Love The Words 325: Dortmund Revisited
Tue 23rd Dec '25, 4:00pm
Love The Words hears from a group of visiting youth workers from Dortmund, Leeds' twin city in Germany. How are young people faring in Dortmund? And where can you get a good pizza?
Programmes
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Love The Words 293: Leeds/Dortmund plus STEWY
Tue 25th Mar '25, 4:00pm
Geoff Tranter talks about the shared history of Leeds & German city Dortmund & the value of city twinning. Plus street artist Stewy on his new wall portrait of poet Tony Harrison.
Frank: Stories linking Leeds’ Global Twin Cities
Fri 7th Feb '25, 4:00pm
Starting with a baseball bat from Louisville, Kentucky, Frank Griffiths shares tales of his visits to Dortmund, Durban, Hangzhou and other of Leeds' global twin cities
FRANKIE’S AWAY
Sun 26th Nov '23, 1:00pm
Haunting short fiction by Leeds writer Gareth Rhodes in collaboration with Conny Franken from Leeds’ sister city Dortmund, Germany
NORWEGIAN SUMMER
Sat 25th Nov '23, 6:00pm
Evocative prose by writer/artist Linn Schiffmann, from Leeds’ sister city Dortmund, about collective memories and missing what might have been
LIVE AT CHAPEL FM: LEEDS/DORTMUND 50 RE-VISITED
Fri 14th Jul '23, 7:30pm
Poetry, Jazz, Painting: As part of Leeds Poetry Festival & ELFM 20, Chapel FM hosts resident Dortmund artist Linn Schiffmann and Leeds poet Dalton Harrison
Love The Words #226
Tue 11th Jul '23, 4:00pm
German poets Linn Schiffman, Thorsten Trelenberg, Calvin Kleeman join Leeds poet Dalton Harrison from Leeds' sister city Dortmund for poetry and discussion. Poetry breaks borders.
Leeds/Dortmund 50
Sat 27th Mar '21, 7:15pm
Writers from The LiteraturRaum in our German twin city send us a glimpse into their lives.
LEEDS/DORTMUND 50 REVISITED
Tue 5th May '20, 6:00pm
Following the LD50 festival last autumn at Chapel FM, Dortmund celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Leeds/Dortmund twinning.
Love the Words #91
Tue 15th Oct '19, 7:30pm
Listen in to Love the Words, featuring Jimmy Andrex Outside Broadcast, Vicky Orton and a show from our Leeds Dortmund event LD50:Stand
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Ursula Wartmann, Murder in your Backyard
Sat 12th Oct '19, 2:00pm
Ursula Maria Wartmann discuss the role of locality in crime fiction. With Frances Brody, Chris Nickson, June Taylor, chaired by Ali Harper.
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Intimate, Open (Part 2)
Sat 5th Oct '19, 12:00pm
Over thirty writers answered the call to write a new piece for LD50. Here they share their work.
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Jazz for Germany: Part 1
Sat 5th Oct '19, 2:45pm
In this finale to the first week of LD50, exhilarating jazz from CJC (Chapel FM Jazz Collective) to celebrate musical connections between the sister cities of Dortmund and Leeds
Leeds/Dortmund 50: The Florian Singers
Sat 5th Oct '19, 8:00pm
The Florians have been visiting Leeds for over twenty five years. Here they perform songs from their varied repertoire in the splendid surroundings of Leeds Civic Hall.
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Jazz for Germany: Part 2
Sat 5th Oct '19, 2:45pm
In this finale to the first week of LD50, exhilarating jazz from CJC (Chapel FM Jazz Collective) to celebrate musical connections between the sister cities of Dortmund and Leeds
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Here
Fri 4th Oct '19, 6:00pm
Students from Forster College, Bradford, present powerful writing on the theme of homes we have left behind and new neighbourhoods we have found.
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Intimate, Open (Part 1)
Fri 4th Oct '19, 8:30pm
Over thirty writers in West Yorkshire answered the call to write a new piece for LD50. Here, in a candle-lit event, they share their work
Leeds/Dortmund 50: The Lock-Keeper’s Cottage
Fri 4th Oct '19, 5:30pm
Peek into the heads of people who live in Canal Crescent, Leeds, as a strange light glimmers in the abandoned cottage.
Leeds/Dortmund 50: The Poetry of Neighbourhood
Fri 4th Oct '19, 6:15pm
Otley poets, led by Sandra Burnett, present a selection of work specially written for LD50
Leeds/Dortmund 50: The Downhearted Drayman #2
Fri 4th Oct '19, 4:45pm
What does the statue of The Barrel Man, or Drayman, in Dortmund Square get up to at night? And why is he so sad?
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Stand
Fri 4th Oct '19, 7:30pm
John Whale presents a celebration of the role played by Stand Magazine in introducing Anglophone readers to Continental European poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Old Friends
Fri 4th Oct '19, 4:00pm
There has always been a lively musical dialogue between Leeds and Dortmund.
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Artful
Thu 3rd Oct '19, 7:00pm
East Street Arts and Leeds City College have been creating collaborative work between Leeds and Dortmund artists. They talk about the work
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Write Across Borders (Part 2)
Thu 3rd Oct '19, 8:30pm
Over the last six months, ten writers in Dortmund have paired with ten Leeds writers to translate each other’s specially written work on the theme of Neighbourhood
Leeds/Dortmund 50: The Subtle Art of Translation
Thu 3rd Oct '19, 7:45pm
On this National Poetry Day, Jacob Blakesley, Academic Fellow in World Literatures, host a discussion with writers and translators about the challenges of translating poetry.
Leeds/Dortmund 50: A Dortmund Deli
Thu 3rd Oct '19, 5:00pm
The Deli is a regular words and music programme on East Leeds FM. Here the Deli team collaborate with a writers’ group resident at The Literaturhaus (Dortmund)
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Write Across Borders (Part 1)
Wed 2nd Oct '19, 8:30pm
Over the last six months, ten writers in Dortmund have paired with ten Leeds writers to translate each other’s specially written work on the theme of Neighbourhood
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Meet the Vets
Wed 2nd Oct '19, 7:30pm
Theatre makers, teachers, choir members, language learners: a great variety of people in West Yorkshire have experienced Leeds/Dortmund projects over the last 50 years.
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Writers in Transit
Wed 2nd Oct '19, 6:45pm
A Live reading from Reise-Gedanken/Road Markings, the book by Peter Spafford and Dortmund poet Ralf Thenior
Leeds/Dortmund 50: Love The Words
Tue 1st Oct '19, 7:30pm
This special LTW previews the festival and talks to key players in the Leeds/Dortmund sisterhood of cities.