In part 9 of 2961 (you don't need to have heard the others), Briar and Uther discuss 'The Ambush' (you don't need to have seen it). Written by Terry Nation and directed by Christopher Barry, it's the fourth episode of The Daleks, the third story of the first series of the first iteration of Doctor Who.

Other topics covered: Bizarre idiot Daleks. What genre Doctor Who is. Lift business. Standard-issue Dalek destruction. 1965 (a bloody-thirsty year). Dalek art. The deceptive simplicity of Terry Nation tension. Individual Daleks. When Uther tried to use Doctor Who to flirt with Briar on Twitter. Military fiction and its absence. A short review of Titanic. What AM and PM stand for. Briar's love for maps is discussed and appreciated. Briar does a good bit of the Thals as Californian surfer-dudes that is incredible. The down-side of triangular knowledge storage. A scene from an imaginary Bond film is played out. The unknowable vastness of space and Doctor Who's relationship to it. Briar's Favourite Meandering Space Thought. Doing silly shit but telling a story at the same time. A surprisingly long bit describing what our new mattress feels like. Briar debuts a passage from her formerly forth-coming novel. "Any human would be lucky to have coma ears!" "Incy" or "itsy"? And little gremlins.

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