I listen to a fair number of audio books and the method by which I get most out of them is to combine them with some physical and practical task (eg cleaning, cooking, tidying, washing/dressing etc) that would otherwise cause my mind to wander from lack of stimulus

Update. The solution WAS the blindingly obvious one.

The history of the last generation has been right wing parties scraping a technical victory by the thinnest possible margin, then ruling like tyrants, then centre-left parties winning decisively and deciding the nation can only heal if they enact right wing policies.

I’m researching whodunnits for a spec and currently reading Whose Body? (The first Lord Peter Wimsey novel). It’s fun but it feels like the solution is blindingly obvious about twenty pages in and now Peter’s figured it out but kept it to himself and I’ve about 30 pages to go.

Operation Monk-house... the latest Dark Gallifrey tale revealed @bigfinish.bsky.social @johndorney.bsky.social @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2026/02/19/d...

☯️ BREAKING NEWS ☯️ What Monky business is this? Click https://bgfn.sh/dg5news to find out more about the next trilogy in the Dark Gallifrey saga, beginning April 2026!

I may have mentioned that an upcoming @bigfinish.bsky.social script was the ‘most Dorney ever’. We recorded it yesterday. Coming soon.

Started Charlie Higson's #JekyllAndHyde, one of ITV's attempts to lure away Doctor Who's audience into 2010s. Doomed to fail: you can't make people who like Doctor Who suddenly switch to you by being a bit like Doctor Who. If you like Doctor Who, you'll always go for that above pale imitations.

I’m trying to remember a specific film/failed franchise based on an IP where they held off on using the major villain in the launch film in full expectation of a franchise. And then flopped. I feel there’s a few that probably fit but there’s one I’m trying to remember in particular. Any help?

“I didn’t have rich parents, a childhood bedroom to return to or an infatuated billionaire intent on marrying me. Either writing had to make me money or I couldn’t do it. “ I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Not a new thought but: The amount of unpaid work a freelance writer expected to do to get a TV show commissioned (or even glanced at) is just unsustainable if you don’t come from a wealthy background or have pre-existing financial security. We’re missing out on brilliant stories & brilliant people

Love this run!

COMING SOON! From the worlds of Doctor Who: Rutans vs Sontarans. 🪼🆚🥔 Click bgfn.sh/rvsnews to read more and pre-order the series on download to own and collector's edition CD.

As if to reiterate this, the series ends with Nicola Walker leaving a cafe I happen to know is outside Kensal Rise station and walking in the exact direction you take to get to the old Moat Studios where we recorded them (I know cos this was the exact route of my commute!)

Watching Unforgotten 2 with breakfast. Blimey, it’s like @bigfinish.bsky.social Doom Coalition 5 given the cast…

Well here it is! My very last script for the mighty Tom. Didn’t get to hear any of this one recorded so very keen to hear it!

I think I preferred Hugo from the Traitors when he played the Curious Orange.

We're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range. Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...

Sorry to hear we’ve lost my old voice teacher Greg De Polnay. I was delighted to be instrumental in getting him back to be D84 one last time…

Have finished a first draft of a new @bigfinish.bsky.social so it’s time to down tools and focus on books, board games and food for two weeks.

Hive mind help. Are there any particularly famous fictional writers in the Whoiniverse, alien or otherwise. Like Oolon Colophid in HHGTTG.

This was fun!

Today on the #DoctorWho Too Hot For TV Advent Calendar I am joined by @johndorney.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/864883/episo...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 The glorious Twelfth is getting his own audio drama adventures! Click https://bgfn.sh/new12 to read all about Jon Culshaw and Gwithian Evans in the forthcoming Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Adventures.

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I’ve read this play by my @bigfinish.bsky.social colleague @verbatimfoley.bsky.social and love it like a favourite child. See it if you can.

Crikey, I’d forgotten how weird this @bigfinish.bsky.social script of mine is (it’s recording over two years after it was written!). Suffice it to say can’t wait for it to be announced.

I just backed The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...

Different @bigfinish.bsky.social audio recording today. Lovely guest cast - and you’re not going to expect who they are.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Got a @bigfinish.bsky.social audio recording today. Such a good cast making the script twice as funny as it felt on the page…

Is there are list anywhere of where the Doctor Who Production Info text is different on the Collection sets to the original DVDs?

Check out The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two by Georgia Cook on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...

Pretty much every Culture Secretary we've had since the post was created has reinforced my impression that our frontline politicians simply do not know or care about culture.

Happy Halloweeeeen! Remember to leave out a glass of milk and a plate of cookies tonight, so the pumpkins don't eat you instead

Well, up to date with Celebrity Traitors. I don’t think this is a spoiler but my suspicion is that the final episode is going to be a masterpiece of editing for tension - like a lot of the last regular series finale - because it feels a bit of a fait accompli currently.

Just seen a post saying Disney definitely weren’t on board with RTD2’s content. As if they would give all that money and never take a second glance or give a note and just put it all straight onto the screen. That’s just not how TV works guys.

Like his Graham Williams piece, Worlds Within - the Ian Marter documentary is a triumph by @chrischapman81.bsky.social . A beautiful, moving piece of work that gives amazing insight into one of my greatest Doctor Who heroes.

I’m really delighted that he seems to be one of the real surprise MVPs of this series. Like Celia Imrie and Joe Marler.

Bloody hell, Traitors is so much more tense when you actually know one of the competitors. I will be properly gutted if Mark doesn’t get to the end.

Last couple of days have been reading Dark Gallifrey 5 and 7 for different reasons. Very happy with how wide ranging and weird this series is.

My keynote is here - www.linkedin.com/pulse/common...

I highlighted this issue in my keynote on class in TV last week. Our TV channels can no longer afford to make ltd series at HETV budgets... so why not stop competing with streamers with endless resources and try making modest shows with more risk? www.c21media.net/news/the-hac...

The first few dates of our 2026 Tour of IT WALKS AROUND THE HOUSE AT NIGHT have been announced! www.thickskintheatre.co.uk/itwalks/ 3 to 6 February - Chichester Festival Theatre 13 February - Watford Palace Theatre 18 & 19 February - ARC, Stockton Arts Centre Links in the thread below...

All these flags, where the fuck are the Morris dancers? Where are the scones? Where are the poets, the singers, the playwrights? Where is this English Culture they claim to love?

I found myself stuck in central London yesterday. The level of emboldened hatred surrounding me was repellent and deeply upsetting. On the tube people got off at King’s Cross, presumably for trains home. And I realised there’s only one type of person I wanted to go back where they came from.

metro.co.uk/2025/09/03/g... The Metro going against the grain at least. Good on Crystal for writing this.

When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.

Since we're sharing examples of Linehan's scummy behaviour