Looks Unfamiliar: Al Kennedy – Maggie Thatcher Is Coming To Steal Your Gold Coins

Alias The Jester (Thames/Cosgrove Hall, 1985) - listen to Al Kennedy 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 podcaster Al Kennedy, who’s trying to scratch off and win ‘Remembering’ points for Alias The Jester, Steve Jackson’s Battle Cards, Marblehead Manor, Joe’s Apartment, early Eddie Izzard vehicle Channel Hopping, Puddle Lane and legendary ZX Spectrum game Advanced Lawnmower Simulator. Along the way we’ll be finding out about the least necessary key change ever, whether there is actually such a thing as a non-Advanced Combat Card, which die has the evillest number of sides, and what constitutes an appropriate punishment for the programmers of Count Duckula 2.

About Al

Al Kennedy is a podcaster; you can find Al’s comics podcast House To Astonish here and follow the show on Twitter at @housetoastonish. You can find Al’s Terry Pratchett podcast Desert Island Discworld here.

Buy A Book!

If you’ve enjoyed this, then you’ll enjoy Tim’s 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. I would like to remind you that ‘Steve Jackson’s Coffee Cards’ are not legal tender.

Further Listening

Al has also been on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The High Life, Flipsiders, the SAM Coupé, The Golden Cagoule, Explorer 12, Steeleye And The Lost Magic and Genis-Vell here, and on It’s Good, Except It Sucks chatting about the Silver Surfer cartoon here.

Steve Jackson’s phone-in role-playing game F.I.S.T. was covered in Looks Unfamiliar with Chris Shaw, which you can find here.

Al also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Shanine Salmon on the 1993 version of the EastEnders theme, Lydia Mizon on Stoppit And Tidyup, Jenny Morrill on The Elvis Special 1983, David Smith on Little Clowns Of Happytown, Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge on Furzlin’ With Shag Connors And The Carrot Crunchers, Meryl O’Rourke on The International Shoparound Exotic Glamourwear Catalogue and Tim on TV Cream Stays Indoors talking to Graham Kibble-White about Space Sentinels. You can find it here.