A shorter than usual edition of Film Club this time, looking at Peter Jackson's epic trilogy of adaptations of The Lord of the Rings books. But which of us are the friendly hobbits and who turns out to be the irksome Orc...?
Oct 05, 2020•43 min
It's back to Matt Smith's debut season in this episode, our retrospective of Steven Moffat's first year in the showrunnership, Series Five
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 30 min
A short bonus podcast today, in which we play another round of 'Guess the Doctor Who story'
Sep 28, 2020•24 min
A profile of genre director John Carpenter, with particular emphasis on reviews of Halloween and Escape from New York
Sep 24, 2020•52 min
Examining the role of the opening and closing stories in a season; in the first part of this feature we look at the curtain raisers and finales in Doctor Who between 1963 and 1974
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min
J.R. and Matt head back to the 1980s to remember the TV series that came to define how we watch TV detectives Opening theme: And Also the Trees
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 16 min
It's time to turn our microphones to 1975, and the first year of Doctor Who with Tom Baker in the role
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 9 min
The final instalment of our returning characters conversation turns to (mostly) the Steven Moffat era
Sep 10, 2020•53 min
Charlie Kaufman's new film goes under the Film Club microphone, in this short bonus review episode
Sep 07, 2020•37 min
It's time to turn our attentions to the subject of returning characters in modern Doctor Who, and in this first of two episodes, generally more specifically during the Russell T Davies era
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 8 min
3,067 days (or eight years, four months and 23 days, or 499 podcast episodes) ago, Mark Cockram, Lee Rawlings and J.R. Southall published their first Blue Box Podcast. Today, 3,067 days (or eight years, four months and 23 days, or 499 podcast episodes) later, and with the help of new regular podcasters Simon Brett and Matt Barber in place of the waylaid Mr Cockram, it's time to publish our 500th. With a very special guest, and ostensibly in order to talk about our listeners' Top Ten TV (Other) S...
Aug 31, 2020•51 min
The TV writer of Kill the Moon, The Zygon Invasion/Inversion and The Pyramid at the End of the World stops by for a chat about surviving the pandemic, the intersection between whimsy and seriousness, writing movies, deleting Kenneth Branagh's jokes and of course, his Doctor Who stories Opening theme: Unilever
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 36 min
Earlier this year I recorded one of my little Doctor Who quizzes to go out on YouTube; here's the audio for that quiz, for anyone who might like to play along without the video element...
Aug 24, 2020•25 min
From Terror of the Autons to The Timeless Children and all points in between (except the ones we ruled out), we asked our listeners to name their Top Ten Master Stories - and here are the results.
Aug 20, 2020•1 hr 38 min
Ross Aitken of the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast joins me to look at the three film adaptations of Richard Matheson's debut novel I Am Legend, including The Last Man on Earth and of course, The Omega Man Gallifrey's Most Wanted on iTunes Gallifrey's Most Wanted on Twitter
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 15 min
It's back to the beginning as we reach the end of our initial run of revisitations, with a look at Doctor Who's very first season from 1963/4 (Artwork borrowed from Jeremy Bonwick)
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr 14 min
With the release of Tenet coming up on August the Septemberth, we thought it was time to turn our focus on the film career of Christopher Nolan, and sort out the Interstellar from the Prestige
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 11 min
By way of a preamble (and it's very amble) to our Season One review next week, J.R. takes a dive into the Cuttings Archive, to look at how those earliest of the Doctor Who serials were promoted in the press The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive
Aug 06, 2020•40 min
It's all change in the producer's chair as Doctor Who enters its fifteenth year, but can Horror of Fang Rock achieve the highest percentage score yet? (Art borrowed from mimikeyu)
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 37 min
From the Master to the Mara via the Monk (but not the Megara), we turn our attention to the returning Time Lords and other villains that plagued the Doctor throughout the original series
Jul 30, 2020•1 hr 13 min
As a prologue to doing something a bit more substantial on Steven Spielberg later on, we decided to each choose our top five movies of his career
Jul 27, 2020•49 min
It's back to Doctor Who's twentieth season for this week's listeners' poll, as we ask if Enlightenment was the choice they made, and whether Terminus was the last thing on their list.
Jul 23, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Is there more to the giant ape picture than meets the eye? It's time for Film Club to take a stroll back to 2005, then 1976, and finally 1933, to find out...
Jul 20, 2020•55 min
Our listener polling reaches Season Four, wherein some important new Doctor Who lore is created and the historicals are phased out. But will the Daleks be victorious - and if so, with which story? Artwork 'borrowed' from embersfieldfilms
Jul 16, 2020•2 hr 5 min
Caustic comedies author Rob Shearman chooses the ten films that have been the biggest influence on his life and career, in a variety of "randomly chosen" categories. Opening theme: Unilever We All Hear Stories in The Dark hardback We All Hear Stories in the Dark paperback...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 37 min
So, this thing happened, a bit like that scene in Blink where Sally Sparrow gets a letter from the past.
Jul 09, 2020•24 min
The latest episode is the first half of a two-part examination of the legitimacy and effectiveness of bringing characters back from Doctor Who's past. This week, we look at the Doctor's friends.
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min
We asked our listeners to name their ten favourite Dalek stories. This is what they said.
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 42 min
It's back to the 25th anniversary, as Season 25 of Doctor Who comes under the microphone
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Our tribute to Ian Holm
Jun 22, 2020•33 min
