VISION ON SOUND

• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 247 - TX JUNE 29 2025

  LISA PARKER on CROWN COURTFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 29th 2025.Recently, LISA PARKER, one of the regular contributors to the radio programme known as VISION ON SOUND found herself in court. This was not, however, because she had done anything wrong, but because she had been called up for jury service, and she felt compelled to do her civic duty.After this experience was over, because it had inspired her to start re-watching CROWN COURT, Granada Television’s iconic afternoon drama series from the 1970s and 1980s, she contacted the show and suggested that we might want to talk about that series for a programme, and today’s offering is the result of that conversation.Today, on VISION ON SOUND, she presents her evidence of the enduring greatness of those many serialised dramatisations of events in Fulchester CROWN COURT…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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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 246 - TX JUNE 22 2025

  PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI's Top Ten British Sitcoms.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 22nd 2025.This week our friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, returns to present another of his Top Ten choices, although this time we go into perhaps more familiar territory for Top Ten discussions with him presenting his choice of his all time favourite British Sitcoms.And whilst you might think that we’re covering some entirely predictable ground with this choice of topic, I think that you might be a little bit surprised by several of PAUL’s choices, and, if nothing else, they might set you thinking about what your own choices might be, and whether you want to share them with the wider VISION ON SOUND community.If you would like to appear on the show and share your own TOP TEN choices about anything Archive TV related, of course, feel free to let me know via the usual Social Media outlets, and I’ll see what I can do.Meanwhile, this particular episode of the show was beset by some terrible technical problems, and I’m very grateful to PAUL that we were able to salvage as much as we could to present this show to you at all, so I can only apologise for any sound issues that there may be. I will try harder in future. 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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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 245 - TX JUNE 15 2025

  WARREN CUMMINGS on television characters and likeability.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 15th 2025.Likeability is an elusive thing. I certainly have spent a lot of my life not feeling that I have any of it, but on television, the likeability, or otherwise, of the characters, the situation, or even the programme itself can have a lot of bearing upon whether a show is ultimately successful, or memorable, and the likability of the stars, or the characters they are playing, can shape or break careers in the area of comedy, drama, and light entertainment alike.Many TV personalities have benefitted from the perception of likeability that the general public has about them, and many have risen to great heights in the public consciousness, and some have fallen just as quickly if that likeability gets scratched away or is revealed to be nothing more than a light veneer.Similarly, some great and popular TV shows have become forgotten once their likeability has faded and the whims of a fickle public have moved onto other things.But what exactly is “likeability” anyway. Some dreadful people have become the Nation’s Favourites, and some truly depressing television programmes have somehow seized the public’s affections and become runaway hits despite looking appallingly unlikeable when they first appear.I’ve recently been watching a couple of seventies sitcoms that still bear the distinction of being “much loved” featuring performances by “much loved” actors playing “much loved” characters, despite those characters, with the benefit of hindsight, being some of television’s most selfish and monstrous creations.To discuss this quandary, I’ve invited back the always likeable WARREN CUMMINGS, for what I hope is an entertaining conversation which takes this notion as our starting point, and which takes us on a journey which considers the pros and cons of such likeable characters as TOM & BARBARA GOOD, TERRY MEDFORD, DEN & ANGIE WATTS, BERT LYNCH, THE MASTER, BLAKE’S SEVEN, ALF GARNETT, and even ANGELA RIPPON.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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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 244 - TX JUNE 8 2025

  PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI's Top Ten TV Sidekicks!First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 8th 2025.This week’s show sees another swift return for the perennial friend of VISION ON SOUND, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, and this week we decided, in the fine tradition of archive TV retrospectives throughout the decades, to have a go at letting PAUL do a TELEVISION TOP TEN.Naturally, he didn’t want to do ANY OLD Top Ten. Oh no! PAUL wanted to try something a little more avant garde, a little more off the wall, and away from the mainstream, and so the Top Ten that we discuss during the next hour is all about his favourite TV sidekicks, or at least his favourites for the morning we recorded the show. And, being PAUL, whilst his list might include some very familiar and not unexpected TV pairings, and one or two might seem entirely predictable if you’ve been following our conversations over the years, I still hope that a few of them might surprise you – especially with regard to the dynamics of just which of them he considers the sidekick to be – and some of them might even shock you, although probably not enough to make any of you require counselling.As ever, our conversation based upon those choices goes off in some wildly unexpected directions, but I hope they give you an entertaining and perhaps even thought-provoking hour, which, if they do inspire you to think of a few of your own Top Tens, do please get in touch, especially if you feel like you might want to share them with us in a future edition of 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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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 243 - TX JUNE 1 2025

  WARREN CUMMINGS has been watching THE VIEW FROM DANIEL PIKE..First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 1st 2025.This week, WARREN CUMMINGS is back again and, when I finally allowed him to, he really wanted to talk about a Scottish drama from the early 1970s that he’s discovered called THE VIEW FROM DANIEL PIKE and which starred RODDY McMILLAN.Naturally, that’s not all we talk about, and this hour encompasses a lengthy discussion about the joys of regional drama in general, 1970s drama in particular, and, perhaps most importantly, kipper ties, drop leaf tables, and terrible underpants.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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