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Dr Una McCormack recommended me this brilliant book on the craft of writing. The title is a pun, the idea being that a piece of writing — a ...

The latest Doctor Who Magazine special edition is out today, The Yearbook 2026 . Among its wonders is something by me: How You Watch Who (p...

I’ve greatly enjoyed this enormous, 540-page oral history of children’s television on the BBC between 1967 and 1997, published by Ten Acre B...

The latest instalment in Louie Stowell's Loki series, A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos , is great fun, though the nine year-old L...

I've written a piece for the Telegraph about Blake's 7 (£), in response to yesterday's story in Deadline  about a new reboot  w...

For the time being, this will be the last of my long posts on the 236 books written by Terrance Dicks . I need to focus on some other projec...

The new issue of Big Finish’s free magazine Vortex includes a feature on an audio Doctor Who story I’ve worked on, out next month. The Hear...

It’s been illuminating to read this short book exploring what it is about the work of David Lynch that so affects us as viewers, having just...

This relatively short, breezy guide to writing better screenplays is full of good, practical advice. I was keen to see what it had to say ab...

The four-part Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars was originally broadcast in October and November 1975. It was then repeated, in a one-hour...