VISION ON SOUND
231 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 15 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingADVENTURES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY TELEVISION... AND BEYOND...!Where the television of the past… …becomes the conversation of the present.Join us as we take a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and my guests and I investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.
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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 53 - TX OCTOBER 10 2021 - BRITISH SITCOMS OF THE 1980s & 1990s
October 10, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 10th 2021 Our Canadian Correspondent RICK LAWLOR returns to continue with our bit of a natter about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of British Sitcoms, which started three months ago in VISION ON SOUND NUMBER 40, and, carrying on with his long list of around ninety shows cross-indexed across several decades, over the course of our hour-long chat, we chat about his memories of the sitcoms from the 1980s & 1990s. As before, if you...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FIFTY-TWO - TX OCTOBER 3 2021 - THE BLACK STUFF
October 03, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 3rd 2021 As VISION ON SOUND rather astonishingly arrives at the point where we've done a full year of weekly shows, SANDY McGREGOR joins me (well, via a Wi-Fi link anyway), and we finally get a chance to discuss one of his favourite shows from a list we talked about way back in the early days of the show. So we spend a happy hour chatting about Alan Bleasdale's television play THE BLACK STUFF and the subsequent series THE BOYS F...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FIFTY-ONE - TX SEPTEMBER 26 2021 - THE BILL
September 26, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 26th 2021 WARREN CUMMINGS returns to have a jolly hour-long natter about another of his favourite police-themed television shows, THE BILL - or, more specifically, the first ten years of this THAMES TELEVISION classic. An, of course, the conversation meanders into whether or not the series accurately reflects the life of an "ordinary copper" working in the force at the time. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical conten...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FIFTY - TX SEPTEMBER 19 2021 - WOMEN'S PRISON DRAMAS
September 19, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 19th 2021 As I wallowed in my continuing recent poorly-sickedness, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself returned to the show to bring along a little chicken soup for the soul (naturally with a file concealed inside it), to join me for an episode-length chat about one of the TV genres that he has watched an awful lot of, the Women's Prison Drama series. So, over the course of this week's hour we natter about WITHIN THESE WALLS ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-NINE - TX SEPTEMBER 12 2021 - CHILDREN'S 1970s TV DYSTOPIA
September 12, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 12th 2021 I've been a little bit poorly-sick lately, so, in order to cheer myself up in the insomniac wee-small hours, I've been rattling through some of the DVDs I've been accumulating of 1970s television dramas. So this meant watching the jolly japes of a post-apocalyptic Britain in which the people have turned against the machines; a cheeky romp to a village doomed to repeat the same tragic cycle of events throughout etern...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-EIGHT - TX SEPTEMBER 5 2021 - ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON
September 05, 2021 19:00 - 57 minutes - 106 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 5th 2021 Andrew-Mark Thompson is a classic television fan who has gained a certain amount of internet fame (or notoriety) producing witty and powerful illustrations and graphic images based around his hilarious takes on certain classic tv series. He joins me in this edition for a bit of a wide-ranging natter about his experiences of growing up watching wooden television sets, how media studies changed his life, his love of show...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-SEVEN - TX AUGUST 29 2021 - THE MICHAEL J BIRD QUARTET
August 29, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 29th 2021 There's a little bit of sunshine creeping into the dark corners of VISION ON SOUND HQ this week, as STEVE HATCHER returns to the show to talk about the MICHAEL J BIRD QUARTET. This is the popular collective term for the four series - THE LOTUS EATERS, WHO PAYS THE FERRYMAN, THE APHRODITE INHERITANCE, & THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN - .written by this great television writer in the 1970s and 1980s, and which were all set in v...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-SIX - TX AUGUST 22 2021 - BEING A FAN
August 22, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 22nd 2021 PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI from THE SHY LIFE podcast returns, and we just have a simple chat about what it's like living the life of being a fan of old telly. It may very well be one of the more simply structured hours of VISION ON SOUND that we've done so far, but is one of the most enjoyable, and I do hope you like it as much as we did. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-FIVE - TX AUGUST 15 2021 - THE RIVALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
August 15, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 15th 2021 LISA and ANDREW from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast both return (this time together on VISION ON SOUND for the first time in conversation!) for an hour-long discussion about one of their favourite series: From THAMES TELEVISION in the early 1970s - "THE RIVALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES" PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-FOUR - TX AUGUST 8 2021 - CRICKET ON TV
August 08, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 8th 2021 As crickety-cricket returns to terrestrial television in yet another exciting new format, episode forty-four of VISION ON SOUND finds SANDY McGREGOR returning for a nostalgic ramble through our memories of watching cricket on television in our youth. Regular listeners will no doubt expect an hour of total silence given my usual response to anything sport-related, but, happily for non-cricket fans, it's Sandy & I, so we ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-THREE - TX AUGUST 1 2021 - LITERARY DETECTIVES
August 01, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 1st 2021 Episode forty-three of VISION ON SOUND finds regular guest contributor PAUL CHANDLER returning for a bit of a natter that is - at least initially - supposed to be all about literary detectives as seen on our television screens. In another of our rambling conversations roaming around the topic in question, we talk about shows that it might surprise you to find are inspired by literature like HETTY WAINTHROPP INVESTIGATES...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-TWO - TX JULY 25 2021 - CALLAN
July 25, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 25th 2021 Episode forty-two of VISION ON SOUND finds WARREN CUMMINGS returning to have an extended natter about one of his television favourites, CALLAN. Way back in episode twenty-one of VISION ON SOUND, Warren and I had a long natter about the good, the bad, and the ugly of POLICE SERIES on TV, and it seemed natural to follow that up with a programme devoted exclusively to one of his favourites, which we eventually did in our th...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-ONE - TX JULY 18 2021 - HORROR STORIES ON TV
July 18, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 18th 2021 Episode forty-one of VISION ON SOUND finds regular guest contributor PAUL CHANDLER returning to talk about his passion for watching all manner of Horror stories on television. In another of our rambling conversations roaming around the topic in question, we tiptoe gingerly around such topics as late night horror films, THE HAMMER HOUSE OF MYSTERY & SUSPENSE and its sibling THE HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR before having a wide-...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY - TX JULY 11 2021 - BRITISH SITCOMS OF THE 1970s
July 11, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 11th 2021 Our Canadian Correspondent RICK LAWLOR returns to have a bit of a natter about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of British Sitcoms, and, whilst he starts off with a long list of around ninety shows cross-indexed across several decades, over the course of our hour-long chat, we don't even manage to escape from the 1970s. If you're a fan of these shows, you may not learn much that you didn't already know, but I hope you'll e...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY NINE - EXTENDED CUT
July 04, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBThe original POLITICAL DYSTOPIAS ON TELEVISION episode 39 was first broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 4th 2021. For timing reasons, the original interview with STEVE HATCHER had to be trimmed to fit our weekly VISION ON SOUND hour-long timeslot. The first edit of our original almost two-hour conversation came out at around 1hr 16min, and features a lot more background from Steve on the politics of the times the shows THE GUARDIANS, THE DONATI CONSPIRACY, and 1990 were b...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY NINE - TX JULY 4 2021 - POLITICAL DYSTOPIA ON TV
July 04, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 4th 2021 In a very early edition of VISION ON SOUND, we discussed DYSTOPIAN TELEVISION and our guest in another episode got in touch to point out that we hadn't addressed the sub-genre of POLITICAL DYSTOPIAS. To rectify this omission, episode thirty nine of VISION ON SOUND finds STEVE HATCHER returning to talk about POLITICAL DYSTOPIAS ON TELEVISION. After we touch upon the BBC's 1954 version of George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOU...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY EIGHT - TX JUNE 27 2021 - QUIZ AND GAME SHOWS
June 27, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 27th 2021 Episode thirty eight of VISION ON SOUND finds regular guest contributor PAUL CHANDLER returning to talk about his passion for quiz and game shows on television. Starting, rather naturally, with TELLY ADDICTS, we consider the shows featuring such hosts as Bob Monkhouse and Paul Daniels before moving on to the extraordinary adventures of TREASURE HUNT, and Paul's own very personal connection with BLOCKBUSTERS. Games shows...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY SEVEN - TX JUNE 20 2021 - THEATRE ON TV
June 20, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 20th 2021 Episode thirty seven of VISION ON SOUND finds that "Man Of The Theatre" SANDY McGREGOR returning (Huzzah!!!) to discuss all things about theatre on television. This means that we take a long look at the version of THE BBC TELEVISION SHAKESPEARE which debuted in 1979, as well as taking our seats for THEATRE NIGHT, and a couple of AYCKBOURN and PINTER productions as seen on TV. There's also a certain amount of discourse on...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY SIX - TX JUNE 13 2021 - THE SWEENEY
June 13, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 13th 2021 Episode thirty six of VISION ON SOUND finds WARREN CUMMINGS returning to have an extended natter about one of his television favourites, The Sweeney. In preparation I did rewatch the Armchair Cinema sort-off pilot, "REGAN", and the opening episode of the series proper "RINGER", but our off-the-cuff conversation is fairly wide ranging, and includes some of Warren's real-world tales of dealing with the actual Sweeney, and ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY FIVE - TX JUNE 6 2021 - MANUFACTURED POP
June 06, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 6th 2021 Episode thirty five of VISION ON SOUND finds regular guest contributor PAUL CHANDLER returning to talk about his passion for those pop bands who were primarily manufactured for television programmes. So we talk about cartoon bands such as The Archies, and Josie and the Pussycats (In Outer Space!) - as well as briefly considering the cartoon variants of The Jackson Five and The Beatles - and briefly ponder upon those puppe...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY FOUR - TX MAY 30 2021 - THE WEST WING
May 30, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 30th 2021 Episode thirty four of VISION ON SOUND finds the writer PAUL EBBS returning. Since we last spoke, way back in episode fourteen of the programme, PAUL has created the #SLEDGEHAMMER podcast in which he talks to various professional DOCTOR WHO writers about their individual writing processes, as well as deconstructing a favourite story from the point of view of just the writing. Good stuff, by the way, and well worth seeking ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY THREE - TX MAY 23 2021 - CRACKERJACK (CRACKERJACK!)
May 23, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 23rd 2021 Episode thirty three of VISION ON SOUND finds regular co-host SANDY McGREGOR returning for possibly the most annoying episode of the programme yet, from a particular eardrum-bashing point of view. After I share my own memories of growing up watching children's TV programmes far longer than might have seemed appropriate for a gentleman of my advancing years, (and obliquely musing upon the cult of BLUE PETER), SANDY and I s...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY TWO - TX MAY 16 2021 - HISTORICAL DRAMAS
May 16, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 16th 2021 Episode thirty two of VISION ON SOUND finds LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast returning to share her insight into three early 1970s BBC HISTORICAL DRAMAS set in the Tudor era. The three series we concentrate on are THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII, ELIZABETH R, and THE SHADOW OF THE TOWER, although we touch upon AN AGE OF KINGS and several other series, including some of the television SHAKESPEARE adaptations, an...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY ONE - TX MAY 9 2021 - REALITY TV
May 09, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 9th 2021 Episode thirty one of VISION ON SOUND finds PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST returning to share his knowledge and wisdom of all manner of REALITY TELEVISION SHOWS, an area about which, I freely admit to knowing very little. So, to make things easy for me, we discuss both BIG BROTHER and its CELEBRITY stablemate, before moving on via STRICTLY COME DANCING to BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT, and THE X FACTOR. Paul ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE THIRTY - TX MAY 2 2021 - Incl HORROR OF FANG ROCK
May 02, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 2nd 2021 Episode thirty of VISION ON SOUND is a little bit of a mish-mash of an episode as, amongst my own nonsense, I introduce TOBY THE DALEK in a new strand THINGS TOBY GUARDS in which I'll be looking at some of the archive TV memorabilia that I've accumulated over the years, which this week is a commentary on me flicking through the pages of the 1975 Christmas edition of the TV TIMES. After this, I present various bits of conve...
VISION ON SOUND - THE ESSAY 05 - SOMBRE TONES
April 28, 2021 13:39 - 15 minutes - 28.9 MBTHE ESSAY is an occasional new strand that I've introduced alongside VISION ON SOUND (at least for now), in which I take a particular loosely television-related topic or issue, and attempt to approach it with a slightly more intense eye which I'm hoping still manages to be entertaining and not too dry. Obviously, it may eventually become at least a semi-regular feature of the show, but, as I get around to writing them, I'm putting a few out to test the waters, because they might not cosily s...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY NINE - TX APRIL 25 2021 - SPIES
April 25, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 25th 2021 Regular contributor WARREN CUMMINGS returns to VISION ON SOUND to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of SPY DRAMAS on television, in a wide-ranging discussion that takes us from ESPIONAGE and RATCATCHERS, via Gerald Flood's chin and Glyn Owen's gravel, through the movie HELL DRIVERS, to shows like DANGER MAN, THE PRISONER, MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE, THE AVENGERS, CALLAN and THE SANDBAGGERS. We toy briefly with lost shows ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY EIGHT - TX APRIL 18 2021
April 18, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 18th 2021 SANDY'S BACK! Regular listeners will no doubt have been missing my regular co-host SANDY McGREGOR who recently found he had far less free time for telly viewing, but promised to return. This week we have a long conversation about one of our mutual favourites, the 1990's American cop show HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET, in our usual haphazard manner, but I think it makes for an enjoyable show. Sadly, the week after we rec...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY SEVEN - TX APRIL 11 2021 - CANADIAN TV
April 11, 2021 19:00 - 57 minutes - 105 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 11th 2021 In this episode, I talk to my pal RICK LAWLOR who migrated with his family to Canada around six years ago, and who is now a full citizen. It's a long conversation in which we talk about the many differences between experiencing television in the UK and those of Canada, including the vast number of channels, the strange bombardment of advertising, sitting on a continent in the second largest country in the world with the...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY SIX - TX APRIL 4th 2021 - LIGHTHOUSES
April 04, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 4th 2021 In another of our loosely themed VISION ON SOUND episodes, I give a lot of (mildly) illuminated thought to the topic of LIGHTHOUSES in TV programmes. We travel with TARA KING from THE AVENGERS to find out that it's ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS, and tussle briefly with THE GIRL WHO WAS DEATH alongside THE PRISONER, and head off - with the help of regular guest ANDY PRIESTNER from the WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME podcast - to talk about ...
VISION ON SOUND - THE ESSAY 04 - FUN WITH FLAGS
March 31, 2021 17:59 - 16 minutes - 29.9 MBTHE ESSAY is an occasional new strand that I've introduced alongside VISION ON SOUND for now, in which I take a particular television-related topic or issue, and attempt to approach it with a slightly more intense eye which I'm hoping still manages to be entertaining and not too dry. Obviously, it may eventually become at least a semi-regular feature of the show, but, as I get around to writing them, I'm putting a few out to test the waters, because they might not cosily sit snugly within th...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY FIVE - TX MARCH 28 2021 - SCIENCE PROGRAMMES
March 28, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 28th 2021 ANDREW TROWBRIDGE from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast returns to VISION ON SOUND to talk about SCIENCE PROGRAMMES ON TV in a wide-ranging nostalgic conversation which ranges from THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, via HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE, to programmes like COSMOS, TOMORROW'S WORLD, THE COMPUTER PROGRAMME, MAKING THE MOST OF THE MICRO, LIFE ON EARTH, CONNECTIONS, and THE GREAT EGG RACE. We talk about the various eccentric presenters ...
VISION ON SOUND - THE ESSAY 03 - WHY TV?
March 23, 2021 16:20 - 14 minutes - 26.6 MBTHE ESSAY is an occasional new strand that I've introduced alongside VISION ON SOUND for now, in which I take a particular television-related topic or issue, and attempt to approach it with a slightly more intense eye which I'm hoping still manages to be entertaining and not too dry. Obviously, it may eventually become at least a semi-regular feature of the show, but, as I get around to writing them, I'm putting a few out to test the waters, because they might not cosily sit snugly within th...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY FOUR - MARCH 21 2021 - CILLA & SPIRAL
March 21, 2021 19:21 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 21st 2021 (theoretically) Regular contributor SANDY McGREGOR returns to VISION ON SOUND to talk about (amongst other things) TEST MATCH CRICKET returning to terrestrial television, INTERPOL CALLING, STAGED, lead actors leaving TV shows, shows he's never heard of that I've been watching on DVD, BLAKE'S 7, and THE BORGIAS, before things settle down and we natter about CILLA BLACK and other Saturday night entertainment series, before f...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY THREE- TX MARCH 14 2021 - AUSTRALIAN TV
March 14, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 14th 2021 Regular contributor PAUL CHANDLER returns to VISION ON SOUND to talk about one of the areas of television viewing he is most enthusiastic about, Australian TV, including PRISONER (CELL BLOCK H); SONS & DAUGHTERS, HOME & AWAY, and, of course NEIGHBOURS, as well as lots of other Australian TV shows like YOUNG DOCTORS that we used to enjoy. In a long interview, we also discuss CALL MY AGENT!, comedy dramas, French movies a...
VISION ON SOUND - THE ESSAY 02 - SATIRE
March 13, 2021 11:20 - 16 minutes - 29.6 MBTHE ESSAY is a new strand I'm hoping to introduce to VISION ON SOUND in the near future, in which I take a particular television-related topic or issue, and attempt to approach it with a slightly more intense eye which I'm hoping still manages to be entertaining and not too dry. Obviously, I'm hoping that it will eventually become at least a semi-regular feature of the show, but, as I get around to writing them, I'm putting a few out to test the waters, and because they might not cosily sit ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY TWO - TX MARCH 7 2021 - FLASH GORDON
March 07, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 7th 2021 Regular contributor ANDY PRIESTNER returns to VISION ON SOUND to talk about one of his favourite shows from his youth, the Universal Pictures FLASH GORDON serials that used to feature as morning entertainment for a generation of children during the school holidays. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the ...
VISION ON SOUND - THE ESSAY 01 - WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
March 05, 2021 06:43 - 15 minutes - 28.8 MBTHE ESSAY is a new strand I'm hoping to introduce to VISION ON SOUND in the near future, in which I take a particular television-related topic or issue and attempt to approach it with a slightly more intense eye which I'm hoping still manages to be entertaining and not too dry. Obviously, I'm hoping that it will eventually become at least a semi-regular feature of the show, but I'm putting this one out to test the waters, and because I've been struggling to find a home for it in the episodes...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY ONE - TX FEBRUARY 28 2021 - TV POLICE SERIES
February 28, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 28th 2021 Regular contributor WARREN CUMMINGS returns to VISION ON SOUND to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of POLICE DRAMAS on television, in a wide-ranging discussion that takes us from G F Newman's LAW AND ORDER through DIXON OF DOCK GREEN, BETWEEN THE LINES, LINE OF DUTY, DIAL 999, NO HIDING PLACE, Z CARS, "MURDER ISLAND" (ahem!), through INSPECTOR MORSE to, um, DUCK PATROL. But we also touch on corruption, the Tha...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY ONE - TX FEBRUARY 28 2021
February 28, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 28th 2021 Regular contributor WARREN CUMMINGS returns to VISION ON SOUND to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of POLICE DRAMAS on television, in a wide-ranging discussion that takes us from G F Newman's LAW AND ORDER through DIXON OF DOCK GREEN, BETWEEN THE LINES, LINE OF DUTY, DIAL 999, NO HIDING PLACE, Z CARS, "MURDER ISLAND" (ahem!), through INSPECTOR MORSE to, um, DUCK PATROL. But we also touch on corruption, the Tha...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY - TX FEBRUARY 21 2021 - RENTAGHOST
February 21, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 21st 2021 We try a whole new recoding technique for this edition of VISION ON SOUND in the sense that we bring together LISA & ANDREW from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast and PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI from THE SHY LIFE podcast for a three-way online streamed meeting to talk - at least initially - about the children's television classic RENTAGHOST, before moving on to discuss children's television in general, and then the conve...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE TWENTY - TX FEBRUARY 21 2021
February 21, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 21st 2021 We try a whole new recoding technique for this edition of VISION ON SOUND in the sense that we bring together LISA & ANDREW from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast and PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI from THE SHY LIFE podcast for a three-way online streamed meeting to talk - at least initially - about the children's television classic RENTAGHOST, before moving on to discuss children's television in general, and then the conve...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE NINETEEN - TX FEBRUARY 14 2021
February 14, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 14th 2021 Regular co-host SANDY McGREGOR returns with a suggestion that we might talk about THE FIFTY BEST SHOWS OF 2020 as published in THE GUARDIAN newspaper towards the end of last year and so, after I make a few brief reflections on the need to make lists generally, that's what we do. It turns out that, as a fan of older television usually watched on shiny discs, I've not seen an awful lot of the best of that year's new te...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE NINETEEN - TX FEBRUARY 14 2021 - GUARDIAN TOP 50 TV SHOWS OF 2020
February 14, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 14th 2021 Regular co-host SANDY McGREGOR returns with a suggestion that we might talk about THE FIFTY BEST SHOWS OF 2020 as published in THE GUARDIAN newspaper towards the end of last year and so, after I make a few brief reflections on the need to make lists generally, that's what we do. It turns out that, as a fan of older television usually watched on shiny discs, I've not seen an awful lot of the best of that year's new te...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE EIGHTEEN - TX FEBRUARY 7 2021 - PAUL CHANDLER & HAYDEN GRIBBLE
February 07, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 7th 2021 PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST returns to natter about TV comedy and, to a lesser extent, horror shows, in a conversation briefly covering his recent viewing including DEATH TO 2020, SWEET HOME, POSE, THE OFFICE (US), GHOSTS, PAUL MERTON, and HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR. Then HAYDEN GRIBBLE from the DIDDLY DUM PODCAST returns for his Earliest Memories chat which covers shows as diverse as I, CLAUDIUS, ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE EIGHTEEN - TX FEBRUARY 7 2021
February 07, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 7th 2021 PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST returns to natter about TV comedy and, to a lesser extent, horror shows, in a conversation briefly covering his recent viewing including DEATH TO 2020, SWEET HOME, POSE, THE OFFICE (US), GHOSTS, PAUL MERTON, and HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR. Then HAYDEN GRIBBLE from the DIDDLY DUM PODCAST returns for his Earliest Memories chat which covers shows as diverse as I, CLAUDIUS, ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE SEVENTEEN - TX JANUARY 31 2021
January 31, 2021 20:00 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 31st 2021 Sometimes, television can actually be a force for good, and so it means that it's actually a bit of a charity event on VISION ON SOUND this week as our main guest is MATTHEW RIMMER who is the creator, editor, and driving force behind the TIMESCOPE publications which have been produced in aid of the disability support charity SCOPE. In our interview he talks about producing both the first edition of TIMESCOPE last summe...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE SEVENTEEN - TX JANUARY 31 2021 - TIMESCOPE
January 31, 2021 20:00 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 31st 2021 Sometimes, television can actually be a force for good, and so it means that it's actually a bit of a charity event on VISION ON SOUND this week as our main guest is MATTHEW RIMMER who is the creator, editor, and driving force behind the TIMESCOPE publications which have been produced in aid of the disability support charity SCOPE. In our interview he talks about producing both the first edition of TIMESCOPE last summe...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE SIXTEEN - TX JANUARY 24 2021 - SCANDI NOIR
January 24, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 24th 2021 It's an episode of two halves this week in which SANDY and I have a natter about SCANDI NOIR, prompted by watching THE VALHALLA MURDERS recently, but we touch upon series like WALLANDER, THE BRIDGE, and THE KILLING, as well as many others. After this, the second half features a new contributor to the show, but he's someone I'm hoping will become a VISION ON SOUND regular. PAUL CHANDLER (a.k.a. THE SHY YETI, prolific c...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE SIXTEEN - TX JANUARY 24 2021
January 24, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 24th 2021 It's an episode of two halves this week in which SANDY and I have a natter about SCANDI NOIR, prompted by watching THE VALHALLA MURDERS recently, but we touch upon series like WALLANDER, THE BRIDGE, and THE KILLING, as well as many others. After this, the second half features a new contributor to the show, but he's someone I'm hoping will become a VISION ON SOUND regular. PAUL CHANDLER (a.k.a. THE SHY YETI, prolific c...