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  • WARREN CUMMINGS discusses some of the grim reaper's recent work...

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 24th 2024

    We don’t often acknowledge the work of the Grim Reaper on VISION ON SOUND, but with Arabella Weir spooking me with talk of SNIPER’S ALLEY on the Christmas GONE FISHING, and the scythe striking down so many TV icons in the past few months, I thought I’d get together with WARREN CUMMINGS to chat about the TV lives of a few of them.

    So why not sit back as we remember such great names as DAVID SOUL, DAVID McCALLUM, MICHAEL GAMBON, BRIDGET FORSYTH, ANDRE BRAUGHER, and LANCE REDDICK over the next hour which I promise you isn’t half as maudlin as you might fear, although sadly, our FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL time machine can’t bring any of them back…

    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.

  • PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, on guilt-free TV.

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 17th 2024

    This week we welcome back one of our more regular contributors to the show, PAUL CHANDLER, the SHY YETI himself, hotfooting it over from his endless production routine of making THE SHY LIFE podcast.

    For this show, I decided to give PAUL a prompt to give us something to talk about, and this was due to the fact that one of the streaming services that I use at home offered me an option of watching some GUILT-FREE TV and, to be perfectly honest, I don’t think that I was particularly sure what it even meant by that.

    Did it mean that I could just watch a whole chunk of it without feeling guilty at quite how much time I was wasting? Or was it offering me permission to watch a whole selection of the type of television that I might never feel comfortable in admitting to watching? Or was it referring to some other, more sinister possibilities in the line of popular entertainment…?

    Whichever it was getting at, I swiftly mistranslated its purpose as being all about those guilty televisual pleasures that might not be popular choices if you happened to mention them in polite company, and then realised just how little time I actually spent in polite company anyway.

    So, the upshot of all that pointless introspection is that I decided that PAUL was exactly the person I should choose to talk about this stuff, and that became the prompt for our programme this evening, and, even if I suspect we very swiftly moved away from that as the main thrust of what we ended up talking about, I think that the conversation we actually did have did, ultimately, still make for a fairly fascinating hour of telly-related chat, which is, of course, what we always try to bring you here on VISION ON SOUND.

    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.

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  • TYLER ADAMS explores the roots of his GOONPOD podcast.

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 10th 2024

    This week we welcome another new voice to VISION ON SOUND in the form of TYLER ADAMS, although his won’t be an unfamiliar voice to you at all, if you happen to be a listener to his phenomenally successful GOON POD podcast, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, takes as its starting point the 1950s BBC radio comedy series THE GOON SHOW, and has attracted many brilliant people to expand and expound upon the show’s impact into all sorts of worlds beyond.

    But I found myself asking what what what what what was it that led a young lad who grew up on the other side of the world in New Zealand, far away from the hallowed halls of the BBC, to form such an enthusiastic connection to this British show which was made long before he was even a twinkle in a farmer’s eye, and I think you’ll find his story, steeped as it is in a whole host of British sitcom classics, a fascinating one…

    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.

  • PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI revisits the video age.

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 3rd 2024

    This week one of my more regular guests on VISION ON SOUND, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back, and we’re going to take a nostalgic meander that starts off with a few reflections on what it was like growing up in the video age, or rather, growing up in an era when we consumed our films and, perhaps to a lesser extent, television – at least as far as the video rental shops were concerned – via the medium of videotape.

    But, of course, because it’s PAUL and I, we also meander off into topics like how we consume such media in more recent times, too, the whole world of collecting physical media, PAUL’S own dalliances with television production, and we even give a mention to his pet cat Deeley, and his efforts to sabotage PAUL’S viewing and editing routines…

    So, why not join us as we head back to an age of chunky buttons, programming, top-loading, and VHS…

    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.

  • STEVE HATCHER considers The Rivals of Hercule Poirot

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 25th 2024

    This week STEVE HATCHER returns and wants to talk to me about what he calls THE RIVALS OF HERCULE POIROT, and, I think we’ll just let him explain what that might be as we go along…

    But, as it includes two television versions of LORD PETER WIMSEY, CAMPION, and THE MRS BRADLEY MYSTERIES, I think you’re all in for a very interesting evening of classic sleuthing…

    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.

  • LISA PARKER looks at the various variants of LAW & ORDER...

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 18th 2024

    This week we welcome back LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST and we’re going to have a bit of a natter about one of my favourite USTV shows, the phenomenally successful LAW AND ORDER, the recently revived crime series that launched a franchise consisting of a whole raft of spin-offs, and we’ll also be talking about its UK counterpart unsurprisingly called LAW AND ORDER UK

    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.

  • WARREN CUMMINGS and I have a grumpy old hour...

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 11th 2024

    It’s been suggested to me recently that AGEISM has become the last prejudice that television seems happy to tolerate. In an era when inclusivity and tolerance of all kinds of people has quite rightly finally become the norm on TV, it still appears to be apparently quite okay to mock the elderly in advertising, dramas, comedies, and everyday life.

    Now it’s sometimes been said that when WARREN CUMMINGS and I get together on the show, it’s like we become the grumpiest of grumpy old men, so who better, I thought, to consider this topic with me? But, of course, because we’re both very old, and likely to drift off topic, the following hour drifts into all sorts of the sort of other television-related grumbles, which may prove that they do have a point.

    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.

  • ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON on THUNDERBIRDS

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 4th 2024

    This week ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON wanted to talk about the exciting and colourful GERRY & SYLVIA ANDERSON produced series from the mid-1960s "THUNDERBIRDS," so… well, that's exactly what we did, and, without a fast-cutting montage of highlights of this week's episode, I think you'll enjoy it.

    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.

  • SANDY McGREGOR on MR BATES VS THE POST OFFICE

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 28th 2024

    We don’t often deal with all that much outrage in the generally cosy world of VISION ON SOUND, where often the most controversial opinion I make is about whether a fifty year old television series is still acceptable for modern viewing, how certain shows came to be wiped, or disagreeing with my guests as to whether certain TV shows can be considered to be absolute rubbish or not, or whether we should, perhaps, only award that dubious accolade to anything produced in the last ten years or so.

    Equally, we don’t often consider much in the way of modern or recent television to come under what we loosely call our watching brief.

    And yet, because a certain recent ITV television drama has been causing a lot of discussion, and indeed outrage, I felt that we couldn’t really ignore it for twenty years in the hope that it might become worthy of our attention.

    So, having already borrowed - and devoured - his copy of the book THE GREAT POST OFFICE SCANDAL by NICK WALLIS, I invited SANDY McGREGOR back onto the show to have a chat about the implications of the recently broadcast powerful four-part drama series MR BATES VERSUS THE POST OFFICE, the story of what has been called one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British History, written by GWYNETH HUGHES and directed by JAMES STRONG, which starred TOBY JONES alongside MONICA DOLAN and JULIE HESMONDHALGH as some of the “little people” doggedly and determinedly pursuing justice by taking on the POST OFFICE in a two decade battle to clear the names of over five hundred of his fellow sub-postmasters in a story which, finally, largely because of the broadcast of this production, has rightly been front and centre in the news agenda.

    And whilst neither of us can claim any insights or personal involvement with the story, other than having taken a keen interest in it, and reading rather a lot about it, as well as discussing the series itself, our discussion does try to consider the power of television to occasionally make great positive changes happen, so we do briefly consider some of the – surprisingly few - other TV shows that can claim to have actually changed lives, and wonder just why it is that an important news story such as this somehow failed to make the same kind of impact in documentary form as it managed to as a drama series, and whether in future, that might be the only way any of us are likely to get the rest of the population to take much interest in some of the important things that are happening but which remain largely ignored.

    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.

  • PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, is back to discuss TV ghosts...

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 21st 2024

    This week we welcome back PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, that prolific podcaster from his very own THE SHY LIFE podcast, and we’re going to talk about GHOSTS, but probably not the GHOSTS that you might think we are.

    Because, whilst we ought to note the passing of that much-loved sitcom of recent years on VISION ON SOUND - and who knows, perhaps on another week we will – our topic today is more about the ghosts that have appeared on other television shows that we have enjoyed over the years.

    So whilst PAUL and I will be having a general chat about the subject, we will be touching upon RANDALL AND HOPKIRK (DECEASED) in both of its incarnations, PAUL’s perennial favourite DARK SHADOWS, the RICHARD CARPENTER classic THE GHOSTS OF MOTLEY HALL, taking a brief sideways trip into the TWILIGHT ZONE, considering the supernatural elements of SAPPHIRE AND STEEL, pulling off the mask of another janitor with the SCOOBY-DOO gang, chattering about some of those GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS, and even making brief references to Nigel Kneale’s classic THE STONE TAPE.

    Not that we’re going into any great depth about any of these shows, as every one of them could be worthy of an hour all to itself – and will be if any listeners fancy joining me to talk about any or all of them.

    Instead PAUL and I are just meandering through some of those dark places beyond the mortal realm, and lifting the veil briefly to take the merest glimpse into those worlds beyond, and our human interpretations of what they might be.

    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.

  • STEVE HATCHER is back to guide us over to the flipside...

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 14th 2024

    What better way to welcome in another year than to take a time travelling journey to the flipside? We’re another year nearer to the future, and one further away from the television that we tend to talk about the most here on VISION ON SOUND.

    Anyway, to start us off on our latest brand new shiny adventure, this week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER, and we’re going to talk about a pair of eccentric entries from the later era of PLAY FOR TODAY that rather flew in the face of some of the more usual type of stories that tended to get told in that series, by being rather clever little SCIENCE FICTION time-travel tales attempted on a BBC budget.

    These were the 1980 play THE FLIPSIDE OF DOMINICK HIDE and its sequel from two years later ANOTHER FLIP FOR DOMINICK, which told tales of a time-travelling future society visiting the strange and mysterious world of the 1980s, and the interesting outcomes that such visits caused.

    Starring, amongst others, PETER FIRTH, CAROLINE LANGRISHE, PIPPA GUARD, and PATRICK MAGEE, the plays were written by JEREMY PAUL and ALAN GIBSON, from an idea by ALAN GIBSON, who also directed, so it was very much a labour of love for them, and certainly the original play was a very well received example of the sweeter side of science-fiction storytelling, and has some strange connections with some other pop culture icons, as STEVEN will explain.

    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.

  • BEN BAKER returns to talk about his book THE DREAMS WE HAD AS CHILDREN

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 7th 2024

    Forty years ago this very week, after experimenting with the format through a strand called WATCH IT! during the previous three years or so, CHILDREN’S ITV was launched as an attempt at a coherent approach to children’s television output with linked presentations transmitted across the whole of the ITV network in the afternoon slot from 4:00pm to 5:15 on weekday afternoons.

    And, to a lesser or greater extent, with an eventual switch to a designated Freeview Channel, the CITV brand managed to stagger on for nearly forty years until the plug was finally pulled in September last year, and Children’s programming was shifted to ITVX.

    This fascinating era produced a whole wealth of fondly – and not so fondly -remembered programming of course, as Children do become very attached to their favourites, and, after far too long an absence from VISION ON SOUND which is all down to me sometimes being a little bit forgetful about these kinds of things, BEN BAKER is back this week to talk about the very personal book he has written THE DREAMS WE HAD AS CHILDREN which picks out his personal choice of the very best CITV had to offer between 1983 and its demise in 2023.

    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.

  • A SHY YETI ON NEW YEAR'S EVE.

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 31st 2023

    It’s New Year’s Eve and everybody at Fab Towers is off doing whatever it is that they might do to give the ratty old year the old heave-ho, and welcome in another one with its fresh clean slates and all those opportunities to be different that rarely come to pass.

    Anyway, here on VISION ON SOUND we didn’t want to try anything too heavy or “in your face” (or should that be “in your ears”?) to see out 2023, so tonight’s show basically consists of returning regular guest PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, and me simply sitting around and having a good old natter about a few things prompted by one or two of the telly-related things that have cropped up during the year just gone.

    So over the course of this amiable and relaxed hour we’ll give some thought to the consequences of PAUL’s on-going journey through the YouTube archive, and the additions it may have prompted me into getting for my own shelves, tiptoe briefly around the fact that all of DOCTOR WHO is now on the iPlayer, consider the possibilities that the CHEWITS monster could have had on INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS, meander inevitably down RAMSAY STREET, and mull over the enjoyment (or otherwise) of comedy on the old tellybox.

    It’s New Year’s Eve, my friends, so we’re taking it easy, relaxing, and, perhaps, trying for once not to be too incisive or informative. So why not park yourself upon your handiest soft furnishing, grab a little early evening refreshment, and start off what can turn into a long evening, by spending it with us, with not even the merest glimpse of the White Heather Club, probably…?

    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.

  • STEVE HATCHER & ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON join me to chat about DOCTOR WHO's SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS.

    A VISION ON SOUND CHRISTMAS BONUS EXTRA EPISODE

    Here’s a bit of a Christmas Bonus for you… After the DOCTOR WHO SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS (THE STAR BEAST, WILD BLUE YONDER, and THE GIGGLE) were shown on television for the first time, that pair of regular contributors to VISION ON SOUND, STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON from the DERBYSHIRE WHOOVERS, suggested we get together to talk about those, and the sixtieth anniversary as a whole, so that’s what we did.

    Unfortunately, however, there wasn’t a free slot in the schedule between our recording dates and the release of the brand new DOCTOR WHO episode launching the NCUTI GATWA era on CHRISTMAS DAY, so we agreed to pop this one out as a bonus edition and what I hope is a little extra festive treat.

    Though please don't forget to listen to the regular Sunday Evening edition that was broadcast on Christmas Eve.

    Happy Christmas.

  • WARREN POPS IN FOR A CHRISTMASSY NATTER.

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 24th 2023

    Here we are once again having a Christmas Edition of VISION ON SOUND – don’t they come around so fast these days? – and this year I’ve invited one of our more regular guests – WARREN CUMMINGS - to come around to FAB TOWERS, raid the FAB TOWERS fridge and sit in front of our crackling FAB RADIO fireplace with our tiny little twelve-inch black and white portable telly for that authentic seasonal telly experience from when we were both a lot younger, and far less likely to be sharing a bit of amiable curmudgeonly pre-Christmas banter.

    Naturally, because we’ve got guests, and have to be sociable, the telly will be staying resolutely off, but, because this is VISION ON SOUND, we’ll just be nattering about our Christmas telly favourites instead, and hoping that nobody’s filled that fire bucket with Gin instead of water, should the roaring fire get out of hand whilst we’re all distracted by mountains of mince pies and fizzy pop.

    So, before I open the door, let all the heat out, and welcome WARREN in, let’s stash away all the expensive bottles, hide the good biscuits, and fire up those FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL Time Engines to bask in the warm, mellow glow of some more Christmas Telly memories.

    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.

  • NEW VOICES: LYNNE HARVEY on TV DRAMA.

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 17th 2023

    This week we welcome another new voice to VISION ON SOUND, LYNNE HARVEY, a creative writing tutor who has an interesting tale to tell involving WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN, as well as having some fascinating memories of PUBLIC EYE, and she’s someone who is also very fond of TV theme tunes, which makes for a rather fascinating 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.

  • NEW VOICES: SUKY KHAKH's TV MEMORIES.

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 10th 2023

    This week we welcome a new voice to VISION ON SOUND, although I’m sure it will be a familiar one, as he’s the prolific podcaster SUKY KHAKH from the TREK THIS OUT, AROUND THE CONSOLE, and TAKE YOUR SEATS podcasts.

    I first met SUKY at WHOOVERVILLE THIRTEEN, which only goes to show that you lot should always be careful who you talk to, as you might find yourself getting invited to do this show.

    Happily SUKY was eager to oblige, and so we spent a fascinating hour discussing how he became such a fan of old TV through a love of books and science-fiction - despite growing up in a household that was far less interested in watching TV than he was - and our chat takes in the idea of season arcs, spoilers, and the addictive nature of some television, as SUKY seems to have found the perfect way to balance his enjoyment of television both archive and modern, which to me seems like an enviable talent to have.

    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.

  • THE SHY YETI RECOMMENDS SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 3rd 2023

    This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, is back, but instead of continuing his journey through the history of American television shows that he’s discovering through YouTube recommendations, this time he wanted to make a few recommendations of his own.

    More specifically, he wanted to share some of his enthusiasm for the darker side of dramatic television shows and tell me about his selection of the current range of psychological thriller series that have been cropping up on the streaming platforms lately.

    And so, VISION ON SOUND is going to have one of those rare weeks when it looks into some of the more current television that’s available, rather than delving into the archives this week.

    I know… I know…

    But, as the suggestion that we’re selling out to the dark forces of popularism die down, PAUL will be telling us all about the series “YOU” – A Netflix serial killer drama starring PENN BADGELY which currently has been running for four seasons, and the black comedy DEAD TO ME, also from NETFLIX, starring CHRISTINA APPLEGATE and LINDA CARDELLINI which ran for three seasons from 2019 to 2022.

    He’ll also touch upon the Horror Anthology series SLASHER, which, given some of PAUL’s past appearances on the show, sounds just his kind of thing. This show has run for five seasons on three different networks, and features a revolving recurring cast of actors in each season, which sounds like a very interesting idea.

    Finally, PAUL will introduce us to WILDERNESS, a six-part British miniseries created for AMAZON PRIME, and starring JENNA COLEMAN and OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN which was available for viewing as recently as September 2023.

    And, because it’s PAUL, we cant avoid mopping up a few details about a few of his favourites, so we also have a brief chat about the return of NEIGHBOURS, and he tells me all about his latest convert to the sublimely ingenious series that was THE AVENGERS.

    The cult of Archive TV Fans is out there, people, and it only wishes to bring more joy into your world. If only you’ll let it.

    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.

  • WARREN CUMMINGS REMEMBERS PARKINSON

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 26th 2023

    Back in August this year, the lights came down on yet another of the broadcasting giants from the younger lives of many of us, when MICHAEL PARKINSON, the person who many considered to be one of the greatest television interviewers ever, passed on at the grand old age of eighty-eight.

    A cornerstone of British television throughout the 1970s and beyond, “PARKY” was a no-nonsense Yorkshireman whose journalistic career took him from the Manchester Guardian via CINEMA on Granada Television, all the way to the BBC where he was finally given his eponymous chat show PARKINSON which ran from 1971 to 1982, and again from 1998 to 2007.

    In his own distinctive style, he interviewed many of the most famous people in the world, including many of the brightest stars from the golden era of Hollywood that he would have grown up watching in the cinemas of Barnsley, in shows that have since become some of the most memorable and valued video documents of their time.

    And whilst his presenting skills were utilised on radio in DESERT ISLAND DISCS, and in many television shows such as GIVE US A CLUE, meaning he has over 450 television presenting credits to his name, including a memorable acting turn in the VISION ON SOUND favourite GHOSTWATCH, he was also one of the “Famous Five” who helped set up GOOD MORNING BRITAIN in 1983.

    Anyway, WARREN CUMMINGS is a huge fan of dear old PARKY, and so we got together a few weeks ago and had a good old reminisce about our own memories of watching MICHAEL PARKINSON’s television interviewing career, and we also talk a little about the legacy he left, and the current state of the art of the television interview.

    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.

  • STEVE HATCHER ON DOCTOR WHO

    First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 19th 2023

    There’s a lot of anniversary celebrations going on at the moment to commemorate the sixtieth birthday of one of those television perennials that crosses the void between archive and modern TV, DOCTOR WHO, and as here on VISION ON SOUND we rarely avoid any archive TV bandwagons, we thought we might have a bit of a chat this week about this old favourite.

    With that in mind, this week I’ve invited back STEVE HATCHER to talk about the show and the part it has played in his life as an S-F fan who came to active DOCTOR WHO fandom comparatively late in life, but who then embraced it to the point where he has become something of a leading light of fandom, certainly as far as the DERBYSHIRE WHOOVERS are concerned anyway.

    I think you’re really going to enjoy what I hope you’ll find a slightly different, slightly contemplative, and occasionally reflective hour, as we have a bit of a natter about STEVE’s life in relation to this remarkable and seemingly indestructible children’s television science-fiction series that adults still seem to enjoy and follow in a manner that few other shows seem to quite manage.

    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.