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Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 57: Torchwood: Exit WoundsThe randomiser has chosen the Series 2 finale of Torchwood, Doctor Who's first major spin-off drama, for us to take a look at - but will it fare any better than the Series 1 finale as chosen by the very random randomiser just a few weeks ago?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher
2025-12-0133 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 197: Fowl PestilenceYou might think script editor Eric Saward's tenure on Doctor Who coincided with a period of calm rather than controversy, but we're here to pull back the covers and see if we can't find something to that doesn't smell quite right
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
2025-11-271h 14
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 196: Time Trash (Piper & Paul)Our thoughts on the photo of Billie Piper and Paul McGann on the TARDIS set that emerged at the weekend, leading onto a conversation about what we are expecting for the 2026 special
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
2025-11-2532 min
Strangers in SpaceTV Club 87: Alien: EarthNearly half a century (and eight further films) on from Ridley Scott's original, the Alien franchise comes to television. But is it a natural fit, and is that where it belongs?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
2025-11-2433 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 195: A Dropsical Old Camp FollowerA conversation about Reeltime Pictures' Myth Makers series of interviews, concentrating on two releases in particular, in honour of Dylan's recently published book
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees
Doctor Who Myths and Legends: The Reeltime Pictures Story at Telos
2025-11-2143 min
Strangers in SpaceMusic Club Extra 10: Silk Cuts: Tell Me It’s Not TrueOur review of Tell Me It's Not True, the debut album by indie band Silk Cuts
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett
Vinyl edition at Rough Trade
Download edition at Bandcamp
YouTube channel
Linktree
2025-11-1934 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: Frankenstein (2025)Guillermo del Toro and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ought to be a match made in Heaven, but what would we make of it ahead of our patchwork Hammer watch-through starting next week?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher
2025-11-1737 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 88: Tremors (1990)We're about as far on now from Tremors, as that was from 1954's Them! when it came out in 1990 - but are giant worms in the Sierra Nevada still such a fun concept in 2025?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees
2025-11-1432 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 194: Resurrection Who 8. A Change of IdentityOur imaginary reboot of Doctor Who, created entirely from remakes of stories of the past, finds itself under the auspices of a new showrunner - and with a new Doctor in the form of Michelle Terry
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Simon Brett
2025-11-121h 10
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Duets 35: The Hidden (1987) and Body Snatchers (1993)Two films with aliens masquerading as human beings from either side of 1990, one being Abel Ferrara's take on (Invasion of the) Body Snatchers, and the other from the director of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson and Dylan Rees
2025-11-1047 min
Strangers in SpaceMusic Club 29: Soft CellWe mark the passing of founder member Dave Ball, by looking back at his time in Soft Cell alongside Marc Almond
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass
Eric's Shardcore website
2025-11-0753 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 56: The Three DoctorsIt's over half a century now since the Doctors' timelines first crossed in something resembling what we might know now as an "anniversary special", and certainly the lustre has come off The Three Doctors somewhat in those fifty-odd years - according to some reports at least. But how does it stand up five decades on? The randomiser has decided we take a look
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
2025-11-0539 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: Caught StealingAustin Butler in a crime comedy from the director of Black Swan, Mother! and Requiem for a Dream? That couldn't possibly work... could it? (Warning: contains spoilers for major plot developments.)
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
2025-11-0358 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 193: The Wholloween ChallengeIn which we divide into teams in order to choose the Doctor Who story that is the most appropriate for its Halloween broadcast slot
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
2025-10-3137 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 192: RTD’s Full CircleDoctor Who is back, and this time it's just for Christmas - or is it? We try to get to the bottom of yesterday's announcement countering the premature death notices for RTD's Doctor Who
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Simon Brett
2025-10-3035 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club 75: Jordan PeeleAn overview of the three films directed by the Monkeypaw Productions man: Get Out, Us and Nope
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
2025-10-291h 09
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Duets 34: Remakes of the DeadWhen we discovered that Zack Snyder and James Gunn, the two titans of DC, were both credited on the 2004 remake of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, we just had to investigate. And then when we noticed that the creator of the Final Destination franchise had also been partly responsible for the remake of follow-up Day of the Dead four years later, we decided to watch that one too.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Richie Morgan and Dylan Rees
2025-10-2752 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: EdenRon Howard's latest is set among German colonists on the Galapagos Islands between the wars of the last century, with Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas and Vanessa Kirby (not to mention Jude Law) falling out in the Equatorial sun. What could possibly go wrong?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
2025-10-2430 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 191: Notorious KarnPhilip Hinchcliffe might have suggested that Mary Whitehouse was "somewhat over-hysterical", but Barry Letts admitted that when she complained about Doctor Who, the viewing figures went up. So was the temptation in the mid-1970s to push the series too far in order to attract viewers? And how far is too far?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
2025-10-221h 24
Strangers in SpaceTV Club 86: Climax! Casino RoyaleIan Fleming's debut novel Casino Royale has been adapted for the screen three times, in wildly different versions. After having spoken about the other two, we decided it was time to take a look at the first, a live US TV play broadcast while the novel was barely off the press.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees
2025-10-2048 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 87: Extreme Measures (1996)The star of Four Weddings, the writer of Andor, Carrie from Sex and the City, the director of Seven Up! and Gene Hackman - not to mention produced by Elizabeth Hurley - is quite the line-up of talent. Can Extreme Measures live up to its promise?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees
2025-10-1723 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 55: The Dalek Invasion of EarthThe randomiser brings us to Earth in 2164 (or so), exactly-ish two centuries in the future after a plague has wiped out the majority of the population of the planet and it's almost like WWII never stopped happening. But will the BBC manage to convey all this from the confines of a little TV studio?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
2025-10-1548 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 86: The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)There's been a lot of love for the recent Tim Key comedy about a reclusive music fan who tries to get his favourite folk duo back together again. But what would we make of it?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
2025-10-1331 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 190: Netflix Who?You'd think Doctor Who news might be a bit thin on the ground with no production currently underway nor very much likely to be any time soon. But the rumours and gossip just keep on coming.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Mark Donaldson and Steve Hatcher
2025-10-1044 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 189: Resurrection Who 7. A Land of FearHow will our current mascot Danny Dyer take, to starring in a more bucolic version of Doctor Who? Our reimagined history of the series enters its seventh season.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
2025-10-081h 16
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Duets 33: Albert Pyun Double FeatureWhen we realised that the director of The Sword and the Sorcerer had also made the 1990 Captain America, we couldn't resist going back for another look at both
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees
2025-10-0634 min
Strangers in SpaceTV Club 85: Steven Moffat Short TripsWe travel back to the 1990s, before even The Curse of Fatal Death was a twinkle in Steven Moffat's eye, to look at some of the writer-for-hire and one-off projects he completed before he became a household name
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees
2025-10-0351 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 54: Fury from the DeepThe randomiser takes us to yet another isolated workplace in the 1960s, but will Victoria's screaming save the day, or is Fury from the Deep just a load of old gas?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
2025-10-0151 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club 74: Denis VilleneuveAfter Amazon MGM Studios announced Denis Villeneuve as the director who would take the helm of their first Bond movie, we decided to have a look back at his non-franchise English language movies to see if we could see why.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
2025-09-291h 13
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club 73: Quatermass at HammerIt's seventy years since Nigel Kneale's most famous creation made his way from the small screen to the big, but how successful was the transfer to Quatermass at Hammer?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
2025-09-261h 03
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 85: All the President’s Men (1976)In tribute to Robert Redford we've taken another look at the movie he and Dustin Hoffman, plus director Alan J. Pakula and screenwriter William Goldman, made about the Watergate break-in
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
2025-09-2428 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 188: The Fault Locator PanelWhen does pushing the boundaries become going too far?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
2025-09-2254 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: TogetherThe only way we could talk about what the title means, is to get heavily into spoiler territory - so if you haven't seen Together yet, then set this review aside until you have
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
2025-09-1931 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 187: Resurrection Who 6. The Wall of LiesIt'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
2025-09-171h 38
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: WeaponsWarning: 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
2025-09-1535 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 53: Torchwood: End of DaysHaving 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
2025-09-1227 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: The Naked Gun (2025)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
2025-09-1029 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 186: Fixing Doctor WhoHow 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
2025-09-081h 09
Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 52: The Shakespeare CodeWould 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
2025-09-0523 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)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
2025-09-0343 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 185: Resurrection Who 5. The FiremakerThere'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
2025-09-011h 04
Strangers in SpaceMusic Club Extra 09: The Blow Monkeys: BirdsongDan 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
2025-08-291h 17
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 84: The Puppet Masters (1994)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
2025-08-2722 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 184: Who News: Chronic HystereticsThe 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
2025-08-2524 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Duets 32: Vampira (1974) and Vamps (2012)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
2025-08-2237 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 83: The Relic (1997)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
2025-08-2029 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 183: Resurrection Who 4. The ReturnIt'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
2025-08-181h 10
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 82: Unforgettable (1996)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
2025-08-1533 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 81: Mimic (1997)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
2025-08-1331 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 51: Human NatureShakespeare 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
2025-08-1146 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 80: Species (1995)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
2025-08-0841 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 182: Resurrection Who 3. The Hall of DollsOur 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
2025-08-061h 02
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: Jurassic World: RebirthCould Jurassic World: Rebirth live up to its name and breathe new life into the dinosaga?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson
2025-08-0423 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 181: Summer QuizOur now traditional seasonal quiz returns for a summer instalment, pitting our three teams' wits against some House of Games styled Doctor Who themed rounds as the grudge between two particular hosts deepens
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher as Delta Free, Ryan Blake and Iain Martin as Thoros Belter, and Matt Barber and Luke Molloy as Terror Alpha
2025-08-0137 min
Strangers in SpaceTV Club 84: Summer Round-UpA round-up of some recent TV, starting with Murderbot, taking in Bookish, and finally some thoughts about Poker Face
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
2025-07-3057 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: The Fantastic Four: First StepsIt's doing great box office from mostly positive reviews, but what would our team make of the new Fantastic Four film - fourth time lucky?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake and Simon Brett
2025-07-2856 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Duet 31: Superman and Thunderbolts*Our - fairly spoilery (especially in the latter case) - thoughts on two recent superhero pictures: James Gunn's revitalisation of Superman; and now arriving on streaming services, the MCU's new team Thunderbolts*
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake and Simon Brett
2025-07-251h 17
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 180: Resurrection Who 2. Devil’s PlanetIt's Season 2 of our own, rebooted Doctor Who, and someone else's turn to have a go at creating a themed series of episodes telling a compelling, coherent story out of the concept of only remaking the stories of the past
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
2025-07-2351 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 79: The Faculty (1998)From the writer of Scream and the director of From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty debuted underwhelmingly but seems to have picked up cult status over the years. So what would we make of it?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Dylan Rees
2025-07-2140 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 179: The Death of Doctor WhoOur thoughts on recent off-camera developments and the future - or lack thereof - of Doctor Who
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher
2025-07-1828 min
Strangers in SpaceMusic Club 28: David BowieFrom the King Bees to Tin Machine and beyond, Davie Jones had quite the career in pop. We assembled a team of six to choose our Top 5 Bowie songs, eventually narrowing down our choices till we arrived at what might be his greatest single of all.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett, Iain Martin and Harry Palmer
2025-07-161h 11
Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 50: Victory of the DaleksIt was the Daleks' first appearance in Steven Moffat's Doctor Who and the first time Matt Smith's Doctor had come face to face with them - and it was very much Amy's first time too - but Victory of the Daleks has always divided opinions. The question is, after fifteen years would that still be the case?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Ryan Blake and Simon Brett
2025-07-1442 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 78: Cube (1997)There can't be many horror films where it's the Japanese who've remade it in their own language rather than the other way around, but the original Cube is one. We take a look to see how it stands up nearly thirty years later
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees
2025-07-1141 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 77: Deep Rising (1998)Deep Rising was the last film Stephen Sommers made before he went stratospheric with The Mummy, but while it's basically Aliens on an abandoned ship, is it actually any good?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Simon Brett and Dylan Rees
2025-07-0931 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 178: Resurrection Who 1. The Nightmare BeginsIn the first on a new strand, we ask the question: if Doctor Who were to be rebooted from scratch (with our mascot Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the Doctor), which of the stories that it has already told would stand up to being told again?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
2025-07-071h 18
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club 72: Back to the FutureIt's four decades since Doc Brown's DeLorean DMC-12 whisked Michael J. Fox back in time to meet his parents when they were youngsters, but how does the Back to the Future trilogy look forty years into its own future?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Steve Hatcher
2025-07-031h 09
Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 49: Rise of the CybermenAn alternative Earth with a parallel Pete (and Jackie), and a new origins story for the Cybermen. But how does The Age of Steel stack up almost two decades later?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
2025-07-0142 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Extra: 28 Years LaterWe went to see Alex Garland and Danny Boyle's return to the 28 Laters saga, so you don't have to
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake
Spoiler warning: right from the beginning of this conversation, we'll be talking about all the major developments of the film, including its ending
2025-06-2657 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 177: The Season 2 Listeners’ PollOur listeners listed their favourite to least favourite stories of the latest season of Doctor Who, so we got someone in who hadn't seen many of them, to try and help understand the results
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Iain Martin
2025-06-231h 23
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 176: Primed for ’Action!’Legopolis himself, Mr Steven Schapansky, joins us to talk about the future of Doctor Who: who will be making it, who will be running it, who will be the star and more urgently for right now, which streamer will the BBC pair up with to publish it?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Mark Cockram, Steve Hatcher, Iain Martin and special guest Steven Schapansky
2025-06-211h 03
Strangers in SpaceTV Club 83: Andor (Season Two)A conversation about Andor, with particular emphasis on the recent second season
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Ryan Blake and Simon Brett
2025-06-191h 14
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Duets 30: Bond Not-BondTo lose the rights to one Bond might be considered unlucky, to lose the rights to two looks like carelessness. Our thoughts on the two non-Eon Productions 007 movies, Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again
Presented by J.R. Southall, with a rotating cast of Bond co-hosts, including Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees
2025-06-171h 16
Strangers in SpaceMusic Club 27: Simon and GarfunkelWe each choose our favourite five Simon and Garfunkel songs
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher
2025-06-121h 08
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 76: Come See the Paradise (1990)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
2025-06-0930 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 175: The Season 2 RetrospectiveNoe 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
2025-06-071h 25
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 174: Whose Doctor WhoWe 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
2025-06-051h 03
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 173: Piper at the Gates of WhoIs 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
2025-06-031h 02
Strangers in SpaceWho Review 41: The Reality WarOur 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)
2025-05-311h 11
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 172: The Story Still to ComeOur 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
2025-05-281h 07
Strangers in SpaceWho Review 40: Wish WorldOur 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
2025-05-241h 09
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 171: The Moment is Being Prepared ForAn 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
2025-05-2039 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review 39: The Interstellar Song ContestWe 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
2025-05-171h 10
Strangers in SpaceMusic Club 26: The UK’s Top 10 Eurovision PerformancesIn 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
2025-05-1253 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review 38: The Story and the EngineDoctor Who
Season Two
Five Review
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
2025-05-1058 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review 37: Lucky DayAs 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
2025-05-0358 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review 36: The WellIt'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
2025-04-2656 min
Strangers in SpaceMusic Club 25: The Sisters of MercyIt'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 website: https://www.shardcore.org/spx/
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2025-04-241h 06
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club 71: AlfieThe 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
2025-04-211h 03
Strangers in SpaceWho Review 35: LuxCartoon 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
2025-04-191h 10
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 75: The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse (2005)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
2025-04-1731 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Duets 29: A Christopher Landon DuoAs 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
2025-04-1444 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review 34: The Robot RevolutionDoctor 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
2025-04-1255 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Lite 74: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)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
2025-04-1022 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 170: The Doctor Who Season Two PreviewFurther thoughts about the shape of Season 2, and the potential longevity of Doctor Who, ahead of the launch next weekend
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
2025-04-0752 min
Strangers in SpaceTV Club 82: AdolescenceIt's not only the subject matter that makes Adolescence compelling, it's the production choices too; we take a look under the bonnet and try to figure out why it's getting such a positive reaction
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
2025-04-0433 min
Strangers in SpaceBook Club 05: The Day and Night of the Triffids (2001 / 2014)Two modern audio adaptations of Triffids novels come under the microphones as part of our slowly-expanding Apocalypse UK strand, the first a 2001 BBC World Service radio version of Wyndham's original The Day of the Triffids, the second Big Finish's 2014 The Night of the Triffids, its official sequel as adapted by the author of the novel, Simon Clark
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jim Cameron and Dylan Rees
2025-04-0232 min
Strangers in SpaceMusic Club Extra 08: Bucks Fizz (1981)With Eurovision (and indeed, the interstellar version) on the horizon once again, we thought it high time we took a look back at the debut Bucks Fizz album from 1981, which followed in the wake of their own Eurovision success
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold
2025-04-0125 min
Strangers in SpaceWho Review Extra 48: Carnival of MonstersThe third Doctor gets back into space after a long lay-over on Earth, only to find himself stuck inside a miniscope with Drashigs, Leslie Dwyer and Major Daly; the randomiser brings us to the Carnival of Monsters
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
2025-03-3129 min
Strangers in SpaceFilm Club Duets 28: Alien Fan ProjectsOur slow crawl through the Alien universe takes in a couple of fan projects, last year's Australian short No Man's Land, and the recently streaming documentary Alien On Stage about - you guessed it - a stage production of the first Alien movie in Dorset (and Leicester Square)
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson
No Man's Land is available for free on YouTube
2025-03-2839 min
Strangers in SpaceBlue Box 169: Between the Idea and the RealityIt's two decades since Doctor Who returned - but has it lived more in those twenty years than others do in eighty? We talk about the best and the worst of the revival, plus a little quiz.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher, Iain Martin and Harry Palmer
2025-03-261h 11