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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
Blue Box 192: RTD’s Full Circle 30.10.2025 35:43
Doctor Who is back, and this time it's just for Christmas - or is it? We try to get to the bottom of yesterday's announcement countering the premature death notices for RTD's Doctor Who Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Simon Brett
Film Club 75: Jordan Peele 29.10.2025 1:09:37
An overview of the three films directed by the Monkeypaw Productions man: Get Out, Us and Nope Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Film Club Duets 34: Remakes of the Dead 27.10.2025 52:00
When we discovered that Zack Snyder and James Gunn, the two titans of DC, were both credited on the 2004 remake of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, we just had to investigate. And then when we noticed that the creator of the Final Destination franchise had also been partly responsible for the remake of follow-up Day of the Dead four years later, we decided to watch that one too. Presented by J.R....
Film Club Extra: Eden 24.10.2025 30:56
Ron Howard's latest is set among German colonists on the Galapagos Islands between the wars of the last century, with Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas and Vanessa Kirby (not to mention Jude Law) falling out in the Equatorial sun. What could possibly go wrong? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
Blue Box 191: Notorious Karn 22.10.2025 1:24:31
Philip Hinchcliffe might have suggested that Mary Whitehouse was "somewhat over-hysterical", but Barry Letts admitted that when she complained about Doctor Who, the viewing figures went up. So was the temptation in the mid-1970s to push the series too far in order to attract viewers? And how far is too far? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
TV Club 86: Climax! Casino Royale 20.10.2025 48:38
Ian Fleming's debut novel Casino Royale has been adapted for the screen three times, in wildly different versions. After having spoken about the other two, we decided it was time to take a look at the first, a live US TV play broadcast while the novel was barely off the press. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
Film Club Lite 87: Extreme Measures (1996) 17.10.2025 23:45
The star of Four Weddings, the writer of Andor, Carrie from Sex and the City, the director of Seven Up! and Gene Hackman - not to mention produced by Elizabeth Hurley - is quite the line-up of talent. Can Extreme Measures live up to its promise? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees
Who Review Extra 55: The Dalek Invasion of Earth 15.10.2025 48:05
The randomiser brings us to Earth in 2164 (or so), exactly-ish two centuries in the future after a plague has wiped out the majority of the population of the planet and it's almost like WWII never stopped happening. But will the BBC manage to convey all this from the confines of a little TV studio? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Film Club Lite 86: The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) 13.10.2025 31:19
There's been a lot of love for the recent Tim Key comedy about a reclusive music fan who tries to get his favourite folk duo back together again. But what would we make of it? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Blue Box 190: Netflix Who? 10.10.2025 44:15
You'd think Doctor Who news might be a bit thin on the ground with no production currently underway nor very much likely to be any time soon. But the rumours and gossip just keep on coming. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Mark Donaldson and Steve Hatcher
Blue Box 189: Resurrection Who 7. A Land of Fear 08.10.2025 1:16:11
How will our current mascot Danny Dyer take, to starring in a more bucolic version of Doctor Who? Our reimagined history of the series enters its seventh season. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
Film Club Duets 33: Albert Pyun Double Feature 06.10.2025 34:21
When we realised that the director of The Sword and the Sorcerer had also made the 1990 Captain America, we couldn't resist going back for another look at both Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees
TV Club 85: Steven Moffat Short Trips 03.10.2025 51:06
We travel back to the 1990s, before even The Curse of Fatal Death was a twinkle in Steven Moffat's eye, to look at some of the writer-for-hire and one-off projects he completed before he became a household name Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees
Who Review Extra 54: Fury from the Deep 01.10.2025 51:21
The randomiser takes us to yet another isolated workplace in the 1960s, but will Victoria's screaming save the day, or is Fury from the Deep just a load of old gas? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Film Club 74: Denis Villeneuve 29.09.2025 1:13:47
After Amazon MGM Studios announced Denis Villeneuve as the director who would take the helm of their first Bond movie, we decided to have a look back at his non-franchise English language movies to see if we could see why. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
Film Club 73: Quatermass at Hammer 26.09.2025 1:03:41
It's seventy years since Nigel Kneale's most famous creation made his way from the small screen to the big, but how successful was the transfer to Quatermass at Hammer? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
Film Club Lite 85: All the President’s Men (1976) 24.09.2025 28:51
In tribute to Robert Redford we've taken another look at the movie he and Dustin Hoffman, plus director Alan J. Pakula and screenwriter William Goldman, made about the Watergate break-in Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
Blue Box 188: The Fault Locator Panel 22.09.2025 54:44
When does pushing the boundaries become going too far? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Film Club Extra: Together 19.09.2025 31:43
The only way we could talk about what the title means, is to get heavily into spoiler territory - so if you haven't seen Together yet, then set this review aside until you have Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Blue Box 187: Resurrection Who 6. The Wall of Lies 17.09.2025 1:38:28
It's Ryan's turn at the wheel of our fictional Doctor Who recreation, and he's here to pick up the idea of a Danny Dyer Doctor and imagine where that might lead the series... much impressionations ensue Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake
Film Club Extra: Weapons 15.09.2025 35:12
Warning: if you haven't seen Weapons yet and are thinking of doing so, this review contains major spoilers to all of the film's big plot developments Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Who Review Extra 53: Torchwood: End of Days 12.09.2025 27:39
Having discovered a run of form in the latter half of the first season, would Torchwood stick the landing with its first series finale? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Film Club Extra: The Naked Gun (2025) 10.09.2025 29:49
How well would Liam Neeson perform following in the shoeprints of Leslie Nielsen? And could the revival of The Naked Gun live up to the gag-a-minute reputation of the original? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Blue Box 186: Fixing Doctor Who 08.09.2025 1:09:40
How would you script edit the problematic stories of the past in order to deproblematise them, but without removing the problematic elements? Or: how do you fix a problem like The Talons of Weng-Chiang? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Who Review Extra 52: The Shakespeare Code 05.09.2025 23:16
Would the Graham Linehan of Doctor Who's first TV story take flight, and would our reviewers bewitched or be what-what-what?-ed? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
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