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
Jun 11, 2026
Jun 11, 2026
54 min
Christmas is cancelled, and so we convened to discuss what this might mean for the future of Doctor Who
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Jun 10, 2026
Jun 10, 2026
35 min
We catch up with Geoffrey Sax's career a decade after he directed the TV movie, to find him undergoing yet more behind-the-scenes interference on another adaptation of a beloved children's franchise
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026
57 min
By way of tribute to the recently departed Anthony Head, our review of the early David Tennant story
Presented by J. R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
Jun 5, 2026
Jun 5, 2026
1hr 16 min
We name the stories we think Matthew Jacobs might have chosen, had he been asked to supervise a season of Paul McGann episodes in the wake of the TV movie
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher
Jun 3, 2026
Jun 3, 2026
38 min
MayGann continues - if May Week hasn't happened yet, then we still consider it May - with our review of Paperhouse, Bernard Rose's beguiling but terrifying fantasy that was written by Matthew Jacobs
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Jun 1, 2026
Jun 1, 2026
54 min
As the tumbleweeds gather around the forthcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, and a year passes since the show was last being broadcast on television, we take stock of the situation and the swirling rumours surrounding the lack of production
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber and the ghost of Steve Hatcher
May 29, 2026
May 29, 2026
1hr 18 min
Matthew Jacobs, writer of the TV movie, stops by for a chat about his career, his process and his influences - and of course about Doctor Who
Presented by J.R. Southall
May 27, 2026
May 27, 2026
1hr 20 min
It's thirty years since Paul McGann's sole outing in a full-length Doctor Who story hit British television screens, so it's about time we took another look to see what we think of it in 2026
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
May 25, 2026
May 25, 2026
1hr 12 min
Geoffrey Sax, director of the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, talks about his career, his process and his influences, and a bit about Doctor Who too
Presented by J.R. Southall
The Disputation (as mentioned), in fuzzy vision, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p3WlesJgaI
May 22, 2026
May 22, 2026
33 min
We take a look at a couple of episodes Matthew Jacobs had written for television prior to his work on the Doctor Who TV movie, one for The Jim Henson Hour and the other an instalment of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees