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Big Finish have put up Tom Newsom's amazing cover art for Doctor Who - Wicked Sisters , the trilogy of audio stories I've written th...

I'm a guest on a special episode of comedian Edy Hurst's podcast devoted to The War of the Worlds , nattering about the life of HG W...

I'm a guest on the latest Cinema Limbo podcast , talking in detail with host Jeremy Philips about Ryan's Daughter (1970). I'm a...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features a cardboard TARDIS set to build, a detailed look at 1964 story Marco Polo  and an exhaustive ...

Entirely selfishly, I bought this for the Dr's birthday so that I could read it. It's the third in a trilogy, after Crooked Heart a...

My brother got me this as house-warming present. What feels an age ago but was really at New Year, he and I tramped bits of Alderley Edge de...

The new issue of Big Finish house magazine Vortex includes me yakking about two things I've written that are out next month.  Lesser Ev...

The removals people said they'd be here between 8 and 8.30 this morning but arrived just after 7.30 while I was still drinking tea in be...

The official Doctor Who people (praise the company!) have released a timeline of forthcoming multimedia jamboree Time Lord Victorious . Amon...

I've written about the 100 year-old movie  Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari in the August 2020 issue of the Lancet Psychiatry . You need to ...

I’m struggling a bit with prose for grown-ups, so over the last month worked my way through The Adventures of Tintin , an eight-volume box-s...

I've written one of the eight episodes of Shadow of the Daleks , a thrilling new audio adventure for the Fifth Doctor which is out later...

I very nobly gave a couple of things to Time Scope , a new unofficial and unauthorised anthology of  Doctor Who stories, poetry and art - 10...

I've long coveted this huge, exhaustive history of the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), having first heard ab...

I'm immersed in the world of Harry Palmer at the moment for a thing I'm writing. That's included finally getting round to  The I...

Subtitled "Never Quite Made It But What The Hell?", this is a memoir by Margery Mason (1913-2014), the actress I knew best for ...

This is a 2014 biography of the actress Yootha Joyce (1927-80), best known as alpha-cougar Mildred Roper in the 1970s sitcoms Man About t...

Big Finish have announced Lesser Evils , a short audio story written by me and performed by Jon Culshaw, which will be released for down...

After my post on Kingdom Come , a shrewd friend recommended me Alex Ross's earlier work, Marvels , originally published as a four-par...

On twitter a few weeks ago, a friend mentioned that Tristan de Vere Cole, director of 1968 Doctor Who story The Wheel in Space ,   was no...