Strangers in Space
846 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 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
Film Club Extra: The Banshees of Inisherin
March 03, 2023 06:19 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBMartin McDonagh's film about a feud on a remote Irish island exactly a century ago is the latest of this year's Best Picture nominees to come under our microphones
Blue Box 102: Whose of Games Day Three
March 01, 2023 05:28 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBIt's the third day of our Doctor Who meets House of Games style quiz, and this one's a guest edition as podcast hosts Phil from Who's He? and Harry from Who Can Convince You challenge our own Jim from the Krynoid Pod
Film Club Lite 36: The Keep (1983)
February 27, 2023 05:26 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBCult classic or tangerine nightmare? Only in the 1980s could Michael Mann go to the studio with a three-hour cut of his second feature, a demonic horror set in an East European castle during WWII and all playing out to the sound of a synth-pop score. What on Earth would we make of that?
Film Club Extra: Tár
February 24, 2023 05:26 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBWhat's more important, art or humankind-ness? That's the question Todd Field asks in his latest, the Best Picture nominated Tár - but does the film provide any answers? Matt and JR go looking
Blue Box 101: Whose of Games Day Two
February 22, 2023 07:11 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBA Doctor Who-themed House of Games rip-off, it's Day Two of our 'new' quiz format as JR sets the questions in another series of five rounds Can also be watched like a real television programme, as part of our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVXbrHHyQOFvRu-Oy5EEaFGZ
Film Club Favourites 06: Jon Arnold
February 20, 2023 06:59 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBOur co-host Jon chooses films in ten categories, that have made a significant impression upon him
TV Club 44: 12:01 (1993)
February 17, 2023 05:23 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBIf you hadn't had enough Groundhog Day already, then here's a contemporaneous television take on the idea, although this second adaptation of Richard Lupoff's short story hasn't aged nearly as well according to (most of) our panel
Blue Box 100: Whose of Games Day One
February 15, 2023 07:37 - 35 minutes - 32 MBA Doctor Who-themed House of Games rip-off, it's Day One of our 'new' quiz format as JR sets the questions in a series of five rounds Can also be watched like a real television programme, as part of our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVXbrHHyQOFvRu-Oy5EEaFGZ
Desert Planet Picks 54: Mark Blayney
February 13, 2023 05:24 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBPoet, journalist and mentor Mark Blayney chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Photo by Dave Daggers
Film Club Lite 35: Groundhog Day (1993)
February 10, 2023 05:46 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBIt's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? JR and Dylan chat about Groundhog Day
Film Club Lite 34: Groundhog Day (1993)
February 08, 2023 05:33 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBIt's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? Iain and Mark talk Groundhog Day
Film Club Lite 33: Groundhog Day (1993)
February 06, 2023 07:18 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBIt's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? Matt leads the gang through a conversation about Groundhog Day
Film Club Lite 32: Severance (2006)
February 03, 2023 07:30 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBFollowing our review of the TV drama Severance, here's our review of the film Severance, Christopher Smith's 2006 comedy-horror starring Danny Dyer
TV Club 43: The Hound of the Baskervilles
February 01, 2023 05:33 - 40 minutes - 37 MBOur thoughts on Tom Baker's appearance as Sherlock Holmes in Letts and Dicks' classic serial adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles Watch along: https://archive.org/download/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-1982
Private Members Club 12: A Rish Away
January 30, 2023 05:34 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBObsolete even before it hits the feed, here are our thoughts as they stood on Saturday evening, regarding the then-still-serving Zahawi situation - plus Boris' motivation in visiting the Ukraine, can Labour win an overall majority at the next election, and more
Film Club Extra: The Menu
January 28, 2023 05:34 - 24 minutes - 22 MBBig spoiler warning: our review of The Menu, from The Web of Caves director Mark Mylod, is a conversation about all aspects of the film - which you should definitely see before listening
Film Club Extra: The Fabelmans, and Oscar Nominees 2023
January 26, 2023 05:30 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBOur vague thoughts on the likely contenders for the top honours at this year's Academy Awards, plus (at 33.56) a review of Steven Spielberg's latest and most autobiographical picture, The Fabelmans
Blue Box 99: The Seventh Doctor
January 23, 2023 05:32 - 1 hour - 61 MBAn overview of the seventh Doctor era, led by Matt, in which we ask the time honoured question: Which is better, Season 25 or Season 26?
Film Club Extra: Decision to Leave
January 20, 2023 05:33 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBMark and J.R. take a look at Park Chan-wook's latest, the double BAFTA-nominated romantic murder mystery Decision to Leave - in a mainly spoiler-light review
Film Club Extra: The State of the DCEU
January 18, 2023 06:45 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBDylan asks the team if James Gunn can be the saviour the DC movie universe requires, or whether Zack Snyder has already led it too far down the wrong path
TV Club 42: Severance Season One
January 16, 2023 05:29 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBA (moderately spoilery) conversation about Severance, Apple TV+'s series actualising the work-life balance in modern society
Film Club Extra: She Said
January 13, 2023 05:32 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBMaria Schrader's film about the investigation into cinema mogul and sexual predator Harvey Weinstein
Private Members Club 11: 12 Years a Tory (Part Two)
January 11, 2023 05:33 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBThe second part of our conversation about the state of the world and how we got here
Film Club Extra: White Noise
January 09, 2023 07:15 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBOur thoughts on Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's apparently timeless postmodern consumerist satire on death, recently released by Netflix
Blue Box 98: Missing Colour
January 06, 2023 07:13 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBMight the BBC be colourising black and white Doctor Who and animating further missing episodes for the sixtieth anniversary?
Blue Box 97: Chris Boucher
January 04, 2023 08:06 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBA profile of the recently departed television writer and script editor, whose works include Blakes 7 and Star Cops, as well as three highly regarded Doctor Who serials
Private Members Club 10: 12 Years a Tory (Part One)
January 02, 2023 08:29 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBThe first instalment of a fairly breezy (but nevertheless quite explicit) conversation about how we got to where we are now
TV Club 41: Christmas Telly Round-up 2022
December 30, 2022 05:28 - 49 minutes - 45 MBA round-up of some of the television we watched over the Christmas holiday, including Inside No 9, A Ghost Story for Christmas, Ghosts and Detectorists. Spoiler warning: we will be talking about plot developments and resolutions
Film Club Extra: Glass Onion
December 28, 2022 05:32 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBSpoilers ahoy, as we discuss Rian Johnson's second Knives Out Mystery, Glass Onion
Film Club Duet 06: The Richard Lester Beatles Movies
December 26, 2022 08:26 - 45 minutes - 42 MBSimon and Jon enjoy a leisurely post-Christmas chat about Richard Lester's two Beatles movies from the mid-1960s, by way of a (slightly belated) celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of them releasing their first single
Film Club Duet Christmas Special
December 23, 2022 07:26 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBTwo films whose reputation has exploded over the years - one an overachieving Will Ferrell Yuletide comedy, the other a Muppet reinvention of a seasonal classic - but which will we choose to talk about in our Christmas Film Club Duet? (Clue: it ain't called a Duet for nothing.)
Film Club Duet 05: Elf Vs The Muppet Christmas Carol
December 23, 2022 07:26 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBTwo films whose reputation has exploded over the years - one an overachieving Will Ferrell Yuletide comedy, the other a Muppet reinvention of a seasonal classic - but which will we choose to talk about in our Christmas Film Club Duet? (Clue: it ain't called a Duet for nothing.)
Blue Box 96: Thirteenth Doctor Retrospective
December 21, 2022 05:31 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBMatt leads Team B back through the last five years of Doctor Who, as they examine the Jodie Whittaker era
Blue Box 95: Thirteenth Doctor Listeners' Poll
December 19, 2022 05:29 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBWith the Chris Chibnall and thirteenth Doctor era now over, it was time to find out which bits of it you liked the best - and to discuss which aspects of it worked and which didn't.
Who Review Extra 10: Voyage of the Damned
December 16, 2022 05:29 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBIs it really fifteen years since Kylie Minogue helped make David Tennant's third Christmas Special modern Doctor Who's most watched episode? Question is though, was it actually any good?
TV Club 40: Mark Gatiss' Ghost Stories for Christmas
December 14, 2022 08:05 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBIn this year's TV Club Christmas edition, we talk about the BBC and Mark Gatiss' revival of the M.R. James Ghost Stories for Christmas strand
Music Club 18: Top 5 Christmas Songs
December 12, 2022 05:32 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBIn our Music Club Christmas Special, Simon, Jon and JR each choose their Top 5 Christmas Songs - or in Jon and Simon's case, each other's. But will Cliff Richard win the day? And what's the difference between a Christmas song and a song at Christmas...?
Film Club 54: Star Wars 4-5-6
December 09, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 64 MBIt's 45 years since Star Wars arrived in the UK, high time we revisited the original trilogy and gave our thoughts on George Lucas' paradigm-shifting films, then and now
Blue Box 94: Anthologicality (Doctor Who Without the Doctor)
December 07, 2022 05:30 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBThere's a new Doctor Who spin-off in the pipes and we're pretty sure we know what it is - what's more, we think they've already been making it for several months, and that it'll be with us sooner than we imagined
Blue Box 93: Bad Ship Rising
December 05, 2022 05:05 - 38 minutes - 35 MBWho Review Extra 09: Doctor Who Am I
December 02, 2022 03:04 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBOur review of Matthew Jacobs and Vanessa Yuille's film about the legacy of the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie, in terms of Jacobs' personal legacy, and (particularly American) fandom's too
TV Club 39: Andor (Season One)
November 30, 2022 07:14 - 45 minutes - 42 MBFilm Club Lite 31: The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
November 28, 2022 03:06 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBMarionettes, mysterious doubles and murmuring hearts; it can only be Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1991 French-Polish drama The Double Life of Veronique, in the latest edition of Film Club Lite
TV Club 38: Ghostwatch
November 25, 2022 07:13 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBMatt leads the conversation through a review of BBC1's 1992 Halloween special, in which a bunch of unlikely television stars go ghost-hunting
Who Review Extra 08: Zygon
November 23, 2022 05:30 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBWe're going tangential in this edition, turning our attention to the infamous 2008 independent spin-off video Zygon (aka Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough)
Blue Box 92: Hello Ruby Sunday
November 21, 2022 05:30 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBOur thoughts on the unveiling of the new Doctor Who companion Millie Gibson, as well as the obligatory Coro vs Corrie debate
TV Club 37: The Devil's Hour
November 18, 2022 05:50 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBOur review of the latest series from Hartswood and Amazon Prime, starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine in The Devil's Hour
Desert Planet Picks 53: Iain Martin
November 16, 2022 05:34 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBWinterhill author and co-host of the All of Time and Space podcast, and venerable member of this very parish, Iain Martin chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet All of Time and Space podcast Iain's books
Blue Box 91: Disney Who...?
November 14, 2022 05:27 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBA lengthy discussion taking in all the latest Doctor Who news, from the Disney+ deal to the DWM comic strip
Who Review Extra 07: Mindwarp
November 11, 2022 05:29 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBMisunderstood, or simply a mistake? The second segment of the Trial of a Time Lord has long been one of Doctor Who's lesser regarded stories - but what will the Strangers team make of it?