Spoken Label

Back with Episode 6 of Season 2 of Not the TV Guide (TV/Film Podcast)Beth, Grant and Andy N discuss the following: 1. Hulk Hogan: Real American2. Spider Noir3. Toy Story 5

Bonus Episode from Spoken Label, featuring the return of our friend Craig Snelgrove with a exciting new project 'Cooper Lee' Press'.

Bridging the gap between craft development and published work, Cooper Lee is an independent press and school of writing and theory founded in 2025 by Dr Craig Snelgrove.

(Dr) Craig Snelgrove is a writer from Manchester and PhD in Creative Writing.

Author of the short story cycle Young Mancunians, Craig also specialises in editorial services, assisting people from a variety of backgrounds in writing fiction and non-fiction, ranging from memoir to therapy, full length books to professional papers.

Cooper is a five-year-old Sprocker Spaniel from Stoke. Born on a farm, Cooper has lived with Craig and his partner, Jess, since he was six months old. He is a homely fellow, accompanying Craig in his work, though is often found sleeping on the job.

More details about Cooper Lee Press can be found here:

https://cooperleepress.co.uk/

Special bonus episode from Spoken Label features making her debut with a full length episode to follow is Xena Morgan from TBR Books Festival.Xena Morgan is a book content creator on TikTok, professional video editor and copy editor with a huge passion for championing independent authors and creatives.Through being part of the online book community, she has discovered countless independently published books and authors whose talent, creativity and passion deserve a much bigger spotlight.That experience ultimately inspired her to create TBR Book Festival, an independent Manchester book festival built around community, inclusivity, discovery and, most importantly, having fun of which it’s debut festival will be featured on Saturday 12 September 2026 at Band on the Wall in centre of Manchester.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tbr-book-festival-tickets-1964327619789

Back with Episode 5 of Season 2 of Not the TV Guide (TV/Film Podcast), Beth, Grant and Andy N discuss the following:

1. The passing of Hayden Panettiere

2. Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan Podcast launching a new Podcast series, "Pondcast"

3. Reacher Season 4 - 1st 3 episodes

4. Good Omens 3 (Series / Film)

5. The Boys Season 5

Latest Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features our returning friend,the wonderful Juliette Tomlinson.Juliette is the author of ‘Longford’ and ‘Sunnyside’ and the forthcoming ‘Clothorn’‘Longford is set in 1864, and the great city of Manchester was Cottonopolis, rising with the sound of industry, and the boom of a hundred mills. At the heart of its energies was John Rylands. ‘the greatest merchant prince the world has ever seen’. This is the story of an empire built by a true Manchester man, given meaning and worth by the extraordinary woman Enriqueta, who loved him and a partnership that left a huge mark on the city.The sequel ‘Sunnyside’ which is mostly covered in this podcast is described as “Following Longford: A Manchester Love Story, Sunnyside: A New Beginning, continues JulietteTomlinson’s sweeping Victorian family saga. From tragedy on the Cornish coast to the industrial heart of Manchester, the novel returns to the Rylands household at Longford, where orphanedchildren, unexpected motherhood, and acts of quiet philanthropy reshape fragile lives. Rich in atmosphere, this lyrical continuation explores class, inheritance, and the enduring legacies of loveand loss, revealing how compassion and community can forge hope across generations.’Juliette can be found on Instagram: www.instagram.com/longfordjr/The books can be purchased from Chorlton Bookshop directly, and also on Amazon, Waterstones etc

* Contains numerous bad language (Mostly Grant! LOL) *

Back with the fourth episode of Season2 of Not the TV Guide (TV / Film Podcast), Andy N, Grant and Beth are back discussing the following:

1. Supergirl (including a lengthy rant by Grant LOL)

2. Little House on the Prairie

3. Ann Droid

4. Rivals Season 2 (Part 1)

5. Ballmory

6. Star Trek: Brand New Worlds (Episodes 1 to 3)

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) latest up is the wonderful Pip Fowler.

Pip Fowler (also known as Miss Airedale) is a UK-based poet, spoken-word performer, and singer-songwriter. Associated with the Glastonbury veterans Sentimentalists, he is celebrated for delivering darkly humorous and deathly serious poetry. His work—described as sardonic, acerbic, and warped—is often performed without music to maximize its emotional and resonant impact.

Fowler is a prominent figure in the northern UK literary and acoustic scenes. He regularly performs at spoken-word open mic nights, with notable appearances at events like Northern Poetry Scene in Bolton, Live From Worktown, and the Words Among the Heather poetry series in Saddleworth.

His eclectic performances blend acoustic musicianship with visceral, sometimes surreal and bitter storytelling.

* Contains numerous bad language (Mostly Grant! LOL)Back with the third episode of Season 2 of Not the TV Guide (TV / Film Podcast) sees Andy N, Grant and Beth are back discussing firstly a series of news involving Doctor Who, James Bond, The X Files and the future of Marvel TVbefore then diving into lengthy reviews of:1. Spider-Man: Brand New Day2. The Odyssey3. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

Latest up from Spoken Label, featuring making his debut, is the grandnephew of Walt Disney, Tim Disney.

Tim Disney is an artist and entrepreneur from Los Angeles. He has produced, written, or directed multiple award-winning feature films and documentaries which have appeared at Sundance, Telluride, SXSW and other festivals.

He served as Chairman and CEO of VR pioneer Virtual World Entertainment, which was sold to Microsoft.

Tim is an active investor in media and technology, and serves on multiple corporate boards, including Marginal Mediaworks and Dragonfly Therapeutics. In the not-for-profit sector, he is the founder of The Adamma Foundation and co-founder of World Connected.

He served for twelve years as a Trustee of SCI-Arc and 29 years as a Trustee of CalArts, eight of them as Chairman of the Board. From 2021-2025 he served as Trustee and Board President of MOCA, and he currently serves as a member of the Global Leadership Council of The World Resources Institute among other projects.

This Podcast we mostly talk about the graphic novel, he has co-created with JC Lacek and Vincent J. Dubourg, the A.R.C.

The A.R.C is about a deadly virus and begins at the Concordia Centre in the heart of the Amazon, where a who's who of global elites from business, finance, fashion, entertainment, technology, and online activism have gathered for the Global Reinvestment For Tomorrow Conference (GRFT), promising to solve the problem of climate change once and for all. Very little problem-solving occurs before the GRFTers are infected with a lethal, highly contagious virus, dubbed Amazonian Recombinant Cytoneuropathy (A.R.C.). The A.R.C. virus has peculiar and unfortunate characteristics: it is wildly contagious but undetectable in its dormant phase; it is 100% lethal; and the kicker is ... it's activated by lying.

This proves deeply problematic for a world drowning in an ocean of lies and misinformation. The GRFTers board their private jets and spread the virus worldwide. Chaos ensues. Most of The A.R.C. plays out on a supposedly "sustainable" cruise ship, The Veritas, where an unlikely band of passengers and crew members: a single mom and her teenage daughter, a born again preacher and his wife, the grizzled Norwegian ship captain, an underemployed photographer and her retired stockbroker father, a pack of libidinous business bros, an unscrupulous payday lending magnate and his Russian mail-order bride, and others, reckon with the spreading virus, survive a bloody attack, and together figure out what is driving the disease, and how to live alongside it.

Some of them make it.

Most of them don't.

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features making his debut is the wonderful Jack Henry.

Jack Henry is a Wizard Skater and a Poet from Manchester. He writes emotionally driven stories that are about attempting to understand the ‘grey areas’ in life.

His Skating is very artistic, as a method of expressing himself. He got into Wizard Skating because it allows him to combine multiple disciplines of inline skating into one.

https://www.instagram.com/jackdoespoetry/

https://www.instagram.com/jackdoesskating/