Nothing Tra La La?

You can now download for free the four-page postscript to my biography of David Whitaker , detailing some of the things I've learned sin...

I read this on holiday as research for something I'm working on at the moment. Dr Rupa Huq, MP for Ealing Central and Acton, explores d...

The Drifter was created for STW-9 in Perth, Western Australia, by David Whitaker, a British writer probably best known as the first story e...

I'm featured briefly in the new 2024 Yearbook from that lot at Doctor Who Magazine. For his piece on last year's Doctor Who books, ...

The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine is largely devoted to forthcoming TV episode The Power of the Doctor , and features big interviews wi...

Yesterday at 3 pm the masters announced that the next Doctor Who Blu-ray set will be Season 2, the 39 episodes originally broadcast between ...

There's another "Sufficient Data" infographic at the back of the new Doctor Who Magazine , written by me and illustrated by Be...

I'm a guest on the Journeys into Genealogy podcast with host Emma Cox, talking about my efforts to research the history of my own surnam...

This is a very good biography of a very successful writer and pretty awful human being. Michael Bartholomew brilliantly teases out the real ...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine includes two things by me. First, the ingenious Gavin Rymill and Rhys Williams have reconstructed in...

The thrilling new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine features two things by me. First, in "Moonbase 3" Rhys Williams and ...

The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine is out today, with plenty of exciting stuff about the forthcoming new series. I've also resea...

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...

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

John Ruskin's Eurythmic Girls is a new documentary I've produced with my brother Tom to be broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday 26 Febru...

50 years ago today, Jack Bligh appeared as Gaptooth in episode 4 of the Doctor Who story The Smugglers .  Born on 31 December 1889, ...

My new Doctor Who story The Yes Men is out now, starring Frazer Hines as the Second Doctor and companion Jamie McCrimmon, Anneke Wills ...