Strangers in Space

16/08/2024

"Made in Birmingham. Yes, that's the main requirement." Our randomiser has directed us to the start of a new era for , but how does Horror of Fang Rock compare with what went directly before?

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/who-review-extra-35-horror-of-fang-rock

14/08/2024

Once Joe Ford began hosting Desert Planet Picks it was bound to happen: a welcome return for Nathan Bottomley, who chooses the eight items he would take with him in a glorious second helping of space exile...

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/desert-planet-picks-71-nathan-bottomley

12/08/2024

In 2011 the brains behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Cloverfield reimagined The Evil Dead as a workplace comedy... Our thoughts on The Cabin in the Woods:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/film-club-lite-62-the-cabin-in-the-woods-2011

09/08/2024

I don't know whether she's mis-speaking here or whether she's accidentally revealed that plans have changed or something, but Jane Tranter in this interview implicitly but unequivocally states that the next series of Doctor Who will not be on until around September of next year.

Jane Tranter spoke with Deadline about launching Season 3 of Industry, reviving Doctor Who on Disney+ and more

09/08/2024

To celebrate leaving Twitter, we're going to run a couple of Film Club polls across the four other platforms on which Strangers in Space is active; if you follow us on all four you can vote on all four - but only votes in the comments under this status will count. First up is your TOP TEN JAMES BOND FILMS; you have until 17th August to figure out your answers...

09/08/2024

It's the first time a season of had had a mid-series cliffhanger, so how does A Good Man Goes to War stack up thirteen years on as a distinct episode in its own right?

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/who-review-extra-34-a-good-man-goes-to-war

07/08/2024

Stephen Wyatt, author of two of the seventh 's most interesting television stories, chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/desert-planet-picks-70-stephen-wyatt

05/08/2024

It's been a while on its way, but with the Fox films under the Disney franchise banner, here's a Marvel team-up to set the box office alight; our review of :

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/film-club-extra-deadpool-wolverine

02/08/2024

It's a couple of weeks since the last episode of the new series , which covers some entirely new ground and throws some terrific ideas at the universe. But is it any good?

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/tv-club-73-the-acolyte

31/07/2024

Daniel Knight - a Doctor Who podcaster with the name of Dan, who'd a thunk it - reveals the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/desert-planet-picks-69-daniel-knight

29/07/2024

Are the viewing figures where they ought to be, will the spin-off be any good, and what did we think of those three minutes of this year's Christmas Special? It's our round-up of the latest news stories from the worlds of :

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/blue-box-155-july-news-round-up

27/07/2024

A rush of news from San Diego means it's time to revive our monthly Who News editions:

The War Between the Land and the Sea, some thoughts on the Season One viewing figures, three minutes of Joy to the World and the real meaning behind Doctor W...

26/07/2024

A bit later than usual but earlier than planned, we decided to slot Pyramids of Mars in as our latest Who Review Extra, given its recent repeat reappearance:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/who-review-extra-33-pyramids-of-mars

24/07/2024

James Lark, composer of Miracles at Short Notice and Tony Blair the Musical, chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/desert-planet-picks-68-james-lark

22/07/2024

This week we're on holiday, and so come Saturday we'll be visiting the Pyramids of Mars, prior to which on Wednesday James Lark will be taken to a desert planet - but first we're off to the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/film-club-extra-kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes

19/07/2024

Last week we watched Alex Garland's latest film about a modern American Civil War, and then Donald Trump got shot at - so we decided to combine the two into one longer conversation (the film review finishes at 26:10)

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/film-club-extra-civil-war

17/07/2024

Voice artist Daniel Rawnsley is Joe Ford's latest victim on Desert Planet Picks, find out which eight items he would take with him if he was about to be marooned in outer space:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/desert-planet-picks-67-daniel-rawnsley

15/07/2024

What better way to wake up on a fine summer's morning than with our chat about the five films based on Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander books, including both versions of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/film-club-64-the-dragon-tattoo-movies

12/07/2024

It's our final post-match analysis on the first season of RTD-2, and this time it's the turn of our listeners to lead the way through the conversation - in our Season One Listeners' Poll:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/blue-box-154-season-one-listeners-poll

10/07/2024

Champion of the Damned Frazer Gregory, takes a big one on the chin for Doctor Who fandom, while choosing his Desert Planet Picks:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/desert-planet-picks-66-frazer-gregory

08/07/2024

It's 1997 all over again... sort of. Our thoughts on Friday's General Election results:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/private-members-club-23-general-election-results

05/07/2024

If the one thing you really need in your life right now is another conversation about the results, then worry not, for here we are riding to your rescue with ours:

You wait fourteen years for an election result to come along and then when it finally does, the thing you really want to do to mark the occasion is point you...

05/07/2024

Our fairly spoilery review of the latest from , , as an alternative to all the politics that'll be filling the news feeds today...

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/tv-club-72-douglas-in-cancelled

04/07/2024

It won't be on the audio feed for about a week, but if you can't wait that long here are the results of our listeners' RTD-2 Season One poll, with lots of commentary both from them and from (the two of) us:

We asked our listeners what they thought of RTD-2 Season One, and here is the order they placed the stories - along with some running commentary by them and ...

03/07/2024

If you're anything like me, you'll be straight down to Waterstones after listening to Adam S. Leslie on the latest Desert Planet Picks, to find a copy of his new novel. And here he is, choosing the eight items he would take with him if marooned in space:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/desert-planet-picks-65-adam-s-leslie

01/07/2024

Why did Rishi Sunak gamble on a snap summer election, and what will Nigel Farage do once it's all over? Just two of the questions we raise in our preview of this week's :

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/private-members-club-22-general-election-preview

29/06/2024

Election day is almost upon us (no not the Arcadia song), so we weren't going to idly sit by and let it happen without putting our thoughts on the record...

It's just a few days' time we'll be back in the polling booths deciding the future of our country, and we had a few thoughts on that... so here we are airing...

28/06/2024

Now that RTD's first season back on is over, we grabbed four members of the Strangers ensemble to look back over it and see if they could find the bits they liked.

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/blue-box-153-season-one-retrospective

26/06/2024

Save this one till after the watershed, our review of the latest season of with a panel of four members of the Strangers team who have mostly missed the individual episode reviews. The language is bluer than Russell T Davies' wild yonder.

"My (pantheon of the) gods, it's full of swears!"Things start off reasonable well as we gather together four members of the Strangers team who haven't made m...

26/06/2024

How will the most joyful man in Doctor Who podcasting find being stranded on an alien world? Time to find out, as Si Hart chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet:

https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/desert-planet-picks-64-si-hart