Oliver Wake

Doctor Who: Star Flight Christopher Naylor reads a brand new adventure for the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara. The TARDIS materialises on board Cavis Sunliners Flight 307, a regularly scheduled passenger flight using ...

Happy #WorldBookDay, and happy release day for my #DoctorWho audiobook Star Flight!

Special thanks to @chrisnaylor.bsky.social and Morrison Ellis for all their hard work on this.

Buy now, buy often!

New - Black Archive start pack!

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Thank you. Glad it was useful.

It's brilliant isn't it?

Just caught up on the sad news about Ken Trodd. But what a career and what an amazing body of work he leaves behind. I hope BBC4 runs a tribute season.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Rage Software

The story of Rage Software. They and Psygnosis were the two main characters in the nineties Liverpool Software scene.
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Includes a second special guest appearance from @jake74.bsky.social #Amiga #AtariST #PlayStation #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

I did. And then I forgot about it while writing this! A friend reminded me this morning and I kicked myself. I'll try to add it in later.

Thanks John. I did wonder about that but I'd prefer to assume it was a coincidental similarity. I find it hard to believe Potter mentally filed away a bit of The Time Monster for 22 years only to call upon it when defining the sublime. But maybe that says more about my opinion of The Time Monster!

I should add my belated apologies to @greavesian.bsky.social, @rolinsond.bsky.social and @worldoftelly.bsky.social, whose collection of Potter's journalism, 'The Art of Invective', I plundered mercilessly.

When Dennis Potter wanted to write for Doctor Who “Blossomiest blossom”, says Jodie Whittaker’s thirteenth Doctor moments before she regenerates in The Power of the Doctor. This snatch of dialogue references a famous remark by Dennis Potter from his ...

New on my blog today, an article about the time Dennis Potter tried to get into writing for Doctor Who in the 1960s, what his story would have been about, and the other times he crossed paths with the series. Hopefully this will interest a few of you.
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That sounds brilliant. Except for the first two.

The same for many of us.

Yes, sorry about that. I love that bit too. But it was too far from the narration to include. And I was trying to keep to it to 30 seconds (and failing!) as I undertsood nobody watched beyond that on twitter anyway (I made it for twitter years ago when it was still worth visiting).

A slight re-edit of the opening of Genesis of the Daleks to match the definitive interpretation of the story. Make sure you have sound on or it won’t make sense.

We have the beginnings of a Starter Pack (thanks to @emma.best for the suggestion!)

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Isn't Astatine what you take if you've got high cholesterol?

Some were wiped (and many went out live and unrecorded) but adaptations of major stage plays were considered prestigious and potentially marketable, and may have been expensive, so had a much higher chance of being retained than programmes they considered more populist, ephemeral or run of the mill.

Yes, they did several of his plays and many dramatisations of the short stories. Three Cherry Orchards alone. At a quick count, between BBC and ITV there were at least 53 Chekhov plays or stories broadcast on UK television.

He wasn’t particularly. But prior to the 90s they did regular stage play adaptations on TV. Over the decades they got through pretty much all of the European canon, with several versions of some plays (most obviously Shakespeare’s better-known ones). Ibsen was just part of the repertoire.

This is being repeated this coming Sunday. I think it'll be the earliest TV repeat BBC4 has ever shown, if not the whole of the BBC.

"I doubt you're aware, but..."

I had a very productive night of thinking. Trouble is, I was aiming for a productive night for sleeping. Yawn.

I used to have some of their original paste-up boards. I wonder if they want them back for this project. I haven't got them any more though.

Thank you. Yes, both heavy smokers of course.

Terry Nation’s Seeds of Destruction It’s common for writers to include aspects of their own lives in their fiction.

In case you missed it, last weekend I posted an article on my Doctor Who blog about how Terry Nation used the illness which would later kill him in one of his Daleks short stories. Find it here:

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A round symbol of what looks like the dome of a Dalek, next to which is printed ‘Stations & Onward Travel’.

I can’t see this as anything other than the head of a Dalek. Just me? It’s on the back of every South Western Railway train seat. Genuinely not sure what it’s supposed to represent.

Excerpt from ‘Anton Walbrook: A Life of Masks and Mirrors’ by James Downs, which reads, “…with music by Ron Grainer – best known now for ‘The Tales of the Unexpected’ theme…”

*ahem*

One for @tobyhadoke.bsky.social there - an inverse 'best known for...'

Reviewing the BBC's Charter - British Broadcasting Challenge The government's BBC Charter consultation closes 10 March 2026. Download our guides to help you respond.

Some great, clear and accessible guidance is now available on how you can respond to the Government's open consultation on the BBC Charter Review. If the BBC matters to you then please get involved. The closing date is 10 March. britishbroadcastingchallenge.com