Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – A Kind Of Home Bargains KLF

Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford (BBC Records And Tapes, 1986) - listen to Tim Worthington and Ben Baker 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.

This time Tim’s the guest, chatting to Ben Baker about Something Outa Nothing, the song ‘written’ and performed by The Banned, a group formed by the teenage residents of Albert Square in EastEnders, and then released by BBC Records And Tapes as an actual hit single credited to Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford. Along the way we’ll be speculating on which exotic rare synthetically-furred animal was used to make Letitia and Paul’s stage costumes, debating the correct syntax for Jimi Hendrix-based insults, questioning the wisdom of using the word ‘alabaster’ in song lyrics and revealing why people kept handing Nick Berry unwanted plates of fish and chips.

Every Loser Wins by Nick Berry (BBC Records And Tapes, 1986) - listen to Tim Worthington and Ben Baker talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

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Top Of The Box, a look at every single released by BBC Records And Tapes, is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here. Top Of The Box Vol. 2, which takes a similar look at the albums, is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

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Further Listening

There’s more on the early days of EastEnders in Looks Unfamiliar with Bob Fischer on Can’t Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean here, Suzy Norman on Arthur Fowler’s appearance on game-show-within-a-show ‘Cat And Mouse’ here, and Shanine Salmon on the ill-advised 1993 refit of the EastEnders theme here.

You can also find Tim’s chat about Something Outa Nothing in 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 and and Karen Gillan’s The Hoarding, Mic Wright on Sharky And George and Grace Dent on The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident here.