Getting started on this labour of love from @tobyhadoke.bsky.social and enjoying it immensely already. So much detail, and so well-written!

Our new book Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television is out later this month. Here's author Richard Marson signing title pages for the limited edition hardback ahead of binding. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk/

A long, long post on the novelisation Doctor Who The Revenge of the Cybermen by Terrance Dicks, the first to feature the bohemian Fourth Doctor: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/doct... #books #booksky #DoctorWho

Our new book Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television is out later this month. Here's author Richard Marson signing title pages for the limited edition hardback ahead of binding. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk/

Tickets for our BFI Southbank author event for Box of Delights are now on sale from tinyurl.com/9hwat82m. Hope to see you there!

My copy of The Quatermass Experiment arrived yesterday, and so far it's a great and fascinating read. So much that I never knew about Kneale, the series, etc. Definitely worth getting hold of.

NEW EP OUT WEDS 12 NOV! Featuring TV director, producer and former Blue Peter editor Richard Marson discussing the last-ever Rentaghost with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social, and his ace new book from @tenacrebooks.bsky.social, Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television

This really is the book I have been waiting for all my life

We're counting down to the release of our new book Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television, Richard Marson's immersive 500-page history. Here's a first look at the full cover, illustrated by @gkw.bsky.social. Available in paperback and limited edition hardback from tenacrebooks.co.uk

Good luck with that, whoniverse - if that even is your real name. FYI Ama*** will not be stocking Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene. The book is freely available from source at cover price £14.99 plus postage (reprint next week), or from your bricks and mortar bookshop via Gardners distribution. Ta!

Richard Marson is the former editor of Blue Peter and author of several books, including Totally Tasteless: The Life of John-Nathan Turner and Biddy Baxter: The Woman Who Made Blue Peter, both published by Ten Acre. Box of Delights tells the story of three decades of BBC Children's Television.

Some spooky reprints have appropriately arrived on Halloween. 🎃 The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic and Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene are back in stock and could be haunting your bookshelves. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk/

Good news, our friends at London's BFI Southbank will be hosting an event with author Richard Marson on December 4 marking the release of our new book Box of Delights, with other special guests to be announced. Tickets go on sale next week at whatson.bfi.org.uk/

This is a wonderful book for any fans of the McCoy era. Buy it now, buy it often.

❓Relive the ice-hot era of the seventh Doctor with Script Doctor, script editor Andrew Cartmel's insider memoir of classic Doctor Who's final years. Available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

Thrilled that @marklewisohn.bsky.social has contributed this passionate, personal post to the CST series against the recent BBC Written Archives policy shifts. His cri de couer is directed squarely at those who came up with the changes. Please read and share widely. cstonline.net/defending-th...

First half of a long, long plunge into the depths of the book Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster by Terrance Dicks, expertly timed to coincide with the release of the new Season 13 Blu-ray boxset: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct... #DoctorWho #Nessie #Booksky

Happy birthday to Blue Peter, first broadcast on this day in 1958. Read about the show's history and key figures in The Blue Peter Diaries, an insider account of its 1990s renaissance, and our intimate biography of its longtime Editor, Biddy Baxter. Available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

Here's the @radiotimes.bsky.social article on the book...

An epic, this one. The Doctor Who Monster Book by Terrance Dicks, in excruciating detail. 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Get in the mood for spooky season and darkening nights with The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic, an in-depth history bringing Nigel Kneale's seminal lost horror thriller back to life. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

The latest printing of David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television is almost sold out but more are on the way. An in-depth biography of Doctor Who’s first script editor by @0tralala.bsky.social, shining new light on an enigmatic personality. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk.

GASP.

OMG Omega!, and other learned thoughts on the novelisation Doctor Who - The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct...

Delighted to be chipping in at Hartlepool Folk Festival this weekend, assuming Storm Amy doesn't blow me off course. It's their 10th year and my 1st. Join me on Saturday for a Penda's Fen screening and Q&A, and on Sunday for Ivor Cutler: This and That. Books for sale! www.hartlepoolfolkfest.co.uk

Independent bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales, and ebooks will be priced the same as they are on Amazon.

A write up on Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene by that nice @0tralala.bsky.social . You should as always trust his every word and then buy direct from @tenacrefilms.bsky.social . 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/09/pend...

Good news, the forthcoming collector's edition hardback of our new book Box of Delights will now be signed by author Richard Marson. The definitive story of BBC Children's Programmes, limited to 300 copies. Order now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

Time to open the Box of Delights @tenacrefilms.bsky.social @stuartmanning.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2025/09/29/o...

22 years ago today since the recommissioning of #DoctorWho was announced. Read how it happened in my book The Long Game... tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

Well, bless my soul, another long, long post, this time Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders by Terrance Dicks, featuring Blackpool, Indiana Jones and Mr Toad. 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...

Now in stock… 💙

If you’re British, and of a certain set of generations, this is essential reading. #BookSky. If you’re not… well, I’m sorry you weren’t as lucky as we were. #TV

My latest blog for @cstonline.bsky.social , rounding up what has gone on behind the scenes over the past six months in our efforts to rescue BBC Written Archives Centre from recent policy changes. cstonline.net/is-the-bbc-a...

Another needlessly involved analysis of an old Target book. This time: Doctor Who and the Giant Robot (1975). With graphs, parliamentary Written Answers, and the Oedipus complex: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...

62 years ago today, the very first filming for Doctor Who took place at Ealing Studios. Read about the show's origins and early months in Pull to Open: The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who, available now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

🎵 "It won't be easy…" 🎵 Above the Law: The Unofficial Guide to Star Cops is getting a reprint and will be available later this month. Order now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

And a shoutout for our brilliant Box of Delights cover artists. The limited edition hardback is by veteran cartoonist Paul Cemmick and the paperback edition features illustrations by our talented friend @gkw.bsky.social. 🖍️

Have pre-ordered this and said to my wife, "You can give me this for Christmas. I can't think of anything I'd want more, to be honest."

If you've read any of Richard's books, you'll know that this will be a treasure trove of new information.

We’re pleased to announce that Richard Marson’s long-awaited history of BBC Children’s TV will be published on November 17 in trade paperback and a collector’s hardback, limited to 300 copies. Order Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children’s Television now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

Hello! Through the Square Window is a new podcast all about what we used to watch on British TV. Hosted by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social, the first ep launches Wednesday next week. A two-minute preview is available now. Just search for us, wherever you get your podcasts.

On Friday at 5pm we'll be revealing the covers for Box of Delights, our new book from Richard Marson chronicling three decades of the BBC Children's Department, and opening up pre-orders. Along with the standard paperback, there will be be a special edition hardback, limited to 300 copies. Be there!

Some thoughts on Who and Me, the memoir of Doctor Who producer Barry Letts: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-...

This months reading stack. The Quatermass Experiment book stood out. The depth of research and style of writing was most satisfying. Will be looking out my DVD to rewatch the first two episodes. Also planning to seek out the film (s) and the 2005 remake. I want more Quatermass Experiment!

We had a great time at yesterday's Barbican screening of Penda's Fen, celebrating the launch of our new book Scene by Scene. Special thanks to our speakers, actor Spencer Banks, author Ian Greaves and moderator Gareth Evans. The book is available from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

Superb day celebrating both the wonderful that is Penda’s Fen and @greavesian.bsky.social’s peerless tome on the production. Available here: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pend...

We had a great day celebrating the publication of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene. Thanks to everyone who came along and made it such a memorable event and to the Barbican Cinema for hosting us. "Cherish the flame…" 🔥

Excitement mounting.

Another extended wanging-on about old Doctor Who books, this time Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons by Terrance Dicks, featuring flowing honey, chameleons and repair shops. 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/09/doct...