VISION ON SOUND

First 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 t...

THE 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 th...

First 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...

THE 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 th...

First 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 se...

First 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...

THE 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 t...

First 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 r...

THE 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 on...

First 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"...

First 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 c...

First 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 televisio...

First 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...

First 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...

First 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'...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 17th 2021 The main guest this week is LISA PARKER who is one half of the team behind the popular ROUND THE ARCHIVES archive television podcast, which is one of the reasons VISION ON SOUND exists at all. As she is here mostly to discuss her television memories, SANDY and I have a brief chat about our more recent viewing which involves m...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 10th 2021 This episode is made up of one long interview with the writer PAUL EBBS in which he talks about the life of a writer generally, television in general, and he also shares a lot of his advice and theories on structure and writing realistic characters.  As well as all that, he spends some time sharing some of his experience...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 3rd 2021 SANDY McGREGOR and I have a natter that reflects briefly on watching TV during the Festive Season before moving on to the main topic of the day which involves us reflecting - in no particular order and with no sense of precedence - upon the sad passing of several of the iconic TV performers who we lost over the course of the y...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 27 2020 Things are a little quiet round at FAB RADIO TOWERS in the day after Boxing Day, and so, as I spent yesterday deep inside the cellars churning a few of out many storage boxes around, it seemed like as good an opportunity for me to simply talk about QUATERMASS for a while. So, if you grab a leftover mince pie, and perhaps somet...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 20 2020 The eleventh edition of VISION ON SOUND attempts to be a vaguely festive edition, so I start off in a strangely poetic mood, rather grumpily examine the American Television version of the festive seasonal episode of long-running dramas in my opening monologue, and then SANDY joins me for a long chat that attempts to be an in-d...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 13 2020 In the tenth edition of VISION ON SOUND, because of lockdown restrictions, SANDY and I tried to do our usual thing via a telephone link and it all kind of worked out swimmingly.  Mostly. After I share a few musings on THE MACHINE STOPS, SANDY and I have one of our natters which starts with ROADKILL and by way of some musi...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 6th 2020 In the ninth edition of VISION ON SOUND, I share more leftovers from both of those long interviews I did for our DOCTOR WHO themed edition a couple of weeks ago that our running time didn't allow. So, there's more TOBY HADOKE which starts off from where we left off with a bit of a natter about English Cricket and listening to...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 29 2020 In the eighth edition of VISION ON SOUND, because I'd been away on a mini-break, SANDY and I headed into the studio with little prepared and without much clue as to what we were going to talk about. No change there then. And yet... Despite this unpromising start, we managed to chat for the entire hour about some of SANDY'S "De...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 22 2020 The seventh edition of VISION ON SOUND features a short interview with Andy Priestner (from the "World Enough And Time" podcast), part of a quite long interview with Hayden Gribble (from the "Diddly Dum" podcast), and about twenty minutes from an extremely long interview with Toby Hadoke (from loads of things I'm sure you alre...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 15 2020 In the sixth edition of VISION ON SOUND, I have a long ZOOM chat with STEVE HATCHER of the Derbyshire WHOOVERS about running a fan group, working with BIG FINISH to produce the annual BIG FINISH DAY, and his several television-related writing projects.. In something of a smorgasbord of an episode, LISA and ANDREW from the ROUN...