Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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Doctor Who - Fugitive Of The Judoon (BBC1, 2020).
January 28, 2020 Tim Worthington

Doctor Who And The Fugitive Of The Judoon

Radio Times promotion for Play School, 1965.
January 27, 2020 Tim Worthington

Through The Two Hundredth Window

Coca-Cola 'Can't Beat The Real Thing' commercial, 1988.
January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 Tim Worthington

Can’t Beat The Real Thing

Vote For Froglet, the Clangers Election Special, as discussed by Tim Worthington, Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding in Looks Unfamiliar.
January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #9: I Have A Photo Of You Admiring That Lettering

The $1,000,000 Collection by John Dankworth And His Orchestra (Fontana, 1967)
January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 Tim Worthington

The $1,000,000 Collection

John Lennon, giving peace a chance in 1969.
January 15, 2020January 20, 2020 Tim Worthington

The Ten Least Effective Protest Songs

Enoch Light And The Light Brigade - Spaced Out (Project 3, 1969)
January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

Go Down Record Huntin’ (In Charity Shops)

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Just What Is It That You Want To Do?
Great Lost Synth Sounds Of The Eighties
You've Got To Fight For What You Want
Come With Me Now, Into The Swirling Mists Of Human Inadequacy...
Higher Than The Sun
Looks Unfamiliar #41: Chris Shaw - It's Half Three And Something Is Happening
Some Unspoken Thing
Creation Records Interview
Looks Unfamiliar #10: Mark Griffiths – It Was Definitely An Audience Member, If You'll Pardon The Pun
Go Down Record Huntin' (In Charity Shops)

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Latest Podcasts

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Incredible Hulk
Gary Bainbridge joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Bruce Banner’s struggle to control the raging beast that lives inside us all in The Incredible Hulk. Listen to it here.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Iron Man
Phil Catterall joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Tony Stark's jet-propelled escape from Taliban-controlled territory in Iron Man. Listen to it here.

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #9: I Have A Photo Of You Admiring That Lettering
Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar with Suzy Norman, Richard Littler, Gary Bainbridge, Tim Worthington, Phil Catterall, Ben Baker, Mitch Benn and Darrell Maclaine. Listen to it here.


New Features

Great Lost Synth Sounds Of The Eighties
Some of the sillier sounds that pop history forgot...

The Greatest Hits Of Outer Space!
A celebration of the chart-topping sounds from the days when Disco, Sci-Fi and Blake's 7 fans with money to burn collided.

It's Number Two Hundred, It's Top Of The Pops!
Nobody really knows what went on in the two hundredth edition of Top Of The Pops - but it's not quite as lost as you might think...

Through The Two Hundredth Window
I try to work out what happened in the long lost two hundredth edition of Play School from 1965.

Can't Beat The Real Thing
A not especially fond look back at some of the more cost-conscious alternatives to Coke and Pepsi. In particular, Panda Pops Green Cola...

The $1,000,000 Collection
A critic's eye view of some remarkable UK sixties jazz cover art - and the equally remarkable music.


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You can currently get The Larks Ascending with 10% off in paperback (Code LULU10) from 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.


Round The Archives



I'm on Round The Archives with Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge talking about Here Come The Double Deckers!. You can listen to 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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I’m Meaner, I’m Leaner, I Ain’t No Inbetweener
The strange and all too brief career of unlikely pop star Jimmy Ray...

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