112 - LYDIA MIZON - THERE WAS REAL PERIL AND ALSO VOWELS AND CONSONANTS

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 QI Elf Lydia Mizon, who's pushing the lever marked Let's Rock on Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, The Adam And Joe XFM Podcast, Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day On The Job, Look And Read: Through The Dragon's Eye and Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia by The Cuban Boys. Along the way we'll gauging the optimal moment to set off a fire alarm during Father Ted, accusing Posh Spice of smelling like your nan, discussing why bad dangers should not be allowed anywhere near the Mobile Spice Phone and debating who would 'win' out of Ricardo Autobahn and Cliff Richard.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Lydia talking about Stoppit And Tidyup, FervourAlphabet CastleRoseanne And The Magic Mirror, Party Mania and a book about Lydia who hated cress here and Look Around YouMongrelsKarma Hotel by Spooks, The Smurfs Go Pop!, Lift OffSecret Agent: The Hunt For Red Rock RoverMath Rescue, Ceefax Backchat and 4-Tel MegaZine here.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. In one of those heat-activated Spice World mugs where they all moved very very slightly apart from Mel B, please.

047 - JIM SANGSTER - A HORRIBLE BEE-IN-A-JAR TYPE NOISE

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 Jim Sangster, who’s browsing the archive shelves for any trace of controversial BBC2 satirical drama A Small ProblemThe Ballad Of Lady Di by The Hon. Nick Jones and Ian Macrae, early Channel 4 sci-fi sitcom They Came From Somewhere Else, ITV Nighttime supernatural anthology filler Worlds Beyond, The Spice Girls’ Spice World PlayStation game and Rubovia. Along the way we’ll be finding out whether Princess Diana preferred Breaking Glass or Lancelot Link – Secret Chimp, what Minnie Mouse did with the master tape of A Young Person’s Guide To Getting Their Ball Back, and why you should never allow The Valeyard near your family’s bookshelf.

You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.