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A chum tweeted about Foundation this summer, prompting me finally to read it. It's a short, breezy book covering events over a hun...

The super new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out tomorrow - but reaching subscribers already. Among the treats inside, I've intervi...

BBC Books (who, I should declare, publish stuff by me) sent me this fun new volume from TV's Dr Maggie, which she herself describes as,...

I will be a guest at Worthing Wormhole this Saturday, signing copies of Doctor Who: The Women Who Lived with co-author Christel Dee. C...

I first met Egyptologist Chris Naunton around the time he was working on his BBC Four documentary, The Man Who Discovered Egypt , which i...

Radio Times  spoke to me and science writer Giles Sparrow about antimatter and its potential use in powering spaceships as seen in last n...

Shirley Jackson's 1954 novel The Bird's Nest is extraordinary. Elizabeth Richmond works in a museum, the wall beside her desk remov...

I was interviewed by Mackenzie Flohr about The Women Who Lived and other Doctor Who things I have written . I'll also be a guest at W...

The nice people at Doctor Who Magazine have published The Story of Doctor Who , a shiny, comprehensive guide to the 55-year history of t...

Straight on from her Dark Tales , I've ploughed through Shirley Jackson's final (and greatest, says the back cover) novel, We Hav...

I've read loads since completing Space Odyssey - chapters of various mates' works in progress and all sorts of material for work, ...

Out today, issue 1326 of the Big Issue features an exclusive interview with Jodie Whittaker about being the new Doctor Who . Lurking alon...

Doctor Who Magazine #530 is now available in shops and online. It includes my interview with musician Christian Erickson about how 1984 ...

At 9.15 pm tonight, Radio 3 are repeating a documentary presented by Samira Ahmed and which I produced, John Ruskin's Eurythmic Girl...

Michael Pickwoad I was very sad to hear of the death of Michael Pickwoad,  Doctor Who 's brilliant production designer between 2010...

A couple of years ago, I praised a jaw-dropping exhibition of images of the Solar System which were on temporary display at the Natural H...

The online new issue of medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry (vol 5, iss 8, August 2018) features "Dickens and the dinosaurs" ...

I've been working for a while on the partwork  Doctor Who Figurine Collection , my job to write 1,200 words on the costumes of particu...

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

In shops now, The World of Doctor Who is the latest - and 50th - special edition of Doctor Who Magazine , and examines the past, present...