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With a bit of driving to do, I downloaded the audio version of The Bookshop read by Eve Karpf . It is, as Backlisted led me to expect, a q...

Fred Fairly has a Junior Fellowship at the College of St Angelicus, Cambridge, in 1912. It's a good, respectable job that seems to set h...

A few days ago, my knowledgeable friend  John Williams tweeted that,  "Penelope Fitzgerald was treated abominably by parts of the lite...

I raced through this enthralling, vivid account of the Second World War, part of a new series written by Dominic Sandbrook for his eight yea...

This short book is an extended version of Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart lecture , an outsider's view of the television industry,. ...

Following yesterday’s post about The Intimate Screen and British Television up to 1955 , I read this short guide to Writing for Television f...

Recommended to me by my friend Dr Una McCormack , The Intimate Screen - Early British Television Drama , published by Oxford in 2000, covers...

Klara and the Sun  reminded me chiefly of the  Isaac Asimov story,  Reason , which so beguiled me as a child. Klara is an AF - or "arti...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine has lots on the imminent new TV series with lots of exclusive access to cast and crew. There's als...

I've been gadding about this week, braving the petrol crisis to venture to Cambridge and Liverpool, accompanied on the road by Jason Isa...

Out on Blu-ray and DVD this week is the new animation recreating  The Evil of the Daleks , a seven-episode  Doctor Who story from 1967 of wh...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine includes two things by me. First, the ingenious Gavin Rymill and Rhys Williams have reconstructed in...

At the end of this fascinating, moving memoir, the TV and film director Alvin Rakoff recalls a final conversation with his dying wife, the a...

The winner of the 2020 Clarke Award for best science-fiction novel of the year is a sprawling epic, charting the lives of multiple generati...

Our holiday in north Wales has been enlivened by this brilliant book, written (and, on Audible, read) by Lissa Evans . Stuart is a small-for...

The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine is mainly concerned with the departures of current Doctor, Jodie Whitaker, and her head writer, Chris...

The fourth Jackson Brodie novel is another melancholy tale exploring the long shadows cast by murder, grief and loss. There are several inte...

It's 30-odd years since I first read Akira , borrowing each instalment of the beautiful, full-colour run produced by Epic Comics that a ...

I'm the new producer of the Doctor Who : Lost Stories range - and Tom Baker's boss, which has been a delight. My masters at Big Fin...

The latest special edition of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to directing . It includes my interview with Rachel Talalay about directing 201...