Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Curse of the Chosen, by Alexis Deacon

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A little over four years ago, I posted about A Game Without Rules , the second volume in the Geis trilogy of graphic novels written and illu...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Head of Drama, by Sydney Newman (with Graeme Burk)

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Written in 1987 and published in 2017, this memoir is subtitled "The life and times of the creator of Doctor Who " - a claim Newma...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Still Life, by Sarah Winman

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Ulysses Temper is a British soldier in Italy during the Second World War. There he befriends art historian Evelyn Skinner, and helps her res...
Friday, June 24, 2022

On the Sixth Doctor Who

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I've been enjoying the new Blu-ray release of the 1985 series of Doctor Who , adventures that made such an impression on me as kid. And ...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #579

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There's a lot going on in the world(s) of Doctor Who  at the minute. Production is under way on next year's 60th anniversary episode...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

CERN: Science Fiction and the Future of Detection and Imaging

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I've had the most amazing few days in Geneva as a guest of Ideas Square at CERN . It's the first time I've been out of the UK in...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Play for Today: The Evolution of Television Drama, by Irene Shubik

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The Wednesday Play was a prestigious anthology of (mostly) one-off plays, 182 of them broadcast by the BBC between 1964 and 1970. The serie...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Doctor Who Chronicles: 1967

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I've a couple of features in the new Doctor Who Chronicles bookazine from the splendid lot that make Doctor Who Magazine . This one is d...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Into the Unknown: the Fantastic Life of Nigel Kneale, by Andy Murray

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I bought this after the event in April to mark Nigel Kneale's centenary . Originally published in 2006 (when Kneale was still alive), th...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Competition, by Asa Briggs

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This mammoth, more-than-a-thousand-page account of broadcasting in the United Kingdom between 1955 and 1974 is the fifth and final volume in...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

Rosewater, by Tade Thompson

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Kaaro can find things. He can read people's minds and switch into a sort of psychic internet thing - so long as he's not lathered hi...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #578

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There's a lot by me in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine . I've written the main cover feature, "Who is Ncuti Gatwa", a...
Sunday, May 01, 2022

Amongst Our Weapons, by Ben Aaronovitch

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I loved this latest entry in the Rivers of London series, with Detective Constable Peter Grant on the trail of a vengeful angel linked to th...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #577

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There's another "Sufficient Data" infographic at the back of the new Doctor Who Magazine , written by me and illustrated by Be...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Skyward Inn, by Aliya Whiteley

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This was the perfect accompaniment to my journey to London and back for the Nigel Kneale centenary , and not only because it fitted the driv...