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
May 20, 2026
May 20, 2026
57 min
A conversation about the "new" elements that comprised Doctor Who in the 1990s, and whether it was the right time for them
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
May 18, 2026
May 18, 2026
28 min
Written by Meglos' Flanagan and McCulloch and overseen by Verity Lambert, and with Michael Gough, David Calder and Alan David among the supporting cast - not to mention Nigel Havers and Warren Clarke as the two leads - Sleepers appeared five years before the Doctor Who TV movie with Geoffrey Sax in the director's chair
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
May 15, 2026
May 15, 2026
34 min
Our appreciation of the work of Paul McGann continues as we try and find him in 2002's rights-grab Interview With a Vampire sequel Queen of the Damned, or indeed anything of merit
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees
May 13, 2026
May 13, 2026
1hr 17 min
The TV movie helped us make it through the wilderness years, but it's far from the only Doctor Who that was produced during the period
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
May 11, 2026
May 11, 2026
49 min
MayGann continues to rifle through the Paul McGann back catalogue, today's selection being the 1986 Alan Bleasdale serial that was largely responsible for launching McGann's screen career
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
May 8, 2026
May 8, 2026
42 min
MayGann continues with another movie starring Paul McGann, this time as a lesbian vampire hunting priest alongside Hall and Corden, in a film that couldn't possibly be as bad as we remembered it being - could it?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake, Luke Molloy and Dylan Rees
May 6, 2026
May 6, 2026
43 min
MayGann wouldn't be complete without a trip to the Old West, and the Doctor Who set that TV movie writer Matthew Jacobs visited as a child to watch his father as an actor
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher
May 4, 2026
May 4, 2026
31 min
MayGann continues with Paul McGann appearing in a 1997 film called Downtime, as reviewed here by the author of Downtime: The Lost Years of Doctor Who
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees
Watch Downtime on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hwgXW7UHUpE
May 2, 2026
May 2, 2026
51 min
With new rumours swirling about where the future of Doctor Who might lie, we take a look at the latest evidence and discuss its potential
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
May 1, 2026
May 1, 2026
53 min
MayGann begins in earnest, with our review of Andrew Davies' 2002 adaptation of Sarah Waters' debut novel Tipping the Velvet, as directed by Geoffrey Sax
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold