Eddie Robson was born in York in December 1978; this makes him the youngest of the Shiny Shelf founders and the others despise him for it. He was raised in both York and Buckinghamshire, attended the University of Sheffield, and completed an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2003. He now freelances from Lancaster.

Eddie has written for the BBC Radio comedy shows That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Look Away Now, Recorded For Training Purposes, Newsjack, Tilt and Play and Record. He has also written four episodes of Radio 7’s Doctor Who series, and several other Doctor Who audio plays. For two years he was the producer of the Bernice Summerfield book and audio range, for which he has written four plays. His books include critical volumes on the Coen brothers and film noir, a guide to Doctor Who co-written with fellow Shiny Shelfers Jim and Mark, and an interactive illustrated version of Dracula.

Eddie also writes articles and reviews for SFX and comic strips for Doctor Who Adventures. He’s written for the small-press comic FutureQuake (Click here to download issue #4, featuring his strip ‘The Injuries of Mr Indestructible’ with art by rising star Julia Bax). He writes about football for his own amusement at Middle Class Football Fan. Other credits include the Guardian, Film Review, Filmstar, Computer & Video Games, PlayNation, Official Dreamcast Magazine, Skillz, Death Ray, Cult Times and Starburst.


Radio Plays

Doctor Who: Human Resources, 2007
A story starring Paul McGann as the Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller, due to air on BBC 7 on 11th and 18th February. This one’s got the Cybermen in it, as well as guest appearances from Roy Marsden and Nickolas Grace.
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Doctor Who: Phobos, 2007
Another McGann/Smith story, which aired on BBC 7 on 28th January 2007 and will be released on CD in May. Guest actors include Timothy West, Nerys Hughes and Ben Silverstone.
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Bernice Summerfield: Freedom of Information, 2007
Another Bernice Summerfield adventure, this time revolving around her disappearance during an alien occupation.
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Doctor Who: I.D./Urgent Calls, 2007
Two stories in one package here, both starring Colin Baker's Doctor. ‘I.D.’ is about futuristic identity theft and guest stars Gyles Brandreth, whereas ‘Urgent Calls’ is a short high-concept piece revolving around a wrong number.
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Bernice Summerfield: The Empire State, 2006
A story featuring intrepid space archaeologist Bernice Summerfield, which takes place inside a massive great tower and has a lot of cosmic stuff going on.
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Doctor Who: Memory Lane, 2006
A four-part story starring Paul McGann as the Doctor. It concerns an endless street, a lost astronaut, an ice cream van and Lego.
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Books

Film Noir, 2005, Virgin Books
A gift of an assignment, examining the development of film noir through 18 key films from the 1940s and 1950s, including ‘The Maltese Falcon’, ‘Double Indemnity’, ‘The Big Sleep’, ‘The Killers’, ‘Out of the Past’, ‘The Lady from Shanghai’, ‘Sunset Boulevard’, ‘The Night of the Hunter’, ‘Touch of Evil’ and, of course, the mighty ‘Kiss Me Deadly’.
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Who’s Next: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who, 2005, Virgin Books (with Mark Clapham and Jim Smith)
A programme guide covering everything up to the Eccleston-led revival. The idea is that anybody can pick this book up and get into ‘Doctor Who’, even if they know nothing whatsoever about it – and even if you know everything about it already, we still aim to surprise you.
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Coen Brothers, 2003, Virgin Books
A film-by-film guide to the work of the Coen brothers, up to and including ‘Intolerable Cruelty’. The Independent listed this as one of the best film books of 2003.
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Short Stories

‘The Two-Level Effect’ (2006), in ‘Collected Works’
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‘The Avant Guardian’ (2006), in ‘Doctor Who: Time Signature’
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‘Match of the Deity’ (2006), in ‘Something Changed’
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‘Not in My Back Yard’ (2005), in ‘Doctor Who: The History of Christmas’
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‘Mercury’ (2005), in ‘Doctor Who: The Solar System’
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‘Visiting Hours’ (2005), in ‘Doctor Who: A Day in the Life’
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‘Against Gardens’ (2004), in ‘A Life Worth Living’
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‘The Juror’s Story’ (2004), in ‘Doctor Who: Repercussions’
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‘The Little Drummer Boy’ (2003), in ‘Doctor Who: Companions’
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‘The Light that Never Dies’ (2000), in ‘The Dead Men Diaries’
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Eddie Robson