Radio Free Skaro is possibly the most popular, most prolific and charmingly irreverent (but never irrelevant) Doctor Who podcast around. Since August 2006, hosts Warren (in Vancouver, BC) and Steven (in Edmonton, AB) have provided listeners with their brand of amusing Doctor Who praise and punishment. A year later, Chris (also in Edmonton, AB) was added to the team, and The Three Who Rule were born.
Recommended by Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Free Skaro provides an entertaining and diverting listen for the diehard or casual Doctor Who fan. New episodes usually appear on Sundays, following a loose magazine format of the three hosts discussing the news and events of the past week in the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the Sarah Jane Adventures. They have also recorded special commentary podcasts for classic series and new series episodes of Doctor Who along with interviews of some of the brightest of the Doctor Who luminaries. Radio Free Skaro is also the official podcast of Gallifrey One, the world's largest and longest-running annual Doctor Who convention.
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Radio Free Skaro #1088 - You Just Hope It Will Generate Content
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Doctor Who is dead, long live Doctor Who! Russell T Davies speaks of the end of his time on Doctor Who in an excerpt from his new book, while Bad Wolf's Jane Tranter lame
Oct 4 1 h 45 min
Radio Free Skaro #1087 - Circuit Broken
It's the end, but the Circuit has been prepared for! Big Finish concludes the Fugitive Doctor's multi-month, multi-platform saga with audio play Full Circuit and Short Ci
Sep 27 2 h 03 min
Radio Free Skaro #1086 - Tender Mercies
Big news! The moment has been prepared for by a cabal of BBC pencil pushers as the official Doctor Who Invitation To Tender was released to all and sundry! Steven and War
Sep 20 1 h 55 min
Radio Free Skaro #1085 - Bayeux Tapestry Fanfic
A light week of Doctor Who related banter as we soldier through continued Circuit Breaker fun, speculate wildly about the upcoming Blakes 7 Series 3 Collection that was o
Sep 13 1 h 02 min
Radio Free Skaro #1084 - Banks Holiday
As befits these dog days of Doctor Who, we start this episode delving into both Edmonton infrastructure projects and the 60th anniversary of Star Trek, before summarily s
Sep 6 1 h 52 min
Radio Free Skaro #1083 - Journey Through Ignorance
The War between the Galactic Republic (Canada) and the Trade Federation (America) continues and is finally affecting things that actually matter like Doctor Who as Cather
Aug 30 1 h 18 min
Radio Free Skaro #1082 - Quietly Not Happening
Despite the continuing lull in Doctor Who content we've got a bumper crop of stuff to talk about this week, including a missing episodes saga of sorts from Steven with ma
Aug 23 1 h 34 min
Radio Free Skaro #1081 - A Celebration
It's a landmark episode of Radio Free Skaro as we mark 20 years of blabbing into microphones about the greatest television show ever made, that there Doctor Who, with a t
Aug 16 2 h 58 min
Radio Free Skaro #1080 - Rather Smart and Clever
It's the end of an era but the moment has been prepared for as the trailblazing Verity! crew release their final episode capping more than a decade of smart talk about Do
Aug 9 1 h 15 min
Radio Free Skaro #1079 - Brave Heart, Tegan
We're breaking circuits once more as we cover both the new Audiobook Doctor Who: The Deadliest Weapon and preview a new Titan comic in the sprawling saga of Circuit Break
Aug 2 1 h 07 min
Radio Free Skaro #1078 - I See That You Know Your Judo Well
The TARDIS is in Glasgow this week as both the King and Queen of England opened the Commonwealth Games and Sylvester McCoy (in costume and adorned with a traffic cone) ca
Jul 26 1 h 42 min
Radio Free Skaro #1077 - Business Business Business
Do you want to hear about MRAHHH BUSINESS regarding BBC Studios and the BBC's annual report for the better part of an hour? Well, you're going to, along with keen insight
Jul 19 1 h 28 min
Radio Free Skaro #1076 - The Ceefax Initiative
The UK is awash in televisual Mrrahhh Business this week as Sky is set to purchase ITV for $2.13 billion and what better "experts" to weigh in on the subject than three C
Jul 12 1 h 23 min
Radio Free Skaro #1075 - Open Wide for Some Soccer
We're Breaking Circuits over here at Radio Free Skaro Towers, with a web-based UNIT story setting up the whole shebang and a new Titan Comics adventure (which we have rea
Jul 5 1 h 12 min
Radio Free Skaro #1074 - The Happy Days-verse
It's a bumper crop of news this week despite a complete lack of Doctor Who…except for Circuit Breaker, which begins by way of an online game where you join UNIT! Plus a f
Jun 28 59 min
Radio Free Skaro #1073 - Cancel Culture
If you thought a complete vacuum of Doctor Who news would stop the Three Who Rule from prognostication based on the vapours and some recent UK media podcast analysis abou
Jun 21 1 h 17 min
Radio Free Skaro #1072 - This Song May Be Over
It's (not) the end, but the moment has been prepared for! Well, not as such but a press release from the BBC confirms what we long suspected: there will not be a Christma
Jun 14 1 h 56 min
Radio Free Skaro #1071 - Minimal Editing
The rumours and nonsense continue to bubble up from the internet swamps this week with claims of the Christmas Special shot in a minimal style, a fake news release to irr
Jun 7 1 h 05 min
Radio Free Skaro #1070 - Do They Know It's Christmas?
Jingle bells are probably silent this Christmas as, if RTD's hinting in the UK media has led the Three Who Rule to conclude, after Mr. Davies stating he won't be filming
May 31 1 h 23 min
Radio Free Skaro #1069 - Thunderballs, I Calls 'Em
May 24 56 min
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Thank you to the Three Who Rule for being there for me— I do t have anyone close to me who loves the show as much as I do, and you three have been such a formative influence for what makes this fandom so special. Thanks for being mostly positive and loving toward the show and its fans, for sharing so much about the people and technologies that make the show what it is, and for being yourselves. You are appreciated and I enjoy listening to each episode.
joshibeetomato · Dec 2024
I just found your podcast for the Flux season. I love it! I am now going back to the beginning and listen to all the episodes. I’m in the #40s now and just got through your recap of series 3 - It’s so great to get to rewatch the series while listening to your recaps or commentary. I can’t wait to get to Capaldi, my favorite Doctor; though I think it’ll take me over a year to do so. Also, listening back to your talk about cell phones, computers, and new social media in 2006-2007 is so wild and like a step back in technology time! I’m really glad I found your podcast!
Wolow · Feb 2022
Wish I were at Galley right now but since this is the world we live in, I’ll leave a 5-star review for these guys instead. Love your podcast, love your vibe and banter (“banter” said in a PCap voice). I’ve been a DW fan since the early ’80s, and you guys keep me going through these televised-Who droughts. Keep up the great work!
(originally wrote this in February but it never got posted, hence the anachronistic first sentence)
VERIFIED ACCOUNT · Apr 2021
RFS was the first Doctor Who podcast I ever listened to. The enthusiasm the three who rule bring is infectious, and Steven’s incredible wealth of knowledge and trivia is amazing. RFS is tied with “Verity!” As the best Who podcast out there. A must for all Whovians.
Shiloh42 · Mar 2019
So I am reticent to leave scathing reviews of podcasts. Even if I don’t take to a show, I know negative feedback can be hurtful at times, and sometimes shows just aren’t targeted at me. So if a show “isn’t for me,” I often just pass it by.
I’ve probably listened to two dozen episodes of this show, hoping it would get better each time. There were a few that were passable, but never, not once, good or even enjoyable. As an avid DW fan, I’ve tried multiple fan podcasts, trying to find “the right one” with good commentary and reasonably likable hosts… This ain’t it, chief.
These three are obviously died-in-the-wool fans, but they’re fans the same way toxic Star Wars fans are fans: their love for DW leads mostly to hatred of DW and quite especially to disgust for anyone who thinks of DW differently than them. They are rude, distasteful, and dismissive of the thoughts and feelings of others. More then once their words made me feel lesser or stupid, unwanted, for thinking or feeling a certain way about an episode, or a scene, or DW as a whole.
If you love the joy of DW and you’re looking for a podcast that welcomes you into the community as fellow fans of a beloved series, go look somewhere else.
Paul Shirley · Dec 2023
I used to love this podcast as my only source of doctor who commentary as an American. Lately it seems they don’t even enjoy watching the episodes and their reviews are just so negative. They just suggested the show should take a multi year hiatus instead of let RTD continue. I had to turn it off and it’s likely the last time I’ll listen.
curiousmanners · Jun 2025
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