The Maran Chess Club

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Mr Dan Hollingsworth joins Luke to talk all about the Big Finish boxset Helter Skelter.Read the ****ing blurb Luke!What are the workers rights at the theme park?Sigh. Luke's doing Dimensions in Time soon.

On this episode of the Maran Chess Club, Mr Paul Dunn returns to talk all about the Planet of Fire special edition and Planet of Fire in general.Special Edition, but with less of it.Locked room Comfort.You WILL like Luke's rotary phone story.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Mr Daniel Rawnsley joins Luke to talk all about the absolute classic, The Power of the Doctor!Blame it on the rain, yeah yeah.Chess Grandmaster or Bond Villain?The Heaps of Time.

Si Hart returns to the Maran Chess club to talk with Luke about two Doctor Who Magazine comic strips. It's time for the Tides of Time and Stars Fell on Stockbridge, by Steve Parkhouse and Dave Gibbons.No Shelf can contain it!Have a T-Break.Hardcover buyers get punished.

On this episode of the Maran Chess Club, Mr Paul Arthur returns for more book n stuff! It's time to read Earthshock by Ian Marter.Heavy Metal He-Man Cave.Planet. Toobes Major.They're on the shelf besides you Luke.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Nathan Bottomley returns to talk all about Piscons and Peri! That's right it's time for Peri and the Piscon Paradox.What's Babylon 5?We'll always have Peri's.Which Doctor watched the X-Files?Just ignore that Children of Seth recommend at the end.

It is the 69th episode of the Maran Chess Club! This week Luke's Never Open Podcast co-host returns to watch his second ever Doctor Who story. Can you believe it? It's the Five Doctors!The Two Big Perms.Luke likes redheads.The Tomb Of Erasmus

This time on the Sumaran Chess Club, Mr Rod Brown and Luke talk about the Big Finish stories the Cradle Of The Snake & The Children Of Seth.Platt doesn't get it.The Greatest Hits of Seth.Teag Cleav

On this Maran Chess Club this time, Mr Eddie Arnold joins Luke for a small chat about Tales From The Tardis: Earthshock, but its really just a wraparound for whatever the hell they want to talk about.Middlecore fansLuke's podcast improvements.Happy Fathers Day Jon!!

On the Maran Chess Club this time, Mr Michael Mills joins Luke for a chat about the start of the Big Finish Main Range and the end of the Big Finish Main Range. It's time for the Sirens of Time then ending with the End Of The Beginning.Hartnell is the oldest and thus the smartest.'See' the plywood.Luke learns about Lesbian Vampire Killers.

This time on the Maran Chess Club, Mr Kieran returns to talk about two Big Finish stories. It's time for the Mutant Phase & Creatures Of Beauty by Nicholas Briggs.A traditional auteur.Do the Saward.The Mu-Tant PHAAAAAAAAAAAASE!

On the Maran Chess Club Mr Luke Sims-Jenkins joins Paul Dunn for a look at Enlightenment!Wait whose hosting this?!Please put the Twin Dilemma on!Stand out and BE boring!

On the Maran Chess Club Joumana Medlej joins Luke for a chat all about Enlightenment. So take the pledge and make the choice to join us.The Eternals are gamers.Snark is part of the enjoyment.Wrack plays GTA

Join Mr Jack Coyer and Luke as their commentary of Kinda continues to Unfold.The Fool is Paranoia!This is Tegan's show.What else needs some unfolding?

Mr Jack Coyer joins Luke this week for a commentary on Kinda parts 1 & 2 and some talk about the Unfolding Text. Too many Todds.Dukka won't resign.Colonel Sanders.

Can Warriors Of The Deep be redeemed? Is there a good story underneath all the trash? Mr Nathan Bottomley and Luke find out as they discuss the bluray special edition.A bunch of dags.No one cares about Hawaii 5-0.Luke's secret admission.

On the Sumaran Chess Club its the time for more books n stuff and Mr Paul Arthur joins Luke to talk about the cover of Snakedance by Andrew Skilleter. Oh and they also talk about the book by Terrance Dicks.Credit your artists!My Dinner With Ambril.Judge books by their covers.

To celebrate a year of the Maran Chess Club, Mrs Charity Sims-Jenkins joins Luke to talk about the season 19 Behind the Goggle Sofa's & answer questions.Pavlov's Pyramids.Mourning has broken.The Tooth Temple

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Mr Mark Rawlins returns for the very first of the Big Finish trilogies. It's Key 2 Time, time with the stories, The Judgement of Isskar, The Destroyer of Delights and The Chaos Pool.Hollyoaks Babes & Hunks In da clubAmy, Abby, Una, Oprah

On the Maran Chess Club this week, its the moment everyone should be prepared for as Mr Nathan Bottomley and Luke talk all about the final Tom Baker story Logopolis!Luke scrapped the tapes!Sweat shop maths.We have a Porsche.

On the Maran Chess Club this time, its part 2 of Luke's chat with Mr Alex Wilcock about the music of the Peter Davison era! Plus their top 5 scores.Worst GTA music ever!Go away Maxwell's Silver Hammer.Alex recognizes Luke's snake.

This time on the Maran Chess Club, Mr Alex Wilcock returns for a huge conversation about the music of the Peter Davison era! Find out who was sampled by Prince!Did Mr Roger teach you how to spell?The President is on a vertical descent pattern!

On the Maran Chess Club this week its the Awakening! When 4 become 2. James Miller joins Luke to talk about Eric Pringle's only contribution to Doctor Who in between talking about everything else. Just like the story, both men had to squeeze a lot in.So it turns out that Luke might just be a nerd! *gasp*The Thief of Cheese!Speed dating with Turlough

Mr Dan Pinn joins the Maran Chess Club to chat with Luke about the Marc arc. Well these 4 parts of it anyway. That's right everyone its time for the 2020 Big Finish audio Time Apart.The People of DUL-kis are BOR-ing.Kate or Kate?Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!

This time on the Maran Chess Club, Mr Andrew Batty and Luke do something different. Just kidding its Davo and Pyramids again! So stop listening to the King and join them for the Big Finish story, The Eye Of The Scorpion!Peri the Vampire Slayer.Davo always gotta deal with prison ships.Tele-pathy? Telapathyic?

This week on the Maran Chess Club its four seasons in one day. The house isn't crowded though, so come on in and join Mr Dave Rennie and Luke for the Big Finish classic, Circular Time.Batman was real.Nyssa does zero TARDIS thingsAdding to a regen before it became cool

This week on the Sumaran Chess Club, Mr Rod Brown and Luke cannot resist the power of the snake! It doesn't matter if you're meditating into crystals or hunting for trinkets, join them as they talk all about the other GOAT! Snakedance!Maris the Federator.Luke's mind is blown.How does the Doctor go from running around to deep meditation? HOW?!

This week Mr Dan Hollingsworth returns to the Maran Chess Club for a double Doctor double! Luke and Dan talk about Time Crash and the Big Finish Audio, Out Of Time 2: The Gates Of Hell.Luke is part of the problem.Advanced cultures should have seat belts! The next Davo set from BF was announced a day after Luke’s recordedwhining.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Mr Dylan Rees and Luke finish their commentary on the absolute classic that is, The Resurrection Of The Daleks! Listener letters: The Smokers of Classic Who.Take a whisky drink and then a vodka drink.Leela hearts Maxil.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Luke reunites Mr Dylan Rees with a story he hasn't watched in 20ish years! Join them for parts 1 & 2 of their commentary of Resurrection Of The Daleks.Molloy Boys uniteTurlough’s face is enough for banishment.It’s PROFESSOR LAIRD LUKE! Not Stein!

This time on the Maran Chess Club, Mr Melvin Pena and Luke continue their commentary of Frontios with parts 3 & 4.Rollie Pollies, pill bugs or butchie boys?Law & Order: Frontios.Luke mixes up Stein and Liard again.

Melvin cried out "Let me talk to someone about Frontios!" and the cry was heard. Join Mr Melvin Pena and Luke as they do a commentary for Frontios!Old men complain about tech and are right.Tractator’s in the Wild directed by Mark Strickson.How does the Doctor keep his kicks so fresh?

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Mr Daniel Rawnsley joins Luke to talk all about the GOAT. Kinda.Anyone else want a box of chill Deva Loka dust?Nietzsche, Sartre, Descartes and Sims-JekninsLuke gets Stein and Laird mixed up. It’ll become a thing…. In time.

Things get highly flammable and lit during Mr Iain Martin & Luke's commentary of the Visitation part 4.Some people might start wondering if Luke's seen Blakes 7.The kids are better drivers.Some Doctors just want to watch the world burn.

The Visitation commentary with Mr Iain Martin continues with part 3!Meet someone who most def auditioned five times to play the First Doctor in the Five Doctors.Why Neighbours and not Home and Away?Wardrobe issue has been solved. The End.

Mr Iain & Luke continue their "extremely sober" commentary of the Visitation. Remix the Howell already!Discover the Doctor Who weight loss program.Tegan's lack of enthusiasm over free booze just isn't Aussie.Cheers Mr Joe Ford.

Could it be? At last a different story! This week on the Maran Chess Club, Iain Martin returns. This time he and Luke are bringing in 2026 with some drinkypoos and a commentary on the Visitation.Eric Saward for Blakes 7!There may or may not be gardening supplies involved.

Here it is. The last (promise, for realsies) episode covering the Five Doctors! This time Jon Arnold returns to chat about the Target by Terrance Dicks. Heartbreak Ridge: The Target.Square Pi. It's a Time Lord thing.6B? Nah uh.

Yes, yes. The end of this journey is coming. This week on the Maran Chess Club its a Commentary for the Five Doctors. Luke is joined by Andrew Batty, Jon Arnold & Joe Ford for his last recording of 2025!Four people. Five Doctors. It all works out.Enjoy the madness everyone. More MCC coming.

This week Mark Cockrum joins Luke to talk all about the Five(ish) Doctors Reboot! Written and directed by Peter Davison.Holy crap! A door opener!Yes yes, The Five(ish) Doctors will be on the season 21 blurayWe all want that Jenna Coleman dream.

This week Michael Mills returns to talk all about the Big Finish subscriber audio, The Five Companions, by Eddie Robson. He and Luke also talk about the under discussed story, the Five Doctors and our thoughts on Big Finish over the years.The Quantum Of Krotons!Nyssa gets no blurb love.Episode may or may not contain average meandering.

Luke is with Nathan Bottomley. In his house! Recording his first ever face to face episode. This week, much to everyone's probable surprise, the lads talk about the Five Doctors 40th Anniversary Edition.Luke is informed that there are in fact three Atlanti."Take me back to ****ing Heathrow, you ****ing dog ****" Most definitely send those letters.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Rob Irwin joins Luke to talk all about the special edition of the Five Doctors! Discover how it's been redecorated and whether or not the lads like it. Xander uses the Dark Web?!Nothing beats chunky buttons and red knobs.So what does happen when everyone enters the TARDIS at the end?

Lucy McCaul is here to join Luke for a chat about The Five Doctors. The original (version) you might say!Discover why Luke only reads Doctor Who for the articles.Witness the Master meeting his favourite monsters.Listen in annoyance as Luke repeatedly calls the Cybermen, Robots.

This week on the Maran Chess Club its more Books n Stuff! Kieran Pell returns to talk with Luke all about Craig Hinton's first novel. So pick your favourite restaurant destination in history (I wonder if there's a bus somewhere that could help one do that?), because it's time for the Crystal Bucephalus.Like Nekromanteia, Luke will never forget how to spell Bucephalus.Just how much NA is in this MA?Tegan nearly goes full Aussie.

Dan Hollingsworth joins Luke to have a chat about Tegan's ex boyfriend Tody Hadoke! Join the as they cover the Big Finish Lost Story Hexagoa & then get somebody to help you please as the duo talk all about Resurrection of the Daleks.

This week on the Maran Chess Club, Melvin Pena joins Luke to talk about the Big Finish audio drama, The Peterloo Massacre by Paul Magrs. Doctor Who fulfilling one of its original remits. They also talk about the 2018 movie Peterloo directed by Mike Leigh.

Mr Si Hart returns to the Maran Chess Club for another dose of Christopher H. Bidmead goodness. This time in Target form with Frontios! What if Cockerill was actually an amazing character?What if a character from a Pertwee story grew?And what if a writer finally did something with Turlough being an alien?

Mr Paul Quinn returns for more books n stuff. So empty your mind and get ready for some enthusiastic stroking as Paul and Luke talk all about the Target novel Black Orchid, by Terrance Dudley.Wait a King John reference?I don't like cricket. Oh no.The Time Lords will steer the Doctor towards some low stakes problems for fun.

Jo Short has never seen Enlightenment before now. So this week on the Maran Chess Club she joins Luke to talk all about it.Who wins the chess battle of the ages? Tegan or Turlough?Prepare yourself for Cackling, laughing and chuckling