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.

This is a collection of highlights featuring Will Maclean on Once Upon A Time… Man, Una McCormack on Screw-Top Virgin Marys, Rae Earl on Codename Icarus, Jacqueline Rayner on Pippa Dolls, Samira Ahmed on Nurdin & Peacock Own Brand Cola, and Steve Berry on school hymn book Morning Has Broken. Along the way we’ll be finding out why you can’t hide a pierced ear from Jesus, just how far you can balance a hymn book on the edge of a church balcony, what measures to take when a runaway horse smashes into a bathroom factory, and 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. Plus there’s also something you may not have heard before – Tim on the radio talking about Georgie Fame’s long-forgotten theme from The Amazing Adventures Of Morph…

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Will – Una – Rae – Jacqueline – Samira – Steve

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Further Listening

You can find further enthusing over Pippa in Looks Unfamiliar with Georgy Jamieson here.

Further Reading

Can’t Beat The Real Thing is a feature on terrible ‘alternative’ colas and why nobody ever wanted them but got given them anyway as a ‘treat’; you can find it here.

There’s more about Codename Icarus in Ghosts, Monsters And Legends (And Tennis Prodigies) – a feature about the BBC’s spooky/sci-fi children’s serials – which you can find here.

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