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Toby Hadoke's Who's Round was a documentary podcast series by Toby Hadoke and Big Finish Productions which documents Hadoke's quest to interview someone who's worked on every Doctor Who story.

Who's Round began in January 2013 in celebration of the show's 50th anniversary year, and releases have continued through 2019, with occasional hiatuses between episodes.

Format[]

Hadoke interviews his guests mostly on-location, in pubs or other public places, in an informal and "rough-and-ready" style. Hadoke is thus able to talk to many people who don't tend to do formal interviews and had rarely, if ever, been captured on audio speaking about their Doctor Who experiences. As the episodes are not generally recorded in-studio, audio quality can sometimes be of secondary concern to the content on offer.

Because Hadoke is primarily interested in allowing his guests to speak, the show allows both positive and negative views of Doctor Who to surface, as notably happened in his interview with costumer Christine Rawlins. He is also able to entice many of his older guests to fill in details about their careers, thus providing details sometimes not found on Internet databases like IMDb.

Episodes are generally 30-60 minutes in length. Longer interviews are spread out over multiple episodes. Most episodes feature a single interviewee; some feature more than one, simultaneously or in a row.

Hadoke concludes each interview by promoting a charitable organisation of the interviewee's choice, and said charity is linked to in the episode's show notes on the Big Finish website. Trailers for other Big Finish Productions releases appear at the end of each episode.

Release[]

Who's Round is published as a traditional podcast in MP3 format, freely playable directly from the Big Finish website as well as other podcast players subscribed to The Big Finish Podcast. The programme is also made available free of charge as a standard release range of Big Finish audios, which can be permanently added to the library of a logged-in customer and downloaded in the manner of Big Finish's other audio ranges.

The podcast release format attempts to preserve the surprise of subjects interviewed for the listener, giving small hints to their identity and publishing a small photo. The release range names the interview subjects in the episode titles.

Episodes[]

Episode Interviewee(s) Release date
1 Susan Moore, Steve Mansfield 7 January 2013
2 Andrew Smith 11 January 2013
3 Glyn Jones 16 January 2013
4 Ian Cullen 26 January 2013
5 Kevin McNally 12 February 2013
6 Waris Hussein 14 February 2013
7 Adrienne Burgess, Martin Cochrane 20 February 2013
8 Robert Forknall 1 March 2013
9 Tony Osoba 6 March 2013
10 Valentine Palmer 14 March 2013
11 Martin Cort, Peter Stenson, John Gorrie, Michael Allaby 2 April 2013
12 Clive Doig, Paul Cole 16 April 2013
13 Saul Metzstein 18 April 2013
14 William Dudman 24 April 2013
15 Peter Thomas, Andrew Lodge 29 April 2013
16 Barrie Ingham 1 May 2013
17 William Ilkley 3 May 2013
18 Bernard Kay 8 May 2013
19 Christine Rawlins 16 May 2013
20 Christopher Robbie 30 May 2013
21 David Quilter 3 July 2013
22 Gordon Sterne, Colin Mapson 10 July 2013
23 Fiona Cumming 12 July 2013
24 Ian Fraser 19 July 2013
25 Doreen James 30 July 2013
26 Viktors Ritelis 1 August 2013
27 Tara Ward, Ray Lonnen 2 August 2013
28 Peter Straker 8 August 2013
29 Martin Clunes 9 August 2013
30 Zoe Wanamaker 2 September 2013
31 Vernon Dobtcheff 10 September 2013
32 Simon Fisher-Becker 17 September 2013
33 David Weston 25 September 2013
34 Ben Peyton 8 October 2013
35 Dan Starkey 12 October 2013
36 Sheenagh Wreyford 22 October 2013
37 Edmund Pegge 10 November 2013
38 Paul Shelley 4 December 2013
39 Nicholas Pegg 31 January 2014
40 John Moreno 4 February 2014
41 Bernard Holley 10 February 2014
42 Ilona Rodgers 14 February 2014
43 Matthew Jacobs 24 February 2014
44 Ian Boldsworth 28 February 2014
45 Rex Robinson, Patricia Prior 4 March 2014
46 Philip Voss 7 March 2014
47 Peter Niell, Bernice Newnham, Johnny Candon, Brian White, Nicola Bryant 10 March 2014
48 Roger Limb 14 March 2014
49 Sue Upton 19 March 2014
50 Russell T Davies 21 March 2014
51 Hamish Wilson 25 March 2014
52 Sue Upton 27 March 2014
53 Margot Hayhoe 1 April 2014
54 Russell T Davies 4 April 2014
55 Terrance Dicks 10 April 2014
56 Suranne Jones 11 April 2014
57 Arthur Darvill 17 April 2014
58 Sakuntala Ramanee, David John, Will Barton 25 April 2014
59 Russell T Davies 28 April 2014
60 David Troughton 13 June 2014
61 Caroline Berry 18 June 2014
62 John Davies 24 June 2014
63 Jana Carpenter 3 July 2014
64 Philip Martin 17 July 2014
65 John Kane 25 July 2014
66 Dominic Glynn 11 August 2014
67 Rio Fanning 26 August 2014
68 Rob Goodman 29 August 2014
69 Roger Bunce 8 September 2014
70 Philip Martin 17 September 2014
71 Lynda Bellingham 21 October 2014
72 Crawford Logan 13 November 2014
73 William Hurndell 17 November 2014
74 Terence Bayler 19 November 2014
75 Daniel Hill 22 November 2014
76 Arthur Darvill 24 November 2014
77 Jeremy Bulloch 26 November 2014
78 Malcolm Middleton 28 November 2014
79 Dorothy-Rose Gribble 30 November 2014
80 Richard Martin 1 December 2014
81 Robert Aldous 2 December 2014
82 Gillian Martell 3 December 2014
83 Brian Croucher 4 December 2014
84 Marcia Wheeler 5 December 2014
85 Lynda Bellingham 6 December 2014
86 Chris Jury 7 December 2014
87 Les McCallum 8 December 2014
88 Edward de Souza 9 December 2014
89 Christopher Guard 10 December 2014
90 John Leeson 11 December 2014
91 Frazer Hines 13 December 2014
92 Andy Goddard 14 December 2014
93 Brian Hodgson 15 December 2014
94 16 December 2014
95 Maureen O'Brien 17 December 2014
96 Matthew Waterhouse 18 December 2014
97 Debbie Chazen 20 December 2014
98 Mark Gatiss 21 December 2014
99 Russell T Davies 23 December 2014
100 Steven Moffat, Dan Starkey 25 December 2014
101 Bernard Kay 2 January 2015
102 John Gorrie 9 January 2015
103 Waris Hussein 14 January 2015
104 Roger Bunce 23 January 2015
105 Richard Martin 30 January 2015
106 Colin Spaull 6 February 2015
107 Alex Midwood, Gareth Jenkins 11 February 2015
108 Marcia Wheeler 20 February 2015
109 Stephen Garlick, Dorota Rae 27 February 2015
110 Philip Bird 5 March 2015
111 John Challis 13 March 2015
112 Rodney Bennett 17 March 2015
113 Tony Millier 27 March 2015
114 Anthony Calf 3 April 2015
115 Derek Martin, Royston Farrell, Roy Scammell 9 April 2015
116 Terence Lodge 17 April 2015
117 Geoffrey Bayldon 24 April 2015
118 June Bland 1 May 2015
119 Bill Sellars 8 May 2015
120 Tim Humphries 15 May 2015
121 Eirlys Bellin 22 May 2015
122 Norman Hartley 28 May 2015
123 Joy Harrison 6 June 2015
124 Russell T Davies 12 June 2015
125 Johnny Dennis 19 June 2015
126 Chris Porter 26 June 2015
127 Keith Hodiak 3 July 2015
128 David Roden 10 July 2015
129 Prentis Hancock 16 July 2015
130 Sandra Reid 24 July 2015
131 George Gallaccio 31 July 2015
132 7 August 2015
133 Anne Faggetter 14 August 2015
134 Roger Murray-Leach 21 August 2015
135 28 August 2015
136 Milton Johns 4 September 2015
137 11 September 2015
138 Michael Pickwoad 18 September 2015
139 Anthony Read, Mark Ayres 23 September 2015
140 Michael E. Briant 1 October 2015
141 Mark Ayres 9 October 2015
142 Paul Wheeler 16 October 2015
143 Sneh Gupta 23 October 2015
144 Nick Revell 29 October 2015
145 June Hudson, Dorka Nieradzik 6 November 2015
146 13 November 2015
147 Christopher H. Bidmead 20 November 2015
148 27 November 2015
149 Russell T Davies 4 December 2015
150 10 December 2015
151 Geoffrey Beevers 7 December 2015
152 Toby Whithouse, Jamie Mathieson 25 December 2015
153 Peter Harness 1 January 2016
154 Ralph Watson 18 January 2016
155 Henry Woolf 22 January 2016
156 Laurie Webb 29 January 2016
157 Lawry Lewin 5 February 2016
158 Tom Kelly 19 February 2016
159 Jeremy Wilkin 26 February 2016
160 Andrew Staines 4 March 2016
161 Richard Hope 11 March 2016
162 Giles Block 25 March 2016
163 Alan Curtis 1 April 2016
164 Ian Dow 8 April 2016
165 Paul Joyce 15 April 2016
166 Steve Gallagher 22 April 2016
167 Paul Joyce 29 April 2016
168 Steve Gallagher 6 May 2016
169 Paul Joyce 13 May 2016
170 Clive Merrison 20 May 2016
171 Gregory de Polnay 3 June 2016
172 Ben Crompton 10 June 2016
173 Sarah Berger 17 June 2016
174 Andrew Morgan 24 June 2016
175 Maureen Morris 1 July 2016
176 Marcus Gilbert 8 July 2016
177 Morris Perry 22 July 2016
178 Bernard Lodge 29 July 2016
179 Michael Ferguson 5 August 2016
180 12 August 2016
181 Donald Pelmear 19 August 2016
182 Spencer Chapman 26 August 2016
183 Emma Campbell-Jones 2 September 2016
184 Andrew Cartmel 9 September 2016
185 16 September 2016
186 23 September 2016
187 Rob Edwards 30 September 2016
188 Wendy Danvers 7 October 2016
189 Ricky Newby 14 October 2016
190 Stephen Churchett 21 October 2016
191 Stephen Thorne 28 October 2016
192 John Atterbury 4 November 2016
193 Tony Caunter 11 November 2016
194 Jeremy Young 18 November 2016
195 Jonjo O'Neill 25 November 2016
196 Darrol Blake 2 December 2016
197 9 December 2016
198 Jon Davey 16 December 2016
199 Pamela-Ann Davey 23 December 2016
200 Trevor Martin 19 May 2017
201 25 May 2017
202 Trevor Cooper 1 June 2017
203 John Griffiths 9 June 2017
204 Ian Talbot 15 June 2017
205 John Black 22 June 2017
206 John Nettleton 29 June 2017
207 Richard Ashton 6 July 2017
208 John Bloomfield 13 July 2017
209 David Collings 20 July 2017
210 Rula Lenska 27 July 2017
211 Pat Heigham, Michael McCarthy 3 August 2017
212 10 August 2017
213 Graeme Harper 17 August 2017
214 Graeme Harper 24 August 2017
215 Michael Kilgarriff 31 August 2017
216 7 September 2017
217 Sam Cox 14 September 2017
218 Nicholas McArdle 21 September 2017
219 Peter Howell 28 September 2017
220 5 October 2017
221 Brian Miller 12 October 2017
222 19 October 2017
223 Joseph Long 26 October 2017
224 Adrian Gibbs 2 November 2017
225 Peter Miles 9 November 2017
226 Bob Baker 16 November 2017
227 Joseph Marcell 23 November 2017
228 Christopher Neame 30 November 2017
229 Ian Hogg 7 December 2017
230 14 December 2017
231 Glenn Beck 21 December 2017
232 Steven Moffat 28 December 2017
233 David Graham 11 October 2018
234 Clinton Greyn 18 October 2018
235 Virginia Wetherell 25 October 2018
236 Joanna Monro 1 November 2018
237 Janet Henfrey 8 November 2018
238 Clifford Rose 15 November 2018
239 Julie Hesmondhalgh 22 November 2018
240 Murray Evans 29 November 2018
241 Linda Clark, Amanda Lawrence 6 December 2018
242 Geraldine Alexander 13 December 2018
243 Timothy Block 20 December 2018
244 Maureen Beattie 28 December 2018
245 Roger Jerome 27 March 2019
246 Ian Briggs 8 August 2019
247 15 August 2019
248 22 August 2019
249 Donald Douglas 10 September 2019
250 Bethany Black 14 September 2019
251 14 October 2019

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