Love The Words 286: Sand House
Tue 4th Feb '25, 4:00pm
The eighth wonder of the world. In Doncaster. Buried forever. The true saga of the legendary Sand House, dramatised for radio by Peter Spafford and directed by Olwen May.
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Tue 4th Feb '25, 4:00pm
The eighth wonder of the world. In Doncaster. Buried forever. The true saga of the legendary Sand House, dramatised for radio by Peter Spafford and directed by Olwen May.
Tue 28th Jan '25, 4:00pm
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, the fascinating and moving story of how Len Biran’s refugee father used his wits to keep his Polish Jewish family safe through World War 2.
Tue 21st Jan '25, 4:00pm
A gifted musician re-lives the time he contracted polio as a child & became The King of Sound. Uplifting audio drama by Martin Riley. Plus powerful drama from Sam Lawrence.
Tue 14th Jan '25, 4:00pm
Elite triathletes Becky and Natalie are prepared to give everything to be World 1, but what if this affects their health forever? Jacky Burton's riveting audio drama.
Tue 17th Dec '24, 4:00pm
Emma Storr interviews Dr.Gavin Francis about his best-selling book, Recovery. Do we give ourselves enough time to get over things? Whatever happened to 'convalescence'?
Tue 10th Dec '24, 4:00pm
Fiona Goh is the Prize Director of the SI Leeds Literary Prize, a biennial award for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women based in the UK. She talks about her work.
Tue 3rd Dec '24, 4:00pm
Faye Marshall is a poet and nurse. She talks about the privilege of working in palliative care, its impact on her life and writing, and the flourishing poetry scene in South Leeds.
Tue 26th Nov '24, 4:00pm
Vic is a writer and therapist working throughout Yorkshire with groups and individuals. She talks about her love for the work she does and how it has evolved.
Tue 19th Nov '24, 4:00pm
A soundpoem from Writing On Air 2023 by Gareth Rhodes about seasonal and climate change in a Leeds garden. More fabulous sound art in Writing On Air 2024, starts Nov 29.
Tue 12th Nov '24, 4:00pm
As a forerunner for International Men's Day, Jaimes Lewis Moran presents poetry, prose, and reflection on the subject of fathers, first broadcast in Writing On Air 2023.
Tue 5th Nov '24, 4:00pm
Poet Alex Callaghan talks about the experience of editing and compiling Ey Up 3 and working with Written Off Publishing.
Tue 29th Oct '24, 4:00pm
One year on from the recording of this programme, another chance to hear poets from Kharkiv in Ukraine talking about their beloved & embattled city, and reading their work.
Tue 22nd Oct '24, 4:00pm
In anticipation of Writing On Air 2024, a chance to hear a highlight from last year. How does radio in prison work and why is it effective & important for listeners?
Tue 15th Oct '24, 4:00pm
The People’s History of Leeds is a new project that tells the story of the city through the voices of its citizens. Tom Bailey & volunteers tell us how it works.
Tue 8th Oct '24, 4:00pm
Eleanor May Blackburn is a 27 year old neurodivergent, disabled, queer actor/writer/theatre-maker/poet from Sheffield. Her show Does My Fanny Look Big In This tours next year.
Tue 1st Oct '24, 4:00pm
Storyteller Vickie Orton tells us one and talks about her art and craft, in advance of Chapel FM's Tell Us A Story live event on Oct 18th. Plus Seki Lynch.
Tue 24th Sep '24, 4:00pm
Winning short dramas from Script Yorkshire's 5th annual radio drama competition, with the winners from last year, all recorded at Chapel FM. Comedy, spookiness and suspense.
Tue 17th Sep '24, 4:00pm
Keith Fenton, co-founder and presenter of the podcast Poets Talking Bollocks, talks bollocks to LTW about this ambitious audio project mapping the northern open mic scene.
Tue 10th Sep '24, 4:00pm
Catherine Staples talks to LTW from Massachusetts, USA, about Vert, her beautiful new poetry collection, an elegy for her beloved brother Paul Calello. Can poetry help us grieve?
Tue 30th Jul '24, 4:00pm
Rob Cowen's book Common Ground (2015) radically broke with the 'nature writing' genre. Here Rob talks about The Heeding, his collection of lockdown poems.
Tue 23rd Jul '24, 4:00pm
Young writers from Leeds East return to read new work, plus Ethel, Maddy and Maffo from Mafwa Theatre on their extraordinary Kuluhenna Drama group for women.
Tue 16th Jul '24, 4:00pm
A 3-item LTW: Orb present their mini-bus-dramas, plus another chance to hear Melissa Wuidart Phillips' story 'Found', and an interview with the wise & extraordinary Philip Harvey.
Tue 9th Jul '24, 4:00pm
Highlights from Anyone's a Green Thumb, an audio installation about green spaces & urban gardens in Leeds, feat. Orb (Knaresborough), The Lincoln Greeners: Home From Home 2024.
Tue 2nd Jul '24, 4:00pm
Cast members with director Ben Hopwood from Leeds Arts Centre's new 'urban' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream talk about the joy and zest of Shakespeare.
Tue 25th Jun '24, 4:00pm
Gareth E. Rees talks about Car Park Life, his epic exploration of Britain's neglected retail car parks, the book chosen for the Chapel FM/Leeds Lit Fest Readathon 2024.
Tue 18th Jun '24, 4:00pm
Artist/poet Jamie Scrutton on his book The Vision of Storytelling, plus Chris Berry on the inaugural Aberford Literature Festival.
Tue 11th Jun '24, 4:00pm
Poet Lydia Kennaway talks with fellow poet Emma Storr about Sh@nty, her fascinating collaboration with folk musician Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and reads poems about betrayal.
Tue 4th Jun '24, 4:00pm
Ben Eaton of Invisible Flock talks about the company's recent piece This is a Forest for Leeds 2023 & the importance of sound in their acclaimed work.
Tue 28th May '24, 4:00pm
A sound art documentary about Moon Palace, a social sculpture/working observatory touring with Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, plus poetry from the Canals & Rivers Trust.
Tue 21st May '24, 4:00pm
Following his death last week, another chance to hear my friend & mentor Dave Price OBE talking about his life's work in music & radical progressive education.