VoS live on stage at WHOOVERVILLE 14 with guests GARY RUSSELL, TIM TRELOAR, JONATHON CARLEY and STEVE HATCHER.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 10th 2023

As an Archive TV fan, I’m always very impressed whenever I hear about any kind of organized event where fans of a certain type of television gather together to celebrate and appreciate any kind of archive television show.

This is, after all, how we keep the memory of these classic series alive and pass on the knowledge of them to future generations.

Some series, of course, have a bigger following than others, and are able to offer much larger events for people who love those shows to gather together, and so we get huge events that celebrate the great series that almost everybody in the “NOT WE” world have at least heard of like STAR TREK, THE PRISONER, and, of course DOCTOR WHO.

Now, in STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON, we have a couple of regular contributors to this show who also happen to be the movers and shakers behind one of the more popular, inclusive, and friendly annual DOCTOR WHO conventions, in that every year on the Saturday after the AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY – pandemics permitting – for the past decade and a half or so, they’ve organized – with the help of their loyal fan group known as the WHOOVERS - a one-day gathering in DERBY for fans of DOCTOR WHO that is known as WHOOVERVILLE – and they’ve recently released their fourteenth WHOOVERVILLE into the world on SATURDAY THE SECOND OF SEPTEMBER 2023.

Happily STEVE was also able in their busy schedule to arrange an afternoon slot for me to attempt to record this VISION ON SOUND so I could once again try to do a live show in front of an audience, with several of the guests who had been invited to WHOOVERVILLE made available to talk to me.

Rather less happily, on the day, and entirely due to my own shortcomings, the gremlins got into the recording equipment, and so the sound quality of the following is rather sadly not the greatest, but hopefully you’ll be able to hear enough of what this fantastic quartet of guests had to talk about on the day.

And so, after hearing me explaining to the audience a little bit about what I think VISION ON SOUND is all about, you’ll also hear STEVE HATCHER co-hosting the discussion with me from the safety of a necessary armchair, with GARY RUSSELL, JONATHON CARLEY, and TIM TRELOAR joining us on stage.

GARY RUSSELL was the editor of Doctor Who Magazine between 1992 and 1995 and the original executive producer for Big Finish Productions from 1998 to 2006, and has written many Doctor Who comics and novels. In recent years he has been executive producer of one of the groups working on animations of missing Doctor Who stories.

JONATHON CARLEY voiced the War Doctor and the Twelfth Doctor in the Doctor Who Lockdown webcast Doctors Assemble! In 2021, he took over the role of The War Doctor for Big Finish and has delighted audiences with his extraordinarily accurate recreation of the late Sir John Hurt, and you may also recognize him from the recent series THE POWER OF PARKER.

TIM TRELOAR's interpretation of the Third Doctor has garnered great acclaim since 2015, including from many of those who worked with Jon Pertwee on television. Beyond Doctor Who, he has appeared in TV shows such as Casualty, Lewis, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, Doctors and Russell T. Davies' Mine All Mine. You may have seen him recently in Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? and the six-part BBC miniseries WOLF.

So, let’s transport ourselves back to SEPTEMBER the SECOND 2023, and the stage of CINEMA TWO in THE QUAD in DERBY for our live discussion at WHOOVERVILLE 14.

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.