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Podcasts

Kit, RJ and I are working on a Writeopolis mini-series called Listen Up.

Tune into Writeopolis proper for details.

Myself and a couple of co-conspirators recently recorded the pilot episode for a Sherlock Holmes podcast I devised. More news soon.

Blogs

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18
Feb

Sniper Elite: Water Line

By In Uncategorized

About a decade ago I was approached by Rebellion, for whom I had recently written the School’s Out Trilogy, and asked if I wanted to write for their next Playstation game, Sniper Elite: V2. It turned out to be one of the most enjoyable creative experiences I’ve ever had, and when they asked me to […]

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29
Dec

The Deadly Affair (1967)

By In Film, Review

John Le Carré’s first novel, Call For The Dead, is a hybrid thing – a spy novel masquerading as a murder mystery, or perhaps a murder mystery masquerading as a spy novel. It feels appropriate that its genre is as slippery as a spy’s legend, but however you choose to classify it, it’s a thumping […]

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22
Dec

The Looking Glass War (1970)

By In Film, Review

John Le Carré’s fourth novel, The Looking Glass War, was a satirical rejoinder to all those who had, he felt, got the wrong end of the stick in respect of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Feeling that they had missed the point that the spy game was a futile, squalid, hopeless affair, […]

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A Life in Doctor Who magazines

By In Doctor Who

It’s mid-afternoon on Saturday 13 October 1979. I’m seven years old and I’m in the living room of my grandparent’s house at 85 Kenilworth Road, Aston, Birmingham. Out the window I can hear the crowds at the Aston Villa ground roaring in appreciation of another goal. When I hear the unmistakeable final roar that signifies […]

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The DCMS rebrand (and me)

By In Uncategorized

Yesterday the Department for Culture, Media and Sport renamed itself the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. I ran digital comms for the DCMS for about a year 2009/10 (honest, I did), a period which covered the last six months of the Labour government and the first six months of the coalition. During the […]

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