First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 10th 2022

A few weeks ago, you may remember, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST who is one of our regular visitors to us all here at VISION ON SOUND was trying to persuade me of the delights of one of his favourite shows, SEX AND THE CITY and, because I’m always open to fresh new ideas about some of the TV shows that I’ve never personally got around to watching, he thought he might like to try again with a couple of other shows that I’m mostly unfamiliar with, and so the next hour, recorded, incidentally, on a terrible connection for which I can only apologise, we take a short - but hopefully fascinating - diversion into the dark world of DEXTER, the American series with a serial killer in the central role which ran for eight seasons between 2006 and 2013, and which has recently been resurrected for a final bow.

And staying amongst the darker shadows of television, we then take a detour INSIDE NUMBER NINE, another show that I’m fairly unfamiliar with, but which, because of being written by STEVE PEMBERTON and REECE SHEARSMITH, shares a lot of DNA with an old favourite of mine from the turn of the century THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, and which seems to be the inevitable spawn of both that series and its offspring PSYCHOVILLE.

There’s also a little DOCTOR WHO chat in this context, and we might also briefly touch upon what it actually is that draws us into watching a TV show, or, indeed, choosing not to, and the whole notion of revisiting TV series a few years later on.

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.