The Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast

David Waterhouse is the Chairman of, Friends of Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. We talk about all of the hard work that goes into raising money to maintain the Museum and Art Gallery and to keep things interesting. David tells me how important it is to support your local museums and having not been for about a year myself, he quite rightly gives me a bit of a grilling over it.  Every year there...

Richard Cheal is a great guy who is bringing something special to Shrewsbury, Cafe Scientific. Picture yourself sat in a comfortable place drinking coffee, beer or whatever you choose to drink. Listening to a talk on psychology, Artificial Intelligence or medical research. Slowly digesting the information in a setting that is relaxed and sociable. Richard is starting his first Cafe Scientific on t...

AL and DeeDee sit and chat with Bibbs from the Civic Society/Bear Steps about the important work that the Civic Society does for the town. Protecting important historical buildings and making sure our heritage isn't lost. From the beginning, The Civic Society have worked hard to keep Shrewsbury looking like Shrewsbury, they are a collective that are all very passionate about it too.  Bear Steps Ar...

Bloom Studios in Coleham is a sight to be seen, it's a place that does nothing but great things to inspire creativity in the community and we are in love with this place. AL and Julie chat with Bloom owner Kerry Jones who shares with us a passionate run-down of some of the great classes that are available. Also joining is Luke Crump who is an inspired doodle artist who teaches youngsters the art o...

On this episode we speak to Marianne from "Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings. On the run up to the Darwin Festival it is important to talk about Shrewsbury's heritage. Shrewsbury's heritage doesn't come much more important than our contribution to the future of modern day architecture. The Flaxmill is the worlds first iron framed building and in-fact the precursor to the modern day sky scraper some...

Aleks Vladimirov is a good friend of the show and has been a regular guest since before the show even began if you can believe it! Well Alex speaks to Aleks about all kinds of things. When these 2 get together, the comfortable nature of the conversation can create tangents about anything. We start talking about Shrewsbury, Darwin, innovation and way that the town has and can continue to change. We...

AL and Julie speak to Pete White. The owner of Web Orchard,Information Solutions and the Love Shrewsbury website. He created our beautiful website, he's our sponsor and a good friend of the show. We want to find out how it all began for Pete, what lies in the future for Web Orchard and how his team manage to stay so calm while dealing with computer problems that would normally send a guy crazy. Fr...

Chords Crush Cancer is a brilliant, popular fundraiser for Lingen Davies. AL, Jules and Deedee speak to the event's creator Mark Fielden. Mark shows a certain passion about Chords Crush Cancer that can only be admired. Set at The Inn On The Green, the event is based around a series of auctions where all the proceeds go to charity. Along with that, there are lives bands and a lot of fun had by all...

AL and DeeDee sit with Jen Eastwood from Rock Rose Digital. Jen started her business from nothing and now she is doing a fantastic job with helping companies with their social media presence. We talk about how powerful a tool social media is and how it can help a business blossom. Jen helps out with a few very handy pointers to get you started. Thanks Jen this was awesome!

The Shrewsbury Biscuit welcomes Charlie Adlard to the show. AL, Shane and Julie speak to Charlie, who is the co-creator of The Walking Dead, one of the best selling independent Comic-Books in the world. Charlie is not only an icon in the world of comic-books, but is a bit of a Shrewsbury legend (although he would modestly disagree). Despite his worldwide acclaim, Charlie is a proud Salopian and he...

Julie popped by the HSBC National Cyclocross Championships, which was being held at The Sports Village in Shrewsbury and for anyone that knows cycling it is a big deal. Listen to Jules as she walks around the event finding people to talk to, including Olympic Gold Medalist Dani Rowe, The Mayor Phil Gillam and some of the competitors that were warming up. A special shout out goes to Sian from Linco...

AL was suffering from Keto flu (yes it's real!) but enjoyed sitting down with Claire Moore from Peakes Travel Elite, a company that gets a lot of love from the Shrewsbury locals. Find out the fascinating story about how Peakes Travel came to be and how Claire started her career there. Throughout Claire's career, Peakes has gone on to become highly reputable and even won major, nationwide awards (t...

We are all super excited about the Darwin Festival, there is so much to look forward to. On today's episode we speak to Paul Kirkbright who is the Deputy Provost from UCS, about what this festival means to the town. Before that though we spend 20 minutes speaking to new Biscuiteer DeeDee! Before she was thrown in the deep end with the Darwin Fest talk, AL and Jules spend a bit of time getting to k...

Ben Butler is a guy that is doing amazing things with young people in Shropshire with his company New Generation Coaching. Guiding young folks through a life without knives, drugs and violence. Making direct, positive changes to people's lives so that they don't have to get involved with the lifestyle that Ben used to have. "you're not invincible, it won't last, you're wither going to end up dead...

Julie pops in to chat with Sarah Bright who created I Can Dance. A dance class that is very popular. We find out where the idea came from, a little bit about Sarah and what the participants of this session were dancing to.  Julie brings up the World Record Breaking Charleston Dance from last year which was organised by Sarah. So not only is I can Dance popular in Shrewsbury there is a global recog...

On a truly breathtaking night in Shrewsbury where there was carol singing serenading the people, there were people enjoying their evening and the Market Hall was lit up beautifully. AL got to sit in on a Gin Tasting session held by Darren Tomkins from Gindifferent. Not only were the drinks stunning, not only was Darren's passionate talk on Gin really interesting but the atmosphere really was great...

AL, Shane and Julie see off 2019 by celebrating all of the brilliant and silly things that they have accomplished throughout the year. We say goodbye to 2019 and get excited about what we have coming up in 2020. We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us this year, we are really looking forward to "Bringing The Biscuit" in 2020 to repay the amazing faith that has been shown i...

AL and Julie spend the day with the folks at Shropshire Festivals in their offices in Buildwas. Between recording the 2 parts of this show, everyone walked up to watch the demolition of the power station cooling towers. So this episode is marked with a historic day. Part one: We speak to Beth and Rachel about how things began for them, the events they cover, the events they like to cover and we ge...

AL is joined by Urban Explorer and owner of the fascinating blog "Shrewsbury From Where You Are Not" Chris Schurke. Chris returns to talk about the adventures that he's been on in Germany, exploring deserted Nazi bases, climbing roller-coasters and much more. We discuss where we would like to go to explore, the developing problems with Urban Exploration as well as a cruel little game I played with...

Local author Kevin Horak joins AL and Jules on this episode to talk about his new book Mildred The Crazy Cat Lady. Kevin is a man of many talents, he is a DJ, a fantastic writer and is great at not cursing, even though his previous book titles had swear words in the title! Regardless we expertly discuss those books without being potty mouthed (not Jules though!)  In this hilarious episode we have...

Fuelled by Lefevre Chocolates, AL and Jules speak to the world's tallest Town Crier, Shrewsbury's very own Martin Wood. We discuss the days before Martin took up the role, how became our Town Crier and the places that it has taken him. From the World Town Crier Championships, to performing for the Queen Mother and back again to the top of Pride Hill, Martin has a fascinating story. It is a role fo...

Join Jules at the 70th Anniversary party of Age UK, where they launched their Platinum Appeal. The party was held at The Museum in Shrewsbury. Jules enjoys conversations with Telephone Buddy Lynn, Chief Exec Heather, Katherine and Angela. All of whom talk so passionately about the great work they put in to make the lives of the elderly a much better place. Thank you for inviting us to your stunnin...

For their first day recording at Biscuit Studios in The Parade Shopping Centre, AL and Jules decide to make it all about about the Parade. The show is opened by AL's son Timmy, warmed up by the Biscuiteers, then we speak to a couple of traders from the Parade. Gill from Beadles and Mike from Salop Technology. Then we finish off with the great and powerful Stan Sedman who teaches us the history of...

We were lucky enough to go to the Monopoly launch at the Dana, where we got to interview a few people including: Graham Barnes (6 Star PR), The ladies from Shropshire Cat Rescue, Lauren Watkins (The Dana Prison) and Naomi Atkin (Lingen Davies). We also got to speak to the Mayor, Phil Gillam while he played the first ever game of the Shrewsbury Edition of Monopoly. Thanks to everyone that spoke to...

Local author joins AL and Shane this week on the Shrewsbury Biscuit. Steve has been writing for many years. He's had his highs and he's had his lows and we learn a bit about Steve's career. How a post-it note changed his career, how a last grasp throw of the dice gave him added determination and now how Steve is helping aspiring writers. We love talking to creators on this show and Steve is one of...