There’s a real lump-in-the-throat moment part-way through the first episode of Russell T Davies’s new Channel 4 drama Cucumber. The main characters go out in Manchester city centre: cut to a bustling Canal Street at...
Read MoreFrom a former ice rink in west London, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop created bespoke music and sounds for the TV and radio. And created is the right word: this wasn’t just a case of playing and recording instruments....
Read MoreAs evidenced by the world-spanning, attention-grabbing celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary last November, we’re pretty much all Doctor Who fans now. But it was not ever thus. There were once long, dark times...
Read MoreAs Doctor Who turns 50, Geoffrey Lovelock meets Gareth Kavanagh, the man behind Manchester’s month-long celebration of everyone’s favourite Time Lord. “I’ve had this festival pencilled in for around two years now,” says...
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