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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Cat Gamer vol 1, by Wataru Nadatani

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I read this fun, cutesy manga to check it was suitable for the nine year-old Lady Vader. It’s like visiting the inside of her brain. Riko is...
Friday, April 25, 2025

The Legend of Nigel Kneale: 1. The Creeping Unknown

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An absolutely packed deluxe 4KUHD and Blu-ray edition of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) is now available to preorder direct from Hammer. I...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Sirens of Audio podcast: Jean Marsh remembered

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The Sirens of Audio podcast has put out a special tribute episode to the late Jean Marsh, who died just over a week ago at the age of 80. Ho...
Friday, April 18, 2025

The Go-Between, by Osman Yousefzada

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Something a bit different for Easter: this Sunday at 2 pm, I'm interviewing author and artist Osman Yousefzada about his extraordinary m...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Power of 3 podcast #378: Jean Marsh

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The latest episode of the Power of 3 podcast is a tribute to brilliant, Emmy award-winning actress Jean Marsh, who sadly died last week at ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Death at the White Hart, by Chris Chibnall

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This is ideal holiday reading, a fast-moving, relatively concise murder mystery from the creator of Broadchurch and in a similar style. It b...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

The Martian Conspiracy, by Mary Robinette Kowal

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Hello from the island of Rhodes, where we are having a short break, retreading the footsteps that the Dr and I took 25 years ago on our firs...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Space Security Service

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Big Finish have announced that June 2025 will see the release of Space Security Service , a series of audio adventures produced by me and st...
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Bowler Hats and Kinky Boots, by Michael Richardson

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I’ve completed Part One of this enormous, comprehensive and highly readable volume, the 350 pages that cover production of the 1960s TV seri...
Friday, April 04, 2025

Exterminate! Regenerate! by John Higgs

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This magnificent book is officially out next week but I've just received mine, and a proof copy found its way back in time to me at the ...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Socks (2023-25)

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Some very sad news. On Monday, the vet called to say that one of our two cats had been brought in, having been hit by a car. Poor old Socks ...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Smith and Sullivan: Reunited - Blood Type

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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...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Cinema Limbo: Observe and Report

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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 , ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Remembering / Forgetting The Savages

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The animation of otherwise-missing 1966  Doctor Who story The Savages is out now. It includes Stuart Denman's 100-minute documentary Rem...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Alex Andreou's Podyssey podcast

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The Dr is one of the expert "muses" featured in Alex Andreou's new Podyssey podcast series. Each episode begins with Alex rete...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Green for Danger, by Christianna Brand

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"'If this were a detective story, he'd be the murderer for a certainty, though,' said Barnes. 'They always pick on the ...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Macfest interview with Shirin Shamsi

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Tomorrow, as part of Macfest, I'll be interviewing children's author Shirin Shamsi in a free online event .  Shirin will read her bo...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Terror of the Suburbs, with Matthew Sweet

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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...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

Death at the Sign of the Rook, by Kate Atkinson

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Jackson Brodie, ex-soldier, ex-copper and stalwart private detective, is an unlikely participant in a murder-mystery evening put on by some ...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

An Independent Woman, The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier

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