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‘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

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, Stewart Willy, Terence Frisby, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Emma Stace Darling and Mark Elliott. All individual shows are available to be downloaded for free from the SNS Online Soundcloud page. Cover art by Andy Lambert (from an original logo by Vaishali Bhatt). 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 advertisi

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 online project. Roll up roll up for Monty & Co - you'll love it! Website http://www.montyandco.co.uk/ Invest https://crowdforangels.com/company/Pipkins-Productions-Limited-99 Gail Renard http://www.gailrenard.com/ Nigel Plaskett http://nigelplaskitt.com/index.xml Promo http://www.montyandco.co.uk/watch-our-video/ 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

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/098637704X Our Amazon book review... https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R18JM8G0W9BBD0/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=098637704X&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=266239&store=books A shortened version of this piece was broadcast to 12 local BBC radio stations around the country (during their 'Drive Time' slots) on the Cavern's 60th anniversary. 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 a

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 organising Michael’s debut album launch at The Cavern Club. Last year, Debbie presented Michael with a copy of her father's Christmas song, which Michael, along with Warren Bennett, subsequently updated and recorded. In our final show for 2016, Michael joins us in the studio to talk about breathing new life into a dad’s very personal tribute to his little girl. 'Little Girl (Bells of Christmas)' is performed by Michael Armstrong and features Brian Bennett and Warren Bennett. Released in association with The Cavern Club in Liverpool and the brand new book 'Cavern Club: The Inside Story', written by Debbie Gre

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 his advantage in the creation of his debut album - a truly multi-sensory experience that transports us to all corners of England’s capital city, allowing us to experience the sights, sounds and even smells of London, as well as the hidden thoughts and emotions of London’s daily commuters. In this show we join Daniel, producer, Katie Tavini, and their Manchester based launch party for Changing Stations, to find out more about this incredible project. Illustrated with extracts from Changing Stations. For more information and to purchase Changing Stations, go to http://www.changingstations.london/ For more on Ka

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 on Fallen Soldier, go to www.fallen-soldier.com To watch the video of Fallen Soldier, click below - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bzbEkwY7aE A short version of this piece has been broadcast to local BBC radio stations around the country. Frederick Forsyth/website - http://www.frederickforsyth.co.uk/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/freddieforsyth Melissa Alder/website - http://www.listentomelissa.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Listentomelissa *A donation has been given to the Royal British Legion. SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all lik

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 Blaketon, in ITV’s Sunday night family drama, Heartbeat (throughout its eighteen year run). But as Mr Fowlds is keen to point out, these are just three of the many roles he’s played over the years - although he accepts that these are the most ‘iconic’ and high profile! His theatre work includes leads in Hamlet, Billy Liar, Macbeth, Chips With Everything and The Miracle Worker. Over the years he has worked with such luminaries as Sir Alec Guinness, Alistair Sim, Kenneth Moore, Anna Massey, Sir John Guilgud, Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Craig. In part 2 of this special feature length addition of SNS Online, Nick Randell

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 Blaketon, in ITV’s Sunday night family drama, Heartbeat (throughout its eighteen year run). But as Mr Fowlds is keen to point out, these are just three of the many roles he’s played over the years - although he accepts that these are the most ‘iconic’ and high profile! His theatre work includes leads in Hamlet, Billy Liar, Macbeth, Chips With Everything and The Miracle Worker. Over the years he has worked with such luminaries as Sir Alec Guinness, Alistair Sim, Kenneth Moore, Anna Massey, Sir John Guilgud, Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Craig. In part 1 of this special feature length addition of SNS Online, Nick Randell

*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, learning and memory. In the latest SNS Online, we speak at length to Peter about his work, and the help he has given to his many patients over the years. Meanwhile, interviewer, Nick Randell, agrees to undergo hypnosis – in the studio! Featuring Peter’s music choices in “The Soundtrack of your Life”. *Peter also lectures internationally on the various aspects of hypnotherapy to the general public, hypnotherapy students and the medical profession alike. 'Hypnotherapy for Dummies' via Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hypnotherapy-Dummies-Mike-Bryant/dp/0470019301 Self-Hypnosis for Dummies via Amazon https://w

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 wonderful example of James' videos for HH4E... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD2QRi4bDOM Our interview from last year(full length and abridged) with Campaign Director, Andy Cast... https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-series-2-andy-cast https://soundcloud.com/scratchnsniff-rte-pulse/sns-online-bitesized-holding-hands-4-equality Holding Hands 4 Equality website... http://www.hh4e.org/ 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 profe

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’s passion for Blue provokes prejudice and hostility from friends and family, in a tale of sexual liberation and shattered taboos. SNS Online returnee. Ian Dixon Potter (Good King Richard), has written a nuanced and challenging love story for our time. Earlier this week, we headed to the rehearsal rooms of The Tommyfield public house to speak to the actors, Lai-Si Lassalle, Gianbruno Spena, Katrina Allen and Duncan Mason, as well as director, Courtney Larkin, to find out about this extraordinary new production. Begins Friday 13th May to 17th May 2016 - OTHERPLACE THE WARREN STUDIO 2, St. Peters Church North, Y

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), check this awesome course out... http://www.londoncomedycourse.com/ Or this... http://loganmurray.com/stand-up-and-deliver/ 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 i

“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 her Laurence Oliver Award nominated performance in Through the Leaves. She's a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and is also widely known to millions of BBC One viewers as the brash and archetypal East End matriarch of Albert Square, EastEnders’ Cora Cross. Fully illustrated with archive material and Ann’s music choices. For Eva Mottley. 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,

“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/Happens-Magic-Follows-Allow-Challenges/dp/1782799109 Carmen’s Space for Grace/Heal your Story websites… http://www.space-for-grace.webs.com/ https://www.healyourstory.co.uk/ "Take the sting out of your suffering – fast!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPvAF34a9xc 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 t

“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 mull it over and decide if it’s interesting or not – it’s going to grab you by the unmentionables and take you on a quality ride.” – Given To Sound "Puppet Rebellion are destined to be big. Huge. Gargantuan. Gi-frigging-normous. Susan Boyle's-monobrow massive" - Bleach & Cologne "Awesome anthems of our time with videos to match - insanely satisfying" - SNS Online To coincide with the release of their brand new (and frankly, spellbinding) track, ‘Fragments’, SNS Online caught up with the critically acclaimed *Puppet Rebellion at a gig in London recently to talk about all their success to date, inspirations for their