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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 Extra: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Winner of Best International Feature Film at this year's Academy Awards, Edward Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front is the third adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque novel and the second time the story has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar

Mar 27, 202322 min

Film Club Extra: Luther: The Fallen Sun

Our thoughts on the new Luther TV movie, in which Idris Elba's character gets the boot from the establishment where he's been working these last years, and fetches up as a special agent for Netflix instead

Mar 22, 202330 min

Desert Planet Picks 55: Dylan Rees

Our recent addition Dylan chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet

Mar 20, 202353 min

TV Club 46: Endeavour

Now that Inspector Morse's origins have been fully explored - or as fully as writer Russell Lewis is going to - we turn our microphones to the prequel series Endeavour, and ask if it's a spin-off that lives up to its predecessor

Mar 17, 20231 hr 12 min

TV Club 45: The Last of Us

Dylan and JR give their thoughts on the new and recently concluded post-apocalypse drama The Last of Us

Mar 16, 202345 min

Blue Box 104: Whose of Games Day Five

It's the final day of our Doctor Who-themed House of Games-styled quiz, with Matt, Jon and Iain challenging to be the ultimate victor Until Round Tow, whereafter JR's challenge is to inject some sense of jeopardy back into the competition; in the end, the only winner is you, of course, the listener

Mar 15, 202347 min

Film Club Extra: Oscars 2023

Our thoughts on the winners and occasionally losers, after this year's Academy Awards were announced

Mar 14, 202340 min

Film Club Extra: The Whale

Ahead of our reaction on the Oscar results themselves, here are our thoughts on the latest from Darren Aronofsky, The Whale, for which Brendan Fraser has been nominated Best Actor

Mar 13, 202328 min

Film Club Extra: Triangle of Sadness

The last Best Picture nominee we're going to get to before the Oscars announce their winner, is Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness, a satire on status mostly set on a ship

Mar 12, 202325 min

Private Members Club 14: Dispatch of the Day

It comes to a pretty pass when football's 'Mr. Nice Guy'™ gets sent off from his own television hosting job, but that's thirteen years of Tory government for you: not so much football sponsorship as footballer censorship; our thoughts

Mar 11, 202332 min

Film Club Extra: Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick might perhaps be the most unlikely candidate for this year's Best Picture Academy Award, but does it stand a chance in hell of winning?

Mar 10, 202317 min

Film Club Extra: Women Talking

Having talked about She Said earlier in the year, we now turn our microphones to Plan B films' other MeToo movie, Sarah Polley's latest, the Best Picture-nominated drama Women Talking

Mar 09, 202324 min

Blue Box 103: Whose of Games Day Four

It's the penultimate edition of our Doctor Who-themed House of Games-styled quiz, as Dylan, Iain and Matt go five rounds in an evenly paced competition

Mar 08, 202331 min

Film Club Extra: Elvis

Baz Luhrmann's glitterball biography of Elvis Presley - or of Colonel Parker perhaps - is the latest review in our rundown of this year's Best Picture nominees

Mar 07, 202336 min

Private Members Club 13: Windsor Dazzle

It's been a curious week in UK politics, what with Rishi Sunak's Windsor framework and Matt Hancock's double-dealing ghost writer; obviously that was how we wanted to kick off Oscars week

Mar 06, 202331 min

Film Club Extra: The Banshees of Inisherin

Martin McDonagh's film about a feud on a remote Irish island exactly a century ago is the latest of this year's Best Picture nominees to come under our microphones

Mar 03, 202324 min

Blue Box 102: Whose of Games Day Three

It's the third day of our Doctor Who meets House of Games style quiz, and this one's a guest edition as podcast hosts Phil from Who's He? and Harry from Who Can Convince You challenge our own Jim from the Krynoid Pod

Mar 01, 202344 min

Film Club Lite 36: The Keep (1983)

Cult classic or tangerine nightmare? Only in the 1980s could Michael Mann go to the studio with a three-hour cut of his second feature, a demonic horror set in an East European castle during WWII and all playing out to the sound of a synth-pop score. What on Earth would we make of that?

Feb 27, 202328 min

Film Club Extra: Tár

What's more important, art or humankind-ness? That's the question Todd Field asks in his latest, the Best Picture nominated Tár - but does the film provide any answers? Matt and JR go looking

Feb 24, 202327 min

Blue Box 101: Whose of Games Day Two

A Doctor Who-themed House of Games rip-off, it's Day Two of our 'new' quiz format as JR sets the questions in another series of five rounds Can also be watched like a real television programme, as part of our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVXbrHHyQOFvRu-Oy5EEaFGZ

Feb 22, 202329 min

TV Club 44: 12:01 (1993)

If you hadn't had enough Groundhog Day already, then here's a contemporaneous television take on the idea, although this second adaptation of Richard Lupoff's short story hasn't aged nearly as well according to (most of) our panel

Feb 17, 202329 min

Blue Box 100: Whose of Games Day One

A Doctor Who-themed House of Games rip-off, it's Day One of our 'new' quiz format as JR sets the questions in a series of five rounds Can also be watched like a real television programme, as part of our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVXbrHHyQOFvRu-Oy5EEaFGZ

Feb 15, 202335 min

Desert Planet Picks 54: Mark Blayney

Poet, journalist and mentor Mark Blayney chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Photo by Dave Daggers

Feb 13, 20231 hr 3 min

Film Club Lite 35: Groundhog Day (1993)

It's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? JR and Dylan chat about Groundhog Day

Feb 10, 202329 min

Film Club Lite 34: Groundhog Day (1993)

It's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? Iain and Mark talk Groundhog Day

Feb 08, 202326 min

Film Club Lite 33: Groundhog Day (1993)

It's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? Matt leads the gang through a conversation about Groundhog Day

Feb 06, 202340 min

Film Club Lite 32: Severance (2006)

Following our review of the TV drama Severance, here's our review of the film Severance, Christopher Smith's 2006 comedy-horror starring Danny Dyer

Feb 03, 202322 min

TV Club 43: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Our thoughts on Tom Baker's appearance as Sherlock Holmes in Letts and Dicks' classic serial adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles Watch along: https://archive.org/download/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-1982

Feb 01, 202340 min
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