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Zapata: el sueño del héroe

Zapata: el sueño del héroe (in English: Zapata: The dream of a hero), also titled simply Zapata, is a 2004 Mexican film.

This fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata, played by Alejandro Fernández, as an Indigenous Mexican, directed by Alfonso Arau, was reportedly the most expensive Mexican movie ever produced, with a massive ad campaign, and the largest ever opening in the nation's history. Unusual in the Mexican film industry, Zapata was financed independently.

Zapata made its U.S. debut at the Santa Fe Film Festival on December 3, 2004 at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Plot
The film happens in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first nineteen years of the twentieth, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, the presidency of Francisco I. Madero, the military revolt of Victoriano Huerta, the Convention of Generals and, finally, the death of Zapata, already in the constitutionalist stage of Venustiano Carranza. The film does not try to be a chair of history but a fable that obtains the identification of the spectators with the hero, through the successive confrontation of the protagonist with the power, represented in the antagonistic figure of Victoriano Huerta. In it, Emiliano Zapata appears like predestining, "the signal" in his chest, the mark or spot with the form of a little hand is the sign that identifies him as "the one" by the Huehuetlatolli (the heirs of the tradition) to be their guide. Thus, we see the birth of Emiliano, where he is recognized like the possible leader of his town. Zapata will have to break with his vision of the "real reality" and to enter in that other magical knowledge of the Mexican tradition and its inscrutable religious "sincretismo".

Cast (in credits order)

 * Patricia Velásquez as Josefa
 * Lucero as Esperanza
 * Jesús Ochoa as Victoriano Huerta
 * Jaime Camil as Eufemio
 * Soledad Ruiz as Juana Lucia
 * Arturo Beristáin as González
 * Julio Bracho as Guajardo
 * Alberto Estrella as Martinez
 * José Luis Cruz
 * Ángeles Cruz
 * Evangelina Sosa as Azucena
 * Angélica Aragón as Mesera 1
 * Carmen Salinas as Mesera 2
 * Blanca Tenario as Mesera 3
 * Fernando Becerril as Presidente Francisco Madero
 * Juan Peláez
 * Miguel Couturier as Limantour
 * Justo Martínez as Porfirio Díaz
 * Gerardo Martínez as De la O
 * Rafael Cortés as Arturo
 * Alejandro Calva as Gilgerdo Magaña
 * Omar Sánchez as Otilio Montaña
 * Javier Escobar as Joaquin
 * Eduardo Ocaña as Pablo
 * Isi Rojano as Sobrina
 * Marcial Alejandro as Trovador
 * Francisco Badillo as Zapatista 1
 * Raymundo Ibarra as Zapatista 2
 * Mayolival Del Monte as Mujer Zapatista
 * Luis Enrique Parra as Francisco Villa
 * Sharmel Altamirano
 * Alejandra Palacios
 * Jaime Estrada as Gabriel Zapata
 * Angélica Lara as Madre de Zapata
 * Rafael Velasco as Don Lázaro
 * César Valdéz as Sargento
 * Julian Sedgwick as USA Ambassador
 * Paulino Hemmer as Secretario de Huerta
 * Gerardo Pérez
 * Alejandro Fernández as Emiliano Zapata
 * Omar Espino as Eufemio Niño
 * Paola Ayala as Josefa Niña
 * José Antonio Gutiérrez as Mensajero Federal
 * Eleno Guzmán as Soldado
 * Evangelina Martínez as Vieja
 * José María Negri as Sacerdote
 * Godofredo Villegas as Maestro de Ceremonias
 * Brenda Angulo as Prostituta
 * Carla Hernández as Prostituta
 * Tony Helling as Prostituta
 * Liliana Lago as Prostituta
 * Juana Ponce as Prostituta
 * Maria Guadalupe Hernández as Prostituta
 * Gabriela Tavela as Ama de llaves
 * Alfonso Garza as Marido celoso
 * Nayeli Márquez as Esposa Infiel
 * Luis Rubiera as Asistante de Gonzalez
 * Eduardo Francisco Galeano as Asistante de Gonzalez

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Jean Améry

Jean Améry (31 October 1912 – 17 October 1978), born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was "the essence" of the Third Reich. Other notable works included On Aging (1968) and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976). He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry after 1945. Améry died by suicide in 1978.

Formerly a philosophy and literature student in Vienna, Améry's participation in organized resistance against the Nazi occupation of Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the German Gestapo at Fort Breendonk, and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps. Améry survived internments in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and was finally liberated at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. After the war he settled in Belgium.

Early life
Jean Améry was born as Hanns Chaim Mayer in Vienna, Austria, in 1912, to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. His father was killed in action in World War I in 1916. Améry was raised as a Roman Catholic by his mother. Eventually, Améry and his mother returned to Vienna, where he enrolled in university to study literature and philosophy, but economic necessity kept him from regular pursuit of studies there.

Religion
While Améry's family was "estranged from its Jewish origins, assimilated and intermarried", this alienation itself, in the context of Nazi occupation, informed much of his thought: "I wanted by all means to be an anti-Nazi, that most certainly, but of my own accord."

The Nuremberg Laws of 1935, the text of which he soon came to know by heart, convinced Améry that Germany had essentially passed a sentence of death on all Jews, and that included himself. His The Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew speaks to this inner conflict as to his identity. He suggests that while his personal identity, the identity of his own childhood past, is distinctly Christian, he feels himself nonetheless a Jew in another sense, the sense of a Jewishness "without God, without history, without messianic-national hope".

During Nazi rule

In 1938, when the Nazis were welcomed into Austria and the country joined with Germany into a "Greater Reich", Améry fled to France, and then to Belgium with his Jewish wife, Regina, whom he had chosen in opposition to his mother's wishes. His wife later died of heart disease while hiding in Brussels. Ironically, he was initially deported back to France by the Belgians as a German alien and wound up interned in the south.

After escaping from the camp at Gurs, he returned to Belgium where he joined the Resistance movement.

Involved in the distribution of anti-military propaganda to the German occupying forces, Améry was captured by the Nazis in July 1943 and routinely tortured at the Belgian Gestapo center at Fort Breendonk. When it was established that there was no information to be extracted from him, he was "demoted" from political prisoner to Jew, and shipped to Auschwitz.

Lacking any trade skills, he was assigned to the harshest physical labors, building the I.G. Farben factory at Auschwitz III, the Buna-Monowitz labor camp. In the face of the Soviet invasion in the following year, he was evacuated first to Buchenwald and then to Bergen-Belsen, where he was liberated by the British army in April 1945.

After the war
After the war, the former Hanns Mayer changed his name to Jean Améry (the surname being a French-sounding anagram of his family name) in order to symbolize his dissociation from German culture and his alliance with French culture. He lived in Brussels, working as a culture journalist for German language newspapers in Switzerland. He refused to publish in Germany or Austria for many years, publishing only in Switzerland. He did not write at all of his experiences in the death camps until 1964, when, at the urging of German poet Helmut Heißenbüttel, he wrote his book Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne ("Beyond Guilt and Atonement"). It was later translated into English by Sidney and Stella P. Rosenfeld as At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities.

He later married Marie Eschenauer, whom he was still married to at the time of his death.

Death
In 1976 Améry published the book On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death. He died by suicide via an overdose of sleeping pills in 1978.

Literary and philosophical legacy
The publication of At the Mind's Limits, Améry's exploration of the Holocaust and the nature of the Third Reich, made him one of the most highly regarded of Holocaust writers. In comparing the Nazis to a government of sadism, Améry suggests that it is the sadist's nature to want "to nullify the world". For a Nazi torturer,

"[a] slight pressure by the tool-wielding hand is enough to turn the other – along with his head, in which are perhaps stored Kant and Hegel, and all nine symphonies, and The World as Will and Representation – into a shrill squealing piglet at slaughter."

Améry's efforts to preserve the memory of the Holocaust focused on the terror and horror of the events in a phenomenological and philosophical way, with what he characterized as "a scant inclination to be conciliatory". His explorations of his experiences and the meaning and legacy of Nazi-era suffering were aimed not at resolving the events finally into "the cold storage of history", but rather keeping the subject alive so that it would not be lost to posterity, as an abstraction or mere text. As he wrote in his 1976 preface to Beyond Guilt and Atonement:

"I do not have [clarity] today, and I hope that I never will. Clarification would amount to disposal, settlement of the case, which can then be placed in the files of history. My book is meant to prevent precisely this. For nothing is resolved, nothing is settled, no remembering has become mere memory."

With the prize money that the Viennese writer Robert Menasse received for the Austrian State Prize (1999) he re-founded the “Jean Améry–Preis für Europäische Essayistik”, whose winners were Lothar Baier, Barbara Sichtermann (1985), Mathias Greffrath (1988), Reinhard Merkel (1991), Franz Schuh (2000), Doron Rabinovici (2002), Michael Jeismann (2004), Journalist, Drago Jančar (2007), Imre Kertész (2009), Dubravka Ugrešić (2012), Adam Zagajewski (2016) and Karl-Markus Gauß (2018).

Améry was known for his opposition to antisemitism in postwar Germany and support for the state of Israel, which he said was "more important than any other" country to him. In 1969, he wrote an article in Die Zeit in which he stated: "Anti-Zionism contains antisemitism like a cloud contains a storm".

In German

 * Karrieren und Köpfe: Bildnisse berühmter Zeitgenossen. Zurich: Thomas, 1955.
 * Teenager-Stars: Idole unserer Zeit. Vienna: Albert Müller, 1960.
 * Im Banne des Jazz: Bildnisse großer Jazz-Musiker. Vienna: Albert Müller, 1961.
 * Geburt der Gegenwart: Gestalten und Gestaltungen der westlichen Zivilisation seit Kriegsende. Olten: Walter, 1961.
 * Gerhart Hauptmann: Der ewige Deutsche. Stieglitz: Handle, 1963.
 * Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne: Bewältigungsversuche eines Überwältigten. Munich: Szczesny, 1966.
 * Über das Altern: Revolte undd Resignation. Stuttgart: Klett, 1968.
 * Unmeisterliche Wanderjahre. Stuttgart: Klett, 1971.
 * Lefeu oder der Abbruch. Stuttgart: Klett, 1974.
 * Hand an sich Legen. Diskurs über den Freitod. Stuttgart: Klett, 1976.
 * Charles Bovary, Landarzt. Stuttgart: Klett, 1978.
 * Bücher aus der Jugend unseres Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981.
 * Der integrale Humanismus: Zwischen Philosophie und Literatur. Aufsätze und Kritiken eines Lesers, 1966–1978. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1985.
 * Jean Améry, der Grenzgänger: Gespräch mit Ingo Hermann in der Reihe "Zeugen des Jahrhunderts." Ed. Jürgen Voigt. Göttingen: Lamuv, 1992.
 * Cinema: Arbeiten zum Film. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1994.
 * Jean Améry: Werke. 9 vols. Edited by Irène Heidelberger-Leonard. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2002–2008. The collected works in German.

Translations into French

 * Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne: portrait d'un homme simple. Roman/essai traduit de l'allemand par Françoise Wuilmart. Actes Sud : Arles, 1991.
 * Par-delà le crime et le châtiment : essai pour surmonter l'insurmontable. traduit de l'allemand par Francoise Wuilmart. Actes Sud : Arles, 1995.
 * Du vieillissement. Payot : Paris, 1991 [1968] ; rééd. Petite Bibliothèque Payot 2009
 * Le feu ou la démolition. Actes Sud : Arles, 1996 [1974]
 * Porter la main sur soi – Du suicide. Actes Sud : Arles, 1999 [1976]
 * Les Naufragés. Actes Sud: Arles, 2010 [1935]

Translations into English

 * Preface to the Future: Culture in a Consumer Society. Trans. Palmer Hilty. London: Constable, 1964.
 * At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz and Its Realities. Trans. Sidney and Stella P. Rosenfeld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
 * Radical Humanism: Selected Essays. Trans. Sidney and Stella P. Rosenfeld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
 * On Aging: Revolt and Resignation. Trans. John D. Barlow. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
 * On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death. Trans. John D. Barlow. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
 * Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man. Trans. Adrian Nathan West. New York: New York Review Books, 2018.

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Talk:Geography of Belize

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the link highest point: Victoria Peak 1,160 m links to Hong Kong, as if Belize's highest place is in Asia :-) that should be corrected ... may-be disambiguation?

 * I'll change the link here to "Victoria Peak, Belize" for now. I'm not sure of the relative fame of the two Victoria Peaks, or if there are others; when we have something on the one in Belize there should at least be a link there from the "Victoria Peak" article if not changing that article into a disambiguation. -- Infrogmation 20:51, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Map
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See Talk:Belize, --SqueakBox 03:07, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

Bealizean studies
Want to hear it clearly 190.197.121.59 (talk) 23:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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Saramacca District

Saramacca is a district of Suriname, in the north. Saramacca's capital city is Groningen, with other towns and cities including Batavia, Kampong Baroe, Uitkijk, Maho and Boskamp. Saramacca has a population of 17,480 and an area of 3,636 km2.

Saramaka is also the name of a group of Maroons who established communities along the Saramacca River having fled slavery.

History
The district was founded in 1983, but the history dates back to 1790 when the first plantation was opened. Until 1936, Saramacca could only be access by boat, but with the construction of a road to Paramaribo, which is now part of the East-West Link, Saramacca was removed for its isolation. In 1982, oil was discovered in Sarammacca which boosted its economy. On 13 December 2014, Staatsolie opened an oil refinery.

Agriculture
The district has traditionally been the site of dozens of small, family owned farming communities, and it has only been recently that large agricultural projects have begun to emerge, primarily geared to the production of bananas, rice, and peanuts. Boskamp is a fishing village.

Nature
The district is known for its birds, with ornithologists and birdwatchers coming from all over the world to study and admire Saramacca's toucans, parrots and cocks-of-the-rock.

Saramacca is home to three nature reserves: Coppename Monding Nature Reserve (12,000 hectares), Boven Coesewijne Nature Reserve (27,000 hectares) and the Noord Saramacca Managed Resource Protected Area Special Control Area (88,400 hectares).

Resorts
Saramacca is divided into 6 resorts (ressorten):
 * Calcutta
 * Groningen
 * Jarikaba
 * Kampong Baroe
 * Tijgerkreek
 * Wayamboweg

Villages

 * Batavia
 * Boskamp
 * Boston
 * Kalebaskreek
 * Smithfield
 * Uitkijk

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Talk:Deterministic system (philosophy)

I am still working on this article (being changed from Deterministic Universe), so it probably still has inaccuracies and repetition. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.WhiteC 09:40, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Of course, the article won't ever be finished, and changes are still welcome, but the inaccuracies and repetition should have been taken care of now. WhiteC 19:55, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Right now the article probably isn't NPOV because the examples of non-deterministic systems take up much more text than the examples of deterministic systems (trying to explain determinism and quantum physics took up a lot of text). I'll put in some more stuff about classical physics and how most non-alive everyday things are for all practical intents and purposes parts of deterministic systems. WhiteC 15:05, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * OK, explanations of deterministic systems have been elaborated some, and the article should now be close to NPOV. WhiteC 19:55, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Please justify why this article should not be merged with determinism. Incompetnce (talk) 16:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Last 2 paragraphs from old article cut out
I think they might belong in the article on determinism better than here...

"Every interaction in the universe, according to scientific determinism, is driven by physics, whether or not physics is currently capable of fully explicating the dynamics engineering of these actions and reactions. If it were possible to observe all the actions at any given moment in time, all the subsequent reactions could theoretically be predicted using physics. Therefore, if every variable in the universe could be accounted for and all of their reactions predicted, any state of the universe could be predicted, prior or subsequent to that given point in time, by mapping the physics behind the changes.

Many determinists conclude from this that everything in the universe is "predestined" and randomness does not exist. Additionally, if everything that happens in the universe is simply a physics-based product of that before it, free will does not exist either. The unrelenting forces of physics, these deterministic universe proponents postulate, determines everything from the location of the Milky Way in the universe to the neurochemistry forming your "thoughts" as you read this article. In fact, a reader of this article may have had no other choice but to find and read it since the beginning of time. On the present understanding of quantum mechanics, though, the premises of this argument are shaky." WhiteC 14:44, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Before (and why) this was changed from Deterministic Universe
I see no reason for this article to exist. It should be merged into determinism or at the very least modified to refer entirely to a deterministic system, rather than universe. - Centrx 08:54, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

I agree that this should refer to a deterministic system rather than the entire universe (although the whole universe may be regarded as a system of course). I plan on making this modification within a week unless there are any complaints here.WhiteC 20:59, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I should add that there is nothing inherently wrong with the article, but that the article on determinism is about the same thing. WhiteC 21:35, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

New complications. I have just found a stub Deterministic system which relates to math. So I guess this would have to be renamed Deterministic system (philosophy), and that one has been renamed Deterministic system (mathematics). WhiteC 09:31, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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I (WhiteC) am copying in a discussion from the article on Chaos Theory which I think illustrates the need for such an article:

I'm not too good with maths, got interested in chaos theory by chance, I wonder what 'deterministic' means in Systems that exhibit mathematical chaos are deterministic and thus orderly in some sense? Does this just mean that there are strict laws that govern the behaviour of the system? The link goes to a disambig page which links to philosophical determinism and to an article about algorithms (I think that it doesn't mention deterministic algorithms, though). There's also an article called Scientific determinism.. and none of those articles really help! Am I too stupid for this or is there something lacking in those articles about deterministic things? -- Jashiin 17:15, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * 'Deterministic' just means that they follow the laws of cause and effect; cause Determines effect. There aren't any mysterious miracles or totally random things going on.  In chaotic systems, it can be difficult to find out what the causes are for any given effect (making the system appear 'chaotic' in the everyday sense of the word), but that doesn't mean that there isn't a cause.  I hope that helped.  (Perhaps one of these articles needs a better introduction.)WhiteC 20:51, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Ah, so thats what it is! Thank you very much :) As for these articles, maybe a little separate article is needed, something like Deterministic (mathematics).. -- Jashiin 20:43, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

By the way, an algorithm in its common meaning is assumed to be deterministic: any output is completely determined by the inputs. Charles Matthews 10:10, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

A deterministic universe ?
The article mentions a deterministic universe, but says quantum laws aren't derterministic; how can the universe be deterministic whilst the physical laws describing it are not ?

 * The word "determinism" is used in several different ways. See Scientific determinism. --JWSchmidt 00:21, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, thanks.

 * I would have to say that the universe cannot be entirely deterministic if the physical laws describing it are not. But opinions differ.  Before quantum physics was generally agreed to be non-determistic, determinism was still a pretty fair assumption to make.  Determinism may be a good enough rough approximation of how things behave at sizes above atomic.  WhiteC 00:17, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

The fundamental ("weak") meaning of determinism is that every event follows from its causes. Just because we cannot identify every cause or predict every effect does not mean that the universe is not deterministic (weak sense). Some people use a stronger definition of determinism that includes predictability ("scientific determinism"). It is clear that not all events can be predicted. Quantum physics is only non-determistic under the "strong" definition. --JWSchmidt 02:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit late to the discussion here, but no, that's not true I think, at least not by the traditionally dominant Copenhagen inerpretation. It's not simply that you can't predict whether a given radioactive atom will or will not decay in a certain time frame. It's that there is no difference between the initial states when the atom does or does not decay. So essentially, the difference between decay and non-decay is uncaused. --Trovatore 09:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Schroedinger time evolution is fully deterministic however you cash out determinism. It is collapse postulates and the like that are indeterministic. Bohmian mechanics and the Everett interpretation are both fully deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics. Any uncertainty is epistemic (due to lack of knowledge). Incompetnce (talk) 16:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Indeterminism in classical physics
John Earman and John Norton have both recently published articles suggesting examples of indeterminism in Newtonian mechanics. See eg. http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/homepage/research/supertasks.html particularly the article called The Dome. Incompetnce (talk) 16:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Hartle Hawking State and Determinism
I have been reading up on the Hartle Hawking state which mentions that there are "no initial 'boundaries' in time nor space" (Apostrophes mine). I'm left wondering what this means for any conception of determinism as, presumably, you will need an initial surface of some sort upon which to definie the initial conditions of the universe IF you are going to say that the Universe is a deterministic system. Or are there notions of determinism that do not require an initial temporal surface of some sort upon which to define said intial conditions? One could draw an Penrose diagram and say that the boundaries of the diagram (which are infinitely, or at least infinitely far away) are the boundaries upon which the dynamics of the system are defined BUT what would happen to a Penrose diagram of the universe as we rewind to the Big Bang? And would the resultant geometric structure be something upon which initial conditions could be defined?

NOTE: Even WITH the initial boundary upon which to define initial conditions for the dynamic system (ie: the Universe), there is going to have to be some Partial Differential Equation (or something) which governs the evolution of those initial conditions in time - BUT, the mechanism that computes the dynamics from that PDE is not necessarily obvious (presumably, we would require knowing that reality itself IS a computational system of some sort - though whether it is a Turing Machine or not is not necessarily clear - thought the structure of reality is definitely, or strongly appears to be, causal). The possibility that Time somehow emerges from the spatial definitions (see the Hartle-Hawking state article) and hence that time is showhow a resultant of 'enfolded' interactions with other spatial dimensions is an idea that might appear to be deeply confusing (because time seems quite different from space). I am not sure if this is linked to Calabi Yau manifolds and similar ideas.

It is quite possible that the Hartle-Hawking state article could do with additional fleshing out, or re-wording to remove the supposed idea that neither space nort time have any initial boundary (or that there is some initial surface which encapsulates spacetime). I note that the article is distinctly lacking in Mathematical detail.

ASavantDude (talk) 20:47, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

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Sipaliwini District

Sipaliwini is the largest district of Suriname, located in the south. Sipaliwini is the only district that does not have a regional capital, as it is directly administered by the national government in Paramaribo. Sipaliwini District includes disputed areas, with the southwestern region controlled and administered by Guyana, whereas the southeastern region is controlled by French Guiana.

History
Sipaliwini was created in 1983 and has a population of 37,065 and an area of 130,567 km2. The district is nearly 4 times as large as the other 9 districts of Suriname combined; however, most of Sipaliwini is almost completely covered by rainforest. To create the district, the Nickerie District was reduced from around 65,000 km2 to 5,000 km2. Sipaliwini is the tribal area inhabited by Maroons and indigenous people. Various peace treaties starting in 1686 had recognised autonomy for the tribes over their own area; however, a specific delineation of the tribal area had been lacking. The name is of Indigenous origin, referring to the Sipaliwini River, and means "river of stones or rocks".

It is thought by archaeologists that hunter-gatherers lived in what is today Sipaliwini district during the Paleolithic period. The region was largely left alone during the colonial period, as the Dutch that controlled Suriname were fearful of the Portuguese in Brazil, and it was not until the 20th century that development projects began.

As of 2004, there are 41 schools in the areas. An increase in schools is planned, because some children have to travel long distances by foot or boat to neighbouring villages. As of 2004, there are 24 clinics in the district. Medical care is provided by Medische Zending. In the 1950s, Operation Grasshopper established many tiny airstrips in the district in order to make the territory accessible.

Sipaliwini district had seen occasional fighting in the late 1960s between Guyanese and Surinamese troops over border disputes in the south-west Tigri Area of the Coeroeni resort.

Nature
Sipaliwini consists of large areas of tropical rain forests, mountains, and savannas. In 1998, the Central Suriname Nature Reserve was created by Conservation International and the government of Suriname from the fusion of three existing nature reserves: Ralleighvallen, Tafelberg and Eilerts de Haangebergte. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 for its pristine tropical rainforest ecosystem. It is known for its rapids and bird species, including the Guiana Cock of the Rock (Rupicola rupicola). Over 5,000 different plants have been identified, and large mammals like the jaguar, giant armadillo, and eight species of primates. A research station is located at the foot of Voltzberg and the area is tourist attraction. The Sipaliwini Savanna Nature Reserve has been established in 1972, and is 1,000 km2 of savannah, and the second largest in Suriname. The reserve is near pristine and offers a wide variety in flora and fauna.

The Tumuk Humak Mountains are located in the southeastern part of the district, along the border with French Guiana.

Administration
Until 2011, Sipaliwini was administered by one district commissioner residing in Paramaribo. In the years since, district commissioners have been appointed for each separate resort.

Resorts
Sipaliwini is divided into 7 resorts (ressorten):

Villages

The district contains 156 villages. All of them except for Stoelmanseiland, Villa Brazil, and Antonio do Brinco are tribal.

 * Abenaston
 * Alalapadu
 * Amatopo
 * Antonio do Brinco
 * Apetina
 * Apoera
 * Asidonhopo
 * Aurora
 * Bakhuys
 * Benzdorp
 * Bitagron
 * Botopasi
 * Corneliskondre
 * Cottica
 * Diitabiki
 * Godo Holo
 * Jaw Jaw
 * Kajana
 * Kasuela (disputed)
 * Kawemhakan
 * Kuruni
 * Kwamalasamutu
 * Kumakahpan
 * Langatabiki
 * Lensidede
 * Lokaloka
 * Lucie
 * Manlobi
 * Moitaki
 * Nieuw Jacobkondre
 * Paloemeu
 * Pelelu Tepu
 * Pikin Slee
 * Pïleike
 * Poeketi
 * Poeloegoedoe
 * Poesoegroenoe
 * Pokigron
 * Sandlanding
 * Sipaliwini Savanna
 * Snesiekondre
 * Stoelmanseiland
 * Tutu Kampu
 * Vier Gebroeders
 * Villa Brazil
 * Wanapan
 * Washabo

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Courtney Pine

Courtney Pine, (born 18 March 1964), is a British jazz musician, who was the principal founder in the 1980s of the black British band the Jazz Warriors. Although known primarily for his saxophone playing, Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet, bass clarinet and keyboards. On his 2011 album, Europa, he plays almost exclusively bass clarinet.

Background
Pine's parents were Jamaican immigrants, his father a carpenter and his mother a housing manager. As a child, Pine wanted to be an astronaut. Born in London, Pine lived in the "Avenues" area of Kensal Green in north-west London, before moving to Wembley and attending Kingsbury High School, where he studied classical clarinet, teaching himself the saxophone from the age of 14. He began his music career playing reggae, touring in 1981 with Clint Eastwood & General Saint.

Career
In 1986, Pine's debut album Journey to the Urge Within entered the UK Top 40. One of his early bands was Grand Union Orchestra and he featured on their 1986 album The Song of Many Tongues, written by Tony Haynes.

Pine is the principal founder of the seminal black British big band the Jazz Warriors, which he established in 1985 through the community organisation "The Abibi Jazz Arts" (TAJA). The Jazz Warriors developed out of the Abibi All-Stars community band that did a series of performances at London's Royal Festival Hall foyer during the summer of the International Youth Year 1985. The Jazz Warriors recorded two albums under Pine's leadership: Out of Many, One People, which was released on the Antilles division of the Island Records label in 1987, and Afropeans, which was released on Pine's own label, Destin-e Records, for their 20th anniversary in 2007. The Jazz Warriors Afropeans project was commissioned by the Arts Council of England to commemorate the bicentennary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.

Thirty years after Pine planted his idea to start the Jazz Warriors, he put together the "Venus Warriors" all-female jazz band for a charity performance to raise awareness of the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal, which was established to erect a statue of the British-Jamaican Crimean War business woman and nurse outside of London's St Thomas' Hospital.

His recent music integrates modern British music like drum and bass and UK garage with contemporary jazz styles. He runs his own band and integrates many contemporary musicians in his performances. He also presents Jazz Crusade on BBC Radio 2, the seventh series of which was broadcast during spring 2007.

In 1988 he appeared as himself in a jazz quartet in the Doctor Who serial Silver Nemesis.

After losing his record contract, in 1989 Pine appeared on stage with the Pet Shop Boys at Wembley Arena. He played saxophone on the closing portion of their single, Nothing Has Been Proved.

Pine was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to jazz music. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster on 6 December 2004. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Southampton on 15 July 2010.

Pine appeared in August 2008 as an advocate for Pierre Boulez, on the BBC World News classical music programme Visionaries.

On Christmas Day 2018, Pine appeared on BBC Two's Merry Christmas Baby – with Gregory Porter & Friends.

Personal life
Pine lives in London with his wife and their four children.

Albums
As leader
 * Journey to the Urge Within (1986) – UK No. 39
 * Destiny's Song + The Image of Pursuance (1988) – UK No. 54
 * The Vision's Tale (1989)
 * Closer to Home (1990)
 * Within The Realms of Our Dreams (1991)
 * To the Eyes of Creation (1992)
 * Modern Day Jazz Stories (1995)
 * Underground (1997)
 * Back in the Day (2000)
 * Devotion (2003)
 * Resistance (2005)
 * Transition in Tradition: En Hommage a Sidney Bechet (2009)
 * Europa (2011)
 * House of Legends (2012)
 * Song (The Ballad Book) (2015)
 * Black Notes from the Deep (2017)

As sideman
 * Mica Paris, So Good (1988)
 * Trevor Jones, Angel Heart (Soundtrack) (1987)
 * Jazz Warriors, Out of Many, One People (1987), Afropeans (2008)
 * Harry Beckett, Les Jardins Du Casino (1993, ITM)

Singles

 * "Children of the Ghetto" (1986) (Courtney Pine, featuring the vocal of Susaye Greene)
 * "Like Dreamers Do" (1988) – UK No. 26 (Mica Paris, featuring Courtney Pine)
 * "I'm Still Waiting" (1990) – UK No. 66 (Courtney Pine, featuring Carroll Thompson)
 * "Get Busy" (1992), produced by Gussie Clarke – 12" vinyl, CD single
 * "Too Much To Lose" (1999) – Elkie Brooks, featuring Courtney Pine
 * "Lady Day (& John Coltrane)" (2000) – Courtney Pine, featuring Lynden David Hall

EPs

 * Traditions Beckoning – 10" limited edition (1988)

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Wanica District

Wanica is a district of Suriname located in the north of the country. Wanica's capital city is Lelydorp, the second-largest city in Suriname. Wanica has a population of 118,222 and an area of 443 km2. Following neighboring Paramaribo, Wanica is the second most populated and urbanized district of Suriname. Two-thirds of the country's population live in these two districts.

It's the Birthplace of Jules Ajodhia,3rd Vice President of Suriname and Recipient of the Honorary Order of the Yellow Star

History
The district was created in 1983 out of parts of the former Suriname District. The district was named Wanica after Pad van Wanica, the main road, Wanica Creek (present in the district), and the fact that the name had already been used on old maps.

The discovery of gold in Brokopondo and Sipaliwini lead to the construction of the Lawa Railway and growth of the villages next to the railway line, and especially Kofi Djompo. The railway line was decommissioned in 1986.

The district's capital, originally called Kofi Djompo, was renamed in 1905 for Dutch architect Cornelis Lely, who was responsible for many large construction projects in the Netherlands and was also governor of Suriname. Javanese immigration and the closeness to Paramaribo, have resulted in a partially suburban, and still partially agricultural district. The beginning of the 21st century have seen many building projects in the district.

Rice used to be the main crops grown in Wanica, but the late 20th century saw a shift towards animal husbandry. Fruit and vegetables are of lesser significance. Trade and businesses have increased, and are mainly located around Lelydorp. Lelydorp needs a clear city structure and has many agricultural areas close to the centre and neighbourhoods.

Resorts
Wanica is divided into 7 resorts (ressorten):
 * De Nieuwe Grond
 * Domburg
 * Houttuin
 * Koewarasan
 * Kwatta
 * Lelydorp
 * Saramacca Polder

Villages

 * Santigron

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Sassy (magazine)

Sassy magazine was a general interest teen magazine aimed at young women. Now defunct, it covered a wide variety of topics, and was intended as a feminist counterpoint to Seventeen and YM magazines. Sassy existed between 1988 and 1996.

History and profile
The magazine was founded in March 1988 by an Australian feminist, Sandra Yates, CEO of Matilda Publications, who based it on the teen magazine Dolly. Women Aglow, an evangelical women's group, boycotted Sassy due to its content about sexuality immediately following its start.

Editorial staff
Sassy's founding editor was Jane Pratt. The magazine's original main writers were referred to by Pratt as "Sex" (Karen Catchpole), "Drugs" (Catherine Gysin), and "Rock 'n Roll" (Christina Kelly) because of the topics they covered. Executive Editor Mary Kaye Schilling became Editor-in-Chief in 1990, when Pratt went on to host a daytime talk show. When Schilling left, Christina Kelly was promoted to Editor and remained in that position until the magazine's end. Kelly hired Erin Smith of Bratmobile as her intern in 1991. The fashion department was headed by Mary Clarke, Jacinta Dobson, and Andrea Lee Linett, who discovered Chloë Sevigny on the street and hired her as an intern. The distinctive look of the magazine was created by Cheryl Collins, who had worked at Australia's Dolly. When Collins left, Schilling hired Noel Claro to art direct the magazine.

Publishers
Sassy was first published in March 1988 in the United States by Matilda Publications with a circulation of 250,000. It was acquired by Lang Communications in October 1989, at which point its circulation was 450,000. Petersen Publishing officially took over with the February–March 1995 issue, and its editorial offices were moved to Los Angeles from New York City. It then stopped publishing as its own title in 1996, when editorial sections (and staff) of Sassy were absorbed into another magazine published by Petersen called `TEEN beginning with the January 1997 issue.

Dirt magazine
In 1992, Sassy spun off a short-lived title for teen boys called Dirt: Son of Sassy. It was created by Mark Lewman (words), Andy Jenkins (art direction) and Spike Jonze (photos), who went on to direct music videos and feature films. They were collectively known as "the Master Cluster." According to Canadian author Douglas Coupland, "Dirt was a funny and smart magazine for young people".

Reader-produced issues
Sassy anticipated "crowd sourced" content by over a decade, starting with their "every single little thing in this issue is reader-produced" December 1990 issue. Originally conceived by Alan Goodman's and Fred Seibert's Fred/Alan Inc., Sassy advertising agency.

Sassiest Boy in America
Sassy conducted an annual search for the Sassiest Girl in America, and in 1990, Sassy magazine conducted a search for the Sassiest Boy in America. Over 150 entries were received, with the eventual winner being Ian Svenonius of Nation of Ulysses. In the story highlighting his selection, Pratt states, "He's going to be a big deal. I'm sure he will be and we're going to be so proud that we were the first ones to discover him." However, it was discovered that Svenonius wasn't a "boy" at all, but rather lied about his age, as he was 22 at the time of his selection—too old, per contest rules. He was allowed to retain his title.

Chia Pet
Sassy's in-house band was named after the Chia Pet, with various members from the editorial staff, including Jane Pratt on violin, Mary Kaye Schilling and Christina Kelly on vocals, Kelly's then-husband Robert Weeks on guitar, her then-sister-in-law (and Sassy writer) Jessica Vitkus Weeks on bass guitar, Mary Ann Marshall (also a Sassy scribe) on drums. Karen Catchpole lent co-lead vocals to some songs including "Hey Baby" and "Don't You Want Me Baby". The band once opened for The Lemonheads at iconic now-closed New York City rock club CBGB.

Releases
16. "Don't You Want Me Baby"
 * Hey Baby — CD single of original songs
 * 1) "Hey Baby"
 * 2) "Lunch"
 * 3) "Blind Date"
 * Tannis Root Presents: Freedom Of Choice — various-artists pro-choice fundraising CD of 80s cover songs

Book: How Sassy Changed My Life
In April 2007, Faber and Faber released a tribute to and history of Sassy by former Teen Vogue editor Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer called How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time. The book recounts the magazine's rise and fall; its unusual appeal to both men and women, teenagers and adults; and its influence on mainstream as well as alternative women's magazines. It includes interviews with staffers and fans.

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Paul Magrs

Paul Magrs (pronounced "Mars"; born 12 November 1969) is an English writer and lecturer. He was born in Jarrow, England, and now lives in Manchester with his partner, author and lecturer Jeremy Hoad.

Early life
Magrs was born in Jarrow, Tyne & Wear, on 12 November 1969. In 1975 he moved with his family to Newton Aycliffe, County Durham; his parents divorced shortly after the move. At the age of 17, Magrs was queer-bashed, and his father was the police officer who took the report on the incident; it was the last time Paul Magrs saw his father.

In Newton Aycliffe, Magrs attended Woodham Comprehensive School, where Mark Gatiss was two years ahead of him and in the same drama group. Magrs went on to Lancaster University, where he received a first class BA in English (1991), an MA in Creative Writing (1991) and a PhD in English (1995). His doctoral thesis was on Angela Carter.

Literary career
Magrs is the author of numerous fiction and non-fiction works. His first published writing was the short story "Patient Iris", published 1995 in New Writing Four (edited by A. S. Byatt and Alan Hollinghurst). This was soon followed by his debut novel, Marked for Life, the same year. Magrs' first three novels, Marked for Life, Does It Show? (1997) and Could It Be Magic? (1998), share characters, a magical realist tone and a setting: the fictional Phoenix Court council estate in Newton Aycliffe.

Magrs' first children's book, Strange Boy (2002), prompted controversy due to homosexual content involving its 10-year-old protagonist and a 14-year-old neighbour. Representatives of the NASUWT teachers' union and the conservative Christian Institute argued that the book should not be stocked in school libraries, and some newspapers suggested that doing so in England would be illegal due to the Section 28 ban on "promoting homosexuality" in schools. However, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals supported libraries' purchase of Strange Boy, as did representatives of Stonewall and other gay rights organizations. Magrs noted that the book was "about 95% autobiographical" and described the controversy as "ludicrous".

Doctor Who
Magrs has written several novels, short stories and audio dramas relating to Doctor Who, many of which also feature his character Iris Wildthyme.

Iris was initially portrayed as an eccentric and unreliable Time Lady, whose TARDIS takes the form of a London AEC Routemaster double-decker bus (the route 22 to Putney Common), though in a series of short story collections and novels not written for the BBC, the character has been repurposed to remove any copyrighted aspects. Iris Wildthyme was originally created for Magrs' unpublished first novel, which was named after her; another version of Iris also appears in Marked for Life. The character features in all of Magrs' three contributions to BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures, in several Big Finish Productions audio dramas by Magrs and other writers, in a novel series from Snowbooks and in short story and novella collections published by Big Finish and Obverse Books.

Magrs has also written licensed Doctor Who fiction without Wildthyme, including the 2007 novel, Sick Building, (which made the shortlist for the Doncaster Book Award), a variety of audio plays for Big Finish and the BBC audio series, Hornets' Nest, which marked the first time Tom Baker had returned to play the Doctor in a full-length drama since he left the role in 1981. After the success of Hornets' Nest, Magrs wrote two sequel series Demon Quest (2010) and Serpent Crest (2011).

The Brenda and Effie Mysteries
Magrs' current ongoing novel series is The Brenda and Effie Mysteries, starring Brenda, the Bride of Frankenstein, who has now retired and runs a B&B in Whitby. She and her friend Effie, a local white witch, investigate spooky goings-on in the town. , there have been nine books in the series, the latest being A Game of Crones from Snowbooks. The fourth book, Hell's Belles, features characters from Magrs' early Phoenix Court books, while the fifth features characters from Magrs' Doctor Who audio, The Boy That Time Forgot. A short story collection, A Treasury of Brenda and Effie (Obverse Books) and a seventh novel, Fellowship of Ink (snowbooks) were both released in 2017. An eighth novel, Beyond the Veil, was released in 2023 by Obverse Books.

The characters have also appeared in two audio adaptations: a 3-part series for BBC Radio 4, starring Joanna Tope and Monica Gibb, and then a series of award-winning audios from Bafflegab. These starred Anne Reid and included:

 * 1. The Woman in a Black Beehive
 * 2. Bat Out of Hull
 * 3. Spicy Tea and Sympathy
 * 4. Brenda Has Risen from the Grave

In 2020, it was announced Free@Last TV, who produced the Sky1/Acorn TV series Agatha Raisin, were developing a television series.

Other novels
Magrs' other novels include Aisles (2003) and To the Devil – a Diva! (2004); he has also published several short stories. His novel Exchange was shortlisted for the 2006 Booktrust Teenage Prize and was longlisted for the 2007 Carnegie Medal.

His young adult novel, The Ninnies was listed by the Irish Times as one of the children's books of the year in 2012.

Later novels include two books about his cats, Fester and Bernard, The Story of Fester Cat and Welcome Home, Bernard Socks, a stand-alone novel, 666 Charing Cross Road (ISBN 978-0755359486), and a trilogy of novels about a frontier family on the planet Mars.

Art
Harper Collins have published three books featuring his artwork.

 * The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy
 * The Tale of Toxic Positivity
 * Puss in Books

Academic work
Magrs is a full-time writer, having formerly been a senior lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and having previously taught at the University of East Anglia. With Julia Bell, Magrs edited several issues of the University of East Anglia's literary journal Pretext and The Creative Writing Coursebook (2001).

Novels

 * Modern Love (2000)
 * All the Rage (2001)
 * Strange Boy (2002)
 * Hands Up! (2003, American title: The Good, the Bat and the Ugly)
 * Aisles (2003)
 * To the Devil — a Diva! (2004)
 * Exchange (2006)
 * Twin Freaks (2007)
 * The Diary of a Dr Who Addict (2010)
 * 666 Charing Cross Road (2011)
 * The Ninnies (2012)
 * The Story of Fester the Cat (2014)
 * Welcome Home, Bernard Socks (2016)
 * Hunky Dory (2020)

Phoenix Court

 * Marked for Life (1995)
 * Does it Show? (1997)
 * Could It be Magic? (1998)
 * Fancy Man (2018)

The Brenda and Effie Mysteries

 * Never the Bride (2006)
 * Something Borrowed (2007)
 * Conjugal Rites (2008)
 * Hell's Belles (2009)
 * The Bride That Time Forgot (2010)
 * Brenda And Effie Forever (2012)
 * A Treasury of Brenda and Effie (2017)
 * Fellowship of Ink (2017)
 * A Game of Crones (2020)
 * Beyond the Veil (2023)

Iris Wildthyme
The New Adventures of Iris Wildthyme
 * Enter Wildthyme (2011)
 * Wildthyme Beyond (2012)
 * From Wildthyme with Love (2013)
 * Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror (2019)
 * Mother, Maiden, Crone (2020)

The Lora Trilogy

 * Lost on Mars (2015)
 * The Martian Girl (2016)
 * The Heart of Mars (2018)

Short story collections

 * Playing Out (1997)
 * Twelve Stories (2009, Salt Publishing)
 * Christmassy Tales (2020)

Other works

 * "The Dreadful Flap" (2009, in Obverse Books' short story collection Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus)
 * "The Delightful Bag" (2009, in Obverse Books' short story collection The Panda Book of Horror)
 * "Facebook for the Dead" (2010, in Obverse Books' short story collection The Obverse Book of Ghosts)
 * "Mrs. Hudson at the Christmas Hotel" (2013, in Titan Books' Encounters of Sherlock Holmes)
 * "The Ninnies on Putney Common" (2013, in Obverse Books' short story collection Iris: Fifteen, ed. Stuart Douglas, ISBN 978-1909031159)
 * "Novel Inside You: Writing, Reading and Creativity" (2019)
 * "The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-Four Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry" (2019, with Julia Bell)

Audio stories

 * "Never the Bride" (1998, BBC Radio 4; expanded version 2008, BBC7)
 * The Night Owls
 * The Vintage Costumed Hero Ball
 * Our Frank
 * "Life After Mars" (2002, BBC Radio 4) part of the Fictional Familiars series.
 * "Sunseeker" (2005, BBC Radio 4)
 * Wildthyme at Large (2005, Iris Wildthyme)
 * "The Foster Parents" (2007, in Comma Press' short story collection Phobic)
 * "The Longsight Branch" (2 July 2008 BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading)
 * Land of Wonder (2009, Iris Wildthyme)
 * Spanish Ladies (2013, Bafflegab Productions)
 * Imaginary Boys (2013, BBC Radio 4)
 * Baker's End (2016, Bafflegab Productions)
 * Mystery Lady (2018, Storytel)

Books as editor

 * Wildthyme on Top (2005, Iris Wildthyme, Big Finish)
 * Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus (2009, Iris Wildthyme, Obverse Books, edited with Stuart Douglas)
 * The Panda Book of Horror (2009, Iris Wildthyme, Obverse Books, edited with Stuart Douglas)
 * Shenanigans: Gay Men Mess with Genre (2010, Obverse Books)
 * Iris: Abroad (2010, Iris Wildthyme, Obverse Books, edited with Stuart Douglas)

BBC Books

 * The Scarlet Empress (1998)
 * The Blue Angel (1999)
 * Verdigris (2000)
 * Mad Dogs and Englishmen (2002)
 * Sick Building (2007)
 * The Return of Robin Hood (2022)

Short stories

 * "Old Flames" in Short Trips (1998)
 * "Femme Fatale" in More Short Trips (1999)
 * "The Longest Story in the World" in Short Trips and Side Steps (2000)
 * "Bafflement and Devotion" in Doctor Who Magazine #289 (2000)
 * "Jealous, Possessive" in Short Trips: Zodiac (2002)
 * "Kept Safe and Sound" in Short Trips: Companions (2003)
 * "Lust - Suitors, Inc." in Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins (2005)
 * "The Wickerwork Man" in Short Trips: Farewells (2006)
 * "Fanboys" in Short Trips: Snapshots (2007)
 * "Zombie Motel" in Doctor Who Storybook 2008 (2007)
 * "Hello Children, Everywhere" in Doctor Who Storybook 2009 (2008)
 * "Knock Knock!" in Doctor Who Storybook 2010 (2009)
 * "The Monster in the Woods" in Doctor Who: Tales of Terror (2017)
 * "Teddy Sparkles Must Die" in The Missy Chronicles (2018)
 * "That's All Right, Mama" in Doctor Who: Star Tales (2019)

Big Finish plays

 * The Stones of Venice (2001, featuring the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard)
 * Excelis Dawns (2002, featuring the Fifth Doctor and Iris Wildthyme)
 * The Wormery (2003, featuring the Sixth Doctor and Iris Wildthyme; written with Stephen Cole)
 * Horror of Glam Rock (2007, featuring the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller)
 * The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box (2007, featuring the Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush)
 * The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (2008, featuring the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller)
 * The Boy That Time Forgot (2008, featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa)
 * The Companion Chronicles - Ringpullworld (2009, featuring the Fifth Doctor and Turlough)
 * The Companion Chronicles - Find and Replace (2010, featuring the Third Doctor, Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme)
 * The Lady of Mercia (2013, featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Turlough and Nyssa)
 * The Companion Chronicles - The Elixir of Doom (2014, featuring Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme)
 * The Peterloo Massacre (2016, featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Nyssa)
 * Muse of Fire (2018, featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace, Hex and Iris Wildthyme)

BBC Audio plays
Hornets' Nest (2009)
 * The Stuff of Nightmares (Fourth Doctor, Mike Yates, Mrs. Wibbsey)
 * The Dead Shoes (Fourth Doctor, Mike Yates, Mrs. Wibbsey)
 * The Circus of Doom (Fourth Doctor, Mike Yates)
 * A Sting in the Tale (Fourth Doctor, Mike Yates, Mrs. Wibbsey)
 * Hive of Horror (Fourth Doctor, Mike Yates, Mrs. Wibbsey)

Demon Quest (2010)
 * The Relics of Time (Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey)
 * The Demon of Paris (Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey)
 * A Shard of Ice (Fourth Doctor, Mike Yates)
 * Starfall (Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey, Mike Yates)
 * Sepulchre (Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey, Mike Yates)

Serpent Crest (2011)
 * Tsar Wars (Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey)
 * The Broken Crown (Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey)
 * Aladdin Time (Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey)
 * The Hexford Invasion (Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey, Mike Yates)
 *  Survivors in Space (Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey, Mike Yates)

Single releases
 * The Thing from the Sea (2018, Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey)
 * The Winged Coven (2019, Fourth Doctor, Mrs. Wibbsey, Mike Yates)

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