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 actor and comedian Toby Hadoke, who’s looking for clues to the who, the what and the when of Hey Matthew by Karel Fialka, late-night alternative comedy show Who Dares Wins, Channel 4 sci-fi pilot starring John Taylor from Duran Duran Timeslip, Spanish horror short La Cabina, Rowntree’s Cabana, Kit Williams’ puzzle book Masquerade and the brief primetime career of comedian Paul Squire. Along the way we’ll be thrilling to the escapades of B.E. Baracus, watching a Gold Blend Video Nasty, debating the Cabana-related exceptions in the libel laws and taking part in the grand launch of Find The Bin With A ‘5’ Written On It.

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About Toby

Toby Hadoke is an actor and comedian; you can find his website here and his podcast series Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels here. There’s more about Toby’s comedy club XS Malarkey here and you can follow him on Bluesky at @tobyhadoke.bsky.social.

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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. Can’t Help Thinking About Me is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

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Further Listening

You can also find Toby on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Red Hand Gang, Einstein A Go-Go by Landscape, the BBC’s After The Bomb season, The Machine Gunners, Annika, Winter Flight, Strike It Rich!, Driving Ambition, Can’t Help Falling In Love by Lick The Tins and Golden Wonder Odduns here.

Toby also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge on Plug Comic, Carrie Dunn on The Isle Of Wight Waxworks Museum, David Smith on Stranger In This Town by Richie Sambora, Al Kennedy on The Golden Cagoule and Lydia Mizon on Ceefax Backchat, which you can find here.

Further Reading

There’s more about another abstract intellectual puzzle craze – Rubik’s Magic – in Could It Be Magic? here. Meanwhile, if you want to know more about the most unattainably expensive and sophisticated chocolates that were about as not for the likes of you imaginable, then you can find the peculiar story of Ferrero Prestige in With These Pocket Coffee You Are Spoiling Us here.

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