VISION ON SOUND - EPISODE 5

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 five is, of course, just a little bit political, because, well, with the times we are living in, it seemed kind of appropriate, even if, of course, you should NEVER TALK POLITICS in polite company like yourself, dear listener.

It’s just Sandy and me, in the studio, talking about political TV programmes we’ve enjoyed. But, as we are a conversational show, this week we give you nothing more than a simple hour of chat, more or less – actually less, given our timeslot – about THE WEST WING,  YES, MINISTER and its follow up YES, PRIME MINISTER, THE THICK OF IT (which we manage to do, I was mortified to realize later, without mentioning the lovely Peter Capaldi by name at all), and VEEP, amongst other things, but I hope you’ll enjoy it.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00* on November 8 2020

In the fifth edition of VISION ON SOUND, SANDY McGREGOR returns to the studio to talk with me about politics, which, as we all know, is never discussed in polite society, so instead we talk about politically themed television programmes.

It's a long, wide-ranging chat covering programmes such as THE WEST WING, HOUSE OF CARDS, YES, MINISTER, THE THICK OF IT (about which I have to apologise on air for several startling errors which seems highly appropriate given the topic), and VEEP, amongst others, and, as ever, we run out of time to delve into any of them as deeply as we'd like to, but we hope it gives you an enjoyable hour of listening.

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

*For technical reasons it ended up being 8:00pm

You can catch up with this edition via:

https://anchor.fm/visiononsound

https://anchor.fm/visiononsound/episodes/VISION-ON-SOUND-EPISODE-FIVE---TX-NOVEMBER-8-2020-el3jkr

"It's mostly the same as the broadcast edition. Mostly..."

It’s been a difficult for me on the VISION ON SOUND runaway train, as, after spending days and days editing interviews with my guest stars, my phone decided that it would like an upgrade please, and, because it decided that it also wanted to continue talking to the computer I do all the editing of VISION ON SOUND on, it forced an upgrade to that which promptly KILLED ALL OF MY EDITING SOFTWARE!!!

Not happy, Apple… Really not happy at all.

All that and the fact that I’ve had several other problems technically this week, has made me realize that whatever gods you might have here on earth, few of them like podcasters.

I swear to Whichever, I was THIS CLOSE to giving up entirely.

But nevertheless, we plod on, planning future episodes, and all sorts of other nonsense as we hurl headlong and isolated towards the festive season.

If, of course, I ever get to open those festive files I was building.

Anyway, my problems aside, 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.

“Well, "under consideration" means "we've lost the file"; "under active consideration" means "we're trying to find it".

Take care.

Martin A W Holmes (051120)