StrangersCast
Strangers in Space
Broader 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...
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Episodes
Swapping in Steven (Blue Box 210) 30.03.2026 1:27:36
As we approach our 14th birthday and pass the revived series' 21st, we wonder how Doctor Who might have differed if Russell T Davies hadn't taken it on in 2005 and it had been left to Steven Moffat to resurrect it a few years later instead Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and witnessed by Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher
1991 (Music Club 32) 27.03.2026 1:20:55
In the first of a new strand, Music Club goes back to 1991 to discuss the best-selling albums and singles and wonder what else people were listening to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass
The Hand of Fear (Who Review Extra 65) 25.03.2026 59:56
The randomiser has chosen Sarah's last story, and you'd think they'd have conjured up something special for her to go out on Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake and Steve Hatcher
Wuthering Heights (Film Club Extra 137) 23.03.2026 1:02:43
We braved the hype and went to see Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights, so you don't have to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
First Doctor Poll Results (Blue Box 209) 20.03.2026 50:21
Our quest to find the most popular first Doctor stories among our listeners comes to an end, with a surprising result Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Iain Martin
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Film Club Lite 92) 18.03.2026 49:47
It's fifty years since The Man Who Fell to Earth landed in cinemas, but was the combination of Nicholas Roeg and David Bowie a match made in heaven or a mess made in hell? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
Oscar Results 2026 (Film Club Extra 136) 17.03.2026 44:49
Our reaction to the results at the 98th Academy Awards Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Lord of the Flies (TV Club 94) 13.03.2026 43:49
A mixed reaction to the BBC's latest adaptation of William Golding's 1954 debut novel Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
Ian Levine Myth Makers (Who Review Extra 64) 12.03.2026 38:38
We take a look at the new Myth Makers interview with Ian Levine, so you don't have to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Hamnet (Film Club Extra 135) 11.03.2026 49:57
Five years after Nomadland won Best Picture, Director and Actress at the Academy Awards, Chloé Zhao is back to potentially repeat the feat. But what would we make of the last of this year's ten Oscar hopefuls? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
The Secret Agent (Film Club Extra 134) 10.03.2026 23:35
Our Oscars watch-through arrives in Brazil, for the political thriller The Secret Agent Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Marty Supreme (Film Club Extra 133) 09.03.2026 28:26
Our journey through this year's Academy Awards Best Picture nominees continues with Josh Safdie's first solo project as director, featuring Timothée Chalamet as Marty Supreme Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Iain Martin
Floriana Requiems (TV Club 93) 06.03.2026 50:31
We turn our microphones to the subject of deadly plants in the 1960s, with particular attention to episodes of The Outer Limits, Out of the Unknown, The Avengers and Lost in Space Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Dylan Rees and Steve Hatcher
Get Off My World - Fixing RTD Again (Blue Box 208) 04.03.2026 1:02:34
What were the problems in the most recent era of Doctor Who - and what solutions might have avoided them? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Frankenstein at Hammer (Film Club 80) 02.03.2026 1:04:20
Our Hammer watch through arrives at a choice of Frankenstein sequels, The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
F1 (Film Club Extra 132) 27.02.2026 35:55
Our Oscar conversation moves onto one of the year's less likely nominees, the racing car movie F1 Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Iain Martin
A Better Catchment of Friends (Blue Box 207: The Best Spin Off) 25.02.2026 1:01:15
We talk through Doctor Who's modern era spin-off shows, pitting them against each other in an effort to decide which is the more justified Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
TV Club 91: Small Prophets 23.02.2026 39:18
Mackenzie Crook returns with a new series about a man growing homunculi in his garden shed Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Simon Brett
Fallout (TV Club 90) 20.02.2026 1:21:47
With the second season of Prime's hugely successful series Fallout having recently come to a conclusion, we look back at the whole thing with an eye on which bits worked and which might have worked better Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake
Empress of Mars (Who Review Extra 63) 18.02.2026 40:30
It's getting on for a decade since Mark Gatiss wrote his last Doctor Who, but how does it stack up against his earlier episodes? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
Sentimental Value (Film Club Extra 131) 16.02.2026 27:11
Joachim Trier's film Affeksjonsverdi - or Sentimental Value - about an aging film director's two daughters and the different paths they take, is our next Best Picture nominee ahead of this year's Oscars Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Valentines Special (Music Club 31) 13.02.2026 59:36
We count down the greatest "love" songs of all, so you don't have to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass
Fixing Chris Chibnall: The Systems Aren't the Problem (Blue Box 206) 11.02.2026 1:17:22
Which were the bits of the Chris Chibnall era where fandom thought it overstepped the mark - and did it really? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Train Dreams (Film Club Extra 130) 09.02.2026 28:08
Our watch through of this year's Best Picture nominees arrives at Train Dreams, the story of the unacknowledged folk who built what would become modern America Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Taxi Driver (1976) (Film Club Lite 91) 06.02.2026 53:35
It's fifty years since Robert De Niro first rolled Martin Scorsese's cab onto the mean streets of New York, so we thought that was the perfect time to go back and take another look Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Luke Molloy
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