Looks Unfamiliar: Grace Dent – Be More Chorlton

The Have A Cracking Christmas At Woolworths advert - listen to Grace Dent 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 author, restaurant critic and broadcaster Grace Dent, and they’re comparing notes on what they would bring to an Ultimate Christmas Experience including the Have A Cracking Christmas At Woolworths and Christmas ’82 – Today’s Tesco adverts, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer pilot The Weekenders, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie pilot The Crystal Cube, John Peel’s Festive Fifty, The NME Singles Of The Year 1991, Sky Star Search, the lost Doctor Who panto episode from 1965, The Butthole Surfers appearing on Snub TV, a disastrous interview from Channel 4’s Naked City, Chas’n’Dave’s Christmas Knees-Up, Chorlton In The Iceworld, Banned From The Pubs by Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Weed Bus by The Stairs, and some unwelcome intrusions from Max Headroom, a shower of ‘refreshed’ Granada announcers and the Test Card Clown – but no Test Card Girl. Along the way we’ll be testing the scientific veracity of Schrodinger’s Peel Session, querying whether David Quantick is the real Santa, suffering from Hugh Laurie Seasickness, discovering the exact wrong Pulp song to serenade someone with, and calling for the immediate abolition of Sexually Assertive Butter Men.

Tesco's Checkout 82 campaign - listen to Grace Dent and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in The Weekenders (Channel 4, 1992) - listen to Grace Dent and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Chas'n'Dave's Christmas Knees-Up (LWT, 1982) - listen to Grace Dent and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Chorlton And The Wheelies: Chorlton In The Ice World (Thames/Cosgrove Hall, 1977) - listen to Grace Dent and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident - listen to Grace Dent and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Happy Christmas from BBC Test Card F - listen to Grace Dent and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Grace

Grace Dent is a writer and broadcaster. You can find Grace’s columns for The Guardian here and get her book Hungry here. You can follow Grace on Twitter at @gracedent.

Buy A Book!

If you enjoyed this then you’ll enjoy Can’t Help Thinking About Me, a collection of columns and features with a personal twist which also happens to include a huge feature on Chorlton In The Iceworld. 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. Please feel free use one of those exciting new futuristic Tesco checkouts with the LED displays.

Further Listening

You can hear another appearance by Grace on Looks Unfamiliar – talking about Magic Smile by Rosie Vela, a mystery clown who appeared on the television from nowhere, the BBC Domesday Project, Puddles In The Lane by Alan Parker, BMX Beat, The Untied Shoelaces Show, Going Out, The Fabulous Wealthy Tarts, Wacko and That’s Life!‘s raw kidney bean awareness campaign – here.

Grace also appears on The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Mr. Men Songs, Hilary Machell on Enamel Bedroom Door Name Plates, Juliet Brando on The Telebugs, Bibi Lynch on You Just Might See Me Cry by Our Kid, Tim Worthington on Bad Ronald, Mic Wright on Sharky And George and some extra chat with Tim about about Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford and Karen Gillan’s The Hoarding; you can find it here.