Me and @markdonaldson.bsky.social fame at last! www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ix...

The King's an It

From the Archives today, we ask if the people writing Doctor Who in the 1960s were able to justify their use of the Cybermen, or whether they were just handy costumes from the stock cupboard strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

May has arrived (or later in the week it will at least), and thanks to the intervention of the randomiser and its choice of The Night of the Doctor, we seem to have gone to MayGann early... jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/the-night-...

The moment when everyone's noticed the gunshots except Donald

From the Archives today, after last week's conversation with Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys about the band's breakthrough album Animal Magic, it seemed only right to sit bass player and drummist Mick and Tony down and find out their thoughts strangersinspace.weebly.com/dr-robert-on...

From the Archives today, some proper archaeology as we head back to a time when Too Hot for TV host Dylan Rees' first book was just being published, for a conversation about his interest in all things wilderness years strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

Post-Britpop, and firmly at the more reflective and melodic end of the indie/alt-rock spectrum, this is a polished up edition of the first CD album put together by our turn-of-the-century band Melodyblind. Free to download now from Bandcamp. melodyblind.bandcamp.com/album/planet...

In some ways it's the illegitimate love child of The Martian and The Lego Movie, and in others it's the alt. universe Solo: A Star Wars Movie that never was. It's Amazon MGM's biggest debut to date, and it's also big in Japan. We talk about Project Hail Mary. jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/project-ha...

For St George's Day, a poem / song about modern England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

It's May next week, and thus MayGann, and so here are the results of our second Doctor listeners' poll a couple of weeks early... jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/second-doc...

Our busy week continues with a look back at David Lynch's original adaptation of Dune, which Roger Ebert described as "incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured and pointless" jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/dune-1984-...

A full week continues with a rambling discussion mostly about the recent revival of Scrubs jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/scrubs-tv-...

We're going daily this week to clear the decks ahead of MayGann, starting with a visit to 1988 to find out what people were listening to in the year the British pound note was replaced by the one-pound coin jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/1988-music...

Beginning in eight days, we spend the entire month of May (plus a little bit on either side) celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of Doctor Who the TV movie, and the careers of the writer, director and star who made it

From the Archives today, Dr Robert chats about @theblowmonkeys.bsky.social' global breakthrough second album Animal Magic, currently celebrating its fortieth anniversary strangersinspace.weebly.com/dr-robert-on...

From the Archives today, a conversation from twelve years ago about Peter Capaldi's potential departure from the series, culminating in the question of whether Doctor Who could or should become a woman strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

This Friday it's the last remastered track from the 1998 debut Melodyblind album, before the album itself goes up on Bandcamp next week. Watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/1Gov4wCGR_c Download (for free) on Bandcamp: melodyblind.bandcamp.com

Could we manage to get through our review of the Sarah Jane Adventure Lost in Time, in the twenty minutes or so we had in which to do it? jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/lost-in-ti... More links: strangersinspace.weebly.com/links.html

Yesterday we published the 1,000th podcast on the Strangers in Space feed. Here are our favourites of the original run Doctor Who stories we've reviewed in that time.

On the spurious pretext that it's Halloween somewhere in the world every day of the year, From the Archives today we dig up our conversation about the 1973 double feature The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

It's the second time we've celebrated 1,000 episodes (don't ask) so rather than mark the occasion, we have belittled it instead with this load of old nonsense. jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/whos-favou...

Tomorrow morning we'll be publishing the 1,000th podcast on the Strangers in Space feed. Here are our favourites of the 20th century films we've reviewed in that time.

From the Archives today: back at the turn of the decade, we asked our listeners to nominate their other favourite sci-fi TV shows: strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc... More links: strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

On Wednesday we'll be publishing the 1,000th podcast on the Strangers in Space feed. Here are our favourites of the TV series (other than Doctor Who) we've reviewed in that time.

A British horror film with a slash of timey-wimey shenanigans? We went back for a second look at Melissa George in Triangle to see if it still makes any sense jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/triangle-2...

From the Archives today: nine years ago, for the Blue Box Podcast's fifth birthday, we assembled the entire team in order to talk about the whole of Doctor Who in sixty minutes flat. We forgot one story. strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

For our 1,000th episode on the Strangers in Space podcast feed, we asked Google AI to make a fool of itself so you don't have to youtu.be/GsAMGhEyrRo

Next Wednesday sees the publication of the 1,000th podcast on the Strangers in Space feed. Here are our favourites of the brand new Doctor Who episodes we've reviewed in that time.

From the Archives today, Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys talks about the choices he made for his 1996 solo covers collection ...Other Folk strangersinspace.weebly.com/dr-robert-on...

9 days since On The Hill dropped. some records take time. this is one of them. not because it's difficult — because it's patient. you'll get out of it what you put in. link in bio.

Next week sees the publication of the 1,000th podcast on the Strangers in Space feed. Here are our favourites of the 21st century films we've reviewed in that time.

If it's Friday it's then it's time for another track from the debut Melodyblind album. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/qs1wC8s3SF4 Listen or "buy" (for free) at Bandcamp: melodyblind.bandcamp.com

The results of our ninth Doctor listeners' poll - plus a few extra thoughts about the missing episodes situation... jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/ninth-doct...

From the Archives today, a two-year-old conversation discussing characters and actors who might usefully make a return appearance in Doctor Who strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

Where were you in 1951? If the answer isn't "inside a cinema watching The Thing from Another World, The Day the Earth Stood Still and When Worlds Collide" then our podcast is here to do it for you: jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/1951-again...

The Daleks' Master Plan is back! (Well, 5/12s of it now at least.) But is it any good, how delighted were we to hear the news, and what are the chances of more episodes in the future? jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/the-daleks...

From the Archives today, another meandering chat with Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys, this one concentrating on their 2008 album (their eighth, and his fifteenth or sixteenth by this point) Feels Like a New Morning strangersinspace.weebly.com/dr-robert-on...

From the Archives today, marking fourteen years since we began podcasting together and 1,000 episodes of Strangers in Space, from twelve years ago here's the 100th Blue Box Podcast on the occasion of its second birthday: strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

The Suicide Show is the second single from the 1998 debut Melodyblind album, available now remastered and for free from Bandcamp - or watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/TCiELtJ0M0U melodyblind.bandcamp.com

We'll be talking Daleks Master Plan on Monday, but for now we've teamed up Hammer's Curse of the Werewolf with Tyburn's Legend of the Werewolf for a comparison between two very different adaptations of the same novel: jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/werewolves...

Over on Facebook, it's time for the second Doctor poll... www.facebook.com/strangersins...

From the Archives today, another Dalek story as chosen by the randomiser, Planet of the Daleks strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

the new DRASS album, On The Hill, is out today - please listen now and listen often, tell your friends (and ideally leave it playing on repeat ) drass.art open.spotify.com/album/53ZJeS...

Imagine a concept album about aliens and telepathy but with the sound of now rather than fifty years ago; we took a spin On the Hill with DRASS to mark the release of his new work: jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/on-the-hil... Find the album here: drass.art

As promised in our last Music Club episode, From the Archives today our review of the frankly astonishing All Saints gangster movie Honest strangersinspace.weebly.com/from-the-arc...

What if RTD had said no to Doctor Who in 2005, how different would the revival have looked if Steven Moffat had been the one to bring the series back instead? jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/swapping-i...

A very simple video for the first Bandcamp release from Melodyblind: Galaxy Song youtu.be/lJYcsYAYcCA

On The Hill is coming… ditto.fm/on-the-hill-...