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Graceless - the science-fiction series I created and wrote - is back on BBC Radio 4 Extra this week . The first episode was broadcast ...

News from our masters at Big Finish : A big thank you to everyone who has bought Big Finish's debut short film Cleaning Up , starri...

While researching some daftness for  Horrible Histories Magazine , I read up on Franciscan monk and philosopher Roger Bacon (c. 1214-129...

The splendid fellows at Big Finish have put some new stuff on their website. You can listen to Simon Robinson's striking trailer for my...

It seems thoroughly unBritish to nominate myself for an award, or to impose myself upon you by asking for your help. But, if you happen to ...

I adored Clouds of Witness , my first meeting with Lord Peter Wimsey , the noble detective created by Dorothy L Sayers. It's brimming w...

The splendid new issue of Doctor Who Adventures  (#337, 15 January 2014) features a history of the Cybermen, an Ice Warrior poster and a co...

First a review of The House of Silk , and then some other items of Sherlockian interest... The  House of Silk  by Anthony Horowitz is a t...

Yesterday's Inside Science  on Radio 4 interviewed Professor Robert Nemiroff from Michigan Tech University about his much reported se...

Wizard , the short film I wrote, will be screened at the BFI on Saturday 25 January, as part of the LOCO London Comedy Film Festival 2014 ....

For the next 48 hours, you can buy the download version of my Doctor Who story The Anachronauts  for £2.99, thanks to those nice people ...

Happy new year. A few people have been dolling out advice and life tips (my favourite so far: Caitlin Moran's drunken advice to women f...

I bought the brother Hitchcock Truffaut for Christmas, a book-long series of conversations between the two directors. At one point they ...

Episode 799: The Day of the Doctor First broadcast at 7.50 pm, Saturday 23 November 2013 << back to 2012 Happy birthday, Doctor ...

Judith Kerr wrote her extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit  (1971) in response to The Sound of Music ...

Episode 790: The Snowmen First broadcast at 5.15 pm, Tuesday 25 December 2012 << back to 2011 Clara snogs the Doctor The Snowm...

Those splendid fellows at Big Finish have announced details of a new Blake's 7 story what I've written. It's one I'm espec...

Episode 781: The God Complex First broadcast: 7.10 pm on Saturday 17 September 2011 << back to 2010 "Who else?" Doct...

My second Agatha Christie novel is apparently one of the best. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was first published in 1926 - six years afte...