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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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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’...