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Looks Unfamiliar: Lydia Mizon – There Was Real Peril And Also Vowels And Consonants

Smashie And Nicey Present Let's Rock! (1992) - 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 pushing the lever marked Let’s Rock on 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. Along the way we’ll gauging the optimal moment to set off a fire alarm during Father Ted, accusing Posh Spice of smelling like your nan, discussing why bad dangers should not be allowed anywhere near the Mobile Spice Phone and debating who would ‘win’ out of Ricardo Autobahn and Cliff Richard.

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112 – Lydia Mizon – There Was Real Peril And Also Vowels And Consonants – Looks Unfamiliar

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Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray - listen to Lydia Mizon and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Look And Read: Through The Dragon's Eye (BBC2, 1989) - listen to Lydia Mizon and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia by Cuban Boys (EMI, 1999) - 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, and contributes to the show’s Twitter account at @qikipedia. You can follow Lydia on Twitter at @LydiaMizon.

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Further Listening

You can also find Lydia 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 Look Around You, Mongrels, Karma Hotel by Spooks, The Smurfs Go Pop!, Lift Off, Secret Agent: The Hunt For Red Rock Rover, Math Rescue, Ceefax Backchat and 4-Tel MegaZine here.

You can find further Look And Read chat with Bibi Lynch on The Boy From Space here and Will Maclean on The King’s Dragon here, along with Ben Baker on Adam And Joe’s Fourmative Years and God In The House here and Jim Sangster on the Spice Girls PlayStation Game here.

Further Reading

There’s more on Through The Dragon’s Eye‘s counterparts in the ‘proper’ Children’s BBC schedules in Ghost, Monsters And Legends (And Tennis Prodigies) here.

Looks Unfamiliar - 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.

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