Strangers in Space
868 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratingsBroader and deeper than Doctor Who...
Back in the early months of 2012 we started life as the Blue Box Podcast, a small team of three (then four, then five...) people podcasting our thoughts on Doctor Who, in the classic style of a bunch of friends the microphones were just accidentally eavesdropping on during a conversation in the pub. Over a decade later, the team has expanded and so has the remit; nowadays we publish episodes approximately three times a week, and the discussion has moved on to include any number of subjects that Doctor Who fans might find themselves chatting about during the aforementioned informal gatherings. So alongside our main subject, you'll find us talking about films, and music, and politics, and other TV programmes, and more besides - and occasionally talking to special guests about their interests too. But of course, plenty of Doctor Who.
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Episodes
Bonus Episode: Off the Spot
November 26, 2020 05:22 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBAn experiment in talking about Doctor Who without mentioning specific stories or anything connected with them ... so you don't have to.
Blue Box Bonus 24: Off the Spot
November 26, 2020 05:22 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBAn experiment in talking about Doctor Who without mentioning specific stories or anything connected with them ... so you don't have to.
Blue Box 48: Season 24
November 23, 2020 05:20 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBThe nadir ... or the renaissance? We had back to 1987 to check out Sylvester McCoy's first season as Doctor Who, to find out how we feel about it 33 years later. Millie McKenzie on Twitter
Episode 48: Season 24
November 23, 2020 05:20 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBThe nadir ... or the renaissance? We had back to 1987 to check out Sylvester McCoy's first season as Doctor Who, to find out how we feel about it 33 years later. Millie McKenzie on Twitter
Blue Box 47: Series Two
November 19, 2020 05:19 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBIt's time for RTD's second series, David Tennant's tenth Doctor's first, to go under the spotlight, as we turn our microphones back to 2006 and Series Two (Artwork borrowed from Wario64I)
Episode 47: Series Two
November 19, 2020 05:19 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBIt's time for RTD's second series, David Tennant's tenth Doctor's first, to go under the spotlight, as we turn our microphones back to 2006 and Series Two (Artwork borrowed from Wario64I)
Film Club 23: John Fowles
November 16, 2020 05:22 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBA discussion on the merits - or otherwise - and meanings of the three motion picture adaptations of the novels of John Fowles, The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman
Film Club Extra: Rebecca
November 12, 2020 05:16 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBJ.R. and Matt chat about the new Netflix adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and absolutely avoid comparing it with the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film, which we also talk about just incidentally. Honest.
Blue Box 46: Higher and Further Than Ever Before
November 09, 2020 05:18 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBOur discussion on opening and closing episodes in Doctor Who arrives at the modern era
Episode 46: Higher and Further Than Ever Before
November 09, 2020 05:18 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBOur discussion on opening and closing episodes in Doctor Who arrives at the modern era
TV Club 06: The Haunting of Bly Manor
November 05, 2020 05:41 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MBA review of Netflix' and Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Bly Manor
TV Club 07: The Haunting of Bly Manor
November 05, 2020 05:41 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MBA review of Netflix' and Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Bly Manor
Film Club Extra: Sean Connery
November 02, 2020 07:05 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBWe choose some of our favourite moments from the career of Sean Connery
Film Club 22: Halloween Special 1973
October 29, 2020 05:17 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBWith actual Halloween on general hiatus this year, we head back instead to our pagan past and take a Venetian holiday in 1973, to talk about the horror double bill of The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now Warning: contains swears
Bonus Episode: On the Spot Round Three
October 26, 2020 05:14 - 19 minutes - 17.3 MB(Three of) the regular hosts each talk for sixty seconds on a variety of randomly selected Doctor Who stories. Artwork from a photograph by Scott Sebring
Blue Box Bonus 23: On the Spot Round Three
October 26, 2020 05:14 - 19 minutes - 17.3 MB(Three of) the regular hosts each talk for sixty seconds on a variety of randomly selected Doctor Who stories. Artwork from a photograph by Scott Sebring
Blue Box 45: Season Six
October 22, 2020 04:19 - 1 hour - 80 MBIt's the final season of the 1960s, and the last for second Doctor Patrick Troughton. We turn our microphones to Season Six, perhaps the most inconsistent till the fifth Doctor's first. Artwork 'borrowed' from FunnyNWittyReference
Episode 45: Season Six
October 22, 2020 04:19 - 1 hour - 80 MBIt's the final season of the 1960s, and the last for second Doctor Patrick Troughton. We turn our microphones to Season Six, perhaps the most inconsistent till the fifth Doctor's first. Artwork 'borrowed' from FunnyNWittyReference
Bonus: The Happy Man Part One
October 19, 2020 04:19 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThe first in a three-part story by Stephen Muppet, in which the TARDIS lands fifty years into the future to find all is not well. To find out what happens in the following two instalments, visit Beermat Productions at Wordpress.com
Blue Box Bonus 22: The Happy Man Part One
October 19, 2020 04:19 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThe first in a three-part story by Stephen Muppet, in which the TARDIS lands fifty years into the future to find all is not well. To find out what happens in the following two instalments, visit Beermat Productions at Wordpress.com
Bonus Episode: Six Degrees of Doctor Who Snap Round Two
October 15, 2020 06:40 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBA short bonus episode in which we select random pairs of Doctor Who stories and then struggle to find connections between them
Blue Box Bonus 21: Six Degrees of Doctor Who Snap Round Two
October 15, 2020 06:40 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBA short bonus episode in which we select random pairs of Doctor Who stories and then struggle to find connections between them
Film Club 21: 1970s Dystopias
October 12, 2020 04:23 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBOur foreign correspondent Ross Aitken returns to help examine what the filmmakers of the 1970s seemed to think we had coming; it's the turn of Soylent Green, A Boy and His Dog and Logan's Run to go under the Film Club microphones Ross on Twitter Ross' podcast
Blue Box 44: Inventing An Emergency
October 08, 2020 06:26 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBIn the second instalment of our look at Doctor Who's curtain raisers and finales, we focus on the first and last episodes of the late 1970s and 1980s
Episode 44: Inventing An Emergency
October 08, 2020 06:26 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBIn the second instalment of our look at Doctor Who's curtain raisers and finales, we focus on the first and last episodes of the late 1970s and 1980s
Film Club 20: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
October 05, 2020 06:38 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBA shorter than usual edition of Film Club this time, looking at Peter Jackson's epic trilogy of adaptations of The Lord of the Rings books. But which of us are the friendly hobbits and who turns out to be the irksome Orc...?
Episode 43: Series Five
October 01, 2020 04:17 - 1 hour - 82 MBIt's back to Matt Smith's debut season in this episode, our retrospective of Steven Moffat's first year in the showrunnership, Series Five
Blue Box 43: Series Five
October 01, 2020 04:17 - 1 hour - 82 MBIt's back to Matt Smith's debut season in this episode, our retrospective of Steven Moffat's first year in the showrunnership, Series Five
Blue Box Bonus 20: Doctor Who Are You Round Two
September 28, 2020 04:26 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBA short bonus podcast today, in which we play another round of 'Guess the Doctor Who story'
Bonus Episode: Doctor Who Are You Round Two
September 28, 2020 04:26 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBA short bonus podcast today, in which we play another round of 'Guess the Doctor Who story'
Film Club 19: John Carpenter
September 24, 2020 12:23 - 51 minutes - 42.6 MBA profile of genre director John Carpenter, with particular emphasis on reviews of Halloween and Escape from New York
Episode 42: Having Its Time and Beginnings Again
September 21, 2020 04:06 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBExamining the role of the opening and closing stories in a season; in the first part of this feature we look at the curtain raisers and finales in Doctor Who between 1963 and 1974
Blue Box 42: Having Its Time and Beginnings Again
September 21, 2020 04:06 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBExamining the role of the opening and closing stories in a season; in the first part of this feature we look at the curtain raisers and finales in Doctor Who between 1963 and 1974
TV Club 06: Morse
September 17, 2020 05:46 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBJ.R. and Matt head back to the 1980s to remember the TV series that came to define how we watch TV detectives Opening theme: And Also the Trees
Episode 41: Season Twelve
September 14, 2020 03:23 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBIt's time to turn our microphones to 1975, and the first year of Doctor Who with Tom Baker in the role
Blue Box 41: Season Twelve
September 14, 2020 03:23 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBIt's time to turn our microphones to 1975, and the first year of Doctor Who with Tom Baker in the role
Blue Box 40: The Final Return
September 10, 2020 04:22 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBThe final instalment of our returning characters conversation turns to (mostly) the Steven Moffat era
Episode 40: The Final Return
September 10, 2020 04:22 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBThe final instalment of our returning characters conversation turns to (mostly) the Steven Moffat era
Film Club Extra: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
September 07, 2020 13:29 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBCharlie Kaufman's new film goes under the Film Club microphone, in this short bonus review episode
Episode 39: We Meet Again Still
September 03, 2020 04:19 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBIt's time to turn our attentions to the subject of returning characters in modern Doctor Who, and in this first of two episodes, generally more specifically during the Russell T Davies era
Blue Box 39: We Meet Again Still
September 03, 2020 04:19 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBIt's time to turn our attentions to the subject of returning characters in modern Doctor Who, and in this first of two episodes, generally more specifically during the Russell T Davies era
TV Club 05(00th): Top Ten TV Sci-Fi
August 31, 2020 08:52 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MB3,067 days (or eight years, four months and 23 days, or 499 podcast episodes) ago, Mark Cockram, Lee Rawlings and J.R. Southall published their first Blue Box Podcast. Today, 3,067 days (or eight years, four months and 23 days, or 499 podcast episodes) later, and with the help of new regular podcasters Simon Brett and Matt Barber in place of the waylaid Mr Cockram, it's time to publish our 500th. With a very special guest, and ostensibly in order to talk about our listeners' Top Ten TV (Othe...
The Interview Room 03: Peter Harness Unbound
August 27, 2020 04:23 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBThe TV writer of Kill the Moon, The Zygon Invasion/Inversion and The Pyramid at the End of the World stops by for a chat about surviving the pandemic, the intersection between whimsy and seriousness, writing movies, deleting Kenneth Branagh's jokes and of course, his Doctor Who stories Opening theme: Unilever
Blue Box Bonus 19: YouTube Audience Quiz
August 24, 2020 04:23 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBEarlier this year I recorded one of my little Doctor Who quizzes to go out on YouTube; here's the audio for that quiz, for anyone who might like to play along without the video element...
Bonus Episode: YouTube Audience Quiz
August 24, 2020 04:23 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBEarlier this year I recorded one of my little Doctor Who quizzes to go out on YouTube; here's the audio for that quiz, for anyone who might like to play along without the video element...
Blue Box 38: The Order of the Master
August 20, 2020 06:44 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBFrom Terror of the Autons to The Timeless Children and all points in between (except the ones we ruled out), we asked our listeners to name their Top Ten Master Stories - and here are the results.
Episode 38: The Order of the Master
August 20, 2020 06:44 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBFrom Terror of the Autons to The Timeless Children and all points in between (except the ones we ruled out), we asked our listeners to name their Top Ten Master Stories - and here are the results.
Film Club 18: I Am Legend
August 17, 2020 04:20 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBRoss Aitken of the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast joins me to look at the three film adaptations of Richard Matheson's debut novel I Am Legend, including The Last Man on Earth and of course, The Omega Man Gallifrey's Most Wanted on iTunes Gallifrey's Most Wanted on Twitter
Blue Box 37: Season One (Again)
August 13, 2020 04:19 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBIt's back to the beginning as we reach the end of our initial run of revisitations, with a look at Doctor Who's very first season from 1963/4 (Artwork borrowed from Jeremy Bonwick)
Episode 37: Season One (Again)
August 13, 2020 04:19 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBIt's back to the beginning as we reach the end of our initial run of revisitations, with a look at Doctor Who's very first season from 1963/4 (Artwork borrowed from Jeremy Bonwick)