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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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00:49:42

Sarah James (also known as Sarah Leavesley - Spoken...

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2026/01/20

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features the return of our friend Sarah James (also known as Sarah Leavesley ) talking about her new poetry book 'Darling Blue'.Darling Blue interweaves ekphrastic poems with a book-length fictional poetry narrative of love, lust and letting go. The poems inspired by Pre-Raphaelite artworks include QR codes, which readers can scan to view the pieces after or alongside their reading. Blue here is more than a colour or inspiration; it is desire,

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00:35:50

Suzy Aspell (Spoken Label, January 2026)

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2026/01/14

Latest up from Spoken Label features making her debut, Suzy Aspell.Suzy is a Bedfordshire poet, living and writing in Luton. Curious about world cultures, she has worked in the travel industry for many years including repping in Spain and teaching ESL in Taiwan. Her poems are published in numerous anthologies, online and print magazines. Suzy also tutors GCSE English students struggling with ADHD and Dyslexia. She is passionate about art, politics and the planet and has a very pampered cat full of

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00:55:18

Hongwei Bao (Spoken Label, January 2026)

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2026/01/07

Happy New Year all folks!Back with a bang, the first Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) Podcast of the year features the Hongwei Bao.Hongwei Bao (he/him) is a Nottingham-based queer Chinese writer, translator and academic. He is part of the Fifth Word Playwrights, GOBS Spoken Word Collective and Nottingham Playhouse Writers’ Room. He is also a Middle Way Mentee for writing fiction and a New Earth Theatre theatremaker. His work explores queer desire, Asian identity, diasporic positionality and

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00:43:57

Dr Jack Hunter (Spoken Label, December 2025)

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2025/12/21

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Dr Jack Hunter.Dr Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is an Hon-orary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and a tu-tor at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, Uni-versity of Wales Trinity Saint David. He teaches on the MA in Ecol-ogy and Spirituality and

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01:12:16

Eric Loveland Heath (Spoken Label, December Part 2)

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2025/12/17

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend with Part 2 of an extended chat, tea buff, weird fiction aficionado and abstracted songwriter, Eric Loveland Heath, professionally known as E.L. Heath.In this return on Spoken Label, we review Eric's releases on Plenty Wenlock Records in 2025 and also the venture of his label into more publishing as well as discuss what is next for this label. Some links

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00:55:01

Eric Loveland Heath (Spoken Label, December 2025 -...

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2025/12/10

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00:55:22

Shan Powell (Spoken Label, December 2025)

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2025/12/09

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry / Author Podcast) features Shan Powell.Shan is a Elder goth/swamp hag in Kitchener. Aurora finalist. Brave New Weird winner. Work in Augur, The Deadlands, On Spec, Prairie Fire, ALOCASIA, Nighmare, Feminist Studies Journal, Arc Poetry, & more.Neurospicy, antifascist, Indigiqueer, disabled. Raised on the land & off the grid. Ex JW-kid/army brat. Retired dancer, industrial DJ, & model. Addicted to learning—may be turning into a witch.

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00:50:13

Zoe Mitchell (Spoken Label, December 2025)

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2025/12/03

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00:37:50

Rachel Hammond (Spoken Label, November 2025)

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2025/11/26

Latest up from Spoken Label, features making her debut is the wonderful Rachel Hammond.Rachel Hammond is an actor-musician, writer and theatre maker based in Manchester. Rachel trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, and since then has worked in theatre nationally and internationally, including: Climax: A Work in Progress (Close to Home), Underneath a Magical Moon (Tutti Frutti), Joy Unspeakable (Ordinary Glory), Firebird and Pulse (Bamboozle Theatre Company), Give it Back Mak! (Riding

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00:47:44

Saira Anwar (Saira the Poet) (Spoken Label, November...

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2025/11/19

Latest up from Spoken Label features making her debut is the wonderful Saira Anwar (Saira the Poet).Saira Anwar is an educator, poet, author, content creator, and spoken word artist. Her debut poetry collection, The Death of a Beautiful Dream, was released in January 2014 and went on to reach Amazon’s Top 20 Bestsellers list.Saira writes about the beauty and struggle of life with themes like marriage, divorce, healing, self-love, and emotional resilience, to help others heal through poetry.Her

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00:44:07

Author Spotlight 2: Lee McShane (Spoken Label,...

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2025/11/18

Bonus Podcast today for Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) with the return of Amanda Nicholson and Courtney Ward assisting me interviewing the return of Lee McShane talking about his debut poetry book 'The House built from Shadows'.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

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00:47:17

Steve Schlam (Spoken Label, November 2025)

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2025/11/12

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) making his debut is Steve Schlam.Steve advises he first gained entry to the City of Words through the doors of the public library in Brooklyn, New York, where he was born and spent a good part of his childhood; and has maintained his residency ever since while living in cities and towns across the United States and in Mexico. An actor as well as an author, he has performed on stages in all the places he has called home, and earned a Master's

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Ray Whittaker (Spoken Label, November 2025)

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2025/11/05

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) featuresmaking his debut, Ray Whittaker.Ray advises he has been writing both prose and poetry since he was seventeen. What Ray is writing now is very different from what he wrote those so many years ago. All writers and poets are writing out of "the Self" however there are directions that the self speaks into, that change. Now Ray is attempting to put foremost in his work, just who he is writing for. He intends on writing for the everyday man and

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00:48:29

Catherine Holland Dax (Spoken Label, October 2025)

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2025/10/29

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00:40:18

Author Chat Special 1: Andy N, Amanda Nicholson and...

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2025/10/22

Crossing with the Writing Way Podcast, Andy N and Amanda Nicholson fresh off the release of their books 'Threads and other stories of isolation (Andy N under his real name A.E. Nicholson) and 'Under the Manchester Skies (Amanda as Alicia Nicholls), the pair of them invite Courtney Ward, author of the forthcoming poetry book (Out Spring 2026) 'Nights like this' to talk about all of their books, what lend to writing this and so much more.Courtney is

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00:36:30

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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00:40:12

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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