Looks Unfamiliar: Lydia Mizon – Keep Away From Our Music You Blue Freaks

Look Around You (BBC2, 2002-05) - listen to Lydia Mizon 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 QI Elf – and Only Connect champion – Lydia Mizon, who’s hoping that choosing Twisted Flax might give her some clues about the existence of Look Around You, Mongrels, Karma Hotel by Spooks, The Smurfs Go Pop!, Australian children’s television show Lift Off, Secret Agent: The Hunt For Red Rock Rover and Math Rescue, and competing Teletext ‘youth’ pages Ceefax Backchat and 4-Tel MegaZine. Along the way we’ll be watching BBC Three’s Greg Davies Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog Undogged, finding out how Ally Sloper invented Teletext, and revealing the hidden link between Margaret Thatcher and Children’s BBC’s ‘Boz’.

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The Smurfs Go Pop! (EMI, 1996) - listen to Lydia Mizon and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Ceefax Backchat - listen to Lydia Mizon and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Lydia

Lydia Mizon is a quiz show champion and researcher for QI. You can follow Lydia on Bluesky at @lydiamizon.bsky.social.

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Further Listening

Lydia has also appeared on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Stoppit And Tidyup, Fervour, Alphabet Castle, Roseanne And The Magic Mirror, Party Mania and a book about Lydia who hated cress here and Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, The Adam And Joe XFM Podcast, Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day On The Job, Look And Read: Through The Dragon’s Eye and Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia by The Cuban Boys here. You can also find Lydia on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Fun House here.

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