VISION ON SOUND

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...

WARREN CUMMINGS has been watching THE VIEW FROM DANIEL PIKE.. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 1st 2025. This week, WARREN CUMMINGS is back again and, when I finally allowed him to, he really wanted to talk about a Scottish drama from the early 1970s that he’s discovered called THE VIEW FROM DANIEL PIKE and which starred RODDY McMILLAN. Naturally, that’s not all we talk...

WARREN CUMMINGS has been rewatching THE X FILES. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 25th 2025. This week, my regular co-host on the show, WARREN CUMMINGS has started on his re-watch of the 1990s sci-fi drama phenomenon from the mind of CHRIS CARTER which was, of course, THE X FILES, a ridiculously successful show that ran for nine seasons, spawned two feature films, and has...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI considers some TV remakes. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 18th 2025. This week, we’re returning to a topic that we cover from time-to-time here on VISION ON SOUND, that of the television shows that were so popular, or made such an impact, that, in the absence of any better ideas, the television production companies decide to remake them in a...

WARREN CUMMINGS gets all eclectic. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 11th 2025. This week, WARREN CUMMINGS is back for another of our eclectic little meanders around the fringes of this strange little obsession we have with the thing we call Archive TV. As ever, we start off not really knowing where our conversations are going to take us, so, whilst we begin with a few ref...

LISA PARKER with someof her recent TV viewing. This week, after far too long an absence, LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST is back and, as is often the case, we spend a very pleasant hour just chatting about what kind of archive television shows she and her partner ANDREW have been watching during the intervening months. So we talk a little bit about their recent viewing choices whic...

STEVE HATCHER with some more "forgotten" TV sitcoms. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 27th 2025. STEVE HATCHER is back this week, and this time he’s been watching a selection of the more obscure and mostly forgotten British sitcoms from the 1960s, so, over the next hour, we’ll be discussing his thoughts on THE LARKINS, HUGH AND I, NEVER MIND THE QUALITY FEEL T...

STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON (plus guests!) on ACE OF WANDS and AN AUDIENCE WITH TAROT at DERBY QUAD. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 20th 2025. On SATURDAY the 29TH of MARCH, our friend ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON along with his colleague STEVE HARDY organised an event at THE QUAD in DERBY to celebrate all things ACE OF WANDS, the popular (but largely now lost) chi...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI and IRWIN ALLEN First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 13th 2025. Recently, I’ve been re-watching a whole load of late-era VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA episodes, as well as a smattering of examples from THE TIME TUNNEL, and this set me to thinking that I’d quite like to talk to one of my regulars about the quartet of high-concept television adve...

ADAM HENLEY on BLAKE'S 7 series one First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 6th 2025. A couple of months ago, a new voice joined us on VISION ON SOUND in the form of ADAM HENLEY, and he introduced himself by talking about both his personal television history and a little bit about THE WEST WING. This went so well, that ADAM felt like making another appearance and, as he’d...

STEVE HATCHER on twenty years of "New Who" (part two) First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 30th 2025. Last week, as you hopefully already will know, STEVE HATCHER joined me to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the revived version of DOCTOR WHO from CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON right through to the current incumbent NCUTI GATWA, and, whilst we had a long chat about t...

STEVE HATCHER on twenty years of "New Who" First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 23rd 2025. This week, perhaps rather astonishingly, March the 26th will bring with it the twentieth anniversary of DOCTOR WHO returning to our television screens in its shiny new incarnation after a rather lengthy break which found it pretty much adrift in the time continuum for over a...

ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON on the voices behind the puppets. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 16th 2025. This week we welcome back our old friend ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON who’s making a much-postponed return to VISION ON SOUND. ANDY is the one of our regular contributors to the show who I feel is our expert on all things to do with the GERRY ANDERSON productions of which he is an...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI returns to give me a little bit of encouragement. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 9th 2025. At the start of this year I will admit to feeling very fed up, and I spent a lot of time wondering about the future of VISION ON SOUND, and about whether it even had a future, to be honest, or whether the time had come to jack all of this nonsense in....

THE WAR GAMES in BLACK AND WHITE First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 2nd 2025. Shortly before Christmas, prior to it being shown in a very different version, Michael Herbert roped in his pal BRENDAN NOBLE from THE SENSE SPHERE PODCAST to talk all about the epic ten-part 1969 DOCTOR WHO story THE WAR GAMES which was written by TERRANCE DICKS and the subject of the biography...

DR TOM MAY on PLAY FOR TODAY First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 23rd 2025. This week I’m joined by another new voice for the show, DOCTOR TOM MAY from NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY who I was put in touch with because he’s written his PhD thesis all about the BBC’s long running drama series PLAY FOR TODAY which ran throughout the 1970s and well into the early eighties and pres...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI on the part location plays in his TV enjoyment. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 16th 2025. This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself returns to talk about a subject that he himself suggested, which is all about the locations used on television series, and how much of an effect filming in real places has upon his own enjoyment of a pro...

WARREN CUMMINGS on our shared cultural TV heritage. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 9th 2025. This week we welcome back WARREN CUMMINGS for another of those television themed conversations that we like to have that can take us practically anywhere from the prompt I set us up with. This week I’d been fretting somewhat about my cultural life in terms of what people la...

ADAM HENLEY talks about his TV history and THE WEST WING First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 2nd 2025. This week we welcome a new voice to VISION ON SOUND, that of ADAM HENLEY, an archive television fan who I first met when he offered to help out with some of my technical support when I was recording our live show on stage at WHOOVERVILLE in Derby last September. He exp...

BEN BAKER urges everyone to "KISS YOUR TELEVISION" First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 26th 2025. This week we welcome back BEN BAKER to VISION ON SOUND and not just, he assures me, because he’s got a new book out. He has got a new book out, of course, but that’s not the only thing we talk about, although, given that it’s all about precisely the sort of archive TV we lik...