I’m listening to the early-access Origin Story on the paranormal and I’m pleased to let you know that there *is* a play about the Conan Doyle/Houdini friendship @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social. It was on at Chichester recently and was rather good 🙂 www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

AT LAST! One of my personal projects is complete. I came up with an idea for a Doctor Who title sequence concept years ago (you can tell how long ago by the credits used) and I've finally finished it, creating dozens of 3D environments in a primarily 2D software! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1i...

While I was writing #YouAreNotAlone, actor John Breslin emerged as a bona fide queer hero. Wish he'd appeared in more than one (great) #DoctorWho story but the same year – 56 yrs ago! – he was vocal on TV about improving gay representation. #PrideMonth2026 tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

I'm rewatching 'The Changes' for the first time in over a decade. Last time, I didn't spot the pragmatic use of model shots from 'Quatermass and the Pit' to show the seismic upheaval that's underway.

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

Leela, on Fore Street in Totnes. Ground floor: Devon trustafarian fashions. First floor: Animal skins and Time Lord robes. Shop Manager: Janice Thorn.

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

K9 and Company in Chichester today.

Another thing I found at Dad's was a scrapbook, unseen for decades. It included my two instances of callow correspondence with the BBC, aged 13. Here's one. I'd wanted to learn how to play the Dr Who theme on the keyboard, and what *else* could I do but write to the BBC to request the score? 🤔🤷‍♂️😅

Going through some childhood books at my Dad’s house, I’ve found this Ladybird book on ‘How It Works… Television’, published in 1971. It includes Daleks on one of its illustrations and has a lovely plan of Television Centre on its endpapers.

Catching up on Interior Design Masters and it turns out they’re zhuzhing up Irongron’s castle. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Went foraging for wild garlic in Berkshire today and made sure to take in some Visitation locations en route. 💀🐀

'Oh, the agony of being Dr Who'. William Hartnell interviewed in the Daily Mirror (23rd April 1966)

My partner did a book photoshoot today with the flautist from The Green Death. She explained to him that she'd been working as a contract musician at the BBC, and Barry Letts told her she could appear in Doctor Who if she taught him to play the flute ☺️!

Yesterday, I went to Shepherdleas Wood, SE London, to take photos of bluebells, and I encountered a very lethargic bee (had the nectar fermented? 🤔), making it a very obliging photographic subject! 🐝

FOUND IT.

An example of Douglas Camfield's attention to detail, in 1965 writing quite a tall order for avant-garde composer Tristram Cary. It includes one of the earliest character sketches of Katarina. Also a nice early instance of the serial's overarching title. #DoctorWho

Me and him in @financialtimes.com having a chat about Fascism. www.ft.com/content/da6d...

YES

The Press Release published by the BBC, announcing that the two episodes of ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’ will be on BBC iPlayer at 6am, on Friday 3rd April, can be viewed at the following: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

If you see this, post a concert photo you took.

Some of the birds I saw and photographed yesterday at Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park – including goldfinches, greenfinches, and coots and their chicks. I'm not sure I'd ever encountered either of those finch species before, so it was a delight to see them.

I adored @grindrod.bsky.social’s ‘Tales of the Suburbs’. As someone who felt the need to escape the suburbs myself, it gave me a new appreciation of them as a queer space. There’s such a rich diversity of stories that inspire laughter, sadness and deep empathy – but overall, joy and hope.

I had a yen this week to watch a film I hadn't seen since childhood: 'Journey to the Far Side of the Sun'. It is *not* a good film. However, there's nothing so bad that it can't be improved by a brief cameo by Nicholas Courtney.

Doctor Who Restoration by R3Store Film is Fabulous! have collaborated with the BBC Archives, and R3Stores Studios in London, to ensure that the two recovered episodes of Doctor Who look and sound great, when released on the BBC iPlayer. r3storestudios.com

Really chuffed to see the new fx on Doctor Who season 21 going down so well. Doing alternate fx can be quite controversial so it's nice to see all the positive feedback. Here's a thread with some fun BTS stuff for Warriors of the Deep. (SPOILERS AHEAD) 1/9

🚨 Joe Orton's Up Against it on BBC Sounds alert 🚨 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This album is 40 next week. I remember buying it on the day of release (not this copy, I bought this one in Paris a decade ago because I’m FANCY) and playing it four times on the trot. I didn’t even do that with Dare. It’s not even the best Pet Shop Boys album either. Amazing.

45 years ago today, I watched a man I loved fall to his death and I’ve never really recovered.

Pure love for this.

Please stop using AI to restore Classic Doctor Who. Sign the petition here. www.change.org/p/bbc-studio...

In 1981 Doctor Who Magazine published the first comprehensive inventory of the BBC's archive, listing which Doctor Who episodes existed and were missing. 45 years on, 41 episodes have been returned to the archives. Here's a recreation of that list followed by how it stands in 2026.

Postie’s been 😊

Some far cleverer soul than I has kindly clipped @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's Doctor Who missing episodes report on BBC Breakfast this morning. Cheers DanTheMan! 👏 #DoctorWho youtu.be/HlJpKllRNhw

This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.

Key takeaways: -6 Doctor Who episodes found in the same collection, 4 of which existed - but are likely to be higher quality copies than the ones we have. -We have significantly overlooked "the ecosystem" between shared film & TV facilities for 1st-generation cutting copies. youtu.be/iMtwMztE5VE

Further information on the two recovered episodes of Doctor Who can be found on the Film is Fabulous! website: filmisfabulous.org.uk/missing-doct...

BBC News - Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...

I watched The Man Who Never Was (1956) this week, a film about Operation Mincemeat. Lovely to see William Russell in a small but important role (and in Cinemascope too!) as an RAF pilot who wins and breaks the heart of It's a Wonderful Life's Gloria Grahame.

I had a fantastic time yesterday at the BFI screening of the 'Warriors of the Deep' Special Edition (which is a *real* improvement). Janet, Peter, Sarah and Tara Ward were all on top form. Tara's memory of the welcoming atmosphere created by Peter did *not* go down well with Janet! #DoctorWho

🆕 2.2 PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. 📦 Wicked troublemaker or the victim of history's longest smear campaign? This episode is one WILD ride. And it includes some of my favourite cinematic references. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4E7j... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

So I started looking into this to outline the conspiracy theory. But what I found was a genuinely beautiful piece of practical idealism. A small, attainable progressive change that would hugely improve people's lives. I was inspired by it.

Actor Tom Baker, best known for ITV's "The Book Tower"...

*ahem*

A rain-washed London staging an update of the Thames ident yesterday.

Went to some neighbourhood drinks last week and learned that David Bowie rehearsed in the basement of this building (formerly Underhill Studios) on Blackheath Hill in preparation for the Ziggy Stardust tour, 54 years ago this month. I obviously had to seek it out with my camera in hand! #DavidBowie

He’s back.

Going through old files, I just stumbled across these 2001: A Space Odyssey / 1970s kids' TV mashups. No recollection of doing them. They must have been stuff intended for #Scarfolk, but got forgotten.

*Trump shits himself and uses his turds to try and build a ladder to the moon so that he can “meet the moon people, very good people”* Justin Webb, sagely: “Ah yes, the art of the deal”