VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 86 - TX MAY 29 2022 - SATC

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 29th 2022

One of the many series that PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is an enthusiastic fan of is the HOME BOX OFFICE series SEX AND THE CITY, which ran for six seasons, which started in the last couple of years of the last century, and continued through into the first few years of the twenty first, and has since been revived for two feature films, and has now resurfaced in the spin-off series AND JUST LIKE THAT which, he assures me, does not involve any magic tricks or fez wearing that he’s aware of.

SEX AND THE CITY told the stories of the friendship between four smart and dynamic women living in New York City around the time of the millennium, who seem to have no secrets from each other, and share frank details of every matter in their personal lives, whilst living at the more successful, fashionable, and privileged end of life in the city that never sleeps.

The series was based upon the newspaper column in THE NEW YORK OBSERVER and subsequent book written by CANDACE BUSHNELL, and consisted of ninety-four episodes broadcast over six seasons from June 1998 through to February 2004.

It features SARAH JESSICA PARKER as CARRIE BRADSHAW, whose newspaper column gives the series its title and much of its subject matter. Her three friends, who have varying degrees of success in their personal lives, are CHARLOTTE YORK (played by KRISTIN DAVIS), who works in an Art Gallery, SAMANTHA JONES (played by KIM CATTRALL), an independent business woman who had a career in PR, and MIRANDA HOBBES (played by CYNTHIA NIXON), who is a very successful lawyer.

SEX AND THE CITY is a series that is hugely popular with its fans all around the world, but, despite having a few vague memories of dipping in and having a peek at a couple of episodes when it first appeared on terrestrial television in the UK, it was never a series that I was particularly drawn towards, so PAUL is here to persuade me, as my guests often are these days, how wrong I was to ignore it, and to tell me why it’s one of his favourites and why I ought to perhaps give it another try.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show