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Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – Real Life Has Caught Up With Bod

Xmas 93 by Saint Etienne (Heavenly, 1993) - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons 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 joining guest host Garreth Hirons for a festively-tinged chat about I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod’s Present, A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan, Mariah Carey’s rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, Richard Herring’s Christmas Emergency Questions, Iron Man 3 (which is a Christmas Film), Joe 90 Christmas Special The Unorthodox Shepherd and Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy) by Max Headroom. Along the way we’ll be debating how to politely deal with a gatecrashing Roland Rat, finding out what happens when you take the concept of ‘Pocket Coffee’ too literally, going to see The Snowman: No Way Home and revealing the identity of the one viewer who never got to see Russ Conway’s Yuletide Jamboree.

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Ferrero Prestige - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
A Merry Jingle by The Greedies (Vertigo, 1979) - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Bod: Bod's Present (BBC1, 1975) - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan (BBC Books, 2018) - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Merry Christmas by Mariah Carey (Columbia, 1994) - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons talking about the track that's gone missing from it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Iron Man 3 (2013) - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Christmas Emergency Questions by Richard Herring (Go Faster Stripe, 2017) - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Merry Christmas Santa Claus by Max Headroom (Chrysalis, 1986) - listen to Tim Worthington and Garreth Hirons talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Garreth

Garreth Hirons is a musician and co-host of Retrospecticus – The Simpsons And Modern History, Together At Last!, a podcast that takes a look at an episode of The Simpsons and a major event from world history that happened in the week the episode first aired in America. You can find the Retrospecticus website here and Garreth’s blog Atomic Sourpuss here, and follow him on Bluesky at @invaderace2000.bsky.social.

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There’s lots more about Bod and tons of other children’s shows that you probably wouldn’t expect to have had a Christmas Special but did in The Golden Age Of Children’s TV, available in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here, from the Kindle Store here and directly from Black And White Publishing here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, 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.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. Yes I know Ferrero Prestige lattes are only available to the jet-setting ultra-rich but maybe if I turn up with the woman from the Küsschen advert they won’t notice.

Further Listening

You can also hear Garreth on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Bigger The God, Food Fighters, Saboteur, The Triangle Of Terror, Sizzlin’ Bacon Monster Munch and Fun At The Funeral Parlour here, The Yellow Album by The Simpsons, The Frankie Goes To Hollywood Computer Game, Sweet 75, Linc’s, Transformers Action Masters, The Way Of The Tiger and Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton’s Max Headroom-prefiguring Quatro advert here, The Ghosts Of Oxford Street here and the Futurama Christmas Specials here. You can also find Garreth talking about Trap Door on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV here.

Garreth has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Avengers: Age Of Ultron here, Thor: Ragnarok here, Venom here, Venom: Let There Be Carnage here and Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends here. Garreth also took over as host for chats with Tim about The Defenders here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.

Garreth and Tim’s chat about Ferrero Rocher also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Gary Bainbridge on Googi The Liverpool Duck, Becky Darke on Tubby Turtle, Toby Hadoke on the BBC’s After The Bomb season, Anna Cale on Grange Hill‘s Ronnie Birtles’ shoplifting storyline, Genevieve Jenner on Boomerang and Mitch Benn on internationally famous celebrities acting in eighties pop videos, which you can find here.

Further Reading

You can find more about Bod’s Present in Christmas With Children’s BBC here, further aspirational longing for Ferrero Prestige in With These Pocket Coffee You Are Spoiling Us here and the more interesting than you might expect story of the making of All I Want For Christmas Is You in I’m Just Gonna Keep On Waiting Underneath The Mistletoe here. There’s also a stockingful of Christmas Emergency Questions here.

Looks Unfamiliar - a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington chats to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

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