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, in a special summer edition, Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a sweltering local radio studio with only a lone copy of the Capital Radio DJs’ Dot Cotton and Thatcher impression-led parody cover of The Holiday Rap by MC Miker G And DJ Sven to hand, ready to take your calls about some of the seaside tat and summer holiday boredom that – perhaps thankfully – you just don’t seem to get any more. So that’s morning television being full of crackly old repeated imports and Why Don’t You…?, Breakfast Television insisting on presenting daily roving ‘saucy’ reports from seaside towns, everyone watching the tennis and cricket coverage for the theme music and then switching off, the Radio 1 Roadshow, badly-planned interminable car journeys to rain-lashed resorts, those weird shops that sold plastic fishing nets and fold-up aviator shades and arcades that had one lone solitary ‘Space Invaders’ machine, the newsagent wheeling out that big freezer for another summer of rivalry between Wall’s and Lyons Maid and much more besides. In a drizzly heatwave of a chat we’ll be speculating on the efficacy of Kiss-Me-Quick-Hats sported by popular television puppets, searching for Ian Botham’s constantly moving speakeasy, visiting the Motorway Service Station Mirror Universe, revisiting the BBC’s ‘Summer Apes’ Season, celebrating the work of the Gary Davies Elvis fairground artist, despairing of the rival rivalries between Mr. Freeze and Ice Pops and The Halfwits and The Dingbats, revealing why all ice cream vans have an army of Mods in hot pursuit, organising a day trip to the exact spot where Roland Rat pushed Kevin The Gerbil down a hill, going to see Confessions Of A Ventriloquist starring Robin Askwith and Richard Herring, not staring at Erika Roe on an on-the-spot report live from a joke shop and debating whether summer is ever truly summer if you haven’t spent the entirety of it throwing a tennis ball against a wall. Call in and tell us the most you’ve ever won on a ‘one-armed bandit’ now!

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About Bob And Georgy

Bob Fischer is a broadcaster and writer. You can find Bob’s website The Haunted Generation here and follow him on Bluesky at @bobfischer.bsky.social. Georgy Jamieson is also a broadcaster and writer. You can follow Georgy on Bluesky – and find out more about what she’s up to next – at @georgyjamieson.bsky.social.

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Further Listening

You can also find Bob and Georgy on Looks Unfamiliar taking a look at some of their favourite forgotten festive trimmings here as well as Bob on The Tom O’Connor Roadshow, Giant Hogweed, Can’t Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean, Glee Bars, J. Edward Oliver’s ‘Abolish Tuesdays’ and How To Be A Wally here, Eighties ‘Tabloid Celebrities’, Accidentally Kelly Street by Frente!, The Two Ronnies’ ‘Mileaway’, Rude Food, Suggs On Saturday and School Folk Songs here and Tucker’s Luck, Pookiesnackenburger, We Wanna Be Famous by Buster Gobsmack And Eats Filth’, game show contestants’ occupations being booed by the studio audience and the lost ancient art of the paper plate and shaving foam Custard Pie here, and Georgy on Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the The Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Go For Broke!, Last Chance Lottery, Fry’s Five Centres and Vesta Ready Meals here. You can also find Georgy on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Bod here as well as Bob on The Owl Service here.

Bob and Georgy also appear in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Suzy Robinson on Crown Court, Danny Kodicek on Fox Tales, Paul Abbott on Disneytime Rotadraw, Genevieve Jenner on Fruitopia, Adam S. Leslie on I Heard Your Name by Martin Rev and Justin Lewis on I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels, which you can find here.

Further Reading

Time Will Crawl takes a look at how sometimes in the school summer holiday mornings, the BBC would show programmes so dull that they actually stopped time; you can find it here.

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