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Today, Samira Ahmed and I took over the twitter feed of the Trowelblazers , which celebrates pioneering women in archaeology, palaentolog...

Excitingly, listings magazine Radio Times has chosen our documentary, Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt (this Sunday, 6.45pm, Radio 3)...

Marianne Brocklehurst's diary Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt , my fourth documentary for Radio 3's Sunday Feature will be b...

Edward Lear - Egyptian Sketches by Jenny Gaschke Having finished the biography of Lear , I had another look at this collection publish...

“Lear’s great poems and songs are not about his life – they float free. But their gaiety and sadness feel even keener when set against the...

I first met Egyptologist Chris Naunton around the time he was working on his BBC Four documentary, The Man Who Discovered Egypt , which i...

Last week, I visited the West Park Museum in Macclesfield as research for my forthcoming Radio 3 documentary, “Victorian Queens of Ancient...

Yesterday, the Dr was up early to get to BBC Broadcasting House, where she was a guest on Today and talked to John Humphrys about Differen...

I have a new book out in September. According to the press release,  Whographica is "a journey through the Doctor Who universe by S...

I'll be at some events to publicise my new book, The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who . 4 June, 6 pm I'll be signing the book a...

"Foreigners nearly always wish to simplify the Middle East, Agnes. They cannot tolerate to feel ignorant long enough to understand ...

Episode 408: Pyramids of Mars , part 3 First broadcast: 5.45 pm, Saturday 8 November 1975 << back to 1974 Sarah Jane takes aim ...

Out next month is a new Doctor Who adventure by me, The Library of Alexandria , performed by William Russell as Ian Chesterton and Susan ...

Last night I finished a notebook I've kept since 29 December 2011 (when I was in Egypt ). I've kept notebooks since I was in my t...

First shown in 1978, James Burke's amazing 10-part history of science, Connections – an Alternative View of Change , is up on YouTube ...

The Dr has been helping the splendid fellows at the British Film Institute with an event on 19 January where you can watch a load of old te...

This week, I helped Kel Winser with a comic-writing workshop for 17 year-olds, run at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology . I've...