"Listen!" -- The Doctor, "Listen" Art  The Oratory is one of Liverpool's hidden jewels.  Sitting in the ground...

"Gracious. During all my travels, I don't think I've ever come across this. Magical. Isn't it extraordinary? I say, are y...

Art As well as the territory of this year's Biennial, the accompanying booklet also highlights "annual commissions", artwo...

"Doctor Who is required! Bring him here!" -- WOTAN, "The War Machines" Art What to photograph in Derby Square? W...

"It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are ...

Film Perhaps it's my age but I always have tremendous difficulty remember Abbie Oakley star Barbara Stanwyck's name. It's...

"Ogri, come. I command you." -- Vivien, "The Stones of Blood" Art Back when I was signing on for Income Support ...

TV You will have seen the trailer for the Gilmore Girls revival. I would have posted it here already but it was everywhere. But just in ...

Audio Here we are then, the first complete audio adventure starring a Time War era Eighth Doctor (his cameo in The River Song Diaries acce...

TV In the believe it when we see it slot, a pre-order page has turned up at Amazon related to a blu-ray release of Doctor Who's TV Mov...

About It has been fifteen years since I began posting here and to celebrate Annette, who first interviewed me on the 5th birthday and t...

"Every story ever told really happened. Stories are where memories go when they’re forgotten." -- The Doctor, "Hell Bent...

"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs, ...

TV In an example of how global the BBC is now (now?), The Great British Bake Off has reached the US. Renamed The Great British Baking Sho...

Film Saw Star Trek Beyond at lunch time unfortunately in my second to least favourite screen in an otherwise good cinema, shunting to one ...

Film The first time I heard W. H. Auden's "verse commentary", specially written for the GPO Film Unit's Night Mail w...

Film On the occasion of his birthday, David Bordwell reviews the film which were available at what were his local cinemas and talks about ...

TV Now that I've embarked on a Star Trek marathon, nearly at the end of first season of Enterprise which is often hilarious (Travis: ...