Looks Unfamiliar: Emma Burnell – Jessica Wakefield Is Jessica Fletcher Writ Large

Ever Ready 'Power To The People' advert (1982) - listen to Emma Burnell and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

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 journalist and theatre critic Emma Burnell, who is banking on someone else remembering Miners’ Strike fundraising album Whose Side Are You On?, Sweet Valley High novels, short-lived playground craze Scoubidou, children’s horror novella The Patchwork Monkey, undistinguished Rutger Hauer vehicle Split Second and the Ever Ready ‘Power To The People’ advert. Along the way we’ll be discussing the sociocultural ramifications of an earnest man talking to some earnest men, assessing the potential risks of hiring videos from ‘a van’, and speculating on the possible psychotropic effects of smoking a Fanta Yo-yo.

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Sweet Valley High - Double Love by Francine Pascal (Random House, 1983) - listen to Emma Burnell and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Split Second (1992) - listen to Emma Burnell and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Emma

Emma Burnell is a journalist and theatre critic who regularly contributes to The Guardian, The Stage, Grazia and BBC and Channel 4 News. You can find Emma’s website here and follow her on Twitter at @EmmaBurnell_. Political Human, Emma’s website, is here. You can watch Emma’s play No Cure For Love on YouTube here.

Emma presents The Zeitgeist Tapes, a podcast looking at where politics and popular culture collide; you can find The Zeitgeist Tapes here and follow the show on Twitter at @ZTPodcast. You can find Tim on The Zeitgeist Tapes talking about depictions of politics in Doctor Who here, The Prisoner here and the Clangers Election Special here.

Buy A Book!

You can find some of Tim’s tales of video shop escapades in his book Can’t Help Thinking About Me, a collection of columns and features with a personal twist. Can’t Help Thinking About Me 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. That’s whose side I’m on.

Further Listening

Emma has also appeared on on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Royal Potwasher, Melody Radio, Channel 4’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, A Woman In Your Own Right, The Lords Of Midnight and Herman’s Head here, her role in an ITV Saturday Morning TV Show that never actually happened here, the The West Wing Christmas Specials here and the stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally here.

Emma has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.2 here and Deadpool here.

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