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, whilst this does mean that, once again, the television we’re talking about is a lot more modern than I’m usually familiar with, it does also mean that we’re returning to a type of television that I’ve discussed with PAUL on at least one previous edition of the show, as we delve into the murky waters of the contemporary psychological thriller serial, the kind of show that Channel Five in particular seems to be producing in large numbers, and which it is promoting widely to a large audience who, much like PAUL, completely lap this kind of thing up.

Our starting point today takes in three of serials first broadcast in 2024 that PAUL has enjoyed, THE CUCKOO starring JILL HALFPENNY and LEE INGLEBY which is a four-part series; THE WIVES, a six-part thriller with JAMIE BAMBER, JO JOYNER and TAMSIN OUTHWAITE; and THE TEACHER, another four-parter featuring KARA TOINTON and WILL MELLOR which serves as a follow-up to a previous series from 2022 featuring SHERIDAN SMITH.

As ever, whilst this may be our starting point, our conversation meanders into all sorts of other mostly-related areas, and I do hope that you enjoy our observations over the course of the hour.

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.