Strangers in Space
by StrangersCast
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 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.Links page: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/links.htmlWhere to find the hosts: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com
Episodes
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Film Club Duets 45: Adam Wingard's Guest Onslaught
After the recent release of Adam Wingard's latest film, Onslaught, we decided to pair it up with its spiritual antecedent, 2014's The Guest Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake
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Who Review Extra 82: The Crusade
The randomiser takes us back to Doctor Who's second season, with guest appearances from Julian Glover and Jean Marsh in David Whittaker's story of what might really have happened during the Third Crusade Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
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Film Club 83: The Omens
This year for Halloween we decided to watch the rest of the Omen movie franchise, having spoken about the first film and the prequel on previous episodes. So here are our thoughts on the sequels, the TV movie and the 2006 remake. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan...
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Blue Box 230: Dandies and Clowns - the Weeping Angels
Our discussion of Doctor Who sequel episodes and whether they're a consolidation of the concept or just a costume stunt, takes in the Weeping Angels' return appearances Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
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TV Club 104: Carrie
It's exactly fifty years since Brian de Palma first adapted Stephen King's debut novel and Halloween is just a couple of days away, so what better time to check out Mike Flanagan's latest version of Carrie Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ian Winterton
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Film Club Extra 151: Evil Dead Burn
With the seventh Evil Dead film already in the can and with Halloween just around the corner, what better time to catch up on the latest instalment in the franchise, Evil Dead Burn? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees
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Music Club Extra 13: The Story of Melodyblind
Another self-indulgent trip down memory lane, as JR reunites with members of his old band Melodyblind to chat about how they got together and what they got up to in the late 1990s Presented by J.R. Southall, with Chris McGarry and Darren Simpson A playlist of Melodyblind videos on YouTube:...
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Blue Box 229: Dandies and Clowns - Homo Reptilia
We look back through the various appearances of Homo Reptilia in Doctor Who, and ask whether the right stories were being told about them Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
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TV Club 104: Class at Ten
It's a decade since the Doctor Who spin-off that nobody seemed to want faltered onto our screens, which feels like an appropriate amount of time to come back and talk about how everyone missed out on enjoying Class Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake
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Film Club Extra 150: Resident Evil
The film franchise spun off from the games franchise reboots with a new instalment from the director of Barbarians and Weapons, but just how successful a revitalisation is the 2026 edition of Resident Evil? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ian Winterton
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Who Review Extra 81: Cold War
The randomiser places us in a submarine near the North Pole in the 1980s for the modern series return of the Ice Warriors, but what will we think of Cold War thirteen years later Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
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TV Club 103: The Return of Ted Lasso
If you thought those first three seasons of Ted Lasso might be all you were going to get, if you thought when those storylines concluded that might well have been it, then you were wrong! Three years on and he's back in the UK with a fourth series - but was it right to resurrect him? Presented by...
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Music Club 36: 2003
We travel back 23 years to discuss the best-selling albums and singles of 2003, and wonder what else people were listening to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass
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Book Club Extra 02: Share & Enjoy (A definitively inaccurate Douglas Adams story)
There's a deadline of Sunday 1st November for the funding of this graphic novel about the life and times of Douglas Adams, and while we know how the galactic hitchhiker might himself have felt about such things, we figured it was worth getting the team from Cutaway Comics to have a chat about the...
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Blue Box 228: The Odds and Ends Poll
The results of our listeners poll rooting through the Doctor Who externalia that didn't quite fit in our regular Doctor polls, to find out what kind of things they liked and which bits they really didn't Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Steve Hatcher and Iain Martin
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Film Club Lite 110: Blue Velvet (1986)
Our very slow meander through David Lynch's back catalogue (the speed of which makes The Straight Story look like an instalment of the Fast and Furious franchise) led to us recording about Blue Velvet entirely unwittingly on the fortieth anniversary of the film's theatrical release - a…
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Who Review Extra 80: The Avengers - You Have Just Been Murdered
It's Steed and Peel once again as the randomiser chooses another colour episode of The Avengers for us to watch; this time it's big screen Alydon in an unlikely extortion plot in You Have Just Been Murdered Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Blue Box 227: Dandies and Clowns - the Autons
We go back over the Autons' subsequent appearances - and even non-appearances - and ask whether more should have been made of them Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Film Club Extra 149: The End of Oak Street
Kids on bikes, arguing parents, dinosaurs and J.J. Abrams; it's Jurassic Park meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial but if an executive somewhere thought that was enough to bust some blocks, then he's probably going to find his head on one of them. We disambiguate The End of Oak Street. Presented by...
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Film Club Extra 148: Coyote vs. Acme
Our response to the film that nearly got binned - twice! - after Coyote vs. Acme finally saw the inside of cinemas Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett
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Blue Box 226: Dandies and Clowns - the Sontarans
We ask whether each of the Sontarans' subsequent appearances was justified, or whether they were just another costume in the cupboard? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
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Film Club Extra 147: Send Help
There's spoilers ahoy (although we don't reveal the ending) in our review in the workplace black comedy that relocates to a desert island, the latest from Sam Raimi with Rachel McAdams in the lead Presented by J.R. Southall, with Simon Brett
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Music Club Extra 12: The Story of The Love Children
A very self-indulgent trip down memory lane as J.R. and Eric talk - at great length! - about the musical act we used to perform in way back at the turn of the 1990s Presented by J.R. Southall, with Eric Drass Access vintage videos of old and new recordings in The Love Children playlist:...
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Who Review 45: The Curse of Kilmorag (The Unmade Season E01)
The audio edition of our review of the recently uploaded fully AI-produced fan film that's been piquing people's interest across the internet Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher
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Film Club Extra 146: The Mandalorian and Grogu
Star Wars is back in the cinema, and it's something we've been watching on telly for the last seven years. So in between talking about why this, why now, we try and get to a conversation about the film and whether it's any good Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Simon Brett
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Film Club Lite 109: United 93 (2006)
A quarter of a century on from the terrorist atrocity that shocked the world, we recount our experiences and review Paul Greengrass' dramatisation of the events on United 93, one of the planes that was hijacked that day Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ian Winterton
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Who Review Extra 79: The Hungry Earth
The randomiser plonks us ten years in the future (actually six years in our current past) for our second Chris Chibnall story in a row; but does The Hungry Earth whet our appetite sixteen years since it was first broadcast? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
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Film Club Lite 108: Clue (1985)
When Tim Curry died, we knew we really had a straight choice between watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show and watching Clue, and we decided to watch Clue. But was it the right choice... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Film Club Lite 107: Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)
Our thoughts on Jacob Gentry's 2021 movie about a man whose wife disappears and who becomes obsessed with the phenomena of the Broadcast Signal Intrusion Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Blue Box 225: The Fourth Doctor Poll
The results of our listeners poll to find the most loved stories of the Tom Baker era Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
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Music Club 35: Prince
Like him a lot or like him a little less, he wasn't very tall and he played a lot of instruments - we sat down to talk about Prince Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass
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Film Club 82: 1990s Movies About Moviemaking
In which we talk about three movies from the early 1990s, that share a common theme: Barton Fink (1991), The Player (1992) and Last Action Hero (1993) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett
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Who Review Extra 78: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
The randomiser takes us to the finale of Chris Chibnall's first series in charge of Doctor Who, and an episode that infamously underwhelmed on first broadcast. Will it look any better eight years on? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Film Club Lite 106: And the Band Played On (1993)
Roger Spottiswoode's 1993 TV movie about the spread and classification of HIV/AIDS in the USA during the 1980s, and the people involved in the research Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ian Winterton
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Film Club Lite 105: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
In the first second of our two podcasts marking the passing of Sam Neill, we take a look at Taika Waititi's 2016 film Hunt for the Wilderpeople Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett
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Who Review Extra: Bugs: All Under Control
In order to mark the passing of Tom Chadbon, we randomly selected an episode of something relatively genre-orientated that he'd been in, and the randomiser said Bugs. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Film Club Lite 104: The Dish (2000)
In the first first of two podcasts recorded in order to mark the passing of Sam Neill, we take a look at his 2000 film The Dish Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett
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Film Club Lite 103: The Vast of Night (2019)
Andrew Patterson's second film The Rivals of Amziah King is out on limited release today, so we thought we'd head back seven years to take a look at his debut - The Vast of Night - and see how much promise it shows Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Simon Brett
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Blue Box 224: The Eleventh Doctor Poll
The results of our listeners poll to find the most loved stories of the Matt Smith era Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Ian Winterton
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Film Club Extra 145: Disclosure Day
In which Steven Spielberg goes back to the early days of his career and produces a new spin on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Well, we say "new"; he updates it to the themes and concerns of the mid-1990s at least. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ian Winterton
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Who Review Extra 76: The Avengers: The Hour That Never Was
Who Review Extra takes us right back into The Avengers again, and this time into the middle of Season Four to find Mrs Peel settling in nicely and the format fully up and running... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Film Club Extra 144: The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan's latest is another updating of the movies he no doubt caught during summer holidays when he was a kid; the fidelity of his vision isn't important, so much as the quality of the outcome Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ian Winterton
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Film Club Extra 143: Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Warning: there are big spoilers to significant plot developments in our review of the latest from the MCU, so make sure you've seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day before you listen to this episode Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake and Simon Brett
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Film Club Extra 142: Obsession
It's been possibly the cinema sensation of the summer; we finally took a look at Curry Barker's low budget, big box office, high concept horror film Obsession Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ian Winterton
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Blue Box 223: The 2026 Holiday Quiz
For this year's summer quiz we have invited the Trap One Podcast to join us in our low-jinks, as we once more lean into the House of Games pastiche express Presented by J.R. Southall Representing Strangers in Space: Jon Arnold and Matt Barber And for Trap One: Si Hart, Dan Hollingsworth, Mark...
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Film Club Extra 141: Backrooms
A pair of low budget horror films from YouTubers have created a sensation (and upset the box office spectrum) this summer, so in the first of two reviews we take a look at Kane Parsons' Backrooms (warning: contains spoilers) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ian Winterton
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Blue Box 222: Showrunners & Riders
We talk through some of the names who might be expected to be putting in bids to become the new artistic director on Doctor Who, after BBC Studios confirmed its hat would be in the ring Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Film Club Extra 140: Citizen Vigilante
You don't have to have watched Citizen Vigilante in order to appreciate our review of it, in fact we recommend you don't Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake
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Music Club Extra 11: Burnham's Best Beats
On the day Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister, we go back to his Party Pieces interview with The Quietus in 2022, and ask whether we think the man who chose to be represented by these thirteen records is the right man to represent us in the highest office in the country. Or maybe just give our...
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TV Club 102: The Tripods
In the first half (albeit recorded second) of a Too Hot for TV crossover, we take a look at the ill-fated 1980s TV adaptation of John Christopher's The White Mountains trilogy Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees On tomorrow's episode of Too Hot for TV (recorded first)…
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About this show
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 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.Links page: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/links.htmlWhere to find the hosts: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com
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