Looks Unfamiliar: Rae Earl – I Think It Was A Cerebral Cheggers Plays Pop

Rock'n'Bubble Bubble Gum - listen to Rae Earl and Tim Worthington chatting about 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 writer Rae Earl, who insists that she’s not just making up the episodes of Battle Of The Planets where Zoltar was a woman, pop card collection Rock’n’Bubble Bubble Gum, Gyles Brandreth quiz show Puzzle Party, Children’s BBC Cold War thriller Codename Icarus, cheap culinary filler The Home Cookery Club, and short-lived comedy sensation Cheese And Onion. Along the way we’ll be finding out which Europop duo based their entire image on extruded sugar, assessing the commercial potential of a Panini Sticker Scented Candle, and advising what precautions you should take whilst within twelve thousand square feet of anywhere that may or may not have played host to agricultural pesticide at some indeterminate point in history. There’s also a bit of bonus chatter about the Channel 4 transmissions of The Gong Show, and if anyone else remembers The Yellow House, please get in touch!

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About Rae

Rae Earl is the author of My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary and a prolific writer and broadcaster. You can find Rae’s website here and follow her on Twitter at @RaeEarl.

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You can find a lengthy look at Battle Of The Planets in Tim’s book Can’t Help Thinking About Me, a collection of columns and features with a personal twist which led Rae to remark “Tim is The Oracle… and the Ceefax”. Can’t Help Thinking About Me is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here. You can find a feature on Codename Icarus and many other Children’s BBC sci-fi/fantasy serials in Well At Least It’s Free, a further collection of columns and features. Well At Least It’s Free 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. I’m not sure what bubblegum cards you’d get with it though. Maybe Xavier Cugat and Bebel Gilberto?

Further Listening

Rae also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Samira Ahmed, Steve Berry, Jacqueline Rayner, Una McCormack, Will Maclean and Tim on the radio talking about the forgotten theme song from The Amazing Adventures Of Morph, which you can find here.