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Captain Kipper's Clipper (Hypnotone Brain Machine Mix)
So, what exactly was I hoping that Music From BBC Children's Programmes would prove to be? A sudden shift from the here and now into the more kaleidoscopic hues of all those gaudy seventies-forged...
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Well At Least It's On The Kindle Store
Well At Least It's Free, a book collecting some of my features on archive TV and pop music, is now available on the Amazon Kindle Store. Doctor Who fans may be interested to know that it includes huge...
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Sweeps, Swoops, Cloud, Windbubble And 'Spangles'
If anyone ever did actually watch Doctor Who from behind the 'sofa', then it's a fair bet that the second track of Music From BBC Children's Programmes would have sent them scurrying right back there....
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Someone's Being Menaced By An Out-Of-Control Studio Campfire, My Lord, Kum Ba...
You can tell Those Children From The Cover Of Music From BBC Children's Programmes that it's safe to come out from behind the sofa now. The Doctor Who medley has finished, and it's time instead for the...
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And The Ones That Florence Gives You Don't Do Anything At All
Well, that last instalment was very definitely One We Made Much More Boringly. Anyway, we're not going to be spending any more time than we have to on Blue Peter. Instead, it's time to move on to track...
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This Is Television Freedom
While Alan McGee’s failure to transform Primal Scream, Saint Etienne, My Bloody Valentine and Teenage Fanclub overnight into globe-straddling millionaire megastars was almost entirely down to both the...
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The Dalek Invasion Of RAF Finningley
For all that they might have gone on about their collective fear of typecasting, the various 'classic'Doctor Who lead actors didn't half jump at the chance of an in-character tie-in appearance. Whether...
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The Original Peter
For some reason, the late sixties and early seventies in particular seem to have been full of musical acts who are held in high regard now but went almost unnoticed at the time. When you look into it...
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London's So Nice Back In Your Seamless Rhymes
It's very difficult to describe from this distance just how exciting For Tomorrow by Blur was back in 1993. It was, though, and like them, hate them, or erroneously write them off as cockernee knees-up...
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Looks Unfamiliar #1: Phil Catterall - Here Is Pyramint, Buy Pyramint
Looks Unfamiliar 1 - Phil CatterallLooks 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...
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Drahvin Saturday
If you've read my book Not On Your Telly, then you'll probably have seen a piece about when a copy of Air Lock, the long-lost third episode of the 1965 Doctor Who story Galaxy Four, turned up a while...
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It's Time For... It's Time For... Comic Relief!
Between 1988 and 1995, BBC Radio 1 made a concerted - and highly successful - attempt at introducing a regular speech comedy slot into its schedule. Designed from the outset to help emphasise the...
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Looks Unfamiliar #2: Garreth F. Hirons - Piers Morgan, I Want My Sizzlin'...
Looks Unfamiliar 2 - Garreth F. HironsLooks 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...
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Looks Unfamiliar #3: Mark Thompson - I'm Quite Happy With My Passport Colour...
Looks Unfamiliar 3 - Mark ThompsonLooks 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...
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There's So Much More In TV Times Part 9: Patricia Driscoll Feeds Two Of Her Cats
Not everyone bought TV Times solely to find out when Exit! It's The Way-Out Show was on, and the magazine's editors knew exactly how to keep their more casual readers hooked. You can only get three...
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Looks Unfamiliar #4: Stephen O'Brien - The Classic 'Four Calculators' Sketch
Looks Unfamiliar 4 - Stephen O'BrienLooks 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...
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A Fast Exciting All Action Game
Entrepreneur, engineer and inventor of the Spirograph, Denys Fisher was the creative driving force behind an enduring and very very 'British' toys and games company. No, seriously. You really don't...
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Russ Conway Day
The only time that I ever queued for annual limited edition vinyl bonanza Record Store Day was for the third event in 2010. I'd participated in, and quite enjoyed, the first two; this had involved...
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Looks Unfamiliar #5: Ben Baker - The Famous Fourth Universal Monster
Looks Unfamiliar 5 - Ben BakerLooks 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...
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Doctor Who And The Thin Ice
In the December 1970 newsletter from The Doctor Who Fan Club, Pertwee-hungry fans could find out all that there was to know about the forthcoming new series. And that, really, wasn’t very much at all....
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