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

Feb 27, 2026
Feb 27, 2026
35 min
Our Oscar conversation moves onto one of the year's less likely nominees, the racing car movie F1
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Iain Martin

Feb 25, 2026
Feb 25, 2026
1hr 1 min
We talk through Doctor Who's modern era spin-off shows, pitting them against each other in an effort to decide which is the more justified
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Feb 23, 2026
Feb 23, 2026
39 min
Mackenzie Crook returns with a new series about a man growing homunculi in his garden shed
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Simon Brett

Feb 20, 2026
Feb 20, 2026
1hr 21 min
With the second season of Prime's hugely successful series Fallout having recently come to a conclusion, we look back at the whole thing with an eye on which bits worked and which might have worked better
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake

Feb 18, 2026
Feb 18, 2026
40 min
It's getting on for a decade since Mark Gatiss wrote his last Doctor Who, but how does it stack up against his earlier episodes?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

Feb 16, 2026
Feb 16, 2026
27 min
Joachim Trier's film Affeksjonsverdi - or Sentimental Value - about an aging film director's two daughters and the different paths they take, is our next Best Picture nominee ahead of this year's Oscars
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Feb 13, 2026
Feb 13, 2026
59 min
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

Feb 11, 2026
Feb 11, 2026
1hr 17 min
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

Feb 9, 2026
Feb 9, 2026
28 min
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

Feb 6, 2026
Feb 6, 2026
53 min
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






