Merry Christmas!

Doctor Who Annual obtained. Going back to the storybook format to an extent, with two longish illustrated stories as well as episode featurettes.

DWM Yearbook on the way.

Warren Ellis suggests...

Remember that time in the early 80s when Kate Bush, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Cranes collaborated on a Christmas song for a Doctor Who episode where everyone was heartbroken and lost in an infinite snowdrift on a planet that orbited the afterlife? Well, that’s because it never happened, but this is the fugue delusion I sank into on the fourth replay of this wonderful little winter piece by Jodie Lowther, currently available as a free/pay-what-you-want stream/download. Lovely sound to come home to.

I can see exactly what he means.

Paul Cornell's Twelve Blogs Of Christmas

And today... a Doctor Who Christmas story by Juliet E. McKenna, unseen for fifteen years because it features the Doctor meeting Charles Dickens.

Bertha von Suttner

Bertha von Suttner was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, on this day in 1905.

Suttner is perhaps best known for writing the anti-war novel Lay Down Your Arms, which was first published in 1889 and explores the impact of conflict on women.

Trailer 2

Fewer Cybermen than you might expect in the new trailer released on Cyber Monday...

Advent(ure) calendar

Meanwhile on my main blog, Christmassy ideas.