VISION ON SOUND

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 148 - TX AUGUST 6 2023 - PAUL GETS RANDOM

August 06, 2023 18:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 6th 2023 “DOCTOR WHO IS THE MISS MARPLE OF SCI-FI!” This week, once again, that regular contributor to VISION ON SOUND, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, is our returning guest, and is sitting in the hot seat as I fling another of our random chat topics in his general direction, and, when we set out on our journey, neither of us have a clue where it’s going to go. Happily, this week we talk quite a lot about THE AVENGERS in both its...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 147 - TX JULY 30 2023 - COLUMBO

July 30, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 30th 2023 ANDY TATE who we’re welcoming today is a fan of the show, and got in touch with me with a whole list of exciting suggestions of subjects for shows we might want to do on VISION ON SOUND, so it only seemed fair to invite him along and talk to him about some of them. And what a fun guest he turned out to be, as I think you’ll discover over the next hour, in which, after a bit of a preamble in which we talk about some of hi...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 146 - TX JULY 23 2023 - THIS IS A FAKE

July 23, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 23rd 2023 A couple of years ago, back in our forty-eighth edition of VISION ON SOUND in September 2021, I welcomed ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON onto the show for the first time, and we spent a happy hour discussing his artistic life, creating his witty television-themed illustrations and graphic images, and about how his love of archive television inspired many of them. His creation of spoof adverts featuring characters from shows like SA...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 145 - TX JULY 16 2023 - RICK'S TV MEMORIES

July 16, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 16th 2023 It’s been rather too long since we last heard from our Canadian Correspondent RICK LAWLOR on the show, so when I did finally manage to remind myself of this and get in touch, it was a joy to find out that he was still keen to contribute to the show, despite those pesky time differences that can sometimes make finding suitable moments to record slightly difficult to organize. But RICK was still keen, even if it meant rear...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 144 - TX JULY 9 2023 - TWILIGHT ZONE

July 09, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 9th 2023 I’ve wanted to cover the iconic TV series THE TWILIGHT ZONE on the show since almost the very first episode of VISION ON SOUND, but for some reason, things seemed to keep getting in the way of me getting around to it, so I was very pleased when ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON joined me for a bit of a chat about the series in all of its many manifestations. THE TWILIGHT ZONE, created by the legendary television writer ROD SERLING was...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 143 - TX JULY 2 2023 - TV CHEESE

July 02, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 2nd 2023 This week I really wanted to talk about some TV CHEESE, by which I mean the sort of television that can become anybody’s guilty pleasure, even if they might never want to fess up to watching it, or the sort of television that’s so bad it’s actually quite good, or, at the very least, enjoyable. Old curmudgeons like myself, of course, might like to bang on about how that’s pretty much everything that comes on our screens no...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 142 - TX JUNE 25 2023 - MAIGRET

June 25, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 25th 2023 Way back in October 2021, in the fifty-fifth edition of the show if you want to seek it out, LISA and ANDREW joined me to chat about the then relatively brand new release of the BBC’s 1960s version of MAIGRET on Blu-Ray and DVD, so, with eighteen months having passed since, it doesn’t seem too soon to return to talking about the Belgian writer GEORGES SIMENON’s Detective creation, who featured in an astonishing 75 novels ...

A VISION ON SOUND NETWORK EXTRA

June 23, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 132 MB

BONUS EPISODE! Available from 6:00pm, FRIDAY JUNE 23rd, 2023 ADDITIONAL CONTENT featuring LISA PARKER, ANDREW TROWBRIDGE, PAUL CHANDLER, and WARREN CUMMINGS. For our recent edition which paid tribute to the late, lamented NETWORK DISTRIBUTING, the UK video imprint company that had an eclectic and eccentric range of archive TV releases, STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON suggested that I might want to add some memories and contributions from some of the other regulars into the show, an...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 141 - TX JUNE 18 2023 - NETWORK

June 18, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 18th 2023 In a change to our schedule, with the sudden unexpected demise of NETWORK DISTRIBUTING, the UK video imprint company that had, with its eclectic and eccentric range of releases, served fans of Archive TV very well for the last 25 years, STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON got in touch and said they wanted to talk how they felt about it, and, along with other some memories and contributions from some of the other regula...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 140 - TX JUNE 11 2023 - FILMS ON TV

June 11, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 11th 2023 My regular co-collaborator on the show, WARREN CUMMINGS, has been hosting his CINEMATIC SAUSAGE podcast all about classic movies for the past couple of years, and the thought struck me recently that an enormous amount of the kind of films that he and I both find we enjoy aren’t from the sort of time when we would have been able to see them at the cinema, so the only reason that young whippersnappers like us could possibly...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 139 - TX JUNE 4 2023 - HBO50

June 04, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 4th 2023 This week, our regular visitor is my occasional co-presenter on VISION ON SOUND, SANDY McGREGOR, that connoisseur of the cleverer end of classic telly who I am always keen to welcome back to the show in order to elevate my usual choice of topics to chat about above the usual television fayre that I tend to squander my days watching so that I can talk to you about it. As well as his love of the more “grown up” aspects of c...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 138 - TX MAY 28 2023 - FROM FOGGY TO ENTWISTLE

May 28, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 28th 2023 Despite the slick operation we try to give you the impression that we are running here as we take our weekly deep dives into the world of archive television here on VISION ON SOUND, sometimes my regular co-host, WARREN CUMMINGS, and I agree to meet up and record our latest show with not much actually planned for what we’re going to talk about. I nearly said “with little in mind” there, but regular listeners might have qui...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 137 - TX MAY 21 2023 - BERGERAC

May 21, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 21st 2023 Long time listeners to VISION ON SOUND will already be aware that PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, our returning guest on this week’s edition, is a very avid fan of the TV detective series BERGERAC, and, whilst he has mentioned this from time-to-time on his appearances, we realised that we’d never had a sit down to just talk about that show. So this week we decided to rectify that omission, and for the next hour we have a ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 136 - TX MAY 14 2023 - PATHFINDERS IN SPACE

May 14, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 14th 2023 It’s long been known, at least in archive television circles anyway, that the charismatic Canadian television pioneering producer SYDNEY CECIL NEWMAN was enticed into working for ABC television in Britain in the late 1950s, and was responsible for such high profile dramas such as ARMCHAIR THRILLER, as well as creating the sixties phenomenon known as THE AVENGERS, before his successes led to him joining the BBC in 1962, whi...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 135 - TX MAY 7 2023 - EMOTIONAL TV

May 07, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 7th 2023 One of the things that bothers me about modern television is the way I feel it is often directed, written, and designed to deliberately manipulate the viewer into feeling a particular almost designated set of emotions, as if we can no longer be trusted to respond in the right way, and so our sympathies and reactions are manipulated to feel sympathy where the creators decide we ought to, instead of just telling a story and l...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 134 - TX APRIL 30 2023 - STEVE'S CHILDREN'S TV MEMORIES

April 30, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 30th 2023 A few weeks ago, I talked to PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, about his memories of the Children’s TV he grew up with, and afterwards, STEVE HATCHER got in touch because he quite fancied talking about his own memories of such things which, as is the nature of these things, date from at least a decade earlier. And so, not being one to ignore a good idea for a show when one is suggested, I arranged to talk to him, and we reco...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 133 - TX APRIL 23 2023 - BLAKE'S SEVEN

April 23, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 23rd 2023 This week, WARREN CUMMINGS returns for a lightning journey through one of his favourite TV shows, BLAKE’S SEVEN, TERRY NATION’S classic space drama from the late 1970s and early 1980s, which featured a small and possibly foolhardy band of freedom-fighting heroic outcasts (or, if you prefer, terrorist maniacs) battling against the might of an oppressive regime known asTHE FEDERATION in a series that somehow seems to be ge...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 132 - TX APRIL 16 2023 - TV THEME TUNES

April 16, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 16th 2023 This week, I thought I’d try to make a more musical edition of the show and take a look at - or a listen to - one or two of the many favourite TV theme tunes that we’ve discovered during all of those years of watching TV. I’ve been thinking about doing a more music-based show for quite some time, but it always comes down to me not wanting to be tempted to try out my DEEJAY voice and end up sounding just as ridiculous ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 131 - TX APRIL 9 2023 - IT'S A SIN

April 09, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 9th 2023 I often feel very lucky that, with such a lot of telly out there in the world to be viewed, VISION ON SOUND has several regular guests who are prepared to watch certain up-to-the-minute programmes so that I don’t have to, and I can concentrate on the older stuff, which is where we usually like to lurk in this show. This also means that they can sift through some of the programmes I might otherwise have missed, and tell m...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 130 - TX APRIL 2 2023 - YES, MINISTER & YES, PRIME MINISTER

April 02, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 2nd 2023 I’m delighted to say that this week our returning guest is the writer MICHAEL SEELY who got in touch to ask if he could return to the show and have a little chat about his favourite comedy series which is (or are) YES, MINISTER and its continuation as YES, PRIME MINISTER, a pair of linked series written by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn which were first broadcast on the BBC between 1980 and 1988, and which starred PAUL EDD...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 129 - TX MARCH 26 2023 - SCOTLAND-SET TV

March 26, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 26th 2023 For various reasons, I’ve been watching quite a lot of television set in and around Scotland over the past couple of months, and, as it rather luckily turns out, for many similar reasons, so has one of our regular visitors to the programme, and, even more luckily, that visitor is SANDY McGREGOR, which means that we can safely talk about all manner of things related to Scottish made and Scotland set television without muc...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 128 - TX MARCH 19 2023 - LAST CHRISTMAS TV

March 19, 2023 19:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 19th 2023 Now that the dust has settled, and the year is rapidly hurtling towards the Easter holidays, it seems like there is no better time for us to calmly sit down and have a bit of a chat about the most recent festive season. We’re nothing if not topical here on VISION ON SOUND. No, really… Bear with me on this… Because, sometimes, right around the time of broadcast, it’s rather difficult to fully appreciate the festive sea...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 127 - TX MARCH 12 2023 - POP MUSIC TV

March 12, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 12th 2023 This week, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST is back and, because we have had several chats over on his show about pop music, I thought it might be nice if we sat down and had a bit of a chat about his experiences of growing up watching music-based television programmes, and if (and how) they might have influenced the kind of music that he enjoys listening to. So, as we meander through the meadow of ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 126 - TX MARCH 5 2023 - MALCOLM HULKE

March 05, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 5th 2023 A few weeks ago on VISION ON SOUND we celebrated the life of the television writer TERRANCE DICKS and, in passing, we mentioned his writing colleague and mentor MALCOLM HULKE, who co-wrote several television scripts alongside TERRANCE, including contributions to THE AVENGERS and DOCTOR WHO, as well as writing a quarter of the stories (on television) which featured JON PERTWEE as the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, some of which...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 125 - TX FEBRUARY 26 2023 - PENNIES FROM HEAVEN

February 26, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 26th 2023 This week we welcome back our old friend SANDY McGREGOR to look at another series of the more serious and dramatic telly that he tends to be rather fond of joining us for a chat about. For this week’s show, SANDY has been watching PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, DENNIS POTTER’S acclaimed, BAFTA award winning six-part musical drama serial from 1978, directed by the late PIERS HAGGARD, and which was one of several collaborations ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 124 - TX FEBRUARY 19 2023 - CHILDREN'S TV

February 19, 2023 19:00 - 58 minutes - 106 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 19th 2023 This week we welcome back PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST and we’re going to talk about, in a magic roundabout sort of a way, our various memories of, or reactions to, the children’s television that we used to watch when we were growing up. This idea was mostly prompted by two things really; First there was the range of single episodes dating from what many people consider to be a “Gold...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 123 - TX FEBRUARY 12 2023 - ABC NIGHTS IN

February 12, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 12th 2023 Until recently, the ABC TELEVISION logo animation and accompanying jingle tended to make be immediately think of the very early series of THE AVENGERS because that was almost exclusively what I tended to see it attached to. ABC TELEVISION LIMITED created a whole host of shows for the ITV network in the UK between 1956 and 1968, and recently NETWORK TV have been releasing a whole load of their content in a series of “...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 122 - TX FEBRUARY 5 2023 - STAR TREK

February 05, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 5th 2023 Space… Between my ears… These are the voyages of the good ship VISION ON SOUND… It’s ongoing mission… Nah, let’s not do that… Basically, WARREN is back this week to talk all about the original version of STAR TREK, so let’s kick up our warp engines to slingshot around the sun, and see if we can find ourselves back in the latter half of the 1960s where the small screen adventures of CAPTAIN KIRK and the crew of the ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 121 - TX JANUARY 29 2023 - SWASHBUCKLERS

January 29, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 29th 2023 STEVE HATCHER’s back this week to take us on a whistle-stop tour of all those great swashbuckling adventure series from the fifties and sixties, including the likes of ROBIN HOOD, THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, THE BUCCANEERS, SIR LANCELOT, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, THE GAY CAVALIER, and many more, so let’s don our doublet and hose (grab our tights), unsheath our swords and head back to those days of old when knights were bol...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 120 - TX JANUARY 22 2023 - ANTHOLOGIES

January 22, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 22nd 2023 This week we welcome back our regular contributor PAUL CHANDLER, the SHY YETI himself, who’s found a few spare moments to once again venture into his imaginarium of televisual treats and share his choices for the section of the museum set aside specifically for the strange and quirky subset of television drama – and occasional comedy – that we think of as the ANTHOLOGY SERIES. Now, of course, you might suggest that mu...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 119 - TX JANUARY 15 2023 - A BIT O' POLITICS, YES INDEEDY!

January 15, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 15th 2023 Now the sort of people who like dinner parties, or enjoy partaking in small talk, will always tell you that you should never discuss religion or politics in polite company, and they probably make a good point, especially if you don’t ever want your social event to end in a bit of a punch-up. Equally, and perhaps to our national detriment, rather a lot of people find the subject of politics a bit of a turn off, or will...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 118 - TX JANUARY 8 2023 - TERRANCE DICKS AND NIGEL KNEALE

January 08, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 8th 2023 I like to think that some of the very best editions of VISION ON SOUND have come about when I just have a chat with fans of television about what it is that they like about the television programmes that they love. At the same time, some of our more regular listeners might recognise just how much I enjoy talking to writers, or talking about those writers who actually sit down and write, or sat down and wrote, the kind ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 117 - TX JANUARY 1 2023 - OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH

January 01, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 1st 2023 VISION ON SOUND’s old friend SANDY McGREGOR is back again this week to take a look at another of the serious television dramas that he enjoys so much and likes to talk to me about. This time it’s PETER FLANNERY’S epic nine-part drama OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH that he has been watching. It’s a story based upon the original scripts created for a stage show version, written whilst FLANNERY was writer-in-residence at the RO...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 116 - TX DECEMBER 25 2022 - A FESTIVE FADEOUT

December 25, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 25th 2022 It’s Christmas Day here at VISION ON SOUND H.Q. and everybody else on my usual guest list has slipped away to spend their day catching up with their nearest and dearest, or hiding under their own particular choice of rock, or just generally stuffing their faces, unwrapping their gifts, or simply vegging out in front of what is traditionally meant to be one of the best television days of the year, and wondering whether...

A VISION ON SOUND FESTIVE BONUS (2022)

December 24, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MB

This is a bit of a bonus episode, really, as WARREN and I were recording something completely different a couple of weeks ago and ended up having this chat that started with us diving into the Cortina from LIFE ON MARS, taking a diversion through the whole idea of television and toys, overtaking Stanley Unwin’s jalopy from THE SECRET SERVICE, and paying a brief visit to our partial namesake VISION ON. I felt that it might just make a nice extra festive treat for VISION ON SOUND listeners, s...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 115 - TX DECEMBER 18 2022 - CHANNEL FOUR AT FORTY

December 18, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 4th 2022 Our old friend SANDY McGREGOR got in touch recently to point out that, amidst all of the ballyhoo and hullaballoo surrounding the centenary of one particular British broadcasting institution, it was easy for shows that talk about television like this one to forget that another television Channel had passed a significant milestone this year. Because, on the very weekend the BBC was proudly marking one hundred years of ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 114 - TX DECEMBER 11 2022 - HOAXES AND GHOSTWATCHES

December 11, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 11th 2022 A few weeks ago, around about HALLOWEEN, WARREN CUMMINGS and I gathered for one of our little chats about our recent television highs and lows, and, as is often the case with us, we started out with little in the way of a plan, but just thought it might be nice to see where the conversation took us. With thoughts of GHOSTIES and GHOULIES being much on WARREN’S mind, he felt like talking about BBC’s GHOSTWATCH, the co...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 113 - TX DECEMBER 4 2022 - LISA'S TELLY MONTH

December 04, 2022 19:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 4th 2022 This week we welcome back the ever popular and ever erudite LISA PARKER, one half of the team behind the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast, for one of our regular catch ups on what’s been happening in her telly world over the past few weeks. It’s one of those wide-ranging meandering wanders through various television topics that we’ve been known to do, and takes us from her reflections on the JODIE WHITTAKER era of DOCTOR WH...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 112 - TX NOVEMBER 27 2022 - THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN

November 27, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 27th 2022 In the early 1980s, GRANADA TELEVISION produced what is widely considered to be one of the all-time masterpieces of British Television Drama series, much of it filmed on location in India, and which went on to be sold all around the world as an example of the very finest of the kind of television series that British television could produce, although, like many older programmes, it is a series that is often overlooked...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 111 - TX NOVEMBER 20 2022 - WARREN'S TV MONTH

November 20, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 20th 2022 This week’s show is simply WARREN and I nattering about all sorts of our usual nonsense as we talk about the telly he watched on his holidays, and so we chat about all sorts of things, from GAVIN & STACEY to BREAD, from TRIANGLE to RETURN OF THE SAINT, from… Ah, you get the idea... PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content re...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 110 - TX NOVEMBER 13 2022 - COMEDY DRAMAS

November 13, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 13th 2022 This week we welcome back the ever popular SHY YETI, PAUL CHANDLER, chief wrangler of THE SHY LIFE PODCAST for another of our meandering rambles around the highways and byways and forgotten short cuts of this complicated matrix we think of as the universe of archive, and not quite so archive television. The idea behind this week’s show is that I’m going to give PAUL the keys to his very own metaphorical Museum of Tel...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 109 - TX NOVEMBER 6 2022 - ALAN CLARKE

November 06, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 6th 2022 Over the past couple of years, the BBC has been taking several of its landmark television plays off the shelf, blowing the dust off them, and treating viewers to BBC4 who are so inclined to a chance to see some of the highlights of its often influential and sometimes controversial flagship drama series from the 1970s and early 1980s PLAY FOR TODAY, which was the successor to the WEDNESDAY PLAY strand which had brought ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 108 - TX OCTOBER 30 2022 - ENDINGS

October 30, 2022 19:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 30th 2022 The last few weeks do seem to have brought a lot of endings along with them, some of which have felt life-changing on a grand scale, others of which have been sad on a personal level for perhaps fewer people, and some of which simply involved something as inconsequential as a TV show which, whilst perhaps seeming insignificant or unimportant to many, do somehow feel very significant and extremely important to fans of a...

A VISION ON SOUND EXTRA ON THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR

October 25, 2022 10:48 - 16 minutes - 30.1 MB

I don’t normally do this, but here’s an unedited chat WARREN CUMMINGS and I had last night (24 OCTOBER 2022) about Sunday’s DOCTOR WHO finale episode THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR, which I thought might make a nice (well, maybe not that nice) grumpy old bonus. NB This does contain strong language.

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 107 - TX OCTOBER 23 2022 - POWELL & PRESSBURGER CONNECTIONS

October 23, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 23rd 2022 For my latest catch-up with WARREN CUMMINGS, this month I decided to focus on a set of film DVDs that had been lent to me by VISION ON SOUND regular SANDY McGREGOR that featured the films of MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESSBURGER, and the reason I thought they might be of interest was because of the number of actors who turned up in them in minor or supporting roles who later went on to feature in the kind of television...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 106 - TX OCTOBER 16 2022 - REACTIONS

October 16, 2022 18:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 16th 2022 On this week’s show we welcome back that perennial pair of regular contributors LISA PARKER and ANDREW TROWBRIDGE from the headquarters of their ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast, lurking, as they often do, somewhere on the south coast of England. This week ANDREW suggested the topic of REACTIONS might be something he’d like to talk about on the show, and, given his explosive history as a professional chemist working in the ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 105 - TX OCTOBER 9 2022 - MICHAEL SEELY

October 09, 2022 18:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 9th 2022 On this week’s VISION ON SOUND we welcome MICHAEL SEELY who is well known in Archive Television circles for the books he has written about certain television series, and for his biographies of some well recognised names from television production from the sixties and seventies. PROPHETS OF DOOM, his unauthorised history of the BBC television series DOOMWATCH is very possibly the definitive current work detailing the pr...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 104 - TX OCTOBER 2 2022 - STEVE HATCHER'S TV RECOMMENDATIONS

October 02, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 2nd 2022 This week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER who, for several years now, has been regularly sharing his thoughts and reviews on television, both ancient and modern, to his friends, followers, and anyone else who might care to read them online, and his insights are often so very perceptive that they’ve tended to cost me an arm and a leg when it turns out some of the shows he’s been talking about so enthusiastically have becom...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 103 - TX SEPTEMBER 25 2022 - TELEVISION AND THE SECOND ELIZABETHAN ERA

September 25, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 25th 2022 As most of you will be aware, the second Elizabethan era recently came to an end in the early part of September, and, for a lot of the time over the subsequent couple of weeks, television went into a kind of not exactly “limbo”, but very much shifted its attention to the life of the late Queen, and the public paraphernalia of the succession. Now, I’m not a huge follower of Royalty “stuff” on the whole. I’ve spent a ...

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 102 - TX SEPTEMBER 18 2022 - VoS GETS A LITTLE BIT PHILOSOPHICAL

September 18, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 18th 2022 It’s perhaps a bit of a weird one this week, or possibly not, as I invited PAUL CHANDLER, the SHY YETI back to attempt a bit of a chat about the philosophy of television, and to look into why it is that the likes of us latched on to television as a thing we enjoyed at an early age, and turned it into an interest, a fascination, a hobby, or whatever, and certainly made it take up a larger part of our lives than, perha...

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