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April 13, 2025February 23, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Donna Rees – As Soon As The Ink Was Dry On The Script It Was Out Of Date

April 8, 2025July 31, 2026 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Bookshelves, Bowie And Queen Caroline

April 1, 2025August 4, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Georgy Jamieson – Pot Noodle With A Top Hat And A Monocle

March 18, 2025September 29, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Mark Thompson – I’m Almost Certain No Battle Elves Appeared In This

February 6, 2025September 26, 2026 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Betamax, Bryter Layter And Quatro

January 12, 2025August 19, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Joanne Sheppard – A Billy Butler For Every Region

January 6, 2025September 24, 2026 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Prokofiev, Play Away And Templeton Peck

December 24, 2024September 27, 2026 Tim Worthington

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

December 4, 2024July 18, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Christmas Gift You’ve All Been Looking For…

November 29, 2024August 3, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Mitch Benn – A Perfect Storm Of Goth

November 13, 2024October 1, 2026 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – This Is The Kind Of Thing You Do Not Get From Jane Fonda

October 31, 2024July 21, 2026 Tim Worthington

The Looks Unfamiliar Horror Bag: Steve Berry – Frankenstein’s Monster Ice Lolly Face Disappears When Ice Lolly Removed From Packet

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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.

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Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour!
Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour!
Stand By For Action - it's the story of the Supermarionation-powered adventures of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol... we are about to launch - Stingray!

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Four – Salateen, Look At You Now
It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Twenty Four – Salateen, Look At You Now
It's 1984, and for Doctor Who it's a year of two Doctors - and they're starting to look at risk of outnumbering the viewers...

Wake Up Sunday!
Wake Up Sunday!
What would you have been watching first thing on a Sunday morning in the seventies and eighties... and why could nobody quite work out whether they actually enjoyed any of it or not?

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: X-Men '97 With Mic Wright
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: X-Men '97 With Mic Wright
Mic joins me for a chat about Jean Grey battling to save a timeline where The Young Person’s Guide To Becoming A Rock Star hasn’t happened yet in X-Men '97.

Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – I Have Achieved Some Things
Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – I Have Achieved Some Things
Mic joins me for a chat about the NatWest Piggies, Eerie, Indiana, Musical Chairs by Kinky Friedman, High On A Rocky Ledge by Moondog, The National Record Of Achievement and more.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil: Born Again With Garry Abbott
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil: Born Again With Garry Abbott
Garry joins me for a chat about Wilson Fisk asserting that he’s better than Chuck Swirsky – frickin’ liberal – in Daredevil: Born Again.

Doctor Who 70-79

Doctor Who 70-79

Includes a chapter by me on Doctor Who's unexpected moment of mass popularity over the summer of 1979. Find out more here.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Countdown To Avengers: Doomsday

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Countdown To Avengers: Doomsday
Looking for a quicker - and only moderately more sarcastic - way of getting caught up on Marvel's watch list ahead of Avengers: Doomsday? You'll find one here.

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter – Original Soundtrack Selections

Laurie Johnson's great lost soundtrack for Hammer's original Vampire Slayer - available at last! Includes sleevenotes from me on the background to the Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter score. Find out more here.

So Disappointed: Whatever Happened To The Future?

So Disappointed: Whatever Happened To The Future?
I join Paul Whitelaw and Wendy Jordan for a look at why The BBC's science magazine show Tomorrow's World never quite delivered on what it promised, but not in the way we might have expected - listen to it 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.

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