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Our From the Archives feed will be taking a rest for a week while we concentrate on the Oscars on the main podcast (and then have a weekend off!), but first here's Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys talking about the amazing musical project Monks Road Social

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08.03.2026 08:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Strangers in Space: The First Doctor Poll Results
Strangers in Space: The First Doctor Poll Results YouTube video by JR Southall

The results of our poll to determine the best first Doctor stories will be out on our audio feed in a week or so - but if you can't wait that long you can watch them now on YouTube

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08.03.2026 07:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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If it's Saturday it must mean the return of another extended Blue Box Podcast, and this time it's our review of Hell Bent from over a decade ago:

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07.03.2026 05:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Man-eaters from Surry Green, talking carrots, and various varieties of invasive and often rather plastic looking vegetation, are the subject of our latest podcast along a theme of deadly plants in the TV of the 1960s...

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06.03.2026 05:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In today's podcast From the Archives, we go back to the 2022 Oscar ceremony to give our opinion on the surprising Best Picture winner: CODA

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05.03.2026 07:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In this edition of the podcast we're going to be Fixing RTD-2... so you don't have to

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04.03.2026 05:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This summer*, we'll be devoting an entire month's worth of podcasting to conversations in celebration of thirty years since the first broadcast of one of Doctor Who's most important and notorious episodes. But which month and which episode...?

(*technically still spring)

03.03.2026 17:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the Archives today: when old Doctors return is it just for nostalgia, or do they bring something to the narrative too?

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03.03.2026 05:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We sit through three of Hammer's Frankenstein sequels (Revenge, Woman, Destroyed) so you don't have to

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02.03.2026 05:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Over on Facebook we're conducting our ninth Doctor poll...

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01.03.2026 13:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An in depth conversation with Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys, available publicly on audio for the first time, in which we discuss the creation of their 1984 debut album Limping for a Generation

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01.03.2026 08:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'll be on this in a few weeks or months talking about something that's so Too Hot for TV it's too hot for the Too Hot for TV that's too hot for the old Too Hot for TV. Which basically sums these things up so better listen and subscribe now to get yourself prepped for the deep dive that is to come.

28.02.2026 17:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My family have now bitten and are four episodes in.

Four episodes into their second watch through

28.02.2026 17:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the Archives today, a trip back to ten years ago when we asked our listeners what their favourite Doctor Who Target books were...

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28.02.2026 05:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Days of Thunder meets, well, Cars in the latest of this year's Best Picture nominees to come under our microphones; can we write off F1's chances before it's even off the starting blocks?

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27.02.2026 07:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Haha, that's good to hear! I've been trying to get my family to watch it but they haven't bitten yet...

26.02.2026 15:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the Archives today, we go back to a time when Everything Everywhere All At Once was just a quirky little film and not a Best Picture contender

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26.02.2026 05:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We wonder which of modern Doctor Who's four spin-offs is the most sympathetic to the main show, yet still different enough to justify its status as a separate programme

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25.02.2026 05:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the Archives today, Madonna:

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24.02.2026 05:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wouldn't they be fictional records the programme's production designer would have created?

23.02.2026 19:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Only the dim-witted would-be authoritarians of Reform could look at what's been happening in Minnesota and be so lacking in self-awareness as to think to themselves,

"A-ha, so THAT's what the general public wants!"

23.02.2026 12:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The mythical meets the everyday once again in the latest gentle comedy from Mackenzie Crook; our thoughts on Small Prophets

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23.02.2026 07:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An in depth conversation with Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys, available publicly on audio for the first time, in which we discuss the creation of their 2008 comeback album Devil's Tavern

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22.02.2026 08:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Strangers in Space: Fixing RTD-2 (Get Off My World)
Strangers in Space: Fixing RTD-2 (Get Off My World) YouTube video by JR Southall

Recorded a month before it's due out, if you watch to watch - rather than listen to - our "Fixing RTD-2" discussion it's available on YouTube right now

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21.02.2026 21:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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With the kind permission of Starburst Mag, From the Archives will be republishing some of the old Blue Box Podcasts - starting with our very first edition which originally came out 12 years ago...

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21.02.2026 08:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hardware, religion, troglodytes, not-quite-zombies, politics, romance and the bomb, with two seasons now available it's time we took a look at Fallout:

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20.02.2026 07:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the Archives today, a conversation about the favourite and most effective cliffhangers in Doctor Who (originally published in two parts)

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19.02.2026 07:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The randomiser brings us to Mars for Mark Gatiss' Tomb of the Ice Warriors.

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18.02.2026 06:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Today's blast from our podcasting past comes from a time when there were just four seasons of Stranger Things and the latest of those was still quite new.

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17.02.2026 07:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our watch through of this year's Best Picture nominees arrives at Sentimental Value, the first of two very different foreign language selections, an exceptional Norwegian drama about a filmmaking father and his two estranged daughters

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16.02.2026 05:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0