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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Thursday, June 23, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #579

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There's a lot going on in the world(s) of Doctor Who  at the minute. Production is under way on next year's 60th anniversary episode...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

CERN: Science Fiction and the Future of Detection and Imaging

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I've had the most amazing few days in Geneva as a guest of Ideas Square at CERN . It's the first time I've been out of the UK in...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Play for Today: The Evolution of Television Drama, by Irene Shubik

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The Wednesday Play was a prestigious anthology of (mostly) one-off plays, 182 of them broadcast by the BBC between 1964 and 1970. The serie...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Doctor Who Chronicles: 1967

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I've a couple of features in the new Doctor Who Chronicles bookazine from the splendid lot that make Doctor Who Magazine . This one is d...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Into the Unknown: the Fantastic Life of Nigel Kneale, by Andy Murray

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I bought this after the event in April to mark Nigel Kneale's centenary . Originally published in 2006 (when Kneale was still alive), th...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Competition, by Asa Briggs

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This mammoth, more-than-a-thousand-page account of broadcasting in the United Kingdom between 1955 and 1974 is the fifth and final volume in...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

Rosewater, by Tade Thompson

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Kaaro can find things. He can read people's minds and switch into a sort of psychic internet thing - so long as he's not lathered hi...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #578

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There's a lot by me in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine . I've written the main cover feature, "Who is Ncuti Gatwa", a...
Sunday, May 01, 2022

Amongst Our Weapons, by Ben Aaronovitch

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I loved this latest entry in the Rivers of London series, with Detective Constable Peter Grant on the trail of a vengeful angel linked to th...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Doctor Who Magazine #577

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There's another "Sufficient Data" infographic at the back of the new Doctor Who Magazine , written by me and illustrated by Be...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Skyward Inn, by Aliya Whiteley

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This was the perfect accompaniment to my journey to London and back for the Nigel Kneale centenary , and not only because it fitted the driv...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Nigel Kneale: A Centenary Celebration

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What a thrill to be at the Picturehouse Cinema in Crouch End yesterday, in the shadow of Alexandra Palace, for the centenary celebration of ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The Far Country, by Nevil Shute

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This is a very odd love letter to Australia, begun soon after the author emigrated there in the summer of 1950 and published in 1952. I borr...
Monday, April 18, 2022

What Abigail Did That Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch

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Oh what joy, a Rivers of London adventure we could share with the ten year-old as we drove down to my mum's for the Easter weekend. We t...
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