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'Uncanny, mesmerising, difficult & sublime' (The Quietus) 'Strange & wonderful glory' (The Wire) We're on location with radiophonic musicians, Howlround, at Iklectik in Waterloo, to catch the premiere of their new film, A Creak In Time, directed by Steven McInerney. Our in-depth interview with Howlround available here https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-howlround Youtube link to trailer/A Creak In Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyXGD-IXqsc Howlround/Robin The Fog website https://robinthefog.com/howlround/ 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 (ScratchNT

'Uncanny, mesmerising, difficult & sublime' (The Quietus) 'Strange & wonderful glory' (The Wire) Those magicians of radiophonic sound, Howlround - as represented by founder member, Robin The Fog - join SNS Online to discuss the extraordinary lengths they go to create the most incredible, outer-worldly sounds and music. Illustrated with the music of Howlround. A Bitesized companion show to this, 'On Location With Howlround', is available here https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-bitesized-series-5-on-location-with-howlround Howlround/Robin The Fog Website https://robinthefog.com/howlround/ 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, ple

Thinking of going to this year's Trunchonbury? Then why not check out our roving microphone to hear the word from the field, with SNS Online's raving Nick Randell! Trailer features extracts from our two part Trunchonbury special, available to be heard here or via free download. Trunchonbury website https://www.trunchonburyfestival.com/ SNS Online Series 5 - Trunchonbury Pt 1 https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-trunchonbury SNS Online Series 5 - Trunchonbury Pt 2 https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-trunchonbury-pt-2 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 Onli

SNS Online goes on location to Norfolk, to discover it's biggest and best secret...Trunchonbury! Part two (of two) of an in-depth, fully illustrated exploration of one of the best - and friendliest - festivals currently in the UK. Features interviews with Jeramiah Ferrari, Sam and the Womp, Dodgy, Rivers, Doris Brendel, The Tapi Project, Dick York and the Originals, OmniVibes, Hydra Lerna, Odder Seas and many, many more. Trunchonbury website https://www.trunchonburyfestival.com/ SNS Online Series 5 - Trunchonbury Pt 1 https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-trunchonbury SNS Online Bitesized Series 5 - Trunchonbury's Roving Microphone! https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-bitesized-series-5-trunchonbury-s-roving-microphone 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-

SNS Online goes on location to Norfolk, to discover it's biggest and best secret...Trunchonbury! Part one (of two) of an in-depth, fully illustrated exploration of one of the best - and friendliest - festivals currently in the UK. Features interviews with Jeramiah Ferrari, Sam and the Womp, Dodgy, Rivers, Doris Brendel, The Tapi Project, Dick York and the Originals, OmniVibes, Hydra Lerna, Odder Seas and many, many more. SNS Online Series 5 - Trunchonbury Pt 2 https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-trunchonbury-pt-2 SNS Online Bitesized Series 5 - Trunchonbury's Roving Microphone! https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-bitesized-series-5-trunchonbury-s-roving-microphone 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 the

In the fourth of our "Rise Up, Women" season, children's author, Carolyn Robertson, joins Nick Randell in the SNS studio to talk about her range of picture books for the under 5's. To purchase Two Mums https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Mums-Ms-Carolyn-Robertson/dp/0993115357/ref=pd_sim_14_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0993115357&pd_rd_r=e404b8ce-809f-11e8-a268-9b2d29030f7d&pd_rd_w=Bz7bW&pd_rd_wg=7vj2d&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_p=3274180622111699416&pf_rd_r=YNFMF79SRK9MWZFG2T0Q&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=YNFMF79SRK9MWZFG2T0Q To purchase Two Mums and a Menagerie https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Mums-menagerie-Carolyn-Robertson/dp/0993115314 To purchase Two Dads https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Dads-book-about-adoption/dp/0993115306/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530828632&sr=1-1&keywords=Two+Dads To purchase Little Stork's New Home https://www.amazon.co.uk/adoption-story-Little-Storks-Home/dp/0993115349/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530890939&sr=8-1&keywords=little+storks+new+hom

In celebration of 60 glorious years of what is officially the most popular children's programme of all time, BAFTA award winning Blue Peter Editor, Biddy Baxter MBE, joins Nick Randell in the studio to talk in-depth about a show that was only intended to run for six weeks as a summer filler! Fully illustrated. Includes The Soundtrack of Your Life. Blue Peter letters read out by Derek Clark, Neva Missirian, Nathan Dodd, Charlotte Dodd, Dominic Delargy, Sarah Crawley, Sylvia Delargy Crawley, Nick Delargy Crawley, Victoria Hastings, Nishtat Ladha, Mike Regaard, Hala Hindawi, Tom Burchell, Gwenllian Glyn, Fiona Fairmaner, Danny Cox, Kathy Clugston and Marion Marshall. With thanks to the BBC and Pansombat Suthep. Also available - "Happy 60th Birthday, Blue Peter!" https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-happy-60th-birthday-blue-peter Other shows in the "Rise Up, Women!" range - ATA Girl https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-5-rise-up-women-ata-girl The R

In the second of our special season of shows celebrating both International Women's Day and 100 years of partial voting rights for women in the UK, author and historian, Diane Atkinson, joins us to discuss her brand new book, Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes. Narrator/voice of the Suffragettes - Marion Marshall. King George V - Nick Cavell. The March of the Women - Ethel Smyth/Cicely Hamilton. Music by Arn Andersson https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Arn+Andersson To purchase Rise up, Women! - https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=diane+atkinson+rise+up+women&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=249454878853&hvpos=1t1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2234519360086283013&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045944&hvtargid=kwd-410910411300&ref=pd_sl_3qunvg5813_b Review https://www.waterstones.com/book/rise-up-women/diane-atkinson/9781408844045 Other shows in the "Rise Up, Women!" range - ATA Girl https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-seri

In our first of six shows in celebration of both International Women's Day and 100 years of partial voting rights for women in the UK, SNS Online returnee, Louise Jameson, waxes lyrical about Big Finish Productions' ATA Girl (devised by Louise herself). ATA Girl is an audio drama inspired by the real women of the *Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. From the UK and beyond, a hundred and sixty eight female pilots, alongside the men, transported a vast range of aircraft from the factories to the squadrons, sometimes flying in perilous weather conditions and without radios or instrument instruction. One in ten ATA pilots died. Our next show features author and historian, Diane Atkinson. Download ep 1/ATA Girl for free. https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/ata-girl-free-episode?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=atagirl Related links. http://www.airtransportaux.com/ https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/air-transport-auxiliary.aspx Cover art: Tom Newsom In memo

A brand new season of shows from SNS Online, celebrating both International Women's Day and 100 years of partial voting rights for women in the UK. 'Rise Up, Women!' - Louise Jameson/'ATA Girl' creator Diane Atkinson/author and historian Biddy Baxter MBE/Blue Peter editor Carolyn Robinson/children's author Nell Burnham/Women's Equality Party Gail Renard/script writer/Writer's Guild Chair 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 Howlround - radiophonic musicians Trunchonb

SNS Online returns for a fifth series of free, downloadable shows, covering the arts/lifestyle! In our first show we feature 20 year old musician, Alex James Brierley. Considered to be one of the most exciting new alternative rock artists to emerge in the UK in the last few years, Brierley's blend of emotive lyrics, melodic hooks and complex musical textures has helped to create a refreshing and unique sound. Bolton based Brierley has now been signed up by music producing legend, Steve Levine, with his first EP, 'Listen', now available on all platforms. Join us for an hour's conversation and music, including a live acoustic set by Alex in the SNS Online studio! http://www.alexjamesbrierley.com/home.html Alex James Brierley - Listen (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFVlHnimWy8 Alex James Brierley - Place of Nowhere* (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mRkaL3LEIw SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded pe

The Edinburgh Fringe is the world's largest arts festival, which spans 25 days and features over 50,000 performances of approximately 3,500/4000 shows and events in 300+ venues. It was established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival. The Fringe takes place annually in the month of August. In one of our most ambitious and feature length projects to date, SNS Online sets sail to Scotland's beautiful capital city, to help celebrate the 70th birthday of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and to cover as many shows as is physically possible to do in a 6 day turnaround! And with only 2 days post production in order to deliver this bumper packed, 2 part show to festival goers and friends alike, we have worked around the clock to produce the best possible Fringe guide for 2017. With well over 40 interviews with performers, crew and public alike, The Fringe At 70 is your one stop, all you can eat, comprehensive Fringe Shop to all things...Fringeloopy! And for this cultural journey, Nick Rande

The Edinburgh Fringe is the world's largest arts festival, which spans 25 days and features over 50,000 performances of approximately 3,500/4000 shows and events in 300+ venues. It was established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival. The Fringe takes place annually in the month of August. In one of our most ambitious and feature length projects to date, SNS Online sets sail to Scotland's beautiful capital city, to help celebrate the 70th birthday of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and to cover as many shows as is physically possible to do in a 6 day turnaround! And with only 2 days post production in order to deliver this bumper packed, 2 part show to festival goers and friends alike, we have worked around the clock to produce the best possible Fringe guide for 2017. With well over 40 interviews with performers, crew and public alike, The Fringe At 70 is your one stop, all you can eat, comprehensive Fringe Shop to all things...Fringeloopy! And for this cultural journey, Nick Rande

"There are just a handful of bands in my life that make me enjoy every song on a single album, and The Winachi Tribe have added themselves to that exclusive list." ~ Los Angeles Times "As good a band as I have ever worked with, they blew my head off when I first heard their music. They are definitely special in their own inimitable style." ~ Danny Saber (Rolling Stones/Black Grape ) "Pushing the boundaries both musically and culturally to deliver a sound, a style and performance very unique." ~ Louder Than War "There’s a confidence & power to their live set that at times can be mesmerizing. You can’t help feel you’re witnessing a band that could be on the verge of something extremely special." ~Viva Magazine The Winachi Tribe are six musicians from the North of England who came together to make a hybrid fusion of 'Electro Funk Modern Vintage Pop'. Since the release of their debut E.P 'Time For Love', they have releasing a number of critically acclaimed singles (including two videos starring actors Keith

Hank Marvin, is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist for the Shadows, a group which primarily performed instrumentals and was the backing band for Cliff Richard. The Shadows, along with Richard, secured 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, Many leading British and Canadian rock guitarists cite Marvin as an influence on them. In today's SNS Online, we talk in depth to Marvin about his life and work. Fully illustrated with both the hits of The Shadows, and of Hank's own successful solo career - including extracts from Without A Word, his brand new album. Free download via Soundcloud. To purchase Without A Word https://www.amazon.co.uk/Without-Word-Hank-Marvin/dp/B06XHJFPKM YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI9umn9y0BwixqV5wRLKbvw Look out for Hank on Facebook at Hank Marvin Music Official. Our thanks go to ABC Radio Perth/Western Australia. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free

‘Color Theory’ (def.) - Retro-nostalgic, heartfelt…synthpop! Color Theory is the musical alter ego of American singer-keyboardist-songwriter, Brian Hazard. With no less than 9 studio albums to his name, a Lennon Award (plus grand prize in the electronic category of The John Lennon Music Contest) and 2.71 million followers on Twitter, Brian is one of the most creative and imaginative musicians in the business. His nods to bands like Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys and OMD are all produced with a fresh, vibrant energy - offering up some very original results, whilst other tracks have their roots in musical theatre - all sung with Brian’s beautifully pure trademark voice. In this extended addition of SNS Online, we head to California to talk to Hazard about his long career to date in music, plus his mastering work with other artists. The definitive guide to all things…Color Theory! Illustrated with the music from Color Theory. Website. http://colortheory.com/ Be a Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/colorth

The Ministry of Pop is the ultimate bible for all fans of Stock, Aitken and Waterman’s independent ‘Hit Factory’, that dominated the music charts throughout the 1980s. Author, Pop journalist and ultimate SAW fan, *Mark Elliott, joins SNS Online to talk about the challenges in writing the ultimate guide to their work, whilst also waxing lyrical about the many bands and solo acts that performed under the SAW banner. Fully illustrated with the music of SAW/archive material. *Mark has previously been publisher of both Empire and Time Out London. He is also a local councillor for the Borough of Eltham. Mark previously contributed film, theatre and television reviews to SNS Online, via our days with dance music station, RTE Pulse. Free download. To purchase The Ministry of Pop, see below link… https://www.thefloodgallery.com/products/ministry-of-pop-white-gold-main-edition?variant=35111356999 SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded peo

Jeremy Swift is one of the UK’s finest character actors, with roles in The Smoking Room, The Durrells, Gosford Park and the forthcoming Mary Poppins sequel, currently in production, as well as a host of other work on stage and screen. However, he is probably best known as Septimus Spratt, the long suffering butler of Lady Grantham (Dame Maggie Smith), in the internationally successful Downton Abbey. But is Master Swift now looking to reinvent himself – as a pop star?! Well, SNS Online couldn’t resist catching up with Star Man Swift, to talk music, mischief and Mary (Poppins), as well as a healthy dose of Spratt worship in the SNS Online studio! Free download. Website http://www.jeremyswift.net/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Swift Showreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5aTkXj59A 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 highes

The Beautiful Secret are a two piece band comprised of Rachael Hawnt and Ash Cutler. Their brand new, debut album - just released - is a melodic pop/rock affair with theatrical undertones and powerful vocals. Their first single, What’s Inside, deals with the subject of Autism, and is inspired from Rachael’s own niece, Katie-Rae, who lives day-to-day with the condition. All proceeds of the single will go to *The National Autistic Society, with the release itself timed for World Autism Awareness Week - March 27th to April 2nd 2017. SNS Online caught up with Rachael and Ash to discuss both the new album and the musical journey they have been on to date. Features tracks from the album and beyond, including some performed live in the studio. Website http://thebeautifulsecretmusic.com/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXqski5ZjpZUjw0NKi6vtgA Free download. *A donation has been given to The National Autistic Society. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to do

Multi award winning BBC broadcaster and former television executive, Alan Yentob, talks in depth about his life and work, and why as yet he hasn't been tempted by a commercial rival. Fully illustrated. Includes the Soundtrack of Your Life. Alan celebrates a special birthday this month, plus almost five decades of service at the BBC. Free download. 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... Color Theory - musician Jeremy Swift - actor The Beautiful Secret - band Mark Elliott - author 'Ministry of Pop' Hank Marvin - lead guitarist/The Shadows