Terrific Saturday at the BFI watching #TerroroftheZygons, with informative fabulous panels from various guests about the making of the production and season in general. Fantastic to see the episodes looking and sounding terrific on the big screen.👍🏿 Plus original and new Skarasen on display.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦

Relatively last minute decision to see Clarkston in preview at Trafalgar Theatre on Friday. It’s 100m or so straight through. Lovely examination of male friendship and bonding against a backdrop of adversity. Plus it had more humour than I was expecting. 👍🏿 Great playing from the three actors. 👏🏿🎭

Big screen glory coming up from noon at the BFI for Doctor Who Terror of the Zygons starring Tom Baker. Plus a Q&A with Philip Hinchcliffe. It should be another lovely afternoon of #DoctorWho with the gang. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚀📺👏🏿.

Another ‘name day’. This time off to see Clarkston at the Trafalgar Theatre. I don’t know that much about it, but it looks intriguing. So when friends invited me along, I took a punt. 👍🏿🎭

Superhero mythos and a return to a TV scenario make this book sound terrific. Update from the cover artist, Jeff Cummins, readings, reviews and an informative interview with Steve Lyons. 👍🏿 Another fun edition. Play out with a thumping Stuart Price production I’ve neglected.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

A bumper edition celebrating a book of significant importance in the novel canon. Cover artist Pete Wallbank pops up and there is a delightful interview with novelist Kate Orman as well as the familiar readings and reviews. 👍🏿 Play out with an unexpected theme tune.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

More from the Alternative Universe Cycle. Update from the cover artist (it’s a corking cover), readings, reviews and an in-depth interview with the author. 👍🏿 Another entertaining edition. Play out with a banger of a late 80s house track. Add a strut to your step..👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

That other dynamic duo are back with some New Adventures. An alternate history scenario already makes this an intriguing novel. Add a chat with the cover artist, readings, some words with the author, reviews and you’ve got an entertaining hour. 👍🏿 Play out with a catchy bit of prog rock.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

What a lovely accidental find on the BFI website. 👏🏿 Another date for the diary. 🤞🏿 🚀📺7️⃣

Back on the bus for one of the most anarchic and enjoyable episodes in what is already a terrific run. Melvin brings a lot of enthusiasm, thought, heart and experience to well reasoned arguments. 👍🏿 A great alternative shining on episodes, characters and situations.👏🏿 You’ll be rewatching. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Raising some donation money for Thames Hospice via their annual Sunflower Walk today. I took the half marathon option heading up to Windsor and back.🚶🏿‍♂️ Thankfully the rain held off until I was almost finished. 👏🏿 Do come along next year. Still plenty of time to donate if you have my link. 🌻👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏿

Just a Sunday morning, and a half marathon walk with a little bit extra. 🚶🏿‍♂️ 🌻

A Cybermen book given a podcast overview. Readings including one by the author and Cyber Leader, David Banks. 👍🏿 An entertaining edition. Got to love the evolving silver giants. Play out with a bit of alt-rock Britpop.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Another fab sounding book given a podcast overview. Intriguing readings and a good interview with the writer. 👍🏿 Play out track I don’t recall, so it’s an added learning day.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Along comes another lost story, though it did regenerate at Big Finish. It’s another engaging tale. 👍🏿 A great set of episode readings and an entertaining frank interview with the writer. This ‘lost season’ is shaping up really well. It should be produced. Play out track is a bit of pop.👑👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

An episode about a lost story, that was almost a ‘lost’ podcast for me as it only recently flirted across to my Apple. Still it was worth the wait. It’s a great lost tale and the author discusses its genesis well.👍🏿 It’d be nice to have a new lost series made.🤔 Play out track is a classic.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

You barely have time for the new podcasts, so delve deep into the past of a current one? 🤭 It got referenced, so why not? There’s a tribute to Caroline John.👏🏿 Plus it’s a Christopher Hamilton Bidmead miniscope.👍🏿 The play out ditty caught me by surprise. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Terrific interview and readings with the charmingly modest writer Christopher Bulis.👍🏿 He certainly sounds innovative, with some lovely takes added to the genre.👏🏿 Play out track, well. I didn’t know the performer had done this in his style.🤔 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Back across the way with the Canadians.👍🏿 Their regular news round up with commentaries, always welcome. Additionally a tribute to Christopher Hamilton Bidmead including a chat with writer Andrew Smith.👏🏿 Another good listen. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Lovely Monday eve with Brigadoon at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. A sweet old fashioned escapist musical fantasy well realised with an updated book by Rona Munro.👍🏿 Some fabulous singing/dancing from the hard working cast. Georgina Onuorah was our Fiona.👍🏿 Great to see a rarely performed show. 👏🏿🎼🎭

Another ‘name day’ this time with added transport issues. Off to Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre for Brigadoon. Second time there this season and part of a big group this time. Looking forward to something I’ve never seen on stage before. 👍🏿🎼🎭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Having a lovely time with K-9 and Company and extras. Fond memories.👍🏿 Shame we never got an in period series or at least a couple of specials. Though it was great to see Elisabeth Sladen at the time.👏🏿 A good cast of stalwarts too. Aunt Lavinia 🚬🍷😲 Brendan stop honking.🤣 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🛋️🎧📻

Another look at the interesting premise behind this novel. Some spoilers, but I’ll have forgotten if/when I get round to it.🤭 I also enjoyed @finishedzine.bsky.social’s earlier edition with the author interview too.👍🏿 Amazing how we can get so much stuff from the same pool.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🛋️🎧📻

A new to me podcast with some familiar voices discussing a release I adore. 👍🏿 Nice to be on a familiar page as well as getting alternative insights with a dash of good humour. 👏🏿 Though the ‘Waffly Versatile’ jingle has popped into my head. 😔 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Thought I’d try the Black Archives with Logopolis & Castrovalva. I was supposed to be going through the tottering pile before buying new stuff (there are always exceptions😇) but these are ebook versions so only taking up virtual space ✅. And they are also on sale too.👍🏿 For the cold nights.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦

A sunny enough afternoon so hopped on the bus. Good chat, well reasoned arguments and of course a desire to rewatch some stuff rekindled. 👍🏿 A left field casting choice and the response to it did make me chuckle.👏🏿 Another enjoyable ride through time and space. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Space dolly/action figure update. Current sensations and stuff on the horizon.👍🏿 The thrill and the fear of more hunting ahoy.🔍🚶🏿‍♂️ Play out is an appropriate band name for revisions.👏🏿. And a lovely coda for Christopher Hamilton Bidmead.✍🏻 It concluded my earlier trip quite nicely. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚙📻

Road trip via Egypt and Mars with a couple of amiable chaps and a classic adventure.👍🏿 Four fun and informative episodes with a good dollop of the cinematic lineage thrown in.👏🏿 Seeking out The Abominable Snowmen for later and hoping the proposed return commentary is a speedy one.🤞🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚙📻

Enjoyable stroll this afternoon with this 3 part set celebrating the worlds of Target Books. 👍🏿 I was unable to go to the event so this is a lovely look at what was on offer with some terrific readings. 👏🏿 It’s also a very good advertisement if there is another at some point in the future.🤞🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

The final part of their Jamie Magnus Stone Miniscope with the huge joyous fun of The Power of the Doctor. 👍🏿 Also a bunch of other current Doctor Who news and views with their back and forth badinage.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

A convention highlighted in under half an hour. It sounds like a super event with some fabulous guests.👏🏿 Plus of course merch to be acquired. What’s not to love about that. 👍🏿 🤎🤎 ➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

A big brolly day for a stroll. Good use of archive material to bring forward the late author’s journey to the novel. A fascinating subject for a story too, so it’ll go high into the potential read pile. 👍🏿 Play out with an inspired number. 👏🏿 An old favourite from back in the day 🎼🔫. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️☔️🎧📻

Another little gem from Talking Pictures to dive into. Victorian CID. Fun performances and a good enough plot. The print was a bit ropey but it more or less rose beyond its limitations. Not bad for 60+ years. Plus a lovely intro by William Gaunt.👏🏿 Worth a snoop. 🛋️📺🫆 www.imdb.com/title/tt0850...

Reliving some of the Flux love via part three of their Miniscope on Doctor Who director Jamie Magnus Stone. 👍🏿 Also a good meander through the current Doctor Who news and a hearty Canadian viewpoint.🤞🏿 Another enjoyable listen. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

A new to the range writer and a terrific recent story. Another good listen for the background to the writing and a potted history of the author. 👍🏿 It’s a story I’d place highly in the I want to read pile. Play out with a new wave mod number with some sharp lyrics. 👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🛋️🎧📻

In my car earlier, not on the bus. Fabulous two hours with Rod’s hilariously fiendish questions. Even the clues are cryptic. Though if you know his story links you know that already. 👍🏿 Thought your Doctor Who knowledge was light, don’t sweat, have a Frankie Howerd moment.🤣 Rewatches ahoy.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚙📻

Erudite discussions leavened with a good dollop of humour capturing the joy in this Doctor’s adventures. I like their enthusiastic thinking and flights of fancy regarding this boxset. The alternative series ideas are a hoot👏🏿 It’s a nice companion piece to the episodes.👍🏿 🤎🤎 ➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

More top info from another writer. Also added Sherlockian bonus. 👍🏿 I may not have read the novel but the genesis and where it fits in is quite fascinating. Play out with a theme from a show that’s on my to watch list. It’s a long list, as they all are. ☺️ ❤️❤️➕🟦 🛋️🎧📻

Forty days worth of nattering splintered into around two and a half hours. Rather nifty for a latecomer. Sounds like it’s been a fun ride. Numerous appealing subjects for a backwards glance or several.👏🏿 Plus of course anticipation for pastures new. 👍🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Sunny stroll and a shaded sit out enjoying the trio of stories from @bigfinish.bsky.social, Dead Or Alive, in an afternoon. Jo Martin excellent as ever, as is Alice Krige. A fantastic array of guests actors too. Entertaining and informative stories. 👏🏿📝 Great fun. 👍🏿 More please.🤞🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

I really should read more and listen to writers less, but they are always so entertaining. And this one has added Nicola Bryant. So obviously a winner. It’s a lovely chat all round and the crime novels sound a hoot.👏🏿 So well worth checking this out as a numeric emergency. 👍🏿🐾 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

I think you’ll find… it’s a lovely engaging listen. A summation on Ncuti’s 2nd season. The guests run with the good stuff, also acknowledging there might be things not to every taste.👏🏿 Loving the joy on display. I thought it a shame he went so soon. I may get over it. Au revoir, Ncuti. 👍🏿 🤎🤎➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Let’s Tryst again. Back on the bus with a couple of sharp swerves, so buckle up firmly. Though in fairness we do get a comprehensive tour this time out. 👍🏿 The ‘rebel alliance’ onboard today spice up the chatter adding some turbulence.👏🏿 It’s fabulous. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Numerous entertaining choices. Great fun as Who aficionados pitch in with their picks for the return of missing episodes. 👍🏿 So plenty to reevaluate via existing sources too. Plus one influential remix to play out.👏🏿 A terrific listen. Thanks for the invite Kenny. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

I’ve never seen the film. Has anyone? Always loved the soundtrack though since way back. 👏🏿 Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young would have been my soundtrack for hurtling through the countryside in an open top roadster. 👍🏿 🎧🚶🏿‍♂️ music.apple.com/gb/album/str...

I gave the last black and white episode of Danger Man, Not So Jolly Roger a watch this afternoon. 👍🏿 Reasons may become clear if you follow the trail… It’s a good episode, well cast and a terrific location. 👏🏿 There may be a full series watch at some point. ⏳ 🛋️🕵️‍♂️📺

Across the way with the Canadian trio.👍🏿 Interesting interview with Tom Spilsbury on the current state of Doctor Who and streaming in general. Followed up with the regular news round up in their inimitable style.👏🏿 A fun listen. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

The commissioner gets to play in his own sandpit by his own rules and sets a bar for others. Some character controversy adds to the fun. Additional follow on chat with the author.👍🏿 Play out track has me wondering about my copy🤔.👏🏿 ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻

Poison pen letters and inevitable death. Sharp as a tack Miss Marple is on the case again in a two part adaptation of The Moving Finger. 🫆 Joan Hickson superb as always, quietly commanding her scenes whilst also giving costars room to breathe. Great stuff. 👏🏿 🛋️❤️🔍📺

Back to the beginnings of the new adventures range. A fascinating interview with the commissioner and a subsequent writer. Plenty of early background details. 👍🏿 A play out track I’ve never heard before either.👏🏿 It’s been a learning day today. ❤️❤️➕🟦 🚶🏿‍♂️🎧📻