Sunday 3rd March 2024: Paul Hillam’s Time Trace - The Doctor Who Years has today been added to the Tapezine Jukebox. Many thanks to Paul for digitising his master tapes and for allowing us to share the digital files.

Friday 16th February 2024: The Time Trace page has now been updated to include a full Tape Guide track listing and the Playback feature has also been expanded. Thanks to Paul Hillam for his invaluable help.

Tuesday 13th February 2024: An update today to the Time Trace page to make mention of Paul Hillam’s early attempt to produce a tapezine under the title The Memory Circuit. Thanks to Paul for his help with this.

Monday 12th February 2024: Thrilled to be able to add Zero Room Audiozine to the Tapezine Jukebox, where all seven issues can now be streamed or downloaded. ZR was one of the big-hitters of the early years of Doctor Who tapezines and it’s great that John Ryan, David Balston and Gary Wales of the ZR team have given permission for the issues to be shared, also helping source the best possible recording sources. Thanks also to Gary for designing new covers for issues 1 and 2, as those originally went out without cassette inlay artwork.

On the subject of Zero Room, we at Who’s Listening highly recommend the team’s new podcast - Zero Room Audiozine - A Doctor Who Podcast. Make sure you subscribe!

Sunday 11th February 2024: Thanks to everyone who has commented positively about Who’s Listening in the 24 hours since we launched. Much appreciated. Today’s update is courtesy of Stephen Broome, who has sent us some photos that have been added to The Master Tape.

Saturday 10th February 2024 - LAUNCH DAY: Welcome one and all to this new website which brings together more than 16 years of research into Doctor Who tapezines. Here we celebrate a relatively short-lived but vibrant period in fandom when fans abandoned their typewriters and took to their microphones, their cassette decks, their ghetto-blasters, their portastudios, and created podcasts before anyone knew what a podcast was. Who’s Listening documents the Doctor Who tapezine from the first faint glimmerings in 1976 (check out A History of Dr. Who) to their eventual demise during the wilderness years. You can read about each individual tapezine by checking out the links to the left, which will also lead you to contextual information and even tapezines to stream or download. Have fun and please send in your comments - and help out if you are able to.

We the writers of this website are greatly indebted to everyone who has helped us along the way, be they tapezine producers, listeners, or simply Doctor Who fans interested in the subject. We are particularly grateful to Matt Dale, a fabulous friend who was always enthusiastic and supportive regarding our creative endeavours and was always fun to meet up with. Matt passed away tragically on Christmas Day, and we warmly and respectfully dedicate Who’s Listening to his memory. We won’t forget you, chum.

Thursday 8th February 2024: Howzat! Pretty much a ground-up website built in a week (well, 10 days). Just put the finishing touches on the Tapezine Jukebox, which we recommend you check out for your fix of tapezine goodness. Thanks everso to the generous tapezine editors and contributors who have given their permission for Who’s Listening to share these without charge. Please respect their copyrights.

Wednesday 7th February 2024: Pretty much putting the finishing touches on today, in terms of making the new Who’s Listening site launchable, having populated what are now referred to as Side A (the introductory pages), Side B (the inspirations that aren’t tapezines but we didn’t want to leave out) and Side C (the meat of the site - The Tapezine A-Z). Unless we’ve missed something obvious, there should now be a page for every tapezine - some are packed with information, photos and artwork, while others are essentially placeholders with a few lines of information as details are scarce and the tapes are lost. A little work on Side D and then we launch...

Monday 29th January 2024: Work begins on Who’s Listening, starting with a complete redesign and rebuild of the old Tapezine Matrix website – our thanks to Kevin West for the suggestion to reinstate Tapezine Matrix, an indea which ultimately inspired us to take things a lot further!

As you can see below, Tapezine Matrix was not greatly updated after its original launch. This was because some kind soul stole all the written content and put it on a Wiki without permission. Since that time, the research has continued, ostensibly for a book, but in the end a website felt more appropriate considering the nature of the subject material. “Tell Dexeter... we've come full circle!”