Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – That Perfect Collision Of Time, Place And Loud Ties

The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995) - listen to Tim Worthington chatting to Garreth Hirons 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.

This time Tim’s the guest, talking to Garreth F. Hirons about Children’s BBC show Stop-Go!, It’s A Shame by Kris Kross, the animated series of Spider-Woman, I Wanted To See You To See If I Wanted You by Moose, The ITV Encyclopedia Of Adventure, the original version of Right Here by SWV, The Young Poisoner’s Handbook and Radio Tip Top. Along the way we’ll be finding out how the cast of The Sullivans got caught up in a South-East turf war, attempting to define the Drop The Dead Donkey Font, puzzling over how Dracula can logistically get ‘revenge’, and querying how far Roger Lloyd Pack was from any falling-through-bar incident at any given point in time.

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You can find more about the story behind Radio Tip Top – and many more Radio 1 comedy shows besides – in Tim’s book Fun At One – The Story Of Comedy At BBC Radio 1, available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. Preferably one strong enough to keep up with the opening titles of Stop-Go!.

Further Listening

Tim has made several other appearances as the guest on Looks Unfamiliar, talking about The Only Way by Lisa Stansfield, The Brain, the Jackanory adaptation of Starstormers, a Public Information Film about boat safety, I Was Made To Love Magic by Nick Drake, Secrets From The School Underground, Skyman and Rubovia here, comedy on BBC Radio 3 here, California Fever, Galloping Galaxies!, Bad Ronald, In-Flight Entertainment, The Chronicles Of Narmo by Caitlin Moran, Pirate Radio Four, The Collings And Herrin Podcast and What’s That Noise? here, I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod’s Present, A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan, Mariah Carey’s rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, Richard Herring’s Christmas Emergency Questions, Iron Man 3 (which is a Christmas Film), Joe 90 Christmas Special The Unorthodox Shepherd and Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy) by Max Headroom here, The Hoarding here, Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride here and EastEnders spinoff single Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford here.

You can also hear Tim as the guest on his Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Guardians Of The Galaxy here, The Defenders here, Ant-Man And The Wasp here, Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here and The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special here.

Tim also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Suzy Norman on Hugo The Hippo, Mitch Benn on Two-Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cones, Richard Littler on the episode of The Waltons with a poltergeist, Gary Bainbridge on Radio City’s Jack Your Body parody Deadly Boring and Darrell Maclaine on Blockbusters Bubble Gum as well Tim appearing on The Zeitgeist Tapes talking to Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding about the Clangers Election Special, which you can find here.