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This is an odd, beguiling time-travel romance first staged in 1926, then later adapted for radio, TV and two films. John L Balderston chief...

This remarkable, detailed and insightful biography is a great joy, and in the audiobook version you get the author's impressions of vari...

Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse will be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday 5 March. Produced by me and brother Thomas, it’s presented by Samira Ah...

Subtitled "Never Quite Made It But What The Hell?", this is a memoir by Margery Mason (1913-2014), the actress I knew best for ...

This is a 2014 biography of the actress Yootha Joyce (1927-80), best known as alpha-cougar Mildred Roper in the 1970s sitcoms Man About t...

The June issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes my essay on David Storey's play Home . You need to pay to read the w...

Amma's new play is opening at the National Theatre; she's torn about being part of the establishment after years of railing again...

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

The superb new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out tomorrow and devoted to Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee, who was born 100 years ago. T...

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , William Hartnell – later, the first Doctor Who – trained as an actor at the Ital...

NYDER: I've heard Davros say there is no intelligent life on other planets, so either he is wrong or you are lying. DOCTOR: We are ...

High Rise by JG Ballard is told from the point of view of three men living at different levels of a block going to war with itself. It'...

Have been busy this week with a damn load of work - which is something of a relief after a rather desperate January . Has meant some late ni...

To see Darker Shores last night, a Victorian ghost story by Michael Punter. After a spooky night in a guesthouse by the sea, Professor Stok...

To Wilton's Music Hall last night to see Fiona Shaw perform TS Eliot's The Wasteland single-handed and without a blindfold. The ve...

To the National Theatre last night with N. for a “An Evening with Private Eye” , at which Ian Hislop, Harry Enfield, John Sessions, Lewis Ma...

Went with the Stunt Wife to Watford yesterday to see my second Cinderella of the year. The matinee was filled with excited schoolchildren w...