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The Books I Couldn’t Help Thinking About

If you’ve been reading my new book Can’t Help Thinking About Me, then you might well have seen the lengthy piece about the substantial influence that sadly defunct pop magazine Smash Hits had on my sense of humour, my style of writing, and, well, just on me in general. Right up until the disastrously reined-in […]

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar #4: The Real Bowie Says To The Imagined Bowie

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. This is a collection of highlights from shows nineteen to twenty four, featuring Paul Kirkley on The Kids From Fame Again, Garreth F. Hirons […]

Looks Unfamiliar #26: Martin Belam – It’s Not Funny Having A Piano Fall On Your Head If Someone’s Just Drawn It

Looks Unfamiliar 26: Martin Belam Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. Joining Tim this time is journalist Martin Belam, who’s searching hard for historical evidence of the Laurel And Hardy […]

Can’t Help Thinking About Me

Can’t Help Thinking About Me is a new book by me, full of old features given a new twist. It’s part autobiography, part cultural history, part bewildering manifestos about ridiculous sixties pop records and terrifying television puppets. Inside its massive page count you’ll find… – An introduction from Samira Ahmed – Over a hundred pages […]

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

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. This time the guest is Tim himself, who talks to Stephen O’Brien about the fact that almost literally nobody he has ever met has […]

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 528

I’ve got a feature in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine, looking at the Sky Ray ice lolly campaign from the late sixties which saw a weirdly-drawn Doctor take on some slightly more reasonably-drawn Daleks with the aid of Sky Ray’s own ‘Space Raiders’. As well as looking at campaign and the collectable cards […]

Betamax Video Club: Morons From Outer Space

You can hear me talking about Morons From Outer Space, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones’ much-scoffed-at mid-eighties box office disaster, on the latest edition of Betamax Video Club. As well as standing up for the unfairly maligned not-that-bad overlong sketch and its entertainingly awful theme song, you can also hear some contentious opinions on […]

Looks Unfamiliar #24: Garreth F. Hirons – I Backed The Betamax Of Nirvana Spinoffs

Looks Unfamiliar 24: Garreth F. Hirons Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. Joining Tim for a second time is musician and writer Garreth F. Hirons, who’s getting puzzled looks whenever he […]

Looks Unfamiliar #23: Ros Ballinger – I Can’t Remember If It Was The First Leg Or The Second Leg

Looks Unfamiliar 23: Ros Ballinger Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. Joining Tim this time is comedian Ros Ballinger, who does her best to convince everyone else of the existence of Henry’s […]

Looks Unfamiliar #22: James Gent – A Cross Between The Prisoner And Test Match Special

Looks Unfamiliar 22: James Gent Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. Joining Tim this time is writer James Gent, who is stringing together hazy archive recollections of The Golden Oldie Picture Show, […]