First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 13 2020

In the tenth edition of VISION ON SOUND, because of lockdown restrictions, SANDY and I tried to do our usual thing via a telephone link and it all kind of worked out swimmingly. 

Mostly.

After I share a few musings on THE MACHINE STOPS, SANDY and I have one of our natters which starts with ROADKILL and by way of some musings upon modern ways of viewing television shows, ITV drama, we end up in Sandy's STAR TREK dreams. We also discuss the genius of the 22 minute episode format, WESTWORLD, LoveFilm, THE PRISONER, and the television Westerns of the 1960s.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 6th 2020

In the ninth edition of VISION ON SOUND, I share more leftovers from both of those long interviews I did for our DOCTOR WHO themed edition a couple of weeks ago that our running time didn't allow.

So, there's more TOBY HADOKE which starts off from where we left off with a bit of a natter about English Cricket and listening to TMS, but don't worry, we get back to more telly stuff fairly rapidly, as well as more HAYDEN GRIBBLE (from the DIDDLY DUM PODCAST), as well as a little natter I had with LISA & ANDREW about the career of the recently late, always great GEOFFREY PALMER.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 29 2020

In the eighth edition of VISION ON SOUND, because I'd been away on a mini-break, SANDY and I headed into the studio with little prepared and without much clue as to what we were going to talk about.

No change there then.

And yet... Despite this unpromising start, we managed to chat for the entire hour about some of SANDY'S "Desert Island TV" in a conversation that covered THE BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF, PLAY FOR TODAY, THE WORLD AT WAR, DAD'S ARMY, FATHER TED, STOCKPORT COUNTY, and, erm, VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE IN PARADISE (!!!)

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 22 2020

The seventh edition of VISION ON SOUND features a short interview with Andy Priestner (from the "World Enough And Time" podcast), part of a quite long interview with Hayden Gribble (from the "Diddly Dum" podcast), and about twenty minutes from an extremely long interview with Toby Hadoke (from loads of things I'm sure you already know far more than me about).

This now means that the "In case nobody agrees to be interviewed so not Doctor Who at all" themed Alternative Episode Seven (in which Sandy & I burble on in the Fab Radio International studio with little in the way of a planned programme) will now become Episode Eight.

Far, far more of those interviews with Hayden and Toby will be featured in future episodes, so stay tuned.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 15 2020

In the sixth edition of VISION ON SOUND, I have a long ZOOM chat with STEVE HATCHER of the Derbyshire WHOOVERS about running a fan group, working with BIG FINISH to produce the annual BIG FINISH DAY, and his several television-related writing projects..

In something of a smorgasbord of an episode, LISA and ANDREW from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST share some thoughts on RAINBOW, and listeners will finally, FINALLY, get to hear that long-promised other half of the interview with MARTIN UNSWORTH from STARBURST MAGAZINE, the first part of which featured in EPISODE TWO of VISION ON SOUND.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 8 2020

In the fifth edition of VISION ON SOUND, SANDY McGREGOR returns to the studio to talk with me about politics, which, as we all know, is never discussed in polite society, so instead we talk about politically themed television programmes.

It's a long, wide-ranging chat covering programmes such as THE WEST WING, HOUSE OF CARDS, YES, MINISTER, THE THICK OF IT (about which I have to apologise on air for several startling errors which seems highly appropriate given the topic), and VEEP, amongst others, and, as ever, we run out of time to delve into any of them as deeply as we'd like to, but we hope it gives you an enjoyable hour of listening.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 1 2020

In the fourth edition of VISION ON SOUND, the topic we are discussing is DYSTOPIAN TV and one or two dark visions of the future.

We briefly revisit the 1979 QUATERMASS serial, before spending some time In conversation with ANDY PRIESTNER, who literally co-wrote the book on SURVIVORS, and there's a previously unheard extract from my remakes and reimaginings chat with SANDY McGREGOR which seemed more appropriate to use in this edition as we discussed the remake of SURVIVORS.

WARREN CUMMINGS also returns to talk about his unique take on what might be considered to be dystopian vision.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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

Episode 4 of VISION ON SOUND - Sunday Nov 1 2020 - FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL Ch1

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 25 2020

In the third edition of VISION ON SOUND plans have changed from those announced at the end of episode two as, instead of discussing DYSTOPIAN TV (see NEXT WEEK for more of that delight) my studio guest SANDY McGREGOR returns to continue our talk about remakes and reimaginings of TV series.  In the process we move from WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS? and CALLAN through CHARLES ENDELL ESQUIRE to THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT and more.

We also talk to WARREN CUMMINGS (no relation),  who did our Diana Rigg tribute back in episode one, about his memories of growing up watching TV in the seventies..

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 18 2020

In the second edition of VISION ON SOUND I have a studio guest as my pal SANDY McGREGOR and I talk about remakes and reimaginings of TV series.  In the process we discuss DALEKS INVASION EARTH 2150AD (a reimagining of DOCTOR WHO), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, STAR TREK, and THE SINGING DETECTIVE, amongst others.

I also interview MARTIN UNSWORTH,  the assistant editor of STARBURST MAGAZINE, about the 1970s feature film versions of all those sitcoms of the time.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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.