TV Lovely’s not really a word that’s often used to describe Doctor Who, largely because there’s rarely anything to describe as lovely w...

Comics Did anyone else wonder as they left the rebooted Star Trek how this new version of the familiar crew would be coping with the stori...

TV Now that Torchwood's Miracle Day is finally over I sense a void so I've decided to run some of my old Behind The Sofa review...

Rene Magritte Golconda 1953 The Menil Collection, Houston © Charly HERSCOVICI, Brussels – 2011 Art It’s 1992 and I’m at the Hayward ...

As the editors of this third Arden edition of his poems explain in their introduction although Shakespeare is generally thought of a playwri...

Film The much heralded "easter eggs" on the Star Wars blu-rays seem to be confined to changes in the films themselves. Except, ...

Food I know it's lazy linking to yet another evisceration of a restaurant from Jay Raynor but this one's particularly poetic . If...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...