Looks Unfamiliar: Rose Ruane – By Leaves, About Leaves, Maybe Not For Leaves

Poochie (Mattel, 1982) - listen to Rose Rouane 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 artist and author Rose Ruane, who’s applying liberal splashes of pink paint to liven up her recollections of plush toy dog Poochie, leaf-based animation Windfalls, Charmkins, Beautiful Sunday stationery, Haunted Children and The Ghost Within by Alison Prince and Tinkerbell Cosmetics. Along the way we’ll be revealing the secret ink-based code of penpal hierarchy, reluctantly meeting a forgotten terrifying TV Clown, debating which members of The Get Along Gang vote Conservative and revisiting The Manic Street Preachers’ early ‘Poochie’ phase. Plus there’s also a mystery television drama about an unlikely romance between two unlikely teenagers…

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Haunted Children by Alison Prince (Magnet, 1984) - listen to Rose Rouane and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Tinkerbell Cosmetics - listen to Rose Rouane and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Rose

Rose Ruane is an artist and author; you can find Rose’s novels This Is Yesterday and Birding here and follow her on Instagram here and on Bluesky at @regretteruane.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.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. Yes there actually were Poochie mugs apparently. Like all exceptionally fluffy toy dogs can drink out of without getting ruined.

Further Listening

You can find Rose on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Bric-A-Brac here.

Rose also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Georgy Jamieson on Indoor League, Nina Buckley on Murun Buchstansangur, Bibi Lynch on Head Over Heels In Love by Kevin Keegan, Bob Fischer on Tucker’s Luck and Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Wella Toners And Shaders, which you can find here.