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 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
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Monday Sep 08, 2025
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
Friday Sep 05, 2025
Friday Sep 05, 2025
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
Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
If you woke up on January 1st and persuaded yourself that what you needed most this year was a further instalment of I Know What You Did Last Summer, then bingo you're in luck. For everybody else, here's our review. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Monday Sep 01, 2025
Monday Sep 01, 2025
There's a new Doctor aboard the TARDIS as we enter the fifth season of our imaginary Doctor Who remake - and Mark is here to explain the choice and talk through the stories we've selected for him to experience. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson
Friday Aug 29, 2025
Friday Aug 29, 2025
Dan Jennings of the Paul Weller Fan Podcast joins us to review The Blow Monkeys' new album Birdsong, their first for Alan McGee and Youth's record label Creation Youth Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Dan Jennings Creation Youth Paul Weller Fan Podcast
Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
There had already been three adaptations of Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers by the time Disney's Hollywood Pictures went back to the source, and produced a version of Robert Heinlein's original alien parasite novel The Puppet Masters. Should they have left well alone? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
The quotes coming out of Edinburgh this week might have made it feel like we're stuck in 1989 all over again (or is that 1985?), but this is a different century now - so what did we make of the idea that the TARDIS is "going nowhere"? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Friday Aug 22, 2025
Friday Aug 22, 2025
In this edition we're pairing up a couple of very different but equally unlikely vampires; firstly there's David Niven's urbane and terribly British Count Dracula, and then Alicia Silverstone in an undead rematch with Amy Heckerling, her director on Clueless. What can possibly go right? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Our odyssey through the mid-range monster movies of the 1990s fetches up at The Relic, Timecop director Peter Hyams' museum-set variation on Alien. But would any of us remember the film for long enough to talk about it? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Dylan Rees
Monday Aug 18, 2025
Monday Aug 18, 2025
It's the fourth "season" of our imaginary Doctor Who reboot, and a surprise is about to be sprung Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson