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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 119 - TX JANUARY 15 2023 - A BIT O' POLITICS, YES INDEEDY!

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Το περιεχόμενο παρέχεται από το Martin Holmes. Όλο το περιεχόμενο podcast, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των επεισοδίων, των γραφικών και των περιγραφών podcast, μεταφορτώνεται και παρέχεται απευθείας από τον Martin Holmes ή τον συνεργάτη της πλατφόρμας podcast. Εάν πιστεύετε ότι κάποιος χρησιμοποιεί το έργο σας που προστατεύεται από πνευματικά δικαιώματα χωρίς την άδειά σας, μπορείτε να ακολουθήσετε τη διαδικασία που περιγράφεται εδώ https://el.player.fm/legal.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 15th 2023

Now the sort of people who like dinner parties, or enjoy partaking in small talk, will always tell you that you should never discuss religion or politics in polite company, and they probably make a good point, especially if you don’t ever want your social event to end in a bit of a punch-up.

Equally, and perhaps to our national detriment, rather a lot of people find the subject of politics a bit of a turn off, or will basically shut off the conversation with an emphatic “Politics is boring!” and, of course, they are entirely entitled to that opinion, even if we all know that politics literally affects every single one of our lives in far more ways than we like to think about, and that so many of us fail to engage with it is exactly the kind of reason that the country is in the mess it currently finds itself.

However, I’m not here to persuade you of the wisdom or otherwise of taking an interest in the world around you on a radio show that’s supposed to be about television.

But television’s relationship with politics and politicians is in itself a rather complicated one, and in an era where some politicians seem desperate to involve themselves in the dealings of broadcasters, and try to force them to mend their ways, or blindly follow the party line in every programme that they make, whilst other, long-running satirical shows that took regular pot-shots at the not-so-great and not-so good characters currently inhabiting the corridors of power are getting cancelled left, right, and centre (as it were), I thought it might be interesting just to have a conversation about politics and its relationship with television in the modern era, and how much it’s changed during the lifetime of broadcast television in this country.

So, some time towards the end of October last year, at a time when the British Government was in a state of particular chaos, I settled WARREN CUMMINGS down in a chair and prompted him to join me in having a bit of a chat about politics on television in what I think ended up being a rather fascinating discussion which took us from observations of satirical series from the sixties to the present day, touched briefly upon a couple of political dramas, and finally settled into an amiable chat about politics on television in the modern age.

Since we recorded this, of course, one of the less delightful ex-ministers has abandoned his constituents, and gone into the television jungle, and also been released from it again, in an effort to boost both his bank balance, and his credibility and standing as a celebrity, and that such a cynical move has broadly rehabilitated him with far too large a chunk of the voting public is something that can hardly be admired. It did certainly also upset a great deal of the population who still hold him personally responsible for a great many personal tragedies that happened during the pandemic.

At least the fact that he only came third is something that we hope he might repeat in other aspects of his life, but with so many of the rats announcing that they will no longer be staying aboard the sinking ship come the next polling day, their desire for celebrity status is something that we need to keep a careful eye upon, and WARREN and I did briefly touch upon this notion of politicians and celebrity during our chat.

Now, of course, nobody is going to claim that we’re going to put the world to rights during an hour of fairly light-hearted observations and insights into this very wide area of broadcasting, but I hope that you’ll at least enjoy what we had to say.

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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Το περιεχόμενο παρέχεται από το Martin Holmes. Όλο το περιεχόμενο podcast, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των επεισοδίων, των γραφικών και των περιγραφών podcast, μεταφορτώνεται και παρέχεται απευθείας από τον Martin Holmes ή τον συνεργάτη της πλατφόρμας podcast. Εάν πιστεύετε ότι κάποιος χρησιμοποιεί το έργο σας που προστατεύεται από πνευματικά δικαιώματα χωρίς την άδειά σας, μπορείτε να ακολουθήσετε τη διαδικασία που περιγράφεται εδώ https://el.player.fm/legal.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 15th 2023

Now the sort of people who like dinner parties, or enjoy partaking in small talk, will always tell you that you should never discuss religion or politics in polite company, and they probably make a good point, especially if you don’t ever want your social event to end in a bit of a punch-up.

Equally, and perhaps to our national detriment, rather a lot of people find the subject of politics a bit of a turn off, or will basically shut off the conversation with an emphatic “Politics is boring!” and, of course, they are entirely entitled to that opinion, even if we all know that politics literally affects every single one of our lives in far more ways than we like to think about, and that so many of us fail to engage with it is exactly the kind of reason that the country is in the mess it currently finds itself.

However, I’m not here to persuade you of the wisdom or otherwise of taking an interest in the world around you on a radio show that’s supposed to be about television.

But television’s relationship with politics and politicians is in itself a rather complicated one, and in an era where some politicians seem desperate to involve themselves in the dealings of broadcasters, and try to force them to mend their ways, or blindly follow the party line in every programme that they make, whilst other, long-running satirical shows that took regular pot-shots at the not-so-great and not-so good characters currently inhabiting the corridors of power are getting cancelled left, right, and centre (as it were), I thought it might be interesting just to have a conversation about politics and its relationship with television in the modern era, and how much it’s changed during the lifetime of broadcast television in this country.

So, some time towards the end of October last year, at a time when the British Government was in a state of particular chaos, I settled WARREN CUMMINGS down in a chair and prompted him to join me in having a bit of a chat about politics on television in what I think ended up being a rather fascinating discussion which took us from observations of satirical series from the sixties to the present day, touched briefly upon a couple of political dramas, and finally settled into an amiable chat about politics on television in the modern age.

Since we recorded this, of course, one of the less delightful ex-ministers has abandoned his constituents, and gone into the television jungle, and also been released from it again, in an effort to boost both his bank balance, and his credibility and standing as a celebrity, and that such a cynical move has broadly rehabilitated him with far too large a chunk of the voting public is something that can hardly be admired. It did certainly also upset a great deal of the population who still hold him personally responsible for a great many personal tragedies that happened during the pandemic.

At least the fact that he only came third is something that we hope he might repeat in other aspects of his life, but with so many of the rats announcing that they will no longer be staying aboard the sinking ship come the next polling day, their desire for celebrity status is something that we need to keep a careful eye upon, and WARREN and I did briefly touch upon this notion of politicians and celebrity during our chat.

Now, of course, nobody is going to claim that we’re going to put the world to rights during an hour of fairly light-hearted observations and insights into this very wide area of broadcasting, but I hope that you’ll at least enjoy what we had to say.

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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