Looks Unfamiliar: Joanne Sheppard – Not Really The Modus Operandi Of Your Average Ghoul

All Aboard! - 24 Original All-Time Children's Favourites (EMI. 1979) - listen to Joanne Sheppard 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 book reviewer Joanne Sheppard, who’s trying her hardest not to be roped into appearing in the background of The Bump by M.C. Mallett, some mysterious unidentified horror-themed sweets with free stickers, The Strange Affair Of Adelaide Harris, Matchbox Fighting Furies, wildly contrasting game shows Mouthtrap and Connoisseur, National Geographic’s World Magazine, children’s compilation album All Aboard! and The Guinness Book Of Pet Records. Along the way we’ll be assessing Chessington World Of Adventure’s suitability for Goth day trips, questioning when pirates jumped the shark, revisiting Flanders And Swann’s controversial Public Information Film and recounting the revolutionary snack food innovations of Crisp Gascoine.

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The Bump by M.C. Mallett (Polydor, 1991) - listen to Joanne Sheppard and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Strange Affair Of Adelaide Harris by Leon Garfield (Puffin, 1971) - listen to Joanne Sheppard and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Joanne

Joanne Sheppard is a book reviewer. You can find her website Breakfast At Libraries here or follow her on Twitter at @redskyatnight.

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You can find much more about the BBC’s children’s drama serials of the seventies and eighties in Tim’s book Well At Least It’s Free, available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

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Further Listening

Joanne has also been on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The December Rose, Colorado Beetle panic, Brontosaurus, Will You Wait For Me? by David Bellamy, Timbuctoo, KP Wickers, The Enchanted Castle, Major Morgan The Electronic Organ and Wilderness Road here and Dramarama: The Exorcism Of Amy, Spine Chillers, Blue Peter’s Witch Puppet Make, Monsters Of The Movies by Denis Gifford, Nothing To Be Afraid Of by Jan Mark, Paperhouse, Dekker Toys’ Movie/TV Horror Make-Up Kit and Remus Playkits Identispook here.

You can also find Joanne on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Blade II here, Blade: Trinity here, Avengers Assemble here and Avengers: Infinity War here.

Joanne also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Grace Dent on a mysterious clown that leaned into the television screen and waved, Deborah Tracey on Five To Eleven, Lucy Pope on Barcode Battler, Mitch Benn on O.T.T. and Ben Baker on the 1990 Bullseye Christmas Special, which you can find here.