Tim Worthington

I heavily suspect Damon Albarn's 'Lot 105' was the model of Hammond that found its way into a lot of front rooms.

My Fleeting House What do I think of when I see the letters ‘BBC’?

I want this BBC - my BBC - back. It's been stolen from us by politics and politicians.

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The Truth That Killed The story of Georgi Markov, a writer assassinated in one of the darkest acts of the Cold War.

The first major news story I can remember being aware of was the assassination of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian writer targeted in one of the Cold War's darkest acts. Widely forgotten but it haunted me for a very long time. This is his story.

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Melody - or SWALK, depending on which cinema you were seeing it at - Bee Gee-underscored Artful Dodger and Oliver-reconvening adolescent hand-holding triangle hijinks played out to disapproving fist-waving from character actor-rendered weary teachers.

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Current Earworm: He's a Skol-ar/and I'm a Skol-ar/we're Skol-ars through and through/if you know your beer, you know your brew/you could be a Skol-ar too/a Skol-ar through and through.

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Will be here if you fancy it

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The Innes Book Of Records - meditative miscellany of Neil Innes songs set to whimsical expressionist semi-dramatised short films casting an amused glance at life, love and laundrettes. Like jam but for people who like to crack the occasional smile.

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The Monty Python Matching Tie And Handkerchief - triple-sided double-grooved comic audacity masked as off-colour gift set, randomly alighting on singing Bruces, Neil Innes setting agrarian development to music and a chat show with a wasp as the guest.

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King Of The Castle - Kafka Goes To Grange Hill textbook seventies Children's ITV terrifyingness about a schoolboy discovering his real-life tormentors all have Dickens slash Carroll character actor analogues living in the basement of his grim tower block.

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Looks Unfamiliar: Donna Rees – Michael Palin Is Almost Like A Suit Looks Unfamiliar with Donna Rees talking to Tim Worthington about King Of The Castle, The Monty Python Matching Tie And Handkerchief, The Innes Book Of Records, Melody and more…!

Donna Rees (@donnarees.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Monty Python's Matching Tie And Handkerchief, The Innes Book Of Records, King Of The Castle, Melody and more...

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Drahvin Saturday What was on television – and radio – on Saturday 25th September 1965? Doctor Who, Juke Box Jury and WAY too much politics…

What else was on television and radio on the same day as the third episode of 1965 Doctor Who story Galaxy 4? WAY too much politics, for a start...

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It’s A Well-Worn Scene, Man A look at the infamous ‘drug party’ episode of late sixties ITV light drama Hadleigh, and how it ended up on a cable channel in the small hours in the early nineties…

Hadleigh, a late sixties ITV light drama starring Gerald Harper, once did an episode set at an alarmingly realistic 'drugs party' crammed with authentically sullen hippies. There's nude painting-related blackmail too...

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What terrible archival disaster befell Bullseye in 1986??!

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil: Born Again With Miriam Kent Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Frank Castle discovering just how many types of ‘behind bars’ it’s possible to be in Daredevil: Born Again.

It was so good - and so unnervingly prescient - that all of the critics moaning about 'superhero fatigue' seem to have conveniently forgotten to mention it. Miriam Kent (@miriamkent.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Daredevil: Born Again!

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@benbaker.bsky.social "Dad Out!"

@whenisbirths.bsky.social There is not enough about 1991's Cold Cold Heart by Midge Ure in your book about eighties.

"But the greatest of these is Tortoise".

Fun At One Fun At One by Tim Worthington – the story of comedy at BBC Radio 1, from Kenny Everett to Chris Morris and beyond.

Fun At One - the story of comedy at BBC Radio 1. If you spent your evenings listening to Mark Radcliffe, Lee And Herring and Collins And Maconie's Hit Parade, this book is for you!

Paperback (10% off code BCORP10) or Kindle from here.

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special With Tim Worthington David Smith joins Tim Worthington for a chat about about Mantis confusing The Twelve Days Of Christmas with Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon in The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special.

David Smith (@davidstrathdee.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about everyone's favourite outer space outlaws deciding to play a festive game of No Degrees Of Kevin Bacon in The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special...!

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He's a man
With a plan
Mimes a clue for Janet and Ad-ri-an
He's Misstra Noseybonk

Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – Real Life Has Caught Up With Bod Tim Worthington joins Garreth Hirons for a festively-tinged chat about I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod’s Present, A Merry Jingle by T…

Saint Etienne, Bod, Max Headroom, Ferrero Rocher, Mariah Carey and Richard Herring - together at last!

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania With Kirsten Howard Kirsten Howard joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Scott and Hope finding out where all those errant Lego pieces wind up in Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania.

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania. It's got its problems to say the least, and it's a *massive* comedown after the first two Ant-Man movies, but did it really deserve the kicking it got? Here's a chat with @kirstenhoward.bsky.social about just that...

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OK Soda - Coca-Cola's attempt at hooking in the famously easily commercially swayed and not at all cynical and anti-commercialist members of Generation X. Yes they really did call it that.

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Bossa Nova - Year 2000 As It Gets romcom set to the sensual backdrop of hot Latin beats about a couple who meet after sending lots of very long emails to each other in what was effectively a steam age way of doing Internet dating. It worked though.

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Bongos Bass And Bob - lo-fi late eighties stripped down comedy skiffle-rock with an antisocial streak - think a more twisted Corky And The Juice Pigs - and a neat line in Rutles covers. Meanwhile, who's that suspiciously familiar character on bass...?

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Over The Top - Tim Curry and Annie Potts trade the two-line one-liners as long-estranged sitcom couple plunged back together by virtue of their adjacency to a hotel, also featuring Steve Carell as a chef. Quietly 'retired' after three broadcast episodes.

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Boomerang - Seattle-area learning-through-songs touchy feely pre-school chicanery that in no way bore any similarity to a certain Street-based show, presented by Marni Nixon and a bunch of what were not under any circumstances knock-off haunted Muppets.

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Looks Unfamiliar: Genevieve Jenner – I Can’t Be Loyal, There’s Puppets Looks Unfamiliar with Genevieve Jenner talking to Tim Worthington about Boomerang, Over The Top, Bossa Nova, Thorazine Shuffle by Bongos Bass And Bob, Wizard’s Hall by Jayne Yolen, OK Soda an…

Genevieve Jenner (@gfrancie.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Boomerang, Over The Top, Bossa Nova, Thorazine Shuffle by Bongos Bass And Bob, Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen, OK Soda and more...

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T.T.V. - spinoff from Play School's ill-advised early eighties 'zany' makeover featuring diseased bin-perching puppet cat Scragtag introducing appropriately raggedy filmed inserts in a - ho ho - Breakfast Time-lampooning 'Tea Time TV' conceit.

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In 1987 Children's BBC sci-fi thriller serial Aliens In The Family, fugitive alien Bond is shown a series of examples of human faces to base his appearance on for his incognito visit to Earth. Some of these may have been more representative than others...

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