We return to SNS Online Series 7 at Christmas, with a very special interview featuring one of Beatrix Potter's descendants, actor/writer/presenter, Nadine Hanwell, who is also an authority on the children's author. A wonderful new film premiering on Sky One on Christmas Eve at 8.15pm, 'Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse, features a heartwarming portrayal of a real-life encounter between Roald Dahl - then aged 6 - and his hero, Potter. Dawn French and Rob Brydon star.

Nadine's two Beatrix Potter YouTube Channels -

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_s7b-1K_pe9r_L-w9SvNg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWTTQsQ3fY5pXEcegpbgTA

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).

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As Christmas 2020 approaches with the rollout of a brand new vaccine, we speak to Doctor David Matthews, a virologist who has been working on human Coronavirus since 2015 and recently carried out independent research on the Oxford vaccine, which is due for release in the New Year.

A brand new podcast from the makers of SNS Online. Corona Chronicles offers up a document of an extraordinary time in living memory, through the people it affects. In it we touch base with a wide range of people from all walks of life to talk about how the current situation is impacting them both professionally & personally, as well as offering some top tips/stats and, most importantly, to touch virtual base with a cheery hello – and without the need for hand sanitiser!

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Artwork: Andy Lambert

Music: https://soundhills.com/

Golden Age Theatre's Ian Dixon Potter talks about a brand new series of monologues written and produced in Lockdown - now freely available via YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69yoyYSB-FPbMo9AzqZxog

https://www.goldenagetheatre.com/

A brand new podcast from the makers of SNS Online. Corona Chronicles offers up a document of an extraordinary time in living memory, through the people it affects. In the coming weeks, we will attempt to touch base with a wide range of people from all walks of life to talk about how the current situation is impacting them both professionally & personally, as well as offering some top tips/stats and, most importantly, to touch virtual base with a cheery hello – and without the need for hand sanitiser!

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Artwork: Andy Lambert

Music: https://soundhills.com/

SNS Online will return later in the year.

On the day Marks & Spencer announce 7000 job cuts, we speak to Professor *Diane Coyle CBE - former adviser to the UK Treasury and Bennett Professor of Public Policy at University of Cambridge, about the worst recession in over 300 years, and what is yet to come.

*Author of The Weightless World and Markets, State & People: Economics for Public Policy.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Markets-State-People-Diane-Coyle/dp/0691179263

Features the latest world news dated 18.08.20.

A brand new podcast from the makers of SNS Online. Corona Chronicles offers up a document of an extraordinary time in living memory, through the people it affects. In the coming weeks, we will attempt to touch base with a wide range of people from all walks of life to talk about how the current situation is impacting them both professionally & personally, as well as offering some top tips/stats and, most importantly, to touch virtual base with a cheery hello – and without the need for hand sanitiser!

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Artwork: Andy Lambert

Music: https://soundhills.com/

SNS Online will return later in the year.

The Australian State of Victoria has recently been declared 'a state of disaster', with newly imposed Lockdown measures in place after a surge in Coronavirus infections. Up to now Australia has been successful in it's handling of Covid 19, but is the tide finally turning?

We speak to one of Melbourne's residents, Brad Wolfe, to get a fuller picture of life Down Under in Lockdown.

Featuring the latest World news dated 09.08.20.

A brand new podcast from the makers of SNS Online. Corona Chronicles offers up a document of an extraordinary time in living memory, through the people it affects. In the coming weeks, we will attempt to touch base with a wide range of people from all walks of life to talk about how the current situation is impacting them both professionally & personally, as well as offering some top tips/stats and, most importantly, to touch virtual base with a cheery hello – and without the need for hand sanitiser!

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Artwork: Andy Lambert

Music: https://soundhills.com/

SNS Online will return later in the year.

Lisa King, Director of communications and external relations at Refuge joins us to discuss domestic violence in the UK, and the massive spike in visits to Refuge's website since Lockdown began.

Featuring the latest World news dated 03.08.20.

https://www.refuge.org.uk/

A brand new podcast from the makers of SNS Online. Corona Chronicles offers up a document of an extraordinary time in living memory, through the people it affects. In the coming weeks, we will attempt to touch base with a wide range of people from all walks of life to talk about how the current situation is impacting them both professionally & personally, as well as offering some top tips/stats and, most importantly, to touch virtual base with a cheery hello – and without the need for hand sanitiser!

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Artwork: Andy Lambert

Music: https://soundhills.com/

SNS Online will return later in the year.

As a regular part of Corona Chronicles, presenter Nick Randell reads a bulletin of the latest world news at the end of each show (mainly for pandemic related “archive” purposes - unless people download the same day). But as newsreading is not the most natural skill for Nick, he can often be heard late into the night staggering and slathering his way through a paltry 3 minutes of news items, over a 20 minute recording session...

So, enjoy this slice of outtakes from a recent bulletin, although you might need earplugs for the language..!

Nadra Ahmed OBE, Chair of the National Care Association, puts forward a robust defence of care home practices, following recent comments made by UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, post pandemic.

Featuring the latest World news dated 21.07.20.

A brand new podcast from the makers of SNS Online. Corona Chronicles offers up a document of an extraordinary time in living memory, through the people it affects. In the coming weeks, we will attempt to touch base with a wide range of people from all walks of life to talk about how the current situation is impacting them both professionally & personally, as well as offering some top tips/stats and, most importantly, to touch virtual base with a cheery hello – and without the need for hand sanitiser!

https://nationalcareassociation.org.uk/

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Artwork: Andy Lambert

Music: https://soundhills.com/

SNS Online will return later in the year.

We talk to actor/campaigner, Julie Hesmondhalgh, about the arts crisis post Covid and the 1.57 billion pound emergency fund that the government have recently announced. Will it be enough to save an industry that gives back over 23 billion pounds into the economy every year?

Features the world news dated 17.07.20.

A brand new podcast from the makers of SNS Online. Corona Chronicles offers up a document of an extraordinary time in living memory, through the people it affects. In the coming weeks, we will attempt to touch base with a wide range of people from all walks of life to talk about how the current situation is impacting them both professionally & personally, as well as offering some top tips/stats and, most importantly, to touch virtual base with a cheery hello – and without the need for hand sanitiser!

https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/covid19

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Artwork: Andy Lambert

Music: https://soundhills.com/

SNS Online will return later in the year.

Grammy nominated & internationally acclaimed song writer and record producer, *David Courtney, joins us to talk about his brand new album that was both inspired and created in Lockdown - Isolation Symphony.

Features the latest world news dated 27.06.20.

https://www.davidcourtney.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAczsmbIP88

*Courtney has sold over 33 million records over the years, and has written hit singles for Dollar, Odyssey and Leo Sayer.

A brand new podcast from the makers of SNS Online. Corona Chronicles offers up a document of an extraordinary time in living memory, through the people it affects. In the coming weeks, we will attempt to touch base with a wide range of people from all walks of life to talk about how the current situation is impacting them both professionally & personally, as well as offering some top tips/stats and, most importantly, to touch virtual base with a cheery hello – and without the need for hand sanitiser!

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Artwork: Andy Lambert

Music: https://soundhills.com/

SNS Online will return later in the year.