Strangers in Space

Charlie Kaufman's new film goes under the Film Club microphone, in this short bonus review episode

It's time to turn our attentions to the subject of returning characters in modern Doctor Who, and in this first of two episodes, generally more specifically during the Russell T Davies era

3,067 days (or eight years, four months and 23 days, or 499 podcast episodes) ago, Mark Cockram, Lee Rawlings and J.R. Southall published their first Blue Box Podcast. Today, 3,067 days (or eight years, four months and 23 days, or 499 podcast episodes) later, and with the help of new regular podcasters Simon Brett and Matt Barber in place of the waylaid Mr Cockram, it's time to publish our 500th....

The TV writer of Kill the Moon, The Zygon Invasion/Inversion and The Pyramid at the End of the World stops by for a chat about surviving the pandemic, the intersection between whimsy and seriousness, writing movies, deleting Kenneth Branagh's jokes and of course, his Doctor Who stories Opening theme: Unilever

Earlier this year I recorded one of my little Doctor Who quizzes to go out on YouTube; here's the audio for that quiz, for anyone who might like to play along without the video element...

From Terror of the Autons to The Timeless Children and all points in between (except the ones we ruled out), we asked our listeners to name their Top Ten Master Stories - and here are the results.

Ross Aitken of the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast joins me to look at the three film adaptations of Richard Matheson's debut novel I Am Legend, including The Last Man on Earth and of course, The Omega Man Gallifrey's Most Wanted on iTunes Gallifrey's Most Wanted on Twitter

It's back to the beginning as we reach the end of our initial run of revisitations, with a look at Doctor Who's very first season from 1963/4 (Artwork borrowed from Jeremy Bonwick)

With the release of Tenet coming up on August the Septemberth, we thought it was time to turn our focus on the film career of Christopher Nolan, and sort out the Interstellar from the Prestige

By way of a preamble (and it's very amble) to our Season One review next week, J.R. takes a dive into the Cuttings Archive, to look at how those earliest of the Doctor Who serials were promoted in the press The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive

It's all change in the producer's chair as Doctor Who enters its fifteenth year, but can Horror of Fang Rock achieve the highest percentage score yet? (Art borrowed from mimikeyu)

From the Master to the Mara via the Monk (but not the Megara), we turn our attention to the returning Time Lords and other villains that plagued the Doctor throughout the original series

As a prologue to doing something a bit more substantial on Steven Spielberg later on, we decided to each choose our top five movies of his career

It's back to Doctor Who's twentieth season for this week's listeners' poll, as we ask if Enlightenment was the choice they made, and whether Terminus was the last thing on their list.

Is there more to the giant ape picture than meets the eye? It's time for Film Club to take a stroll back to 2005, then 1976, and finally 1933, to find out...

Our listener polling reaches Season Four, wherein some important new Doctor Who lore is created and the historicals are phased out. But will the Daleks be victorious - and if so, with which story? Artwork 'borrowed' from embersfieldfilms

Caustic comedies author Rob Shearman chooses the ten films that have been the biggest influence on his life and career, in a variety of "randomly chosen" categories. Opening theme: Unilever We All Hear Stories in The Dark hardback We All Hear Stories in the Dark paperback

So, this thing happened, a bit like that scene in Blink where Sally Sparrow gets a letter from the past.

The latest episode is the first half of a two-part examination of the legitimacy and effectiveness of bringing characters back from Doctor Who's past. This week, we look at the Doctor's friends.

We asked our listeners to name their ten favourite Dalek stories. This is what they said.

It's back to the 25th anniversary, as Season 25 of Doctor Who comes under the microphone 

Our tribute to Ian Holm

Our host Simon chooses films in ten categories, that have made a significant impression upon him.

Our wanderings through Doctor Who's past bring us to the series' tenth anniversary. But will it be the one with the three Doctors, the one with the maggots or the one with the chap who looks suspiciously like Harry Sullivan, that our readers vote best in Season Ten?

An off-the-cuff edition of Film Club, as we take a stroll through the various movies written (and sometimes directed) by Charlie Kaufman, including the likes of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind