VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 251 - TX SEPTEMBER 7 2025
WARREN CUMMINGS on THE STONE TAPE.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 7th 2025.I suppose it’s something of a welcome back, of course, after the show took a few weeks off for personal reasons.Well, to be perfectly honest with you, after two hundred and fifty episodes on the bounce, I was basically knackered, and running on fumes, and decided that the world was unlikely to stop turning if I skipped a few weeks.Now I am rather sorry that we dropped off the air unannounced, which did confuse some of our loyal listeners for a while, but it was all rather unplanned, and the show had already been uploaded for transmission and such is the wibbly-wobbly way I put this show together, I didn’t get the opportunity to add a tag scene with Tara to explain what was going on whilst I poured gallons of ginger pop masquerading as the expensive stuff.It also meant that I allowed an entire summer to pass without addressing that faux pas that featured in our last show about American sitcoms, with the small matter of one of them not being American at all, but a Canadian show. Some might say that I could play the “North America” card, or wait for the day when a particular Orange turnip finally gets his own way on that matter, but all I can say as an excuse is that most of our chats on VISION ON SOUND are fairly spontaneous, and until I can persuade someone to sit in on our recording sessions, poised at their laptops and ready to pounce on any slight errors we make, then they are occasionally going to slip through, even though we try our very best to at least give the vague impression that we know what we’re talking aboot.Happily for me, those fabulous people at FAB RADIO were quite willing to be very forgiving, and keep the show’s slot available to welcome me back when I was good and ready, and, whilst some life stuff that I’m not going to bother you with is currently still making production of the show more of a slog than it might otherwise be, we’re back and ready to head into the autumn with a whole stack of as yet unheard interview recordings made before the production pause until we get into the giddy process of making a whole new batch of shows.So today we’ll start off with WARREN CUMMINGS returning (yes, him again!) to talk about – in our usual roundabout sort of a way - a personal favourite of his, THE STONE TAPE, as written by NIGEL KNEALE and broadcast on Christmas Day 1972. We recorded this on the 17th of June, so it’s somewhat appropriate that it found itself preserved in silicon to be released into the world a few months later, but could still come back and haunt you forever, should you wish to listen again one day.Anyway, I hope you 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.
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