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I've already blogged about Doctor No . I reread The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who - for which I wrote a foreword - in advance o...

Fun night at a leaving do last night, which included some earnest discussion of the work of Sean Connery. In 2003, I wrote a feature for Fil...

I'm reminded by the new issue of Doctor Who's Magazine that those who want a bit more Silurian action can get that fix for free with...

Word from the Masters that the Blake's 7 plays I wrote will be broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in a couple of weeks. "The Dust Run" ...

I've just received a copy of The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who , the book of 10 academic papers for which I scrawled an introduc...

I first read Doctor No when I was 11. I was all about James Bond at the time, thrilling at the new guy in the films and trying to work out...

Issue 15 of Vortex - the Big Finish magazine is now available online for free and includes me rabbiting on about how Graceless came about....

Having kept my head down a bit over the last few months, I am suddenly Mr Performing Seal. Had a fun day yesterday at Sci-Fi-London , trying...

I wrote about the two Roald Dahl books, The Magic Finger and Esio Trot , yesterday. Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun 1 has taken me...

Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger was one of my favourite books as a kid, mostly because I could read it in a single sitting. With illustra...

A few things to announce, excitingly. First, I've written for the eleventh Doctor Who. My four-page comic strip "Booked Up" ap...

I've done a quick interview with Nebula One about writing Doctor Who stuff . Also busy on all sorts of things. More soon.

It's grey and rainy in Glasgow today, so rather than gadding about at museums and getting a tan, I've stayed in my hotel room workin...

"We, the war children's adult offspring routinely see shrinks, talk about our IVF (all those granny-alikes wheeling their girl-boy ...

The IVF didn't work. Me and the Dr can't have our own kids. It's not unexpected - the odds were always stacked against us - but...

I've been added to the otherwise impressive line-up of guests at the Utopia Doctor Who convention at posh Heythorp Park Hotel over the w...

At Easter, we true disciples celebrate the resurrection of the saviour of mankind. And then over-earnestly debate the merits of bow-ties and...

I have already blogged about James and the Giant Peach , Revolution in the Head and Fantastic Mr Fox . Will write up my notes on The Defenc...

Just this second handed in a script, to find that Big Finish have announced the Graceless mini-series . The three CD box-set is written by ...

View from the 11th floor of Tower Wing at Guy's Hospital.