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
Who Review Extra 05: Frontier in Space
June 10, 2022 04:28 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBIt's been a long wait, but it's finally time for us to rewatch Malcolm Hulke's Season 10 story Frontier in Space, and decide whether it's a scintillating political thriller or just two-and-a-half hours' worth of going around in not very interesting circles
Film Club Extra: Everything Everywhere All At Once
June 08, 2022 04:26 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBNow that we've all had chance to see it, here's our review of the Daniels' follow-up to Swiss Army Man, the multi-universe comedy drama set in a laundry, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Music Club 10: Nick Drake
June 06, 2022 04:25 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBA conversation about the brief but influential musical career of singer-songwriter Nick Drake
TV Club 22: Picard Season 2
June 02, 2022 09:04 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBSimon, Jon and Matt discuss the second season of the Star Trek The Next Generation spin-off Picard
Music Club 09: Madonna
May 27, 2022 04:28 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBJR springs a surprise subject for the latest Music Club episode, leading to a hunt through some forty year old memories and a few revelations about our favourite Madonna songs
Film Club Lite 24: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
May 25, 2022 05:35 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIt's forty years since Steven Spielberg's horror film for kids about a friendly resurrecting alien who gets stranded on Earth, was first released. So here we are looking back on it, with mostly fond eyes
Bonus Episode: Shooting Not Ncuti
May 23, 2022 04:23 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBA moderately spoilery round-up of some Doctor Who casting and shooting news, after the first week of outdoor recording on Russell T Davies' return to the programme
Blue Box Bonus 40: Shooting Not Ncuti
May 23, 2022 04:23 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBA moderately spoilery round-up of some Doctor Who casting and shooting news, after the first week of outdoor recording on Russell T Davies' return to the programme
Film Club 50: Spielberg in the 1970s
May 20, 2022 04:28 - 1 hour - 64 MBAhead of the fortieth anniversary of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, we look at Steven Spielberg's first four movies from The Sugarland Express to 1941, taking in Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind along the way
Film Club Lite 23: I'll Do Anything (1994)
May 18, 2022 04:26 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBUnhitched from our James L Brooks conversation, a separate discussion on the musical he made with songs by Prince, Sinead O'Connor and Carole King, which were subsequently removed before the movie's release - begging the question, was I'll Do Anything any better without them?
Bonus Episode: Re-Sitting Tennant
May 16, 2022 08:34 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBFifteen years after they took their final trip in the TARDIS (by the time their new episode is broadcast, that is), David Tennant and Catherine Tate return to Doctor Who. That's right, it's another Sunday and another casting announcement, so here are our immediate thoughts on the reveal
Blue Box Bonus 39: Re-Sitting Tennant
May 16, 2022 08:34 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBFifteen years after they took their final trip in the TARDIS (by the time their new episode is broadcast, that is), David Tennant and Catherine Tate return to Doctor Who. That's right, it's another Sunday and another casting announcement, so here are our immediate thoughts on the reveal
Episode 85: Call of Ncuti
May 13, 2022 05:25 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBIs it too early to invent the expression Doctor Whuti? Our thoughts on the casting of the new Doctor Who
Blue Box 85: Call of Ncuti
May 13, 2022 05:25 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBIs it too early to invent the expression Doctor Whuti? Our thoughts on the casting of the new Doctor Who
Film Club 49: James L Brooks
May 11, 2022 04:22 - 1 hour - 55 MBYou'll have seen his name attached to every episode of The Simpsons, his directorial debut won Best Picture at the Oscars and he once did a musical without any songs with Prince (but that's another story); we turn our attention to Jack Nicholson's most long-term employer James L Brooks
Music Club 08: Suede
May 09, 2022 04:28 - 39 minutes - 30.2 MBThirty years ago it looked like they might be about to replace sliced bread, but things didn't go quite that far for Suede. Our latest Music Club profile, primarily focussing on their imperial phase in the 1990s
Episode 84: The Fourth Doctor
May 06, 2022 04:24 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBMatt, Jon and Mark take a look at the tenure of the fourth Doctor Tom Baker, in the first of a series of Doctor retrospectives that will look at the legacy of the actors and the characters they created in the role
Blue Box 84: The Fourth Doctor
May 06, 2022 04:24 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBMatt, Jon and Mark take a look at the tenure of the fourth Doctor Tom Baker, in the first of a series of Doctor retrospectives that will look at the legacy of the actors and the characters they created in the role
Film Club Lite 22: The Quick and the Dead (1995)
May 04, 2022 04:26 - 21 minutes - 19 MBAs a postscript to our Man With No Name episode, Simon chooses Sam Raimi's 1990s Western The Quick and the Dead as a subject for conversation in the latest Film Club Lite
Pop Culture Clash 03: Jane Lovering
May 02, 2022 06:45 - 32 minutes - 26 MBJane Lovering, biscuit-loving author of A Cottage Full of Secrets and winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year award, braves a less than ideal internet connection in order to undergo a series of occasionally tailor-made (but largely off-the-peg) pop culture challenges - before getting rudely cut-off by a disturbance in the host's neighbourhood
Film Club 48: The Man With No Name
April 29, 2022 04:25 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MBGallifrey Most Wanted's Ross returns to chat with JR about Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Western trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
TV Club 21: Who Killed the KLF?
April 27, 2022 06:05 - 32 minutes - 25.1 MBOur review of Chris Atkins' new documentary about the KLF, telling the story of how they progressed from being an art-house Jive Bunny to deleting their entire back catalogue and burning a million quid before finally releasing it all on a streaming service nearly three decades later; it's quite a story, but does the film live up to it?
Film Club Extra: The Batman
April 25, 2022 04:26 - 41 minutes - 33 MBOur review of Matt Reeves' new version of (The) Batman
Pop Culture Clash 02: Andrew Cartmel
April 22, 2022 05:13 - 40 minutes - 47.9 MBPlaywright, author and ex-Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel undergoes a series of sometimes tailor-made pop culture challenges
Who Review 19: Legend of the Sea Devils
April 20, 2022 04:25 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBOur review of Legend of the Sea Devils, the penultimate story for Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall, and that trailer for the Centenary Special
Pop Culture Clash 01: Dr Robert
April 18, 2022 06:37 - 24 minutes - 24.9 MBDr Robert of The Blow Monkeys participates in the inaugural set of challenges in the first edition of our new interview format, Pop Culture Clash
Film Club Duet 01: Open Your Eyes / Vanilla Sky
April 15, 2022 11:23 - 44 minutes - 20.1 MBA comparison between Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 film Abre los Ojos - aka Open Your Eyes - and Cameron Crowe's 2001 remake Vanilla Sky
Desert Planet Picks 51: Tim Dorney
April 13, 2022 04:29 - 38 minutes - 31.8 MBTim Dorney of Republica and Tin Gin, chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Tin Gun on Twitter
Film Club Lite 21: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
April 11, 2022 04:36 - 22 minutes - 18.7 MBMark Cockram sticks around after his appearance on our anniversary episode, and chooses Edgar Wright's 2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as his selection for a Film Club Lite
Episode 83: Poll of Winners
April 08, 2022 04:33 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBIt's ten years since the first Blue Box Podcast turned up in people's ears, so to celebrate here we (almost all) are, running down our listeners' favourite stories according to our poll of the various individual season poll winners. With a very special guest, returning from the very beginning
Blue Box 83: Poll of Winners
April 08, 2022 04:33 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBIt's ten years since the first Blue Box Podcast turned up in people's ears, so to celebrate here we (almost all) are, running down our listeners' favourite stories according to our poll of the various individual season poll winners. With a very special guest, returning from the very beginning
Music Club 07: Manic Street Preachers
April 06, 2022 04:29 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBSimon and Jon talk Caerphilly's finest in the latest instalment of Music Club
BBP: City of Song (Unreleased Reserve Episode)
April 04, 2022 04:29 - 1 hour - 79 MBBack in 2012 we decided it might be an idea to bank a Blue Box Podcast for a rainy day, so early that June JR, Mark and Simon convened to record a couple of commentary tracks, pairing a single original run episode with a complementary modern story. We weren't particularly pleased with the result, though, so we never did publish that podcast. Until now
BBP4: Time (Unused Original Recording)
April 01, 2022 06:15 - 55 minutes - 49.9 MBBack in April 2012, after our first Blue Box Podcast recording session (in which we ploughed through all of our first three episodes), Lee suggested we add his friend Simon to the team to make sure there were still enough of us to hold a conversation on the off-chance there were occasions when one or other of us wasn't able to come along. So we invited Simon to our second recording session - and Lee didn't turn up. And try as we might to be welcoming and to include Simon in the conversation,...
Film Club Extra: CODA
March 30, 2022 06:04 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MBA review of this year's Academy Award Best Picture winning film, CODA, plus a catch-up on a few of the other Oscar nominees in that category
Film Club Extra: Spider-Man: No Way Home
March 28, 2022 06:00 - 56 minutes - 26 MBA review of the latest Spider-Man movie, No Way Home, as it comes to home media; warning: if you've somehow managed to avoid the spoilers surrounding this film, we will be discussing them here
Film Club 47: Other Realities
March 25, 2022 05:28 - 59 minutes - 48.3 MBThere's a waft of fin de millénaire on this edition of Film Club, as we head back to 1998 to investigate existential angst among the parallel realities of Dark City, The Truman Show and Pleasantville
Music Club 06: They Might Be Giants
March 23, 2022 05:23 - 56 minutes - 44.6 MBA discussion of the band They Might Be Giants, formed in New York in 1982 by Lincolnites John Flansburgh and John Linnell
Film Club Lite 20: Body Heat (1981)
March 21, 2022 07:05 - 37 minutes - 28.6 MBIn an admittedly perhaps ill-advised tribute to the career of William Hurt, we decided to go back to the movie that firmly put him on the Hollywood map, Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 directorial debut, the steamy thriller Body Heat. And there is lots of steam. Lots of it
Music Club 05: The Stone Roses
March 17, 2022 05:23 - 36 minutes - 30.2 MBJR and Simon look back to the turn of the 1990s and "rave culture", and discuss The Stone Roses' place in taking indie music overground
Film Club Lite 19: Seconds (1966)
March 14, 2022 05:04 - 23 minutes - 20.3 MBBy way of an appetizer for our forthcoming millennial angst Film Club episode, here's a short review of an existential thriller from the 1960s: John Frankenheimer's Seconds
Episode 82: Season 14
March 10, 2022 05:25 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBIt's our very last season poll, and we're going back to 1976 to talk about Philip Hinchcliffe's third and final year as producer of Doctor Who: Season 14
Blue Box 82: Season 14
March 10, 2022 05:25 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBIt's our very last season poll, and we're going back to 1976 to talk about Philip Hinchcliffe's third and final year as producer of Doctor Who: Season 14
Film Club International 10: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
March 07, 2022 05:38 - 45 minutes - 40 MBMark and Matt turn their attention to the subject of comic Czech sci-fi, with particular emphasis on Jindřich Polák's 1977 film Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea, aka Zítra Vstanu a Opařím se čajem
Episode 81: Series Nine
March 03, 2022 05:37 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBOnce planned to be the last season for Steven Moffat, our journey through the Doctor Who back catalogue reaches its final destination of the modern incarnation: Series Nine (With apologies to mimikeyu for co-opting the art)
Blue Box 81: Series Nine
March 03, 2022 05:37 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBOnce planned to be the last season for Steven Moffat, our journey through the Doctor Who back catalogue reaches its final destination of the modern incarnation: Series Nine (With apologies to mimikeyu for co-opting the art)
Music Club 04: The Cure vs Depeche Mode
February 28, 2022 05:25 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBJR and Simon take a trip back to the 1980s to talk about playgrounds, peer pressure and programming, and to examine the differences and similarities between The Cure and Depeche Mode
Film Club Lite 18: Deathgasm (2015)
February 24, 2022 07:48 - 22 minutes - 18.2 MBAnother music-themed Film Club Lite review, and this time it's JR's choice: New Zealander Jason Lei Howden's 2015 comedy horror with a heavy metal theme, Deathgasm
Episode 80: Season 23
February 21, 2022 05:38 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBTriumph, or travesty? It's the Trial of a Time Lord, as Season 23 goes under the scrutiny of our own particular Whodiciary
Blue Box 80: Season 23
February 21, 2022 05:38 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBTriumph, or travesty? It's the Trial of a Time Lord, as Season 23 goes under the scrutiny of our own particular Whodiciary