Plus corridors, corridors, corridors.

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TV Earlier this evening, at about tea time, I visited our usual Fish and a Chip emporium. After ordering, I nipped out to the pillar bo...

Doing Shakespeare by Simon Palfrey.

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Above my desk is a postcard which reads: “A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small bu...

T’Sar Wars, the opening chapter of Paul Magrs’s new fourth Doctor opus Serpent’s Crest

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Books Something I’ve always loved about Doctor Who is its capacity to make me chuckle about the tiniest of things. Listening to T’Sar Wa...

the cadences are the same.

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TV A-list Doctor Who fan Ian Levine has created a version of lost Douglas Adams story Shada , filling in the gaps left in the recording (w...

Anthony Coburn's legacy.

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TV Regular readers will know that I tend to be quite circumspect when it comes to posting photographs of myself on this blog. I’m not t...

the magazine of my youth

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Games Well, this is quite something. Archive.org have an evolving programme of digitising out of print computer magazines which includes ...

Conching.

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The Princess Royal visits Thorntons , a photo by The British Monarchy on Flickr.

Costume Drama: Fashion from 1790 to 1850, the latest exhibition at Sudley House

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Fashion Forrest Gump’s mamma always said, “you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, where the go, where they've been” but a...

“one day you’ll be cool”

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Film This New York Magazine profile of Zooey Deschanel brings a casting nugget about one of her earliest films : "During Deschanel’s...

Artifacts: The Beautiful South

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Music It's 1996 and kids, The Beautiful South one of the biggest bands in the country, their filthy lyrics to a lyrical hum having sl...

"the BAFTAs have real kudos"

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Film Stephen Fry returns to host British Academy Film Awards . Anyone who saw his documentary about depression will know how difficult a ...

"the book itself was arrested"

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Radio Life and Fate is BBC Radio 4's new drama experiment spread across all of the drama slots which aren't The Archers next week...

Meticulous detail?

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About From SFX Magazine blog's Spurious Awards Of The Week column : Some notes: (a) A? Me only. (b) Spent ages? A couple o...

a word repeated over and over

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That Day I originally posted the following six months after 9/11 and even after another nine and a half years, I'm not sure I could ca...

a warm glow on a cold September Saturday night

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TV One of the problems with the BBC’s new policy of seemingly sending Doctor Who preview discs (or passwords) out to anyone with a keyb...

'Bad Night' & 'Good Night'

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TV Doctor Who Online has news of the complete series six boxset coming this November, which includes ... "Meanwhile in the Tardis fe...

puncturing the god-like qualities

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Comics Or rather some news from the comics coal face. Wandering through my local comics emporium earlier checking if the first of the n...

"I realize that when I met you at the turkey curry buffet, I was unforgivably rude, and wearing a reindeer jumper."

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The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall attend the launch of Wool Modern , originally uploaded by The British Monarchy .

Paul Erickson’s stock in trade

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TV A crack? Another crack? Nine weeks and The Blessing is a crack? As well as quoting from The Eleventh Hour , Torchwood’s Miracle D...

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Elsewhere I've read and reviewed my second novelisation of Hamlet from Ophelia's POV of the week .