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Free Things

The Sunday Alternative lives on as a podcast, and as an hour long show on Top Wave Radio, Sundays 7pm-8pm.

The Sound of Nottingham UK (the home of Robin Hood, on Robin Hood Radio) broadcasts in the new time of 11pm Friday night (4am Saturday UK) and as usual on Sunday 1pm (6pm UK). If you live outside Robin Hood Radio's FM catchment, then listen online.

My radio and podcast archive can be found on the side links on my main blog. I'm working on getting the Sherwood Radio archive online, but The Sunday Alternative, Covermount, and Steve's LP Box can all be found there too.

I have turned my blog into a website of sorts, as my website wasn't really being used, so now you can find links to my newspaper reviews, photos, and anything else of importance.

Money Things

Please remember that we all need to eat

If Santa is bringing you a Kindle, then why not pop along to pick up your copy of Musings?

The sequal to Musings is also available, so how about downloading Christmas Musings?

As you're getting a Kindle anyway, you don't have to read my daily blog for free anymore. For a mere 99p a month, (about 3p a day), you can get it delivered to your Kindle.

The audiobook version of my famous blog Last Christmas is available to download.

December Dickens: Over the month of December, I aim to watch/listen to a different version of A Christmas Carol. This project is for a book due for Christmas 2013. I aim to do more, but at the moment you can download my version of A Christmas Carol.

The audio books are available to download for free or pay-what-you-like. Please consider this while choosing. I put out a lot of free content, and intend to continue in the new year. Please give what you can, however big or small. By earning from the audio books and Kindle books, I am able to put free stuff out. The donate button on my blog is there for that reason too, the more money I receive, the more likely I am to give stuff away free.

If my work makes a million pounds before Christmas, I will give 3/4 to charity, (£250,000 is enough), and dance naked in the fountains on Boxing Day.

Happy Birthday Appetite For Destruction

On Sunday 5th August, The Sunday Alternative will only be a two hour show. From 11pm until midnight, I present Happy Birthday Appetite For Destruction, in which I play and talk about one of (if not the) greatest rock album of all time.

Hello America!

I am starting a new hour long show for the Connecticut based station Robin Hood Radio, playing songs by Nottingham based bands and musicians. I'm not sure how they came to be named after Robin Hood, but the idea of the show is an attempt to link Robin Hood Radio with the home of Robin Hood.

Obviously the show is pre-recorded, as it would be a hell of a commute, and although a fairly easy show to do, (no need to be date specific or mention upcoming gigs for example) it presents a good opportunity for me to get my voice heard in America. We do of course have listeners to The Sunday Alternative all over the world, but appearing on an American station is something different altogether.

"The sound of Nottingham UK, the home of Robin Hood, on Robin Hood radio"
I came up with that myself!

My show broadcasts Saturday 1am and is repeated Sunday 1pm, those times are their times. Over here it'll be Saturday 6am and Sunday 6pm, and of course you can listen online!

More Radio Randoms

On the 19th May 2012, I co-presented Nottingham LACE on Trent Sound with Rapunzel MAP. We might have mentioned that we were going to see Guns and Roses in concert later that night.

Hour one
Hour Two
Hour Three

Radio Randoms

I don't want to upload these to The Sunday Alternative mixcloud site, as they aren't really 'canon'.

Nottingham Lace, 12th May 2012: I co-presented with Jason Loftus this week, you can listen again to the show.
Hour one
Hour two
Hour three

Trent Sound morning show: I sat in for Andy Lloyd on the morning show on two occasions. I tried to sneak in as many of my own song choices as possible just to try and liven things up.
29th February 2012, hour one. Only the first hour survived on this day.

27th January 2012:
Hour one
Hour two
Hour three

Happy Birthday Dickens (contains a plug)

On the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, I am happy to announce (very early) that this coming Christmas will see the release of my audiobook series Charles Dickens Christmas Books.

They will appear, one story at a time, advent calender style, from 1st December. The books will be available to download on a 'pay what you like' basis.

Blog Now Available On Kindle

I'm not sure how this will work, or if it will be worth it, but my daily blog is now available to subscribe to on the Kindle for a mere 99p a month.

You can of course just read it for free on this blogger profile, it is up to you.