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 whether ‘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 who 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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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.

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Further Listening

You can also find Tim as the guest with a festive twist talking 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 Gentlemen, 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 here, as well as the Doctor Who Christmas Special The Christmas Invasion here.

You can also find Tim as the guest on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Guardians Of The Galaxy here, The Defenders here, Ant-Man And The Wasp here, Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here, The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special here and Wonder Man here.