Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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Tag: Jazz

The $1,000,000 Collection by John Dankworth And His Orchestra (Fontana, 1967)
January 20, 2020November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

The $1,000,000 Collection

Opening titles from Ask The Family (BBC1, 1967-84).
September 15, 2019February 17, 2021 Tim Worthington

And An Extra Point For Being So Clever!

Get Away by Georgie Fame (Columbia, 1966).
September 7, 2019February 14, 2021 Tim Worthington

Sweet Georgie Fame

August 17, 2019April 14, 2021 Tim Worthington

The Original Peter

Mr Benn (BBC1, 1972) - Title Card.
July 31, 2019November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

This, He Thought, Is How The Clouds Must Feel

Some Compilation Tapes.
March 17, 2019November 14, 2020 Tim Worthington

Tape Over This And I Will Thump You

Shakespeare And All That Jazz by Cleo Laine and John Dankworth.
February 28, 2019November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

Diggin’ The Dankworths

Martin Freeman And Eddie Piller Present Jazz On The Corner (Acid Jazz, 2018).
April 19, 2018April 2, 2021 Tim Worthington

Listen Here

Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet (Columbia, 1959).
September 1, 2017November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

Take Five Really Swings!

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It's Good, Except It Sucks: Deadpool 2
The Sci-Fi That Time Forgot
Looks Unfamiliar #64: Carrie Dunn - They Just Shoved People Into Swimming Pools
Do Not Viddy This, My Brothers!
I've Heard Of Politics, But This Is Ridiculous
Album To Album: Holy Holy
Looks Unfamiliar: Phil Catterall - Here Is Pyramint, Buy Pyramint
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Tim Worthington’s Newsround

Latest Podcasts

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Deadpool 2 with Phil Catterall It's Good, Except It Sucks: Deadpool 2
Phil Catterall joins Tim for a chat about Wade Wilson leading the newly formed X-Force straight into some overhead power lines in Deadpool 2.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: WandaVision with Hanna Flint It's Good, Except It Sucks: WandaVision
Hanna Flint joins Tim for a chat about Wanda Maximoff trying not to reference Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper by mistake in WandaVision.

Looks Unfamiliar with Jonny Morris Looks Unfamiliar Disco Sci-Fi Spectacular: There's No Robots, I'm Not Interested
Jonny Morris joins Tim for a chat about Galaxy Gold by Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra, Battlestar Galactica Action Figures, Space Wars - Fact And Fiction, Season Two of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century and more.

Looks Unfamiliar with Joel Morris Looks Unfamiliar #77: Joel Morris - No-One In My Family Was Going To Be Conned By Big Battery
Joel Morris joins Tim for a chat about View-Master Demonstration Reels, Hanna-Barbera's Alice In Wonderland, Chutes Away!!!!!, Mazes And Monsters, Four-Mations, St. Michael gift books and more.

It's Good, Except It Sucks: Helstrom with Vikki Gregorich It's Good, Except It Sucks: Helstrom
Vikki Gregorich joins Tim for a chat about Daimon and Ana having to literally decide whether it’s better the devil you know in Helstrom.


New Features

Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd performing Astronomy Domine on The Look Of The Week (BBC, 1967) That Sight, Those Sounds...
When critics started to take pop music seriously in the mid-sixties, Pink Floyd and The Jimi Hendrix Experience began to turn up on television in some very unlikely places...

Let The Melody Shine, Let It Cleanse My Mind
Sometimes, a song is so powerful that it transcends what you think of an artist - and that's exactly what Bitter Sweet Symphony did.

Knocking On Doors, Opening Windows...
A look back at the BBC's devotional children's show - with resident screeching puppet mouse - The Sunday Gang.


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Top Of The Box by Tim Worthington

You can currently get Top Of The Box with 15% off in paperback (Code SPRING15) from here.


Fawlty Towers - For The Record

Fawlty Towers - For The Record

I've written the sleevenotes for a box set of the Fawlty Towers albums. Find out more here.


My 70's TV Childhood - Pinocchio

The BBC Pinocchio (1978)

I have a chat with Oliver Colling about the BBC’s terrifying art-nouveau re-imagining late seventies adaptation of Pinocchio, with absolutely no comedy crickets or wishing upon a star, but plenty of screeching splintery puppets. 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.


From The Archive

Cloak And Dagger It's Good, Except It Sucks: Cloak And Dagger

Ben Baker joins Tim for a chat about Tandy and Ty healing the streets of New Orleans by shoplifting some Dr. Pepper.
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