Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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Tag: Jackanory

Bang On A Drum - Songs From Play School And Play Away, BBC Records And Tapes RBT17.
January 16, 2019 Tim Worthington

Listen With Hamble

King Boris and Pongo The Dragon from Rubovia, as discussed by Tim Worthington in Looks Unfamiliar.
July 27, 2018April 17, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #25: Tim Worthington – People Don’t Really Go On About Psychedelic Blue Peter

Radio Times listing for Jackanory: The Little House In The Big Wood (1966)
April 7, 2018April 11, 2019 Tim Worthington

Out In The Dark

Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay, as discussed by Tim Worthington and writer Una McCormack in Looks Unfamiliar.
March 28, 2018February 12, 2019 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar #18: Una McCormack – Revolution 9 For Descant Recorder And Woodblock

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One! Two! How Do You Do!
Looks Unfamiliar #40: Andy Lewis - It Was As Though Someone Had Phoned Through A Description Of What Coke Tasted Like
Out In The Dark
London's So Nice Back In Your Seamless Rhymes
The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #2: He's Not On A Quest To Find Out, He's Just On A Quest To Get Out
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Things Aren't So Bad, They're Just More Wrong Than Right

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Latest Podcast

Looks Unfamiliar #40: Andy Lewis - It Was As Though Someone Had Phoned Through A Description Of What Coke Tasted Like
Musician Andy Lewis on The Aeronauts, The Secret Of Steel City, Vintage Anti-Enoch Powell Graffiti and more. Listen to it here.


New Features

Manchester
Why we should all try to be a little more like Tony Wilson.

London's So Nice Back In Your Seamless Rhymes
Why are the two 'different' versions of For Tomorrow by Blur almost exactly identical?

Things Aren't So Bad, They're Just More Wrong Than Right
Why do people insist on treating Scott Walker as a deep existential genius when a lot of his music was quite, well, funny?

It's Time For... It's Time For... Comic Relief!
A look at the story behind The Mary Whitehouse Experience.


Book Offer



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


Doctor Who Magazine #537



I'm in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine looking at some new soundtrack releases on vinyl. Find out more here.


Round The Archives



Hear me talking to Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge about the last ever episode of the Trumptonshire saga 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



You Can't Seem To Find How You Got There, So Just Blow Your Mind
A look at Psychedelia And Other Colours by Rob Chapman.

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