Doctor Who sale! 🤖🤖🤖 Click https://bgfn.sh/voc26 to get great discounts on selected Big Finish audio dramas featuring the famous robots of Kaldor. Offers expire no later than 23:59 (UK time) on 19 July 2026.

Friends, colleagues and family pay tribute to Justin Richards, who sadly passed away at the weekend: https://bgfn.sh/jrRIP

Such awful news about the passing of Justin Richards. We first met in 1978 as teenagers, and over the years it was wonderful to see his writing career soar. He was a true talent and simply the nicest man in the Whoniverse. (photo by Lisa Bowerman)

🍌 SALE! 🍌 Click https://bgfn.sh/nine26 to get up to 50% off selected Big Finish audio dramas starring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor. 🍌 Ends no later than 23:59 (UK time) on 5 July 2026.

OYD* 1912: John Bailey A fine actor I associate with playing dignified ruin and deviously scheming character parts in Doctor Who and The Avengers, but also because… I remember Trevor Baxter’s quietly righteous fury about old fear and shame and how gay men he knew were imprisoned. *Yesterday

Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

I’m very sad to hear this. A genuinely lovely man and a terrific actor.

Tenko Six Feet Under The Singing Detective I Claudius Upstairs Downstairs Blake’s 7 Space 1999 Will and Grace Friends Soap Doctor Who Babylon 5 Schitt’s Creek ER The Traitors UK

Apparently this amazing bookshop in Brighton is in danger of closure. Please support them if you can afroribooks.co.uk

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may you live in interesting times

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Oh no… She was absolutely brilliant in everything she did www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

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A timeline for human jobs being replaced by AI. Why isn’t this the number one thing everyone is talking about?

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Resharing this thread about Section 28, a cruel piece of homophobic legislation introduced in the UK in 1988. I hope it shows that even when the prospects are grim and hope is faltering, we can take comfort that those moments will pass. It’s likely the seeds of salvation have already been planted.

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Now that’s drama. @janeslavin.bsky.social

Beautiful to hear the Ukrainian choir at the end of the King’s Speech. As for the speech itself, wouldn’t it be good to hear more of that generous, compassionate and hopeful language in public life?

Paul McGann! Nicola Walker! Hattie Morahan! NEW!

I'M GETTING PUBLISHED! Not one but TWO plays for your enjoyment: "It Walks Around The House At Night" & "Jurassic", Feb 2026. The oddest double-volume ever, ghosts and dinos mushed together. Pre-ordering would mean a lot! Support your local nerdy playwright! www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/it-walks-aro...

Fake news, fossils and written by #bruntwoodprize winning, Tim Foley - Jurassic opens at ours in just one week.⁠ ⁠ So here's a little trailer to whet your appetites...⁠ ⁠ Tue 18 - Sat 29 Nov 🦕 sohotheatre.com/events/juras...

Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...

Tess AND Claudia? Nooooo! #StrictlyBombshell

AMAZING picture in the new @bigfinish.bsky.social Vortex! 😍 Steve, if you're reading this, I'm impressed by both your head for heights and your taste in Doctor Who! @finishedzine.bsky.social

Thirteen weeks to Christmas Day

In the 1980s I was walking down a corridor in TV Centre when a make up artist ran after me shouting ‘Your ears!!! I must have them for my production!’ She took me off to a room where she did moulds of them, and they were used for all the creatures in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Only a few days to go until my new painting exhibition opens on 1 September. 22 original paintings inspired by a hundred years of science fiction cinema. Here's one based on a 1970s classic. Do please come along if you can - if not, don't forget to access the virtual exhibition. Please share. Ta!

UNIT assembled! Join Ken Bentley, Matt Fitton, James Joyce and Tracy Wiles for a panel discussion in this fab podcast.

My new painting exhibition - BRAVE NEW WORLDS - opens in just over a week. It’s a celebration of a century of science fiction films. Do please come along if you’re in the area - and tell your friends and family. For those who can’t make it in person, the whole exhibition will be viewable online too.

As the Trump administration begins the process of banning same-sex marriage and dismantling queer rights in the US, I’m reminded of this cartoon.

That time Rod and Emu turned up on Blue Peter and it ended up looking like a painting by Caravaggio

Ooh Alien: Earth is really, really, really blooming brilliant.

BRAND-NEW TRAILER KLAXON! 📢 Click https://bgfn.sh/lastasp to hear the Fourth Doctor, Leela, the Brigadier, Cleopatra and... something I've forgotten... 卌 | |||| | 卌 |||| | 卌

This Sunday, a chance to bid on some signed memorabilia from my lovely mum. All money raised will be split between The Princess Alice Hospice, who cared for my mum so brilliantly, and The Anthony Nolan Trust. Please help raise some money for two brilliant causes!

Coming in August... River Song v Henry VIII A four hour pseudo-historical epic... from @bigfinish.bsky.social , written by me. #DoctorWho And, as I'm a huge #baldursgate3 #bg3 fan, I'm delighted we've got Andrew Wincott (Raphael) in the cast, as Thomas Cromwell! Trailer below...

Coming as I do from a BBC comedy background, I have a shitload of suggestions for how to make great television programmes more cheaply (such as not budgeting them at $10m+ per episode) none of which anyone is interested in. They don’t want cheaper TV. They want cheaper people.

OUT NOW! It's a spore war for the Third Doctor, Liz and the Brig. 🦠 Click https://bgfn.sh/dwtmm to listen to Doctor Who: The Mirror Matter, a feature-length audio novel written by Kate Orman and performed by Jon Culshaw.

STOP! ✋ LOOK! 👀 LISTEN! 👂 #DoctorWho: The Mirror Matter is a brand-new Third Doctor audio novel due for release in July. Click bgfn.sh/dwtmm to hear more, check out the cover and pre-order. soundcloud.com/big-finish/d...

I've been hearing so much how amazing the Hooklight audios are so I finally checked them out. Believe the hype, its one big amazing adventure. It may even be up there amongst the other best 5th Doctor audios. Highly recommended 😁👍 #DoctorWho @bigfinish.bsky.social @verbatimfoley.bsky.social

"Affirmative, Master! Sale prices detected!" John Leeson audiobooks and dramas - half price selected titles, here: https://bgfn.sh/john25 Offers end no later than 23:59 (UK time) on 08 June 2025.

AVAILABLE NOW! 🗣️🎙️👂 A brand-new full-cast audio drama box set. Click https://bgfn.sh/DW4D14B to listen now to Doctor Who: The Ruins of Kaerula. Starring Tom Baker, Louise Jameson and John Leeson, with Jon Culshaw as the Brigadier.

I’ve popped down memory lane for Tom’s website

The Fifth Doctor range from @bigfinish.bsky.social keeps on giving. After modern masterpieces of the likes of Forty 2 and Merfolk Murders, @verbatimfoley.bsky.social delivers his most ambitious project yet and the landing is as smooth as it could be. Genuinely bravo. 👏

How did we come to be in a world where people use phones hands free in public as walkie talkies? No public space, no peaceful area, is free from it.

"An absolute triumph! A tale that is sure to reward on multiple re-listens... ★★★★★"

What an outstanding conclusion to @bigfinish.bsky.social's 12-part Hooklight. Couldn't be more amazed by @verbatimfoley.bsky.social's groundbreaking storytelling, with the Eighth Doctor having a major role. This is #DoctorWho at one of its finest!