Out now, in plenty of time for Christmas - a Listen with Other book. Eight original stories from the podcast, including specially extended Mind Children stories not heard on the podcast. Find out how to order the 252 page pocket paperback or eBook here: https://magpie.listenwithother.co.uk/listen-with-other-is-published.html

Each series is complete in itself so you can start listening anywhere. No generative AI is used in any part of the writing, recording, mixing or creation of any artwork for this podcast. I was born in Bristol and grew up in North Somerset. I'm…

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,…