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Have been feverishly meeting a deadline the last couple of days. But on Thursday I was also required to do acting, at the lavish showbiz lau...

A wrong number just called, insisting I spoke to her earlier today. (This was itself a clue. The only person I've spoken to all day is t...

As Paul Cornell might say, ITEM! Dr Debbie Challis will be speaking unto the huddled masses at a free lecture for the National Portrait Gal...

Who knew Liverpool has a spaceport ? It’s conveniently on the edge of the Mersey, looking out across to the Capital of Culture, nestling abo...

Just this minute watched episode 1.13 of The Wire . Yes, I am very behind on this one, and yes, I've been meaning to get to it for ages....

I'm not usually hot and sweaty for technological nubbins, but phwoar! check out the news about the X02 . I've been following the On...

Our local Post Office depot closed earlier this year, and collecting parcels or mail that needs signing for – which we do about once a week ...

On Saturday, I finished a draft of something which hasn't been announced yet so cannot be spoken of now. On Sunday, I made amendments to...

Mentioned in the pub last night, while at Falldog 's birthday, that there's a great summing up of Doctor Who in the 1993 Encyclopedi...

Does Satan qualify as an ungulate ?

It was like something out of Things To Come (1936) – and one of the glorious utopian bits, not the bits with fighting. A. and I made our wa...

More news from Big Finish : from July there's going to be another series of the Companion Chronicles. Each one is, "a new Doctor Wh...

Big Finish have announced details of Bernice Summerfield: Season 9 . It's the first time in 15 audio adventures that I've not been i...

Adam Grose's blog announces the not untimely publication of Flood , an anthology of one-page comic strips to raise money for the British...

Credit crunch has been in the news lately, which has got me thinking. And noticing just how many offers I get, all with the thrilling prosp...

Last week I introduced a showing of Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars to a bunch of UCL students with an interest in things archaeologica...

Met the Dr in Kings Cross on Saturday, where we had celebratory chips on the basis of her having a copy of her book . It's all very exci...

The Big Finish website has posted a news story and full details of my forthcoming Doctor Who anthology, How The Doctor Changed My Life . Al...

To the Clarke Awards last night in London’s glamorous West End; shoehorned into the underground bar in the Apollo cinema on Lower Regent St...

Space, said Douglas Adams, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is… But there’s a small...