VISION ON SOUND EPISODE FORTY-NINE - TX SEPTEMBER 12 2021 - CHILDREN’S 1970s TV DYSTOPIA

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 12th 2021

I've been a little bit poorly-sick lately, so, in order to cheer myself up in the insomniac wee-small hours, I've been rattling through some of the DVDs I've been accumulating of 1970s television dramas. So this meant watching the jolly japes of a post-apocalyptic Britain in which the people have turned against the machines; a cheeky romp to a village doomed to repeat the same tragic cycle of events throughout eternity; and a story from a series about self-proclaimed Superior Beings in which they cross paths with a space alien who is using humanity's fundamental racial hatred to create enough energy to finally release his species from their earthly prison.

It's all got terribly surreal and bewildering, at least in my fevered imagination.

Joining me to haul me kicking and screaming me back to some semblance of reality is returning regular guest WARREN CUMMINGS, and we have a jolly natter about THE CHANGES, CHILDREN OF THE STONES (a particular favourite of his), and THE TOMORROW PEOPLE story - "The Blue And The Green".

Finally in this episode I include the last few minutes of my interview with ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON which formed the bulk of last week's episode but, because I was struggling a little with my editing skills for a while, didn't quite fit the time-slot.

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.