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December 15, 2025February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar’s Box Of Delights: Richard Marson – I Suspect The Binmen Were Probably Not In That Year’s Review Of The Year

July 9, 2025October 2, 2025 Tim Worthington

Andy Pandy’s Coming To Play!

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We Might Be Able To Hear Each Planet And Each Star Singing Their Own Song

December 24, 2024May 5, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar’s Yuletide Binge: Ben Baker – The Fickleness Of The Long Distance Ratter

November 21, 2024November 28, 2025 Tim Worthington

On A Cold Winter Night That Was So Deep

November 11, 2024April 17, 2026 Tim Worthington

I Just Wanna Be A Winner

December 14, 2023February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Norman – A Milkshake For Robert Elms

October 31, 2023February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar Spooky: Joanne Sheppard – Everyone Knows That’s How Hands Work

March 23, 2023March 5, 2026 Tim Worthington

Time And Tide Melts The Snowman: Part Five

February 13, 2023February 20, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Anna Cale – Ronnie Birtles, What Were You Up To?

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Looks Unfamiliar: Mitch Benn – A Slightly More Apologetic Version Of Subbuteo

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Looks Unfamiliar: Toby Hadoke – I Don’t Remember Birthdays But I Remember Weird ITV Love Stories

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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. Find out more about what you can find in it here.

Britcom Goes To The Movies: The Young Poisoner's Handbook

Britcom Goes To The Movies: The Young Poisoner's Handbook
I join Guy Walker and Rob Heath for a look at twistedly comic mid-nineties horror movie that has since effectively disappeared The Young Poisoner's Handbook - listen to it here.

Latest Podcasts

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Eyes Of Wakanda With Al Kennedy
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Eyes Of Wakanda With Al Kennedy
Al joins me for a chat about the Hatut Zeraze very gradually recovering a very small quantity of Vibranium in Eyes Of Wakanda.

Looks Unfamiliar: Garry Abbott – You’d Have To Go On A Nerds Quest
Looks Unfamiliar: Garry Abbott – You’d Have To Go On A Nerds Quest
Garry joins me for a chat about Lovelife by Lush, Nerds, Challenger – The Adventure Machine, Matchbox Connectables, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Baking Soda-Powered Submarine, The Vibes And Livelee Mixtape and more.

Looks Unfamiliar: Tom Williamson – You Stick Them In And They Go FH-DNK
Looks Unfamiliar: Tom Williamson – You Stick Them In And They Go FH-DNK
Tom joins me for a chat about Going For Gold, Duel by Propaganda, the Mr. Blobby VHS, The Adam And Joe Show and more.

The DNA Of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years

The DNA Of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years

A new book about Doctor Who in the late seventies, including a chapter by me on the impact that Star Wars had on the then-struggling show. Find out more here.

New Features

The Satirical Panther
The Satirical Panther
How do you prop up TV Comic's ailing fortunes in the age of home video and Kajagoogoo? By getting The Pink Panther to do topical satire, apparently.

Buckley At The Beeb
Buckley At The Beeb
What actually went on during Tim Buckley's long-lost and surprisingly numerous BBC television and radio appearances?

Through The Square Window: Villa Rosie, Humphrey Plugg And The Half-Open University
Through The Square Window: Villa Rosie, Humphrey Plugg And The Half-Open University
Tune in for more highlights from the archives featuring Scott Walker, Blur, Peter Cook, Chris Morris and a book about comedy on BBC Radio 3. Oh and plenty of insulting of Enoch Powell.

Shatter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Shatter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Hammer's great lost funked-out soundtrack - available at last. Includes sleevenotes from me on the background to the Shatter score. Find out more 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.

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.

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.

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