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150. Stake Night (The Church on Ruby Road/State of Decay)
May 4, 2026
1h 57m 24s
OTTL Book Club: Myths and Legends by Dylan Rees
Aug 28, 2025
1h 41m 35s
In the Timelash #15 - Si Hart
Aug 15, 2025
1h 54m 06s
In the Timelash #14 - ArtfullyLiam
Jul 11, 2025
2h 05m 16s
In the Timelash #13 - Richie Morgan
Jun 26, 2025
1h 41m 17s
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| 5/4/26 | 150. Stake Night (The Church on Ruby Road/State of Decay) | Send us Fan Mail Over two years on from his debut adventure, Ben and Mark return, drinks in hand, to discuss the Ncuti Gatwa era of Doctor Who. Pairing The Church on Ruby Road with State of Decay, the Lash Lads discuss crumbling institutions, rapacious kings and a revolting underclass, but that's enough about the RTD2 era, they also discuss a Christopher H Bidmead story! Also: The Degesestial Funmaker returns to test Ben and Mark's knowledge of Doctor Who merch, but who is William H. Keith? A... | 1h 57m 24s | ||||||
| 8/28/25 |  OTTL Book Club: Myths and Legends by Dylan Rees | Send us Fan Mail Ben and Mark throw open the doors of the On the Timelash bookshop for a boozy book launch with Dylan Rees, author of the fabulous book, Myths and Legends: The Reeltime Pictures Story. The lads chat about how Keith Barnfather, Nicholas Briggs, and many more have created a massive people's history of Doctor Who, courtesy of the Myth Makers interviews, deep dive documentaries and spinoff dramas. And then, in the second half, Dylan chooses a "classic" and "new" Myth Ma... | 1h 41m 35s | ||||||
| 8/15/25 |  In the Timelash #15 - Si Hart | Send us Fan Mail "Have we learned nothing from Torchwood?" Mark is joined by Si Hart, host of The Library of Impossible Things, who submits his five choices for the tinsel tunnel. It's a wide-ranging discussion that often comes back to reminding us what it is to be a child watching Doctor Who. Under discussion: "Dark" Doctor Who, dodgy tea towels, Tom Baker being all teeth and no curls, the weakest story in season 13, and much more. Also: Who put Ncuti Gatwa in a hydraulic press? And what has... | 1h 54m 06s | ||||||
| 7/11/25 |  In the Timelash #14 - ArtfullyLiam | Send us Fan Mail "Amazon Who? You Plonker!" Mark invites enigmatic artist and autograph hunter, @artfullyliam to submit his five choices for the tinsel tunnel. Their discussion takes in whether Doctor Who should be a prick, which fans ought to see an optician and explore why Sutekh, Omega and the Rani didn't work as well as the Daleks, Sarah Jane Smith and The Master. But which Doctor Who companion went from sounding like Jimmy Corkhill to sounding like Lord Mountbatten? Check out Liam's stun... | 2h 05m 16s | ||||||
| 6/26/25 |  In the Timelash #13 - Richie Morgan | Send us Fan Mail "Sexy Doctors" Mark and Ben(!) invite longtime friend of the show Richie Morgan to submit his five choices for the tinsel tunnel. While Richie insists he's not come to bury RTD, many of his choices force the boys to consider what has and hasn't worked over the past three years. They also force this Timelash trio to ponder the following questions: Why is Russell T Davies like Kim Jong Un? Who is the Scottish goblin? Why should Children in Need give back the money that was rais... | 1h 41m 17s | ||||||
| 6/20/25 |  In the Timelash #12 - Iain Martin | Send us Fan Mail "This was always the plan" Mark invites Iain Martin from We're All Stories in the End and All of Time and Space to submit his five Doctor Who gripes for the tinsel tunnel. Iain selects five aspects of the modern Doctor Who experience AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT'S AT NUMBER 2! Also: Why is Mark like Jack the Ripper? What happened when Russell T Davies went to the vets? And can Iain ever be surprised by Nerys Hughes? You can listen to The Electric Sodcast here. You can buy Lily ... | 1h 53m 51s | ||||||
| 5/28/25 | Retro OTTL: The Empty Child/Doctor Dances/Krotons | Send us Fan Mail Another episode from the OTTL vault, recorded way back in 2014. "Episode #7 sees us discuss Steven Moffat’s debut story The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances which we compare with Robert Holmes’ first offering for Who, The Krotons. Does each story give us an idea of what to expect when both eventually graduate to the big role at the head of the series? And just how would the Tumblr community have reacted to Robert Holmes?" Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook... | 1h 45m 31s | ||||||
| 5/22/25 | Retro OTTL: Father's Day/Day of the Daleks | Send us Fan Mail Ben and Mark explore the perils of fannying around with time as they discuss Paul Cornell's emotionally raw Father's Day and pair it up with the classic Jon Pertwee serial Day of the Daleks. Expect tears and wrong-voiced Daleks! Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Buy us a pint | 1h 35m 29s | ||||||
| 5/22/25 | Retro OTTL: The Long Game/Vengeance on Varos | Send us Fan Mail In another retro On the Timelash, Ben and Mark from 11 years ago discuss how successfully both The Long Game and Vengeance on Varos skewer the media ecosystem in 2005 and 1985 respectively. "We're in a very similar period now" - Oh, Mark in 2014, just you wait, mate! Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Buy us a pint | 1h 16m 18s | ||||||
| 5/22/25 |  Retro OTTL: Dalek/The Daleks | Send us Fan Mail a.k.a. The Day (in the pub) of the Daleks Ben and Mark reach 2005's Dalek on their Nu-Who watchthrough and pair it with 1963's original serial The Mutants, a.k.a The Daleks. How have the Daleks changed in 40 years? And how quickly would a Dalek kill itself after downloading all of the internet nowadays? Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Buy us a pint | 1h 46m 39s | ||||||
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| 4/23/25 | Retro OTTL: Aliens of London/WW3/Terror of the Zygons | Send us Fan Mail Only three episodes in and Ben and Mark are already forced to reconstruct a missing episode as they drink port and whisky while discussing Aliens of London/World War Three (twice) and pair it with another tale of intrigue and shapeshifters; Terror of the Zygons. Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Buy us a pint | 1h 36m 24s | ||||||
| 4/9/25 | Retro OTTL: The Unquiet Dead/Talons of Weng-Chiang | Send us Fan Mail On the Time Lash is an archive podcast containing views that were of their time. Now that's out the way, let's celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Unquiet Dead by revisiting Ben and Mark's chat all about Victoriana in Doctor Who when they paired it with The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Is John Bennett really as bad as Matt Lucas? Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Buy us a pint | 1h 21m 30s | ||||||
| 4/2/25 | Retro OTTL: Rose/End of the World/Unearthly Child | Send us Fan Mail Continuing our celebrations of 20 years of "New" Doctor Who, we're re-releasing the first series of On the Time Lash on the 20th anniversary of each season 1 episode! First up, we celebrate 20 years of The End of the World with the very first episode of OTTL as a youthful Ben and Mark look back on Rose/The End of the World and compare their strengths as both pilot and first TARDIS trip with 1963's An Unearthly Child! Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook B... | 1h 48m 12s | ||||||
| 3/29/25 |  Doctor Who Confidential: Live Commentary | Send us Fan Mail To celebrate 20 years since the broadcast of Rose, Ben and Mark hosted a live YouTube stream featuring commentaries on A New Dimension, Rose and Doctor Who Confidential. In this podcast, Ben and Mark are joined by Lee McMenemy from The Polis Box and JR Southall from Strangers in Space for the audio commentary on the very first episode of Doctor Who Confidential; "Bringing Back the Doctor" Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Buy us a pint | 30m 37s | ||||||
| 3/29/25 |  Rose: Live Commentary | Send us Fan Mail To celebrate 20 years since the broadcast of Rose, Ben and Mark hosted a live YouTube stream featuring commentaries on A New Dimension, Rose and Doctor Who Confidential. In this podcast, Ben and Mark are joined by Lee McMenemy from The Polis Box and JR Southall from Strangers in Space for the audio commentary for "Rose", written by Russell T Davies and directed by Keith Boak. Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Buy us a pint | 58m 59s | ||||||
| 3/29/25 |  Doctor Who: A New Dimension - Live Commentary | Send us Fan Mail To celebrate 20 years since the broadcast of Rose, Ben and Mark hosted a live YouTube stream featuring commentaries on A New Dimension, Rose and Doctor Who Confidential. This podcast is the audio commentary for the "primer" documentary, Doctor Who: A New Dimension, which aired at 17:25 on BBC1 on 26th March 2005, narrated by up and coming star David Tennant. Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Buy us a pint | 30m 21s | ||||||
| 2/19/25 |  Doof-Dooftor Who 2: An Exciting Adventure With Cockneys | Send us Fan Mail In part two of OTTL's celebration of 40 years of EastEnders, Mark, Lee and Mark H discuss some classic crossovers with Doctor Who....and Dimensions in Time. They take a trip to an emotionally charged Doctor Who exhibition with Bradley and Stacey in an episode of EastEnders from 15th February 2008. Then it's off to Albert Square with the Eleventh Doctor and Dermot O'Leary, before settling down for a pint in the Queen Vic with Lytton. Also: We choose which EastEnders star... | 1h 19m 02s | ||||||
| 2/19/25 |  Doof-Dooftor Who 1: Is Doctor Who A Soap? | Send us Fan Mail "Oh my dear Princess, you have been naive..." To celebrate 40 years of EastEnders, Mark convenes Mark Harrison and Lee McMenemy from The Polis Box in the Queen Vic to discuss whether or not Doctor Who is "too soapy". Beyond their statuses as institutions which rely heavily on cliffhangers, what else ties Doctor Who to EastEnders and other soaps like Coronation Street? Under discussion: The Great EastEnders Slide Disaster of 2004, Phil Mitchell as Mickey Mouse, and a successio... | 43m 03s | ||||||
| 12/22/24 |  In the Timelash #11 - Pete Lambert | Send us Fan Mail "Blooping is fine" Mark invites Pete Lambert from the Trap One and Maximum Power podcasts to submit his five Doctor Who gripes for the very literal Tinsel Tunnel in an accidental Christmas special. Which of Pete's selections will force Mark to look back on his life choices like Ebenezer Scrooge? Is the 45 - 60 minute long episode of Doctor Who a dead medium? Why is Mrs Flood emblematic of a problem plaguing pop culture? And who trapped that bee inside a theramin? All th... | 2h 00m 33s | ||||||
| 12/15/24 |  In the Timelash #10 - Andrew Blair | Send us Fan Mail Mark invites writer, poet and programmer Andrew Blair - a man who doesn't have a Doctor Who podcast! However, Andrew's not short of Doctor Who gripes to send down the Tinsel Tunnel. Under discussion: What would World Enough and Time be like if it was written by Christopher H Bidmead? Is "Genesis of the Daleks" truly the moral highpoint of Doctor Who? And what does fandom have in common with the Crispy Master? You can have a go on Andrew's Big Finish Generator here. Support th... | 1h 36m 01s | ||||||
| 12/1/24 | 149. Nap and Salad | Send us Fan Mail "Firing a Doctor Who cake up your arse" In their final look at the 60th anniversary specials, Ben and Mark welcome back the Toymaker by pairing up The Giggle with the unmade 1980s serial The Nightmare Fair. While the sense of an ending marks the 60th miniseries out as something special, have subsequent episodes of Doctor Who ruined the party? And after almost 60 years, has anyone got a handle on how to write for the Toymaker? Also: Mark explains why Alex Horne is the true Toy... | 2h 00m 40s | ||||||
| 11/29/24 |  In the Timelash #9 - Mark Harrison | Send us Fan Mail "Make Earth Wet Again" Mark invites Film Stories' Mark Harrison to submit his five choices for the Tinsel Tunnel. Why doesn't Mark want to make Earth wet again? What's hiding underneath the scratchy red blanket? And why can't the Doctor go back and save Adric? All this and more! Apologies for any audio issues you might experience with this episode, we'd have used AI to clean it up, but we don't have Ian Levine's considerable heft....I mean, wealth. Support the show Follow u... | 1h 53m 30s | ||||||
| 11/10/24 |  OTTL Book Group: Frazer Hines' Films, Farms and Fillies | Send us Fan Mail Mark is joined by Luke Molloy to discuss Frazer Hines' 1996 autobiography, Films, Farms and Fillies. As they pick apart the thorny topics of sexual politics, life in the public eye, and changing attitudes to age gap romances, they try to answer such questions as: Who was bookended by the Krankies? Whatever happened to Bernard Cribbins' "Dick of the Week" trophy? Did Frazer Hines' autobiography change society? Support the show Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Bu... | 57m 51s | ||||||
| 11/3/24 | 148. Alan Moore's Minions Movie (WBY/Underworld) | Send us Fan Mail In the second of their David Tennant and Catherine Tate specials, Ben and Mark turn their attentions to Wild Blue Yonder, and pair it with both Big Finish's Scherzo, written by Rob Shearman, and Underworld, written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin. Ben and Mark discuss Doctor Who's changing relationship with technology, from the primitive virtual sets of Underworld to the more advanced virtual sets of Wild Blue Yonder. But was the REDACTED marketing the downfall of an otherwise t... | 1h 48m 33s | ||||||
| 10/27/24 | 147. Beep the Threep (The Star Beasts) | Send us Fan Mail Ben, Mark and the Degsestial Funmaker return for a very special On the Time Lash miniseries focused on 2023's Tennant and Tate specials. Up first is The Star Beast, which Ben and Mark pair with the original Doctor Who and the Star Beast comic and its 2019 Big Finish adaptation. Which Beast is Best? And is there such a thing as too much Star Beast? Also: Mark learns watercolours with Peter Davison, Ben reminisces about Frazer Hines' fridge freezer and we ask the questions -&nb... | 1h 52m 58s | ||||||
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