Review: Dr Who: Hide

Review Doctor Who: Hide Clara Oswald turns Shaggy to Scooby Who himself as the pair investigate a haunting in a Scottish mansion in 1974. Due to some accident with wibbly wobbly timey wimey I didn’t see an email from Wellington screenwriter Neil Cross, sent about 7.45pm about last night’s episode, until 9.28pm when I had just started watching the show an hour after it had started.

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Books: Cambodia’s brother number one

It is 1975 and Khmer Rouge troops are forcibly evacuating Phnom Penh’s residents to the countrysidean exodus that will ultimately lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Monitoring events from Beijing, an elderly Mao Zedong asks visiting Vietnamese leader Le Duan whether he could ever mount such a merciless purge.

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