Looks Unfamiliar: Carrie Dunn – They Just Shoved People Into Swimming Pools

The Glam Metal Detectives (BBC2, 1995) - listen to Carrie Dunn 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 sports writer Carrie Dunn, who’s trying to keep score of her hazy recollections of The Glam Metal Detectives, Handful Of Promises by Big Fun, The Rocky Horror Show sequel Shock Treatment, Ernest Hemingway musical Too Close To The Sun, The Karen Carpenter Story and Chris Tarrant-fronted game show Man O Man. Along the way we’ll be questioning how many hoodies you can wear at any one time, trying to figure out how New York can be ‘The Citiest Of Cities’, and holding a Bad Musicals Support Group meeting in the interval of another bad musical.

Handful Of Promises by Big Fun (Jive, 1990) - listen to Carrie Dunn and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Carrie

Carrie Dunn is a sports writer. You can find Carrie’s website here and follow her on Twitter at @carriesparkle. Carrie’s new book ‘Unsuitable For Females’ is available here.

Buy A Book!

If you’ve enjoyed this, 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. Because let’s face it, anyone watching The Glam Metal Detectives needs one.

Further Listening

Carrie has also appeared on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Just A Gigolo, Don’t You Worry by Madasun, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum + 2 James Bond Action Pack, The Isle Of Wight Waxworks Museum, Rent Remixed and Channel 4’s coverage of the Women’s FA Cup, which you can find here.

Big Fun’s fellow Stock Aitken Waterman proteges Brilliant feature in Looks Unfamiliar with Stephen O’Brien here.

Carrie also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Justin Lewis on the original Only Fools And Horses theme, Bob Fischer on eighties tabloid celebrities, Tom Williamson on Samurai Pizza Cats, Jane Hill on His Land, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Llŷn Peninsula Earthquake and Tim on It’s An S Pod Thing! talking about S Club 7 – Back To The ’50s, which you can find here.