Looks Unfamiliar

Podnose
  • 4.7 (3)
  • Comedy
  • Updated Monthly

Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington is joined by a series of guests for a bit of a chat about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. From Coming On Strong by Broken English and The Order Of The McVitie's Hobnob, to whichever TV programme it was that ended with footage of dandelion seeds being blown away, we're here to try and help, and to confirm that no, nobody else remembers them either.

  1. 3d ago

    140 - Georgy Jamieson - I Bet She Got It From A Catalogue

    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 broadcaster Georgy Jamieson, trying to distribute heat evenly between her recollections of the ECKCO Hostess Trolley, Terry's Spartan, A Sharp Intake Of Breath, John Cleese's How To Win Holes By Influencing People, Charlie Chester's Sunday Soapbox and the lost art of tuning your radio in to the television signal. Along the way we'll be declining to try Heston Blumenthal's Bouncing Casserole, finding out when Ronnie Corbett looks more like Ronnie Corbett than Ronnie Corbett, trying not to think about what a 'Super-Bath' might involve and watching what happens when Peter Cook takes John Cleese's advice on how to write a letter to Bob Fischer... You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Georgy on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Go For Broke!, Last Chance Lottery, Fry’s Five Centres and Vesta Ready Meals here. as well as joining Bob Fischer for a festively tinged chat about some of the signs that Christmas was coming that you just don't get any more here and a similarly Kiss Me Quick Hat-averting Summer-themed chat here, standing well back for a joint Halloween slash Bonfire Night party here and trying to stage their own ill-advised 'Easter Parade' here. Georgy also gave us her milkshake-questioning thoughts on Bod in The Golden Age Of Children's TV here. If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. They didn't do a Coffee Spartan. Or at least as far as anyone can tell from that one smudgey photo of the back of a box of them.

    140 - Georgy Jamieson - I Bet She Got It From A Catalogue

  2. Jul 2

    139 - David Quantick - We Were Excited Because We Saw Hugh Scully's Makeup Chair

    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 David Quantick, who's trying to avoid having to resort to using a 'Time Bubble' to prove the existence of Timeslip, Black Hearts In Battersea by Joan Aiken, Elephant's Eggs In A Rhubarb Tree, Boxed by Mike Oldfield and Bright's Boffins. Along the way we'll be battling to stop the fiendish plots of The Dastardly Man and Captain Wind-Up Toy, debating whether it was worth getting a colour television to see a blue man behind a desk, explaining why Little Lord Fauntleroy was the Minions of 1890 and taking bets on who will get changed first out of Michael Palin putting on an Edwardian bathing suit and Paul McCartney dressing up as a Teddy Boy. You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Please make sure not to send that Mike Oldfield album that had a mug of coffee flying down Route 101 or whatever it was on the cover.

    139 - David Quantick - We Were Excited Because We Saw Hugh Scully's Makeup Chair

  3. Jun 26

    138 - Gareth Randall - Tony Hart's Tin Machine

    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 broadcast historian Gareth Randall, who's trying to decide whether he'd really rather not have any confirmation of his recollections of notorious Screen Test Young Film-Maker Of The Year entry Ice Cream, Pepe Jeans' 'Where's Pepe?' advertising campaign, Keep Your Pecker Up by Eugene And The Syncopaters, Captain Micro's Electronic Comic, Tim And The Hidden People by Sheila K. McCullagh, Master Maze, Skirrid, 'one-man body band' Darren Kimpton and Take Hart On Holiday. Along the way we'll be assessing the commercial potential of the Lib Dems of jeans, finding out how to get two Blue Peter badges by mistake, casting an eye over the Paul Daniels Video Nasty, explaining why Morph is legally 'different' if he has a mohican but not if he has a knotted handkerchief on his head and cheering on a team of swearing nuns. Plus there's yet another attempt at answering the longstanding question of whether Mike Oldfield really did the theme music for Aubrey... You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. With an endorsement scribbled on by the barista vigorously confirming that they have heard of the word 'coffee'.

    138 - Gareth Randall - Tony Hart's Tin Machine

  4. Jun 21

    137 - Mark Thompson - It's Great For Your Gel Pen Needs

    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 political commentator Mark Thompson, who's hoping that it's not too weird remembering Lenny Henry's Smiths Square Crisps adverts, the 'Allied Lyons - A Great British Company' campaign, The Quiet Earth, Steve Jackson Games' Illuminati, early Channel 4 sitcoms The Optimist and Father's Day and a variety of just about legal payphone 'workarounds'. Along the way we'll be predicting which would prove most profitable out of Findus Crisps and Golden Wonder Shark Jumps, explaining how Roy Jay was too weird for 'It's Weird...', revealing how to repel adolescent phone box miscreants armed only with Red Red Wine by UB40 and considering whether Channel 4 could actually have happened without John Alderton's old shirts. You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Mark on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Whiz Kids, Crash ZX Spectrum, Night Shift, Public Information Film family The Blunders, The Last Train and The Drak Pack here, Libby’s Moonshine, A. Mazing Monsters, Agony, Being Erica, Hawkeye Collins And Amy Adams – Can You Solve The Mystery? and We Know Where You Live plus an extra secret bit about watching television on holiday here, V: The Series, Dirty Dick, The Giftie, The Mad Death, The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime) by Peter Schilling and Space Shuttle here and Twiggy Twiggy (Twiggy Vs. James Bond) by Pizzicato Five, Your Party Needs You, Jasper Carrott’s I’ve Got This Mole, Society, Lost In Austen, Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo and Shadow Chasers here, as well as Running Scared on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV here. If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Don't bother with the Lyons website though. The more you read it, the more confused you'll get over whether it's actually available or not.

    137 - Mark Thompson - It's Great For Your Gel Pen Needs

  5. May 28

    The Golden Age Of Children's TV - "Anything Of The Daleks"

    Tim Worthington has a new book out called The Golden Age Of Children's TV - all about the best, worst and most just plain baffling shows you grew up with in the sixties, seventies and eighties - and the lines are open now for an hour of fun, facts, laughs and thrills. Andy Miller will be dropping by with an armful of books and a few recommendations for your next trip to your local library with a quick flick through the pages of Jackanory. Rae Earl will be joining us live from where she thinks may actually be the real life village that inspired Camberwick Green. If you're off to a fancy dress party Jim Sangster has a few costume tips courtesy of Mr. Benn, Richard Littler will be taking your calls with a few handy hints for useful finds in your local junk shop that might be the next The Magic Ball and Tim Worthington will be introducing Garreth Hirons to the wacky sights and sounds of the latest pop sensation The Banana Splits. So if you want to join in the fun - or just swap an Aurora Banana Buggy Model Kit for a copy of 123456789Benn- ring the show now! You can get The Golden Age Of Children's TV in all good bookshops, and from Waterstones here, Amazon here, from the Kindle Store here and directly from Black And White Publishing here. - and if you want to know more about what you can find in it, head for timworthington.org!

    The Golden Age Of Children's TV - "Anything Of The Daleks"

  6. May 12

    136 - Garry Abbott - You'd Have To Go On A Nerds Quest

    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 musician Garry Abbott, who's sending out a Bicarbonate Of Soda-fuelled message in a bottle in the hope of reaching anyone else who remembers Lovelife by Lush, Nerds, Challenger - The Adventure Machine, Matchbox Connectables, Kellogg's Corn Flakes Baking Soda-Powered Submarine and The Vibes And Livelee Mixtape. Along the way we'll be trying to decode a waterlogged baking soda-infused secret message with 'SECRET' written on it, finding out what happened when 'Les' left The Beatles, debating the politeness of actually turning up to a party you have been cordially invited to, exploring the commercial potential of Talking Sherbet and finally revealing why the key to global unity lies somewhere between Housing Data Analytics and Happy Hardcore. You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Garry on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Button Moon here. If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Please do not get Vibes and/or Livelee to read out the Serving Suggestion.

    136 - Garry Abbott - You'd Have To Go On A Nerds Quest

  7. Apr 5

    The Looks Unfamiliar Easter Parade: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson - What Was The Maundy Thursday Number One?

    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, in a special Easter edition, Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a local radio studio where listeners have been begged not to send in any more home-made Hot Cross Buns, ready to take your calls about some of the over-ostentatiously seasonally-repackaged chocolate that you just don't seem to get any more. So that's incomprehensible classroom 'projects', television schedules crammed with sentient Volkswagens, Easter Eggs devoid of separately packaged confectionary 'extras' and more. In a Jif Lemon Day of a chat we'll be navigating the EU Pancake Mountain, tuning in for the Telly Addicts Whit Special, declining to tune in for Why Don't F*****g You...?, discovering whether The Flying Pickets prefer real chocolate or a 'candy'-derived substitute, querying whether Graham Hill can effectively introduce clips from Fantasia going at that speed, storylining Tiger Tots: Infinity War, debating the merits of the theme from dull 'zoo vet' drama One By One, and generally berating Bob for his lack of Terry Scott Research, Call in and tell us if you know the lyrics to 'Welcome Jolly Easter' now! You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. Bob and Georgy joined me for similarly seasonal chats about some of their favourite forgotten Christmas trimmings here, the rain-lashed joys of the Great British Summertime here and the spooky and sparkly delights of Halloween and Bonfire Night here. You can also find Bob on Looks Unfamiliar chatting about The Tom O’Connor Roadshow, Giant Hogweed, Can’t Get A Ticket (For The World Cup) by Peter Dean, Glee Bars, J. Edward Oliver’s ‘Abolish Tuesdays’ and How To Be A Wally here, Eighties ‘Tabloid Celebrities’, Accidentally Kelly Street by Frente!, The Two Ronnies’ ‘Mileaway’, Rude Food, Suggs On Saturday and School Folk Songs here and Tucker’s Luck, Pookiesnackenburger, We Wanna Be Famous by Buster Gobsmack And Eats Filth’, game show contestants’ occupations being booed by the studio audience and the lost ancient art of the paper plate and shaving foam Custard Pie here, and Georgy on Indoor League, Re-Joyce!, the The Animals In The Box sketch, the Paul Squire Fan Club, Pippa Dolls, Pig In The Middle and Good Winter Telly here and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Go For Broke!, Last Chance Lottery, Fry’s Five Centres and Vesta Ready Meals here. You can also find Georgy and Bob on The Golden Age Of Children's TV talking about Bod here and The Owl Service here. If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Regardless of whether it is one a penny or two a penny.

    The Looks Unfamiliar Easter Parade: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson - What Was The Maundy Thursday Number One?

  8. Mar 28

    135 - Tom Williamson - You Stick Them In And They Go FH-DNK

    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 historian Tom Williamson, who thinks that the heat is on and the time is right for remembering Going For Gold, Duel by Propaganda, Constructor, the Mr Blobby VHS and The Adam And Joe Show. Along the way we'll be soliciting Gary Lineker's opinion on Napalm Death, debating the advisability of sending a pimped-up Viscount biscuit through the post, studying the phenomenon of the Traditional Scottish Head-Turn Wink, celebrating Mr. Blobby's success rate in exposing 'love rats' and trying to figure out why there were so many Pearly Kings all over Saturday Night TV in the late eighties. You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Tom on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Knightmare, Samurai Pizza Cats, Add N To (X), Colonization, Mogwai and Life Storyhere, as well as talking about Blockbusters on The Golden Age Of Children's TV here. If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Do not order it in the pronunciation style recommended by th at 'British' voice coach.

    135 - Tom Williamson - You Stick Them In And They Go FH-DNK
See All (219)

Ratings & Reviews

4.7
out of 5
3 Ratings

About

Writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington is joined by a series of guests for a bit of a chat about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. From Coming On Strong by Broken English and The Order Of The McVitie's Hobnob, to whichever TV programme it was that ended with footage of dandelion seeds being blown away, we're here to try and help, and to confirm that no, nobody else remembers them either.

Information

  • Creator
    Podnose
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    219
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Looks Unfamiliar

You Might Also Like