"And now, twice-weekly..." BBC trailer for "Doctor Who: Castrovalva" (1982). #DoctorWho

I know you are all champing at the bit to know my book of the year for 2025!! As a special treat, I've chosen two. 1/5

On the tenth day of #BigFinishmas, my true love gave to me... https://bgfn.sh/bfmas25#BigFinishmasDark Shadows: Blood and Fire (the 50th anniversary special) for just £4.99 as a download to own and collector's edition CD. Offer available until 23:59 (UK time) on 07 January 2026, while stocks last.

Time to look back at 2025 one more time. My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now. Please watch, like and circulate. Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise. youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...

Greetings from the depths of Pennsylvania, where it is not as cold as usual this time of year! Hope you had a cool yule, y'all, and have a happy new year!! Hope to see some of you somewhere during 2026!!

Whenever I see a discarded star (which happens more times than you might think) I always think of @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social

Giveaway! I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase. Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose? (UK only)

Remembering the time I fixed the end of Blake's 7: Stardrive.

Today is the 250th birthday of the great Jane Austen! Certainly an event worth raising a glass to! 1/3

Fans of the audio versions of stories from the old Dr Who annuals, and isn't that everyone? are in for a treat with the latest release THE VAMPIRE PLANTS AND OTHER STORIES! 1/2

Talking Pictures are showing the original film of Graham Greene's great novel Brighton Rock on Dec 3rd at 2100. Lots of reasons to see this. Great script by Greene and Terence Rattigan. Great perfs too, including William Hartnell!

Seconding this recommendation!

OG Doccy Who laying the smack out of young John Hammond, definitely a quality film.

Talking Pictures are showing the original film of Graham Greene's great novel Brighton Rock on Dec 3rd at 2100. Lots of reasons to see this. Great script by Greene and Terence Rattigan. Great perfs too, including William Hartnell!

Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday in Eastleigh, alongside my friends Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Carole Ann Ford!!

Matthew Waterhouse returns to Gallifrey One for our 2026 convention, in our latest guest announcement. More guests on the way (and a reminder: panelist sign-ups are now open for our discussion panel track are open through Dec 15.) gallifreyone.com #gally1

I love Star Cops and I loved The Merfolk Murders - Tim's classic crime style Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan audio drama. So this could be right up my street.

Coming February 5th 2026 Doctor Who: Caught in the Web & Other Stories A further collection of tales from the Doctor Who annuals The Devil Birds of Corbo World of Ice Caught in the Web The Eye Spiders of Pergross Winter on Mesique Day of the Dragon amzn.to/47AZBNB #ad

Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes, I've produced two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN. Extremely proud of this. It will make your Christmas 100% more Christmassy! Order here: averageromp.com

I'm not into subscription channels, but my husband wanted to see a particular show, so we subscribed to Netflix for a month. All I can say is, thank God for Martin Scorsese, whose imprimatur is on just about anything worth watching: ... 1/2

Happy birthday @manningofficial.bsky.social! Hope to see you soon! Mx

Thanks to all who came to the screening of Shades of Greene, the Graham Greene anthology drama series made by Thames in 1975, which I showed at the Electric Palace in Hastings as part of their TV season. (TV was invented - or perhaps discovered is the better word - in Hastings.)

Sad to hear of the death of Diane Keaton. She's always been my favourite contemporary movie actor. She's sublime in Woody Allen's films and also in The Godfather. I wasn't always nuts about her later films which tended to be gooey Hollywood, but she was always a delight.

I'm pleased to say I'll be introducing three stories from the 1970s Thames anthology series Shades of Greene, dramatisations of short stories by the great Graham Greene, this Thursday, 9th Oct at the Electric Palace, Hastings. 1/3 www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/sha...

A pile of Target paperbacks out in the smaller Downham St Christopher's Hospice. £1 each. (Open Tuesday to Saturday.) cc @2ndhandwho.bsky.social

I'm delighted to say that I have chosen and will be introducing three episodes of a forgotten 1970s TV masterpiece at this year's Hastings TV Festival at the Electric Palace cinema in the old town on Thursday 9th October, one in the morning and two in the evening. 1/4

Going out for sale in the (small) Downham St Christopher's Hospice shop. (Open Tuesday to Saturday.)

I'm delighted to say that I have chosen and will be introducing three episodes of a forgotten 1970s TV masterpiece at this year's Hastings TV Festival at the Electric Palace cinema in the old town on Thursday 9th October, one in the morning and two in the evening. 1/4

So atmospheric. Logopolis has many of my favourite Adric moments, with him questioning the Doctor and reacting to revelation after revelation as that sepulchral atmosphere builds in the first two eps. You took this 8 yo right along with you. As for Castrovalva: "Me! I'm the trap..." Marvellous.

He had a very individual, independent approach to Doctor Who. A careful balancing of the things we all love about it with the subjects that interested him. Hence, we get a smorgasbord of quantum physics, mystery play and philosophy for a new spin on established storytelling formula and symbols.

The timing of this also makes it something of a tribute to Chris Bidmead.

Big Finish are celebrating the 45th anniversary of the first showing of The Leisure Hive with a fab Season 18 sale! The quartet of E-Space audios are included, plus my novel Watchers (which leads into Logopolis) and Joe Lidster's story about an adult Adric - A Full Life! Snap 'em all up!

LENS FLARE SALE! ✨ Celebrating 45 years of Doctor Who Season 18! ✨ Click https://bgfn.sh/s18sale to get discounts on selected audio adventures. ✨ Hurry! Offers expire no later than 23:59 (UK time) on 05 September 2025.

There’s so much to say about Chris Bidmead’s Dr Who. Its pleasing coldness, its determination to turn maths into drama, its victory over the chaos and entropy that plagued his predecessor. Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva are all one story, aren’t they? His Master’s Masterplan. RIP

R.I.P. Christopher H. Bidmead.

Castrovalva was my very first; the one that hooked me and improved my life by doing so. 😥❤️ Wish I could have met him and thanked him.

Same here. Has anyone in Doctor Who ever blended science, fantasy and art into such original & captivating stories? His legacy on the show is enduring. I never met Chris but his influence on Doctor Who made me a lifelong fan and his stories inspired my love of both science and art at an early age.

Very sad to hear we've lost Christopher H Bidmead. Always struck me as a very genial chap who took his work seriously but not himself. Hard to over-express my admiration for Frontios, and the ideas in Logopolis and Castrovalva, where mathematics is treated as where philosophy and poetry meet.

Woke this morning to learn of Chris Bidmead’s passing. The man responsible for my break into TV, and my unwitting entry into a global family in which I’ve remained to this day. For both of which, I’m forever grateful. Vale Chris

Very sorry to hear about Christopher Bidmead's death. As script editor, he gave DW a new lease of life during Tom's last year, with a season of extraordinarily interesting and tonally wide-ranging stories.

£1 each in the (smaller) St Christopher's Hospice shop in Downham, Bromley, BR1 4PQ. cc @2ndhandwho.bsky.social

Out for sale - £1 each - in the (smaller) St Christopher's Hospice shop in Downham (Bromley). cc @2ndhandwho.bsky.social

I mean, it's no Keeper of Traken but...

Looking forward to seeing some of you at tomorrow's Keeper of Traken event at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith! Not only will all four eps be shown, there is a hell of a guest list! 1/2

Going out in #Penge #StChristophersHospice shop now. £1 a story.

During my signing at the Who Shop yesterday I spotted a copy of @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's exceedingly long-awaited first volume in his massive series about Nigel Kneale's Quatermass. Originally conceived as a single volume work, this is now projected to be, I believe, a head-spinning five volumes!

In case you missed them, I wrote some books:

Delighted to say that the DWAS will be having a big screen showing of The Keeper of Traken at the wonderful Riverside Studios in Hammersmith on 3rd August! Sarah and I will be there and we will do a bit of talk! Other guests too! Snap up tix now! riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/d...

Looking forward to seeing some of you tomorrow at the Who Shop in Upton Park!