Strangers in Space
856 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 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 45: The MCU Phase Three Part 1
January 17, 2022 05:33 - 50 minutes - 43.5 MBA conversation about the first half of the third phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the introductions of Spider-Man and Black Panther
Film Club Lite 16: It Couldn't Happen Here (1987)
January 13, 2022 05:32 - 25 minutes - 22.5 MBOur "music month" round of musically themed film reviews begins with Simon's choice, the Pet Shop Boys' absurdist memoir It Couldn't Happen Here
Blue Box 77: Doctor Who the Music Volume One
January 10, 2022 05:22 - 54 minutes - 46.9 MBIt's the first half of our discussion about the use of incidental music in Doctor Who, this time focussing on our memories of the classic series
Episode 77: Doctor Who the Music Volume One
January 10, 2022 05:22 - 54 minutes - 46.9 MBIt's the first half of our discussion about the use of incidental music in Doctor Who, this time focussing on our memories of the classic series
Blue Box 76: Flux, A Retrospective
January 06, 2022 07:19 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBMark Donaldson of On the Time Lash joins us now that the dust has settled on Flux, to talk about the thirteenth series of Doctor Who
Episode 76: Flux, A Retrospective
January 06, 2022 07:19 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBMark Donaldson of On the Time Lash joins us now that the dust has settled on Flux, to talk about the thirteenth series of Doctor Who
Who Review 18: Eve of the Daleks
January 03, 2022 17:37 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBWe did eventually manage to record our review of Eve of the Daleks, but only after ten minutes' worth of interruptions from JR jr.
Book Club Extra 01: The Black Archive
December 30, 2021 05:30 - 34 minutes - 30.9 MBSimon talks to Matt and guest Jon Arnold about their work writing Black Archive titles for Obverse Books. Yes, Matt has written one - about The Dæmons!
Film Club Extra: The Matrix Resurrections
December 28, 2021 12:40 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBMark Donaldson of the On the Time Lash podcast rejoins us to discuss the new Matrix movie, Resurrections
Film Club Lite 15: The Matrix (1999)
December 26, 2021 07:39 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBAhead of our review of the latest instalment in The Matrix franchise, we look back at the very first film along with guest reviewer Mark Donaldson
Who Review Extra 04: The Christmas Invasion
December 24, 2021 05:27 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBA retrospective review of the first Christmas Special of the modern revival - and the tenth Doctor's debut - 2005's The Christmas Invasion
TV Club 19: A Ghost Story for Christmas
December 22, 2021 05:28 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBLee and Matt travel back to the 1970s to talk about the BBC's spooky seasonal strand A Ghost Story for Christmas, plus its progenitor, 1968's Whistle and I'll Come to You. Warning: there may be gushing
Film Club Lite 14: Die Hard (1988)
December 20, 2021 05:09 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBAs chosen by our listeners, we are joined by Ross Aitken (of the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast) and Mark Donaldson (of On the Time Lash) in order to ask of this year's Yuletide feature: is Die Hard a Christmas movie, or simply an action flick with festive trimmings? And after a painstaking process of argument and counter-argument - and a legally watertight margin of three votes to two - we think we've come up with an objectively decisive answer.
Film Club Lite 14: Die Hard
December 20, 2021 05:09 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBAs chosen by our listeners, we are joined by Ross Aitken (of the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast) and Mark Donaldson (of On the Time Lash) in order to ask of this year's Yuletide feature: is Die Hard a Christmas movie, or simply an action flick with festive trimmings? And after a painstaking process of argument and counter-argument - and a legally watertight margin of three votes to two - we think we've come up with an objectively decisive answer.
Film Club Lite 13: eXistenZ (1999)
December 17, 2021 05:35 - 19 minutes - 18 MBMark Donaldson rejoins us for this episode, to talk about David Cronenberg's grim fairy tale (or should that be fairly grim tale) eXistenZ, which arrived in 1999, the Year of Our Matrix
Film Club Lite 13: eXistenZ
December 17, 2021 05:35 - 19 minutes - 18 MBMark Donaldson rejoins us for this episode, to talk about David Cronenberg's grim fairy tale (or should that be fairly grim tale) eXistenZ, which arrived in 1999, the Year of Our Matrix
Blue Box 75: The Grand Moff Specials
December 15, 2021 05:27 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBA rundown of the eleventh and twelfth Doctor Specials according to our listeners' preferences. With a really most unsurprising winner!
Episode 75: The Grand Moff Specials
December 15, 2021 05:27 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBA rundown of the eleventh and twelfth Doctor Specials according to our listeners' preferences. With a really most unsurprising winner!
Film Club Lite 12: The Thirteenth Floor
December 13, 2021 04:43 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBAhead of the release of the new sequel, Mark Donaldson joins us to look at The Thirteenth Floor, one of many similar films which appeared around the time of the first Matrix film back in 1999 Mark's own podcast
Film Club Lite 12: The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
December 13, 2021 04:43 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBAhead of the release of the new sequel, Mark Donaldson joins us to look at The Thirteenth Floor, one of many similar films which appeared around the time of the first Matrix film back in 1999 Mark's own podcast
Music Club Extra 02: Peter Capaldi - St. Christopher
December 09, 2021 14:28 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBOur review of Peter Capaldi's first album, St. Christopher
Who Review 17: The Vanquishers
December 07, 2021 14:49 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBOur review of the final episode of Doctor Who: Flux, Chapter Six: The Vanquishers
TV Club 18: The Beatles Get Back
December 05, 2021 07:26 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBJon Arnold joins Matt and Simon for a review of Get Back, Peter Jackson's new eight-hour Disney+ documentary on the making of The Beatles' final album Let It Be
Who Review 16: Survivors of the Flux
December 01, 2021 05:31 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBOur review of Doctor Who Series 13 Flux Chapter Five Survivors of the Flux
TV Club 17: The Ploughman's Lunch
November 29, 2021 04:32 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBA review of the early Film On Four presentation The Ploughman's Lunch, starring Jonathan Pryce and Tim Curry
Who Review 15: Village of the Angels
November 24, 2021 07:37 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBOur review of Doctor Who Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels. Just two of us this week; Simon has gone back in time while Lee is dealing with cherubs
Film Club Extra: Last Night in Soho
November 22, 2021 04:28 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBA review of Edgar Wright's latest Featuring guest reviewer Mark Donaldson of the On the Time Lash podcast
Film Club Extra: Finch
November 18, 2021 05:27 - 24 minutes - 22 MBTom Hanks with a robot in a post-apocalyptic landscape? Of course we were going to review that
Who Review 14: Once, Upon Time
November 15, 2021 09:16 - 1 hour - 66 MBOur review of the third chapter in Series 13 of Doctor Who; Flux: Once, Upon Time
Who Review 13: War of the Sontarans
November 12, 2021 11:03 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBOur review of the second chapter of Doctor Who: Flux, War of the Sontarans
Blue Box 74: Season Eight
November 08, 2021 04:26 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MBIs all-Master too much Master? That's just one of the questions we ask in our Season Eight retrospective. Warning: includes bonus book-plug
Episode 74: Season Eight
November 08, 2021 04:26 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MBIs all-Master too much Master? That's just one of the questions we ask in our Season Eight retrospective. Warning: includes bonus book-plug
Film Club Lite 11: Fantastic Voyage (1966)
November 04, 2021 05:30 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBComing under the microscope in this edition, is Richard Fleischer's 1966 medical drama Fantastic Voyage
Who Review 12: The Halloween Apocalypse
November 02, 2021 11:25 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBOur review of The Halloween Apocalypse, aka Chapter One of Doctor Who: Flux
Film Club 666: Demon Babies
October 31, 2021 08:15 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBWhat better way to mark Halloween than with a review of three classics of the demon child genre, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen
Film Club Lite 10: Dave Made a Maze (2017)
October 29, 2021 04:30 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBA bonus extra Film Club Lite in the run-up to Halloween, it's Bill Watterson's (not that Bill Watterson) shoestring fantasy horror comedy from 2017, Dave Made a Maze - spoiler-light for those who haven't seen it
Film Club Lite 09: Night of the Demon (1957)
October 27, 2021 10:03 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBMatt's latest choice of movie review is Jacques Tourneur's 1957 British horror Night of the Demon (aka Curse of the Demon west of the Atlantic), in which runes are cast, seances will be held and souls must be taken...
Film Club 43: Harry Potter (Part Two)
October 21, 2021 04:19 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBA slightly shorter edition of Film Club this time, as we go back to Hogwarts to run check out the second half of the Harry Potter saga
Episode 73: Series Thirteen Preview
October 18, 2021 12:36 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBSeries Thirteen is almost upon us, but what can we expect from it? In this far from definitive guide to the next six episodes, we predict the precise viewing figures, pull the trailer apart, discuss the BBC's promotional efforts and discover the truth about Ranskoor Av Kolos
Blue Box 73: Series Thirteen Preview
October 18, 2021 12:36 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBSeries Thirteen is almost upon us, but what can we expect from it? In this far from definitive guide to the next six episodes, we predict the precise viewing figures, pull the trailer apart, discuss the BBC's promotional efforts and discover the truth about Ranskoor Av Kolos
Who Review Extra 03: The Infinite Quest
October 16, 2021 09:31 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBIt's just like so Totally Doctor Who, to go on an infinite quest ... for just three data-chips
Film Club 42: Duncan Jones
October 14, 2021 04:23 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBA conversation about the director of Moon and its semi-followup Mute, Source Code and Warcraft (not A Beginning)
Episode 72: Season Two
October 12, 2021 04:29 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBIt's back to London 1965 in this episode, except by the long way around. We're turning our microphones to the subject of the first Doctor's middle series, Season Two
Blue Box 72: Season Two
October 12, 2021 04:29 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBIt's back to London 1965 in this episode, except by the long way around. We're turning our microphones to the subject of the first Doctor's middle series, Season Two
TV Club 16: Ted Lasso
October 10, 2021 11:04 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBSome thoughts on the runaway hit TV series from AppleTV+
Film Club Extra: No Time to Die
October 08, 2021 06:22 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBDaniel Craig returns as James Bond in No Time to Die, the 25th Bond film from Eon and definitely Craig's last. But what will we make of this much delayed entry in the 007 canon, in this extremely spoiler-heavy review? A video version of this podcast can be watched here
TV Club 15: After Pilkington
October 06, 2021 06:20 - 24 minutes - 23 MBIf it's January 1987 and it's murder among the dons in rural Oxfordshire, then it must be Screen Two's fondly remembered black comedy After Pilkington, starring Bob Peck and Miranda Richardson
Film Club Extra: Free Guy
October 04, 2021 06:20 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MBNot content with Wrexham, looks like Ryan Reynolds has his sights set on the entire internet too. It's The Truman Show meets The Matrix meets TRON meets Ready Player One as we turn our microphones to Free Guy
Episode 71: RTD Returns
October 02, 2021 09:28 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBOur reaction-cast to the news of Russell T Davies' forthcoming return as Doctor Who showrunner.
Blue Box 71: RTD Returns
October 02, 2021 09:28 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBOur reaction-cast to the news of Russell T Davies' forthcoming return as Doctor Who showrunner.