Strangers in Space
849 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 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
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?
Film Club 53: The Godfather Trilogy
November 07, 2022 05:27 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBJR and Ross discuss Francis Coppola's trilogy of mafia epics, and ask if our received wisdom is correct about the order in which we value them
Blue Box 90: The Eleventh Doctor
November 04, 2022 05:27 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBWho do you cast to follow the first Doctor ever to take Doctor Who to number one in the national TV charts? The seasoned pro, or the little known youngster who turns up and wows you during the audition process? Matt leads the conversation through a discussion of the eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith
Episode 90: The Eleventh Doctor
November 04, 2022 05:27 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBWho do you cast to follow the first Doctor ever to take Doctor Who to number one in the national TV charts? The seasoned pro, or the little known youngster who turns up and wows you during the audition process? Matt leads the conversation through a discussion of the eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith
Film Club Extra: Don't Worry Darling
November 02, 2022 05:23 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBJR and Mark watch Olivia Wilde's second feature Don't Worry Darling, in an attempt to separate the art from the controversy
Film Club Duet 04: Nosferatu-two
October 31, 2022 05:34 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBA conversation about FW Murnau's 1922 silent classic Nosferatu and its fictional making of, 2000's Shadow of the Vampire
Film Club 52: Philip K Dick
October 27, 2022 04:30 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBA round-up of the less celebrated adaptations of Philip K Dick's writing, including reviews of A Scanner Darkly, Next, The Adjustment Bureau and more
Who Review 20: The Power of the Doctor
October 25, 2022 10:14 - 2 hours - 117 MBWe had so many contributors to our review of the final thirteenth Doctor story, we had to split into two groups to record it. So here's our 2-for-1 episode on The Power of the Doctor; first JR, Matt, Simon and Lee (yes, Lee!), and then Iain, Jon and - uh - Matt again take over for the second half of the podcast
Private Members Club 09: Bye Bye Boris
October 25, 2022 10:12 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBBoris drops out of the race and Rishi becomes the only runner of note, and so now we have a new Prime Minister, a real Man of the People. Ahem. It's another edition of Private Members Club
Music Club 17: Queen
October 24, 2022 04:19 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBWe each pick our Top 5 Queen songs
Private Members Club 08: Race for the Leadershit
October 22, 2022 17:39 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBOur thoughts on the race to be the United Kingdom's latest Prime Minister
TV Club 36: The Midnight Club
October 22, 2022 04:26 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBJR and Matt chat about The Midnight Club, Netflix' latest addition to its "Flanaverse Collection"
Private Members Club 07: Apocalypse Truss
October 20, 2022 19:54 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBWe're back again (two of us, at least), because it's been yet another hectic day in Downing Street; the Prime Minister has resigned. The second one this autumn. This is starting to look like carelessness...
Private Members Club 06: Fracking Hell
October 19, 2022 21:43 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBAnother day in parliament, another rash of manoeuvres in the ministerial merry-go-round that might be better known as Drowning Street
TV Club 35: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
October 19, 2022 04:28 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBSimon leads the conversation through a discussion of the latest from Marvel and Disney+, the rather divisive She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Private Members Club 05: Don't You Think She Looks Um
October 17, 2022 15:57 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBAnother tumultuous week in Downing Street seems to have opened the door for yet another change in leadership in the UK, potentially the third this parliament. So of course we took to our microphones to wag lyrical our feelings on these latest developments.
Music Club Choices 02: Matt's Top Ten
October 14, 2022 04:30 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBThis time it's Matt's turn to choose his ten favourite songs before the team discuss his choices
Film Club Extra: Flux Gourmet
October 12, 2022 06:17 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBMatt and Mark review Peter Strickland's latest, Flux Gourmet, a film about sonic catering and the power struggle between artist and sponsor
TV Club 34: Inside Man
October 10, 2022 06:14 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBI'm fairly sure "Moffat" must mean "mixed-reaction" in a Scottish-English dictionary, because everything the man writes turns to equal parts furrowed brows and religious fervour - but what were we to make of his latest screen endeavour, a tall tale of potential murder in a suburban vicar's cellar?
Private Members Club 04: Trusstastrophy
October 07, 2022 06:18 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBJR and Matt discuss the bizarre and alarming latest fortnight in UK politics
Film Club Lite 30: Honest
October 05, 2022 06:21 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBDavid A Stewart of the Eurythmics directs three of the All Saints in a post-Lock Stock gangster movie set in the swinging 'sixties ... what could possibly go wrong?
Film Club Lite 30: Honest (2000)
October 05, 2022 06:21 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBDavid A Stewart of the Eurythmics directs three of the All Saints in a post-Lock Stock gangster movie set in the swinging 'sixties ... what could possibly go wrong?
TV Club 33: Ghosts
October 03, 2022 06:02 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBWith the fourth series now out in the wild, it was high time we took a look at the BBC sitcom Ghosts
Music Club 16: The Blow Monkeys
September 30, 2022 06:13 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBJR tells the story of how he fell in love with his favourite band ... three times
Music Club 15: Michael Jackson
September 28, 2022 04:32 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBElizabeth Taylor might have dubbed him the King of Pop, but what do we think of Michael Jackson? Following the format of our ABBA episode, we each choose our five favourite (or least favourite) Jacko records
Blue Box 89: The Power of the Doctor Preview
September 26, 2022 04:28 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBLooking ahead to the thirteenth Doctor's final story, and some thoughts on the journey so far
Episode 89: The Power of the Doctor Preview
September 26, 2022 04:28 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBLooking ahead to the thirteenth Doctor's final story, and some thoughts on the journey so far
Film Club 51: The Road to Downing Street
September 23, 2022 04:28 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBThree TV films from the noughties this time, each one an education in what it takes to become (and in one case stop being) Prime Minister: The Deal (2003), The Long Walk to Finchley (2008) and Margaret (2009)
Blue Box 88: The Fifth Doctor
September 21, 2022 04:26 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBMatt introduces a new member of the Strangers team and leads the conversation through a discussion of Peter Davison's time as the fifth Doctor Who
Episode 88: The Fifth Doctor
September 21, 2022 04:26 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBMatt introduces a new member of the Strangers team and leads the conversation through a discussion of Peter Davison's time as the fifth Doctor Who
TV Club 32: The Stone Tape
September 19, 2022 07:03 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBNigel Kneale's version of a Christmas ghost story in 1972 was this attempt to explain away the phenomenon through a revised exploration of the concept of residual haunting - but how does The Stone Tape look (and sound) fifty years later?
Private Members Club 03: The Queen
September 16, 2022 04:21 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBA few of our thoughts
Private Members Club 02: Trussed Issues
September 14, 2022 04:31 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBWhat better way to fill the power vacuum left behind by Johnson's exit than with Liz Truss, right? Our thoughts on the new Prime Minister (delayed by a week after the news cycle overtook us).
Film Club Extra: Crimes of the Future
September 12, 2022 04:24 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBWith Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg returns to the body horror that made his name - and even uses the name of one of his own films (despite this not being a remake). But now that it's landed in the UK, what did we think of it?
Desert Planet Picks 52: Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys
September 07, 2022 04:25 - 53 minutes - 54.4 MBDr Robert, lead singer and chief songwriter of The Blow Monkeys, chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Robert's Patreon page (to which JR contributes): https://www.patreon.com/drrobert/posts Autumn live dates (JR will be at the Worthing gig): https://www.theblowmonkeys.com/live-dates
Music Club 14: R.E.M.
September 05, 2022 04:25 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBA fan, a lapsed fan and an agnostic form the panel for this discussion of Atlanta, Georgia's finest song-workers, R.E.M.
Film Club Extra: Nope
September 02, 2022 04:24 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBNow that we've all had chance to digest Jordan Peele's third offering as director, was Nope the dope, or was there scope for improvement...?
Film Club Extra: Carter
August 31, 2022 07:01 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBRecently debuting on Netflix, a new South Korean zombie thriller from Jung Byung-gil - but when does a lot of action become too much action, and how realistic does that action need to be?
TV Club 31: Light & Magic
August 29, 2022 06:38 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBMatt and Simon discuss the Disney+ series about Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects company formed by George Lucas in order to make the Star Wars films
Film Club Duets 03: Sherlock Holmes in the 1970s
August 26, 2022 06:54 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBComparing and contrasting two original Sherlock Holmes films of the 1970s, Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, based on the novel by Nicholas Meyer
Film Club Duet 03: Sherlock Holmes in the 1970s
August 26, 2022 06:54 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBComparing and contrasting two original Sherlock Holmes films of the 1970s, Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, based on the novel by Nicholas Meyer
TV Club 30: The Year of the Sex Olympics
August 24, 2022 04:30 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBNigel Kneale looks ahead to the future of television from the vantage point of 1968, predicting text speak and Love Island among other things. But is The Year of the Sex Olympics as dated as Ekin-Su, or standing test of time like laughing out loud, you only live once?
Film Club Extra: Moonfall
August 22, 2022 04:23 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBOur review of the latest from Roland Emmerich, a sci-fi rescue mission-cum-disaster movie about the moon falling from the sky, that's called Moonfall
TV Club 29: For All Mankind
August 19, 2022 04:25 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBMatt and Mark travel to an alternative timeline where the space race is still ongoing, in order to discuss the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind
Film Club Extra: Prey
August 17, 2022 04:43 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBOur thoughts on the fifth film in the Predator franchise, and whether it's a successful reinvention of the series
TV Club 28: The Sandman
August 15, 2022 04:29 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThere's been a little flurry of Neil Gaiman related screen activity of late, the most recent being this Netflix adaptation of the late 20th century DC comic book The Sandman. But what will Jon and Matt make of it?
Film Club Lite 29: Time After Time (1979)
August 12, 2022 04:42 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBThe passing of David Warner prompted us to take another look at Nicholas Meyer's 1979 film Time After Time, in which Warner plays a Jack the Ripper pursued to modern San Francisco by Malcolm McDowell's H.G. Wells
Who Review Extra 06: An Unearthly Child
August 10, 2022 04:37 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBOur random journey through short-form Doctor Who reviews takes us back to the very beginning, 1963's An Unearthly Child