Sophie Aldred's Ace Odyssey
Hosted by Sophie Aldred and Hobbes · Sophie Aldred
4.6from 5 ratings
- 30
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 5
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Sophie Aldred's Ace Odyssey
Step carefully across the gantry, mind the temporal updraft, and welcome aboard Sophie Aldred’s Ace Odyssey — an interstellar voyage through memory, imagination and the ever-expanding universe of Doctor Who (and far beyond).Our setting is the venerable Nosferatu 2.5: a ship of distinguished age and debatable reliability, helmed by Sophie herself. At her side stands Hobbes — the gleaming automaton butler, procedural absolutist and tireless enforcer of standards — whose interpretation of “hospitality” occasionally includes decontamination. Somewhere in the circuitry hums the Ffantaface, a device of improbable identity reassignment and narrative necessity. Lurking (or organising, depending on the hour) is Mrs C, Sophie's east end goldfish and guardian of the Ffantaface, whose patience with malfunctioning robots and temporal anomalies is admirable, if not infinite. And behind a door we absolutely cannot open… something continues to knock.Each week, the Time Scoop reaches into the vortex and deposits remarkable guests on the Sofa of Infinite Understanding — actors, writers, directors, creatives and fellow travellers from Doctor Who and the wider worlds of television, theatre and storytelling. Expect warmth, wit, behind-the-scenes revelations, philosophical detours, laughter, the occasional existential wobble, and the gentle sense that reality is being adjusted around the edges.But this is not simply a nostalgia voyage. This is a show about you and Who — about fandom, friendship, courage, creativity and the curious ways a television programme can shape a life. Your stories, your questions, your theories and tangents are part of the fabric of the ship itself. Find us at on Instagram, Twitter and Bluesky at aceodyssey63 and step into the conversation.And for those who feel the pull of the vortex just a little more strongly, there is our Patreon community: episodes ad-free and early, two exclusive podcast episodes every month, online meet-ups with cast and crew, competitions, and the chance to help shape the future of the show itself. Head to www.patreon.com/aceodyssey to find out more! So check that time is moving in a broadly cooperative direction, steady yourself against the console, and prepare for lift-off.The Odyssey is already underway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Sophie Aldred
- Category
- fiction · tv & film · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Nov 2025
- Latest episode
- 13 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 30 episodes have a transcript.
13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
2.8 Rona Munro- "The Memory Of Roses"
6 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
2.7 Matthew Waterhouse- "The Navigator Of Nowhere"
30 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bank Holiday Special- "Into The Ffantaface!"
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2.8 Rona Munro- "The Memory Of Roses"
Published 13 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And again, this idea that women were men's property and, you know, no woman had any kind of independent career. I mean, nobody has much of an independent career in kind of feudal times, but there's plenty of women running ale houses and actually having land and farms. And if you go back to Anglo-Saxon times... it's possibly even greater equality than anyone ever allows for these days. So, yeah. That's interesting because people say to me sometimes, you know, if you could go anywhere in history in the TARDIS, where would you go? And I say, well, I wouldn't go back because women have had a pretty bad deals up until recently. […]
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- Rona Munro
- Martin Spellacey
- Matthew Waterhouse
- Emily Cook
- Paul Carmichael
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Who hosts Sophie Aldred's Ace Odyssey?
Sophie Aldred and Hobbes host the show. Published by Sophie Aldred.
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