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Tales of the City writing legend, Armistead Maupin, invites us to his new London home to discuss his life and work - which currently involves a major UK tour, a brand new Tales novel and avoiding a certain Donald Trump... Fully illustrated. Includes The Soundtrack of Your Life. https://www.armisteadmaupin.com/ Narrator: Anthony Townsend Female voice: Dev Joshi Male voice: Mike Brunner SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). Cover art: Andy Lambert. Other shows currently in preparation... Sam Forsdike - Postcard Productions Liz Hyder - novelist Blackbox Theatre Company Paul

The quintessential English rose of radio broadcasting, Marion Marshall, is leaving the BBC after close to 40 years! Marion also happens to be the voice of SNS Online, so we couldn't let her leave without making a right royal fuss! Fully illustrated. Includes The Soundtrack of your Life. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). Cover art: Andy Lambert. Other shows currently in preparation... Armistead Maupin - author Sam Forsdike - Postcard Productions Liz Hyder - novelist Blackbox Theatre Company Paul Burston - novelist/LGBTQ activist

Musician/singer/songwriter, Michael Armstrong, joins Nick Randell in the SNS studio to chat about his life's passion and to play some tunes live and unplugged. Armstrong has performed with some of the biggest names in the business over the years, spending some of it on tour headlining his own shows - as well as appearing as a special guest on major tours with Vonda Shepard, T’Pau, Leo Sayer, Beverley Craven, Dean Friedman & The Hollies’ Peter Howarth. He has also collaborated and worked alongside massive global stars including Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Cliff Richard, Mark Knopfler, Glenn Fry, Chris de Burgh, Russell Watson, Hank Marvin, Michael Ball and countless others. His second critically acclaimed album, Looking For The World, follows his first, simply titled Michael Armstrong. https://michaelarmstrongmusic.co.uk/ SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced

We head to the iconic Royal Vauxhall Tavern in South East London to experience the very first *ParaPride, and talk to organisers and Pride goers alike - all here to mark a very historic occasion in the LGBTQ calendar. *A donation has been made to ParaPride. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). Other shows currently in preparation... Sam Forsdike - Postcard Productions Paul Burston - novelist/LGBTQ activist Michael Armstrong - musician Liz Hyder - novelist

Today we are invited to the home of a true television icon, multi award winning Dame Esther Rantzen, to talk about her incredible and enduring career in investigative journalism, as well as her two 'light bulb moments' - the creation of *Childline and *The Silverline. Fully illustrated. Features The Soundtrack of your Life. https://www.childline.org.uk/ https://www.thesilverline.org.uk/ *A donation has been given to Childline & The Silverline. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). Other shows currently in preparation... Sam Forsdike - Postcard Productions Paul Burston -

In an feature length SNS, we speak to Melbourne based musician - also singer/songwriter - Brad Wolfe, about his eclectic sound and the influences behind some of his tracks. Fully illustrated with the music of Brad Wolfe. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bradwolfemusic/ Instagram https://www.inst4gram.com/u/bigbradwolf_music The team from A.T.L.A.S. Brad - Brad Wolfe Tarkis - Fiona Fairmaner Little Jimmy - James Luff Professor McDougal - Derek Clarke Zeldor/Android - Nick Randell Continuity - Stewart Willy Wildris Anytime - Katy Manning SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet

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SNS Online returnee, Louise Jameson, returns to the challenging role of Anita in Philip Ridley's Vincent River, running at the Trafalgar Studios until 22.07.19. We speak to both Jameson, Thomas Mahy (Davey) and director, Robert Chevara - as well as the view from the audience - on the play's press night/21.07.19. Top recommendation from SNS Online. Tickets https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/vincent-river/trafalgar-studios/ SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). Other shows currently in preparation... Brad Wolfe - musician Sam Forsdike - Postcard Productions Dame Esther Rantzen

We spotlight a bold re-imagining of Shakespeare's most famous play, Romeo & Juliet, via Southampton's Curious Pheasant Theatre. Sports reporter: Nick Cavell. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). With thanks to Andy Cast. Other shows currently in preparation... Brad Wolfe - musician Sam Forsdike - Postcard Productions Dame Esther Rantzen - consumer rights goddess Michael Armstrong - musician

Postcard Productions' Sam Forsdike and Lizzie Minnion talk about Katie Hims' The Stranger on the Bridge, based on the real life story of Jonny Benjamin MBE, and transformed into a play. Features a spotlight on the opening night at the Salisbury Playhouse on 02/05/19. A further run at Bristol's Tobacco Factory begins Tues 14th - Sat 18th May at 7.30pm. https://www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/the-stranger-on-the-bridge/ Also features 'The Edge of Waterloo Bridge', written by Jonny and read by Anthony Townsend/produced by SNS Online. http://postcard-productions.com/ Our show with Jonny. https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-6-jonny-benjamin-mbe The Samaritans (UK 24 hour telephone) - 116 123 Jonny's Website https://jonnybenjamin.co.uk/ Charity: Beyond Shame, Beyond Stigma https://beyondshamebeyondstigma.co.uk/ A donation has been made to Beyond Shame, Beyond Stigma. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-mi

We speak to Tariq Jordan about his incredible debut play, Ali & Dehlia, a Palestinian-Israeli love story set against the backdrop of the Israeli conflict. It's a story of love, sacrifice, and redemption that explores the loss of innocence, the longing for lost homelands, and the political forces that shape our lives. We also speak to the cast, as well as getting the view from the audience. Highly recommended - runs until April 14th 2019 at The Pleasance Theatre in London. Directed by multiple award-winner Kerry Kyriacos Michael MBE. https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/ali-and-dahlia#overview SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback

We join multi award winning script writing legend, Lynda La Plante CBE*, at her home in London, to talk in depth about her incredible career to date. Fully illustrated. Includes The Soundtrack of your Life. Website http://lyndalaplante.com/ *Lynda La Plante was made a CBE in 2008 for services to Literature, Drama and Charity. She is a member of The Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame, and is the only lay person to be made a fellow of The Forensic Science Society. For her work on Prime Suspect she received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Mini Series (1993, 1994), as well as the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery TV Episode. In 2001, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) gave her the Dennis Potter Award for television writing. For Eva Mottley. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profi

From spec script to showrunner - Amblin Entertainment's Mickey Fisher tells us his extraordinary story. Fully illustrated. Features The Soundtrack of Your Life. Mickey's blog https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/mickey-fisher-on-writing-selling-and-producing-a-tv-pilot-spec-script-6c714fab8ff3?fbclid=IwAR3QxeVW8vsSu7iqb1A0Cz2A-7KN0Hb8ciVD5QGadUioeE5ECyPPUtmK_Cw SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). Other shows currently in preparation... Dame Esther Rantzen - consumer rights goddess Brad Wolfe - musician Lynda La Plante CBE - TV script writer/novelist Michael Armstrong - mus

Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle is a brand new series beginning on Sunday 17th February on BBC Four. Some of the finest British actors, writers and directors, each with a personal connection to the Windrush legacy, tell the story of the Afro-Caribbean community in modern-day Britain, through a series of fifteen minute monologues. The first monologue, 'Eunice', is written by SNS Online returnee, Carmen Harris. Carmen joins us to talk about this very significant time in British history, and expand on her episode that launches the series. "Can love overcome fear? Can Perseverance overcome ignorance and racism? What does it cost to belong? Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle challenges our collective understanding of what it means to be part of the Afro-Caribbean community in modern-day Britain." - BBC press release. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the h

"The Edge of Waterloo Bridge", written by Jonny Benjamin MBE. https://jonnybenjamin.co.uk/ Read by Anthony Townsend. https://soundcloud.com/kiwi-fruit Produced by SNS Online. SNS Online's interview with Jonny. https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-6-jonny-benjamin-mbe From "The Stranger on the Bridge", written by Jonny Benjamin MBE. https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jonny-benjamin/the-stranger-on-the-bridge/9781509846429

We speak to Jonny Benjamin MBE, a prolific mental health campaigner who was close to taking his own life on Waterloo Bridge in 2008, until a stranger - Neil Laybourn - talked him around. It's an incredibly powerful and heartwarming story, which Jonny and Neil now share around the globe to help promote good mental health. Released during Children's Mental Health Week and #TimeToTalkDay - 07.02.19. Fully illustrated. Includes The Soundtrack of Your Life. Poetry read by Anthony Townsend. https://soundcloud.com/kiwi-fruit "The Edge of Waterloo Bridge" https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-6-the-edge-of-waterloo-bridge The Samaritans (UK 24 hour telephone) - 116 123 Jonny's Website https://jonnybenjamin.co.uk/ Charity: Beyond Shame, Beyond Stigma https://beyondshamebeyondstigma.co.uk/ A donation has been made to Beyond Shame, Beyond Stigma. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-spa

We kick off our 6th online series with family favourite, John Challis - known in equal measure as Monty Stains from Benidorm and Boycie from Only Fools and Horses/The Green Green Grass! There's plenty of other work to investigate too - including his extensive range of theatre and television roles, featuring - amongst others - a star villainous turn in Doctor Who! We take up the story at the Kenton Theatre in Henley-On-Thames, where John is just about to tread the ol' boards in his sell out one man hit, Being Boycie. Enjoy! Recorded at the Kenton Theatre, Henley-On-Thames, on Sunday March 4th 2018. John's website, Wigmore Books. http://wigmorebooks.com/ SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that

A CHRISTMAS CAROL! An expanded version of Carol Decker's recent festive interview with SNS Online (that featured in part 2 of our Collective Catch Up series). Here we get more music and chat for all T'Pau/Carol fans, including a focus on what some consider to be T'Pau's lost album of the late 90s, Red. We also ponder on some rather colourful language that Carol used during an addition of The Chase recently, that turned the air blue!! Fully illustrated. Listen to Run and watch the video, directed by Carol's daughter, Scarlett. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9xotJzH350 HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY, SNS!! X :-) SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...o

To help celebrate 10 years of both 'ScratchNSniff' on RTÉ Pulse and 'SNS Online', we revisit some of our favourite guests from past shows, to find out what they've been up to since featuring. Part 2 of 2 - with a distinctly festive flavour. Fully illustrated. Guests featured are singer/songwriter, Carol Decker, script writer, Joe Lidster, DJ/musician, Tom James, vocal coach, Elspeth Morrison and electro/funk outfit, The Winachi Tribe. HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY, SNS!! X :-) SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). Shows currently in preparation for Series 6... John Challis - acto

With music by SNS Online returnee, Minute Taker, we listen to a selection of well wishers - who have all featured in previous shows - wishing SNS a very happy 10th birthday! SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter (ScratchNTweet). Other shows currently in preparation... John Challis - actor Jonny Benjamin MBE - mental health campaigner Lynda La Plante - Crime novelist/script writer