The Doctor Who Podcast Jingles and Songs
Track Listing
Series 5 Episode 1 SummarisedOriginal
My first submission to the DWP - a summary of an episode that had just aired. I like the idea of summarising episodes in some pithy way. I should have been careful what I wished for.
30 April 2010
Who'd be a Timelord at ChristmasOriginal
Invited by the DWP to write them a Christmas song, this is one of the first Christmas songs I ever wrote. It's somewhere between a Phil Spector Christmas song and the Series 5 soundtrack.
1 December 2010All I Want For ChristmasOriginal
Written while my wife was on her hen night, this is an imperfect recording, but one I'm quite fond of
1 December 2011
Farewell PondOriginal
A farewell song for Amy Pond, one of the companions of the Doctor in Doctor Who. Written as a segment to include in an episode where I was a guest.
3 July 2012
Whittaker's DozenOriginalJingle
My first "commission" from the producers of the podcast to make them a jingle for a repeated segment about Jodie Whittaker audio stories.
7 July 2025Talking About Regeneration - Parody of The WhoParodyJingle
The "Talking About Regeneration" section of the show clearly wanted a The Who, My Generation style jingle, so this was it. I ripped the vocals out of the original recording to concot this.
5 October 2025Talking About Regeneration - Beach Boys StyleParodyJingle
A second version of a jingle for the "Talking About Regeneration" section of The Doctor Who Podcast, this was based on The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" and uses their original backing track with new vocals added. As the original song has a Doctor Whoey theramin in it, I messed a bit with the backing track to make that theremin play something quite like the Doctor Who theme tune as a little audio easter egg.
17 October 2025Russell Wished upon a Star - Disney ParodyParody
A commentary on Disney leaving Doctor Who high and dry in a political climate where they were likely to get more sensitive
1 November 2025War Between the Land and the Sea Theme TuneHybridJingle
For the review episodes of The War Between the Land and the Sea I created a theme tune with an 80's action adventure kids's TV show vibe. This was done by singing a little ditty into Suno and getting Suno to render it.
7 December 2025War Between the Land and the Sea Theme Episode 3 PredictionAIJingle
For my solo episode presenting the DWP, this was my "Under The Sea" take on the War Between the Land and the Sea series.
9 December 2025She Might Be FishyHybrid
An emotional song about love and fish-women. A song I composed and then AI-ified, in what would become something of my new process.
9 December 2025Tardis Disco PartyAIInstrumental
A musical cue for when I was stumbling around the "camper van" during my solo episode... I press a button and the Doctor Who disco starts
9 December 2025Wallace, Gromit and WhoAIInstrumental
A musical cue, imagining how the Doctor Who theme might have sounded if composed by the Wallace and Gromit composer.
9 December 2025You'll Never Swim AloneHybrid
This didn't get played in full (yet). I was asked to create a "You'll Never Walk Alone" style song in relation to TWBTLS. I did it late at night with a croaky voice, making a non-musical-copy of "Youll Never Walk Alone" which the AI rendered rather effectively
17 December 2025BarclayHybrid
The You'll Never Swim Alone song was eclipsed by my begging the DWP folks to include this song, which came to me as an idea. I wrote the strings ostinato and the bones of this song and sang a really rough demo. The idea is that it's the "Stingray" theme, only different. I was so excited about how it came out...
21 December 2025AnticipointmentOriginal
An original song for the DWP Christmas episode. This shows the conflicting feelings of anticipation and fear of disappointment. We weren't to worry: we were going to be disappointed.
15 November 2025It's Nothing Like SurvivalParody
It's a parody of 'We Didn't Start the Fire' by Billy Joel. It's a listical song about Doctor Who and tries to avoid the fear of the show being cancelled as it was in the DW episode - 'Survival'
15 November 2025Join The Navy With MeHybridJingle
A jingle about Sea Devils episodes. Pithy and piratey.
9 January 2026Not That BadHybrid
A musical coda to an episode where the reviewers had drawn a mixed conclusion on a story. I listened to the story and their review and gave a jaunty musical end note... agreeing that it wasn't all that bad.
25 January 2026Project Twilight - Big Finish #23Hybrid
An episode about vampires needs an Olivia Rodrigo style song in it. Not my first, or indeed my last time playing with this song as source for a pastiche.
8 January 2026PredictionsHybridJingle
A jingle looking back on last year's predictions. It gave me a chance to sing my own swing track, albeit accompanied by the AI.
10 January 2026It's Time For SpeculationHybridJingle
Not the first time I've channelled The Muppets. I had so much fun making this that I made a different muppet track a few weeks later.
10 January 2026Come Join Our Hive MindHybrid
A summary song about an episode. This is a really energetic track that I had fun singing along to.
10 February 2026I'm the Real Pharoah - Big Finish #24AI
From a Big Finish story I was reviewing, this is a musical insert where I pretended a character - Erimem - was actually Eminem.
12 January 2026Colditz - Big Finish #25HybridParody
A parody of the theme tune to The Great Escape with lyrics about the Big Finish audio.
18 January 2026Base Under SeigeHybrid
An 80's style song with me on vocals, this summarised one of the recrrent themes in a Doctor Who Film club episode.
10 March 2026Doctor Who Film ClubParodyJingle
I thought an a capella jingle for the Doctor Who Film Club would be fun. I could almost feel the eyebrow that was raised at me from the other end of the WhatsApp message.
9 March 2026Mental LeapHybridJingle
A song to set up the pretext of The Doctor Who Film Club which I provided on request, my a capella track not being taken entirely seriously
9 March 2026Back Where They BelongHybrid
The return of the Doctor Who Daleks' Masterplan episodes in an 80's style love power ballad
12 March 2026The Daleks MasterplanParody
Ashley can you just make the Oasis song "Masterplan" into a song about Daleks? Of course I can.
26 March 2026The Feast of StevenHybrid
Well, if we're doing Oasis, then I'm going to do one about William Hartnell breaking the 4th wall.
26 March 2026So This Is EasterHybrid
Not the first time I've pastiched 'So This Is Christmas' to make it about Easter.
4 April 2026Phil and ScottOriginalJingle
A jingle for when father and son team Phil and Scott review Doctor Who things. I wanted something that was light-hearted and a bit more youthful. This is an Ashley original, where I play instruments on top of some drum loops.
11 April 2026The Keeper of Traken - Big Finish #26Hybrid
For the episode about the Big Finish audio drama "Primeval", this is a pastiche of "Losing My Religion" fused with the vibe of needing a Keeper of Traken. Used on episode #26
22 February 2026A Very Lonely Jelloid - Big Finish #27Hybrid
This is a rare case of me not composing the music for this song, but giving it to Suno to extrapolate from the limited musical material already in their episode. I wanted to get the vibe of the existing sound design without making it into something of my own. I drove it with lyrics, but then sang those lyrics in my best accent. As featured on Episode #27
11 March 2026Venus - Big Finish #27 (rejected)AI
Another one with full AI music. I added this as an Easter Egg, but it wasn actually used in the episode. It was my attempt to answer the question of what was the winning entry to the intergalactic song contest.
5 March 2026Invaders from Mars - Big Finish #28Hybrid
I think the song was obvious with this one. It had to be a Bowie pastiche. I played this on piano and then created the soundtrack with AI. I also appeared on the episode which reviewed this story.
18 March 2026Stuck in a Time Loop Again - Big Finish #29Hybrid
a pastiche of Stuck in the Middle With You converted from a guitar vocal demo by me into a short song via Suno. As with all these things, there's writing, editing and sound engineering, and ultimately it's an original song with music and lyrics by me. Written for The Doctor Who Podcast about the Big Finish audio - The Chimes of Midnight
20 March 2026Doctor Who Mastermind SongHybridJingle
A song I wrote and sing vocals on and play bass on, but which was Suno-ed to get the other parts. It has some nice references to Doctor Who episodes and trivia in it too.
26 March 2026Mastermind WhoParodyJingle
A theme tune for the Doctor Who Mastermind quiz, a mashup of the Mastermind TV Theme tune (approaching menace) and the Doctor Who theme (Murray Gold version).
22 April 2026The First QuestionOriginal
A jingle for a segment about the 11th Doctor Big Finish audio dramas
31 March 2026The Nimon Hop - Big Finish #30Hybrid
from a piano demo through Suno to a Latin Salsa horny track about The Nimon from a Doctor Who story. First included in The Doctor Who Podcast Echo Chamber #30
14 April 2026Embrace The Darkness - Big Finish #31Parody
a parody song of The Sound of Silence as a story epilogue for a Big Finish story of the same name
22 April 2026The Powell EstateHybrid
for The Doctor Who Podcast about Rose's home estate, but in the style of the theme from Neighbours, half parody song, half pastiche... too close to call. Me on vocals.
23 April 2026Something In The BeansOriginal
Inspired by the vibe of the coffee shop scene in The End of Time between Wilf and the 10th Doctor. A short musing on life, death, four knocks, and coffee beans. It's just me at my piano.
25 April 2026He Really Didn't Want to GoHybrid
an original composition converted to a tango by Suno and sung by me, about the regenerations surrounding Tennant's Doctors
25 April 2026Whole Lotta Shakespeare - Big Finish #32Hybrid
An Elvis style number with me on vocals (bvs and band by Suno from my own composition) about a Big Finish story for The Doctor Who Podcast
29 April 2026In The Matrix - Big Finish #33Hybrid
for The Doctor Who Podcast, inspired by a Big Finish story – Neverland – a disco song about the matrix on Gallifrey
30 April 2026Has My Time Gone By? - Big Finish #33 (pitch)Hybrid
A pitch for The Doctor Who Podcast, inspired by a Big Finish story, a full song with me singing and playing on the piano, augmented by a couple of stems from Suno and then edited to death
1 May 2026We Will Survive - Big Finish #34Hybrid
Relating to the Big Finish audio "Spare Parts", this is a pastiche of "I Will Survive" relating to the plot-point and catchphrase around survival in the episode. It started life as a piano vocal demo, where I re-wrote the DNA of the Gloria Gaynor classic to be the same but different and sung the lyrics. Then we spent time in Suno making a cover and adding more stems to the the raw material to edit to death in Logic.
11 May 2026Poisoned ChaliceHybrid
This started life as a little ditty sung into Suno, which I did some post production on. It was created for a DWP news episode before recording it, based on the press headlines about Doctor Who
27 May 2026A Kernel of TruthHybrid
During the edit of the news episode about Doctor Who's future, I summarised the discussion in a couple of verses, and then hit the piano to try to create something that might sound like an inspiring patter song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Suno then transformed that, and I augmented it with some more stems in Suno studio, and edited it into shape.
1 June 2026You're Gonna Need More Than Words - Big Finish #35Original
A reaction to the Big Finish story "Ish", this is a pastiche of Extreme's "More Than Words" in a slightly chippy take down of the script.
3 June 2026Big Finish CountdownHybridJingle
An opening song for a countdown of favourite Big Finish stories
9 June 2026Who am I?Hybrid
A jokey hammed up version of a Musical Theatre style song about who I am for an episode where that was discussed.
9 June 2026Put it Out To TenderHybrid
A prelude for an episode on the news that Doctor Who is being put out to tender, in the style of Try a little Tenderness.
12 June 2026EnrapturedHybrid
Based on the Big Finish story "Rapture" this is an Ibiza holiday Britpop complaint about trance music.
14 June 2026Echo Chamber Theme - TranceCoverHybrid
As the Big Finish audio "Tranced up" its Doctor Who theme, so I did the same using some traditional methods and some AI methods to generate trance stems on top of the existing Echo chamber theme tune.
14 June 2026Gentoo GumshoeHybrid
Inspired by the rather hilarious and excellent The Maltese Penguin Big Finish story, this is a feisty heisty groove on the main character.
15 June 2026