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I've somehow got two editions of this little book, originally published as part of the Thinker's Library by CA Watts & Co in 192...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features my interview with Devante Fleming, one of the floor runners currently working on Doctor Who ....

Jeremy Phillips and I discuss the merits - if there are any - of the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man on the latest episode of the Cinema Limbo...

It's 30-odd years since I first read Akira , borrowing each instalment of the beautiful, full-colour run produced by Epic Comics that a ...

"This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. A war does not ignore half the people whose lives it t...

I've written about the 100 year-old movie  Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari in the August 2020 issue of the Lancet Psychiatry . You need to ...

This account of the final year of the Trojan war is largely from the perspective of princess-turned-slave Briseis, although there are als...

The new issue of medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry includes my review of The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr. You need to pay t...

This is a timely publication of two lectures by Mary Beard, one on "The Public Voice of Women" and the efforts to silence them,...

On 10 January, 49 BC, Julius Caesar marched his army south over a small river called the Rubicon - and the world changed. It was not the si...

Here's the introduction I wrote to the book of academic papers, The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who (2010) - available as a paper...

Here, for your entertainment and delight, is my first outline for what became the Doctor Who book The Slitheen Excursion . Big boss Justin ...

“Archaeologist and Man of Action” says the back cover of Still Digging , the 1955 autobiography by archaeologist, soldier and “acclaimed Tel...

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me isn't exactly one of Roald Dahl's best, and confusingly the "Me" of the title is not the...

Less impressive stack than last month , but I have been busy. Have already blogged about Child 44 and The Road . It's a Don's Life ...

I've written the introduction to a book of clever academic papers on the Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who , out in May. The British...

To the posh singing last night as a first birthday treat for the Dr. Scarlet Opera 's Orfeo ed Euridice is on until Saturday at the Brid...

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...