Binro was right - a Doctor Who podcast

Binro Was Right Extra - Very Good

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:24:00 +0000

Another extra special epipod. Who are the good guys?

Probably not me and chevron.

An investigation into the rules ethics of doctor who.

Diskgrinder's number one son tells it like it is.

Yes he, killed the half face man.

Chevron drops a morality bomb: is psychological torture far worse than physical torture?

And it becomes clear my son is the black grauniad.

Good and evil in doctor who

Dresden Codak's Dark Science

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Episode 7 - Story yelling

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:59:00 +0000

In this Doctor Who light episode Diskgrinder plays Mark Lawson and Chevron almost bluffs her way through the most shambolic and borderline unbroadcastable episode of Front Row in history.

Story Yelling

Again we name check the No Complications blog which features literary criticism, classical scholarship and fun and games.

Shapes.

Chevron is talking bollocks. Just Google it.

Dissonance, it seems apt.

Drama in acts, you might not agree, but it's worth looking at Freytag's Pyramid. MORE SHAPES!

It's called acting.

Dr Joann Fletcher's Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings is well worth a watch if you're that way inclined.,

When it comes to ancient Greek comedy, the old'uns are always the best. What little we have of the 'new' ones are... completely subjectively... shite.

Dyskolos (also known as Miserable Old Bastard) was performed c.316 BCE (310 BCE was a good guess) and penned by ~~Miranda Hart~~ Menander. It isn't big, clever or funny.

And she's off.

Aristophanes' Wasps is magnificent. That's indisputable. It's not a question of taste. It's bloody brilliant.

Cocks, cocks, cocks.

Unsurprisingly, what we do shabbily in one hour is summed up beautifully by Sesame Street in three minutes.

And they got there first... by roughly forty years.

From the corrections department:

It's all bollocks. All of it. Back to Doctor Who next time. Promise.

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Bully for you

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:58:00 +0000

A digression
A binro was right extra

Bully for you

Binro was Right Extra - Remembrance of the Daleks, and the Cybermen, and the Master, and the Doctors...

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:34:00 +0000

In this very special episode Chevron and diskgrinder go another round with the cleverest people they know; taking the opportunity to pick their brains and mine their memories.
Very clever, what you said
Brace yourselves for the oncoming horror that is... ladders.

Episode 6 - Terra Firma

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:45:00 +0000

In this episode we discuss the Doctor's mainly on, sometimes off relationship with Gaia. It's like a planetary soap opera, or a seasonal romantic comedy, or a producer's consideration of budgetary issues.

Any randy Hastily captioned screenshots to illustrate headcanon.

Cambridge Latin Course, the national curriculum's dead language handbook.

Chevron was using 'Libertarianism' in the most basic sense of personal freedom and autonomy, diskgrinder was working on the modern interpretations and appropriations of the term that are associated with anarchy, capitalism and selfishness. Unfortunately this was only cleared up once we were off mic. Carry on, nothing to see here.

Atlas Shrugged, a 1957 novel by diskgrinder's pin-up, Ayn Rand.

Hurrumble for Bleak Expectations!

From the corrections department

Genocide is not a verb, it's a noun. A nasty noun.

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Binro Was Right Extra - Daleks vs. Cybermen

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:19:00 +0000

A super special bonus episode with the real brains behind the operation.
Chevron and diskgrinder try to keep up whilst diskgrinder's three sons discuss the Doctor's most iconic adversaries... and fascist regimes... and religion.

Meanwhile, Chevron goes klepto. Cybermen vs. daleks
Diskgrnder belatedly understands he should shut up.

Episode 5 - Death is not the End

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:29:00 +0000

Death is not the end In this episode Chevron is accused of failing to let go of the teenage goth that lurks in the depths of her dark and twisted soul... 'NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ME!' and we remember the fallen comrades of the Doctor with great reverence.

Yes, we know what la petite mort means. Get your minds out of the gutter.

We miss you Nicholas Courtney, especially as this epipod was recorded pre-CyberBrig.

Buy Home Truths from Big Finish.

Just a Minute is a long running Radio 4 panel show in which contestants are challenged to speak on a subject for a sixty seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition.

From the corrections department:

Steve Coogan's swimming pool supervisor character is from The Day Today. And what we can take from this is that nobody should ever question Chevron ever at all ever.

William Hartnell's 'I am not a dog' fluff is actually in The Thing of the Thing, also known as The Daleks' Master Plan.

Jean Marsh appeared thrice, yes thrice, in The Crusade, The Daleks' Master Plan and Battlefield.

Mike Yates, as we all know, keeps cropping up until Planet of the Spiders.

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Feature Length Series Eight Recap - Peaks & Troughs

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:03:00 +0000

In this feature length episode we try to discuss series eight. Success is measured on a sliding scale.

Peaks and Troughs

Roman à clef, different type of key.

Graham Duff, i'n't he scrummy?

Uncanny Valley.

If chins could kill...

Holbein's The Ambassadors

Perfume - One Room Disco (Chevron likes the one in the shorts)

After recording we re-watched In the Forest of the Night together and diskgrinder decided he liked it after all.

The Young Poisoner's Handbook

Apologies to Drs A & B for paraphrasing.

You've seen more of Rachel Talalay's work than you think you have.

Green Cross Code.

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Episode 4 - Darlin' Companion

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:54:00 +0000

Darling companion

In this episode we discuss the Doctor's companions who made an impact on our impressionable young minds, and consider what makes for an effective wing-person to your average renegade Gallifreyan. Uncharacteristically long and uncharacteristically polite. No let up on the swearing, par for the course.

Much respect, affection and contrition to the marvellous Rob of the Who Wars Podcast.

Matthew Waterhouse and Big Finish.

Why do you gotta play that song so loud?

We look up to all of them. Except Ronnie Corbett, even Chevron is taller than him.

P.R.O.B.E

Catherine Tate's 'Nan' (with bonus Helen A). Chevron still thinks it's bobbins.

The Scorchies.

Katy Manning's one woman show: 'Not a Well Woman'.

Big Finish's 'Gallifrey' series starring Lalla Ward and Louise Jameson (and John Leeson).

Prime adverts with Lalla Ward and Tom Baker.

Al No of the Diddly Dum podcast and his theories relating to Greek Tragedy.

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Episode 3 - Girls, Girls, Girls!

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:09:00 +0000

http://ia902609.us.archive.org/13/items/Episode3GirlsGirlsGirls/Episode%203%20-%20Girls%2C%20girls%2C%20girls%21.mp3

In this episode Chevron, weak and feeble by virtue of her gender, sprains her ankle within seconds of hitting 'record' and diskgrinder has to carry her (literally and figuratively) for the rest of the show.

Received Pronunciation

Betteridge's Law

Has Doctor Who become more sexist? No.

Brigham Young University-Idaho undergraduate infographic.

The Bechdel Test is associated more with film than with television. A not at all comprehensive list of films and how well they fare can be found here.

Criticism of the Bechdel test can be found... everywhere that common sense prevails.

The only other podcast we ever reference.

Chef Goldblum

The Wizards of Delight - Time Travel Lady

From the corrections department:

Everything Chevron said is irrelevant, obviously. She is but a woman.

Chevron unfairly described BYU-Idaho as unaccredited. This is incorrect, the institution has been accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. It does, however, insist that staff and students adhere to an honour code that includes temperance, abstaining from pre-marital sex and Section 28-esque rejection of homosexuality.

We didn't discuss the Sisterhood of Karn because we're negligent.

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Extra with special not good sound quality

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:17:00 +0000

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Diskgrinder and number one son argue about Doctor Who
and yes it does end abruptly on "this is the thing"
clearly diskgrinder is going to be killed in the face for publishing this without Chevron's permission
the hiss you hear is that snake off of kinda

Episode 2 - Memory Lame

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:14:00 +0000

http://ia902608.us.archive.org/34/items/Project21810201401.22/Episode%202%20-%20Introduction.mp3

In this episode we talk about ourselves and take a proverbial walk down memory lane. Meanwhile, we are literally standing on chairs to avoid the carpet of snakes hissing in the background; and resolve to acquire a microphone for future podcasts (as a defensive weapon for use against the snakes).

UNIT dating conundrum Available in reasonable quality if you buy a copy of Day of the Daleks on DVD, which you should do.

diskgrinder in Shallow Grave

Nicholas Courtney – Tomorrow’s Times

Who is Rob Shearman?

Nicholas Bloody Parsons

From the corrections department: Chevron is referring to Flesh & Stone. Don’t write in.

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Episode 1 - Opening Titles

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 22:57:00 +0000

In this episode we discuss the merits of opening title sequences. Well, we try.
Well, one of us tries.

http://ia902607.us.archive.org/5/items/Episode1OpeningTitles/Episode%201%20-%20Opening%20Titles.mp3
Moogies Bloogies
The Very Things – The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes

From the corrections department:

diskgrinder isn’t wrong about The Beatles, pause for shock and awe, it was The Chase. Chevron admits her error with grace and humility.
Season 12 started in December 1974

Season 18 began in August 1980.

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Episode 0 - The trailer

diskgrinder@mac.com (Chevron and Diskgrinder) — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:41:00 +0000

Welcome to Binro Was Right, a Doctor Who-centric insight into the tangential ramblings of an irritable old man and a cantankerous shrew.

Binro Was Right Episode 0 - The Trailer

http://ia902205.us.archive.org/23/items/BinroWasRightEpisode0TheTrailer/Binro-Was-Right-Episode-0---The-Trailer.mp3

This trailer is just the tip of the shambolic, sweary iceberg.

Just the tip.

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