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The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “Get Your Singing Ringing Tree Here!”

Watch with Juliet Brando on Orm And Cheep, John Rain on Grange Hill, Steve O'Brien on Bagpuss, Stephen O'Brien on Press Gang and Tim Worthington on The Magic Roundabout.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: What If…? With Al Kennedy

Al Kennedy joins Tim Worthington for a chat about a mindbending glimpse of alternate realities with their own Deadpool expressing exasperation with their insistence on being Multiverses in What If...?.

It’s Still A Police Box, Why Hasn’t It Changed? Part Seventeen – Uptown Top Ranquin

It's 1978, and Doctor Who is off on its most epic adventure yet - but does the real threat to universal harmony come from behind-the-scenes clashes...?

The Big Recommendations Sort Out

A collection of enthusiasms over a handful of podcasts and mailling lists that I both enjoy and felt deserved a little more exposure, with apologies extended to ALFSplaining who were next on the list but were ultimately denied their moment of inbox-bothering glory...

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Still listening to overblown symphonic arragements of John Barry's soundtrack music? Oublie ça - here's a fantastic compilation of his beat-boom era soundtrack single sides...

The Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ

Getting wound up and ready to play with a collection of lesser heard musical highlights from children's television programmes and some thoughts on what Mods did when there was no television on, what constitutes an Alleged Elephant, whether silver buckles on your knee will make you a 'wow' with the ladies and why Captain Scarlet needs to take a quick course in acoustic resonance, and absolutely no mention whatsoever of that record Johnny Morris did about not being able to say Gemini The Sealion's name or whatever it was...

I’m Wanda, And I’m Known By Many Names…

Agatha might well be All Along it, but why is Wanda Maximoff so reluctant to head down the Witches' Road...?

Looks Unfamiliar: Donna Rees – As Soon As The Ink Was Dry On The Script It Was Out Of Date

Looks Unfamiliar with Donna Rees talking to Tim Worthington about Cupid And Psyche '85 by Scritti Politti, Ripping Yarns: Golden Gordon, The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer, Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind The Green Door, Gonks Go Beat and more...!

Dead Ink Books In Conversation: The Golden Age Of Children’s TV

A chat with Andy Miller from Backlisted about The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

Through The Square Window: Bookshelves, Bowie And Queen Caroline

A bookshelf full of highlights from the archives including Tim Worthington, Martin Belam and Jack Kibble-White on Looks Unfamiliar and some rather unconventional reading recommendations...