The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: Top Cat Will Always Be Boss Cat

Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar with Tim Worthington talking to Justin Lewis, Mark Thompson, Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence, Stephen O'Brien, Garreth Hirons, Vikki Gregorich and Jeff Lewis, Emma Burnell and Paul Cornell..

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 Justin Lewis on Neither Fish Nor Flesh by Terence Trent D’Arby, Mark Thompson on Libby’s Moonshine, Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence on The Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump, Stephen O’Brien on Old Fashioned Christmas by Anne Charleston and Ian Smith, Garreth Hirons on The Ghosts Of Oxford Street, Vikki Gregorich and Jeff Lewis on The Secret Cabaret, Emma Burnell on Melody Radio and Paul Cornell on Terry Wogan’s insistence on playing records that resolutely refused to become hits. Along the way we’ll be finding out what happens when you continually ask a radio station that doesn’t have Ghostbusters to play Ghostbusters, revisiting the forgotten link between Rupert And The Frog Song and Cannibal Holocaust, debating the identity of ‘soft lad who stood on a pole’, celebrating the career of ‘DJ Ron’, revealing how to avoid getting mistaken for an extra on Neighbours, singing a medley of all two and a half records owned by Radio Merseyside and trying not to think about what ‘Dog Of Finland’ might entail. Plus there’s some extra chat with Emma, Stephen and Mark as well as something you might not have heard before – Tim on Perfect Night In talking to Neil Perryman about the BBC edits of The Monkees.

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Justin – Mark – Stephen And Dave – Stephen – Garreth – Vikki And Jeff – Emma – Paul

Top Of The Pops Extra – The Saturday Show Extra – TV On Holiday Extra

Paul McCartney and Rupert Bear in the video for we All Stand Together (Parlophone, 1984).

Neither Fish Nor Flesh by Terence Trent D'Arby (Columbia, 1989) - listen to Justin Lewis and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Old Fashioned Christmas by Anne Charleston And Ian Smith (Jive, 1989) - listen to Stephen O'Brien and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Ghosts Of Oxford Street (Channel 4/Middlemarch Films, 1991) - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Secret Cabaret (Channel 4, 1990-92) - listen to Vikki Gregorich And Jeff Lewis and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Wogan's Winners (BBC Records And Tapes, 1978) - listen to Paul Cornell and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Libby's Moonshine - listen to Mark Thompson and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

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Further Listening

You can hear (and see!) the full version of Tim’s appearance on Perfect Night In – featuring chat about Skiboy, Rising Damp, The Banana Splits, The Monkees, Mr. Benn, Jonathan Miller’s Alice In Wonderland, The Original Peter and Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! – here.