Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Time Monster (2/6)

About this episode

Joe Ford talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of The Time Monster, exploring themes of time travel and the UNIT family.

We're having timey wimey larks around the Institute and vamping with the UNIT family...we feel like we should be objecting but we are having so much fun...

People in this episode

Host: Joe Ford

Guest: Robert Valentine

Topics covered

• Doctor Who
• The Time Monster
• UNIT family
• time travel
• commentary

Keywords

• Doctor Who
• The Time Monster
• Robert Valentine
• UNIT
• timey wimey

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UNIT

Books & works: The Time Monster

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