VISION ON SOUND at WHOOVERVILLE 16.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 14th 2025.

This year, for the fourth consecutive year, VISION ON SOUND was invited to once again take part in the annual event organised by the DERBYSHIRE WHOOVERS known as WHOOVERVILLE.

This year was the sixteenth WHOOVERVILLE, or WHOOVERVILLE 16 as it was known on the day, and it took place on AUGUST THE 30th 2025 at THE QUAD creative centre in the very heart of the city of Derby.

I’d been invited along by two of the main organisers for the event, STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON who are both old friends of VISION ON SOUND and have racked up several appearances on the show between them, and I’m always terribly grateful to both of them for their continuing support and enthusiasm for this show.

STEVE managed to persuade the lovely M.C. PAUL GRIGGS to join us on the stage to chat about old TV for half an hour or so, and there was a promise of the sound engineering legend that is BRIAN HODGSON joining us later on in the session.

I’m presenting the interviews featuring in this edition of the show unedited and as raw as on the day we recorded them, and so we find me in the middle of setting up some recording equipment as we attempt to get STEVE HATCHER, PAUL GRIGGS and myself on stage to try and have a natter that at least partly involves a few thoughts about the archive TV that all of us here at VISION ON SOUND know and love.

Later we are indeed briefly joined by the legendary BRIAN HODGSON, and the show finishes with a catch up I had with STEVE a couple of days after the event.

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.