Yatterings

Awards season trundles on with the Carnegie awards for childrens writing.
Intriguingly they’ve started a Carnegie of Carnegies with the association that judges them providing a provisional list which includes Pullman, Alan Garner, Phillipa Pearce and Mary Norton but doesn’t inlcude either Tolkien or CS Lewis. Definitely one to mull over but the fantasy in there [...]

Daleks are the scariest monster in Doctor Who according to a BBC poll. They are coming back in the latest episode for a two parter which sees the Doctor out of his depth apparently.
Whist I like the Daleks and the cybermen, it would be good to see the creators trying something a little different rather [...]