I think you will like the light-hearted message behind this story from my friend 'Juke-Box Tom'.

The Hedgehog and The Carpenter

Had good customer service and quality during the pandemic? I have. And here's another one to listen to. These people do not disappoint (in my experience!)
Treat yourself and your loved ones.

Bloom & Wild in your Letterbox!

An excellent track from an up-and-coming writer, Tim Woods. This story relates to people who spend so much time in diversionary hobbies that their own life very rapidly becomes an unsatisfactory past. Tim says that this story was inspired by one of my own and for those few kind words, I am very grateful

RAMBLING MAN...  A short Story by Tim Woods

This is the Prize-Winning story from the 'Parracombe Prize' competition. The author, Penny Woods, sister to Tim Woods of 'Rambling Man' fame penned this story guaranteed to make you think twice about your early Life Choices. 
Parracombe Prize details can be found here: prize.parracombe.org.uk

BY THE WAY! I made the CAKE!

CAKE by Penny Woods

This is not a Diet! But I will tell you what I do and why, and why you should probably do it too. Eating to Live instead of the other way around resulted in a loss of 30% of fat body weight I did not need. All by following Doctors Advice from 1957! Good advice never dies, it just gets lost in the detail of modern thinking.
Links worth looking at: https://bit.ly/47KFh9k (Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken) https://bit.ly/491mHe6 (Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia.) Tim Spector at Joinzoe.com. 
I'd also like you to take a look at this website:
https://theoutdoorguide.co.uk/wellbeing-retreats-walk-yourself-happy/
Run by Julia Bradbury, the fabulous exponent of all things Natural, these courses promise a new you in two packed days of events and training.
Walk yourself over there and take a look!

A Maleficent Alchemy

What better way to 'Walk Yourself Happy' than to take time out with the Julia Bradbury inspired two day adventure set amongst beautiful surroundings in sumptuous hotels with 4 acknowledged experts in the fields of well-being. Two days that will kickstart your motivation to living a better, longer and more fulfilled ilfe. Listen to Gina Bradbury Fox describe how this and her childrens charity came to provide outdoor clothing for small and underprivileged children. Find out how to Donate!

The Outdoor Guide Foundation

As far as I am aware, this is the sole recorded output of a duo who were prevalent on the Folk/Poetry scene in Sheffield in the 90's. This album dates from '91 and I know I saw them prior to that. They are Stuart Arfield (Guitar) and Rob Smith (Spoken Word).
Most of the sentiments expressed here were sarcastic comments on the way the world was progressing (?) Unfortunately for us, the world seems intent on imitating Bob's astute observations.
Stuart's guitar can be heard around Yorkshire with Big City Blues.

It's Not That I'm Not

This is a story about rain. Not the half-assed stuff we get here in Yorkshire, but REAL rain. Rain that changes lives. Rain that washes away the old and creates the new. Come on in and get wet...

Vayu Manush (The WINDMAN)

The best of Cameron Kemp and Gary Spencer
Cameron is the one on the left at his scruffy best! I tried to find better pictures and ended up having to steal a clip from a video of 27 years ago! BTW, Cameron got married in a Kilt! He also did the address to the Haggis at a Burns night I organised. Brilliant performer.

Strangely Familiar

Many thanks to Steve Salfield & Matt Chandler for the superb music.
Set anywhere in South America, Nearer My God explores a universal three-way relationship of love between friends. WARNING:  At 1hr 15mins. this Novella is a Marathon, not a sprint. There are music breaks where you can pause and resume. 
Visit www.cybermouse.co.uk for more details

Nearer My God

How old is too old to ride a motorbike? And are the best riders always who you think they are... or even who THEY think they are...

Firelight on Dark Water

Tiger Moth

Dan Minton is an aspirational novelist, born in the South East but now can't bear to leave Sheffield, his adopted home. Dan is a teacher at a local school and was the outright winner of the 2017 Novel Slam organised by the Sheffield Authors group. Share his life so far, his hopes and dreams and those of Eddie, his protagonist in 'Yellowjackets', Dan's first novel. keep an eye out for it. This will be out there soon and don't forget where you first heard it...

Pearl 4: Dan Minton in conversation with Urban Tiger Radio

It's not what it says, It's what it implies, came into my possession in 1999. This is a compilation of 30 different poets, all basing their work around the ethic of the title. It came to me because I, like the other 29 poets, volunteered a track for the album. I know most of the other poets, but by no means all of them. These are people you may never hear again anywhere else, so I bring them to you because of that... because everyone has a voice... and because that voice needs to be heard, if only for what it implies.

It's not what you say, it's what it implies

It's not what it says, It's what it implies

I hope you've all been enjoying Berlie's wonderful story of self-discovery. This is the last podcast from that novel and I'm sure that you will all now go to Berlie's incredible website: www.berliedoherty.com/ where you can contact Berlie herself and tell her how much you enjoyed her story. There are many of Berlie's other books on there and they are available online or at any good bookshop. Go and take a look. Berlie's catalogue of works is a wonder to behold for all ages.

Granny was a Buffer Girl

Chapter 8:  Granny was a Buffer Girl

This is a conversation with Paul Middleton who fronts what must be my favourite live band of all time, the Angst Band. It must be, I'm a Yorkshireman, and even I pay for a night out in Harrogate several times a year to go and have my ears blasted in The Blues Bar, a unique venue on Montpellier Parade (near Betty's) that has, apart from a strange but welcoming taste in decoration, wall to wall music, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. If you ever wondered what it feels like to be in the middle of a band while they are on stage then get yourself over here... and if you do, stay at The Crown Hotel. It's downhill all the way from The Blues Bar.

Kelham Island Discs No. 8: Paul Middleton In conversation with The Urban Tiger

A link to The Fox & The Fish on Amazon>   http://amzn.eu/d/hgGz49V
"...only the truly intelligent can enjoy the sumptuous good humour of this book..." 
'Titus A. Phorskin' (Tailor to The Emperor)
"...prose as rare as a Yorkshire Banjax..."
(Donegal Heritage Museum)
"...if you don't laugh out loud at this, you need a stent fitted in your Humerus..."
NHS Humour Resources Dept. 
And now the REAL reviews:
"...the writing is so original and the dialogue so inventive and funny it cracks me up. It's brilliant, clever and lyrical. You have one hell of a talent..."
(Clem Cairns, Originator of the International Fish Prize for Literature.)

"...We're told we're in an amorphous corner of an imagined Ireland, but we're never far at all from the likes of Flann O'Brien, Joyce, Milligan, etc..
Julius McEarly fancies Ruby, but he's having to wait… and then there's Anarchy, Freedom, Love and Immortality in the air… and there are buses and coffins… and more intellectual business than you can shake a shillelagh at…
The laugh-aloud gag to me was about the kid called Cnut, but there are sly jokes everywhere - the paint stains… all the academic stuff… the chapter titles… the pawned watch. This book is sexy, and kind, and playful. It gave me weird dreams; it is a weird dream..."
(Rony Robinson: Author, Playwright and Sony/Radio Academy Award winning presenter of BBC Radio Sheffield’s Morning Show)

The Fox & The Fish

The Fox & The Fish by Bill Allerton

A link to this book on Amazon here>  http://amzn.eu/d/dtJSp5G 
 A truly amazing 'pull-you-along-at breakneck-speed' book for early teens from a consummate, internationally published expert in the genre! Also includes easy-to-make recipes for Emma Peek's favourite midnight snacks, including the title one of '11 O'Clock Chocolate Cake'
Amazing book. See it! Read it! Eat it! Enjoy my cover design! Buy it for your kids at Christmas or for their Birthday!
(Bill Allerton)

11 O'Clock Chocolate Cake by Caroline Pitcher

Hi. I'd like to introduce you to a superb new writer, Stephen Mellor. Stephen's prose is strong, muscular and his narrative is compelling in the extreme. Stephen came third in the 2018 Novel Slam at Dinas in Sheffield organised by the Sheffield University and guess what? He won me as a prize! Prize what I'm not sure, but I'm sure you'll tell me. Meanwhile, sit back and listen to Stephen and his recent work.
Cheers,
Bill Allerton

Pearl 7: Stephen Mellor in conversation with Urban Tiger Radio

This is the second track from the Watch & Wait anthology we published on behalf of raising funds for Lymphoma Action, as they now like to be called, and is a tale of people struggling to cope with their own human frailty in adverse situations, overcoming their fears and finding that in courage, there is a great freedom.

Watch & Wait: 2: Berlie Doherty

Hi, this is another track from the Watch & Wait anthology of short, gifted stories. This one is from Caroline Pitcher, children's author of great renown and author of 11 o'clock Chocolate Cake, also featured on Urban Tiger Radio. This story is about the sea, so immerse yourself...

Watch & Wait: 5: Mariana & The Merchild by Caroline Pitcher

Hi. Danuta Reah is a multi-award winning crime writer. Much of her work is set in South Yorkshire so just like the rest of us here, it stands for no nonsense!

Watch & Wait: 4: Out Of Her Mind by Danuta Reah

Hi. This is an interview with myself! Actually, The Urban Tiger was interviewed on Sheffield Live!, a local radio station in my home town, by Jane Armstrong and Chad Bentley. Learn a bit more about me... I learnt a bit more about myself during the interrog... sorry, interview. And we had more than a few laughs along the way. This track is released on my birthday! Merry Christmas from me and Nell!

Bill @ Sheffield Live!

Hi. Red Stripe Candy is my contribution to the Watch & Wait anthology. I have to say that of all the stories I have ever written, this one, certainly, if not the best, I consider to be in the top 3. It is a light fantasy along the theme perhaps that when you have just made yourself comfortable, someone always comes along and tips you out of the chair. No, perhaps the story is deeper than that. I hope you find it so anyway. Thanks for being here,
Bill Allerton

Watch & Wait: 3: Red Stripe Candy

This track is 'Cheval'. 'Cheval' is the old french word for 'Horse'. Used today it describes a tall, slender mirror that stands free on four feet. Sometimes those feet can be very ornately carved, like the proud horses in the story. The story is about how we begin as a child with an open mind to the magic in our imagination, then as we grow older and have more responsibility we begin to lose touch with it. But don't worry, as we get older still our imagination finds ways to reconnect us with the magic.
I hope you enjoy this one
Bill Allerton

Cheval

Hi. This is side one of the 'Turn the Page' album produced by New Jersey Turnpike in 1976. I bring you this as an echo from my past, along with that of many others, because we are all coming of an age now where these bands and songs are in danger of being forgotten. Never thought of myself as an 'Endangered Species' before. I wonder if the Tiger or the Mountain Gorilla ever share that thought... 
Enjoy again... and again... and again...

New Jersey Turnpike: SIDE 1

Hi. Side two of 'Turn the Page' by New Jersey Turnpike, a real blast from 1976!
Enjoy again...

New Jersey Turnpike: Side 2

Hi, this is Bill doing his bit for the community. The community in question is Burngreave, an ethnically diverse area right in the Heart of our Fair City of Sheffield. Burngreave Messenger are the local community newsletter who seek to add podcasting to their repertoire. Never being one to refuse an opportunity to spout in public, I agreed to help my good friend Angela Robson by taking down some techie equipment and talking their hind legs off for an hour. This podcast contains many of the voices, opinions and sense of purpose within this vibrant and committed group.

Burngreave Messenger

Hi. This is an in-depth interview with Richard Hennessy, Proprietor and founder of Focused Hypnosis in Sheffield (Website here: https://sheffield-hypnosis.co.uk/). Richard shares his experience, knowledge and enthusiasm for this branch of alternative therapy and explains why it is rapidly gaining popularity due to its undeniable track record as a force for good and as a readily accessible vehicle for life-change on a personal level.

Pearl 8: Richard Hennessy, Hypnotherapist

This time the Urban Tiger is in conversation with Stewart Lodge, a comedy practitioner who defies convention and genre. There is a thin line between comedy weird and comedy genius and I think Stewart stands astride that line in a way that I respect and admire. Especially when he performs 'Little Johnny Cash'. See if you can categorise his talent, I can't...

Kelham Island Discs No.10:  Stewart Lodge in Conversation with The Urban Tiger

Okay so this isn't Radio One and I'm not really a DJ. But... here are a few original tracks from people I have interviewed over the last couple of years and one or two others thrown in. The mood is variable, as I say I'm no DJ, but I hope enjoyable. Get your stompin' boots on for some of them too!

Kaleidoscope

Jack Whitham: Football legend for Sheffield Wednesday, Liverpool, England under 23's and others. A lifetime of devotion to Football, to his family, his talent for writing a good song and for performing them too. His career was curtailed by tragedy but Jack has risen above that through a determination and spirit that encompasses all the many walks of his life.

Kelham Island Discs No.12: Jack Whitham in conversation with The Urban Tiger

Here’s a reworking of my favourite track, Almost Home, from my favourite Sheffield musician, Andy Whitehouse, and fellow musician Matt Howden. This is a track I use frequently to front my podcasts and it has resonance with me on all sorts of levels. You might remember Andy from two of my previous podcasts. If you don’t, go and look for the links in our podcast library. You’ll find a full interview in Kelham Island Discs playlist and a major contribution from Andy to ‘A Stent In Time’.
https://andywhitehouse.bandcamp.com/track/almost-home-2
andywhitehouse0@gmail.com

Almost Home

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