Our I'll Explain Now season of bleeding-edge Doctor Who reviews continues with yesterday's Fifteenth Doctor adventure, Lux. Along the way we consider...
The Robot Revolution
I'll Explain Now! Join us as we celebrate Doctor Who's return with a blazing-hot take on last night's episode, The Robot Revolution. Along the way we...
The Web Planet
For the final instalment of our missing-presumed-wiped 2019 recording, we look at Hartnell-era SFX spectacle The Web Planet. Along the way, we conside...
Gridlock
In the second instalment of our freshly reconstructed 2019 "lost" recording, we look at the Tenth Doctor's bout of motorway madness, Gridlock. Along t...
Frontios
We're taking a couple of weeks off recording, but to tide you over, here's a little treat from the vaults for you - a previously unreleased review of...
Thin Ice
This week, we catch up with the Twelfth Doctor and Bill as we skate over Thin Ice. Along the way we discuss the Doctor's morality, sing Pearl Mackie's...
The Armageddon Factor
This week, we look at the earth-shattering conclusion to the Key to Time saga with the Fourth Doctor epic The Armageddon Factor. Along the way, we get...
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
This week, we turn up the voltage with the Thirteenth Doctor and chums as they face Nikola Tesla's Night Of Terror. Along the way we discuss the myths...
The Hand of Fear
This week, we grab a hanky and join the Fourth Doctor in saying goodbye to Sarah Jane as we wave through The Hand of Fear. Along the way, we consider...
The Fires of Pompeii
This week, we watch the Tenth Doctor and Donna's rocky trip to ancient Pompeii. Along the way, we full our "Doctor Who history story" bingo card, cons...
The Crusade
This week we wind right back to the Hartnell era for a look at historical epic The Crusade. Along the way we discuss ants, filming with bows and arrow...
The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
This week we're looking back twenty years (twenty! years!) to the first proper episode written by one Steven Moffat - someone who I think we'll be hea...
Enlightenment
This week, in an episode recorded prior to the recent, sad passing of writer Barbara Clegg, we look aloft at the Fifth Doctor and chums as they search...
The Android Invasion
This week we hit the pub with the Fourth Doctor as he faces down The Android Invasion. Along the way we discuss the benefits of having a journalist on...
Resolution
Happy New Year! We ring in 2025 with a look at one of Doctor Who's more recent seasonal traditions - the New Year's Day episode, as inaugurated by Thi...
EMERGENCY BROADCAST: Joy To The World
It's a Christmas miracle! We got on an international call to discuss yesterday's brand new episode of Doctor Who, Joy To The World. Along the way, we...
Last Christmas
And incidentally a Happy Christmas to all of you at home! We're full of the festive spirit at I'll Explain Later - but will 2014's yuletide episode La...
Spyfall
We dry-clean our tuxes and prepare for the all-time high of Spyfall (parts 1 and 2), the opening episode of the Thirteenth Doctor’s second season. Alo...
The Lodger
This week, we move in with the Eleventh Doctor and James Corden by way of 2010 romcom episode The Lodger. Along the way, we consider the value of the...
The Daemons
This week we cast a spell and summon the 1971 Third Doctor classic The Daemons. Along the way, we admire the UNIT lads' civvies, take a detour into th...
The Five Doctors
We bring the curtain down on Doctor Who's sixtieth anniversary year with a look back at the show's twentieth anniversary epic - 1983's The Five Doctor...
The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion
This week, we're looking at Twelfth Doctor two-parter The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion, and - going out on a real limb here - consider wheth...
Blink
We're back! And what better way to mark our triumphant return to your ears - and now eyes! - than one of the most consequential Doctor Who stories of...
Genesis of the Daleks / The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar
It's the end! And the moment has been reached with our signature lack of preparation. Thankfully we've still got two blockbuster Doctor Who stories to...
The Robots of Death / The Paradise of Death
It's the "Of Death" special! In perhaps our most tenuously-themed episode yet, we discuss the uncanny valley, AI and helium as we consider Fourth Doct...
The Girl Who Waited / Delta and the Bannermen
It's a holiday special! Not in the Christmas sense, or indeed in any meaningful way at all beyond that these are two stories where the Doctor and co a...
Boomtown / The Green Death
It's a Welsh special on this week's I'll Explain Later as we hop across the border to enjoy two stories that put Wales at the heart of the action - th...
The Underwater Menace / The Sound of Drums / Last Of The Time Lords
It's a dastardly double bill on this week's I'll Explain Later as we look back on the Doctor's encounters with two diabolical masterminds - Professor...
The Sea Devils / Legend of the Sea Devils
We're back! Thanks for sticking with us during our extended hiatus - we toyed with releasing a charity single, but instead decided to knuckle down and...
Marco Polo / The Rings of Akhaten / Remembrance of the Daleks
We tackled some weighty issues head-on in this month's livestream, as our analysis of MARCO POLO, THE RINGS OF AKHATEN and REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS t...
The Trial of a Time Lord (live, 27 April 2021)
For this month's live show, we fought against our better instincts to bring you a bumper-length consideration of all 14 episodes of 1986's courtroom e...
Day of the Daleks / The Girl in the Fireplace / The Invasion of Time (live, 6 April 2021)
It's about time! A little more so than usual on this month's live show, as we weigh up the pros and cons of time-wimey classics Day of the Daleks and ...
The Moonbase / The Sontaran Experiment / The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang (live, 23 Feb 2021)
Our second livestream saw John and Matt tackle a trio of returning monster mash-ups in mind-boggling detail - taking in Cyberman sugar-rush THE MOONBA...
The Ark / Caves of Androzani / Heaven Sent (Live, 26th January 2021)
We emerge sleepily from an 18-month hibernation, only to find that we're confined to the house and a lot's changed in the interim. But our debut LIVE...
Full Circle / Dalek / The Curse of Peladon
Page Peter Snow, brace for the exit poll - I’ll Explain Later goes psephological to explore three Doctor Who tales with political guru special guest L...
The Stones of Blood / Night Terrors / Vengeance on Varos
Rocks, redemption and referendums in episode 35 of I'll Explain Later. Tom Baker does his best to hold his own against unexpressive and rigid screenma...