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
Thursday Dec 18, 2025
Thursday Dec 18, 2025
Craig, Daniel is back as Benoit Blanc in the latest Knives Out Mystery from Rian Johnson
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
We check in on episodes 3 and 4 of the latest Doctor Who spin-off, to see how it's progressing
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
After our episode about Nigel Kneale's famous TV scientist and his portrayal at the movies, we decided to go the full Hammer with a run-through of the highlights of the film series - starting with this duet of two Quatermass-adjacent early horrors
Presented by Matt Barber, with Steve Hatcher and J.R. Southall
Monday Dec 15, 2025
Monday Dec 15, 2025
In which we watch Matt Smith's final episode and wonder if it's a fitting way for the eleventh Doctor to go, and then choose the first Blakes 7 episode we're going to talk about after having added the series to the randomiser
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Friday Dec 12, 2025
Friday Dec 12, 2025
Giving the creator of Coupling and Joking Apart the Doctor Who showrunner job was bound to bring problems - unless of course that's the man the BBC wanted in charge of the programme.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Thursday Dec 11, 2025
Thursday Dec 11, 2025
Our mixed reaction to the first two episodes of the latest Doctor Who spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
With highly inappropriate language right from the very start
Wednesday Dec 10, 2025
Wednesday Dec 10, 2025
It's exactly half a century since Stanley Kubrick followed A Clockwork Orange with his stately, painterly picture Barry Lyndon. But will we be impressed by its languid pace and artistic aspirations?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Luke Molloy
Monday Dec 08, 2025
Monday Dec 08, 2025
The last time Russell T Davies went five-part serial with a Doctor Who spin-off was Torchwood: Children of Earth, and at the time it was a great success. We went back and took another look.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees
Friday Dec 05, 2025
Friday Dec 05, 2025
In which we turn our minds back twenty years to the moments when the first RTD era overstepped the mark, and wonder whether it was ever unacceptable as family viewing
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
The Stephen King adaptations continue to roll in, the latest being this adaptation of his cheery 1979 Richard Bachman novel The Long Walk. Did we go along for the stroll though, or would we grind to a halt?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber