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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Friday, June 30, 2017

Star Wars Identities

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You can read my review of the Star Wars Identities exhibition for the Lancet Psychiatry . And here are some pictures I took as I nosed my w...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Doctor Who and the Paper Dolls

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Praise the company! I've just been sent my first copy of Doctor Who - Paper Dolls , the book I've co-written with Christel Dee and...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

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My friend Red gave me The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies almost a year ago, but work got it in the way so I've only just read...
Friday, June 16, 2017

1927 review of William Hartnell

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According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , William Hartnell – later, the first Doctor Who – trained as an actor at the Ital...
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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Adventures in Space

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Out now in shops - and digitally from PocketMags - is The Essential Doctor Who - Adventures in Space . Among the delights, there are ...
Monday, June 05, 2017

Little Britain

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On Saturday, I was a guest at the Fairford Festival , the literature bit organised by my friend (and sometime mentor) Paul Cornell . T...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Audience of Evil

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When episode 1 of The Evil of the Daleks was first broadcast at 6 pm on BBC One on Saturday, 20 May 1967, it was watched by 8.1 million p...
Monday, May 08, 2017

K-9 & Company

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I had a lovely weekend at the Doctor Who Appreciation Society's Capitol event , where we launched my book on The Evil of the Daleks . ...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

You can buy Evil now

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You can now buy my 244-page book on the 1967 Doctor Who story The Evil of the Daleks . It's £3.99 for an epub or mobi electronic ve...
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Toys & Games

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is in shops now, devoted to toys and games over the past six decades. Among its w...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Koquillion

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This striking-looking fellow is Koquillion, star of the 1964 Doctor Who story The Rescue . I have pilferred his name for my new blog co...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The Outliers

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Big Finish have announced a new Doctor Who audio adventure written by me , due out later this year. It features the Second Doctor. In The...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Doctor Who paper dolls

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New book out in August: Take a romp through time and space with this fantastic collection of Doctor Who paper dolls. Hours of crafty...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Essential Doctor Who Robots

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Out today from the makers of the official Doctor Who Magazine is The Essential Doctor Who: Robots . Among its many delights there is m...
Monday, March 06, 2017

Pick of the Week

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Our documentary, John Ruskin's Eurythmic Girls   (still available on iPlayer) was one of the 14 programmes included in Pick of the We...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Colin and the Carrionites

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July sees the release of Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters vol. 2 , and I've written the Sixth Doctor's encounter with th...
Friday, February 17, 2017

John Ruskin's Eurythmic Girls

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John Ruskin's Eurythmic Girls is a new documentary I've produced with my brother Tom to be broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday 26 Febru...
Sunday, February 05, 2017

From Croydon to Gallifrey

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Yesterday, I was the guest of Janet and Steve on Croydon Radio's From Croydon to Gallifrey, talking Doctor Who, the casting of the ne...
Saturday, February 04, 2017

Graceless title sequence

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The t'rific Tom Saunders has made this tremendous opening title sequence for my science-fiction series, Graceless . As the video ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Radio Free Skaro and Whographica

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Win a free copy of Doctor Who infographics book Whographica via the terrifying beings who run podcast Radio Free Skaro in conjunction with...
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