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Strangers in Space: once a month, for sixty minutes*, J.R. Southall, Lee Rawlings, Simon Brett and Matt Barber talk about Doctor Who so you don't have to (*times may vary) Desert Planet Picks: once a week, a special guest chooses the eight items they'd take with them, if they were about to be maroon…

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    Blue Box 176: Primed for 'Action!'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2025 63:56


    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

    TV Club 83: Andor (Season Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 74:06


    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

    Film Club Duets 30: Bond Not-Bond

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 76:28


    To 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

    Music Club 27: Simon and Garfunkel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 68:24


    We each choose our favourite five Simon and Garfunkel songs Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

    Film Club Lite 76: Come See the Paradise (1990)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 30:40


    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

    Blue Box 175: The Season 2 Retrospective

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2025 85:01


    Noe 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

    Blue Box 174: Whose Doctor Who

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 63:15


    We 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

    Blue Box 173: Piper at the Gates of Who

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 62:07


    Is 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

    Who Review 41: The Reality War

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2025 71:09


    Our 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)

    Blue Box 172: The Story Still to Come

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 67:42


    Our 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

    Who Review 40: Wish World

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2025 69:39


    Our 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

    Blue Box 171: The Moment is Being Prepared For

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 39:34


    An 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

    Who Review 39: The Interstellar Song Contest

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 70:01


    We 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

    Music Club 26: The UK's Top 10 Eurovision Performances

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 53:22


    In 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

    Who Review 38: The Story and the Engine

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 58:58


    Doctor Who Season Two Five Review Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

    Who Review 37: Lucky Day

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2025 58:52


    As 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

    Who Review 36: The Well

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2025 56:20


    It'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

    Music Club 25: The Sisters of Mercy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 66:03


    It'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/ N.B. Includes some audio issues given that J.R. forgot to turn his microphone on

    Film Club 71: Alfie

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 63:14


    The 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

    Who Review 35: Lux

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 70:06


    Cartoon 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

    Film Club Lite 75: The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 31:32


    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

    Film Club Duets 29: A Christopher Landon Duo

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 44:37


    As 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

    Who Review 34: The Robot Revolution

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2025 55:35


    Doctor 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

    Film Club Lite 74: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 22:32


    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

    Blue Box 170: The Doctor Who Season Two Preview

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 52:45


    Further 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

    TV Club 82: Adolescence

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 33:21


    It'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

    Book Club 05: The Day and Night of the Triffids (2001 / 2014)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 32:57


    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

    Music Club Extra 08: Bucks Fizz (1981)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 25:12


    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

    Who Review Extra 48: Carnival of Monsters

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 29:39


    The 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

    Film Club Duets 28: Alien Fan Projects

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 39:18


    Our 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

    Blue Box 169: Between the Idea and the Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 71:51


    It'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

    Desert Planet Picks 79: Iain Key

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 45:08


    DJ and author Iain Key chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Presented by Simon Brett

    TV Club 81: The League of Gentlemen (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 53:39


    Our return visit to Royston Vasey continues with Series Three and the anniversary specials, plus a chat about The League of Gentlemen live Presented by Dylan Rees, with Mark Donaldson, Steve Hatcher, Harry Palmer and J.R. Southall Warning: includes one use of a very naughty word, from Mark Pottyface Donaldson

    Film Club Lite 73: Hoot (2006)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 36:02


    After we discovered the existence of a children's film based on a novel by Bad Monkey and Striptease author Carl Hiaasen, we just had to take a look. And what an array of surprises we found there... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Iain Martin

    Film Club Duets 27: Mulholland Drive (1999 & 2001)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 45:50


    A comparison of the film that began life as the pilot for what could have been a Twin Peaks spin-off series, but which went on to become regarded as perhaps David Lynch's best work, and that original TV movie which has of course subsequently surfaced online Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

    Who Review Extra 47: The Leisure Hive

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 36:48


    The randomiser brings us to the beginning of Season 18, and the dawn of a brand new era - albeit with the same lead actors and one of the same writers who had been working on Doctor Who for the last couple of seasons. So how does The Leisure Hive look now? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

    Film Club Duets 26: Inseminoid (1981) and Xtro (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2025 41:25


    We take a look at two of the low-budget British films that came out in the wake of Alien, and rather foolishly - or otherwise - said "I can do that!" Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

    TV Club 80: The League of Gentlemen (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 65:14


    In the first instalment of a three-part retrospective of The League of Gentlemen, we cast our microphones over the radio show, the first two TV series and the Christmas Special Presented by Dylan Rees, with Mark Donaldson, Steve Hatcher, Harry Palmer and J.R. Southall

    Who Review Extra 46: Torchwood: Adam

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 31:08


    The randomiser has found us an episode from Torchwood's second series, but will we be more impressed with Adam than we were with some of the stories from Series One? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Luke Molloy

    Film Club Extra: Oscars 2025 & I'm Still Here

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 52:14


    Our reaction to the 97th Academy Awards, the winners and the ceremony - and a review of Best International Feature winner I'm Still Here Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Mark Donaldson

    Film Club Duets 25: The Brutalist & A Complete Unknown

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 60:28


    Two more Best Picture hopefuls come under the spotlight, immigrant drama The Brutalist and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, plus we give our final predictions ahead of the ceremony itself Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Luke Molloy

    TV Club 79: V

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 34:34


    The original miniseries of V rocked the world back in 1983, but how is it looking over forty years on? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

    Film Club Extra: Better Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 30:38


    Robbie Williams eventually made it out from under the shadow of Take That, but can he escape his own demons? That's the question the auto/biographical film Better Man poses - but after it flopped in America, all we want to know is, is it any good? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Simon Brett

    Blue Box 168: Fifteen After Eighteen, Don't Go (February News Blast #1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 24:15


    A start date for the new series, and more rumours about it being Ncuti Gatwa's last Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

    Film Club Extra: Metro-Goldwyn-May I? (February News Blast #2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 24:03


    How will 007 make out now he's moved to Amazon MGM Studios? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

    Private Members Club 28: Spoilers of War (February News Blast #3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 26:34


    Bargaining tactics or kissing Putin's ass? It's just another week in Trumpton Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

    Film Club Lite 72: Meet the Feebles (1989)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2025 27:45


    Peter Jackson's second film, the one it seems he most wishes everyone would forget, is the "adult" puppet comedy Meet the Feebles. We took a look, so you don't have to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Mikey Smith

    Film Club Extra: Nickel Boys

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 23:41


    Also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Nickel Boys is the next Best Picture nominee from this year's Academy Awards on our list. But does the film's unusual format - which has brought it a shedload of awards already - mean it's more or less likely to pick up the Oscar? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

    Film Club Extra: Wolf Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 33:48


    There's a new Wolf Man pic on the block, as part of the revised Monster Universe. And one of our extended team just happens to be watching his way through the original Universal horror collection... So what would he, and we, think? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

    Private Members Club 27: Mine Camp

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025 59:33


    Recorded just moments before Elon Musk's attempted buyout of Chat GPT, a new voice joins us on the feed to try and make sense of just three weeks' worth of Trump.2 Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mikey Smith

    Who Review Extra 45: The Stolen Earth

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 40:54


    How does David Tennant's first (of at least sort of three) regeneration hold up nearly two decades later? The randomiser brings us the Series 4 finale Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

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