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PODCAST

Spoken Label

Spoken Label is a podcast series designed to interview and record sessions from authors, poets, artists, musicians etc in North West England and beyond. Formed in 2015 and ran / edited by Andy N, author of ‘Return to Kemptown’ and ‘The End of Summer’,it is always often to submissions from interested artists. Email: aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk

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All Episodes

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Deborah Weitzman (Spoken Label, October 2025)

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2025/10/14

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) features Deborah Weitzman making her debut to talk about her debut novel ‘The Sinking of the Leonardo Da Vinci’.“The Sinking of the Leonardo Da Vinci’ is described as “Itis 1976, in New York. Joanna, a dreamy and sensitive young woman, suffers deep loneliness and a sense of never belonging. The world of music, of songwriting,draws her toward something deeper, if only she had permission to enter that world. When she meets Luca, onboard The Leonardo da

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00:46:33

Craig Snelgrove (Spoken Label, October 2025)

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2025/10/07

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Podcast) features making his debut is Craig Snelgrove.Craig Snelgrove is a writer from Manchester and a PhD in Creative Writing. Craig is author of the short story cycle Young Mancunians, and the creator of The Existential Reader and The Subtext: The Art of Storytelling. (Both available on Substack).

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00:36:51

Lisa Sidwell (96 Degrees) (Spoken Label, October 2025)

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2025/09/30

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00:48:51

Julia Webb (Spoken Label, September 2025)

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2025/09/24

Latest up from Spoken Label, features making her return is the wonderful Julia Webb.Julia advises "I was born in London but grew up on a council estate in Thetford, a small town in rural Norfolk surrounded by pine forest. Thetford is known for being the home of The Iceni tribe, the birthplace of Thomas Paine, the place where they filmed a lot of Dad's Army and (in the 1960s) as a London Overspill town.My ambitions to be a writer started when I was six-years-old and read The Enchanted Wood

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Caroline England (Spoken Label, September 2025)

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2025/09/16

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features making her debut is Caroline England.Known as the ‘Duchess of Dark Domestic Noir’, Caroline England is the author of seven psychological suspense thrillers, BENEATH THE SKIN, the bestseller MY HUSBAND’S LIES, BETRAY HER, THE SINNER, THE STRANGER BESIDE ME and THE RETURN OF FRANKIE WHITTLE. Her next thriller, BEHIND HER SMILE, will be published in November 2025. She also writes gothic-tinged psychological thrillers as CE Rose, namely THE

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00:56:26

Lee McShane (Spoken Label, September 2025)

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2025/09/10

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Artist Podcast) features Lee McShane.Lee McShane is a Neurodivergent actor, filmmaker, and published writer and poet from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His work often blends psychological horror with themes of mental health, creating emotionally charged and thought-provoking narratives. His writing has appeared in All Your Stories, All Your Poems, and the PoeticEdge Fantasy Anthology. He will appear in Rise of the Badger and the Great Shrubbery by Black Eye

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00:46:39

Mark Quinn (Spoken Label, September 2025)

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2025/09/03

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features Mark Quinn.Mark is described as "I’m a poet, writer, and performer based in Manchester. My work blends humour, honesty, and heart — sometimes thoughtful, sometimes cheeky, always real. Whether it’s on the page or the stage, I’m here to connect with people through words."Mark's books can be all be purchased on Amazon and his website is https://markquinn.uk/

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00:57:54

Linda Quinn (Spoken Label, July 2025)

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2025/08/27

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Author Podcast) features Linda Quinn.Linda Quinn did most of her growing up in a caravan in West Country fields and byways, and later as a child of the state. She was inspired by the written word when she received her first postcard at the age of three, and set out to rescue as many printed words as she could from the local recycling dump, a collection that continues to grow.After working in the Music Industry she trained as an actress at East 15 Drama

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00:45:26

LKN (Spoken Label, August 2025)

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2025/08/20

* Containing topics not suitable for everybody *Latest up from Spoken Label, and the second part of a full length two part Podcast is with LKN. LKN is a poet who won the UK's Wordplay Awards 2023. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2023, 2024), T. S. Eliot Prize (2024) & Forward Prize (2025). He was part of A Given Grace by Squircle Line Press, winning the gold medal, both at America's eLit, and the Independent Book Publishers Awards 2022. LKN has been featured at literature

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00:41:34

LKN (Spoken Label, Part 1 - August 2025)

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2025/08/13

Latest up from Spoken Label, and the first part of a full length two part Podcast is with LKN. LKN is a poet who won the UK's Wordplay Awards 2023. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2023, 2024), T. S. Eliot Prize (2024) & Forward Prize (2025). He was part of A Given Grace by Squircle Line Press, winning the gold medal, both at America's eLit, and the Independent Book Publishers Awards 2022. LKN has been featured at literature festivals in Toronto, Nottingham and Singapore. His

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00:42:57

Andy Farhan (Spoken Label, August 2025)

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2025/08/06

Latest up from Spoken Label features making his debut is Andy Farhan.Andy Farhan is a Manchester Based Stand Up Comedian, Theatre Actor and Poet. Been a Theatre Actor for 3 years now. Been on the Radio 4x. Been doing stand up comedy for over 1 year and runs his own Stand Up Comedy Open Mic in Manchester.

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00:58:57

Martin CM (Spoken Label, August 2025)

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2025/07/29

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features making his debut is the wonderful Martin CM.Martin tells his work are "are written to make people smile—or better yet, laugh. They’re intentionally different from the well-meaning, earnest, intense, political kind. His work leans towards the disrespectful: often irreverent, occasionally rude, and usually self-deprecating.These are poems with little in the way of hidden meanings — written to be performed, not puzzled over. That said,

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Anthony Doyle (Spoken Label, July 2025)

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2025/07/23

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry/Spoken Word Podcast) features the return of our friend Anthony Doyle in a full length Podcast.Anthony Doyle was born in Dublin and raised in Wicklow, Ireland. He has been living in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2000, where he works as a translator of fiction, non-fiction and film scripts from Portuguese. In addition to short stories and poems, he published the children’s book O Lago Secou (Companhia das Letrinhas, Brazil, 2013) and the novel Hibernaculum (Out Of This

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00:45:34

Peter Humphreys (Spoken Label, July 2025)

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2025/07/16

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00:58:52

Richard Sparks (Spoken Label, July 2025)

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2025/07/09

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features making his debut, Richard Sparks (and yes, that is Jack Black in the picture who is talked about in the Podcast).Richard's bio advises "One morning in 1979 I got a call from an understandably excited Rowan Atkinson.“John Cleese just called. He’s asked me to be in his new charity show – and can I do The Schoolmaster?”Er, yes.I’d written The Schoolmaster for Rowan the previous year, for a revue at the Hampstead Theatre (Rowan with Elspeth

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00:38:40

Genevieve F Ray (Spoken Label, July 2025 - Part 2)

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2025/07/02

2nd Part of a longer Podcast today from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Genevieve Ray.Genevieve Ray is a Spoken Word Artist, Poet, Director, Producer, Playwright, Actor and Spokeswoman based in Bedfordshire, East England. She has been published in over 25 publications ranging from anthologies to digital and print magazines. She has been a guest star in 12 podcasts and a headline act for performances across the UK. She has been invited to be a Spoken Word Artist/Speaker in the

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00:46:04

Genevieve F Ray (Spoken Label, June 2025 - Part 1)

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2025/06/25

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Kristina M. Serrano (Spoken Label, June 2025)

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2025/06/18

Making her long overdue return today to Spoken Label (Author Podcast) is Kristina M. Serrano.Kristina M. Serrano graduated from Cape Fear Community College with an Associate's Degree in Arts, as well as a BFA in Creative Writing Fiction and a Certificate in Publishing from The University of North Carolina Wilmington, landing on the dean's and chancellor's lists. She was the Executive Editor and Prose Editor of an online literary magazine, and, while in college, had the privilege of

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01:10:14

Lucy Heuschen (Spoken Label, June 2025)

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2025/06/12

Latest up from Spoken Label features making her debut, Lucy Heuschen.LucyHeuschen is a Pushcart and Forward Prize-nominated poet, born in London and living in the Rheinland, Germany. She is The Poetry Society’s Stanza Rep for Germany. Lucy's work appears in journals such as Dream Catcher,Lighthouse, Obsessed With Pipework, The High Window, Green Ink, Skylight 47, The Storms and Ink Sweat & Tears among others, and in anthologies from Black Bough, Sídhe Press, New Contexts and Yaffle. She was

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00:35:36

Amanda Nicholson (Live book launch, Death to all men,...

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2025/06/07

The latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Amanda Nicholson doing a live launch of her new novel, 'Death to all men' of course hosted by Andy N.Amanda Nicholson is an author, poet, podcast co-host and copywriter. Her recent novel has the memorable title Death to All Men.Amanda’s poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester, and she won the Bradford Cares 2023 Competition. She Has a Creative Writing MA, and has articles published by Ask.com, Harlequin and

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