RHLSTP Book Club 139 - Tim Worthington

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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RHLSTP Book Club 139 - The Golden Age of Children’s TV - Richard chats with cult TV expert Tim Worthington about his fabulous book about the TV that people of Richard’s age (and a bit older and a bit younger) grew up with. They discuss quite how huge an influence these shows were on Richard’s developing brain, what makes some shows memorable and others not, how some of these shows exist in our minds from before we have any other memories, the amazing creative teams behind successes like Thunderbirds, Bagpuss and Camberwick Green, when Norris Macwhirter was bested by a Simon Quinlank prototype, whether Johnny Ball had a bar of gold on his back, why Richard cried over a TV show when he moved to Cheddar and who N’kima was.

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0:00.0	Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to my podcast. You're the best. It's me, Richard Herring.
0:05.1	Look, the big news this week is on Wednesday we are doing, can I have my ball back in Stevenage?
0:10.9	We're going to be recording the DVD slash download. It would be terrific to get a few more people in.
0:17.5	It's selling okay, but it's a big old theatre and it'll be better if there's more people there it's basically in stevenage station it's just across a little bridge it's so
0:25.7	close so if you want to get there from london cambridge or anywhere nearby if you missed the show before
0:30.8	it's such an easy commute in and out and you'll be able to get home pretty quick uh go to richetown
0:36.0	dot com slash ballback slash tour for details of that show and also Salisbury
0:40.9	on Friday and Bristol coming up at the first of June.
0:44.9	There's also some Rhelleras to pickings coming up that I'd love you to come and see.
0:49.5	There's one in Cheshem in the afternoon on the 24th of May at the El Giver Theatre. We haven't got a guest
0:57.4	sorted out yet but I'm doing my best to do that ASAP so keep an eye on rich hang.com slash
1:02.2	Rahalester Pupp. There's also I'm going to be doing a couple of the Bill Murray in June that's
1:08.2	in Angel in London and I haven't got ticket links for that yet and also
1:12.5	we'll be in the Sheffield Playhouse on the 5th of July and that one's selling pretty fast so
1:17.7	book tickets haven't got any guests apart from Barry Ferns. It's going to be doing one at the
1:22.2	Angel and then there's the Edinburgh Fringe coming up 30th of July to the 10th of August.
1:28.3	And I'm going to try and get you the best people in Edinburgh for that one.
1:31.9	But just book for whenever you can come. It'll be fun.
1:35.5	Whatever the guests, you know it.
1:39.1	Really appreciate everyone who's come to the tour so far.
1:41.9	It's done okay.
1:44.2	I'm very ill.
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