About

Hi! I’m Tim Worthington – writer, occasional broadcaster, and TV’s ‘Clangers Expert’. Well, that’s what the BBC decided to call me anyway.

I started off a long time ago contributing to – and eventually publishing – paper-and-ink (and very badly stapled) fanzines. Since then I’ve gone on to write for The Guardian, The Independent, Vintage Rock, Shindig!, Doctor Who Magazine and the BBC Music website amongst others. I’ve also written sleevenotes for reissues of amongst others Sapphire And Steel, Children Of The Stones and the Not The Nine O’Clock News albums. I’ve also written several books including histories of comedy on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 3, and a complete guide to the many and baffling singles released by BBC Records And Tapes. You can find out more about al of them here.

My book The Golden Age Of Children’s TV, a look at the history of children’s television from Play School and Pipkins to Pob’s Programme and Press Gang and everything in between, is currently available from all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here and directly from Black And White Publishing here. There’s also a tie-in podcast featuring a variety of guests talking about their own personal favourite children’s television programme, which you can find here.

I’ve also contributed to a number of TV and radio shows as both a writer and an interviewee, including Britain’s Favourite Adverts Of The 70s And 80s, Let’s Go Round Again: The Story Of The Magic Roundabout, The Story Of Slapstick, Comedy Connections, Time Shift, The Best Of Bad TV, Banned In The Eighties, David Walliams’ Awfully Good, The Funny Side Of… and, erm, Woman’s Hour. No, me neither. I’ve also acted as a presenter, writer and researcher for the pop-up station Radio 1 Vintage, and present my own podcast, Looks Unfamiliar, which you can find here. I also present It’s Good, Except It Sucks, a podcast looking at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which you can find here.