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Strangers in Space

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

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01:38:28

Blue Box 187: Resurrection Who 6. The Wall of Lies

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2025/09/17

It's Ryan's turn at the wheel of our fictional Doctor Who recreation, and he's here to pick up the idea of a Danny Dyer Doctor and imagine where that might lead the series... much impressionations ensue Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake

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35:12

Film Club Extra: Weapons

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2025/09/15

Warning: if you haven't seen Weapons yet and are thinking of doing so, this review contains major spoilers to all of the film's big plot developments Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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27:39

Who Review Extra 53: Torchwood: End of Days

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2025/09/12

Having discovered a run of form in the latter half of the first season, would Torchwood stick the landing with its first series finale? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

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29:49

Film Club Extra: The Naked Gun (2025)

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2025/09/10

How well would Liam Neeson perform following in the shoeprints of Leslie Nielsen? And could the revival of The Naked Gun live up to the gag-a-minute reputation of the original? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

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01:09:40

Blue Box 186: Fixing Doctor Who

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2025/09/08

How would you script edit the problematic stories of the past in order to deproblematise them, but without removing the problematic elements? Or: how do you fix a problem like The Talons of Weng-Chiang? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

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23:16

Who Review Extra 52: The Shakespeare Code

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2025/09/05

Would the Graham Linehan of Doctor Who's first TV story take flight, and would our reviewers bewitched or be what-what-what?-ed? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

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43:53

Film Club Extra: I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

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2025/09/03

If you woke up on January 1st and persuaded yourself that what you needed most this year was a further instalment of I Know What You Did Last Summer, then bingo you're in luck. For everybody else, here's our review. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

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01:04:41

Blue Box 185: Resurrection Who 5. The Firemaker

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2025/09/01

There's a new Doctor aboard the TARDIS as we enter the fifth season of our imaginary Doctor Who remake - and Mark is here to explain the choice and talk through the stories we've selected for him to experience. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson

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01:17:30

Music Club Extra 09: The Blow Monkeys: Birdsong

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2025/08/29

Dan Jennings of the Paul Weller Fan Podcast joins us to review The Blow Monkeys' new album Birdsong, their first for Alan McGee and Youth's record label Creation Youth Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Dan Jennings Creation Youth Paul Weller Fan Podcast

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22:02

Film Club Lite 84: The Puppet Masters (1994)

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2025/08/27

There had already been three adaptations of Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers by the time Disney's Hollywood Pictures went back to the source, and produced a version of Robert Heinlein's original alien parasite novel The Puppet Masters. Should they have left well alone? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees

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24:53

Blue Box 184: Chronic Hysteretics

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2025/08/25

The quotes coming out of Edinburgh this week might have made it feel like we're stuck in 1989 all over again (or is that 1985?), but this is a different century now - so what did we make of the idea that the TARDIS is "going nowhere"? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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37:48

Film Club Duets 32: Vampira (1974) and Vamps (2012)

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2025/08/22

In this edition we're pairing up a couple of very different but equally unlikely vampires; firstly there's David Niven's urbane and terribly British Count Dracula, and then Alicia Silverstone in an undead rematch with Amy Heckerling, her director on Clueless. What can possibly go right? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

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29:54

Film Club Lite 83: The Relic (1997)

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2025/08/20

Our odyssey through the mid-range monster movies of the 1990s fetches up at The Relic, Timecop director Peter Hyams' museum-set variation on Alien. But would any of us remember the film for long enough to talk about it? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Dylan Rees

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01:10:50

Blue Box 183: Resurrection Who 4. The Return

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2025/08/18

It's the fourth "season" of our imaginary Doctor Who reboot, and a surprise is about to be sprung Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson

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33:46

Film Club Lite 82: Unforgettable (1996)

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2025/08/15

After a run of indelible, critically adored movies culminating in The Last Seduction, was it hubris on John Dahl's part to call his fourth Unforgettable? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake

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31:38

Film Club Lite 81: Mimic (1997)

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2025/08/13

After making a splash in his native Mexico with Cronos, Hollywood invited Guillermo del Toro to come and helm another in its cycle of mid-90s monster movies. The result was Mimic, but what do we think of it now? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher

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46:11

Who Review Extra 51: Human Nature

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2025/08/11

Shakespeare might, according to the tenth Doctor, be the most human human being who ever lived - but that isn't going to stop the tenth Doctor himself from having a go. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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41:55

Film Club Lite 80: Species (1995)

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2025/08/08

It's thirty years since Natasha Henstridge made her film debut as the sexy alien who's looking for the perfect partner with whom to make beautiful human hybrid babies, but what does Species look like in 2025? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees

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01:02:42

Blue Box 182: Resurrection Who 3. The Hall of Dolls

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2025/08/06

Our imaginary rebooted Doctor Who reaches its third season, showing that even after a misunderstanding about what the concept entails, interesting choices can still occur Presented by J.R. Southall, with Steve Hatcher

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23:58

Film Club Extra: Jurassic World: Rebirth

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2025/08/04

Could Jurassic World: Rebirth live up to its name and breathe new life into the dinosaga? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson

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