Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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David Bowie, reading Viz on the train.
January 10, 2019January 16, 2019 Tim Worthington

The World Of David Bowie

Sylvia Anderson with Space Doctor Venus from Fireball XL5.
December 28, 2018 Tim Worthington

All Dead, But Still Alive

The Books I Couldn't Help Thinking about by Tim Worthington.
August 25, 2018December 14, 2018 Tim Worthington

The Books I Couldn’t Help Thinking About

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar with Tim Worthington.
August 23, 2018December 21, 2018 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #4: The Real Bowie Says To The Imagined Bowie

July 18, 2018December 5, 2018 Tim Worthington

Betamax Video Club: Morons From Outer Space

BEEB Magazine, as discussed by Tim Worthington and writer James Gent in Looks Unfamiliar.
July 1, 2018December 5, 2018 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #22: James Gent – A Cross Between The Prisoner And Test Match Special

Popular Features

Food Processors Are Great!
All That I Can See With My Mind's Eye
We Know That You Can Hear Us, Earthmen...
Looks Unfamiliar #7: Ben Baker - Just A Bit Massively Stereotypical
Listen With Hamble
And You And I Would Call Them Dragonflies
The World Of David Bowie

Tim Worthington’s Newsround

Latest Podcast

Looks Unfamiliar #34: Justin Lewis - It Sounds Like Regional Sweep
Writer Justin Lewis on Neither Fish Nor Flesh by Terence Trent D'Arby, In One Ear, Welsh Children's Programmes (including a dubbed version of Trumpton) and more. Listen to it here.


New Features

Listen With Hamble
A guide to the hidden folk, funk, psych and spoken word oddness highlights in BBC Records And Tapes' children's albums.

The World Of David Bowie
How I reacted to the news about David Bowie. It wasn't like most people did...

Food Processors Are Great!
Why I love Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur, for more reasons than just the music.

The Wind Cries Mickey Murphy
What was Jimi Hendrix REALLY watching when he wrote The Wind Cries Mary?

All Dead, But Still Alive
How I tried to make sense of 2016 by looking at something I actually understood - December 1965.


Book Offer

You can currently get my new book Can't Help Thinking About Me with 10% off in paperback (Code LULU10) from here.


Perfect Night In



I'm the guest on the latest edition of Perfect Night In, talking about my ideal evening's entertainment including The Monkees, The Banana Splits, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and more. Find out more here.


Auntie Takes A Trip



A personally curated collection of BBC Records And Tapes beat/folk/psych 'Deep Cuts'. Hear it here.


From The Archive

Looks Unfamiliar #7: Ben Baker – Just A Bit Massively Stereotypical

I have a chat with Ben about dubious board game Mysteries Of Old Peking and more. Hear it here.

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