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The Dr sometimes accuses me of tumbling through life as if a guest on QI , where points are scored for top facts and dodging cliche. A while...

Big Finish have announced that my Blake's 7 play, The Turing Test (out in February) will star Paul Darrow as Avon and Michael Keating a...

The Dr spotted these sneaky Weeping Angels in Kensal Green cemetery, London . There's a TARDIS-shaped gap in the midst of them, which c...

Margaret Atwood was in the Guardian again yesterday, explaining that her books are not science fiction because she doesn't have the ski...

Another AAAGH!, this one from Doctor Who Adventures #238, published a few days after The Wedding of River Song . As ever it's written b...

As part of my Astronomy GCSE course (which I did 2010-11 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich), I took some photographs of celestial objects...

I sometimes get asked to help my friends and family when they have to write things. In the last few months, I've offered more or less th...

Another AAAGH! , this time from Doctor Who Adventures issues #237, published just a few days after the episode Closing Time , where the Doc...

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

Another AAAGH! , this one from Doctor Who Adventures issue #236, out a few days after the Doctor Who episode The God Complex . Issue #237,...

Stalin Ate My Homework is a smart, funny and self-effacing autobiography by Alexei Sayle . It covers the years 1952 (when Sayle was born, o...

Here's the AAAGH! from Doctor Who Adventures #236, last week, nicked broadly from The Girl Who Waited but with a guest appearance by P...

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

Here's the AAAGH! from issue #234 of Doctor Who Adventures , out a few days after the broadcast of Night Terrors (in which a small boy...

Sorry - a pluggy post. I have a new CD out this month - Doctor Who and the Memory Cheats starring Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot and Charlie ...

Another AAAGH! , this from last week's Doctor Who Adventures , issue #233. As always, the strip is illustrated by Brian Williamson and ...

Cleaning Up - Official Trailer from Guerrier Brothers on Vimeo . Full cast and crew for Cleaning Up - a short thriller starring Mark Gati...

Another AAAGH! by me, this from #232 of Doctor Who Adventures - published two days before broadcast of the new Doctor Who episode Let'...

Michael Holroyd's 600-page biography of the painter Augustus John (1878-1861) is a dense, detailed work that's taken me months to g...

Another AAAGH! , this one from Doctor Who Adventures #230 and featuring Craig the Sea Devil , a cat nun , a Cheetah person and a Hath . ...