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 hard not to admit that DOCTOR WHO was definitely the gateway into that wider world for a lot of people who grew up watching it.

It is just one of those shows, I guess, that happens to have a lot of documentation written about it, and a lot of people who love it enough to want to find out more about it. Running on television for more than sixty years probably helps a little bit with that, too.

This week, thanks to show regulars STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON, for the third year in a row, I was invited to record an edition of VISION ON SOUND live on stage at WHOOVERVILLE 15 the one-day DOCTOR WHO convention that they organise and run in conjunction with both their own fan group THE WHOOVERS, and with THE QUAD in Derby, which this year took place on the 31st of August 2024.

I’m delighted to say that, for our afternoon VISION ON SOUND recording session this year, I was able to be joined on stage in Cinema 2 by TOMMY KNIGHT, the actor who, alongside other roles, played LUKE SMITH in THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES.

Alongside him, I was able to welcome CHRIS CHAPMAN, the television producer/director, and writer for Big Finish Productions, who is currently one of the team producing new content for the popular DOCTOR WHO COLLECTION Blu-Ray sets.

We were also very lucky to be joined by JASON QUINN who is the latest editor for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE, and between us I think that we managed to have an interesting session discussing DOCTOR WHO in a slightly wider context, and I hope that the audience on the day enjoyed it, and, hopefully, those of you who are now tuning in will enjoy it too.

You’ll also hear STEVE introducing me at the beginning, but, because he is always having a very busy day when the event is running, he does have to slip quietly away to leave us to just get on with it.

As ever, I’m always very moved and humbled that they are prepared to take that leap of faith in what we do here on VISION ON SOUND, and appreciate the trust that they have in me to do whatever it is that I do, and I can’t thank them enough, once again, for allowing me to take part.

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.