At a car boot fair, Bob made an extraordinary discovery. He found an old cassette in a pile of junk - a ZX Spectrum adventure game based on The Mind Children! It dates from 1983, four whole years after the series was broadcast and cancelled,…

I'm writing a text-based adventure based on The Mind Children using (almost) period software - The Quill for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It's been quite a journey, with various manuals that didn't match the version I was using, and scanned OCR manuals with errors in,…

A post on the inspirations and references used in series 9 of Listen with Other, The Mind Children. First up, of course, its main inspiration was The Tomorrow People. What if HTV had made something like it? What if it were cancelled? What if The…

Time for a post on the inspirations for series 8 of Listen with Other, TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS. The title, obvs, is from the song where The Beatles invented The Chemical Brothers, but the story itself was inspired by a trip to Alnwick in 2013. The…

A little post on the inspirations behind series 7 of Listen with Other: Hello World. The main story was inspired by the very real history of Victorian transatlantic telegraphy and Wildman Whitehouse passing excessive currents through the early cable. Those first transatlantic cables didn't land…