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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We sit through three of Hammer's Frankenstein sequels (Revenge, Woman, Destroyed) so you don't have to
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Over on Facebook we're conducting our ninth Doctor poll...
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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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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.
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My family have now bitten and are four episodes in.
Four episodes into their second watch through
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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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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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 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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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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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From the Archives today, Madonna:
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Wouldn't they be fictional records the programme's production designer would have created?
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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!"
The mythical meets the everyday once again in the latest gentle comedy from Mackenzie Crook; our thoughts on Small Prophets
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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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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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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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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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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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The randomiser brings us to Mars for Mark Gatiss' Tomb of the Ice Warriors.
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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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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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Good luck!!!
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For the first time published on audio, "Dr" Robert Howard of @theblowmonkeys.bsky.social talks in detail about the creation of his debut solo album Realms of Gold
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From the Archives today, the conclusion of our conversation about where it all went wrong and who made it that way:
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If you're doing something for Valentine's Day, let us think about the soundtrack to your celebration so you don't have to:
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From the Archives today, we go back two years to the first half of a discussion about how we got to where we were at:
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As we "fix" more recent Doctor Who, there's less perspective on what didn't constitute decent family entertainment, so we move our thoughts more into the area of what fandom considered overstepping the mark and wonder just how many times Chris Chibnall did so:
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Two reviews From the Archives today, as we head back to the 1,000th episode since the the Blue Box Podcast to talk The Dominators and Death to the Daleks
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