Blue Box 229: Dandies and Clowns - Homo Reptilia

Another self-indulgent trip down memory lane, as JR reunites with members of his old band Melodyblind to chat about how they got together and what they got up to in the late 1990s Presented by J.R. Southall, with Chris McGarry and Darren Simpson A playlist of Melodyblind videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVW5NJMD3x-vlJxK35c99Cnb Listen or download our back catalogue for free on Bandcamp: https://melodyblind.bandcamp.com/

We look back through the various appearances of Homo Reptilia in Doctor Who, and ask whether the right stories were being told about them Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

It's a decade since the Doctor Who spin-off that nobody seemed to want faltered onto our screens, which feels like an appropriate amount of time to come back and talk about how everyone missed out on enjoying Class Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake

The film franchise spun off from the games franchise reboots with a new instalment from the director of Barbarians and Weapons, but just how successful a revitalisation is the 2026 edition of Resident Evil? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ian Winterton

The randomiser places us in a submarine near the North Pole in the 1980s for the modern series return of the Ice Warriors, but what will we think of Cold War thirteen years later Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

If you thought those first three seasons of Ted Lasso might be all you were going to get, if you thought when those storylines concluded that might well have been it, then you were wrong! Three years on and he's back in the UK with a fourth series - but was it right to resurrect him? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett, Steve Hatcher and Iain Martin

We travel back 23 years to discuss the best-selling albums and singles of 2003, and wonder what else people were listening to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass

There's a deadline of Sunday 1st November for the funding of this graphic novel about the life and times of Douglas Adams, and while we know how the galactic hitchhiker might himself have felt about such things, we figured it was worth getting the team from Cutaway Comics to have a chat about the project and its genesis and aims Presented by Ian Winterton, with Martin Geraghty, Mark Griffiths and Gareth Kavanagh More details and example artwork from Share & Enjoy on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/room5064/share-and-enjoy-a-douglas-adams-biographical-graphic-novel

The results of our listeners poll rooting through the Doctor Who externalia that didn't quite fit in our regular Doctor polls, to find out what kind of things they liked and which bits they really didn't Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Steve Hatcher and Iain Martin

Our very slow meander through David Lynch's back catalogue (the speed of which makes The Straight Story look like an instalment of the Fast and Furious franchise) led to us recording about Blue Velvet entirely unwittingly on the fortieth anniversary of the film's theatrical release - a coincidence nearly as unnerving as Dennis Hopper's performance (not really). Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber