Looks Unfamiliar: Jane Hill – It Was Quite A Dungaree Based Film

Cliff Richard in His Land (1970) - listen to Jane Hill talking to Tim Worthington 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 comedian and writer Jane Hill, who’s on the lookout for anyone else who remembers gymnastics-heavy Children’s BBC thriller Out Of Bounds, a mystery Saturday Morning Cinema serial about pirates, Cliff Richard documentary movie His Land, Showell Styles’ ‘Simon And Mag Hughes’ mountain adventure novels, rig-bound BBC drama Oil Strike North!, and artificial mystery meat product Breakfast Slices. Along the way we’ll be finding out what evasive manoeuvres to take if Cliff Richard’s guitar starts falling over in church, questioning the entire purpose of Sweet Pebbles, and trying not to get caught reading a Green Dragon book when you’re actually Red Dragon age.

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The Ladder Of Snow by Showell Styles (Dragon, 1962) - listen to Jane Hill and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Jane

Jane Hill is a comedian and writer. You can find Jane’s website here and follow her on Twitter at @janehill64.

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There’s lots more about Out Of Bounds along with tons of other astonishingly bleak and brutal seventies and eighties thriller serials in The Golden Age Of Children’s TV, available in all good bookshops and from Amazon here, Waterstones here and directly from Black And White Publishing here.

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, including lots about the eccentricities of old-skool cinema visits. 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. Swipe Simon and Mag’s flask if you have to. They’re probably ‘plucky’ enough to improvise around it.

Further Listening

You can find Jane talking about her love of Blue Peter on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV here.

You can find more about Alfred Hitchcock And The Three Investigators in Looks Unfamiliar with Steve O’Brien here, while Melanie Williams joined us for a chat about Kellogg’s Rise & Shine here.

Jane also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Justin Lewis on the original Only Fools And Horses theme tune, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on The Llŷn Peninsula Earthquake, Carrie Dunn on Too Close To The Sun, Tom Williamson on Samurai Pizza Cats and Bob Fischer on Eighties Tabloid Celebrities; you can find it here.