‘The Freewheeling John Dowie’ reviewed
❉ Dowie may have left stand-up behind but his bone-dry sense of humour certainly hasn’t abandoned him, writes Andy Murray.
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Ben Baker’s ‘Kill Your Television’ reviewed
❉ Ben Baker returns with another love letter to the programmes, presenters and spin-off shows that he’s fallen for down the years.
The Long Journey Back to Cathay – ‘The Black Archive: Marco Polo’
❉ Marco Polo is the one story from the very first season of Doctor Who for which no footage exists at all, so how can we know what it was really like?
‘The Black Archive 19: The Eleventh Hour’
❉ The latest of Obverse Books’ Black Archive series thunders along with the same pace as the episode upon which it is based.
BBC Books Announce New Thirteenth Doctor Fiction!
❉ The first novels on the BBC Books list to feature the Thirteenth Doctor, as played by Jodie Whittaker, and her friends Yasmin, Ryan and Graham..
‘Doctor Who – A British Alien?’ reviewed
❉ “This is a book from academia that whilst high on political theory is written in a thoroughly accessible manner”, writes Paul Driscoll.
‘Tommy’s Top Ten’
❉ Fundraising Doctor Who-related free eBook from Season27 Books.
The Return Of The King…
❉ Due for Winter 2018 – a new Mark Caine novel as Jason King from Department S!
‘The Black Archive #16: Carnival of Monsters’
❉ 45 years on, Carnival of Monsters is still top of the pops! Ian Potter tells us why.
‘The Blue Peter Diaries’ reviewed
❉ This is yet another triumph for Miwk and a must read if you have any interest in TV history.