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VISION ON SOUND

ADVENTURES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY TELEVISION... AND BEYOND...!Where the television of the past… …becomes the conversation of the present.Join us as we take a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and my guests and I investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.

tv & film

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 239 - TX MAY 4 2025

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2025/05/04

LISA PARKER with someof her recent TV viewing.This week, after far too long an absence, LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST is back and, as is often the case, we spend a very pleasant hour just chatting about what kind of archive television shows she and her partner ANDREW have been watching during the intervening months.So we talk a little bit about their recent viewing choices which include season thirteen of DOCTOR WHO (The one that includes such classics as TERROR OF THE ZYGONS and

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00:59:56

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 238 - TX APRIL 27 2025

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2025/04/27

STEVE HATCHER with some more "forgotten" TV sitcoms.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 27th 2025.STEVE HATCHER is back this week, and this time he’s been watching a selection of the more obscure and mostly forgotten British sitcoms from the 1960s, so, over the next hour, we’ll be discussing his thoughts on THE LARKINS, HUGH AND I, NEVER MIND THE QUALITY FEEL THE WIDTH, NO THAT’S ME OVER HERE, TWO IN CLOVER, and the DUSTBINMEN, as well as one or two other rarities

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 237 - TX APRIL 20 2025

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2025/04/20

STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON (plus guests!) on ACE OF WANDS and AN AUDIENCE WITH TAROT at DERBY QUAD.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 20th 2025.On SATURDAY the 29TH of MARCH, our friend ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON along with his colleague STEVE HARDY organised an event at THE QUAD in DERBY to celebrate all things ACE OF WANDS, the popular (but largely now lost) children’s fantasy drama series created by TREVOR PRESTON which was made and broadcast by THAMES TELEVISION

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00:59:52

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 236 - TX APRIL 13 2025

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2025/04/13

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI and IRWIN ALLENFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 13th 2025.Recently, I’ve been re-watching a whole load of late-era VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA episodes, as well as a smattering of examples from THE TIME TUNNEL, and this set me to thinking that I’d quite like to talk to one of my regulars about the quartet of high-concept television adventure series that were created by IRWIN ALLEN in the mid 1960s, which also included LOST IN SPACE and LAND

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 235 - TX APRIL 6 2025

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2025/04/06

ADAM HENLEY on BLAKE'S 7 series oneFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 6th 2025.A couple of months ago, a new voice joined us on VISION ON SOUND in the form of ADAM HENLEY, and he introduced himself by talking about both his personal television history and a little bit about THE WEST WING.This went so well, that ADAM felt like making another appearance and, as he’d just finished watching the exciting new Blu-Ray release of the first series of BLAKE’S SEVEN, we thought

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00:59:37

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 234 - TX MARCH 30 2025

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2025/03/30

STEVE HATCHER on twenty years of "New Who" (part two)First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 30th 2025.Last week, as you hopefully already will know, STEVE HATCHER joined me to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the revived version of DOCTOR WHO from CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON right through to the current incumbent NCUTI GATWA, and, whilst we had a long chat about the show, we did fail to address the copious notes that STEVE had made in preparation for that show, for

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 233 - TX MARCH 23 2025

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2025/03/23

STEVE HATCHER on twenty years of "New Who"First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 23rd 2025.This week, perhaps rather astonishingly, March the 26th will bring with it the twentieth anniversary of DOCTOR WHO returning to our television screens in its shiny new incarnation after a rather lengthy break which found it pretty much adrift in the time continuum for over a decade and a half, despite the odd big night in to entertain us with.During those “wilderness years”

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 232 - TX MARCH 16 2025

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2025/03/16

ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON on the voices behind the puppets.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 16th 2025.This week we welcome back our old friend ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON who’s making a much-postponed return to VISION ON SOUND. ANDY is the one of our regular contributors to the show who I feel is our expert on all things to do with the GERRY ANDERSON productions of which he is an enormous fan, so, when DAVID GRAHAM, the much loved actor responsible for giving us the voices of PARKER

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 231 - TX MARCH 9 2025

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2025/03/09

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

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 230 - TX MARCH 2 2025

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2025/03/02

THE WAR GAMES in BLACK AND WHITEFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 2nd 2025.Shortly before Christmas, prior to it being shown in a very different version, Michael Herbert roped in his pal BRENDAN NOBLE from THE SENSE SPHERE PODCAST to talk all about the epic ten-part 1969 DOCTOR WHO story THE WAR GAMES which was written by TERRANCE DICKS and the subject of the biography he’s written, MALCOLM HULKE.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 229 - TX FEBRUARY 23 2025

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2025/02/23

DR TOM MAY on PLAY FOR TODAYFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 23rd 2025.This week I’m joined by another new voice for the show, DOCTOR TOM MAY from NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY who I was put in touch with because he’s written his PhD thesis all about the BBC’s long running drama series PLAY FOR TODAY which ran throughout the 1970s and well into the early eighties and presented an eclectic mix of so many iconic dramas many of which are still talked about in hushed and awed

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 228 - TX FEBRUARY 16 2025

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2025/02/16

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI on the part location plays in his TV enjoyment.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 16th 2025.This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself returns to talk about a subject that he himself suggested, which is all about the locations used on television series, and how much of an effect filming in real places has upon his own enjoyment of a programme.So, whilst inevitably we touch upon several of his favourites such as DOCTOR WHO, BERGERAC,

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 227 - TX FEBRUARY 9 2025

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2025/02/09

WARREN CUMMINGS on our shared cultural TV heritage.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 9th 2025. This week we welcome back WARREN CUMMINGS for another of those television themed conversations that we like to have that can take us practically anywhere from the prompt I set us up with. This week I’d been fretting somewhat about my cultural life in terms of what people laughingly call Britishness, and often try to test people on. Does the fact that I pay little attention

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 226 - TX FEBRUARY 2 2025

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2025/02/02

ADAM HENLEY talks about his TV history and THE WEST WING First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 2nd 2025. This week we welcome a new voice to VISION ON SOUND, that of ADAM HENLEY, an archive television fan who I first met when he offered to help out with some of my technical support when I was recording our live show on stage at WHOOVERVILLE in Derby last September. He expressed an interest in taking part, and suggested we might talk about THE WEST WING for the

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 225 - TX JANUARY 26 2025

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2025/01/26

BEN BAKER urges everyone to "KISS YOUR TELEVISION"First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 26th 2025. This week we welcome back BEN BAKER to VISION ON SOUND and not just, he assures me, because he’s got a new book out. He has got a new book out, of course, but that’s not the only thing we talk about, although, given that it’s all about precisely the sort of archive TV we like to feature on this show, and that it has the rather intriguing title of KISS YOUR TELEVISION, it

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 224 - TX JANUARY 19 2025

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2025/01/19

SANDY McGREGOR talks about VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE IN PARADISE.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 19th 2025. It’s perhaps a bit of a strange one this week, or maybe it’s just a bit of an obscure one. Anyway, our old pal SANDY McGREGOR got in touch and told me that he really fancied talking about VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE IN PARADISE, which seemed an odd request at the time, but, well, you know what they say, live and let live. Anyway, after my initial bafflement, it

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 223 - TX JANUARY 12 2025

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2025/01/12

MICHAEL HERBERT talks about THE CHANGESFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 12th 2025. Way back in 1974, children’s television legend ANNA HOME, as part of her commitment to producing challenging and interesting drama serials intended for older children, wrote an adaptation of a trilogy of books written by PETER DICKINSON (The Weathermonger, Hartsease, and The Devil’s Children) which turned out to be one of those TV serials that somehow, with its powerful images of a

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00:59:23

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 222 - TX JANUARY 5 2025

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2025/01/05

Just before Christmas, LISA PARKER joined me to talk about her recent TV viewing.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 5th 2025. As we reach the moment when the decorations are supposed to be coming down and are being packed away as yet another festive season reaches its inevitable conclusion, we’ve just got time to welcome back LISA PARKER for a chat we recorded way back in November, in which we talked about her recent archive TV viewing, some of which was in the latest

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 221 - TX DECEMBER 29 2024

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2024/12/29

WARREN CUMMINGS joins me for a pre-New Year's Eve seasonal chat. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 29th 2024. As it’s usually a bit of a quiet time of year in Radio-land, I thought I might try and sneak out one last show for 2024 whilst nobody was paying all that much attention, and so I invited WARREN CUMMINGS to join me for one more chat before we pack up the show and start thinking about what to bring you next year, which is, as ever, swiftly heading our way

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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 220 - TX DECEMBER 22 2024

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2024/12/22

THE SHY YETI at Christmas. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 22nd 2024. This week’s special guest our old friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself who, because it is very nearly Christmas, has decided to pop round for a bit of a festive chat next to our FAB TOWERS crackling seasonal fireplace. So, we’ll be talking about all sorts of nonsense including his favourite traditional festive viewing which includes several horror films, the bauble that was once JIM

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