Pop links: New Radiohead! Dr. Who meets Hamlet! Wally Wood's Captain Science! Adam West returns to Batman! Bob Dylan Christmas album?!!!!

Radiohead have made a new single available for download.

"Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" [is available via Radiohead's] online store, Waste Merchandising...the five and a half minute digital file costs £1.00 or $1.70 for U.S. customers. Proceeds from the sales will be donated to the Royal British Legion.

The BBC Radio 4 website is currently streaming the track and the song pays tribute to Harry Patch, the last known British World War I veteran who passed away on July 25. Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke was reportedly moved by an interview the BBC Radio 4 conducted with Patch in 2005.


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Outgoing "Doctor Who" star David Tennant will star in a production of "Hamlet" to air on PBS next year.

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More Doctor Who: Check out this 1970s ad for Weetabix.

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Read a 1950s Captain Science tale illustrated by the great Wally Wood.



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Bob Dylan is recording a Christmas album?!!!

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Word is Adam West will voice the character of Thomas Wayne on a season 2 episode of "Batman: Brave and the Bold." Some other familiar voices will also be heard on the ep:

Julie Newmar as Martha Wayne
Kevin Conroy as The Phantom Stranger
Mark Hamill as The Spectre



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Rolling Stone checks in with Smokey Robinson, who has a new album out later this month.

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