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Blimey: The official Dr Who website has posted up Nightshade , former Dr Who Mark Gatiss’ highly acclaimed first forage into BBC endorsed Wh...

Panic sorted, thanks to those that asked. Have tomorrow and Friday in the studio and am then off to Berlin for a bit. Am hoping that another...

Things can be spoken of: the Big Finish website now thrillingly details much that I’ve been up to. I have edited another book of exciting D...

The 12,000 words is more like 13,500 right this minute but the bulk of the heavy work is done. It includes the word "hullabaloo", ...

Go have a look at Next Time, I Shall Not Be So Lenient! - a new blog from my friend Alex which dares to collect together all the snippets o...

From the archive: The Iron Man (1968), by poet widower and Laureate Ted Hughes, is a rich, darkly textured story. An awesome metal man from...

No, I don’t mean King Kong . For reasons that shall become clear another time, I asked a couple of learned fellows about the seven wonders o...

Things that happen when you have a chef staying who cooks tea in leiu of rent: last night the outlaws took the Dr and I for a slap-up meal a...

Have spoken before about odd things in James Bond films , but working my way through the shiny new attache case of all 20 remastered flicks,...

As well as making my tea each night and ensuring that each morning I am ready for school, it appears the two wives feel themselves responsib...

Things progress. Have picked the brains of chums and the Dr for stories I am writing, got a whole load of Benny things happening for 2007, a...

Here’s one I prepared earlier. Back in May, a friend asked for things to do in London that are less touristy and a lot Dr Who. This is what ...

“His claws arced up, up, and slashed a vicious curve through Cludge’s soft, wet nose. The big dog howled. He twisted away, turning his face ...

…you can hear the Dr’s broadcast debut , via Radio 4’s Listen Again wossname. She pops up about halfway through (by which time you might hav...

I’ve not come anywhere in the Writers Inc competition , and wonder what of the two stories sent in can be salvaged for use elsewhere. Humbug...

“By this time I was pretty well convinced he was going straight with me. It was the wildest sort of narrative, but I had heard in my time ma...

Have (I hope) finished my toil on something that's taken longer than expected. The chap I've been working with has been very accommo...

Lots on just at the mo as I race to get things finished. But regular readers may wish to tune in to BBC Radio 4 on Monday (14 August) at 3.4...

On the train home on Sunday I read the first three chapters of the Jungle Book, which took me greatly by surprise. Not least because it’s on...

“The plot meanders almost incomprehensibly through an all-too-familiar futureworld.” So says the Guardian’s Guide of Code 46 , which held me...