Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington chats to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. Whether it’s The Order Of The McVitie’s Hobnob, Coming On Strong by Broken English. Solitaire For 2 or whatever BBC children’s programme it was that ended with footage of dandelion seeds being blown away while an off-screen voice intoned “one o’clock… two o’clock…”, if you remember it as vividly as the first time you saw Back To The Future but just can’t get anyone else to recall, understand or even believe what you’re going on about, then this is the show for you!

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Joanne Sheppard – “A Speaking Wall for our times”
Book reviewer Joanne Sheppard on Go For It!, What-A-Mess, My Pretty Pony, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, The Water Babies, The Magnificent Race, Amazon Adventure by Willard Price and Snapper Crocodiles.
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Lydia Mizon – “There was real peril and also vowels and consonants”
QI Elf Lydia Mizon on Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, The Adam And Joe XFM Podcast, Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day On The Job, Look And Read: Through The Dragon’s Eye and Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia by The Cuban Boys.
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Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson – “Hot Girl-on-Pudsey Action”
Writers and broadcasters Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson on some of the signs that Christmas was coming that you just don’t seem to get any more.
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Tim Worthington – “When These Animal Men do the theme from Charlie Chalk I’ll be impressed”
Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington on The Mike Flowers Pops’ cover of Wonderwall.
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Phil Norman – “A milkshake for Robert Elms”
Writer Phil Norman on Over The Moon, Amityville (The House On The Hill) by Lovebug Starski, I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier, WFLA Milkshake, Spy Trap, Mediamind, The Black Tower, Soul Train by Swans Way and Paul And Peta Page’s ‘Hot Dogs’.
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Katy Brent – “I’ve never been though because spiders”
Novelist Katy Brent on Round The Twist, Ewoks, Boglins, Global Hypercolor, Out Of This World, Defenders Of The Earth and Garbage Pail Kids.
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Tim Worthington – “The most ‘wood’ anything could possibly be”
Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington on Pickwick Talking Books’ Doctor Who: State Of Decay, the BBC Pinocchio, Doctor Who: Variations On A Theme, The Paradise Of Death and The Ghosts Of N-Space, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure, The Sally Lockhart Mysteries, Katarina, David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s Much Ado About Nothing, Meet The Thirteenth Doctor, that time a Dalek turned up on the BBC Schools programme W.A.L.R.U.S. and Doctor Who: The Interactive Electronic Board Game.
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Joanne Sheppard – “Everyone knows that’s how hands work”
Book reviewer Joanne Sheppard on Dramarama: The Exorcism Of Amy, Spine Chillers, Blue Peter’s Witch Puppet Make, Monsters Of The Movies by Denis Gifford, Nothing To Be Afraid Of by Jan Mark, Paperhouse, Dekker Toys’ Movie/TV Horror Make-Up Kit and Remus Playkits Identispook.
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Mitch Benn – “Spaghetti Star Wars”
Musician, comedian and writer Mitch Benn on Stars by Hear’n’Aid, Into Infinity, The Humanoid, A Man Called Sloane, BusyBodies and The Kids Are Alright by The Pleasers.
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Georgy Jamieson – “The Les Dawson of Darts”
Broadcaster Georgy Jamieson on Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly.
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Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – “Catherine Catherine One Two Three”
Comedy writer and author Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Cricklewood by The Goodies, Harry Hill’s Fruit Fancies, The American Adventure, L.A. Noire, Wella Shaders And Toners and ‘paper plate and ‘Catherine’ The School Ghost.
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Bob Fischer – “The Thinking Man’s Custard Pie”
Writer and broadcaster Bob Fischer on Tucker’s Luck, Pookiesnackenburger, We Wanna Be Famous by Buster Gobsmack And Eats Filth, game show contestants’ jobs being booed by the audience and paper plate and shaving foam Custard Pies.
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Bibi Lynch – “I’d go out looking like an extreme Adam Ant”
Broadcaster Bibi Lynch on Head Over Heels In Love by Kevin Keegan, Fleshpot Casserole Dishes, Jackie Magazine’s makeup tips and ‘Starsky Cardigans’.
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Nina Buckley – “We’re not very sax-positive these days”
Cutlery Expert Nina Buckley on Bridge To Your Heart by Wax, Murun Buchstansangur and 439 Golden Greats – Never Mind The Originals Here’s The HeeBeeGeeBees.
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Rose Ruane – “By leaves, about leaves, maybe not for leaves”
Artist and author Rose Ruane on Poochie, Windfalls, Charmkins, Beautiful Sunday, Haunted Children and The Ghost Within by Alison Prince and Tinkerbell Cosmetics.
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Genevieve Jenner – “I can’t be loyal, there’s puppets”
Author Genevieve Jenner on Boomerang, Over The Top, Bossa Nova, Thorazine Shuffle by Bongos Bass And Bob, Wizard’s Hall by Jane Yolen and OK Soda.
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Anna Cale – “Ronnie Birtles, what were you up to?”
Writer Anna Cale on Dooby Duck’s Disco Bus, Grange Hill‘s Ronnie Birtles’ shoplifting storyline, Ken Loach’s McDonald’s advert, Nelson’s Column, The Doberman Gang, ‘Hair Jewels’ and Radio 1’s 31 Days In May.
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Tim Worthington – “Real Life has caught up with Bod”
Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington on I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod’s Present, A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan, Mariah Carey’s rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, Richard Herring’s Christmas Emergency Questions, Iron Man 3, Joe 90 Christmas Special The Unorthodox Shepherd and Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy) by Max Headroom.
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Gary Bainbridge – “This is like Mousetrap in reverse”
Writer Gary Bainbridge on Googi The Liverpool Duck, Big Bubbles, No Troubles by Ellis Beggs And Howard, Derry Daring, Bugs Bunny In Space, The London Connection, Cliff Richard’s dance record as ‘Black Knight’, DJ Spuddles Original Gourmet Fries, The Shinsei Miracle and Shut Yer Gob by Lee Brennan.
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Mitch Benn – “A slightly more apologetic version of Subbuteo”
Musician, comedian and writer Mitch Benn on Star Turn Challenge, Mr Hicks from Grange Hill, Striker, Lines by The Planets, Night Raven and international celebrities acting in pop videos.
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Toby Hadoke – “I don’t remember birthdays but I remember weird ITV love stories”
Actor and comedian Toby Hadoke on The Red Hand Gang, Einstein A Go-Go by Landscape, After The Bomb, The Machine Gunners, Annika, Winter Flight, Strike It Rich!, Driving Ambition, Can’t Help Falling In Love by Lick The Tins and Golden Wonder Odduns.
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Al Kennedy – “All the personality of a damp Ryvita crispbread”
Podcaster Al Kennedy on The High Life, Flipsiders, the SAM Coupé, The Golden Cagoule, Explorer 12, Steeleye And The Lost Magic and Genis-Vell.
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Carrie Dunn – “Some strange woman on the Northern Line didn’t say hello to him”
Sports writer Carrie Dunn on Just A Gigolo, Don’t You Worry by Madasun, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 James Bond Action Pack, The Isle Of Wight Waxworks Museum, Rent Remixed and Channel 4’s coverage of the Women’s FA Cup.
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Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge – “The Curse Of Plug is a myth”
Round The Archives hosts Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge on Big Terror Movie Themes by Geoff Love And His Orchestra, Plug, The Swish Of The Curtain, Dinosaurs, Arthur C. Clarke’s Report On Planet Three and Profiles Of The Future and Are You Being Served Sir? by John Inman.
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Lydia Mizon – “Keep away from our music you blue freaks”
QI Elf Lydia Mizon on Look Around You, Mongrels, Karma Hotel by Spooks, The Smurfs Go Pop!, Lift Off Secret Agent: The Hunt For Red Rock Rover, Math Rescue, Ceefax Backchat and 4-Tel MegaZine.
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David Smith – “It made me want to go out and buy a Bryan Adams album”
Quiz expert David Smith on Have I Got Unbroadcastable News For You, Stranger In This Town by Richie Sambora, 28 Acts In 28 Minutes, Billy Connolly’s World Tour Of Australia, Sega Game Gear, Grand Theft Auto Vice City Official Soundtrack Box Set, Police Squad!, Bart Simpson’s Guide To Life and Duck Tales The Movie – Treasure Of The Lost Lamp.
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Toby Hadoke – “You’ll go to prison for false accusation”
Actor and comedian Toby Hadoke on Hey Matthew by Karel Fialka, Who Dares Wins, Timeslip, La Cabina, Cadbury’s Cabana, Masquerade by Kit Williams and Paul Squire.
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Tim Worthington – “A kind of Home Bargains KLF”
Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington on Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean and Paul J. Medford.
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Hilary Machell – “If you’re really lucky you might get some Marvel aftershave”
Writer Hilary Machell on Noah And Nelly In SkyLark, Wombles T-Shirts, Enamel Bedroom Door Nameplates, the correct spelling of ‘Kerb’, CBTV and the mysterious and sinister disappearance of rissoles and corresponding rise of quiche.
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Juliet Brando – “An adorable serial killer”
Writer and artist Juliet Brando on Gideon, Escaping by Asia Blue, The Cuckoo Sister, The Telebugs, Slapwrist Bracelets, Tottie: The Story Of A Doll’s House and Tab Clear.
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Tim Worthington – “Can I have some gold bullion and Pop Tarts please?”
Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington on California Fever, Galloping Galaxies!, Bad Ronald, In-Flight Entertainment, The Chronicles Of Narmo by Caitlin Moran Pirate Radio Four, The Collings And Herrin Podcast and What’s That Noise?.
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Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – “I ate my necklace, it was too tasty”
Writer and author Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Mr. Men Songs, Monkey Dust, the unmade final episode of Dungeons And Dragons, TimeSplitters 2, They Might Be Giants’ Friday Night Family Podcast and Hard Candy Nail Polish.
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Bibi Lynch – “Everyone’s a critic Noel”
Broadcaster and writer Bibi Lynch on The Amazing Cosmic Awareness Of Duffy Moon, Whistle Down The Wind, Look And Read: The Boy From Space, You Just Might See Me Cry by Our Kid and Spanish Gold Sweet Tobacco.
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Grace Dent – “Be More Chorlton”
Author, restaurant critic and broadcaster Grace Dent on Christmas Woolworths adverts, The Weekenders, The Festive Fifty, Sky Star Search, The Butthole Surfers on Snub TV, Chas’n’Dave’s Christmas Knees-Up, Banned From The Pubs by Peter And The Test Tube Babies and The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion.
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Mic Wright – “Film Noir but it’s fish”
Journalist Mic Wright on 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.
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Ben Baker – “Historical Sitcom Man”
Writer and broadcaster Ben Baker on Mr T’s Christmas Dream, There’s Something Wrong In Paradise, God In The House, To Hell With The Devil, Highway, The Flint Street Nativity, the 1990 Bullseye Christmas Special, Adam And Joe’s Fourmative Years and TFI 1998.
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Mitch Benn – “Rumours line-up Rainbow”
Musician, comedian and writer Mitch Benn on Monday Morning 5.19 by Rialto, The Laughing Prisoner, Oh Baby by Rhianna, Pocketeers, O.T.T. and the original pre-Geoffrey incarnation of Rainbow.
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Lucy Pope – “There’s no glamour in barcodes”
Yoga teacher Lucy Pope on Interceptor, Barcode Battler and Teen Witch.
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Grace Dent – “We fed a lot of these people after midnight”
Author, restaurant critic and broadcaster Grace Dent on Magic Smile by Rosie Vela, a mystery clown who appeared on the television from nowhere, the BBC Domesday Project, Puddles In The Lane by Alan Parker, BMX Beat, The Untied Shoelaces Show, Going Out, The Fabulous Wealthy Tarts, Wacko and That’s Life!‘s raw kidney bean campaign.
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Joanne Sheppard – “Not really the modus operandi of your average ghoul”
Book reviewer Joanne Sheppard on The Bump by MC Mallett, Horror Chews, The Strange Affair Of Adelaide Harris, Matchbox Fighting Furies, Mouthtrap, Connoisseur, World Magazine, All Aboard! and The Guinness Book Of Pet Records.
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Deborah Tracey – “Relax now, dammit”
Actress Deborah Tracey on Hardwicke House, Five To Eleven, How Can The Labouring Man Find Time For Self Culture? by Martini Ranch, Kwik Snax, Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis and Kate’s Party by Joan Solomon.
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Joanne Sheppard – “It’d be like taking a bungalow for a walk”
Book reviewer Joanne Sheppard on The December Rose, Colorado Beetle panic, Brontosaurus, Will You Wait For Me? by David Bellamy, Timbuctoo, KP Wickers, The Enchanted Castle, Major Morgan The Electronic Organ and Wilderness Road.
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Jonny Morris – “There’s no robots, I’m not interested”
Writer Jonny Morris on Galaxy Gold by Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra, Battlestar Galactica Action Figures, Buck Rogers In The 25th Century Season Two, H.G. Wells’ The Shape Of Things To Come, Fall Out by DATA and Space Wars – Fact And Fiction.
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Joel Morris – “No-one in my family was going to be conned by Big Battery”
Writer Joel Morris on Hanna Barbera’s Alice In Wonderland Or What’s A Nice Kid Like You Doing In A Place Like This, Four-Mations, Chutes Away!!!!!, Marks And Spencer ‘St. Michael’ Gift Books, Mazes And Monsters and the View-Master Demonstration Reel.
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Anna Cale – “It felt like a social realist Jonny Briggs”
Writer Anna Cale on Sport Billy, Silly Games by Lindy Layton, Joni Jones, The Girl In The Picture, Return To Eden, The Incredible Hulk Smash-Up Action Game, Trev And Simon’s Stupid Video and Dors’ Dozen.
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Shanine Salmon – “By law you had to have a McGann”
Theatre critic Shanine Salmon on Married For Life, Habbo Hotel, Blouse And Skirt, Renegade, Night And Day and Neopets.
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Emma Burnell – “I’ve hung around enough bloody guitar playing boys”
Journalist Emma Burnell on the stage version of When Harry Met Sally.
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Matt Lee – “If the 1950s produced a videogame this would be it”
Director Matt Lee on Wake Up! With Libby And Jonathan, Park St. Under, Terramex, They Might Be Giants’ ‘Dial-A-Song’ service, Cola Spread and an attempted regional ban on Garbage Pail Kids.
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Samira Ahmed – “The Fifth Beatle of the Magic Roundabout world”
Broadcaster Samira Ahmed on Selfridges’ Space: 1999 Walkthrough, Good Looks Ahead and The Fun Food Factory.
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Stephen O’Brien – “Whether they had a million pounds or one pound, they’d always give it a go”
Writer Stephen O’Brien on the original transmission of The Box of Delights.
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Looks Unfamiliar Selection Box – “The idea of an annual Eric Idle Christmas Special”
A Christmas Special on Christmas Specials with Darrell Maclaine on Rutland Weekend Television, Phil Catterall on Community, Ben Baker on Bernard And The Genie, Garreth Hirons on Futurama, Tim Worthington on Doctor Who, Emma Burnell on The West Wing and Paul Abbott on The Peter Serafinowicz Show.
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Sophie Davies – “We can blame Biggins for everything now”
Writer and podcaster Sophie Davies on *allSTARS, The All Star Impressions Show, InseKtorS, Clone, The Grott Street Gang and AD/BC: A Rock Opera.
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Will Maclean – “The Radio Telescope end of Hauntology”
Novelist Will Maclean on the Zegazoid Chew Bar, The Song And The Story, Look And Read: The King’s Dragon, The Fourth Pan Book Of Horror Stories, The Weekend Book Of Ghosts And Horror and Photographs Of The Unknown.
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Catrin Lowe – “A comedy Panorama report meets a superhero film”
Writer Catrin Lowe on Singing In The Band – Songs From BBC TV’s Play School And Play Away, Chef!, Heartthrob: The Dream Date Game, Good Health: Germs Germs Germs, BBC2’s The Marriage Of Figaro and True To Us by Vanilla.
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Mitch Benn – “Thunderbird One is blue you weirdo”
Comedian Mitch Benn on 54321, Logan’s Run The Series, Matchbox Zoomy Balloonies, Action Man’s Atomic Man and Bullet Man, King Swamp, and fifties nostalgia in the seventies.
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Mic Wright – “A very Fall type sweet”
Journalist Mic Wright on 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.
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Mark Thompson – “It ended up underneath the leg of a chair”
Political commentator Mark Thompson on V: The Series, Dirty Dick, The Giftie, The Mad Death, The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime) by Peter Schilling and Space Shuttle.
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Bob Fischer – “It was unthinkable you would have an ‘R’ in an eighties tabloid”
Broadcaster Bob Fischer on Eighties ‘Tabloid Celebrities’, Accidentally Kelly Street by Frente!, The Two Ronnies’ ‘Mileaway’, Rude Food, Suggs On Saturday and School Folk Songs.
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Jane Hill – “It was quite a dungaree based film”
Comedian Jane Hill on Out Of Bounds, a mystery Saturday Morning Cinema serial, His Land, Showell Styles’ ‘Simon And Mag Hughes’ novels, Oil Strike North! and Breakfast Slices.
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Carrie Dunn – “They just shoved people into swimming pools”
Sports writer Carrie Dunn on The Glam Metal Detectives, Handful Of Promises by Big Fun, Shock Treatment, Too Close To The Sun, The Karen Carpenter Story and Man O Man.
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Justin Lewis – “Tommy Vance’s Pages From Ceefax”
Writer Justin Lewis on the original Only Fools And Horses theme tune, Anglo American by Golden, The Rock Year Book, Joy by Isaac Hayes, Thomas, Stand In Line by Impelliteri, Selwyn and the Glamorgan Tiles advert.
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Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – “He was condemned for being a Time Yewtree”
Writer and author Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Parallel 9, The Llŷn Peninsula Earthquake, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Discworld Noir, Feed The Tree by Belly and Craic.
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Tom Williamson – “A band my word processor hates”
Historian Tom Williamson on Knightmare, Samurai Pizza Cats, Add N To (X), Colonization, Mogwai and Life Story.
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David Smith – “Every third word is the word Clown”
Quiz expert David Smith on Earthworm Jim, Torin’s Passage, Bandslam, City Bomber, Little Clowns Of Happytown, Sonic Mountain Quest and Real Robots.
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Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge – “Once upon a time Gyles Brandreth was quite a cool name”
Podcasters Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge on So Haunt Me, Stonkers, Pitfall!, Furzlin’ With Shag Connors And The Carrot Crunchers, Marion Chesney’s ‘Six Sisters’ novels and Le Petit Nicolas.
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Shanine Salmon – “Maybe he felt that this was going to be the new modern hymn”
Theatre Critic Shanine Salmon on the 1993 EastEnders theme, Kings Of Comedy, Club Class, hard-hitting anti-drug campaigns aimed at schoolchildren, Sack Race and Kept.
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Jenny Morrill – “We don’t want to learn a history of sodding cutlery”
Writer Jenny Morrill on The Elvis Special 1983, The Home And Away Special 1990, The Sun Annual For Girls 1974, The Daily Mirror Book For Girls 1980 and The V Annual 1986.
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Al Kennedy – “Maggie Thatcher is coming to steal your gold coins”
Podcaster Al Kennedy on Alias The Jester, Steve Jackson’s Battle Cards, Marblehead Manor, Joe’s Apartment, Channel Hopping, Puddle Lane and Advanced Lawnmower Simulator.
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Meryl O’Rourke – “The Soup of the Underwear World”
Comedian Meryl O’Rourke on Sam On Boff’s Island, Roadstar Portable Television, Canon StarWriter, Thames Television’s Telereporter, The Six O’Clock Show, Bosom Buddies and The International Shoparound Exotic Glamourwear Catalogue.
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Lydia Mizon – “There was no Dicaprio rhyme”
QI Elf Lydia Mizon on Stoppit And Tidyup, Fervour, Alphabet Castle, Roseanne And The Magic Mirror, Party Mania and a book about Lydia who hated cress.
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Ben Baker – “Just cross that four out and put a five”
Broadcaster Ben Baker on the original version of Now – The Christmas Album.
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Phil Catterall – “It’s like a Choose Your Own Adventure of news”
Podcaster Phil Catterall on the Christmas Specials of BBC radio comedy shows On The Hour, The Chris Morris Music Show and Lee And Herring.
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Gary Bainbridge – “There must be some kid getting a hundred and fifty grand”
Writer Gary Bainbridge on Coast To Coast, Deadly Boring, Supersonic Man, Audisee’s The War Of The Worlds, Limp-Along Leslie, That Look In Your Eye by Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks, Ace Reports Annual 1981 and Unbranded Soluble Cola Tablets.
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Richard Littler – “This is all that is left… of a wall”
Scarfolk creator Richard Littler on The Waltons: The Changeling, Star Wars Blackpool Illuminations, Ghost Special No. 2, Meet Mr. Bomb, Maskatron, The Finishing Line, Sound Effects No. 13 – Death And Horror, Come Back Lucy and Richard Williams’ A Christmas Carol.
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Suzy Norman – “I kept this sweaty scarf in my drawer for about two years”
Novelist Suzy Norman on Sugar Box by Then Jerico, Hugo The Hippo, peculiar Welsh family sayings, Jennifer And Josephine, EastEnders‘ ‘Cat And Mouse’ storyline and Chambourcy Real Chocolate Mousse.
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Darrell Maclaine – “Imperial Phase Matthew Corbett”
Writer and designer Darrell Maclaine on Luv’d Up by Crush, Trev And Simon’s World Tour, Blockbusters Bubble Gum, Learn With Sooty: Be Safe, Find Out More and Spike Milligan’s cameo in Steps Into Summer.
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Tim Worthington – “That perfect collision of Time, Place and Loud Ties”
Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington on Stop-Go!, It’s A Shame by Kris Kross, Spider-Woman, I Wanted To See You To See If I Wanted You by Moose, The ITV Encyclopedia Of Adventure, The Young Poisoner’s Handbook, the original version of Right Here by SWV and Radio Tip Top.
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Mitch Benn – “The Marvel and DC of Ice Cream”
Comedian Mitch Benn on Nobody’s House, Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 by The Police, Cyborg and Muton, Orion, Two Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cones and Get Stuffed.
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Pete Prodge – “Paul Nuttalls of the UCHIPS”
Comedian Pete Prodge on How Dare You!, School Fun, Curse Of Sherwood, The Evil Horde, Burton’s Potato Puffs and the Dune sticker album.
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Jim Sangster – “A horrible bee-in-a-jar type noise”
Writer Jim Sangster on A Small Problem, The Ballad Of Lady Di by The Hon. Nick Jones and Ian Macrae, They Came From Somewhere Else, Worlds Beyond, Spice World for the PlayStation and Rubovia.
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Paul Abbott – “So I started writing about Gobots instead”
Musician Paul Abbott on The Compleat Beatles, Zeeb And The Martians, Crab E. Crab, Rock Lords: Narlies, the Commodore Plus/4 and The Late Night Funster Show.
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Melanie Williams – “She was just completely expunged from the Girl-verse”
Academic Melanie Williams on Kelly Monteith, Aubrey, Kellogg’s Rise And Shine, Patty’s World, Mustard Mind, The Man Who Juggled Blocks On Variety Shows and Rimmel Coffee Shimmer.
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Chris Hughes – “The Mr. Wilmott-Brown of chocolate bars”
Writer Chris Hughes on Buzzfax, Hector The Help The Aged Dog, Load Runner, The Gillette Video Show, The One-Two Bar, Mordillo, Morse (He’s A Mystery To Me) by Codex and The British Banknote Keyring.
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Anna Cale – “Mrs. Mangel’s living room was the bane of my life”
Writer Anna Cale on the Neighbours sticker album, Wendy Cracked A Walnut, Rogue, Sosmix, Secrets Of The Sea and the Shackleton’s High Seat Chairs advert.
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Bob Fischer – “False Flag Giant Hogweed”
Broadcaster Bob Fischer on The Tom O’Connor Roadshow, Giant Hogweed, Can’t Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean, Glee Bars, J. Edward Oliver’s ‘Abolish Tuesdays’ and How To Be A Wally.
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Chris Shaw – “It’s half three and something is happening”
Presenter Chris Shaw on Bailey’s Comets, Evoluon, Rock School, The Phantom Tollbooth, Robbie Vincent’s Phone-In Show and F.I.S.T..
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Andy Lewis – “It was as though someone had phoned through a description of what Coke tasted like”
Musician Andy Lewis on The Aeronauts, Spy In Space by Patrick Moore, Sir Galaxy, Gorgo, The Secret Of Steel City and Vintage Anti-Enoch Powell Graffiti.
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Tim Worthington – “You can’t exactly wash the dishes to You Suffer by Napalm Death”
Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington on comedy on BBC Radio 3.
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Paul Putner – “There’s no Drill version of the theme to Hunted”
Actor Paul Putner on Phone Home by Johnny Chingas, The Night Walker, Treborland, Holmes And Yoyo, Out Of Town and Vectrex Arcade System.
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Gillian Kirby – “What’s not Work Safe about sick worms?”
Juggler Gillian Kirby on an unidentified episode of Dramarama, Teletext After Hours, Transvision Vamp, Orbitz, Seattle Coffee Company, bolt.com and S.T.A.R.S..
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Paul Cornell – “You don’t want a less powerful mantra for frippery Astral Travel”
Writer Paul Cornell on Phoenix Five, Fear In Firland, Danny Dunn, Outa-Space, Astral Projection Instruction Manuals and Terry Wogan’s eccentric playlist choices.
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Stephen Brotherstone And Dave Lawrence – “We’ll Definitely Eat These Meatballs”
Writers Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence on The Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump, Roger Moore And The Crimefighters, 10-4 Action, Pictures, Deus Ex Machina and a withdrawn Williams Furniture Superstore advert.
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Justin Lewis – “It Sounds Like Regional Sweep”
Writer and editor Justin Lewis on Neither Fish Nor Flesh by Terence Trent D’Arby, In One Ear, The London Symphony Orchestra version of Tommy, Orbit, Pop Score and the Welsh Language dubbed version of Trumpton.
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Emma Burnell – “They’re Only Eating Macaroni”
Journalist Emma Burnell on The Royal Potwasher, Melody Radio, Channel 4’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, A Woman In Your Own Right, The Lords Of Midnight and Herman’s Head.
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Garreth Hirons – “I don’t want to get all sepia tinted here”
Musician Garreth Hirons on The Ghosts Of Oxford Street.
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Stephen O’Brien “The meaning of Christmas is no Boris Gardiner”
Writer Stephen O’Brien on Hokey Cokey by The Snowmen, Jingle Bells Laughing All The Way by The Hysterics, What Are We Gonna Get ‘Er Indoors by Dennis Waterman and George Cole, Oh Blimey It’s Christmas by Frank Sidebottom, Christmas In Hollis by Run DMC, Old Fashioned Christmas by Anne Charleston And Ian Smith and Do They Know It’s Christmas? by Band Aid II.
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Vikki Gregorich And Jeff Lewis – “No It’s Just A Radio That’s Been Left On”
Game Developer Jeff Lewis and Board Game Collector Vikki Gregorich on Animalympics, Conrad’s War, Paul Biegel, Deathworld, The Last American and The Secret Cabaret.
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Mark Thompson – “Libby’s Difficult Second Carton Drink”
Political commentator Mark Thompson on Libby’s Moonshine, A. Mazing Monsters, Agony, Being Erica, Hawkeye Collins And Amy Adams – Can You Solve The Mystery? and We Know Where You Live.
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John Rain – “They Probably Made Mick Fleetwood And Samantha Fox Look Like The Hitman And Her”
SMERSH Pod host John Rain on Your Mother Wouldn’t Like It, E.T. Cola Creams, Trading Places Day, Murder In Space, Hello Mum and Oink!.
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Phil Norman – “Salvador Dali’s Scalextric Set”
Animator Phil Norman on S-S-S-Single Bed by Fox, Leapfrog, The Country Life Christmas Box, Humrush by KMD, Body Contact, Oscar The Rabbit In Rubbidge, Erasmus Microman and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humpe And Find True Happiness?.
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Jenny Morrill – “I Just Get Pictures Of Actual Boots”
Writer Jenny Morrill on Boots Global Collection, The Just Seventeen Yearbook, P&O’s La Mer Advert, an animation about a bird that gets turned into a bat, Diary Of A Manic Street Preachers Fan, and a film her dad remembers about some sheep.
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Ben Baker – “If you’re one of those people who sells crack…”
Broadcaster Ben Baker on ITV daytime nostalgia show Looks Familiar.
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Jack Kibble-White – “You’ll Never Silence Paul Coia”
Writer Jack Kibble-White on Don’t Give Up Your Day Job by Richard Digance, Games World, United Kingdom: Working For The Enemy, Arken Sword, Who’s Next, and a competition to write a new This Morning theme tune.
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Martin Belam – “It’s Not Funny Having A Piano Fall On Your Head If Someone’s Just Drawn It”
Journalist Martin Belam on the Laurel And Hardy cartoon, Faith No More on Top Of The Pops, missing scenes from Flash Gordon, touring space shuttles, a documentary on Dr. Mabuse by Propaganda, and New Order not being able to play Your Silent Face live.
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Tim Worthington – “People Don’t Really Go On About Psychedelic Blue Peter”
Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington on The Only Way by Lisa Stansfield, The Brain, the Jackanory adaptation of Starstormers, a Public Information Film about boat safety, I Was Made To Love Magic by Nick Drake, Secrets From The School Underground, Skyman and Rubovia.
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Garreth F. Hirons – “I Backed The Betamax Of Nirvana Spinoffs”
Musician and writer Garreth F. Hirons on The Yellow Album by The Simpsons, The Frankie Goes To Hollywood Computer Game, Sweet 75, Linc’s, Transformers Action Masters, The Way Of The Tiger and Quatro.
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Ros Ballinger – “I Can’t Remember If It Was The First Leg Or The Second Leg”
Comedian Ros Ballinger on Henry’s Leg, Waiting For Aliens, ice creams with real fruit in them, a schools safety video with Hannah Taylor Gordon, Microsoft Explorapedia and The Adventures Of Fat Freddy’s Cat.
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James Gent – “A Cross Between The Prisoner And Test Match Special”
Writer James Gent on The Golden Oldie Picture Show, When The Wind Blows by David Bowie, Beeb Magazine, T-Rex Greatest Hits albums without any of the hits on them, Boxpops and the Montreux Special of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
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Darrell Maclaine – “The Russ Abbot’s Madhouse Cosplay Kit”
Designer Darrell Maclaine on Carols At Christmas by The Greater Manchester Police Choir, FunFax: Disguise And False Identity, Rubik’s Clock, The Brennan JB7 Advert, VTech Master Video Painter and the Children’s BBC Broom Cupboard 1996 April Fool’s Day Hoax.
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Paul Kirkley – “The Most Memorable Movie Ferret Sacrifice Ever”
Writer Paul Kirkley on The Kids From Fame Again, The A-Team Novels, Del Amitri by Del Amitri, David Nobbs’ Henry Pratt Novels, The Beastmaster, The Saturday Picture Show and the Adam Ant comic strip.
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Jonny Morris – “What Was Actually In The Dandy?”
Writer Jonny Morris on the BBC Micro Welcome tape, Jack Silver, Mr Spendy, The Carmen Ejogo Show, Dead Ernest and Jesta Giggle by The Barron Knights.
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Una McCormack – “Revolution 9 For Descant Recorder And Woodblock”
Writer Una McCormack on Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay, Screw-Top Virgin Marys, Desert Wellies, The Melendy Family Novels, Tales From The Edge Of The World and Trick Sticks.
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Jacqueline Rayner – “She Went To The Ball In A Horse-Drawn Bath”
Writer Jacqueline Rayner on Quincy’s Quest, Quosh Tropical, Bernie Clifton’s ‘El Bandido’, Klonks, Pippa Dolls and Honey Bear Spread.
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Will Maclean – “Barnaby’s Apocalypse”
Writer Will Maclean on Once Upon A Time… Man, Galaxy High, In The Sofa, Powers Of Ten, The Snake and The Episode Of The Sooty Show Where Sweep Had Brain Surgery.
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Steve Berry – “I Survived The Great Nostalgia Wars Of 1989”
Writer, broadcaster and TV Crisp Expert Steve Berry on Single Versions Of Pop Songs That Never Get Played Any More, Elastoplast Heroes, United States Of Television, Skoal Bandits, Starblazer Electronic Space Command Belt and Morning Has Broken.
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Samira Ahmed – “They all had hair like Russ Tamblyn”
Journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed on The Saturday Banana, Havoc, The Changes, Childhood Misapprehensions About The News, Nurdin & Peacock Own Brand Cola, The School Computer and that time that Picture Box used a clip from Cleopatra Jones.
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Rae Earl – “I think it was a cerebral Cheggers Plays Pop”
Writer Rae Earl on Rock’n’Bubble, The Home Cookery Club, Codename Icarus, Puzzle Party, comedy duo Cheese And Onion, and the episodes of Battle Of The Planets where Zoltar was a woman.
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Steve O’Brien – “E.T. Pretzel Design”
Entertainment journalist Steve O’Brien on Simon In The Land Of Chalk Drawings, KP Sky Divers, Health And Efficiency, Ice Cold Cube and High Time by The Stone Roses, Brat Farrar and the Alfred Hitchcock And The Three Investigators books.
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Lisa Parker And Andrew Trowbridge – “He looks like a normal boy with a nose”
Podcasters Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge on Big John Little John, Virtual Murder, Matchbox Cascade, the Bobby Brewster books, Enid Blyton’s Mr Pink-Whistle, and the Jaws game.
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Mark Griffiths – “It was definitely an audience member, if you’ll pardon the pun”
Writer Mark Griffiths on Five Minutes by Mainframe, The Bloke Who Pulled His Pants Down On Kilroy, Disneyland by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Charles Hawtrey as a vampire on Runaround, BBC Records And Tapes’ Off Beat Sound Effects, and missing the first episode of a new series of Doctor Who because you were at the Doctor Who exhibition in Blackpool.
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Martin Ruddock – “I made a plasticine Harold Macmillan”
Writer Martin Ruddock shares his recollections of The Baker Street Boys, Doomlord, Robotix, The Fairy Tale Adventure, The Legend Of Tim Tyler and Thurman.
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Jem Roberts – “ET is a definite thing”
Comedy historian and storyteller Jem Roberts on Doop by Doop, Dizzy, Alien Blood, Nibbit Wheelz, Wet Wet Wet Being Any Good, and an advert reuniting Neil and Vyvyan from The Young Ones.
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Ben Baker – “Just a bit massively stereotypical”
Writer, broadcaster and quizmaster Ben Baker on Toksvig, The Whizzkid’s Guide, Mysteries Of Old Peking, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Go (the 1999 film), and Making Your Own TV Listings Magazines.
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Emma Burnell – “Jessica Wakefield is Jessica Fletcher writ large”
Broadcaster and columnist Emma Burnell on Whose Side Are You On?, Sweet Valley High, Scoubidou, The Patchwork Monkey, Split Second, and the Ever Ready ‘Power To The People’ advert.
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Ben Baker – “The famous Fourth Universal Monster”
Writer, broadcaster and quizmaster Ben Baker on TV Mayhem, The Onion Bag, Fiendish Feet, the early internet craze for misidentifying every comedy song as ‘by’ Weird Al Yankovic, Bingo Brown and the International Youth Service penpal scheme.
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Stephen O’Brien – “The classic ‘Four Calculators’ sketch”
Writer Stephen O’Brien on The Office (the Steven Moffat one), LM magazine, You Can Do The Cube, Brilliant (the band), The Beachcombers and other last-minute ITV emergency schedule replacement standbys and The Morecambe And Wise Board Game.
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Mark Thompson – “I’m quite happy with my passport colour to be honest”
Radio host and political pundit Mark Thompson on Whiz Kids, Crash ZX Spectrum, Night Shift, Public Information Film family The Blunders, The Last Train, and The Drak Pack.
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Garreth F. Hirons – “Piers Morgan, I want my Sizzlin’ Bacon back!”
Musician and writer Garreth F. Hirons on The Bigger The God, Food Fighters, Saboteur, The Triangle Of Terror, Sizzlin’ Bacon Monster Munch and Fun At The Funeral Parlour.
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Phil Catterall – “Here is Pyramint, buy Pyramint”
Podcaster Phil Catterall on Madballs Comic, Wise Up!, Phantom 2040, the Platoon computer game, Birdseye Steakhouse Grills adverts and Star Wars: Droids.
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