Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington

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

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Tag: Syd Barrett

April 17, 2021 Tim Worthington

That Sight, Those Sounds…

October 6, 2019April 15, 2021 Tim Worthington

When The Levity Breaks

David Bowie, reading Viz on the train.
January 10, 2019November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

The World Of David Bowie

The Books I Couldn't Help Thinking about by Tim Worthington.
August 25, 2018November 10, 2020 Tim Worthington

The Books I Couldn’t Help Thinking About

Psychedelia And Other Colours by Rob Chapman (Faber & Faber, 2015).
February 12, 2018December 28, 2020 Tim Worthington

You Can’t Seem To Find How You Got There, So Just Blow Your Mind

Popular Features

Christmas With Children's BBC: Play School, Christmas Eve 1970
Looks Unfamiliar Request Show Extra
That Sight, Those Sounds...
Looks Unfamiliar #43: Anna Cale - Mrs. Mangel's Living Room Was The Bane Of My Life
Looks Unfamiliar #57: Al Kennedy - Maggie Thatcher Is Coming To Steal Your Gold Coins
Looks Unfamiliar Annuals Extra: "We Don't Want To Learn A History Of Sodding Cutlery"
Looks Unfamiliar
The Original Peter
Looks Unfamiliar Disco Sci-Fi Spectacular: "There's No Robots, I'm Not Interested"
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Latest Podcasts

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.

Looks Unfamiliar with Anna Cale Looks Unfamiliar #76: Anna Cale - It Felt Like A Social Realist Jonny Briggs
Anna Cale joins Tim for a chat about Sport Billy, Lindy Layton, Diana Dors' TV-am diet segment, Trev And Simon's Stupid Video, The Incredible Hulk Smash-Up Action Game and more.


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.


Book Offer

Fun At One by Tim Worthington

You can currently get Fun At One with 10% off in paperback (Code BOOKLOVER10) 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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