Strangers in Space
847 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 11 hours 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
Music Club 22: U2
October 09, 2023 04:04 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBOur attention falls on U2, as we go back through our history and the band's, and try to figure out what makes them work and, when they don't, what doesn't U2 This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Simon Brett Iain Martin
Blue Box 118: Eric Without End
October 06, 2023 06:14 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBWhat if Eric Saward had done this, what if Eric Saward had done that - and what if Eric Saward had done the other? We just couldn't help ourselves This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Mark Donaldson Iain Martin
Film Club Extra: El Conde (2023)
October 04, 2023 06:20 - 28 minutes - 26 MBChilean black comedy that reimagines Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire? Don't mind if we do! El Conde This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber
Film Club Extra: No One Will Save You (2023)
October 02, 2023 06:26 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBBrian Duffield's follow-up to Spontaneous has quietly appeared on Disney+ (here in the UK) to growing acclaim among The Kids. But what would we "adults" make of it? No One Will Save You (2023) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber
TV Club 59: The Second Coming (2003)
September 29, 2023 05:47 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBWe hop back in time twenty years to the first Second Coming of Russell T Davies, to his last TV drama before the announcement that he was to resurrect Doctor Who, and see whether it stands up given all we've learned of Davies' work since The Second Coming This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Dylan Rees
Blue Box 117: September News Round-Up
September 27, 2023 04:05 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBOur thoughts on the new 60th anniversary trailer, and the reveal of Neil Patrick Harris' villain's identity, all digested into a handy near sixty minutes This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Iain Martin
Private Members Club 19: Sweet F.O.
September 25, 2023 04:01 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBIt's been another one of those weeks in politics, so we couldn't go the weekend without putting our thoughts on the record about it This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber
Film Club Duet 13: State of Darkness
September 22, 2023 04:14 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBOur conversations about British TV energy industry thrillers turns to the two American remakes released at the turn of the 2010s State of Play (2009) Edge of Darkness (2010) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber
Film Club Lite 50: Bottle Rocket (1996)
September 20, 2023 04:10 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBOur thoughts on Wes Anderson's feature debut, Bottle Rocket, in which the Owen brothers play friends who want to be gangsters and there's a large side helping of romcom Bottle Rocket This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Simon Brett
Blue Box 116: Yankee Doodle Who
September 18, 2023 04:04 - 40 minutes - 37 MBMore Doctor Who What Iffery, this time concentrating on the question of whether America should be making, or should have made, the series This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Mark Donaldson
Film Club Lite 49: Defence of the Realm (1985)
September 15, 2023 04:08 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBArriving around the same time as Edge of Darkness, this was another energy industry adjacent conspiracy thriller, albeit more in the classic Hollywood style; but man, the cast and credits Defence of the Realm on YouTube Defence of the Realm on Wiki This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber Mark Donaldson
TV Club 58: Messiah
September 13, 2023 06:23 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBKen Stott as a dour Scottish detective solving themed religious murders in a rain-soaked city (for four series, before regenerating into Marc Warren), should be right up our street you would think... We (mostly) watched all of Messiah, so you wouldn't have to Messiah This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber Mark Donaldson
Who Review Extra 19: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
September 11, 2023 04:06 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBIn which we ignore the controversy that is Gareth Roberts, and instead concentrate on the merits of the first series Sarah Jane Adventure which introduces the character and concept of the Trickster Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? This episode introduced by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Jim Cameron
Film Club Duet 12: Nazi Hunting in the USA
September 08, 2023 04:03 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBA comparison of the two big Nazi hunter films of the 1970s, each starring Laurence Olivier in very different roles Marathon Man (1976) The Boys from Brazil (1978) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber
Film Club Duets 12: Nazi Hunting in the USA
September 08, 2023 04:03 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBA comparison of the two big Nazi hunter films of the 1970s, each starring Laurence Olivier in very different roles Marathon Man (1976) The Boys from Brazil (1978) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber
TV Club 57: State of Play (2003)
September 06, 2023 04:03 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBIn another episode discussing a modern TV conspiracy thriller relating to the energy industry, we focus our attention on Paul Abbott's 2003 BBC One series State of Play State of Play (2003) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold
Blue Box 115: Trial Without Tribulation
September 04, 2023 07:01 - 54 minutes - 50 MBA double helping of Doctor Who What Iffery in this edition, as first one team and then another discuss what might have happened if we'd travelled into the series' past and radically altered the course of its history These episodes presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Simon Brett Iain Martin Dylan Rees
Film Club Extra: No Hard Feelings
September 01, 2023 06:06 - 22 minutes - 21 MBOur review of Jennifer Lawrence's recent romantic comedy, Gene Stupnitsky's follow-up to Good Boys No Hard Feelings This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Mark Donaldson
Film Club Duet 11: The Wicker Legacy
August 30, 2023 04:28 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBFans of 1973's The Wicker Man are divided over its two follow-ons; divided over which is worse, the remake or the sequel. So we watched them again, only to discover that one wasn't as bad as we'd thought it was... The Wicker Man (2006) The Wicker Tree (2011) And our original review of The Wicker Man (1973) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jim Cameron Dylan Rees
Blue Box 114: August News Round-Up
August 28, 2023 07:18 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBOur August news dispatch, in which we look at the stories behind the stories in the world of Doctor Who this month Our YouTube news playlist This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold
Film Club Duet 10: Judges Dredd (1995/2012)
August 25, 2023 04:26 - 1 hour - 57 MBThe fans hated one, but audiences ignored the other. So which Judge Dredd film is better - and what would they have needed to start a franchise? Judge Dredd Dredd This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Iain Martin Dylan Rees
TV Club 56: Edge of Darkness (1985)
August 23, 2023 04:28 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBIn which we take Troy Kennedy Martin's story apart strand by strand, before finally declaring how great we think it is Edge of Darkness This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold
Who Review Extra 18: The Rescue (1965)
August 21, 2023 04:32 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBOur Time-Space Visualiser tunes into January 1965 so we can take a look at Doctor Who's first story post-Susan, The Rescue The Rescue This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Dylan Rees
Film Club Extra: Asteroid City (2023)
August 18, 2023 04:30 - 51 minutes - 47 MBA conversation about Wes Anderson and review of his latest, Asteroid City This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Simon Brett Links page for the podcast: Strangers in Space
TV Club 55: The Bear
August 16, 2023 06:18 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBIt's won multiple awards as a comedy and it's currently one of the most talked about TV shows of the last year or so - but is The Bear really a comedy? Well, here we are, talking about it some more... The Bear This episode presented by: Dylan Rees With: Mark Donaldson J.R. Southall
Film Club Lite 48: The Avengers (1998)
August 14, 2023 04:32 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBIt's 25 years since the big screen version of The Avengers opened to massed indifference among both critics and audiences, but is a quarter of a century enough time to turn that negativity around? The Avengers (1998) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Iain Martin Dylan Rees
Blue Box 113: Rebirth Without Rusty
August 11, 2023 04:30 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBThe nexus point we'll be visiting in this double episode of Doctor Who what iffery is 2005, where we will be removing first one and then another of the icons involved in the series' rebirth and wondering what it might have looked like without them This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Simon Brett Iain Martin
Desert Planet Picks 57: Andrew-Mark Thompson
August 09, 2023 04:28 - 1 hour - 64 MBAuthor and artist Andrew-Mark Thompson chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet This Is A Fake! A Collection of Unreal Things This episode presented by: Jon Arnold With: Andrew-Mark Thompson
Who Review Extra 17: The Unquiet Dead (2005)
August 07, 2023 06:54 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBOur random journey through Doctor Who arrives at the revival in 2005, and Rose's first trip into history; it's the first story of the modern era to be written by someone other than the showrunner himself The Unquiet Dead This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber
Music Club Extra 05: Blur: The Ballad of Darren Review
August 04, 2023 06:47 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBIn which we tune our listening ears into the sounds of Blur's ninth and latest studio album, The Ballad of Darren, and wonder where the sounds came from, and whether we like them The Ballad of Darren This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Simon Brett Iain Martin
Film Club Lite 47: The China Syndrome (1979)
August 02, 2023 04:28 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBOur summer of investigation into the energy industry begins with a review of The China Syndrome (Includes bonus thoughts from Iain after he failed to take JR's best advice and went ahead and watched Tales of an Ancient Empire anyway) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Iain Martin
Blue Box 112: July News Round-Up
July 31, 2023 04:25 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBOur second regular monthly news dispatch, in which we give our opinions on the potential implications of the month's top stories - and anything else that's piqued our interest This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber The Strangers in Space Links Page
Film Club Lite 46: The Third Man (1949)
July 28, 2023 06:54 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBIt's just shy of 75 years since Carol Reed made The Third Man, an extraordinary thriller from a screenplay by Graham Greene that looks at the state of Europe in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War with something of concern The Third Man This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold
Blue Box 111: The Fugitive Doctor
July 26, 2023 06:56 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBShe might only have appeared in fractions of a couple of episodes, but don't let that stop us from profiling the lives and times of Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor This episode presented by: Matt Barber With: Jon Arnold Mark Donaldson Iain Martin
TV Club 54: Moonbase 3
July 24, 2023 07:06 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBIn which we dig into the series that Terrance Dicks and Barry Letts made back when their time on Doctor Who was coming to an end, and ask whether it was really worth it This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Dylan Rees Jim Cameron Mark Donaldson
Blue Box 110: Daleks Without Destiny
July 21, 2023 06:24 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBA second helping of Doctor Who themed what iffery commences with the question of how the series might have shaped up, had it been Raymond Cusick rather than Ridley Scott who was on holiday for the birth of the Daleks This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Our links page: Strangers in Space
Music Club 21: Blur
July 19, 2023 07:03 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBEight years after their last one, Blur have a new studio album out this week. So what better time for us to look back over their career and examine our opinions of the band This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Simon Brett Iain Martin
Private Members Club 18: Huw et Clamor
July 17, 2023 06:59 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBWhich is the bigger scandal, the BBC, their presenter or The Sun? This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber
Film Club Lite 45: Catch-22 (1970)
July 14, 2023 04:33 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBBy way of tribute to Alan Arkin, our review of Mike Nichols' 1970 big screen adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 Catch-22 (1970) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Iain Martin
Who Review Extra 16: Inferno (1970)
July 12, 2023 04:31 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIn which we travel to an alternative universe to ask whether Don Houghton's Season 7 story is still everybody's favourite Pertwee This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber
TV Club 53: Silo (2023)
July 10, 2023 06:49 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBOur review of the latest dystopian future from Apple TV+, a series about an underground society of humans with no idea what's going on outside... Silo This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber Iain Martin
Film Club Extra: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
July 07, 2023 05:58 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBFifteen years after the fourth film in the franchise, a fifth Indiana Jones picture has finally appeared; here are our thoughts Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny This episode presented by: Matt Barber With: Iain Martin Jon Arnold
TV Club 52: Whitechapel
July 05, 2023 04:32 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBFortunately we're only discussing the programming rather than re-enacting any of its key scenes, as we turn the clocks back just over a decade to focus on ITV's 2010 series Whitechapel Whitechapel This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber Jim Cameron
Blue Box 109: Change Without Renewal
July 03, 2023 04:33 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBThe Strangers team travels back in time to 1966, to a critical nexus point in the evolution of Doctor Who, and ask what if history had unravelled somewhat differently This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Dylan Rees Mark Donaldson Matt Barber Our links page: Strangers in Space
Film Club Extra: The Flash (2023)
June 30, 2023 04:31 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBCan Iain and Dylan talk fast enough to turn time backwards and wipe out the DCEU-so far? This episode presented by: Iain Martin With: Dylan Rees
Film Club Lite 44: And Soon the Darkness (2010)
June 28, 2023 04:34 - 19 minutes - 18 MBWas there any reason to remake Robert Fuest's 1970 France-set thriller (and relocate it to South America) other than because you wanted the names Terry Nation and Brian Clemens in your credits? And was it worth it...? And Soon the Darkness This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Dylan Rees
Blue Box 108: June News Round-Up
June 26, 2023 04:22 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThe first in a regular series of episodes looking at recent news stories from the world of Doctor Who and digging a little into what's behind them This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Mark Donaldson
Film Club Lite 43: The Star Chamber (1983)
June 23, 2023 04:31 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBPeter Hyams' 1983 thriller wonders what happens when good men feel forced into being bad - and asks whether they can make their way back once they've walked on the dark side. We just wonder whether it's as bad as A Sound of Thunder The Star Chamber This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Iain Martin
Film Club 57: Kingsley Amis
June 21, 2023 06:28 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBOur mini Kingsley Amis season concludes with a look at three movie adaptations of his work; one underwhelming, one whelming, and one very much overwhelming... Lucky Jim (1957) Only Two Can Play (1962) Take A Girl Like You (1970) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber
Private Members Club 17: Claude Ostium in Via Tua
June 19, 2023 04:32 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBGoing, going, gone? The Conservative parliamentary party's love affair with Boris Johnson has definitely soured, but is he really gone for good this time? And what's the truth behind Nadine Dorries' decision to not-resign with immediate effect? This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Iain Martin