VISION ON SOUND

WARREN CUMMINGS on city living, TV style... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 28th 2024. You might have noticed that one of my regular co-hosts on VISION ON SOUND, WARREN CUMMINGS, has been conspicuous by his absence for a few weeks recently, and it’s not because he’s been up to no good, but because he’s been reorganising his working life and making a move back to the big...

LISA PARKER on SHARDLAKE First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 21st 2024. This week, our returning guest is the ever-popular LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES team, and for this edition of VISION ON SOUND she’s returning to one of those subjects that she’s most fond of, namely the historical drama, only this time her observations come with a bit of a twist, as the drama...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI talks about his recent viewing. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 14th 2024. This week, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself returns and, in that way he has of watching new stuff to recommend so that I don’t have to, he’s been watching some shiny new TV shows that he’s going to talk about. So, in today’s show, he’ll be introducing me to Andrew S...

WARREN CUMMINGS on NEW NEW DOCTOR WHO and the acting life of WILLIAM RUSSELL ENOCH With the sad passing of WILLIAM RUSSELL at the grand old age of ninety-nine years in early June, WARREN CUMMINGS wanted to join me on VISION ON SOUND to talk, amongst other things, the incredible life of this much-loved actor from his particularly personal point of view, as well as, inevitably, because that is the n...

SUKY KHAKH on the differences between the book and the TV series when it comes to detective fiction. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 30th 2024. This week’s returning guest is SUKY KHAKH who has recently been ill in bed and spent much of that time reading a lot of the sort of books that have been adapted for television which inspired us to want to talk about how satisfyi...

BEN BAKER on that fateful night ALF turned up on the UK TV schedules. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 23rd 2024. I’ve been trying to get BEN BAKER back onto VISION ON SOUND for quite some time now, but various obstacles kept on getting in our way, which meant that our long-planned look at SPITTING IMAGE had to remain in the shadows as its anniversary sped by in a sea of...

MICHAEL HERBERT on DOOMWATCH. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 16th 2024. This week’s returning guest from our ever growing group of returning regulars is MICHAEL HERBERT who, you might remember from some earlier editions of VISION ON SOUND, has spent a lot of the last few years researching the life of MALCOLM HULKE, which, of course, because everything in the world of t...

STEVE HATCHER considers the TV life of HADLEIGH. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 9th 2024. A few weeks ago on VISION ON SOUND, STEVE HATCHER took us on a brief tour through the television lives of several characters who were the kind of testosterone-fuelled monsters that used to inhabit the boardrooms and bedrooms of those high-profile dramas of the sixties and seventie...

PAUL CHANDLER considers his TV happiness. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 2nd 2024 This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back once again for another of our cosy chats that might take the subject of television as its starting point, but then plays fast and loose with the self-imposed restrictions VISION ON SOUND has set itself. I was in something of a downbeat...

LISA PARKER on DIXON OF DOCK GREEN and more! This week’s returning guest from our panel of returning regulars is LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast who volunteered to take part in another of our more random chats which sometimes happen when there’s not much going on in the wider world of ever decreasing telly appreciation circles, at least nothing much that I’m paying all that much at...

SANDY McGREGOR considers those ROCK FOLLIES. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 19th 2024 This week SANDY McGREGOR returns and, wearing his incisive musical expertise hat, he’s going to talk us through the various madnesses that are the ROCK FOLLIES, a BAFTA award-winning drama series about the experiences of women in the music business which starred CHARLOTTE CORNWELL as A...

STEVE HATCHER looks at some of the more obscure 1960s sitcoms. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 12th 2024 This week, STEVE HATCHER returns and we’re going to start a short occasional series in which STEVE talks about some of the more obscure or forgotten sitcoms of the 1960s. Whilst we’re all probably rather over familiar with the more famous sitcoms of that era, the like...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, returns with some telly set in the middle of nowhere. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 5th 2024 This week, because he felt like getting away from it all, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back, and, in coming on this show, he’s obviously picked exactly the right place to do it. Well, perhaps not, but PAUL has been watching several shows t...

STEVE HATCHER considers some TELEVISION MONSTERS (but maybe not the ones you were expecting) First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 28th 2024 Today on VISION ON SOUND, “HERE BE MONSTERS!” as the saying goes, but not necessarily the kind of monsters that you might be expecting. Well, they certainly weren’t the ones that I was expecting when our regular contributor STEVE HATCHE...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI talks about THE TRAITORS First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 21st 2024 This week, VISION ON SOUND moves into uncharted territory… Or does it? Certainly our main topic this week is not the kind of thing that we usually talk about on the show, as it’s a programme that’s shiny and new, and pretty much up to the minute, and is something that you mig...

LISA PARKER considers the series SHADOW OF THE NOOSE First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 14th 2024 This week, LISA PARKER, one half of the team behind the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast returns to VISION ON SOUND to talk about a series that combines her love of television dramas about Law and Order with her love of period dramas. The series is SHADOW OF THE NOOSE, an eight par...

WARREN CUMMINGS pays tribute to LAURIE JOHNSON First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 7th 2024 Last time we had him on the show, WARREN CUMMINGS turned up with a whole load of notes on the career of a great film & tv music composer that we ended up not using, so it only seemed fair to use them this week instead as VISION ON SOUND pays tribute to the late, great LAURIE JOH...

STEVE HATCHER on the multiple TV adaptations of DRACULA First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 31st 2024 This week, STEVE HATCHER wanted to talk about, amongst other things, four distinct television adaptations of Bram Stoker’s book DRACULA, so that’s exactly what we did. So let’s set those FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL Time Engines to “GOTHIC” and take a trip to the dark side… PLE...

WARREN CUMMINGS discusses some of the grim reaper's recent work... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 24th 2024 We don’t often acknowledge the work of the Grim Reaper on VISION ON SOUND, but with Arabella Weir spooking me with talk of SNIPER’S ALLEY on the Christmas GONE FISHING, and the scythe striking down so many TV icons in the past few months, I thought I’d get t...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, on guilt-free TV. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 17th 2024 This week we welcome back one of our more regular contributors to the show, PAUL CHANDLER, the SHY YETI himself, hotfooting it over from his endless production routine of making THE SHY LIFE podcast. For this show, I decided to give PAUL a prompt to give us something to talk about,...

TYLER ADAMS explores the roots of his GOONPOD podcast. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 10th 2024 This week we welcome another new voice to VISION ON SOUND in the form of TYLER ADAMS, although his won’t be an unfamiliar voice to you at all, if you happen to be a listener to his phenomenally successful GOON POD podcast, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, takes as its startin...

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI revisits the video age. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 3rd 2024 This week one of my more regular guests on VISION ON SOUND, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back, and we’re going to take a nostalgic meander that starts off with a few reflections on what it was like growing up in the video age, or rather, growing up in an era when we c...

STEVE HATCHER considers The Rivals of Hercule Poirot First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 25th 2024 This week STEVE HATCHER returns and wants to talk to me about what he calls THE RIVALS OF HERCULE POIROT, and, I think we’ll just let him explain what that might be as we go along… But, as it includes two television versions of LORD PETER WIMSEY, CAMPION, and THE MRS BRADL...

LISA PARKER looks at the various variants of LAW & ORDER... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 18th 2024 This week we welcome back LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST and we’re going to have a bit of a natter about one of my favourite USTV shows, the phenomenally successful LAW AND ORDER, the recently revived crime series that launched a franchise consi...

WARREN CUMMINGS and I have a grumpy old hour... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 11th 2024 It’s been suggested to me recently that AGEISM has become the last prejudice that television seems happy to tolerate. In an era when inclusivity and tolerance of all kinds of people has quite rightly finally become the norm on TV, it still appears to be apparently quite okay to...