Hamster Book Club - The Doctor Who Book Club Podcast
For all your Doctor Who Book needs - the Hamster Book Club serves up debate, laughter and some wonderfully smart and mad opinions on Doctor Who books, fiction and non fiction!The artwork is by Dan Pinn, and the theme is ...
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- 🇳🇱Netherlands · TV Reviews#36587 to 5.3K
- 🇸🇬SG · TV Reviews#14013 to 118
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600 to 5.4K🎙 Daily cadence·81 episodes·Last published yesterday - Monthly Reach
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2K to 18K🇺🇸71%🇳🇱28%🇸🇬1% - Active Followers
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| 10/27/26 |  Target Book Day 2026! | All the talks from Target Book Day 2026 - if you couldn't be there...now you can! Robert Shearman, Stephen Cole, Julian Richards, Dr Matthew Sweet, Robert Crighton, James Goss, Jason Thompson, Gary Brannan, John Grindrod, Simon Guerrier, Paul Kirkley, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Jonathan Morris, Bruce Nicholson, Andrew Orton, Phil Pascoe, James Cooray-Smith, Paul MC Smith & Stephen Wyatt delight, educate and entertain in their mission to celebrate Target books! | 4h 27m 22s | ||||||
| 10/20/26 | Timewyrm Apocalypse by Nigel Robinson (featuring Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty and Luke 'Stank Nuggets' Sims-Jenkins | It's the third instalment in the Timewyrm series and after the middling response to the first two, is this where it all turns around? | 1h 21m 37s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 | Dracula! by Paul Magrs (featuring Michael Mills) | Co-host extraordinaire Michael Mills dives into the Puffin Classics range to discuss all things Dracula in Whitby Bay... | 1h 11m 32s | ||||||
| 10/1/26 | The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter (featuring Mark Donaldson) | What happens when an author of serious repute jumps in to write a Doctor Who book featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie & Zoe? | 1h 21m 34s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 | Lungbarrow By Loomlight by Tomoko M Banks (featuring Anthony Carroll) | Warning: Not for the faint hearted or Lorephobes! Anthony and Joe dive straight into the tangled web of continuity of Christopher Cwej, Lunbarrow, the Other and all the diabolical rest of it... | 1h 47m 31s | ||||||
| 9/23/26 | Top Three & Bottom Three Book Covers - BBC & Virgin (featuring Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Luke Sims-Jenkins) | Extracted from our various book club episodes; Andrew, Jon, Luke & I rank our three best and worst BBC & Virgin covers! | 1h 33m 49s | ||||||
| 9/16/26 | Timewyrm Exodus by Terrance Dicks (featuring Jon Arnold, Andrew Batty & Luke Sims-Jenkins) | Once again Jon has to try and extract nice things from three unimpressed book clubbers...there's some pleasant things to say about Uncle Terry, but mostly we're quite frustrated... | 1h 57m 46s | ||||||
| 9/10/26 | Managra by Stephen Marley (featuring Andrew Batty, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Jon Arnold) | A republish of the time Jon joined Luke and Andrew and I for the first time to discuss a dense and florid (and much loved by two contributors here) Missing Adventure... | 1h 53m 40s | ||||||
| 9/9/26 | My Girl by Joe Ford | The Doctor’s Daughter, Miranda, and her friend Abigail investigate the new sinister headmaster… | 7m 22s | ||||||
| 9/4/26 | The Pirate Planet by James Goss (featuring Richie Morgan & Michael Mills) | Welcome Richie to the book club where he joins Michael and I to discuss a chunky novelisation with imagination, flair and some serious stakes! | 1h 41m 16s | ||||||
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| 9/1/26 | Sometime Never... by Justin Richards & The Sabbath Arc 10-1 Countdown (featuring Mark Donaldson) | Mark concludes the Sabbath arc with the timey twisty wimey high concept madness of Sometime Never... and delivers his verdict on the arc with a countdown of his least favourite to his absolute favourite... | 1h 45m 35s | ||||||
| 8/26/26 | Jon Arnold Ranks his Top & Bottom Ten Doctor Who Books | Book club gentleman and scribe Jon Arnold delivers his favourite and least favourite Doctor Who books... | 2h 38m 40s | ||||||
| 8/22/26 | Fear Itself by Nick Wallace (featuring Matt Michael) | What do Fear Itself and The Dying Days have in common? DWM reviewer Matt Michael joins me to discuss this 11th hour EDA classic... | 1h 10m 25s | ||||||
| 8/16/26 | Once Upon a Time Lord by Dan Slott (featuring Michael Mills) | What could possibly reduce Michael Mills - brain the size of a planet - to an excited child? A fabulous Titan comic strip all about the nature of stories! A delight to record. | 1h 27m 52s | ||||||
| 8/10/26 | The Satan Pit by Matt Jones (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Andrew Batty & Jon Arnold) | A book we were all looking forward to so much...so why has it left us so (God)damn angry? We got to talk religion, Saint Doctor, and explore why a religion around Doctor Who is a bad idea. | 2h 02m 08s | ||||||
| 8/6/26 | The Blood Cell by James Goss (featuring Steffan Alun) | Comedian, author, and all round genius, Steffan Alun joins me to dissect one of the most magnificent of New Series Adventures... | 1h 40m 21s | ||||||
| 7/31/26 | Mad Dogs & Englishmen by Paul Magrs (featuring Anthony Carroll) | The only book so good it has had a third airing! How much fun can two people have discussing a book? Presto or Poodle! | 1h 46m 32s | ||||||
| 7/24/26 | To the Slaughter by Stephen Cole (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins) | A delightful fusion of laughs, mad ideas, action, evil bastards, Doctor Who monsters in disguise, character development and great payoffs...that nobody ever talks about! | 1h 28m 20s | ||||||
| 7/22/26 | Just War by Lance Parkin (featuring Dave Kitchen & Dylan Rees) | A thoughtful, gripping, unforgettable novel from first time Doctor Who writer Lance Parkin. We're in awe. | 1h 17m 40s | ||||||
| 7/17/26 | Timeless by Stephen Cole (featuring Mark Donaldson) | Mark & I say goodbye to Anji, say hello to Trix, talk terrible murder, visit the start of the universe, gasp at the return of the Time Lords and delight in this character driven urban thriller... | 1h 38m 03s | ||||||
| 7/16/26 | Cyber-Rats! | The Doctor, Fitz and Anji in a mad Christmas adventure with the Cyber-Rats! | 9m 37s | ||||||
| 7/14/26 | Wolfsbane by Jacqueline Rayner (& Other Stories) Featuring Jon Arnold, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Andrew Batty | The intrepid foursome face a tale of two Doctors, Harry lost in the past, werewolves and nature coming to life... | 2h 30m 56s | ||||||
| 7/8/26 | Hope by Mark Clapham (featuring Kevin Bianco) | Anji Kapoor has an impossible choice to make...betray the Doctor or bring her boyfriend back to life... | 1h 36m 00s | ||||||
| 7/5/26 | Justin Richards - Thank you for the stories | Hamster pays tribute to and celebrates the incredible career of Justin Richards, and discuss his books and his time as editor. | 2h 35m 18s | ||||||
| 7/2/26 | The Last Resort by Paul Leonard (featuring Mark Donaldson) | The book I was most nervous for Mark to read; subversive, wildly creative, brutal and high concept...but how did he find it? | 1h 08m 35s | ||||||
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Chart history for Hamster Book Club - The Doctor Who Book Club Podcast
Peaked at #36 in Netherlands, currently #36 in Netherlands.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | — | #36 | #36 | — |
| SG | — | #140 | #140 | — |
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.