Author: Andrew Pixley

So, this morning, the day has already got off to a good start with the unprompted arrival of what...

“Isn’t that the book that you were writing 30 years ago?” asked my dear friend Hilary. We were...

Around about mid-October, I could hear – courtesy of the world wide web – a distant wailing and...

Thirty years ago today [1], I made my first visit to an amazing place. A place that – like one of...

WARNING: The following article contains the words “Who” and “Doctor”, but not necessarily in that...

A few Fridays back, my wife and I had a joyous day out in Cambridge.  I mean, Cambridge is always...

Sometimes… just sometimes… you can go back… Oh, I’m not talking here about something as lazy as...

OLIVER: Can you imagine? Once upon a time, typewriters were made in Great Britain. NORMA MOODY:...

The sudden loss of Tim Beddows, Managing Director and founder of Network Distributing Limited at...

“Now, the programme is made on film – since we can see what looks like a 35mm film camera in the...

Here you are. Here’s a cracker. One for the teenagers [1]: This is from The Grinning Man, the New...

Now, I’m sure that, like me, you have fond memories of The World of Eddie Weary, the massively...

28 April 2022 will mark the centenary of the birth of Nigel Kneale – or more properly Thomas Nigel...

On a Good Day… there’s a knock at the door and it’s the postal operative with a ‘Do Not Bend’...

About two years ago on this very blog, I ruminated on the disproportionate distribution of books...

Last time, I apologized to you for taking up your valuable minutes when you were probably all busy...

“Who’d have thought there were so many different sorts of duck?” asked my wife. As the...

‘Why publish a screenplay, when these days the finished film or TV series is so readily available?...

MR WHEELER: Were you expecting a load of timber, Mr Chaplin? TREVOR CHAPLIN: You know me Mr...

SPOILER ALERT and – I guess – ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: The following text gives away the conclusion...

Oooohhh… BBC One’s Line of Duty (2012-2021 maybe sort of) was a bit good wasn’t it? Wasn’t that...