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Big Finish have announced the forthcoming release of Doctor Who audio series Smith and Sullivan: Reunited , for release in July 2025. The th...

I'm the guest on the latest Cinema Limbo podcast, this time - for my many sins - to discuss the 2009 black comedy Observe and Report , ...

The animation of otherwise-missing 1966  Doctor Who story The Savages is out now. It includes Stuart Denman's 100-minute documentary Rem...

The Dr is one of the expert "muses" featured in Alex Andreou's new Podyssey podcast series. Each episode begins with Alex rete...

"'If this were a detective story, he'd be the murderer for a certainty, though,' said Barnes. 'They always pick on the ...

Tomorrow, as part of Macfest, I'll be interviewing children's author Shirin Shamsi in a free online event .  Shirin will read her bo...

The Blu-ray set Doctor Who: The Collection Season 7 has been out for a few weeks. It includes the documentary I co-produced, Terror of the S...

Jackson Brodie, ex-soldier, ex-copper and stalwart private detective, is an unlikely participant in a murder-mystery evening put on by some ...

An archivist pal asked if I was any relation of Edith Guerrier (1870-1958), the subject of Tirzah Frank’s fascinating “The ‘Boston Marriage’...

This is an odd and very racist novel, first published in 1953 but largely set 30 years later. The reprint I read is from 1982, with cover ar...

This is a righteously angry account of the past 15 years of politics in the UK, under Conservative (mis)rule. O’Brien ends with the disastro...

I've just received my copy of the Blu-ray boxset  Doctor Who Season 7, comprising the 25 episodes first broadcast in 1970. This saw the ...

I’ve just received my copy of Doctor Who Chronicles — 1970 , from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine . It features, on pp. 28-31 “Cross purpo...