It’s getting to be that time of year again when hundreds of Doctor Who fans and celebrities converge upon sunny California at Gallifrey One, the largest Doctor Who fan convention in North America. This year’s edition, Gallifrey One’s Catch 22: Islands of Mystery, takes place from February 18-20, 2011, at the LAX Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles, CA, and Radio Free Skaro will be there!
As in past years, The Three Who Rule will provide extensive coverage of the convention by publishing daily podcasts from Thursday, February 17 through until Monday, February 21. These podcasts will feature interviews with many of the guests at the convention, as well as the main RFS event of the weekend: Radio Free Skaro in 3-D, live on stage, on Friday, February 18 at 2pm, featuring guests Gareth Roberts, Clayton Hickman, Joss Agnew, James Moran, and Phil Ford. We might even have a surprise or two in the works…
The best way to keep up to date with our coverage is to subscribe to our iTunes feed here. Keep an eye on these feeds, though, too:
- Twitter: Radio Free Skaro (@RadioFreeSkaro), as well as the three hosts – Steven (@Legopolis), Warren (@freyburg), and Chris (@dubbayoo)
- YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/radiofreeskaro
- Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/radiofreeskaro
- Tumblr: http://radiofreeskaro.tumblr.com/
If you’re going to Gallifrey this year, then perhaps we will see you there! And if not, we’ve got it covered for you! In the meantime, check out our coverage of Gallifrey 21 from 2010:
- Radio Free Skaro #183 – The Elephant in the Room (podcasters round table)
- Radio Free Skaro #184 – Feasts of Stevens (interviews with Steve Roberts, Steve Manfred)
- Radio Free Skaro #185 – Bo! Sco! Fo! Do! No! Kro! Blo! Co! Sho! Ro! (interviews with Nick Briggs, Phil Ford, Rob Shearman)
- Radio Free Skaro #186 – The Yalta Conference (Doctor Who podcast panel, interview with Tony Lee and Matthew Dow Smith)
- Radio Free Skaro #187 – Loads of Pace and Energy! (interview with Graeme Harper)
Writer Paul Cornell makes his long awaited return to Gallifrey One after taking a couple years off. Cornell contributed several novels to the New Adventures range in the 1990s and created the popular end enduring character Bernice Summerfield. He also wrote “Father’s Day” for Series One of the new series and adapted his own acclaimed “Human Nature” novel into two-part story in Series Three.
Hugo Award winning scribe Phil Ford was absent from Gallifrey One last year, due to his continued work on the CBBC series Wizards vs Aliens. Not only has Phil been a fixture at Gallifrey One since 2009, he also has an impressive list of writing credits, including Doctor Who (The Waters of Mars), Torchwood, and head writer of the Sarah Jane Adventures. He is also, of course, “Friend of the Show” to us here at Radio Free Skaro.
When Doctor Who returned from its BBC imposed hiatus in 1986, a new version of the theme tune provided by Dominic Glynn was the first thing viewers heard. In addition to providing the theme tune for “The Trial of a Time Lord”, Glynn did incidental music for six of the fourteen episodes, and went on to score three stories in the Sylvester McCoy era. Dominic will be making his first appearance at Gallifrey One.
