Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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Tag: Emma Burnell

The Monkess, as discussed by Tim Worthington and Neil Perryman in Looks Unfamiliar.
May 6, 2019May 13, 2019 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #6: Top Cat Will Always Be Boss Cat

The Royal Potwasher, as discussed by Tim Worthington and journalist Emma Burnell in Looks Unfamiliar.
December 31, 2018May 29, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #33: Emma Burnell – They’re Only Eating Macaroni

Tim Worthington talks to Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding about Doctor Who and politics in The Zeitgeist Tapes - the show that looks at where politics and popular culture collide.
October 25, 2018May 29, 2019 Tim Worthington

The Zeitgeist Tapes: Dr. Pod

Denys Fisher's War Of The Daleks.
April 3, 2018July 21, 2019 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #1: Captain Peacock Is Pompous, Move Back Three Spaces

The Ever Ready 'Power To The People' advert, as discussed by Tim Worthington and journalist Emma Burnell in Looks Unfamiliar.
September 8, 2017July 14, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #6: Emma Burnell – Jessica Wakefield Is Jessica Fletcher Writ Large

Popular Features

This Is Television Freedom
Out In The Dark
Looks Unfamiliar #23: Ros Ballinger - I Can't Remember If It Was The First Leg Or The Second Leg
Doctor Who Magazine #542
London's So Nice Back In Your Seamless Rhymes
Looks Unfamiliar
Must Be All This Talk Of Witches...
A Story Of A London Family Adapting To Life In A Country Town
Higher Than The Sun
Take Five Really Swings!

Tim Worthington’s Newsround

Latest Podcast

Looks Unfamiliar #46: Paul Abbott – So I Started Writing Stories About Gobots Instead
Musician Paul Abbott on The Compleat Beatles, Rock Lords: Narlies, Crab E. Crab, The Commodore Plus/4 and more. Listen to it here.


New Features

This Is Television Freedom
The story behind The KLF's astonishing career-closing performance at the Brit Awards in 1992.

The Original Peter
BBC2's 1970 Arts-Jazz happening is here to blow your mind and get stuck in your head.

A Funny Old Game
Is Nintendo World Cup 1990 the most dated computer game ever - on every imaginable level?

Pining For The Punk Fjords
A look back at the lost are of post-punk railway station graffiti.

Time Will Crawl
During the school Summer Holidays, the BBC would sometimes show programmes so boring that time actually stood still...

This, He Thought, Is How The Clouds Must Feel
Why isn't the Balloon Race music from Mr. Benn available? Well, actually, it sort of is...

Party To 18 Of The Hottest Summer Hits
A look at 1990's Summer Chart Party, not only one of the worst compilations ever but also in no way connected to 'Summer'.

You Can't Imagine Summer Without It
A look at 1986's long-forgotten Now That's What I Call Music! spinoff, Now - The Summer Album.


Book Offer



You can currently get The Larks Ascending with 15% off in paperback (Code ONEFIVE) from here.


Don't Let's Chart



I make a guest appearance on the latest edition of Don't Let's Chart With Ben And Phil counting down... well, it's a bit hard to explain really... listen to it here.


Tape Over This And I Will Thump You



A C90's worth of songs I originally discovered through Compilation Tapes, featuring Tim Buckley, France Gall, The Free Design, Traffic and more. Hear it here.


From The Archive


It's Not Hard To Find, You've To It In Your Mind
How many great songs did The Goodies record while nobody was looking?

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