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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Doctor Who Magazine #589

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features interviews with the three directors of this year's forthcoming TV episodes, and has the r...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Beautiful Shadow - A Life of Patricia Highsmith, by Andrew Wilson

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I said in reviewing Martin Edwards' The Life of Crime last month that Patricia Highsmith had been "smuggling her snails in her bra...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Doctor Who Magazine special: Showrunners

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The new special edition of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to showrunners and producing the series from 1963 to now. I intervi...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

In conversation with Fatima Manji - video

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You can now watch the video of my interview with Fatima Manji about her book Hidden Heritage , conducted yesterday as part of Macfest. It...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Doctor Who Magazine #588

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine boasts a 28-page retrospective on  The Sarah Jane Adventures  which are now back up on the BBC's i...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

In conversation with Fatima Manji

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On Saturday 11 March, I'll be in conversation with award-winning author and broadcaster Fatima Manji about her book Hidden Heritage: Red...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

In conversation with Aamina Ahmad and Eli Lee

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Last week I hosted an event for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain with the last two winners of our Best First Novel Award - Aamina Ah...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Sirens of Audio #145

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The latest Sirens of Audio video podcast features me being grilled about my 2012  Doctor Who audio story The Anachronauts , which starred Je...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Radio Free Skaro #893

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On Saturday, I spoke to Steven and Chris from Radio Free Skaro about my research into the life of David Whitaker . I'd just given my tal...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Vworp Vworp! #5

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I've had a brilliant long weekend in Los Angeles as a guest at the Gallifrey One convention, catching up with lots of old pals, meeting ...
Monday, February 13, 2023

The Morbid Age, by Richard Overy

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Subtitled "Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919-1939", this is a dense and detailed history of the interwar period focused...
Sunday, February 05, 2023

The Life of Crime, by Martin Edwards

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This massive history of crime fiction and its creators, from William Godwin to PD James, is brilliant, rich and absorbing. It's especial...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

Doctor Who Magazine #587

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The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine features another "Sufficient Data" infographic from me and Ben Morris, this time with a Val...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Body Parts - Essays on Life-Writing, by Hermione Lee

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Having so admired Hermione Lee's biography of Penelope Fitzgerald , I was keen to hear - and thieve from - her insights more generally o...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

The Distant Echo, by Val McDermid

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A young woman attacked and left for dead is found by four young students on their way home from a party. When she dies, suspicion falls on t...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

The Return of Faraz Ali, by Aamina Ahmed

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On Monday night I attended the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023 , having run the team behind the First Novel Award. Huge congratu...
Friday, January 13, 2023

David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television

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The lovely lot at Ten Acre Films have officially announced my forthcoming biography of David Whitaker, the original story editor of Doctor ...
Thursday, January 05, 2023

Doctor Who Magazine #586

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The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine boasts an interview with Millie Gibson, who'll be joining the series as companion Rub...
Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Adventures in the Screen Trade, by William Goldman

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I first read Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) and its sequel, Which Lie Did I Tell?  (2000), around the time I went freelance in 2002, ...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Cinema Limbo: Give My Regards to Broad Street

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I've once again been a guest on Cinema Limbo , the podcast that picks over odd, old films. In this case, it's Give My Regards to Bro...
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