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That bloke in The Goombay Dance Band can't even eat fire any more because 'woke'.

Mr. Men Songs - collection of soft rock odes to assorted Mr. Men sung by session singers and occasional disinterested Arthur Lowe that unlike most records based on popular children's characters mostly adheres to the original stories. Mostly. timworthington.org/2022/03/09/l...

Funny how Gervais's Savile 'material' fails to mention he booked him as the first guest for his C4 chat show.

Looks Unfamiliar! The anti-nostalgia podcast about things we remember that not many other people remember. Here's me about - amongst other things - the Mr Men album which is legitimately wall to wall bangers.

A public announcement from Martin Carr ❤️

Mr. Men Songs, Monkey Dust, Hard Candy Nail Polish and the unmade final episode of Dungeons And Dragons with @scriblit.bsky.social. timworthington.org/2022/03/09/l...

In response to a DM - please don't do this - I do actually have a publishing deal, though it's for a book that one publisher passed on because their factual budget was taken up by a cookbook by a Race Around The World contestant. Also if they gave Aled Jones a skip hire firm you'd be up in arms.

I’m convinced that if you had more authors being seen on TV, on chat shows etc (like they used to be), a lot of the ‘celebrity author industry’ would dry up overnight.

Always minded to consider how so many actually genuinely talented and capable famous people have accumulated so few novels between them.

Before the internet, people used to have to do all their creeping in the classifieds. Tag yourself (to the nearest police station.)

Author career advice: MFA in creative writing ❌️ Years dedicated to reading literature ❌️ Risk personal security to hone craft ❌️ Years of writing/rewriting ❌ Become a minor celeb by exploiting the death of a snowman & another boy's work ✅️ Dry up after 2 paragraphs then ask ChatGPT to 'finish it off' ✅️

Take Hart On Holiday - no school schedule-pluggage gambit in which Tony and Mr. Bennett venture out of studio-bound normality and head to country and coastal resorts for sketching and mishaps respectively and Morph and Chas squabble over deckchairs. timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

Just remembered that Dairy Milk advert where Bobby McFerrin re-recorded Thinkin' 'Bout Your Body as Thinkin' 'Bout Your Chocolate. Sadly the follow-up Don't Worry, Be Caramac was less successful.

Darren Kimpton - face-slapping raspberry-blowing sort of Fine Fare Bobby McFerrin briefly feted by magazine shows for ability to replicate 'amusing' TV themes in vague manner of that bloke in the rugby club jacket from Absolutely. Imitations invited censure. timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

If you're *still* posting photos of Ted Bovis and that turkey out of Wil Cwac Cwac to 'satirise' the news of an unexpected character appearing in the Avengers: Doomsday trailer, I'm going to suggest that it's not actually the Marvel fans who need to get a life after all.

It's a YoLD bonus mini-edition covering those ten weeks in 1976 everyone's been banging on about this week. What were we watching? Drama in which nothing happens, cartoons in which everything happens, monumentally inane competitions and a touch of rabies. open.substack.com/pub/historyo...

Really do wonder what life is like on the planet of the depressingly considerable volume of people who will shout at Radio 2 for 'losing' presenters to changing life circumstances, illness and in one case not being alive any more, in apparent unawareness that they were all once 'new' names to boot

Skirrid - 'sophisticated' number-strategising high concept board game for broadsheet readers to look at and go 'aaaaaahhhhh!' rather than play, promoted by bewildering assortment of public figures vigorously asserting that they had received a letter mentioning it. timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

If I'm honest I've always found A24's productions incredibly cynical exercises anyway, like they'd been deliberately tailored to validate the sensibilities of aaaah! types who think The Fast And The Furious is making their tahini go off or something, so the AI partnership doesn't really surprise me.

Master Maze - ball bearing-guidance navigational challenge of playground ubiquity and tantalisingly opaque provenance, available exclusively from that bit to the side of the newsagents' counter with those paper streamers in front of it. timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

Top Of The Box Vol. 2. A complete guide to every album released by BBC Records And Tapes, and where to find some of the best music you never even knew existed. Beat, psych, folk, electronic, the lot. Paperback or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/top-of...

Tim And The Hidden People - not remotely suspicious series of reading-encouragement classroom thrillers about an orphan dressed in red and blue who gives his Aunt May the slip to go out and battle supernatural foes with a slash the Black Cat... timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

Illuminati - Steve Jackson-carded conspiracy theory smackdown pitting moon landing truthers against those who have 'seen' giant lizards hoarding doubloons et al with tongue wedged very firmly in cheek for an audience who took it very very seriously indeed. timworthington.org/2026/06/21/l...

The Quiet Earth - none-more-video-shop post-post-post apocalyptic thriller except it's not actually 'post' at all sort of from director of Young Guns II concerning the last three surviving humans who all happen to live in relatively close proximity in New Zealand. timworthington.org/2026/06/21/l...

RHLSTP Book Club with Olly Smith now up shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo... Clip - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfIh...

Captain Micro's Electronic Comic - overambitious attempt at creating mock-Saturday Morning TV show miscellany to rent from your local video shop, with Michael Fenton-Stevens voiced 2000AD escapee saving computers 'from boredom' by introducing clips of Paul Daniels. timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

Keep Your Pecker Up by Eugene And The Syncopaters - twenties-electropop saucy posh bloke PG Wodehouse rewritten by Hale And Pace attempt to take sub-song bit off The Two Ronnies single entendre office joker-friendly novelty number info the charts. Didn't go up. timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

Catching up on #totp. Oh right it's THAT Shania Twain performance.

Where's Pepe? - audience-baffling denim-floggage in which a load of arty black and white posers with Clothes Show voices and a colour Leigh Bowery audibly question the whereabouts of 'Pepe' directly to camera leading up to confusing closing caption 'They All Do'. timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

Ice Cream - long-lost nightmare-fuelling Screen Test Young Film-Maker Of The Year contest entry showing in no uncertain terms - if very uncertain amateur film stock - what was in store if you accepted a lift on the promise of frozen comestibles. Can stay lost. timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

It's astonishing just how many analogue phone service-plugging faded Holly Valances from circa 2003 you can still spot in the wild, like a sort of reverse TARDIS slash BT-promoting Dorian Grey only with her portrait growing ever more blue.

Still not entirely clear on why paying by app on public transport is continually being sold to me as 'faster' when it seems to take everyone who does about twelve times as long as tapping a card would.

At last a mystery has been solved. I kept asking about "sweets that were like Nerds, but Frankenstein themed" and nobody knew what I meant. In fact it was Nerds themselves that were originally Frankenstein themed (and kept out of my little hands by glass urban legends).

New! Gareth Randall (@gwr.bsky.social) on Master Maze, Skirrid, Take Hart On Holiday, Captain Micro's Electronic Comic, 'Where's Pepe?', Tim And The Hidden People, Eugene And The Syncopaters and - uh oh - notorious Screen Test Young Film-Maker short Ice Cream... timworthington.org/2026/06/26/l...

Newsround #kingcharles #tax youtu.be/M0Fkqmb6Dg4

Honestly cannot recommend The Hoarding - a horror short written by, directed by and starring Karen Gillan - highly enough, especially if you like weird old UK horror. Part Public Information Film, part Tales Of The Unexpected, all magnificently creepy. timworthington.org/2022/03/20/l...

Thank god someone famous is getting a shot at success.

New! Mark Thompson (@markreckons.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Lenny Henry’s Square Crisps ads, ‘Allied Lyons – A Great British Company, The Quiet Earth, Steve Jackson’s Illuminati, The Optimist, Father’s Day and more. timworthington.org/2026/06/21/l...

When people talk about old TV shows that are CHILLINGLY PRESCIENT and SPEAK TO OUR TROUBLED TIMES they a) are being twats, and b) never mention Cloppa Castle. Two rival factions (called the Bygones and Hasbeens, wink wink) endlessly fighting over oil reserves, all manipulated by a scheming tech bro.

What's That Noise? - Craig Charles-fronted Children's BBC 'music for everyone' effort where the Young Cellist Of The Year would meet Then Jerico, Napalm Death and a bloke who played the washboard for an 'all-star jam' that apparently had 'got to be funky'. timworthington.org/2022/03/20/l...

Galloping Galaxies! - space-set nominal Rentaghost follow-on with Kenneth Williams-voiced computer S.I.D. and endless exasperated requests taken too literally gags plus belting theme song like an even more panto version of the Clouds Across The Moon video. timworthington.org/2022/03/20/l...

I am convinced that Criticize by Alexander O'Neal includes the lines "you criticize my cat" and "you criticize my I.D." and I refuse to be corrected on this.

My all-time favourite podcast? The Collings And Herrin Podcast. Tons of new ideas brought in every week, an arbitrary set running time they would not go beyond, and they had so much fun developing running jokes rather than simply repeating them. Brilliant. timworthington.org/2022/03/20/l...

The Doctor Who radio serial Slipback was originally broadcast as part of Pirate Radio 4, a school holidays children's show that also featured exclusive Adrian Mole monologues, music from The Mint Juleps and more. So what was the actual show itself like? Well... timworthington.org/2022/03/20/l...

A dating app for cockneys in trilbies called Mindr

The Chronicles Of Narmo is an early novel by a then fifteen-year-old Caitlin Moran. It's pretty much as close as you'll find to a precursor to Raised By Wolves, and although it's no How To Build A Girl, there's a real raw energy in the writing... timworthington.org/2022/03/20/l...

In the age of streaming, it's easy to forget just how important a well put together compilation album introducing you to a genre or archive discoveries could be. The InFlight Entertainment series for example were like a brand new pocket record collection... timworthington.org/2022/03/20/l...

Where would you expect to see a movie this... delightful on television? Extremely late at night if at all?? Well ITV once saw fit to show it on a quiet afternoon, where a certain very young child saw it and was as intrigued as they were disturbed... timworthington.org/2022/03/20/l...

Wow - Magic Smile by Rosie Vela is on Radio 2. The first time I've heard it on the radio in possibly decades. Here's me and @gracedent.bsky.social on how much we love this overlooked eighties sort-of hit.. timworthington.org/2021/10/16/l...