Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is writer, broadcaster and quizmaster Ben Baker, who hopes against hope that somebody else remembers early Chris Evans vehicle TV Mayhem, football comic The Onion Bag, novelty yoghurt range Fiendish Feet, the early internet craze for misidentifying every comedy song as ‘by’ Weird Al Yankovic, Betsy Byars’ Bingo Brown novels and the International Youth Service penpal scheme. Along the way we’ll be getting some unconventional yoghurt-related gardening tips, recalling the classic horror film ‘Dracula Vs. The Skeleton’, discussing whether Fangs-A-Lot is an appropriate choice of family heirloom, and finding out how the least politically correct gag in history ended up at the end of a right-on charity fundraising joke book. And Colin Foley, if you’re out there, please get in contact.

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About Ben

Ben Baker is a writer and broadcaster. You can find his website here and follow him on Twitter at @benbakerbooks. You can also find Ben’s podcast ALFsplaining – an episode by episode look at ALF – here.

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You can find more about Chris Evans’ early Radio 1 show Too Much Gravy – and. more notoriously, what happened next – in Tim’s book Fun At One – The Story Of Comedy At BBC Radio 1, a look at all of Radio 1’s comedy shows from Kenny Everett to Chris Morris and beyond. Fun At One is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. They don’t do Fiendish Feet coffee flavour yoghurt though. Thankfully.

Further Listening

Ben has also appeared on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Toksvig, The Whizzkid’s Handbook, Mysteries Of Old Peking, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Go (the 1999 film), and Making Your Own TV Listings Magazines here, ITV’s daytime nostalgia show Looks Familiar here, the original version of Now – The Christmas Album here, Bernard And The Genie here and EastEnders spinoff single Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford here.

Ben has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Ant-Man here, Cloak And Dagger here and Avengers: Endgame here.

Ben also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Emma Burnell on The Patchwork Monkey, Phil Catterall on the Platoon computer game, Stephen O’Brien on The Morecambe And Wise Game, Garreth Hirons on Food Fighters, Mark Thompson on Night Shift and Tim on the radio talking about Denys Fisher board games, which you can find here.

Further Reading

It’s hardly Bingo Brown, but you can read more about some of my own personal literary inspirations in The Books I Couldn’t Help Thinking About here.

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