A Perfect Looks Unfamiliar Christmas: Tim Worthington – You’re Not Doing Toast Properly

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) - listen to Tim Worthington and Joanne Sheppard 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 Joanne Sheppard for a festively-tinged chat about Merry X-Mess by Rotterdam Termination Source, The Wassailing Song by Blur, BBC2’s A Perfect Christmas, Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings, Victor Lewis-Smith’s Bumper Christmas Cracker Cliché and The Hudsucker Proxy. Along the way we’ll be debating how ‘latex lampoonery’ can work in audio only, discovering how Terry Collier invented AI, providing Richard Herring with some Ftone Fuftenance tips, watching Merchant Ivory’s A Door With A Hinge, explaining why Ernie Wise was basically every panellist on every panel show ever and taking bets on how would ‘win’ out of Howard The Duck and The Signalman

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A Perfect Christmas (BBC2, 1991) - listen to Tim Worthington and Joanne Sheppard talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Merry X-Mess by Rotterdam Termination Source (Rotterdam Records, 1993) - listen to Tim Worthington and Joanne Sheppard talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings (BBC1, 2000) - listen to Tim Worthington and Joanne Sheppard talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Wassailing Song by Blur (Food/Parlophone, 1992) - listen to Tim Worthington and Joanne Sheppard talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Joanne

Joanne Sheppard is a book reviewer. You can find her website Breakfast At Libraries here or follow her on Bluesky at @redskyatnight.bsky.social.

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Further Listening

You can also find Joanne on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The December Rose, Colorado Beetle panic, Brontosaurus, Will You Wait For Me? by David Bellamy, Timbuctoo, KP Wickers, The Enchanted Castle, Major Morgan The Electronic Organ and Wilderness Road here, The Bump by MC Mallett, Horror Chews, The Strange Affair Of Adelaide Harris, Matchbox Fighting Furies, Mouthtrap, Connoisseur, World Magazine, All Aboard! and The Guinness Book Of Pet Records here, Dramarama: The Exorcism Of Amy, Spine Chillers, Blue Peter’s Witch Puppet Make, Monsters Of The Movies by Denis Gifford, Nothing To Be Afraid Of by Jan Mark, Paperhouse, Dekker Toys’ Movie/TV Horror Make-Up Kit and Remus Playkits Identispook here, Go For It!, What-A-Mess, My Pretty Pony, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, The Water Babies, The Magnificent Race, Amazon Adventure by Willard Price and Snapper Crocodiles here and Fax, First Born, Chimera, Next Of Kin, Mother Love, I’m Your Number One Fan, The History Trail, The Yolk Folk, Victoria Plum and televised Cluedo here. You can also find Joanne on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about The Baker Street Boys here.

You can also find Joanne on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Blade II here, Blade: Trinity here, Avengers Assemble here, Avengers: Infinity War here, Avengers: Endgame here, Spider-Man: No Way Home here, Deadpool here, Deadpool 2 here and Deadpool And Wolverine here.