From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? Film & TV July 29, 2022
Channel 5’s Anne Boleyn – ‘Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be’ Film & TV June 12, 2021
From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? Film & TV July 29, 2022
From ‘Wicked Wife’ to ‘Insane Traitor’: The Continued Slander of Jane Boleyn History January 25, 2021
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 8 Season Finale ‘Betrayal’ His Dark Materials December 29, 2019
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: What was Jane and Anne Boleyn’s Relationship Like? History September 13, 2022
The English Christmas Panto from the Regency to Its Roots by Kyra Kramer Olga Hughes History December 21, 2016
Love Is A Dagger – In which we ponder whether for Shakespeare love is mere words, or an altogether more penetrating object. Shakespeare August 5, 2023
The problems of Richard III’s Y chromosome; the problems relating to the burials at Clare Priory, and the problems of working with Historic England HistoryRichard III May 22, 2017
Doctor Who: Before the Flood Top Ten Olga Hughes October 12, 2015…this is called “The Bootstrap Paradox”. Google it So there’s this man. He has a time machine. Up and down...
Doctor Who: Under The Lake Top Ten Olga Hughes October 5, 2015Ghosts! Ghosts are usually not the scariest of monsters in the genre, and they’re very often used as preternatural messengers...
Doctor Who: The Witch’s Familiar Top Ten Olga Hughes September 28, 2015Death is For Other People Dear Well, we certainly weren’t left in suspense wondering how Clara and Missy would get...
Doctor Who: The Magician’s Apprentice Top Ten Olga Hughes September 21, 2015 Continuity Be Damned Let’s stretch believability to its very extremities. The combination of Steven Moffat’s typically ambitious retcon and...
Doctor Who: For Series 9 Peter Capaldi Tries Patrick Troughton’s Trousers C S Hughes April 2, 2015Terry Pratchett will tell you that reality is not based on the paradoxical circularities, deus ex machinas and gooey-wooey, wibbly-wobbly...
Doctor Who: Death in Heaven – The Good Soldier, The Idiot and The Good Liar Olga Hughes November 12, 2014The questions Am I a good man and is there such a thing as a good soldier were the main...
Doctor Who: Death in Heaven Top Ten Olga Hughes November 11, 2014Bow Ties are Cool Look at that face. Moffat, how could you? Welcome to the only planet in the universe...
Doctor Who: Death in Heaven Unresolved Questions Olga Hughes November 11, 2014Is Missy Dead? Well no of course not. I was fretting there for a moment but of course, as Moffat...
Doctor Who: Dark Water Top Ten Olga Hughes November 3, 2014The Surprise Samuel Anderson’s remarks that Danny Pink would be “immortalised” didn’t quite work out the way I was expecting....
Doctor Who Dark Water Philip K Dick And The Demented Genius C S Hughes November 3, 2014Many of the SF novels and stories of Philip K Dick are marked by very ordinary people thrown into extraordinary...
Doctor Who: In the Forest of the Night Top Ten Olga Hughes October 27, 2014The Doctors Grimm Admittedly In the Forest of the Night didn’t quite reach its destination at some points, some areas...
Doctor Who: Flatline Top Ten Olga Hughes October 20, 2014Really Bigger on the Inside Last time we saw the exterior dimensions of the TARDIS malfunction she was a tomb...
Flatline Breathes Some Life Into Doctor Who’s Two Dimensional Characters C S Hughes October 19, 2014Doctor Who is sometimes accused of having one dimensional plots and two dimensional characters, especially by those who forget that...
Doctor Who: Mummy on the Orient Express Top Ten Olga Hughes October 12, 2014 Start the Clock A killer, stylish opening sequence this week, a race against the clock in real time, where...
Doctor Who: How Clara Oswald Changed Into An Hysterical Fish Wife C S Hughes October 5, 2014No, it wasn’t because of some alien parasite infecting our feisty heroine with brain sucking tentacles. One could also be...
Doctor Who: The Caretaker Top Ten Olga Hughes September 28, 2014Was that seaweed? I was looking forward to seeing this sequence, and it did not disappoint. It was a wonderfully...
Doctor Who: Time Heist Top Ten Olga Hughes September 21, 2014 It’s just a phone Clara. Nothing happens when you answer the phone… Or, memory worms, the squidgy little monsters....