Can't Help Thinking About Me: How To Become TV's 'Clangers Expert' Sort Of Accidentally On Purpose

by Tim Worthington

In Can’t Help Thinking About Me, writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington takes us on an hilarious tour of how and why he ended up on the BBC News channel with a big caption saying ‘CLANGERS EXPERT’. From growing up in a noisy household with clowns on the Christmas Tree to asking some elderly Elvis Presley fans if they’d mind keeping the volume down, it’s a dizzying hurtle through popular culture that takes in Smash Hits, BBC Test Card F, Camberwick Green, Railway Station Graffiti, David Bowie, Rentaghost, What Jimi Hendrix Might Have Watched On TV, Doctor Who, The Monkees, Video Nasties, Rubik’s Magic, Being Made To Watch On The Black And White Portable, Compilation Tapes, Chris Morris, Play School, The Oz Trial, What To Get For Christmas In 1986, B.A .Robertson, Chorlton And The Wheelies, Britpop, That Was The Week That Was, The Beatles and lots more... including Skiboy!

546 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 21, 2018

About the author

Writer and occasional broadcaster. Somewhere between Jennifer Eccles and King Midas In Reverse.

"The Dominic Sandbrook of things that don't matter" according to one reader.

Lots more to read at http://timworthington.blogspot.co.uk/

Reviews

[Ben Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tim's best collection of writing yet. Its essential reading for anyone with even a sneaking interest in TV, music, film and pop culture from 1964 right up to 2004 and beyond. Also: whatever the piss Skiboy is. Get it bought, Steve.