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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...

Enjoy our brand new extended trailer, featuring guests past, present and even future (well, two, at least!). With bitesized anecdotes and general contributions from Katy Manning, Jeremy Swift, Alan Yentob, Derek Fowlds, Andrew Edward Cullip, Gail Renard, Ann Mitchell, Oliver James Kelly, Carol Decker, Cherylee Houston, Toby Hadoke, Louise Jameson, Sandy Walsh, Michael Brown, Peter Tatchell, Stewar...

Monty & Co is a brand new online children's television programme, devised by the creative team responsible for Pipkins, the ITV show for under fives which ran for ten successful series (from 1972 - 1981). We are joined In the studio by SNS Online returnee and Bafta award winner, Gail Renard, and actor/puppet master, Nigel Plaskett, to talk about the birth of this new, innovative, and exclusively o...

A brand new SNS Online, recorded at the Cavern Club in Liverpool to help celebrate 60 wonderful years of the Mersey Beat. Featuring guests, *Debbie and Nigel Greenburg. Fully illustrated/free download. Debbie's new book, Cavern Club: The Inside Story is now available. http://jorvikpress.com/books/cavern-club-the-inside-story/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cavern-Club-Inside-Debbie-Greenberg/dp/09863770...

In 1967, the owner of Liverpool's famous Cavern Club (and friend of The Beatles), Alf Geoghegan, wrote and recorded a song for his daughter, Debbie, for Christmas. For close to half a century that song has remained unheard outside of the immediate family. Several years ago, Debbie and her husband Nigel met singer/songwriter, Michael Armstrong, and they have since become big fans of his music, even...

Changing Stations is a crowd funded, 11-track classical-contemporary album by Daniel Liam Glyn, based on the 11 main lines of the London Underground. Daniel identifies himself as someone who has both Grapheme Colour and Spatial Sequence Synaesthesia; a neurological 'phenomenon' where a person perceives words, letters, shapes, and numbers in colour or sometimes taste and smell. This he has used to...

In our very first show of Series 4, we speaks to best selling author, Frederick Forsyth CBE, and Royal Opera House soprano, Melissa Alder, about Fallen Soldier - a poem written by Forsyth (with music by Gareth Williams) - sung by Alder. It commemorates all those who have fallen in conflict. *This special show is in remembrance of all those brave people. As is Fallen Soldier. For more information o...

Derek Fowlds is one of Britain's best loved actors, with a career spanning over 60+ years. He is known by a whole generation of children as 'Mr Derek' from The Basil Brush Show, then as Bernard Woolley, Principal Private Secretary to the Minister for Administrative Affairs, in Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s biting political satire, Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, and finally as Oscar Blaket...

Derek Fowlds is one of Britain's best loved actors, with a career spanning over 60+ years. He is known by a whole generation of children as 'Mr Derek' from The Basil Brush Show, then as Bernard Woolley, Principal Private Secretary to the Minister for Administrative Affairs, in Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s biting political satire, Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, and finally as Oscar Blaket...

*Peter Mabbutt is the CEO and Director of Studies for the London College of Clinical Hypnosis, where he has been central in the development of the only Masters programme for hypnotherapists currently running in the UK today. He is co-author of the successful Hypnotherapy for Dummies and Self-hypnosis for Dummies, and has also co-authored over 20 research papers on anxiety, tranquilliser dependence...

Operations Lead, James Mead, joins Nick in the studio to talk about an amazing first year for Holding Hands 4 Equality, including the production of some fantastic videos that have helped aid promotion of this great cause. Also discussed - the latest 2016 IDAHOBiT Campaign... Featuring HH4E's latest adopted song, We Are The Night, by Steve Grand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTsScStbEp8 A wonder...

Can you fall in love with someone without knowing their gender? In ‘Boy Stroke Girl’, Peter finds out when he falls for the sexually ambiguous ‘Blue’. But will such a relationship proves a challenge to Peter’s identity, forcing him to face some difficult questions? To what extent are we all encouraged to conform to narrow culturally defined stereotypes, to label and to pigeon-hole ourselves? Peter...

Stand up comedy sensation, Thea Downie, leaves her dignity at the door to chat to Nick Randell...about being a stand up comedy sensation! Illustrated with Thea's work in the London club circuit. Great for all lovers of stand up comedy, *plus those looking to learn more about it! *For all Luke Skywalkers out there looking to Yoda up on comedy in the Dagobah system (or possibly Stockton-on-Tees), ch...

“I think all good actors are trying to shine a light on what it means to be human. And to look at human behaviour and contradiction.” SNS Online is invited to the home of award winning actress, Ann Mitchell, to discuss some of the pivotal roles she’s played on stage and screen, including Dolly Rawlins in the ground breaking Lynda La Plante series, Widows, Mrs. Warren in Mrs Warren’s Profession and...

“Pain is inevitable, suffering optional. You were born to discover the Magic in YOU. Allow It!” In the latest SNS Online, former EastEnders script writer, Carmen Harris, joins Nick Randell to talk about her work as a spiritual healer. Illustrated with archive material and Carmen’s music choices. Carmen’s book, "Sh*t Happens, Magic Follows (Allow It!)" is available here… http://www.amazon.com/Happe...

“There's a huge buzz in Manchester around Puppet Rebellion. To see a crowd singing along to a band that can count its gigs on both hands is a sign of greater and bigger things to come." - Louder Than War “There’s a feeling when you listen to the EP that it isn’t designed to slowly grow on you, it’s almost as if it doesn’t want to wait for that, it’s not going to politely sit and wait for you to mu...

“Afghan women are no longer silent. They are a force for progress. From now on, if we have sons, we will teach them to stand up for girls, and if we have daughters, we will make sure they know their value and remember the struggles of the women before them. Our struggle continues but our hope will not fade.” *SNS Online spends an hour in conversation with BBC Afghan journalist and author, Zarghuna...

We speak to Paul Condon, General Editor and co-writer of '1001 TV Series You Must Watch Before You Die', a comprehensive guide to all that is great in the world of television - past and present. Illustrated with clips and music of some of your favourite shows. With a forward by Sherlock/Doctor Who showrunner himself, Steven Moffat, this book is the perfect present for lovers of fabulous television...

History is always written by the victor. After Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at the battle of Bosworth, Tudor historians created the elaborate fiction of a deformed usurper who schemed and murdered his way onto the English throne. But who was the real Richard III? Playwright, Ian Dixon Potter, attempts to set the record straight by presenting a more balanced historical view of Richard III, a vi...

World AIDS Day 2015, and more people than ever are living with *HIV in the UK alone - with over 36.9 million worldwide. And although combination drug therapies mean that (for many people) HIV is no longer a death sentence, how are these people coping day-to-day with the condition? Most importantly, can they be both HIV and happy? Nick Randell speaks to Paul Thorn, former GT columnist, presenter of...

In our brand new autumn season of shows, SNS Online returnee, Joe (Torchwood/Sarah Jane Adventures/Wizards V Aliens) Lidster, along with fellow scribe, Aaron Lamont, meet Nick Randell in Bow Bell Cemetery (in London's Dickensian East End), for a spooktacular Halloween addition of SNS! Here they discuss the iconic American TV hit, Dark Shadows...and it's magnificant return via *Big Finish Productio...

The ultimate, compressed, comedic guide to the joy that is...SNS Online! Enjoy some top tickletastic moments from both SNS Online and extracts from our original show that aired every Wednesday evening on RTÉ Pulse, back in the day... All shows available to be heard & downloaded for free on the SNS Online Soundcloud page, or via Mixcloud (by searching for Nick Randell). Convert someone today by giv...

The ultimate, compressed guide to the joy that is...SNS Online! Featuring extracts to wet your appetite from some of the best interviews in town! All are available to be heard & downloaded for free on the SNS Online Soundcloud page, or via Mixcloud (by searching for Nick Randell). Convert someone today by giving them a blast of ScratchNSniff, and win an SNS Online novelty shower cap. Their lives a...

T'Pau - The Whole Story... T’Pau’s Carol Decker joins SNS Online in part one (of two) of an extended interview, available here as a free download. Having recently returned to the pop world with a brand new, critically acclaimed album, Pleasure & Pain, complete with UK tour, part one covers T’Pau’s early rise to fame, their quadruple platinum debut album, Bridge of Spies - and beyond - plus the lif...

"Bond and Bassey go together like Vodka and Martini." SNS Online returnee, Paul Joseph, talks about a special campaign he's involved in to make sure the next Bond song is recorded by the legendary...Dame Shirley Bassey! The campaign includes a video where Paul (and his partner, Tim), visit every Bond film to tell the man himself, "It's got to be Bassey". Check the video here: https://youtu.be/y7lG...