Strangers in Space
868 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 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
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
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 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
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
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
TV Club 27: Stranger Things
August 08, 2022 06:17 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBOur thoughts on the Duffer Brothers' homage to the 1980s, Stranger Things
Music Club Choices 01: JR's Top Ten
August 05, 2022 06:52 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBRoad testing a new strand, JR chooses his ten favourite songs and the team discuss the choices A YouTube playlist of the ten songs A YouTube playlist of the ten that got ruled out
Music Club 13: AᗺBA
August 03, 2022 04:28 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBA conversation about the Swedish pop sensations AᗺBA, during which JR, Jon and Simon each choose their five favourite songs
Blue Box 87: The Sixth Doctor
August 01, 2022 04:22 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBHe arrived in a blaze of ill-temper and departed in much the same way, but what is the sixth Doctor's legacy? Matt leads Jon and Mark through a discussion of the short life and times of Colin Baker's incarnation of Doctor Who
Episode 87: The Sixth Doctor
August 01, 2022 04:22 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBHe arrived in a blaze of ill-temper and departed in much the same way, but what is the sixth Doctor's legacy? Matt leads Jon and Mark through a discussion of the short life and times of Colin Baker's incarnation of Doctor Who
Film Club Extra 37: Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
July 29, 2022 07:08 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBThe reaction to Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok follow-up has been somewhat Marmite, but how will the Strangers team react to it? Simon leads the discussion in our review of Thor: Love and Thunder
Film Club Extra 38: Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
July 29, 2022 07:08 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBThe reaction to Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok follow-up has been somewhat Marmite, but how will the Strangers team react to it? Simon leads the discussion in our review of Thor: Love and Thunder
Bonus Episode: David Warner
July 27, 2022 06:03 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBA short tribute to the career of David Warner, whose distinctive voice and face graced many a fine film or TV project and who improved those things immeasurably when he did
Film Club Extra 37: David Warner
July 27, 2022 06:03 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBA short tribute to the career of David Warner, whose distinctive voice and face graced many a fine film or TV project and who improved those things immeasurably when he did
Film Club Lite 28: Dougal and the Blue Cat (1970)
July 25, 2022 06:53 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBThere's something evil in the Magic Garden and it isn't Robbie Williams... In this edition of Film Club Lite, we turn our microphones to Dougal and the Blue Cat (released in 1972 in the UK), the first long-form spin-off from The Magic Roundabout
Film Club Lite 27: The Tune (1992)
July 22, 2022 05:53 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBSimon and JR chat about Bill Plympton's debut feature, the 1992 animated musical The Tune
Book Club 01: John Wyndham
July 18, 2022 05:02 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBOur first tentative steps in the direction of reviewing books, this initial instalment is a potted bibliography of renowned science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, author of The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos and Chocky
Film Club Lite 26: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
July 15, 2022 04:32 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBNow that we've covered Pistol, here's a very much pre-Pistol biography of The Sex Pistols from inside their own camp, an apparent collaboration between manager Malcolm McLaren and director Julien Temple who tell the almost-sort of-true story of what really might have happened but probably didn't
Music Club 12: Radiohead
July 13, 2022 04:25 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBThe highs and lows and very very highs of the Oxford art-rock outfit with the Exeter connection
Film Club International 11: RRR
July 11, 2022 07:12 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBMatt and Mark travel back in time to India a hundred years ago for a rollicking bromance about two frenemies united in a single cause, that bust out of Bollywood to become an international success on its release earlier this year; S.S. Rajamouli's RRR
Private Members Club 01: Post-PM
July 08, 2022 07:30 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBOur reaction to a momentous day in British politics and our answers to the question of who and what comes next
Bonus Episode: Post-PM
July 08, 2022 07:30 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBOur reaction to a momentous day in British politics and our answers to the question of who and what comes next
Private Members Club: Post-PM
July 08, 2022 07:30 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBOur reaction to a momentous day in British politics and our answers to the question of who and what comes next
Film Club Extra: Men
July 06, 2022 13:51 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBIt's a new Alex Garland film and he's prodding at the outer edges of modern morality once again, so we sat and watched it and here are our impressions
TV Club 26: The Time Traveler's Wife
July 04, 2022 04:31 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBWith the news that a second season has now been cancelled by HBO, this review - recorded a week ago - becomes our post mortem on Steven Moffat's adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's book about a woman who is married to an accidental time traveller, The Time Traveler's Wife
TV Club 25: Pistol
July 01, 2022 04:27 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBSimon and Matt watch the new, dramatised biography of the Sex Pistols on Disney+, examine the legacy of the band, and ask whether it's a better use of Danny Boyle's time than the Richard Curtis pic Yesterday
TV Club 24: Obi-Wan Kenobi
June 29, 2022 04:31 - 40 minutes - 41.9 MBMatt hosts a conversation about the latest Star Wars streaming series on Disney+, the story of what happened to Obi-Wan before the original trilogy and after the prequels
Film Club Extra: Dual
June 27, 2022 04:29 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBMark and JR exchange differing opinions on the latest outing from Karen Gillan, Riley Stearns' film about a woman who ends up with an unwanted clone, Dual
Film Club Duets 02: Blade Runner
June 24, 2022 04:27 - 53 minutes - 49 MBOn its fortieth anniversary we ask if Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was all it's cracked up to be, and if Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is a worthy sequel
Film Club Duet 02: Blade Runner
June 24, 2022 04:27 - 53 minutes - 49 MBOn its fortieth anniversary we ask if Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was all it's cracked up to be, and if Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is a worthy sequel
Film Club Extra: Jurassic World Dominion
June 22, 2022 09:15 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MBMark and JR discuss the latest film in the Jurassic Park-World franchise, and ask if it might have been better off left stuck in the amber
Episode 86: The Ninth Doctor
June 20, 2022 04:23 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBMatt, Jon and Mark discuss the short-lived era of the first modern Doctor, Christopher Eccleston's ninth
Blue Box 86: The Ninth Doctor
June 20, 2022 04:23 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBMatt, Jon and Mark discuss the short-lived era of the first modern Doctor, Christopher Eccleston's ninth
Music Club 11: Talk Talk
June 17, 2022 04:37 - 46 minutes - 43 MBA retrospective of Mark Hollis' synth-rock outfit Talk Talk, who gradually morphed from a post-punk keyboard band into something much more singular. Including contributions from one host who is experiencing most of the music for the very first time.
Film Club Lite 25: Minority Report (2002)
June 15, 2022 08:41 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBSteven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Philip K Dick; what can possibly go wrong?
TV Club 23: The Midwich Cuckoos
June 13, 2022 06:15 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBIt's 65 years since the publication of John Wyndham's classic story about an invasion of alien babies, and so here's our review of Sky TV's latest adaptation