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To mark 60 years of  Doctor Who , Toby Hadoke has devoted a special five-part instalment of his Happy Times and Places podcast to the very f...

I chatted to Kenny Smith for the latest episode of the Power of 3 podcast. As well as asking me about my new book  David Whitaker in an Exci...

I've just received my copies of The Sky at Night: The Art of Stargazing , a new guide by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock to the 88 constellatio...

Watching the glorious  The Daleks in Colour  last night, I was especially struck by the bleakness of the story and world, a tale of nuclear ...

The first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast 60 years ago today and there's a whole load of stuff on TV, radio and online to mark the o...

John Ryan has posted an edited recording of our launch event for David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television , hosted at the Por...

I joined Richard, Giles and Paul on the latest episode of the Something Who podcast  for a deep-dive look at the 1965 Doctor Who story The R...

A Kickstarter has been launched for the first in a new series new series of large-format books on the creative team behind Doctor Who . This...

Agoraphobic detective Elijah Baley is sent to the wide open spaces of the planet Solaria to investigate a murder. This is a planet where peo...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is packed with stuff about the forthcoming TV specials that begin two weeks today, and all the other g...

In August 1964, Doctor Who 's first   story editor, David Whitaker, wrote up a CV for his new agent, Beryl Vertue, ahead of leaving his ...

Here's a deep dive interview on YouTube with me about how David Whitaker's years of experience working on variety shows and sitcoms ...

Here are two stills from the earliest known TV appearance by actor James Beck, later famous as spiv 'Joe Walker' in Dad's Army ....

My book David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television , is published this week, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Wh...

On Sunday, 23 July 1963, BBC staff director Waris Hussein met for the first time with Verity Lambert, the newly appointed producer of a seri...

I couldn't resist this memoir of the first moon landing by the man who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to...

Biologist Karin Resaint has just completed a comprehensive study of a strange, rare fish; she thinks the Venomous Lumpsucker might be intell...