Our very own Joy Piedmont got to speak to none other than the most recent showrunner of Doctor Who, Chris Chibnall! Please enjoy this intimate conversation about his entire regime, his writing process, and some insight into some of the decisions he made.Joy Piedmont

And we've come to the end of Five Years Rapid, which is what we'll call season 1 of a Doctor Who podcast from Kyle and Joy. (More on that later.) In this final FYR, we give you our top 5 and bottom 3 stories, our Senior Superlatives, and try to summarize the Third Doctor era as succinctly as possible. As you can see, it's our longest ever episode. …

It's the end...but the moment has been prepared for. Wait, no, that's a different final story. We did it! We have come to the end of the five year that have indeed been rapid. Joy and Kyle discuss "Planet of the Spiders," a beloved story that has a lot to recommend it...and a lot of not great stuff too. Like, more that people like to remember. Let'…

For our penultimate Pertwee story, we look at *checks notes* wait, is this right? "The Monster of Peladon?" Well, I guess if we have to.Joy Piedmont & Kyle Anderson

Third to last story for the Third Doctor and it's the third of his Dalek stories. Ermahgerd, Derlerks.Joy Piedmont and Kyle Anderson

Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 3 Based on the teaching of Professor Mary Holmes Topics: Judgments of Art Talking about Art What Makes a Work of Art Great? Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 2 Based on the teaching of Professor Mary Holmes Topics: Paradox 2: Escape and Return Paradox 3: I and We Paradox 4: Integrity and Change The Power of Art The Goal of Art Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 1 Based on the teaching of Professor Mary Holmes Session 1 Topics: Why Art? What is Art? How Art Works Paradox 1: Empathy and Psychic Distance The Willing Suspension of Disbelief Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Our final Malcolm Hulke story is an oft-maligned but undeservedly so. "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" has intrigue, politics, weird sci-fi ideals, Sarah Jane being absolutely awesome, a dramatic turn for Mike Yates, and the Doctor's best jacket. Yes, and some cruddy looking dinosaur puppets too. What're you gonna do?…

Series II, Podcast Z: Selected Sonnets 129-146 129 130 135 138 144 146 Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series II, Podcast Y: Selected Sonnets 73-116 73 74 94 116 Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series II, Podcast X: Selected Sonnets 1-65 1-17 18 20 29 30 42 55 60 65 Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 14: Hypothetical, Spurious, and False Shakespeare Hypothetical: Love's Labour's Won, Cardenio Spurious: Hecate passages in Macbeth False Attributions: "The Passionate Pilgrim," Arden of Feversham, "Shall I Die?" A Funeral Elegy Notes: References are to the following: F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964 (Baltimore: Pen…

Series I, Chapter 13: Did Shakespeare Collaborate? Edward III Pericles Henry VIII The Two Noble Kinsmen Sir Thomas More References are to the following: Melchiori, Giorgio, ed. The New Cambridge Shakespeare: King Edward III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 12–13; Hallett Smith, Introduction to Pericles, Prince of Tyre in G. Blakem…

Series II, Podcast W: The Tempest Shakespeare's most mystical play. References are to the following: C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964, repr. 1967), Chapter VI; C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (New York: HarperCollins, 2001, orig. copyright 1944), pp. 77–78; Frank Kermode, ed., Arden edition of The Tempes…

Series II, Podcast V: The Winter's Tale Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series II, Podcast U: Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare's one satire, on the matter of Troy. Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 12: Shakespeare's Other Poems Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Phoenix and the Turtle A Lover's Complaint Notes: I have taken some facts and quotations from the following: On The Rape of Lucrece: Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Rape of Lucrece in G. Glakemore Evans, ed., The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Edition (Boston…

Series II, Podcast T: Henry V Pageant Shakespeare's Ideal King Banishment of Falstaff Note: The Thompson quotation is from Philip Thompson, Notes on Shakespeare in Gideon Rappaport, ed., Dusk and Dawn: Poetry and Prose of Philip Thompson (San Diego: One Mind Good Presss, 2005), p. 228.Doctor Rap

It's the beginning of the end. Sad face. Our journey through the Third Doctor's reign begins its inevitable march toward the finish. But at least we have a really fun one to talk about --- "The Time Warrior!" Written by Robert Holmes, this story introduces the Sontarans, the word Gallifrey, and most importantly, brand new companion, the amazing Sar…

Series II, Podcast S: Henry IV, Part II Promise Fulfilled: Prince Hal becomes King Henry V Defense of Prince John Falstaff's Banishment Note: The Thompson quotation is from Notes on Shakespeare in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 221, 227. Questions? …

Series II, Podcast R: Henry IV, Part I Three metaphorical heirs to the throne: Hal, Hotspur, Falstaff Two excessive humors and Plato's three souls Prince Hal's Character Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series II, Podcast Q: Richard II Chiasmus Right vs. Merit The Beginning of the Wars of the Roses Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series II, Podcast P: Richard III Scourge of God "Despair and Die" End of the Wars of the Roses Notes: Two quotations come from Anthony Hammond, Introduction to King Richard III, The Arden Shakespeare (London: Methuen, 1981): The More description is on p. 78; the Spivack quotations (citing Bernard Spivack, Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil [New …

Series II, Podcast O: Introduction to Shakespeare's History Plays Notes: The Thompson quotations are from “Notes on Shakespeare” in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 221, 227. The Robie Macauley quotation is from his introduction to Ford Madox Ford, Pa…

Series I, Chapter 11: What Is a Sonnet For? What is a poem? What is a sonnet? Shakespeare's Sonnets Did Shakespeare really mean it? How long did it take him to write one? To whom did he write them? Was Shakespeare gay? Notes: The Robert Frost quotation is from Newsweek, January 30, 1956, p. 56, accessed 7/5/18 at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilr…

Series II, Podcast N: Antony and Cleopatra Rome and Egypt Reason and Passion Particulars and the Universal 5 Key Lines 12 Specific Notes Notes: The Thompson quotation is from Reflections (Literary and Philosophical) in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p.…

Series II, Podcast M: Macbeth A short discussion followed by 9 key lines and 13 specific notes to help in your reading. Note: Biblical quotations are from the Geneva Bible Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

We finish up another season of the Third Doctor with a beloved classic, "The Green Death." And who better to join us for a discussion into Jo Grant's final story than returning champion Sage Young?! We get into maggots, miners, and meet-cutes in this truly legendary Doctor Who story.Joy Piedmont and Kyle Anderson

Series II, Podcast L: King Lear Note: Biblical quotations are from the Geneva Bible Questions? Email DoctorRap@zoho.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 10: What Kind of Thing Is It? Categories of Plays Session 2: Histories, Romances, Satire Histories Romances One Satire False Category: Problem Plays Notes: The Halliday quotation is from F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964 (Baltimore: Penguin, 1964), p. 350. The Boas reference is to F. S. Boas, Shakespeare and His Pre…

Series I, Chapter 10: What Kind of Thing Is It? Categories of Plays Session1: Tragedies and Comedies Revenge Tragedies De Casibus Tragedies Domestic Tragedies Comic Relief Notes: The quotation from Morton Bloomfield is from a from a lecture series entitled “Medieval and Renaissance Tragedy and Notions of Tragedy” delivered at Brandeis University, S…

Series II, Podcast K: Othello Psychomachia Demonic Iago, Angelic Desdemona Repentance vs. Suicide 3 Key Lines 6 Specific Notes Notes: The quotation of Thomas Mann is from Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers, tr. John E. Woods (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman’s Library, 2005), p. 669. For the Donald Duck psychomachia see “Donald’s Better Self” …

Series II, Podcast J: Hamlet What the play is not. Revenge Play Who is and who isn't mad? Moral-Spiritual Drama Two-Letter Climax Readiness Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 9: Is This What Shakespeare Actually Wrote? Shakespeare's Texts Manuscripts Early Printed Editions: Good and Bad Quartos, Folio Later Editions Modern Editions Notes: Facsimile edition of the Quartos: Michael J.B. Allen and Kenneth Muir, Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981). Facsimile editi…

Series II, Podcast I: Julius Caesar Shakespeare inherits both pro- and anti-Caesar traditions The body of Caesar vs. the spirit of Caesar Notes: The Sayers quotation is from notes on the major images in Canto XXXIV in Dorothy Sayers, tr., The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine, Cantica I, Hell (London: Penguin, 1949), p. 289. On the anti-Caes…

Series II, Podcast H: Romeo and Juliet Oxymoron Love and Death Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

This month...well, it is. Kyle and Joy talk about "Planet of the Daleks," the also-ran of season 10. It's pretty boring, AND it has bad gender politics. But at least Pertwee and Manning have good costumes.Joy Piedmont and Kyle Anderson

Series I, Chapter 8: Whose Interpretation Is Right? Principles of Interpreting Shakespeare Text and Subtext Context Critic's Assumptions Directors' Mirrors Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series II, Podcast G: Measure for Measure A discussion of one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies. The wedding of Justice and Mercy. The source of two of the Thompson quotations is Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), pp. 223–26; a third quotation was heard i…

Series II, Podcast F: Twelfth Night Discussion of the play: Twelfth Night or What You Will 5 Key Lines 20 Specific Line Notes Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 7: Why All the Footnotes? Shakespeare's Mental Furniture Session 5: Decorum Realism or Morality Play? "Foreground Is Background" References in the section on Decorum are to Madeleine Doran, Endeavors of Art: A Study of Form in Elizabethan Drama, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964), p. 217–218, and to George Puttenham, A…

Series I, Chapter 7: Why All the Footnotes? Shakespeare's Mental Furniture Session 4: Disintegrating Forces: The Protestant Reformation Machiavelli The New Science Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 7: Why all the Footnotes? Shakespeare's Mental Furniture Session 3: The Doctrine of Correspondence Authority Christianity Renaissance Humanism and Classicism Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 7: Why All the Footnotes? Shakespeare's Mental Furniture Session 2: The Human Order: Monarchy vs. Democracy The Two Bodies of the King The Family The Individual Soul and Body The Humors The Five Wits Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 7: Why All the Footnotes? Shakespeare's Mental Furniture, Session 1: Words We Know Words We Don't Know Shakespeare and Electricity The Medieval Synthesis The Cosmic Hierarchy Notes: The reference to Lewis is to C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University …

Series II, Podcast D: As You Like It New prelude/postlude: Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11, Third Movement, quartet version, in the public domain. Upcoming, Why All the Footnotes: Shakespeare's Mental Furniture with a better mic. Thanks for technical and other help to N. A., A. G., J. G., F. H., and A. R. Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.co…

Series I, Chapter 6: Unity in Variety, Session 3: Setting, Theme, Audience The third session in the chapter on Unity in Variety looks at settings, themes, and then brings in the audience as contributor to the unity of a play. Coming next, As You Like It, with a format upgrade: Prelude and postlude. Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com.…

It's the new year! Finally, 2020 is no more, and Kyle and Joy have a great story to discuss for you all. It's "Frontier in Space," the beginning of a would-be Dalek epic, but...not. They discuss the political nature of the story, the Draconian culture, and say farewell to Roger Delgado's Master.Joy Piedmont & Kyle Anderson

Series I, Chapter 6: Unity in Variety, Session 2: Unity in Variety seen in Figures of Speech Action Scenes Characters Plot Next session: Setting, Theme, Audience Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.comDoctor Rap