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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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Film Club Lite 76: Come See the Paradise (1990)

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2025/06/09

Thirty-five years ago, Alan Parker made a film about the internment of American citizens during WWII, because their ethnicity didn't fit the current political climate Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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01:25:01

Blue Box 175: The Season 2 Retrospective

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2025/06/07

Noe that the latest season of Doctor Who has finished its run, we convened a team of mostly people who didn't make it to the individual episode reviews, to look back over the last eight weeks and say what they thought Presented by J.R. Southall, with Simon Brett, Luke Molloy and Dylan Rees

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01:03:15

Blue Box 174: Whose Doctor Who

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2025/06/05

We were planning to get together to discuss how Doctor Who functions in a world where it's both streamed and broadcast, but given how much uncertainty there is about the series' future right now, we decided to make that the spine of the conversation. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees

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01:02:07

Blue Box 173: Piper at the Gates of Who

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2025/06/03

Is she or isn't she? Billie Piper seems to have been cast as the next Doctor - so we get into the possible how and why (and who) of it. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher

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01:11:09

Who Review 41: The Reality War

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2025/05/31

Our thoughts on the Season 2 (or Series 15) finale Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber (and a little Steve Hatcher cameo)

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01:07:42

Blue Box 172: The Story Still to Come

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2025/05/28

Our preview of this year's Doctor Who season finale, spoiler-free (until a short well-announced section at the very end) and filled with as much nonsense as we could possibly muster Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

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01:09:39

Who Review 40: Wish World

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2025/05/24

Our thoughts on Wish World, this year's penultimate episode and the first half of the two-part finale Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Iain Martin

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39:34

Blue Box 171: The Moment is Being Prepared For

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2025/05/20

An EXTREMELY SPOILERIFIC round-up of this week's news and gossip Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Iain Martin

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01:10:01

Who Review 39 - The Interstellar Song Contest

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2025/05/17

We turn our microphones to the subject of the Eurovision Song Contest pastiche in our latest review Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Mark Donaldson, Luke Molloy and Jon Arnold

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53:22

Music Club 26: The UK's Top 10 Eurovision Performances

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2025/05/12

In between the Kenneth McKellars and the Jeminis, the UK has actually won Eurovision five times and come runner-up a further sixteen. But which of those songs was the overall best performing? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett

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58:58

Who Review 38: The Story and the Engine

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2025/05/10

Doctor Who Season Two Five Review Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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58:52

Who Review 37: Lucky Day

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2025/05/03

As we reach the mid-point of this latest (last?) series of Doctor Who, are we any nearer to discovering what it's all been about and how it's all going to end? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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56:20

Who Review 36: The Well

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2025/04/26

It's the first episode this year to feature a writer other than RTD in the credits, but was it a case of "well played" or "oh well" Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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01:06:03

Music Club 25: The Sisters of Mercy

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2025/04/24

It's just over forty years since The Sisters of Mercy's debut album came out, and more than three decades since the still-active band released their third and most recent. So we convened a panel of people for whom the band had meant something special back in the 1980s, for a meandering chat about Andrew Eldritch and his ever-changing cohort. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Couperthwaite and Eric Drass Mark's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOxsDAgGEqsf9VKcG6SR82g Eric's

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01:03:14

Film Club 71: Alfie

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2025/04/21

The one person guaranteed not to be able to answer the question "What's it all about?" is Alfie himself - although he'd surely tell you otherwise. We cast a 21st century eye back at the 1966 film, it's astonishing 1975 sequel, and even the 2004 remake Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Jim Cameron

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01:10:06

Who Review 35: Lux

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2025/04/19

Cartoon characters stepping out of cinema screens is just the start of the weirdness this week, but does it all add up to a lick of sense and does it matter if it doesn't? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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31:32

Film Club Lite 75: The League of Gentlemen's...

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2025/04/17

Just as Doctor Who was returning to our screens twenty years ago, The League of Gentlemen were signing off - with what would turn out to be a divisive (albeit ultimately temporary) full-stop on their canon, a film that turns the original concept on its head; our thoughts are somewhat mixed Presented by Dylan Rees, with Mark Donaldson, Steve Hatcher and J.R. Southall

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44:37

Film Club Duets 29: A Christopher Landon Duo

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2025/04/14

As his latest, the Hitchcockian thriller Drop arrives in cinemas, we take a look at what director and writer Christopher Landon has been up to since the Happy Death Day movies and Freaky: recent Valentine themed slasher Heart Eyes, and the Netflix family film We Have A Ghost Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

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55:35

Who Review 34: The Robot Revolution

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2025/04/12

Doctor Who is back and there's a brand new companion to introduce, but was The Robot Revolution as slight and fluffy as RTD's previous season openers? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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22:32

Film Club Lite 74: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

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2025/04/10

Among the many much more successful films that Val Kilmer appeared in, the pone that we've chosen by way of marking his passing is The Island of Dr. Moreau, the fascinating and ill-fated Richard Stanley adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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