PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI returns to give me a little bit of encouragement.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 9th 2025.

At the start of this year I will admit to feeling very fed up, and I spent a lot of time wondering about the future of VISION ON SOUND, and about whether it even had a future, to be honest, or whether the time had come to jack all of this nonsense in. I know that a lot of people get the January Blues and, this year, I was very much one of those people.

Happily, because a lot of the reason we turn up on the air each week is because very kind people offer to talk to me about television, and a lot of them had given me their time in December, most of the shows that you’ve been hearing so far this year were taken from that stockpile of interviews, opinions and conversations, that somehow kept us staggering on through those bleak, cold Sunday evenings at the darkest time of the year.

I only recorded one show in January and it was this week’s edition, in which I used PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, as a sounding board, and therapist, to discuss some of the issues that I’d been having, and somehow, over the course of this hour, he managed to cheer me up and persuade me that talking about archive television really isn’t the terrible waste of time that I’d been beginning to suspect that it was.

I hope you enjoy the next hour, as I think it gave me just a little bit of hope that the things that I continue to persist in doing aren’t quite as useless as I sometimes think they are when the midwinter blues have me firmly in their grip.

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.