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Last week, a long car journey through half-term traffic was made infinitely less taxing by Michael Sheen's reading of the first volum...

"By classical times the Theseus legend ... had so fabulous a garnish that it has sometimes been dismissed as pure fairy-tale, or, aft...

After episode 653 ( The Trial of a Time Lord , part fourteen ) 18 December 1986 << back to 1985 The Doctor on trial again Tomor...

Not dead, just busy with all manner of efforts to be gainfully employed. Freelancing involves a lot of pitching and begging and poking of fe...

Hello children. Have you been good? Father Christmas – that's me, hello! – will only bring you presents on Christmas Eve if you've b...

Watched the Battlestar Galactica mini-series in one sitting last night, and have the series to follow. Yes, I am several years behind. And...

We need to know our birthdays. The hospital, the Passport Office, all sorts of official forms and documents, identify us by our date of birt...

"People are too often terrible advertisements for their own beliefs." Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind , p. 357. The Dr took me to...

Finished Naked, the second half of the autobiography by former Doctor Who girl Anneke Wills (I blogged part one in October 2007 ). It picks...

The Dr extracted me from the frantic scribbling for a trip to the British Museum's Hadrian exhibition . Being in the old reading room an...

So says Ken Dowden on page 65 of his book “The Uses of Greek Mythology” , which I finished today. His point is that accounts of the battle o...

It was reading Prime Witness that finally prompted me to make an effort with the Ascent of Man . It’s the third of BBC 2’s decades-old, pre...

I’ve spoken before about my concerns with writers’ biographies – that they tend to place too much emphasis on the Real Events and Real Peopl...