VISION ON SOUND

SANDY McGREGOR talks about VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE IN PARADISE. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 19th 2025. It’s perhaps a bit of a strange one this week, or maybe it’s just a bit of an obscure one. Anyway, our old pal SANDY McGREGOR got in touch and told me that he really fancied talking about VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE IN PARADISE, which seemed an odd request at th...

MICHAEL HERBERT talks about THE CHANGES First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 12th 2025. Way back in 1974, children’s television legend ANNA HOME, as part of her commitment to producing challenging and interesting drama serials intended for older children, wrote an adaptation of a trilogy of books written by PETER DICKINSON (The Weathermonger, Hartsease, and The Devil’s Ch...

Just before Christmas, LISA PARKER joined me to talk about her recent TV viewing. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 5th 2025. As we reach the moment when the decorations are supposed to be coming down and are being packed away as yet another festive season reaches its inevitable conclusion, we’ve just got time to welcome back LISA PARKER for a chat we recorded way back...

WARREN CUMMINGS joins me for a pre-New Year's Eve seasonal chat. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 29th 2024. As it’s usually a bit of a quiet time of year in Radio-land, I thought I might try and sneak out one last show for 2024 whilst nobody was paying all that much attention, and so I invited WARREN CUMMINGS to join me for one more chat before we pack up the show a...

THE SHY YETI at Christmas. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 22nd 2024. This week’s special guest our old friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself who, because it is very nearly Christmas, has decided to pop round for a bit of a festive chat next to our FAB TOWERS crackling seasonal fireplace. So, we’ll be talking about all sorts of nonsense including his favourite...

OLIVER CROCKER on the original ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 15th 2024. This week’s special guest is the film-maker, researcher, prolific podcaster, and author, OLIVER CROCKER who joins me to talk not about the long-running police drama THE BILL, about which he is something of an authority, but about another long-running drama from th...

WARREN CUMMINGS joins me to talk about the TV adaptations of the work of JOHN LE CARRÉ First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 8th 2024. For various reasons, recently I’ve been watching rather a lot of adaptations of the work of the novelist John le Carré, or David Cornwell as his family knew him, mostly, perhaps, because I’ve started reading his books, partially, of course...

PAUL CHANDLER on some more contemporary psychological thrillers. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 1st 2024. PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is back, and this week he wanted to use as our starting point some of the telly that he’d been watching recently, and, because that’s always a good prompt for an interesting television-related discussion, we did precisely that. So, w...

In a packed programme tonight, WARREN CUMMINGS really wanted to talk about a new dawn for DOCTOR WHO, but possibly not the one I might have been expecting… First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 24th 2024. In this edition of the show we (mostly) talk about season seven of classic DOCTOR WHO, first broadcast in 1970, featuring JON PERTWEE in the title role, and which consis...

STEVE HATCHER returns to tell us all about NIGEL KNEALE's work in the 1960s. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 17th 2024. Following our recent conversation about NIGEL KNEALE’S BEASTS anthology from the 1970s, STEVE HATCHER and I thought we might continue discussing the career of NIGEL KNEALE, as STEVE has been systematically working his way through such television pr...

STEVE HATCHER returns to tell us all about NIGEL KNEALE's BEASTS. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 10th 2024. This week STEVE HATCHER wanted to talk all about NIGEL KNEALE and his six part anthology series from 1976, BEASTS, and, of course, MURRAIN the play from 1975 that led to that series being commissioned. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content some...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI discusses THE SIMPSONS and other cartoon sitcoms. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 3rd 2024. This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is back, and, because he was unwise enough to mention on a previous appearance on VISION ON SOUND that he’d started watching THE SIMPSONS again, I thought that he’d be just the person to join me in a chat about...

LISA PARKER joins me to talk about THE SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 27th 2024. This week we welcome back LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast as she specifically wanted to talk about THE SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES, starring LORNA WATSON, the nineteen-sixties set recent spin-off from that daytime drama perennial FATHER BROWN. PLE...

WARREN CUMMINGS joins me to talk about PORTMEIRION and THE PRISONER. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 20th 2024. A couple of months ago, I was lucky enough to be treated to a couple of days staying at the hotel Portmeirion which, I’m sure I need not tell you nearly sixty years ago was once used as the primary location for The Village in that short-lived but somehow hu...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI returns to talk about some seventies TV superheroes... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 13th 2024. This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is back, and, because we briefly mentioned watching WONDER WOMAN the last time he was on, I got to thinking about all of those superhero-based television shows that were on TV when I was an impressionable...

STEVE HATCHER returns to some of those lesser-known sitcoms. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 6th 2024. Earlier in the year, STEVE HATCHER started taking us on a guided tour of some of the more forgotten TV sitcoms from the 1960s, and we thought it was about time that we went back and picked up where we left off in taking a look at the not insubstantial list of ancien...

MICHAEL HERBERT discusses COUNTERSTRIKE. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 29th 2024. This week the historian MICHAEL HERBERT returns to talk about another obscure piece of television science-fiction. This time, it’s a nine-part series, which seems to have been largely forgotten about, made by the BBC in 1969 after being first proposed in 1966 then shelved because of...

WARREN CUMMINGS takes a look at some Childten's Television Dramas. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 22nd 2024. This week WARREN CUMMINGS is back again, and this time he wanted to talk about three of the children’s television dramas that made a lasting - or is that disturbing? - impression on him when he was growing up. So, over the course of the next hour we wil...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI talks about the women in his TV life. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 15th 2024. This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is back, and, I don’t know about you lot, but I’ve been noticing something about the kind of shows that PAUL has been telling us that he enjoys as he’s come onto the show to talk about them over the years. I mean, regula...

VISION ON SOUND live on stage at WHOOVERVILLE 15 with TOMMY KNIGHT, CHRIS CHAPMAN, & JASON QUINN. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 8th 2024. Whilst VISION ON SOUND is a show where we do like to try to explore the wider world of archive television, and is not just about one specific television series that gets a lot of far better coverage in other places, it’s ha...

STEVE HATCHER on some "Edwardian" Adventurers First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 1st 2024. This week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER, and this week STEVE wanted to talk about two particular shows that he’s been enjoying recently that are based upon literary works, and which are both from a genre that we might like to call THE EDWARDIAN ADVENTURER, despite the...

RICK LAWLOR on discovering classic cinema via TV. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 25th 2024. This week we welcome back, after far too long an absence, an old friend of the show, RICK LAWLOR, who moved to Canada from the UK over a decade ago, and occasionally likes to keep me posted as to what’s going on in the world of telly on the other side of the Atlantic. Not that...

WARREN CUMMINGS on some 1970s USTV Cop Shows. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 18th 2024. This week WARREN CUMMINGS is back, and we’re going to talk about all of those 1970s US TV Cop Shows that we used to love like KOJAK and IRONSIDE and THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, all of which were on our British television screens during a decade in which it seemed not a week coul...

THE REWATCHABLES, with PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 11th 2024. Here we all find ourselves in realms that I never thought possible, as I really had considered not carrying on with the show beyond that 200th edition, but those lovely people who support me in producing VISION ON SOUND keep on suggesting things to talk about, and so, well,...

Eighties TV music special... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 4th 2024. This week, there isn’t a guest with me on the show, because I thought I’d do another of our theme music specials, and, because I’ve finally crossed into sniper’s alley, I thought I might share a selection of some of my favourite theme tunes from a decade when I was full of hope, vim, and vigour, du...