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
They’re Back Baby! Jerry, George and Newman In Seinfeld Reunion! C S Hughes Film & TV February 4, 2014
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
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
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 John Ashdown-Hill HistoryRichard III May 22, 2017
Doctor Who: ‘Heaven Sent, Hell Bent’ A Long Kiss Goodnight Olga Hughes December 7, 2015he first of the two part finale of Doctor Who Series 9, Heaven Sent, was one of the most superb...
Doctor Who: Spoiling the Raven Olga Hughes November 23, 2015Why BBC decided it was necessary to ‘reveal’ the ending of Face the Raven on Saturday well ahead of air...
Doctor Who Sleep No More Top Ten Olga Hughes November 16, 2015You must not watch this Mark Gatiss’s latest contribution to the Doctor Who canon is a ‘found footage’ episode. When...
Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion Top Three Olga Hughes November 9, 2015teven Moffat and Peter Harness’s The Zygon Invasion had something to say. The follow-up, The Zygon Inversion, has established the...
Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion Top Ten Olga Hughes November 2, 2015teven Moffat and Peter Harness’s The Zygon Invasion certainly had something to say. This is classic allegorical storytelling that strikes...
Doctor Who: The Woman Who Lived Top Ten Olga Hughes October 26, 2015I am Me I call myself Me. All the other names I chose died with whoever knew me. Me is...
Doctor Who: The Girl Who Died Top Ten Olga Hughes October 19, 2015No, no, not Vikings. I’m not in the mood for Vikings… Take that, sonic shades (although I am sure they...
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...