Looks Unfamiliar: Emma Burnell – I’ve Hung Around Enough Bloody Guitar Playing Boys

Alyson Hannigan and Luke Perry in When Harry Met Sally (2004) - listen to Emma Burnell 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 for a special theatrical edition is journalist Emma Burnell, who’s faking an orgasm in a restaurant over the 2004 stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally starring Alyson Hannigan and Luke Perry. Along the way we’ll be listening to Harry Connick Jr.’s cover of Ghostbusters, finding out whether Dirty Dancing can have too much dancing in it, learning about the influence a giant floating image of Patrick Swayze had on the civil rights movement and berating Leonard Cohen for wiping all those episodes of Doctor Who. Plus we’ll also be remembering Richard Herring remembering the Mars Bar…

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About Emma

Emma Burnell is a journalist and theatre critic who regularly contributes to The Guardian, The Stage, Grazia and BBC and Channel 4 News. You can find Emma’s website here and follow her on Bluesky at @emmaburnell.bsky.social.

Emma and Steve Fielding co-present The Zeitgeist Tapes, a podcast looking at the point where politics and popular culture collide. You can find The Zeitgeist Tapes here and you can find Tim appearing on The Zeitgeist Tapes talking about politics in Doctor Who here, the Clangers Election Special Vote For Froglet here and Free For All, the election-themed episode of The Prisoner, here.

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Further Listening

Emma has appeared on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Whose Side Are You On?, Sweet Valley High, Scoubidou, The Patchwork Monkey, Split Second, and the Ever Ready ‘Power To The People’ advert here, The Royal Potwasher, Melody Radio, Channel 4’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, A Woman In Your Own Right, The Lords Of Midnight and Herman’s Head here, The Saturday Show here and Christmas-themed episodes of The West Wing here. You can also find Emma on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Grange Hill here.

Emma has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 here and Deadpool here.

Emma also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Joel Morris on the View-Master Demonstration Reel, Joanne Sheppard on Colorado Beetle panic, Samira Ahmed on The Fun Food Factory, Jonny Morris on Battlestar Galactica action figures, Matt Lee on They Might Be Giants’ ‘Dial-A-Song’ service, Shanine Salmon on Neopets and Anna Cale on Diana Dors’ Dors’ Dozen, which you can find here.