Sure thing.

Do you have a league table of Unreliable Doctor Who Primary Sources?

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

Ello. There’s a curator at LSE who loves this sort of stuff. I can put you in touch.

An image from production of The Daleks showing William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford and William Russell, playing Dr Who, Susan and Ian Chesterton, respectively, confronted by three Daleks in their metallic city on Skaro.

My book about the #DoctorWho story The Daleks (Serial B, whatever you like to call it) came out this week in Obverse Books’ Black Archive range. Here’s a short thread explaining what it covers, in the hope that it might interest a few of you. Link to buy the book and discount code at the end. (1/9)

Hi. Thank you. That’s really a question for publisher @tenacrebooks.bsky.social

Less so, because I know to keep my hands warm. Having a cup of tea or hot water close by is all it needs.

Me, too but had somehow missed this one.

CONGRATULATIONS

Barbara is coming … and here’s the cover. Out September, available to preorder now. www.amazon.co.uk/Barbara-Cart...

A hand, palm towards, with two fingertips very pale

Mild bit of gardening has brought out my Raynaud’s syndrome, with the tips of my fingers going bone white. Hoping George McFly snogs Lorraine before I vanish completely.

What the World Needs Now: Mystery Stories Inspired by the Music of Burt Bacharach What the World Needs Now: Mystery Stories Inspired by the Music of Burt Bacharach eBook : Edwards, Martin: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Now available to pre-order, I’ve got a short story in this collection of mystery stories, What The World Needs Now, edited by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social, with proceeds going to autism charities: www.amazon.co.uk/What-World-N...

Cover of the SF Masterworks edition of Fools by Pat Cadigan, with a haunting image of faces behind broken glass.

Good morning Womble. I’m on Fools by Pat Cadigan, which is all memory-swapping cyberpunk.

This is brilliant, and I commend it to all aspiring writers. The fastest comedy writer I ever worked with.

Three disc box set with Tom Holland as the Prince of Wales in 1980.

Alas Adric and The Crown are two separate things. At least for the moment.

Costume design on the latter by Amy Roberts, whose credits include Adric and The Crown.

Sarah Jane Smith placed on a rooftop by the giant pincer of the Robot off of Doctor Who

Lady Flimnap flirting outrageously with Lemuel Gulliver while sitting in his enormous hands, off of Gulliver in Lilliput (1982).

How typecasting works. Lis Sladen carried by a giant in the Doctor Who story Robot (1975), and then the next time she works with Baz and Tel again, they’ve got her doing this…

Ha ha!

How marvellous. What on earth did you ask?

A Riot of Writers, by Terrance Dicks

What did Terrance Dicks make of the sex in Lady Chatterley’s Lover? I’m glad you asked. 0tralala.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-ri...

Children’s Books with Nadine Kaadan Syrian children's book illustrator and writer living in London. She has published 15 books.

Free online event at 2pm this Sunday: children’s author Nadine Kaadan interviewed by me, for Macfest. Details and tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...

🚨NEW EPISODE! 🚨

A conversation with friend of Gerry Davis, Anthony Clark, including a never before published interview with Gerry Davis himself!

The archive interview has him sharing his memories of The Highlanders and The Moonbase. What a treat!

Shares are much appreciated x

Link ⬇️

David Whitaker and June Barry.

Cover design of David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television.

Today, we're remembering Doctor Who script editor David Whitaker, born on this day in 1928. Here he is with his wife Joan Barry. We were proud to publish @0tralala.bsky.social's intimate biography of David back in 2023 and a new printing will be released next month. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

You go to the fish and chip shop and climb in with the chips.

I was thinking “Ding dong”, but I am quite old.

A toy of a Primord. A relic from the end times of civilisation.

This delights me.

"Is it all like this?" Yes. Yes it is

Frank Herbert I apologize for ever doubting you

A Hard Day’s Night, by Samira Ahmed

A few thoughts on my pal @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social’s debut book, a brisk but detailed study of the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night (1964): 0tralala.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-ha...