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.
Episode four is, of course, the show I first intended episode three to be, but, in a very non-dystopian way, Sandy and I found we had far too much to say about remakes and reimaginings, and I took an executive decision to put off dystopian living at least for another week.
I really can’t imagine why (ahem!) I was quite so determined from the outset to do an episode with DYSTOPIAN TELEVISION as its theme. Maybe this tells you more about me than I’d like it to, or maybe it’s just how I’m relating to the real world at the moment.
Anyway, as things turn out, I burble on vaguely about QUATERMASS for a little while in a link that would have been far more coherent and informative if the world wasn’t ending.
Afterwards, and quite luckily really, the radio receiver that we have desperately seeking other outposts in this dystopian wilderness we find ourselves occupying picked up a signal from an old friend and benefactor of the show (if something that’s quite so new can be considered to have “old friends” of course), ANDY PRIESTNER for a chat about, well, SURVIVORS.
SURVIVORS also features quite heavily in a conversation I had in the studio with SANDY McGREGOR, which I blatantly snipped out of our chat last week because I thought it fitted in so much better here.
I can do these things you see, as I’m absolute ruler of this strange little world I have – against all the odds – become master of here at VISION ON SOUND.
Mwah-ha-ha-ha-hah!
There’s also the second half of an interview with WARREN CUMMINGS who natters with me via those still less than great – but hardly post-apocalyptic - telephone connections, and he definitely has a unique view of what the elements making up a dystopian society actually are.
Still, I hope that the interview makes some kind of sense – in as much as any of the ones I’m involved with ever do.
First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 1 2020
In the fourth edition of VISION ON SOUND, the topic we are discussing is DYSTOPIAN TV and one or two dark visions of the future.
We briefly revisit the 1979 QUATERMASS serial, before spending some time In conversation with ANDY PRIESTNER, who literally co-wrote the book on SURVIVORS, and there's a previously unheard extract from my remakes and reimaginings chat with SANDY McGREGOR which seemed more appropriate to use in this edition as we discussed the remake of SURVIVORS.
WARREN CUMMINGS also returns to talk about his unique take on what might be considered to be dystopian vision.
PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content 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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"It's mostly the same as the broadcast edition. Mostly..."
It’s been another peculiar week (aren’t they all?) for me on the VISION ON SOUND runaway train, what with lockdowns and tiers before bedtime, and half-termery, it was decided that we would not venture into the big city for a recording session this week.
Instead I decided try and schedule a whole load of guests to interview for future shows and was both surprised and delighted (and slightly terrified because I’m still a very nervous interviewer) at just how many of them agreed to have a natter with little old me.
So now I’m in a phase of furious edits, in order to ensure that, hopefully there’ll be lots of interesting things to entertain you, dear listener, over the next few weeks, and I’m still hoping to get more guests lined up for our cosy little chats – albeit remotely – so I hope that keeps everybody full of some sort of vague sense of eager anticipation, and brings a little light into our collective darkness.
We’re still not exactly attracting the hugest of audiences of course – it’s VERY early days – but those of you that have joined us do seem to be enjoying what you hear, and that’s always encouraging on those long, dark, dystopian nights we find ourselves in at this time of the year.
Nevertheless, if you have just discovered us, here’s a gentle reminder that previous editions remain available by tapping VISION ON SOUND into many of your podcast providers of choice.
As ever, we would recommend that (if you can – I know that you’re all terribly distracted with real-world stuff at that time on a Sunday evening), you listen to the programmes on first transmission (currently SUNDAY EVENING AT 7:00PM in the UK on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL Channel 1) to get the show as nature intended.
New suggestions for the show (and contact details for possible guests to interview if you know any) are always welcome. You can email the show at vos@fabradiointernational.com or contact me via the Twitter feed @VisionOnSound1 and, hopefully, we can all keep the conversation going.
As ever, thanks to PAUL RIPLEY and everyone at FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL for what they do, and thanks to you all for taking an interest.
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” (Michael Jordan)
Take care.
Martin A W Holmes (291020)
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