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
Friday Feb 13, 2026
Friday Feb 13, 2026
We count down the greatest "love" songs of all, so you don't have to
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass
Wednesday Feb 11, 2026
Wednesday Feb 11, 2026
Which were the bits of the Chris Chibnall era where fandom thought it overstepped the mark - and did it really?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Monday Feb 09, 2026
Monday Feb 09, 2026
Our watch through of this year's Best Picture nominees arrives at Train Dreams, the story of the unacknowledged folk who built what would become modern America
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Friday Feb 06, 2026
Friday Feb 06, 2026
It's fifty years since Robert De Niro first rolled Martin Scorsese's cab onto the mean streets of New York, so we thought that was the perfect time to go back and take another look
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Luke Molloy
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
The randomiser chooses what is widely considered to be the runt of one of Doctor Who's greatest ever seasons - but is either of those things really true?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ben Verth
Monday Feb 02, 2026
Monday Feb 02, 2026
Our journey through this year's Academy Award Best Picture nominees continues with a look at Ryan Coogler's vampire movie Sinners
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Saturday Jan 31, 2026
Saturday Jan 31, 2026
After our conversation about the Dracula films at Hammer, we decided to carry on and watch two further instalments: Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) and Dracula A.D. 1972
Presented by Steve Hatcher, with Matt Barber, Dylan Rees and J.R. Southall
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
The second half of our conversation in which we choose the individual stories we think might have made for decent Peter Cushing-style movies, this time going into the 1980s
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Monday Jan 26, 2026
Monday Jan 26, 2026
We start a watch through of this year's Best Picture nominees with Yorgos Lanthimos' latest Bugonia, following a chat about its competition in various categories
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Friday Jan 23, 2026
Friday Jan 23, 2026
We take a look through Malcolm Hulke's lesser known back catalogue in order to help us understand the writer's work on Doctor Who. Including an Armchair Theatre, a Danger Man and a Gideon's Way plus two b-movies (all available to watch on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVW6_yBTNvzdHYj0IX4dm-gM)
Presented by Dylan Rees, with Jon Arnold and J.R. Southall