Spoken Label

Spoken Label

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Spoken Label episodes

  • Gavin Prinsloo (Spoken Label, December 2023)

    Latest up on Spoken Label (Poetry / Author Podcast) from Capetown, South Africa features the wonderful Gavin Prinsloo.


    Gavin’s Profile on Amazon advises he was “Born in Port Elizabeth in South Africa in 1968, I was raised in the beautiful coastal city of Cape Town receiving my schooling at Bergvliet High School in Cape Town, I matriculated in 1985.

    I was raised by a foster family from the age of four, as a result of our family fracturing,


    During the compulsory two years of military National Service, I joined the permanent force in the middle of 1987, attaining the rank of Sergeant.


    I served until 1995, then entered the private security industry, eventually the Logistics industry, and ended up owning a small logistics business in 2016.


    Suffice it to say, I was NOT a good businessman, and the company folded, as it was also heavily impacted by the worldwide pandemic, where, like so many worldwide, I lost my livelihood, my self-respect, and I think, my sanity.


    In December 2019, I was diagnosed as bipolar, and to be honest, I think that was the best thing that ever could have happened.
    I started writing as a catharsis, but eventually, it became a way of life for my everyday expression.


    I wrote about 1300 pieces from poetry to flash fiction during 2020 and 2021 and decided to publish them on Amazon.


    Reviews may be harsh as I am not an English expert, I tend to create viscerally, and in many genres.


    All I can really say as a writer is that if any piece of my writing touches you in any way, I have succeeded in some way of affecting someone's life.


    Writing has become my passion. I hope some of that passion reflects in my work if you should read any of my books.


    To date, I reside in Tableview, Cape Town.”


    His books can be bought on Amazon and he can be found on Tiktok (tiktok.com/@tiktoktok_35)  

    51 min
  • Sam Rapp (Spoken Label, December 2023)


    Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features the return of our friend, the neuro-diverse writer, poet and playwright, Sam Rapp gives us an update about what she has been up since we last spoke to.


    Sam's book 'Rant Dyslexic me by Sam Rapp the dyslexic poet' is on Amazon
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rant-Dyslexic-Me-Sam-Rapp/dp/1726167941


    She is on Instagram at:
    https://www.instagram.com/s_rapp_the_dyslexic_poet_/


    Her facebook page is here:
    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064684000014


    50 min
  • Dr Vivien Sieber (Spoken Label, December 2023)

    Latest Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) features Dr Vivien Sieber.

    Dr Vivien Sieber worked in biosciences and Higher Education and has published over 100 articles and scientific papers. Kino and Kinder: A family’s journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust is based on research into her family history and the lives of the Kinder cared for by her grandmother. It is her first book. She lives in Oxford with her husband and dogs.

    This Podcast talks about her debut novel "

    Kino and Kinder: A Family's Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust ".

    Kino and Kinder the story of a European Jewish family's struggle to survive in the face of Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust is brought into the spotlight. Vivien Sieber, reveals the terrible story through the lives and writings of the survivors, illustrating the struggle with more than eighty evocative historic photographs throughout. In 1915, Paula Ticho's family bought a cinema in Vienna. Run by Paula and her sister, Selma, two single Jewish women, the Palast Kino was a great success. As the Nazi Party rose to power in the 1930s antisemitism reared its ugly head and the wonderful cinema was forcibly taken over. Threatened by Hitler's rise to power, Paula sent her younger son, Peter, to safety in England to join his half-brother, Erich, before fleeing herself―a penniless refugee. As the world entered a state of war, Paula found herself a position as a matron at hostels in Tynemouth and Windermere, caring for twenty-five Jewish girls who had been evacuated from Europe by the famed Kindertransport. Sieber uses the girls' own descriptions of their lives and those around them to weave a heartrending tale. From the insidious rise of antisemitism during their childhood in Europe to the distress of leaving their families, adjusting to hostel life, and the trauma of surviving when most of their family perished, the accounts in this profound retelling are all at once distressing, enriching, and evocative. Combined with the myriad realities and experiences of the Tichos, a Jewish family fleeing from the atrocities of the Holocaust, and the eyewitness details about life in Vienna, Austria and Central Europe before World War Two and in post-war London, Sieber’s memoir/history of her own family provides the deepest, most powerful picture into what it was really like in those dark, deadly years.

    More details about this can be found here: https://www.viviensieber.eu/

    NB. Please note that this Podcast was recorded in two parts over successive weekends. Originally this was slated to be released separately but after some thought it was decided to release it all together as one Podcast to give it the context it deserved.

    45 min
  • Ellen Butler (Spoken Label, December 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Chat) features a special chat with Ellen Butler in discussing the art of writing and the aspects of getting from the idea phase to the goal line of publication on books.

    Ellen Butler is the international bestselling author of the Karina Cardinal mystery series. Her experiences working on Capitol Hill and at a medical association in Washington, D.C. inspired the mystery-action series. Book critics call the Karina Cardinal mysteries, “intelligent escapism.” Butler also writes historical spy fiction. Her WWII spy novel, The Brass Compass, recently won a 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award for historical fiction. Butler's latest release is the second book in the duology, Operation Blackbird: A Cold War Spy Novel. The novel is inspired by true events and recently won a 2023 Next Generation Indie Award for historical fiction. Reviewers call it “riveting " and “a thrilling adventure.
    More about Ellen can be found at: https://www.ellenbutler.net/

    50 min
  • Julia Webb (Spoken Label, November 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) making her debut is the wonderful Julia Webb.


    Julia's bio advises that she grew up in "Thetford, a small town in rural Norfolk. Her first poetry collection Bird Sisters was published by Nine Arches Press in 2016. Her second collection Threat was published by Nine Arches in May 2019. Her third collection The Telling was published by Nine Arches in May 2022.


    Julia lives in Norwich where she is a poetry editor for Lighthouse, teaches online and real world poetry courses, mentors writers, runs Norwich Stanza and works for Cafe Writers. In 2012 she was awarded a TLC free read, which you can read about here. In 2011 she won the Poetry Society’s Stanza competition and in 2018 she won the Battered Moons poetry competition. Her poem “Sisters” was highly commended in the 2016 Forward Prize. In 2016 she spent a month as writer in residence on Norwich Market."


    Julis's books can be purchased from Nine Arches Press at https://ninearchespress.com/


    Her website is https://juliawebb.org/

    45 min
  • Aakriti Kuntal (Spoken Label, November 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) making her debut is the wonderful Aakriti Kuntal.
    Aakriti Kuntal is a poet and writer. Her work has been featured in Selcouth Station, The Hindu, Madras Courier, Tuck Magazine, Pangolin Review, and Visual Verse among others. She was also awarded the Reuel International Prize 2017 for poetry and was a finalist for the RL Poetry Award 2018.
    She is a multidisciplinary artist, she dapples in visual, movement,
    and other forms of experimental art that span the
    molecular interstices of existence.
    She can be contacted at:
    www.facebook.com/aakriti.kuntal
    twitter.com/AakritiKuntal
    www.instagram.com/aakriti_kuntal/

    31 min
  • Judy Foreman (Spoken Label, November 2023)

    ** Contains topics not suitable for all *
    Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) Podcast features the wonderful Judy Foreman.
    Judy is the author of “A Nation in Pain” (2014), “The Global Pain Crisis” (2017), and “Exercise is Medicine” (2020), all published by Oxford University Press, and “CRISPR’d” from Skyhorse Publishing (2022). She was a staff writer at the Boston Globe for 23 years and a health columnist for many of those years. Her column was syndicated in national and international outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Baltimore Sun and others.
    In this Podcast we talk primarily about her new memoir 'Let the More Loving One Be Me' which is described as "n this compelling tale, Judy Foreman reveals the terror she felt every night as a girl as she lay in bed frozen in dread, listening for her father’s footsteps coming down the hall.
    She recalls his mostly naked body, his stale smell, his silhouette in the bedroom doorway. Worse, in some ways, was her mother’s denial—her insistence that this man was wonderful, her refusal to acknowledge his drinking or his rage. It wasn’t until Foreman spent a high school summer as an exchange student with a Danish family that she began to see how unsafe her own family was; it wasn’t until she went to an all-women’s college that she realized that women had value. Ultimately, this book shows that with time and therapy, it is possible to heal from serious childhood trauma and lead a life of deep fulfillment, rewarding work and, most wonderfully, love. It is a book about the power of emotional courage to change one’s own inner and outer experience of the world, and about what matters most in life: cultivating healthy connections to other people."
    More about Judy can be found out on her website - https://judyforeman.com/

    36 min
  • Trystan Lewis (Spoken Label, November 2023)

    New from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) Podcast features from Morecombe, the excellent Trystan Lewis.

    More details on Trystan can be found at:

    https://www.facebook.com/trystan.lewis
    OR
    https://www.facebook.com/trystansongs

    45 min
  • London after Midnight (Audio drama) Panel discussion – Spoken Label – November 2023

    A special Podcast today from Spoken Label (Artist Podcast) features Lance Roger Axt, Kenton Hall and Jack Bowman from the crew behind this full-cast audio drama.


    London After Midnight is a full-cast audio drama, resurrecting the lost silent horror classic, directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. Originally released in 1927, the film was lost in the notorious 1965 MGM vault fire.


    Adapted here by Lance Roger Axt & Kenton Hall from the original screenplay by Waldemar Young & Tod Browning, it stars Art Malik in the role made iconic by Chaney, alongside a full cast.


    This extra sized Podcast goes into the history of the original London After Midnight (An legendary lost silent film), the production of this audio re-imagining and so much more.


    This shall be out as a Podcast shortly but it can be streamed/downloaded from

    https://londonaftermidnightaudio.bandcamp.com/album/london-after-midnight

    1 hr 2 min
  • Emma K Lea (Spoken Label, October 2023)

    The latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) is the wonderful Emma K Lea.
    Emma is a dyslexic poet, author and SEN specialist living in Stretford with her partner, daughter and rescue hens. She has started to record her writings as videos with the text on the screen to make her books more accessible to people who can't access them as traditional paperbacks for whatever reason. These read along audiobooks are available for free to anyone who wants them and has an internet connection. Emma has an MA in Inclusive Education and SEN. She works with home schooling families who's children cannot access either mainstream or specialist provision in schools and is incredibly proud of the progress 'her chiddlers' make. The chickens are a real conundrum. Emma doesn't like eggs.

    36 min

About Spoken Label

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Spoken Label is a podcast series designed to interview and record sessions from authors, poets, artists, musicians etc in North West England and beyond.