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Having so admired Hermione Lee's biography of Penelope Fitzgerald , I was keen to hear - and thieve from - her insights more generally o...

A young woman attacked and left for dead is found by four young students on their way home from a party. When she dies, suspicion falls on t...

On Monday night I attended the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023 , having run the team behind the First Novel Award. Huge congratu...

The lovely lot at Ten Acre Films have officially announced my forthcoming biography of David Whitaker, the original story editor of Doctor ...

The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine boasts an interview with Millie Gibson, who'll be joining the series as companion Rub...

I first read Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) and its sequel, Which Lie Did I Tell?  (2000), around the time I went freelance in 2002, ...

I've once again been a guest on Cinema Limbo , the podcast that picks over odd, old films. In this case, it's Give My Regards to Bro...

The latest edition of the free Big Finish podcast includes a fair bit on my forthcoming Blake's 7 audio story, No Name . At 39:25 ther...

Last night, Radio 3's Free Thinking was on the subject of landladies . The guests included magnificent Louise Jameson, and at 13.40 conv...

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain has announced its 2023 awards shortlist , the winners to be announced at a ceremony on 16 January. A...

Charles Hawtrey of the Carry On films had an alcoholic cat. It was, “pampered with port-soaked sugar lumps, its bread and butter sprinkled ...

It's been a busy few months running the First Novel Award for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain - the shortlist to be announced sh...

This afternoon, I had a long chat with Nathan Price on his Countdown to the Moon project , discussing Artemis, the TV coverage of Apollo and...

I've set up an account on Mastodon, if that might be of interest: @0tralala on Mastodon

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is, of course, devoted to the return of David Tennant as the Doctor, with plenty of exclusive chatter ...

The new issue of Big Finish magazine Vortex includes a feature on the  Blake's 7 set Allies and Enemies , which is out next month. I...

The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine is largely devoted to forthcoming TV episode The Power of the Doctor , and features big interviews wi...

It's taken some weeks to get through this 16-hour reading of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , which I last read while at university a mille...

Big Finish have released the cover and blurb for  Allies and Enemies , the trilogy of Blake's 7 audio plays out this December that incl...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features Sacha Dhawan on the cover as the Master, part of the 20-page preview of next month's epic...