VISION ON SOUND

• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 264 - TX DECEMBER 7 2025

  NICK GOODMAN discusses three JACK GERSON thrillers.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 7th 2025.This week, NICK GOODMAN was very eager to press his personal Fast Return Switch because he wanted to share his particular enthusiasm for three of the BBC thriller series written by JACK GERSON which were all produced by ROBERT McINTOSH across three consecutive years around the turn of the 1980s.These were RUNNING BLIND in 1979, based on the novel by DESMOND BAGLEY, and starring STUART WILSON, which was followed over the course of the next two years by a pair of not entirely thematically dissimilar three-part thriller serials THE ASSASSINATION RUN and THE TREACHERY GAME which featured MALCOLM STODDARD and MARY TAMM in the lead roles.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 263 - TX NOVEMBER 30 2025

  WARREN CUMMINGS continues his analysis of UKTV comedy by talking about THE GOODIES.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 30th 2025.This week, following on from his recent insights into TV comedy, WARREN CUMMINGS is back, this time to dedicate our entire hour to talking about one of his favourites, THE GOODIES which featured BILL ODDIE, GRAEME GARDEN, and the late and much-missed TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR as that wacky trio who somehow managed to reflect and represent between them the Britain of the 1970s in classic comedy form, as we move on into a world of puppet governments, giant kittens, trouser-squeezing disco, sausage-related martial arts, and all manner of other satire disguised as nonsense.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 262 - TX NOVEMBER 23 2025

  PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, on some of his favourite female comedy performers.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 23rd 2025.This week our friend PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, returns in response to our recent edition in which we did our best to try and analyse some television comedy.PAUL noticed that much of the comedy we were talking about was focussed on the work of the male comedy performers and writers, and he, quite rightly, thought that he ought to redress the balance and talk about some of the many female comedians who he has enjoyed the work of, and who have inspired him over the years.So, whilst we start off perhaps inevitably discussing the state of TV comedy in general, once we get that out of the way we spend the bulk of the next hour talking about PAUL’s favorites from, amongst others, the likes of LUCILLE BALL, ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY, BEA ARTHUR, BETTY WHITE, RUE McCLANAHAN, VICTORIA WOOD, DAWN FRENCH, JENNIFER SAUNDERS, TINA FEY, and, whilst we did at least mention her in our previous conversation, DIANE MORGAN.I think it makes for a fun, thoughtful, and inciteful hour, and I hope that you enjoy it as much as we did.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 261 - TX NOVEMBER 16 2025

  WARREN CUMMINGS and I, perhaps unwisely, try to analyse some TV comedy.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 16th 2025.This week, in a show we recorded earlier in the autumn just as VISION ON SOUND returned from its summer hiatus, I welcome back WARREN CUMMINGS once again, and we took the opportunity to delve deep into an area that is always a little bit outside my personal comfort zone, as we tackle the tricky little matter of television comedy in as analytical a way as we are capable of, as we consider whether or not some of the recognised classics from the archives are as enjoyable as we like to believe they are.This was prompted by me picking up a bit of MONTY PYTHON on DVD and finding some of it to be “difficult” to watch, and WARREN throws the somewhat problematical nature of some of SPIKE MILLIGAN’s television work into the mix, before we move into a broader consideration of the comedy of a different time.Over the course of this hour we’ll also touch upon some radio comedy, some TV sitcoms, and the work of metaphorical comedy giants such as PETER COOK and DUDLEY MOORE, as well as talking rather fondly about shows like ALEXEI SAYLE’s STUFF, VIC REEVES’ BIG NIGHT OUT, THE YOUNG ONES and the more recent work of DIANE MORGAN whose PHILOMENA CUNK is one of the more successful recent comedy creations.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 260 - TX NOVEMBER 9 2025

  STEVE HATCHER presents some more of his recent TV viewing.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 9th 2025.This week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER once again to continue our series of conversations about some of his eclectic television viewing choices.Steve has a life long love of television and – like many archive TV fans - is always adding to the mix that makes up his own personal TV schedule based around some of the archive TV channels, things he finds on online channels, and his own extensive DVD and Blu-Ray collection which means that he is constantly exploring the fascinating and more obscure corners of the television archives and finding new and often forgotten series to talk to us about.Not that he confines himself to the dusty old corners of television that some of us have been known to loiter in. STEVE is also interested in television that is bang up to date and only available to subscribers to some of the streaming channels, and likes to add some of those shows to the mix when they appeal to him.So during this week’s show we will discuss the vampiric horrors of WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS a series which has recently drifted off to what we (perhaps inappropriately in this case) called TV HEAVEN, and is now very much in the archives. Keeping with the horror theme, we also discuss the small miracle of the surviving fragments of the late 1960s BBC Horror Anthology LATE NIGHT HORROR which have been saved for posterity thanks to KALEIDOSCOPE.Different kinds of horrors are explored in the historical dramas SHADOW OF THE TOWER, FALL OF EAGLES, and THE STRAUSS FAMILY which we also touch upon in what I think is an entertaining hour spent trawling the more obscure corners of the worlds of Archive television.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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