VISION ON SOUND

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI tells me all about some archive Australian dramas - but possibly not the ones you were expecting. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 4th 2026. This week we welcome back our friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, and this week he’s going to venture into perhaps territory rather familiar to regular listeners to VISION ON SOUND. Because I e...

LISA PARKER on some of her recent TV viewing. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 28th 2025. This week, our friend LISA PARKER returns to share some of her recent viewing experiences with us, which, perhaps unusually, is mostly outside what we generally get to talk about whenever LISA shows up. This triggers some rather interesting conversation prompted by programmes as...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, discusses A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 21st 2025. It’s Christmas time and (as any fule no), that’s a time when ghosts and ghoulies tend to crawl out of the wainscoting, and trouble the very worst of us into at least thinking about changing our ways, and perhaps trying to become better people, whatever that...

WARREN CUMMINGS explores TV in real time. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 14th 2025. This week, WARREN CUMMINGS is back again for another of our more random telly-related chats, which ultimately leads to us having a lengthy discussion about the structure of how we watch modern television, and involves things like comparing the different storytelling styles of TV min...

NICK GOODMAN discusses three JACK GERSON thrillers. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 7th 2025. This week, NICK GOODMAN was very eager to press his personal Fast Return Switch because he wanted to share his particular enthusiasm for three of the BBC thriller series written by JACK GERSON which were all produced by ROBERT McINTOSH across three consecutive years around...

WARREN CUMMINGS continues his analysis of UKTV comedy by talking about THE GOODIES. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 30th 2025. This week, following on from his recent insights into TV comedy, WARREN CUMMINGS is back, this time to dedicate our entire hour to talking about one of his favourites, THE GOODIES which featured BILL ODDIE, GRAEME GARDEN, and the late and mu...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, on some of his favourite female comedy performers. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 23rd 2025. This week our friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, returns in response to our recent edition in which we did our best to try and analyse some television comedy. PAUL noticed that much of the comedy we were talking about was focuss...

WARREN CUMMINGS and I, perhaps unwisely, try to analyse some TV comedy. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 16th 2025. This week, in a show we recorded earlier in the autumn just as VISION ON SOUND returned from its summer hiatus, I welcome back WARREN CUMMINGS once again, and we took the opportunity to delve deep into an area that is always a little bit outside my pers...

STEVE HATCHER presents some more of his recent TV viewing. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 9th 2025. This week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER once again to continue our series of conversations about some of his eclectic television viewing choices. Steve has a life long love of television and – like many archive TV fans - is always adding to the mix that makes up his...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI's TOP TEN BRITISH CHILDREN'S TV SHOWS. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 2nd 2025. This week our friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, returns to present yet another of his Top Ten choices, which this time is his choice of his all time favourite British Children’s Television shows. As with his other Top Ten selections, I think...

WARREN CUMMINGS takes us on a journey into some Action TV. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 26th 2025. This week we welcome back WARREN CUMMINGS who initially joined me for a bit of a random TV viewing catch up. We start out talking briefly about our recent viewing choices of shows like THE SECRET AGENT, TAKING OVER THE ASYLUM, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and M*A*S*H, b...

STEVE HATCHER reveals more of his eclectic television playlist. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 19th 2025. This week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER once again to continue our series of conversations about some of his eclectic television viewing choices. Steve has a life long love of television and – like many archive TV fans - is always adding to the mix that makes up...

MICHAEL HERBERT talks about DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 12th 2025. This week we welcome back MICHAEL HERBERT whose popular recent biography of the television writer MALCOLM HULKE “THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM” has been released into the world for about six months now, but it is still available via Lulu Books. MICHAEL hasn’t l...

NICK GOODMAN revisits the television year of 1975. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 5th 2025. This week we’re welcoming a new voice to VISION ON SOUND, NICK GOODMAN, and he’s here to talk about the television of 1975, and the effect it had on making him the archive television fan he is today. So I hope you enjoy what you hear as we end up chatting about THE GOODIES, T...

STEVE HATCHER shares some of his eclectic viewing. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 28th 2025. Such is the wibbly-wobbly nature of how I put the schedule for VISION ON SOUND together that this week’s show features a conversation I had with STEVE HATCHER way back in July after he’d not been on the show for a while, in which we discussed his then recent viewing choice...

MICHAEL SEELY talks to me about CALLAN. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 21st 2025. This week’s show features the return to VISION ON SOUND of one of our guests MICHAEL SEELY, the prolific archive TV author, researcher, and publisher of several books which forensically explore topics as diverse as THE NIGHTMARE MAN, DOOMWATCH, and the almost totally forgotten R3, th...

VISION ON SOUND at WHOOVERVILLE 16. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 14th 2025. This year, for the fourth consecutive year, VISION ON SOUND was invited to once again take part in the annual event organised by the DERBYSHIRE WHOOVERS known as WHOOVERVILLE. This year was the sixteenth WHOOVERVILLE, or WHOOVERVILLE 16 as it was known on the day, and it took place on AU...

WARREN CUMMINGS on THE STONE TAPE. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 7th 2025. I suppose it’s something of a welcome back, of course, after the show took a few weeks off for personal reasons. Well, to be perfectly honest with you, after two hundred and fifty episodes on the bounce, I was basically knackered, and running on fumes, and decided that the world was unlike...

PAUL CHANDLER presents THE SHY YETI's Top Ten USTV Sitcoms. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 20th 2025. This week our friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, returns to present another of his Top Ten choices, which this time is a follow up to him recently presenting his choice of his all time favourite British Sitcoms, as this week he crosses the Atlantic to give...

WARREN CUMMINGS talks TV fashions. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 13th 2025. This week WARREN CUMMINGS is back again, and this time we decided to take a slightly irreverent look at the notion that our enjoyment of archive television might be reduced simply because of the fashions being worn or the appearance of the people that turn up in it. Does a great contemporary d...

WARREN CUMMINGS talks about those 1960s puppet series. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 6th 2025. This week I welcome back WARREN CUMMINGS once again, and this week he wanted to talk all about the Gerry Anderson puppet series of the 1960s, and, although his take on them might be somewhat different to the version you might normally expect when we talk about archive televi...

LISA PARKER on CROWN COURT First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 29th 2025. Recently, LISA PARKER, one of the regular contributors to the radio programme known as VISION ON SOUND found herself in court. This was not, however, because she had done anything wrong, but because she had been called up for jury service, and she felt compelled to do her civic duty. After this experi...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI's Top Ten British Sitcoms. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 22nd 2025. This week our friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, returns to present another of his Top Ten choices, although this time we go into perhaps more familiar territory for Top Ten discussions with him presenting his choice of his all time favourite British Sitcoms. A...

WARREN CUMMINGS on television characters and likeability. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 15th 2025. Likeability is an elusive thing. I certainly have spent a lot of my life not feeling that I have any of it, but on television, the likeability, or otherwise, of the characters, the situation, or even the programme itself can have a lot of bearing upon whether a show is u...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI's Top Ten TV Sidekicks! First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 8th 2025. This week’s show sees another swift return for the perennial friend of VISION ON SOUND, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, and this week we decided, in the fine tradition of archive TV retrospectives throughout the decades, to have a go at letting PAUL do a TELEVISION TOP...