Strangers in Space

As it approaches its twentieth birthday, we look back at the big screen adaptation of Douglas Adams' ubiquitous novel/radio series/TV show/towel rack, and ask whether it's better than its reputation suggests and if not, why not

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Iain Martin

We take a look at a film which started life as a student project essentially remaking parts of 28 Days Later - or The Day of the Triffids - but which proved such a calling card for its director, he went on to work on movies like The Martian and Alien: Covenant

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

We ask if Doctor Who has become a cultural phoenix, destined to rise again from its own ashes every time it burns itself out - and whether that makes it a story that keeps being retold, or keeps being added to

Presented by Matt Barber, with Jon Arnold and J.R. Southall

There's a new Gladiator in town, so what better time to take a look at where it came from, in our review of Ridley Scott's first go around the amphitheatres of ancient Rome

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

After our review of The Ninth Gate, based on - or maybe inspired by - Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel The Dumas Club, we decided to take a look at an earlier adaptation of another of his novels The Flanders Panel, which Jim McBride filmed as Uncovered with Kate Beckinsale in only her second big screen outing

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

The entire film is up on YouTube: Uncovered (1994)

Having covered the first BBC adaptation of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids in our Apocalypse UK mini-strand, it would have been remiss of us not to talk about the one that followed in 2009

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jim Cameron and Dylan Rees

We take a look at Annie 'The Book Club' Griffin's only theatrically released film Festival from 2005, which one of our number has an unusual connection with

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ben Verth

Doctor Who was only twelve stories old when they decided to mount a production as ambitious as The Web Planet, but was that a mistake or was it a decision justified by the enormous audiences The Web Planet achieved? Our thoughts on Schrödinger's Doctor Who story

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Jim Cameron and Harry Palmer

Our occasional Apocalypse UK mini-strand takes a sidestep into a film that might have been made by Nostradamus, painting a terrifying portrait of the kind of Britain we're not quite living in now

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Simon Brett and Dylan Rees

In which half the world wants Arthur Fleck to pay for his crimes, while the other half wants him telling more jokes - but all Arthur wants to do is sing for his sweetheart. Our thoughts on Joker: Folie à Deux

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Luke Molloy