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Just this second handed in a script, to find that Big Finish have announced the Graceless mini-series . The three CD box-set is written by ...

View from the 11th floor of Tower Wing at Guy's Hospital.

I don't think I'd ever read Fantastic Mr Fox , though I knew it backwards from an audio version released on tape in the early 1980s....

To quote my wise chum Toby Hadoke , “Who needs facts when you've got an opinion?” First, in the Independent, Gerard Gilbert slags off th...

Four images for your delight and excitement. 1. Bernice Summerfield toy A fantastic surprise present from Monster Maker yesterday, a custom...

The last of my old Film Focus reviews , this done for a special edition DVD of The Great Escape (1963). The Great Escape Reviewed 13 May 200...

Another old Film Focus thing , this time an interview with director Dave McKean to go with my review of Mirrormask . Was thrilled to speak ...

More of my old reviews from Film Focus . This one got me mentioned on Neil Gaiman's blog - with a corresponding explosion of hits to t...

Eddie Robson kindly bought me Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald , a history of the Beatles song by song. This was after he'd seen ...

Another old Film Focus review . I worked with Noel Clarke just before Christmas, so it's probably just as well I said nice things. Kidu...

Yesterday, I got to walk through the very first tunnel built under the Thames . Built between 1825 and 1840 by Marc Brunel and his son Isamb...

Another of my Film Focus reviews . (Something a bit different tomorrow, promise.) King Kong Reviewed 6 December 2005 [In brief] Ann Darrow (...

Another old Film Focus review . I also blogged about the book in August 2005. The Constant Gardener Reviewed 6 October 2005 [In brief] The ...

Another of my reviews for Film Focus . This one got quoted all over the place at the time - perhaps cos unlike so many of my peers I sat thr...

Between 2005 and 2006 I wrote seven reviews and one interview for the website Film Focus, which sadly has gone to the great Internet Archive...

The What's On page for UCL Museums and Collections has announced a date for your diary in May: "LATES AT THE PETRIE: SCI-FI ANCIEN...

Those splendid fellows at Big Finish have announced more Doctor Who stuff what I wrote. "The Guardian of the Solar System" is my ...

“‘It’s a Snozzwanger!’ cried the Chief of Police. ‘It’s a Whangdoodle!’ yelled the Head of the Fire Department.” Roald Dahl, James and the G...

It's that time again. Unreality-SF.net wants your nominations for the best TV tie-in wossnames of the last 12 months. Some ingenious wa...

This morning I was wearing my dump hat. The binmen declined to take our rubbish last week 'cos there was a former shower cubicle stacked...