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December 24, 2019November 16, 2025 Tim Worthington

Christmas With Children’s BBC: Watch – The Nativity

December 24, 2019November 15, 2025 Tim Worthington

Christmas With Children’s BBC: Play School, Christmas Eve 1970

December 23, 2019December 26, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Ben Baker – Just Cross That Four Out And Put A Five In

December 23, 2019November 13, 2025 Tim Worthington

Christmas With Children’s BBC: Bod’s Present

December 20, 2019November 12, 2025 Tim Worthington

Christmas With Children’s ITV: Quincy’s Quest

December 19, 2019November 11, 2025 Tim Worthington

Christmas With Children’s BBC: Rentasanta

December 19, 2019November 10, 2025 Tim Worthington

Ghosts, Monsters And Legends (And Tennis Prodigies)

December 17, 2019November 8, 2025 Tim Worthington

Christmas With BBC Records And Tapes

December 16, 2019November 29, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Catterall – It’s Like A Choose Your Own Adventure Of News

December 9, 2019November 13, 2025 Tim Worthington

A Ghost Story For Christmas (For Children)

December 6, 2019November 5, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Nightmares Before (And After) Christmas

Saint Etienne Presents Songs For A London Winter (Croydon Municipal, 2014).
December 4, 2019November 4, 2025 Tim Worthington

Christmas Time In London Town

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The Golden Age Of Children's TV

The Golden Age Of Children's TV by Tim Worthington

The story of children's television from Play School and Pipkins to Pob's Programme and Press Gang and everything in between - get it in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here or from the Kindle Store here.

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It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Nineteen – Everything Starts With An E-Space
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Nineteen – Everything Starts With An E-Space
It's 1980, and Doctor Who's new producer has some big ideas for big changes - but are they necessarily for the better...?.

Through The Square Window: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Through The Square Window: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Another collection of highlights from the archives, including more than a few items that humourless bores would probably rather stayed in the archives - or possibly even weren't in them to begin with...

Michael Caine Appears In Pulp On Tuesday
Michael Caine Appears In Pulp On Tuesday
It's late December, it's late at night on BBC1, and that can only mean one thing...

Latest Podcasts

Looks Unfamiliar: Athena Kugblenu – FANCY THIS MAN!
Looks Unfamiliar: Athena Kugblenu – FANCY THIS MAN!
Athena joins me for a chat about Street Hawk, Bad Influence!, Murder One, Due South, The Dreamstone and more.

The Golden Age Of Children's TV - Ivor The Engine: The Next Generation
The Golden Age Of Children's TV - Ivor The Engine: The Next Generation
Mitch Benn on Clangers, Hilary Machell on Go With Noakes, Garry Abbott on Button Moon, Paul Kirkley on Saturday Superstore and Andy Lewis on The Changes.

A Perfect Looks Unfamiliar Christmas: Tim Worthington – You’re Not Doing Toast Properly
A Perfect Looks Unfamiliar Christmas: Tim Worthington – You’re Not Doing Toast Properly
I join Joanne Sheppard for a 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, The Hudsucker Proxy and more.

From The Archive

I’ve Heard Of Politics, But This Is Ridiculous
I’ve Heard Of Politics, But This Is Ridiculous
How I found a book in a charity shop and everything changed... into black and white.

Completing The Circle

Completing The Circle
My book about the making of Children Of The Stones and other spooky seventies ITV children's serials is now available again from here.

RHLSTP Book Club: The Golden Age Of Children's TV

RHSLTP Book Club: The Golden Age Of Children's TV
A chat with Richard Herring about The Golden Age Of Children's TV and thoughts on some of our favourite and indeed least favourite children's television shows - listen to it here.

Journey To The Unknown

Journey To The Unknown
Join me for a nerve-jangling selection of little-heard spooky pop discs from the sixties here.

Goon Pod: Pickwick

Goon Pod: Pickwick
A chat with Tyler Adams about Harry Secombe's acclaimed turn in the sixties-dominating Charles Dickens-inspired stage musical smash Pickwick - listen to it here.

Wolfshead

Wolfshead

Hammer's great lost Robin Hood television pilot comes to Bluray - and decent picture quality - at last. Find out more here.

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It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Nineteen - Everything Starts With An E-Space
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Ironheart With Mic Wright
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Werewolf By Night With Kirsten Howard
I Feel Like Everything's Going To Work Out Fine
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: Who Let This Flash Harry Into Archive TV Land?
Looks Unfamiliar: Grace Dent - We Fed A Lot Of These People After Midnight
A Perfect Looks Unfamiliar Christmas: Tim Worthington - You're Not Doing Toast Properly
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Thor: Ragnarok With Mic Wright
It's Good, Except It Sucks: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever With David Smith
Looks Unfamiliar: Gary Bainbridge - This Is Like Mousetrap In Reverse

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Higher Than The Sun by Tim Worthington

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