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 journalist Mic Wright, who’s carefully accumulating his small change in the hope of collecting a full set of the NatWest Piggies, Eerie. Indiana, Musical Chairs by Kinky Friedman, High On A Rocky Ledge by Moondog and the National Record Of Achievement. Along the way we’ll be examining Boris Becker’s dread of giant interrogational pig costumes, debating who would ‘win’ out of Sir Nathaniel Westminster and Nicky Wire, consulting the Chartered Accountancy Necronomicon and revealing just who a Golden Wonder sticker of Beth Buchanan is ‘on brand’ for and why.
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142 – Mic Wright – I Have Achieved Some Things – Looks Unfamiliar
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About Mic
Mic Wright is a journalist and writer. You can find his newsletter Conquest Of The Useless here and follow him on Bluesky at @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social. Mic’s book Breaking: How The Media Works, When It Doesn’t And Why It Matters is available here.
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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. You could always make a note of it in your National Record Of Achievement.
Further Listening
You can also find Mic on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, Army And Navy Sweets, Emergency by 999, Rock On by David Essex, Thunderbirds comic and the murky origins of a certain unsavoury playground rumour here, I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape by The Times, Clarissa Explains It All, 2000 AD strip Nikolai Dante, Sharky And George, Jeff Lint and The Game here and Cargo by Men At Work, Rocko’s Modern Life, Party Animals, Solitary Fitness by Charles Bronson and Tazos here. You can also find Mic on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Around The World With Willy Fog here.
Mic has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about The Punisher here, Thor: Ragnarok here, Ironheart here, The Punisher: One Last Kill here, X-Men ’97 here, Logan here, The New Mutants here, Fant4stic here, Kraven The Hunter here and the Christmas Special of the X-Men animated series here.
Further Reading
You can find out exactly why nobody ever put their rifling of the school percussion cupboard in their National Record Of Achievement in Through The Square Window: Prokofiev, Play Away And Templeton Peck here.
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