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The removals people said they'd be here between 8 and 8.30 this morning but arrived just after 7.30 while I was still drinking tea in be...

The official Doctor Who people (praise the company!) have released a timeline of forthcoming multimedia jamboree Time Lord Victorious . Amon...

I've written about the 100 year-old movie  Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari in the August 2020 issue of the Lancet Psychiatry . You need to ...

I’m struggling a bit with prose for grown-ups, so over the last month worked my way through The Adventures of Tintin , an eight-volume box-s...

I've written one of the eight episodes of Shadow of the Daleks , a thrilling new audio adventure for the Fifth Doctor which is out later...

I very nobly gave a couple of things to Time Scope , a new unofficial and unauthorised anthology of  Doctor Who stories, poetry and art - 10...

I've long coveted this huge, exhaustive history of the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), having first heard ab...

I'm immersed in the world of Harry Palmer at the moment for a thing I'm writing. That's included finally getting round to  The I...

Subtitled "Never Quite Made It But What The Hell?", this is a memoir by Margery Mason (1913-2014), the actress I knew best for ...

This is a 2014 biography of the actress Yootha Joyce (1927-80), best known as alpha-cougar Mildred Roper in the 1970s sitcoms Man About t...

Big Finish have announced Lesser Evils , a short audio story written by me and performed by Jon Culshaw, which will be released for down...

After my post on Kingdom Come , a shrewd friend recommended me Alex Ross's earlier work, Marvels , originally published as a four-par...

On twitter a few weeks ago, a friend mentioned that Tristan de Vere Cole, director of 1968 Doctor Who story The Wheel in Space ,   was no...

I've just rewatched An Unearthly Child , the very first episode of Doctor Who , and noticed something I don't think I've notice...

The June issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes my essay on David Storey's play Home . You need to pay to read the w...

This book accompanying Radio 4's science panel show The Infinite Monkey Cage is largely a collection of debates addressed on that pro...

I'm struggling a bit with reading at the moment - one day last week I started four different books and couldn't hold my concentra...

This is the third of 12 episodes of Star Trek: the Next Generation recommended to me. First there was 1.13 Datalore , then 2.9 The Measure...

In 2012, I wrote this trailer for Matt Smith, advertising Doctor Who on Turkish televisions CNBC-e: At the time, I was freelancing a...