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I've script edited one of the three Blake's 7 audio stories that make up The Terra Nostra , a new set out in January 2022 from Big F...

Loved this deep dive into how exactly Doctor Who came back to TV in 2005, talking to many of those involved including Julie Gardner, Jane Tr...

This largely autobiographical novel was first published in 1847, the same year that Anne's sisters published the better known  Jane Eyre...

Centurion Marcus Flavius Aquila is stationed at Isca Dumnoniorum (modern-day Exeter) but longs to get back to his home - and the good weathe...

I'm a guest on the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast, chiefly chatting to hosts Jeff and Ross about the trilogy of Doctor Who stories ...

This is a very good biography of a very successful writer and pretty awful human being. Michael Bartholomew brilliantly teases out the real ...

The latest Doctor Who Magazine is, of course, devoted to the new TV series will lots of exclusive access to cast and crew. There's also...

Jeremy Phillips and I discuss the merits - if there are any - of the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man on the latest episode of the Cinema Limbo...

It's taken a while to get through this because it's both dense and pretty grim. The anonymous author makes a compelling case about ...

Published in the UK today by Titan Books (and in the US on the 16th) , Sherlock Holmes - The Great War is my first novel in a while. The bl...

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...