First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 4th 2022

This week we welcome back the ever popular and ever erudite LISA PARKER, one half of the team behind the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast, for one of our regular catch ups on what’s been happening in her telly world over the past few weeks.

It’s one of those wide-ranging meandering wanders through various television topics that we’ve been known to do, and takes us from her reflections on the JODIE WHITTAKER era of DOCTOR WHO and LISA’s success at restraining herself from binge-watching GHOSTS,  and the whole idea of the binge-watch generally, how it changes how we watch all of those other series where all the episodes magically all appear at once, and how this might affect the idea of the cliffhanger.

We also discuss the picture quality of some of the archive television we get to see, from whatever sources they might come from, and the excitement of seeing old television that you might not have seen before, and what sort of television programmes she’d like to see more of.

She touches upon the joy of watching shows like RENTAGHOST, 3-2-1, and TREASURE HUNT, and how seeing such shows that were around in your youth transports the viewer to their happy memories, as well as the whole problem of watching QUIZ and GAME shows dating from a time when they simply weren’t preserved for future viewing.

We chat about the transition to a more cynical age when it comes to contestants on game shows and people stopped in the street for their point of view being far more knowing about the impact simply being on telly can have on their lives than they used to be.

In a blatant plug for their own show, ROUND THE ARCHIVES, we discuss the long career of the late, lamented BERNARD CRIBBINS (which they had recently been researching), and which leads to some reflection on the woeful state of the JACKANORY archive, and the whole delightful rabbit hole that comes from watching a lot of your Television via YOUTUBE.

When it comes to streaming, however, LISA’s most recent television obsessions have been HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS, or FOUR IN A BED, as well as her old favourite MURDER, SHE WROTE and we do talk a little bit about how whole afternoons can be devoured by the addictive nature of a stack of episodes from any particular television show.

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 show.