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Strangers in Space

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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. Links page: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/links.html Where to find the hosts: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/the-team.html
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Episodes

Film Club 27: More 1970s Futures

Ross Aitken, aka Old Who from the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast, guests once again to chat about another three dystopian future visions from the 1970s, in Z.P.G., Westworld and Rollerball Gallifrey's Most Wanted on Twitter

Jan 11, 20211 hr 18 min

Blue Box 51: The RTD Specials

From The Christmas Invasion to The End of Time, the Russell T Davies era saw Doctor Who become established as a Yuletide family favourite. But were the tenth Doctor specials any good? Clay figures created and photographed by Millie McKenzie

Dec 28, 20201 hr 1 min

Film Club 26: It's A Wonderful Life

Our Christmas film of 2020 is Frank Capra's 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life. Plus a rundown of the films we reviewed in 2020; what was our least favourite - and will this one top the list?

Dec 24, 202033 min

Blue Box Bonus 26: Gallifrey's Most Wanted Goes On the Spot

Old Who (that's Ross) and New Who (that's Vic) from the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast, go On the Spot for sixty seconds at a time, on randomly selected Doctor Who stories, so you don't have to Gallifrey's Most Wanted on Twitter

Dec 18, 202020 min

Blue Box 50: Season Nine

With no new arrivals and no departures, Doctor Who in 1972 was very much like Doctor Who in 2015; business as usual. But was Jon Pertwee's third term any good? Clay figures created and photographed by Millie McKenzie

Dec 16, 20201 hr

Film Club Extra: Tenet

It's been on the radar for most of the year, but now that Christopher Nolan's latest has arrived on DVD, it's time to level up on our thoughts about Tenet. Top spot, or dud?

Dec 14, 202040 min

Film Club 25: Welles and Mank

A review of Mank, David Fincher's new film for Netflix, a comparison with its predecessor, RKO 281, and a brief detour into the legacy of Orson Welles and Citizen Kane

Dec 11, 202054 min

Blue Box 49: Series Eight

The twelfth Doctor's first season comes under the spotlight as we travel back to 2014 for Series Eight Artwork borrowed from "JwMnMaso"

Dec 07, 20201 hr 35 min

Film Club Extra: Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics Go On the Spot

Dan and Mike of the Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics podcast go On the Spot for sixty seconds over a randomly selected variety of movie titles ... so we don't have to. Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics on Twitter Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics Podcast

Dec 03, 202023 min

Film Club 24: Life and Death in the 1970s

Ross Aitken of the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast returns, to discuss three more movies from the 1970s: No Blade of Grass, Electra Glide in Blue and The Stepford Wives

Nov 30, 202058 min

Blue Box Bonus 24: Off the Spot

An experiment in talking about Doctor Who without mentioning specific stories or anything connected with them ... so you don't have to.

Nov 26, 202019 min

Blue Box 48: Season 24

The nadir ... or the renaissance? We had back to 1987 to check out Sylvester McCoy's first season as Doctor Who, to find out how we feel about it 33 years later. Millie McKenzie on Twitter

Nov 23, 20201 hr 27 min

Blue Box 47: Series Two

It's time for RTD's second series, David Tennant's tenth Doctor's first, to go under the spotlight, as we turn our microphones back to 2006 and Series Two (Artwork borrowed from Wario64I)

Nov 19, 20201 hr 21 min

Film Club 23: John Fowles

A discussion on the merits - or otherwise - and meanings of the three motion picture adaptations of the novels of John Fowles, The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman

Nov 16, 20201 hr

Film Club Extra: Rebecca

J.R. and Matt chat about the new Netflix adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and absolutely avoid comparing it with the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film, which we also talk about just incidentally. Honest.

Nov 12, 202031 min

Film Club 22: Halloween Special 1973

With actual Halloween on general hiatus this year, we head back instead to our pagan past and take a Venetian holiday in 1973, to talk about the horror double bill of The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now Warning: contains swears

Oct 29, 20201 hr 10 min

Blue Box Bonus 23: On the Spot Round Three

(Three of) the regular hosts each talk for sixty seconds on a variety of randomly selected Doctor Who stories. Artwork from a photograph by Scott Sebring

Oct 26, 202020 min

Blue Box 45: Season Six

It's the final season of the 1960s, and the last for second Doctor Patrick Troughton. We turn our microphones to Season Six, perhaps the most inconsistent till the fifth Doctor's first. Artwork 'borrowed' from FunnyNWittyReference

Oct 22, 20201 hr 26 min

Blue Box Bonus 22: The Happy Man Part One

The first in a three-part story by Stephen Muppet, in which the TARDIS lands fifty years into the future to find all is not well. To find out what happens in the following two instalments, visit Beermat Productions at Wordpress.com

Oct 19, 202031 min

Film Club 21: 1970s Dystopias

Our foreign correspondent Ross Aitken returns to help examine what the filmmakers of the 1970s seemed to think we had coming; it's the turn of Soylent Green, A Boy and His Dog and Logan's Run to go under the Film Club microphones Ross on Twitter Ross' podcast

Oct 12, 20201 hr 12 min

Blue Box 44: Inventing An Emergency

In the second instalment of our look at Doctor Who's curtain raisers and finales, we focus on the first and last episodes of the late 1970s and 1980s

Oct 08, 20201 hr 34 min
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