VISION ON SOUND

LISA PARKER on YOU RANG, M'LORD? First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 28th 2026. This week, LISA PARKER, one of the regular contributors to VISION ON SOUND who hasn’t been on the show for far too long returns to tell me all about one of her favourite sitcoms, YOU RANG, M’LORD? Created and written by the legendary television writing duo JIMMY PERRY and DAVID CROFT with tw...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI on JUMPING THE SHARK. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 21st 2026. This week, if it hasn’t done so already, VISION ON SOUND finally gets to jump the shark, that strange phenomenon where a TV show does something so outrageous, so ridiculous, or something simply so awful that its viewers can never really look at it in quite the same way again. Th...

ADAM HENLEY on A VERY BRITISH COUP. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 14th 2026. This week a very ADAM HENLEY wanted to come back and talk about a very TV mini-series that is very important to him, A VERY BRITISH COUP. This was a three-part political drama about the attacks upon a very left-wing socialist government by the establishment, a film very much directed by MICK...

NICK GOODMAN on THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 7th 2026. I didn’t get where I am today without recognising when someone has an enthusiasm for a TV show that I’d better invite them on the show to talk about it, so when NICK GOODMAN wanted to come back and talk about his all-time favourite sitcom, THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN,...

WARREN CUMMINGS on archive television found and lost. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 31st 2026. I realised recently that, whilst everyone else in the Archive television community has been talking a lot about such things, here on VISION ON SOUND, we haven’t really addressed the hot topic of this year so far, namely the discovery of some exciting missing episodes of telev...

ADAM HENLEY on A VERY PECULIAR PRACTICE. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 24th 2026. This week ADAM HENLEY returns to the show because he has recently been watching a BBC drama series that has been one of my personal favourites for a very long time, and he wanted to talk to me about it. The show in question is called A VERY PECULIAR PRACTICE, featuring darkly bizarre tale...

WARREN CUMMINGS presents a right load of Sherlocks. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 17th 2026. SHERLOCK HOLMES on television is a topic that we tend to return to time and again on VISION ON SOUND, and for very good reasons. Not only is the character a television staple that runs through pretty much the whole of television history, and in several countries, across the dec...

STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON discuss THE RIGHT END OF TIME, a TIMESLIP event that took place recently at QUAD in Derby, featuring STEVE's interviews with CHERYL BURFIELD, SPENCER BANKS, and event co-organiser STEVE HARDY. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 10th 2026. On April the 18th QUAD in Derby hosted THE RIGHT END OF TIME, an event all about the early 70s...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI lloks at THE LUCY SHOW and HERE'S LUCY. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 3rd 2026. As a lot of you may already know from one or two of his previous appearances on VISION ON SOUND, our friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, is a big fan of the kind of archive television that features women in prominent roles, holding their own against t...

STEVE HATCHER on OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH (part two of two). First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 26th 2026. OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH was an epic drama series produced by the BBC in 1996. Written by PETER FLANNERY and based upon his own stage play, it consisted of nine 63 to 75 minute episodes, each of which charted events in a particular year in the lives of four friends f...

STEVE HATCHER on OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH (part one of two). First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 19th 2026. OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH was an epic drama series produced by the BBC in 1996. Written by PETER FLANNERY and based upon his own stage play, it consisted of nine 63 to 75 minute episodes, each of which charted events in a particular year in the lives of four friends f...

WARREN CUMMINGS joins me to talk all about the strange and peculiar history of BBC2, Hullaballoo and Custard. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 12th 2026. 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...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself talks about his memories of watching TOP OF THE POPS First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 5th 2026. 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...

WARREN CUMMINGS joins me to talk about TV spin-offs First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 29th 2026. This week WARREN CUMMINGS is back, and he wanted to talk all about TV spin-offs, which we do sort of manage to do, although I go off on a lot of tangents and spin-offs of my own which somehow all seems rather appropriate. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it, once I’ve fired up those...

MICHAEL HERBERT joins me to talk about TIMESLIP First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 22nd 2026. TIMESLIP was a children’s science fiction series made by ATV for the ITV network back in the early nineteen-seventies. It starred CHERYL BURFIELD as Liz Skinner and SPENCER BANKS as Simon Randall, two teenage actors who manage to hold their own playing against some of the finest...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, on TV shows that moved from black & white into colour. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 15th 2026. This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back, and he suggested for our archive telly-related topic this week, we might want to discuss TV shows that started off in black and white, but then successfully survived into the colour era...

STEVE HATCHER on remakes of classic cop shows. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 8th 2026. There’s been a tendency in recent years for modern television makers to take a long, hard look at the archives and realise that some older television series were actually once quite popular, and think to themselves that they quite fancy a bit of that kind of success and brand recog...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI discovers THE PERSUADERS! First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 1st 2026. This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, is back yet again, to discuss a show that rather neatly complements his most recent appearance on VISION ON SOUND where he wanted to talk about the humour of THE AVENGERS. This led him to finally try out an early 1970s TV show w...

ADAM HENLEY returns to talk about watching the BLAKE'S 7 Series Two Blu-ray First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 22nd 2026. This week we welcome back ADAM HENLEY, who last year guided us through year one of BLAKE’S SEVEN after its Blu-ray release, and he’s back again now to do the same for the recent release of year two, a season of tragic endings, new beginnings, lu...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, wishes you were here to hear him discuss humour in THE AVENGERS. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 15th 2026. This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, is back, although this week we’re going to try and get away from the Antipodean content that his recent appearances on VISION ON SOUND have tended to concentrate on, and instead focus...

WARREN CUMMINGS gets random again, mostly about Black & White TV. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 8th 2026. This week, WARREN CUMMINGS returns to the show for another of our random meanders in and around the crazy world of archive TV, and this week our focus is mostly in black and white, as we were prompted by the kind of nonsense I’ve been picking up second-han...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, on some archive Australian Cop Shows. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 1st 2026. This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, is back on his quest to discover and share as many obscure Australian television shows with you as possible, such are the fascinating compulsions of the archive TV fan. PAUL’s motivation is often down to...

STEVE HATCHER on the best of 2025's TV Blu-Ray releases. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 25th 2026. This week, STEVE HATCHER suggested that we chat a little about the best archive TV Blu-Rays that came out last year, and, as it was a bumper year for quality releases, we found that we had rather a lot to talk about. So, as well as inevitably discussing the most re...

WARREN CUMMINGS joins me to discuss how TV affects our moods. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 18th 2026. This week, I invited WARREN CUMMINGS back again because I wanted to talk about television and how it can affect our moods. Whilst I was expecting to end up discussing whether or not watching the news channels is a good thing or a bad thing, and whether it’s best a...

TYLER ADAMS joins me to discuss THE CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE MASTER BLACKMAILER. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 11th 2026. This week we welcome back - after far too long an absence - our friend TYLER ADAMS whose popular GOON POD podcast has become the very benchmark for everything that you should ever need to know about that peculiarly British radio comedy p...