The Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast

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...

Join Alex as he takes on Loopfest 2023. With his mic in-hand he is determined to cover as much of the festival as he can. But with over 120 artists performing at 25 different venues across Shrewsbury he far can he realistically get? Starting at Shrewsbury Castle, moving onto the Bulls Head and then finishing at The Anchor Inn, it seems not very far! Biting off more than he can chew, this task was...

Today this episode is brought to you via the River Severn. Alex and Verity are on the Sabrina Boat's picnic boat and for this episode they will be talking about river safety. Joining the show for this one are experts on river safety Andy Neal and David Brown for West Mercia Search and Rescue. Also joining the show is representative from 'Make Our River Safer' - Victoria Ireland. Where does 'Make O...

Today we are talking about the Shrewsbury International Comedy Festival 2023. We have idly watched by as this magnificent event rolls into town year after year. So we are very pleased to be in amongst it this year. Alex is joined my Canadian comedy superstar JJ Whitehead and festival organisers Beth McGowan and Neville Street. We spend the first half of the show talking to JJ about his career and...

This is such a fantastic episode, whether you enjoy art or not. When we talk about passion, especially that which comes from hunger or desire, it is really hard to not find it infectious. Alex is at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery for a private exhibition for Shrewsbury Arts Trail 2023. We have all seen the pictures of the amazing sculptures throughout the town, this is the sculpture trail. Well...

It's the 10 year anniversary of Shrewsbury Food Festival, the sun is shining and The Quarry is absolutely buzzing with activity. Alex and Verity are on site for another spectacular event with mics in-hand, ready to document this fine occasion. To add a fun twist on interviews for this episode Alex and Verity are going head to head in a game called Word Up! A game where they take random words that...

In this bumper episode we bring you 2 great pieces of content, all squished into one. Part one Alex enlisted the help of Tara Brindle from the Courtyard Collective to go into the rural village of Ryton where a meeting was taking place. This meeting was a gathering of locals who are planning on saving their local pub, The Fox Inn by turning it into a community Pub. Alex and Tara speak to Davide Tho...

We missed UK Proms in the Park last year, much to our disappointment. So we were delighted to be invited to come along to this year's event, set at the West Mids Showground. The UK Proms in the Park is an open-air classical concert featuring a wonderful orchestra lead by Alex Postlethwaite and conducted by Joe Davies. When is comes to culture, classical music is the engine that drives it. Whether...

For this episode Alex is joined by Kate Taylor, a very well established writer and editor who has embraced a new lease of life without the one thing that was causing her so much anguish, alcohol. After deciding to quit the booze Kate found an inspiring community online who offer warm, judgement free support for those wanting to make such a big change to their lives. Kate has an online following of...

Well here we are again, The Belle Vue Arts Festival 2023. When Alex talks about The Shrewsbury Biscuit, he always talks about it being like viewing Shrewsbury on and iPad (other brands are available) and you zoom in closer and closer until you find an interesting story. We have never found it difficult to find extraordinary people to talk about. Events like the BVAF make it so easy to find interes...

This episode is almost an investigational piece. As Alex isn't from the rural or farming world and having never attended the County Show, (I know right!?) the mission today is to find out what this show is and what it means to people. So Alex starts off by speaking to the young farmers of Shropshire, speaking to Mollie from Shropshire Federation of Young Farmers, moving onto Edward from the NFU -...

Alex and and Verity are coming to you from Albert & Co's Frankville in Frankwell. They are speaking to LOOPFEST organiser Jamie, who is on to talk about his journey with music in Shrewsbury/Shropshire and the conception of LOOPFEST. LOOPFEST is an event that takes place on Saturday 8th July across 25 different venues, offering entertainment from 125 different acts. All of this needs to be orga...