The Context of 'Doctor Who' 6
Peter Davison, famous for playing veterinarian Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great And Small, wore an Edwardian cricketers’ uniform and...
The Context of 'Doctor Who' 5
As we have seen, there had been many changes of direction, mood and purpose in Doctor Who in its first twenty years, usually coinciding...
The Context of 'Doctor Who' 4
Having overtly replaced its lead actor (Hartnell to Troughton) in 1966 using an invented plot mechanism which opened the door to a...
The Context of 'Doctor Who' 3
The era of the Second Doctor had generated much warmth: Troughton and Hines had worked so well together on screen that the goodbye scene...
A Philological Imagination 2
A key fact about Tolkien’s fascination with creating language is not so well-known, and that is the sheer scale of his creativity in this...
The Context of 'Doctor Who' Part 2
When Patrick Troughton took over as the Doctor in Doctor Who in 1966, the producers probably thought that they would be wrapping up the...
The Context of 'Doctor Who' Part 1
For a show that has lasted over fifty years, involving hundreds, if not thousands of people including several dozen different writers and...
Tolkien and the Sinfulness of Creation 2
When we read The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, we are looking through a small keyhole into the wider created world which Tolkien began...
10 Standard Writing Tips and What's Wrong With Them
There’s a lot of writing advice out there from a lot of people who have experience in screenwriting or novel writing and such like -...
The Power of Fiction: A Close Look at a Chapter of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
I resisted reading To Kill a Mockingbird for many years, believing that it must be a depressing novel, given that it is primarily about...