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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 1h

Ted Lasso's back, but does the lockdown sensation still work more than half a decade on? We took a look. jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/tv-club-10...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And the thing is, I don't even want them removed. I'd rather have spiders than flies!

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The oddly named third single from my old band's fifth (and final "full-band") album Crisis Management, is [.....(.)] - the pronunciation becomes obvious once you've heard the song. Listen or download for free: melodyblind.bandcamp.com/album/ep Watch the video: youtu.be/M_OhlomSR5E

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We travel back to 2003 to find out what people were listening to in the year scientists completed* the Human Genome Project (not counting the 100% gap-free sequence they achieved in 2022) jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/music-club...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think for the mood as much as anything else. And Lynch tends to be very sexual even when he's not being sexual.

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If it's protected, should he really be there

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bonus episode! The team from Cutaway Comics explain their new project Share & Enjoy, a must-fund history of galactic hitchhiker, towel user and Krikkit fan Douglas Adams jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/book-club-... Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's bizarre that things like this even exist - like action figures of characters (and monsters) from Alien or The Terminator.

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The results of our listeners poll of all the little odds and ends of mostly-broadcast Doctor Who that didn't quite fit into any of our other polls... jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/blue-box-2...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And before anyone says "never did my generation any harm", that's the generation that voted to leave the EU, that burns hotels where refugees are being rescued, that venerates the likes of Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson and thinks trans kids should be reprogrammed. Yes, it very much fucking did.

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We all watched the series at four when there were only three channels and so we were already accustomed to Harryhausen films and the news and all sorts of other more grown-up material. These days there is a channel exclusively for pre-schoolers so four-year-olds have very different sensibilities.

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even though it's almost seven years since I gave up smoking, it's hard to stay firm - another unpackaging video, I which I try not to light up a cigarette youtu.be/tuzoG_sLN6Q

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Opening Some Fags

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's forty years since David Lynch's Blue Velvet established the themes and tone that would become his signature style, a fact you'd think we might have noticed and planned around but no, we recorded this chat on the anniversary itself by complete coincidence. jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/film-club-...

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On the Timelash @onthetimelash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NEW EPISODE: Mark, Ben, @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social and @toohot4tv.bsky.social reach journey's end with a discussion about the Abrams movies, Star Trek's streaming era and social media. But...y'know...stay positive. open.spotify.com/episode/43cJ...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The "spoiling the view" thing gets me. She lives with that view 365 days a year. A couple of hours of kite-flying has no effect on the other 8,758 hours she gets to enjoy the view.

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She wants you to stop flying a kite on a beach?

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The world is turning but it’s not a time of change And nothing matters till I’m in your thoughts again" The penultimate single from my band Melodyblind's final album in 2002 is Summer Rain. Listen or download for free: melodyblind.bandcamp.com/track/summer... Watch the video: youtu.be/v54nN8-H-TE

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Murder that isn't murder is the theme of the latest episode of The Avengers to come under the gaze of the randomiser's microphones, but is there enough in this latest instalment to eke the conversation out beyond a cursory quarter of an hour? jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/who-review...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(Either he's an AI or he's taking the "editor" part of his handle way too literally.)

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hi there, listened to your podcast, it wasn't the podcast I wanted but how about YOU change rather than I go find the podcast that suits me better? Yours, Dick Wad

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our thread in which we examine the justification for returning monsters' subsequent use, arrives at the Autons and wonders why they haven't been used more jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/blue-box-2...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"the women and children" is the new "I'm not a racist but"

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dinosaurs you won't recognise, kids you won't care about and parents you'll wish were dead; it's all in a day's work when you're paying homage to Steven Spielberg's 20th century and not getting it quite right. The End of Oak Street goes under our microphones. jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/film-club-...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Weirdest use of the word hijacked anyone's ever seen

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gen Z don't get holidays. Although people still think they're making it up when they suffer mental health issues

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I refused to fade anything out; I've always hated when songs do that. I always think, if you can be bothered to write the start of the song, then you should bother to write it a finish too. (Although ironically our one fade-out is on the upcoming album... an experiment!)

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My old band Melodyblind's fifth and final album might well have been our best; certainly the first single Something Wonderful was as close to mainstream as we ever got. Listen or download for free: melodyblind.bandcamp.com/track/someth... Watch it on video: youtu.be/QRotBMNoLZE

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Coyote vs. Acme finally got released this summer after at least two attempts to ditch it before it could see the inside of cinemas - did it justify the rescue attempts? jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/film-club-...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It might be because of that weird thing she does at the end of every sentence

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

During the Doctor Who downtime, we resurrect the strand in which we ask whether the producers are justified in bringing back characters and creatures time after time, or whether they just do it because the costumes are handy. This time: the Sontarans jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/blue-box-2...

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rachel McAdams ends up on a deserted island with the guy who stole her promotion, and that's just the start of their problems in Sam Raimi's most recent... Our thoughts on Send Help jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/film-club-...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you've heard Eric and me mentioning the band we used to play in on recent Music Club episodes, you might have had your interest sufficiently piqued for a leisurely stroll through the history of that music act - complete with audio snippets and even videos jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/music-club...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good luck with that. But I think you're on a sloppery slope

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you thought "The Unmade Season" was a stupid name for something that has been made and was never planned-but-not-made, then wait till you hear our review of the AI fan film that's been stirring up discussion across the internet jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/who-review...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

With all the advances in modern technology, the PC ought to know if it's being used at the time!

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Factory setting? "Choose a time to update PC = 2am"?

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Turns out Ed Sheeran's a twat, who knew

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I wonder if Reform should spend that £72m on a giant boat they could float around the coastline of Britain ahead of the next election, adorned with patriotic pictures and messages and false promises about how our money should be spent, and known colloquially as the Wanker Tanker

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NSFW from the off in our attempted review of The Mandalorian and Grogu, in which we're more consumed by the question of what's going on at Star Wars jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/film-club-...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You know that trippy bit in 2001 where all of the elements of the experience feel like normal things but something about their relationship to one another doesn't feel quite right? My old band's fourth and most "experimental" album. melodyblind.bandcamp.com/album/kid-ar...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's 25 years since 9/11. We remember the day and review Paul Greengrass' United 93, about the one that got away. jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/film-club-...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's a lot going on in The Hungry Earth, but sixteen years since it was first served, does it add up to a satisfying meal? jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/who-review...

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Strangers in Space @strangerscast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sadly mine is warped and doesn't turn properly, but I love it all the same

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