Giles Booth ⁽¹¹⁾

Fonz famously jumped the shark. Killing Eve and A Very Peculiar Practice should only have had one series each. So perhaps I shouldn’t have brought The Mind Children back for two final episodes, irritatingly tagged episodes 7 and 8 of 6. But I did, and…

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…