The Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast

Shrewsbury Biscuit at Shrewsbury Comic Con 2024 What better way to spend a day, than to be walking around Shrewsbury Comic Con with a mic in-hand? This is what I was born to do and on Saturday 6th April I spent a good 3 hours speaking to comic book legends, up and coming stars, vendors and even some Ghostbusters! Follow me and Mini-Biscuit as we take look in to the inaugural Shrewsbury Comic Con e...

Michaela Wylde & Simon Berry To wrap up Season Alpha we bring you 2 phenomenal guests, Michaela Wylde & Simon Berry. You may know these 2 legends from BBC Shropshire's Music Introducing show where for years, local musicians had a platform to play their music. Now Michaela & Simon have moved onto The Salopian Mixtape which has the same magical formula but as their own independent podcas...

Steve The Hungry Guy This episode has been some months in the making I tell you. Me and Steve have been trying to make this work since Shrewsbury Food Festival 2023. What I can confirm is that this episode was worth waiting for because not only is The Hungry Guy everywhere, not only is he a nationally recognised food educator but he is pretty awesome on the mic. We discuss Steve's career as a prod...

60 Years of Shrewsbury Samaritans. I was lucky enough to be invited to the 60th anniversary of the Samaritans in Shrewsbury by Claire Oulton. This was a fantastic opportunity to speak to so many people that had contributed to The Samaritans on many different levels, some for many years. The first half of this episode is a 30 min sit-down with Claire, Angie and director Lauren. The conversation was...

Beth Heath When it comes to innovative business and throwing a good party, Beth Heath is a recognised world leader. The leader of the fantastic team at Shropshire Festivals has been running events for a very long time. The landscape for what Beth and her team do for a living is always changing. If you cast your minds back to the last 5 years it might just give you traumatic flashbacks of lifestyle...

Sarah Wareing: Sox UK The guest for this episode is one with a story of hard work, survival and determination. All of this led to the creation of one of the coolest brands, Sox UK. We are of course speaking to Sarah Wareing or Saz as she is know by her friends. Sox UK is a pandemic-born creative passion that snowballed into a business that was excelled by Sarah's fight to provide a life, wellbeing...

James Millichamp James Millichamp is the perfect guest to join me at the halfway point of Season Alpha. Featuring lots of free flowing chat about the arts, education, history and why for some reason Wolverhampton is the centre of the universe. We really do put the world to rights in this one. If you listen to this show regularly you know that I'm at my best when I'm speaking to an artistic mind. B...

Mark Fielden, Author Being a huge fan of traditions, I love the fact that Mark Fielden is back on The Shrewsbury Biscuit, talking about another great Chords Crush Cancer event. This event just gets bigger and bigger every year. So much so, that this event in particular is titled "The Last Chapter"....the last of it's kind Mark says, tune in to find out more. Also discussed we talk about some of th...

Dungarees & Squeegees. From an Instagram post years ago which grabbed my attention to now, so much has happened for today's guests Ash and Joey. As we record this episode, there is scaffolding up, lots of empty space ready for machinery and lots of colour on the walls. We are in the brand new studio for Dungarees and Squeegees in the English Bridge Workshop. Dungarees & Squeegees is a scre...

Season Alpha: Ep. 1 - Anneka Reece. Recorded at The Restaurant at Theatre Severn, I speak to Anneka Reece, host of The Alcohol Free Vibes Podcast and life coach (see link below). I thought it would be a good idea to speak about alcohol-free living during January as I know that there are a lot of people that give up alcohol during January and also, it is a very positive life choice to discuss. Me a...

Rob Gibson I know it's weird right? why Season Alpha and why the change? Well you will just have to listen in to find out. Episode one, is a fantastic way to start this new phase. Executive chef, Rob Gibson joins me for a chat about his amazing career. From eager an 15 year old working in a bustling kitchen, to working with some of the most famous chefs on the planet, travelling all over the world...

In this late, but great episode of The Biscuit you lucky ducks get to follow us backstage at the Shropshire Music Awards 2023, which was held at Oakengates Theatre. Joined by our good friend Liam Tinsley we offer a sweet selection of interviews from the evening featuring winners of awards, friends of The Biscuit, the compare Paul Shuttleworth and many more. Featured artists are: Coffee? Guns For G...

On The Biscuit today is a young actor who went from acting in the Wizard of Oz with the very popular drama school, Get Your Wigle On to appearing on the monolithic Broadway show, The Lion King as none other than Simba. From here, Amir has gone on to do so many brilliant things. From Broadway to TV, to the movies, Amir appeared in The Secret Garden alongside Colin Firth and of course in the smash h...

Join Alex and Mini-Biscuit as they attend Ludlow Food Festival 2023 armed with mics. This festival had the beautiful backdrop of Ludlow Castle and there is so much to look at and many great opportunities for conversation. Staring us off is Louise Welsby who has been working with the festival for sometime. Louise was so kind to us, taking us around the site and introducing us to so many cool people...

Alex is chatting to his good mate, local rapper Trademark Blud about one of the county's hottest events of the year, The Shropshire Music Awards 2023. So much goes into an event like this and there is a deep meaning behind it that gives artists something to strive towards. But while it really was great to talk about the logistics behind such an extraordinary event, Alex took some time out to talk...

On World Suicide Prevention Day Alex set up a mobile studio outside Shrewsbury Abbey for a few hours to speak to some special guests about their suicide experiences . Whether they have lost a loved one, have thought about it themselves or even if they are an expert in the field of mental health. Featured on this show which comes to you in part of our ongoing work with Shropshire Mental Health Supp...

Today Alex is joined by Nick who is on the show to talk about Shrewsbury Comic-Con which is happening in April 2024. Featuring some very exciting V.I.Ps, great photo ops with brilliant movie props, exciting D&D sessions and lots of opportunities to enjoy a true Comic-Con experience right on our own doorstep. The event is happening on Saturday 6th April 2024 10am - 4pm at Shrewsbury Football gr...

One of Alex Whiteley's favourite things to do is to take a walk around inside the head of a creative. Today's episode is a real treat as Alex is speaking to author Hazel Meredith-Lloyd who has created the comedy novel 'Orange' and the children's version 'Natalie Hedgerow and the Orange Alien.' Alex and Hazel discuss the stunning and collaborative writers community in Shrewsbury. We have already fe...

For this episode Alex is talking to a good friend of the show Dave Corteen. The last time we spoke was to promote the W60 Tennis tournament in 2020, just before the world ended due to y'know the C word. Well today Dave is telling Alex about the Shrewsbury W100 Tennis tournament that is happening at The Shrewsbury Club between Sunday 15th - Sunday 22nd October 2023. Only this time there will be no...

The guest for today's episode is artist, photographer and performer Vanessa Fairfax-Woods. Alex speaks to Vanessa about her beginnings as an artist and where her artistic drives come from. It is very rare to find an artist who can encapsulate an emotion or a situation so vividly because, well, that is what makes art so special right? Well Vanessa's website offered this podcast an arsenal of intere...

Recorded at Daily Brews in Shrewsbury Alex is talking to Business and Mindset Coach Alex McCarthy and Camilla Monk. Today's topic is about when a business woman has to change her script after finding out she is unexpectedly...expecting. What happens to the mindset of a real go-getter in business when all of a sudden things are changing, priorities are shifting and hardcore vulnerability sets in. C...

It's time to catch up with a good friend of The Biscuit's, Luke Allen. Since he was an enthusiastic film maker in his teens, Luke has been regularly guesting on The Biscuit and we always take a deep dive into great topics when he is on the show. Today's episode is of no exception. Luke talks to us about his decision to leave college and concentrate on his work on-set and in the writers rooms as th...

We are back with a second edition of the Shropshire Mental Health Support Takeover just because the last episode really helped a lot of people. So we thought, why not make a bunch of these shows, covering all kinds of different aspects of mental health support. Toady Alex is joined by Ruth, Maree and Amanda. Maree talks about her new role as deputy manager and what the charity needs going forward....

Join Alex as he attends the Shrewsbury Town Football Club Open day at the Croud Meadow Stadium. As an icebreaker, Alex speaks to various members of the Shrewsbury Town community, Starting with the dedicated football police officer for the club, a steward who has grown an affinity to the club, Director of Football Micky Moore and chief business development officer Jamie Edwards. We are going to be...

For today's episode Alex is sat with the new Madam Mayoress of Shrewsbury, Becky Wall. The nature of interviews such as these are designed to discover the person behind the appointment of Mayor. A conversation about where Mrs Wall started in life, what her aspirations are and also what is like for her to become the mayor of this great town. What are the things that one looks forward to the most, i...