Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'.

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Well At Least It's Free by Tim Worthington.
January 5, 2020 Tim Worthington

Well At Least It’s Free

Karen Gillan as Amy Pond in Doctor Who - The Wedding Of River Song (BBC1, 2011).
December 1, 2019December 8, 2019 Tim Worthington

Dear Father Christmas, I Would Like The Following (In 1986)

BBC Third Programme.
November 27, 2019April 6, 2020 Tim Worthington

Rule Of Third

The KLF vs Extreme Noise Terror at the Brit Awards (1992).
August 23, 2019March 16, 2020 Tim Worthington

This Is Television Freedom

Screamadelica by Primal Scream.
June 6, 2019June 23, 2020 Tim Worthington

Just What Is It That You Want To Do?

The Larks Ascending - a guide to comedy on BBC Radio 3 by Tim Worthington.
April 6, 2019February 11, 2020 Tim Worthington

The Larks Ascending

Why Bother? by Chris Morris and Peter Cook, as discussed by Tim Worthington and Garreth F. Hirons in Looks Unfamiliar.
April 6, 2019June 18, 2020 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar The Larks Ascending Extra: “You Can’t Exactly Wash The Dishes To You Suffer By Napalm Death”

How Does It Feel? A Life Of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode (Orion, 2018).
November 28, 2018May 21, 2020 Tim Worthington

‘Noddy Holder Men And Motors’ Anecdote Not Included

The Books I Couldn't Help Thinking about by Tim Worthington.
August 25, 2018December 26, 2019 Tim Worthington

The Books I Couldn’t Help Thinking About

Psychedelia And Other Colours by Rob Chapman (Faber & Faber, 2015).
February 12, 2018November 3, 2019 Tim Worthington

You Can’t Seem To Find How You Got There, So Just Blow Your Mind

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It's Good, Except It Sucks: Jessica Jones
Miriam Kent joins Tim to talk about Jessica swapping a life of costumed superheroics for drunkenly pulling cars out of tow zones. Listen to it here.

Looks Unfamiliar #64: Carrie Dunn – They Just Shoved People Into Swimming Pools
Carrie Dunn on The Glam Metal Detectives, Handful Of Promises by Big Fun, Shock Treatment, The Karen Carpenter Story and more. Listen to it here.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Ant-Man
Ben Baker joins Tim to talk about Scott Lang falling through a procession of plugholes. Listen to it here.

Looks Unfamiliar #63: Justin Lewis – Tommy Vance's Pages From Ceefax
Justin Lewis on the original Only Fools And Horses theme, Anglo American by Golden, The Rock Year Book, Stand In Line by Impelliteri and more. Listen to it here.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Garreth Hirons joins Tim to talk about the race to stop two stroppy teenagers and a mardy robot who’s swallowed a dictionary. Listen to it here.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil
Gary Bainbridge joins Tim to talk about Matt Murdock beating up gangs in Hell’s Kitchen while never quite being sure which costume to wear. Listen to it here.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Agent Carter
Hanna Flint joins Tim to talk about Peggy Carter trying to make it in a post-War man’s world full of malevolent alien sludge. Listen to it here.

Looks Unfamiliar #62: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – He Was Condemned For Being A Time Yewtree
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Parallel 9, Feed The Tree by Belly, The Revenger's Tragedy, Discworld Noir and more. Listen to it here.

Looks Unfamiliar #61: Tom Williamson – A Band My Word Processor Hates
Tom Williamson on Knightmare, Samurai Pizza Cats, Add N To (X), Life Story and more. Listen to it here.


New Features

You Belong In Rock'n'Roll
There are many 'difficult' corners of David Bowie's catalogue, so why do Tin Machine get singled out as the one to forget about?

All The Fun Of The Flares
The pilot of That '70s Show is one of the best sitcom episdes ever. The pilot of UK remake Days Like These isn't. Where did it all go wrong?

The Abandoned Planet
How am I coping with lockdown? Not as well as I'd like, but better than many of the people in charge...

Ferry Cross The Mersey (Unless It’s Raining)
The seasick story of television's most weather-prone Saturday Morning children's show - The Mersey Pirate.

The Top Ten Most Least Best Worst Underrated Overrated Up And Down In And Out Round About Eeny Meeny Macka Racka Rare Are Dominacka Shickeypoppa Dickywhoppa Om Pom Stick TV Programmes In The World… Ever!
What are the Most Underrated TV Shows Of All Time? And Overrated? I've got absolutely no idea, and what's more I could not care less...


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You can currently get The Larks Ascending with 15% off in paperback (Code PRINT15) from here.


Shindig!



You can get my feature for Shindig! on Tim Buckley's BBC television and radio performances here.


Not All The Albums Again



I've written the sleevenotes for a box set of the Not The Nine O'Clock News albums. Find out more here.


TV Cream Stays Indoors: Space Sentinels



I have a chat with TV Cream about Filmation's 1977 genre-defining Disco Sci-Fi effort, Space Sentinels. You can find it here.


The Zeitgeist Tapes: The Prisoner



I have a chat with Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding about Patrick McGoohan’s hallucinogenic Cold War nightmare from 1967. You can find it here.


Go Down Record Huntin’ (In Charity Shops)



A deep dive into that mouldy box of records in your local charity shop with some of my best, worst and just plain weirdest finds - and stories to match... hear it here.


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A look at the excellent archive-scouring compilation Jazz On The Corner.
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