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The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Pete White: The Web OrchardPete White: The Web OrchardWhen a media outlet decides to dedicate it's last episode of a season to it's sponsor I guess it could be considered cliché. I have visions of Wayne's World and Noah Vanderhoff. This would add a hilarious dimension to The Biscuit but for this episode it is a genuine pleasure for me to welcome Pete White, founder of The Web Orchard, the sponsors of our very attractive website.I wanted to discuss how the dynamics of running a website building and information solutions company has changed since Pete began all t...2024-07-1757 min
Black Lincoln Collective PodcastSmell the Stank On You | The Black Lincoln Collective PodcastThis week on an international edition of the Black Lincoln Collective Podcast. We take a leap into the future while chatting with Alex from The Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast. Alex explains everything from Wrexham to the Premier League, plus the British love of the NFL. We learn about the BBC and how it all works, cause we have no idea. We talk to Alex about the differences between the US and the UK, and we play the US versus UK Phrase Game. We talk about plastic surgery for some reason, and of course, food chat! We get all of our...2023-02-201h 56
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Alex McCarthyThis is a podcast that AL has been really looking forward to sinking his teeth into. Alex McCarthy joins us on the Biscuit and talks to us about her life and he she become the very highly respect business and life coach that she is today.Before this interview, there were many people that mentioned Alex McCarthy to AL as someone who is genuinely great a helping, motivating and inspiring others.It doesn't take long before we start seeing those raw flashes of organic brilliance from Alex, in-fact we clocked it at 01:24 into the episode...2022-10-311h 03
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: The Shropshire GOATAL chats with Laura, creator of The Shropshire GOAT, an online magazine all about the fine county that we live in.Hailing from Leicester, Laura has only been in Shropshire for a few weeks and is beginning her journey of discovery. Offering a unique, outsider's perspective, Laura has found that Shropshire is such a vibrant county that there is almost too much to choose from!Laura's specialty is beer, having written about it for such a long time. So it's much to her surprise that Laura has found lots of exciting independent breweries dotted about...2022-09-0541 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: DRAWN 2022Coming to you from Daily Brews in the heart of Shrewsbury. AL is joined by artist Cherie Jerrard and comic book artist Mike Perkins to talk about DRAWN 2022.Last year The Biscuit covered DRAWN 2021 in a big way. We set up a studio at the event, based in Shrewsbury Museum and Gallery and for 2 days AL had an amazing time interviewing artists who attended. We made so many friends and learned so much about the local art scene.Well DRAWN is back again and offers to be bigger and better. With an exclusive use of...2022-08-3034 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Ryan King: Fish HeadsWhen it comes to food and the entrepreneurial skills needed to succeed, there is a name that is synonymous in Shropshire. Ryan King.Having heard his name mentioned before, we have never been able to get an interview together, that is until now, thanks to help from our good friend Liam Tinsley. Liam was instrumental in putting this together.Ryan is of a unique Shrewsbury pedigree and has a story that offers a different perspective to business that we haven't heard before. The ex owner of The Smoke Stop, Ryan became a victim of his...2022-08-2242 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Shropshire Music AwardsThere is an event coming up that has been creating a lot of intrigue across Shropshire. AL had been approached by many people to check out what was happening with The Shropshire Music Awards. The more AL looked at the event, the more he realised he HAD to find out more.Jump to this podcast, we bring you the founder and organiser of Shropshire Music Awards, Tim aka Trademark Blud. Having spent years gaining experience on the Shropshire and UK music circuit Tim is well aware of the talent that sits on our doorstep.During...2022-08-1640 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Chasing AugustAL enlists the help of his good friend George Lugo from California to help out with today's show. They guys are chatting to popular local band, Chasing August. Having first met at Party in the Quarry Park, AL and the band hit it off well.We hear about the band's journey, how they get their sound and hear an exclusive snippet of their new single "Lift Off" which is due out on the 26th August.We also chat about the important things, whether lead singer Jack Norcup would look good in Cher's attire!2022-08-081h 03
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: The Queens Baton RelayToday we are coming from the Queens Baton Relay event in Shrewsbury Quarry. This event was put together by Shropshire Council, Shrewsbury BID and Shropshire Festivals to celebrate the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and the Queens Baton that had travelled all around the world, to 19 different countries that make up the Commonwealth. The English leg of the baton's tour took 25 days and visited counties up and down the country.We were invited to set up a studio and do our thing. AL is joined by his good friend Alexander Westwood to co-host. Mr Westwood someone AL had acted...2022-07-221h 28
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Sasha BuyJoin Al as he speaks to Sasha Holly Buy from the Coaching Club. Sasha has been doing an incredible job helping women change their lives for the positive. Having first heard about Sasha when Amy Tuitt was helping out on The Biscuit last year (much love Amy!), this interview has been a long time coming and at the perfect time for AL.It's mid-festival season and AL is incredibly busy. This leads to a surge forward with the need of self-motivation and a determined mind. Sasha is the best person to speak to about this...2022-07-1840 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Mayor of Shrewsbury - Elisabeth RobertsToday AL is speaking to Mayor of Shrewsbury, Counsellor Elisabeth Roberts in an interview that is designed as a "get to know you" conversation.Elisabeth is very down to earth and talks about her passionate fight in support for the autistic and neurodiversity communities. Throughout the years of keeping her children safe through their struggles with autism, Elisabeth has been battling to make sure her kids are treated fairly and have everything they need for a happy and normal life. It hasn't been easy though and this is where the passion to help others comes from.2022-07-1152 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Rowen Richards - Rock ChoirDuring the last light switch on in Shrewsbury before the pandemic, AL came across Rock Choir as they were doing what they do best. Rock Choir was on AL's "To interview" list and he thought he had plenty of time to organise it. Then the world ended...a little bit.Now we finally have the opportunity to break the ice! Coming to you from Cafe on the Cop, AL is speaking with Rowan Richards from Rock Choir. A multiple award winning choir, with bases set all across the UK with over 30,000 members (pre Covid). There are also 3...2022-07-0435 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Why Shrewsbury?Todays episode was recorded at the Old Market Hall Café. We have a task today to find the answer "Why Shrewsbury?" What makes this town so desirable. You may think this is a typical thing to think of from the inside of a town one loves. However, we have discovered throughout our years of Biscuit interviews that people move here and become besotted. Born and bred Salopians show so much pride for their town and there is a real historical, cultural and geographical appeal here.Today we ask why? For this we need experts and w...2022-06-2048 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: 'Let's Celebrate' The Belle Vue Arts FestivalEvery year there is one event that we look forward to here at the Biscuit. Personally, it offered AL a view to a sense of community they he'd never really witnessed before, but that is just the tip of the iceberg.The Belle Vue Arts Festival offers so much more. with exhibitions, poetry slams, photo competitions, opportunities for the whole community to get involved with a yearly scarecrow trail and of course (AL's favourite) the Open Garden Trail.Well today AL is situated at the opening event of the Belle Vue Art Festival's opening event "...2022-06-1345 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Highly Flammable StudiosToday AL is speaking to superstar film maker Aaron Child, Alana Dean and Yasmin Owen at the brand new, Highly Flammable Studios.When we last spoke to Aaron, he had half of an idea (I think he may have even mentioned it on the show) of starting up a studio that other creatives can use. Less than 5 months later and this thing...exists!!Offering so much potential for creatives of multiple media disciplines, Highly Flammable has so much! There's a large space which can be use for shooting, filming or workshops. There is a room...2022-06-0634 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: 30 Days Wild with Shropshire Wildlife TrustAL is speaking to Stuart Edmunds from Shropshire Wildlife Trust today to try and encourage us all to feel inspired to immerse ourselves in nature. It's always great to connect with wildlife experts like SWT so we can keep our fingers on the pulse. The world has changed an awful lot on the past couple of years but what does that mean for people's approach to the environment around them?Well, as a way to inspire folks to embrace nature we are talking about an initiative that is in it's 7th year, "30 Days Wild" This is where...2022-05-3043 min
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThe Shrewsbury Biscuit Podcast: Angelika Barre - Shropshire Epilepsy SupportToday AL is speaking to Angelika Barre from Shropshire Epilepsy Support. Having lived with epilepsy all of her life and realising that, despite certain efforts, there wasn't an awful lot of support out there on a personable level, Ange decided to take matters into her own hands and create her own charity.Shropshire Epilepsy Support is a non for profit charity that offers the kind of support the Ange would have appreciated herself coming up.We get real during this conversation. We discuss the difficulties of school, the "opinions of people", the myths out there...2022-05-161h 15
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastHorses & Biscuits: New Karen "Exclusive"Horses and Biscuits is back with what was, an exclusive when it aired on the live show. AL is joined by Gareth Thomas and Orla Jones in the last fortnightly show. They look back at the fun times they have had on the show so far #tractorwars Also offering discuss the huge ordeal of finding a new "Karen" after watching so many actresses auditioned. How did the auditions feel? Did the ladies live up to expectation and who.....won the role?Well, we find out who won and we even speak to the...2022-05-1157 min
Voiceworks: Sound Business"Hyper-Local: Audio's Next Boom?" with Keri Jones from Alfred and Alex Whitely from the Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastThis episode of Voiceworks: Sound Business is looking at what could be a new trend in the world of radio and podcasting: Hyper-Local Audio.For years now radio has been moving in the opposite direction, shedding locally produced content for specific locations in favour of big brands delivering high-quality network content across local licences.Could we be seeing a growth in demand for highly focused, highly targeted audio provision for communities in the UK?On this show, we speak to two people who are...2022-03-1436 min
Father Finney's The Best That Man Can GetEp29 Alex Whitely's Taming of the Shrewsbury Biscuit & Telford's Jammy Dodger Supermarket Rollover.Alex Whitely is an all round brilliant being fuelled by community spirit and manifesting empathy for those around him. Join us as a man of 4 podcasts and a father figure to many children talks about life's changing philosophies when rolling around isle 2 at Asda defending the ownship of a sandwich to why he is lifting Shropshire and its people within to higher places and eventually landing his show on a monopoly board as one of Shropshires key players. I give you Mr Alex Whitely. You can find Alex at https://www.theshrewsburybiscuitpodcast.co.uk. subscribe and podcast away. You can...2021-02-281h 16
The Shrewsbury Biscuit PodcastCrumbs: Gin Tasting with GindifferentOn 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. I caught up with Darren after the session and we had a chat about it.
I mentioned our website at the end but didn't give out the address b...2019-12-2515 min