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Today, Samira Ahmed and I took over the twitter feed of the Trowelblazers , which celebrates pioneering women in archaeology, palaentolog...

I dared to ask a writer whose work I admire for advice about something I'm working on, and they recommended this book by Stephanie Pal...

Out today, Doctor Who Magazine issue #535 includes my interview with Feifei Ruan , the illustrator and visual storyteller who created th...

I knocked through this delicious new  Doctor Who novel very quickly, revelling in its fun and invention. It's based on a movie script...

Astounding is extraordinary, a rich, incisive and constantly shocking history of the science-fiction magazine of the same name, and through...

Excitingly, listings magazine Radio Times has chosen our documentary, Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt (this Sunday, 6.45pm, Radio 3)...

This strange, beguiling novel tells many stories. Natalia is a doctor working in the Balkans in the aftermath of years of war. She learns...

Marianne Brocklehurst's diary Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt , my fourth documentary for Radio 3's Sunday Feature will be b...

Here's an interview with me and Christel Dee about our book, Doctor Who - The Women Who Lived , conducted at Forbidden Planet in London...

Here's another video entry from our book, Doctor Who - The Women Who Lived , this time telling the story of the Doctor's friend Ros...

Edward Lear - Egyptian Sketches by Jenny Gaschke Having finished the biography of Lear , I had another look at this collection publish...

“Lear’s great poems and songs are not about his life – they float free. But their gaiety and sadness feel even keener when set against the...

That splendid lot at BBC Studios have produced this lovely video telling the story of Doctor Who's granddaughter, Susan Foreman. Th...

A few weeks ago, I was being old and nostalgic about the days of Doctor Who fanzines, especially the ones handed round in the pub I used to...

This is brilliant. In 1950, Juliet Armstrong is a BBC radio producer working in Schools (the department always has a capital S). But ten ...

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...