Keep Left, Swipe Right - collected thoughts from uncollected times with Tim Worthington.

Keep Left, Swipe Right is a collection of thoughts from uncollected times and how I kept myself sane – and didn’t – while the world swung off its hinges. Loss, love, lockdown, laughter, lying politicians and lots of watching Agent Carter and Fist Of Fun.

It began as a straightforward collection of columns and features, but then the entire world turned upside down. Endlessly revisiting and revising the same set of chapters in lieu of anything else to do bar, well, watching Agent Carter and Fist Of Fun was a worthwhile distraction, but it didn’t seem to actually be leading anywhere… so where it did all end up? Well, you’ll have to read it to find out, and it’s probably not where you think. Unless you have a spare Hammond R-100 organ to hand.

Over half of Keep Left, Swipe Right is entirely new including some thoughts on the futility of The Milk Tray Man’s amorous intent, deeper dives into the dustier corners of charity shops, speculation on whether Tom Baker was in character as The Doctor while presenting The Book Tower, where and why Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe lost its way, the ‘Light Programme Horror’ phenomenon, what happened next with that woman who didn’t own a CD player, a para-cosmological explanation for Barnaby’s appearance in the opening titles of Once Upon A Time… Man, how Halliwell’s Film Guide‘s predictions for the future came true but not in the way they expected, Michael Palin’s one-man Monty Python’s Flying Circus revival that nobody noticed, who would ‘win’ out of Mariah Carey and Courtney Love, the precarious art of trying to read Smash Hits at school and lots more besides, including the definitive history of The Singing Ringing Tree and Tim Buckley’s BBC radio and television performances, brand new features on Stingray, Blur and the ‘Talking Book’ of Doctor Who And The State Of Decay, and – of course – absolutely tons about long-lost black and white television that there’s absolutely nothing left of beyond the theme single. If there even was one.

Plus of course there’s plenty of Keeping Left, and even more Swiping Right…