Love The Words #161
Tue 7th Dec '21, 4:00pm
Director/Writer Tess Seddon on her musical at Leeds Playhouse, poems from Christine Bousfield, Jack on the eve of his 98th birthday, and a message from Eleanor Snare.
Programmes
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Love The Words #160
Tue 23rd Nov '21, 4:00pm
Juleus Ghunta talks to LTW from Jamaica about his moving new work for young people and reading, plus Leeds poet Susan Darlington with her new collection.
Love The Words #159
Tue 16th Nov '21, 4:00pm
Sean is a writer, poet, and the UK's first ever Professor of Radio. Sean talks about his life in sound and The Sound Recordist, his new poetry collection.
Love The Words #158
Tue 9th Nov '21, 4:00pm
Womb Stories: words and sounds from Charlotte Carrick and Holly Early; the Ilkley young poet Ella Sanderson; and writer/artist Jamie Scrutton on his new graphic art/memoir.
Love The Words #157
Tue 2nd Nov '21, 4:00pm
Nigel Stone talks to a panel of comic afficionados, including Jared from OK Comics in Leeds, about comics: where have we been, whence are we going?
Love The Words #156
Tue 26th Oct '21, 4:00pm
Poetry and chat with writer/artist Pamela Crowe, plus short fiction from Melissa Wuidart Phillips.
Love The Words #155
Tue 19th Oct '21, 4:00pm
Phoebe Caldwell on her book Out to Grass (challenging images of ageing), new work by Chris Fernie and Roz Kendall, plus a Balkan sound collage.
Love The Words #154
Tue 12th Oct '21, 4:00pm
Seacroft poet Jaimes Lewis Moran talks about being a poet with autism, plus Eleanor Snare with the first in her series of meditations on art and life.
Love The Words #153
Tue 5th Oct '21, 4:00pm
In the first LTW of the new season, poet and historian Keith Fenton reads poems and talks sport. Do sports books stand up as literature? What are his big reccs?
Love The Words #152
Tue 20th Jul '21, 5:30pm
Tanya Shadrick talks about her forthcoming memoir 'The Cure For Sleep' and about late-waking, renewal, staying alive.
Love The Words #151
Tue 13th Jul '21, 5:30pm
Melissa Wuidart Phillips reads her short fiction 'Trinket', plus Part 2 of Sonic Stops from Better Songs Productions on the history of music in Leeds
Love The Words #150
Tue 6th Jul '21, 5:30pm
Em Whitfield Brooks talks about change, presence, & her work in Voice; Joe Williams on his new poetry collection.
Love The Words #149
Tue 29th Jun '21, 5:30pm
Verity Britton and Rosie Parsons from Better Songs present Part I of Sonic Stops, their recent commission from Music Leeds for Abbey House Museum.
Love The Words #148
Tue 22nd Jun '21, 5:30pm
Andrew McMillan, winner of Guardian First Book Award, talks about Pandemonium, his visceral new collection with Cape - & reminisces about Chapel FM.
Love The Words #147
Tue 15th Jun '21, 5:30pm
A piratical love-story from Melissa Wuidart Phillips, the final Pandemical from Jimmy Andrex, & an archive Wordybirds.
Love The Words #146
Tue 8th Jun '21, 5:30pm
Rob Cowen talks to Peter Spafford about his extraordinary new book The Heeding, out later this month.
Love The Words #145
Tue 1st Jun '21, 5:30pm
D3 and Sarah talk about Loudspeaker, a brand new words show on ELFM, plus 2 highlights of Writing On Air 2021
Love The Words #144
Tue 25th May '21, 5:30pm
Brian Williams talks about his two new novels, a Luddite drama from Calderdale and a rite of passage story set in the sizzling summer of ’76.
Love The Words #143
Tue 18th May '21, 5:30pm
Zelino Modesto talks about the art of listening and his podcast 'Why I Listen’, plus a vintage Wordybirds.
Love The Words #142
Tue 11th May '21, 5:30pm
The Weight of Smoke: Walter Raleigh’s sour-sweet poems set to music; plus Jimmy Andrex’s 8th Pandemical.
Love The Words #141
Tue 4th May '21, 5:30pm
Elspeth Morrison, Voice Coach, on her work on accent and identity with actors, newsreaders and podcasters, plus Wordybirds with Steph Shields.
Love The Words #140
Tue 27th Apr '21, 5:30pm
Zelino Modesto talks to Maggi Stratford about her voice work with the Trans Community & the relationship between Voice and Identity, plus Jimmy’s regular Pandemical.
Love The Words #139
Tue 20th Apr '21, 5:30pm
Steve Clarkson talks to spoken word artist Taiwo Ogunyinka in the Found Fiction podcast; plus voice experts Louise Gibbs and Jane Oakshott on World Voice Day and finding our voice.
Love The Words #138
Tue 6th Apr '21, 5:30pm
Billy Baggins, a narrative poem in medieval verse set in Seacroft by Jimmy Andrex commissioned by Leeds Lit & Phil, plus writing by Chapel FM’s young Associate Writers on vision
Love The Words #137
Tue 23rd Mar '21, 5:30pm
Graham Browning from the duo Fowl talks about their new album out today, plus new work from writers in Word Play working with Barney Bardsley.
Love The Words #136
Tue 16th Mar '21, 5:30pm
Writer Beverley Ward talks about her writing life, poet Mike Farren on his new pamphlet Smithereens, and Jimmy Andrex’s 5th Pandemical.
Love The Words #135
Tue 9th Mar '21, 5:30pm
Found Fiction with artist Verite Hunter, Jimmy’s Weekly Pandemical, powerful poems from Stuart Pickford, and a mystery taster for Writing On Air
Love The Words #134
Tue 2nd Mar '21, 5:30pm
Preview of Leeds Lit Fest; writer/director Parvez Qadir, Jimmy Andrex’s Pandemical, poetry from David Annwn, Julia Deakin; fiction from Roz Kendall.
Love The Words #133
Tue 23rd Feb '21, 5:30pm
Young people from Chapel FM interview Verity Watts of Better Songs, Swan Song’s collaboration with Funeral Director Full Circle, & poets Judith Willson and Tim Brookes.
Love The Words #132
Tue 16th Feb '21, 5:30pm
Jade Wright on magazine Beyond Words; Rocketman, radio drama from Ed Foster; Becky Cherriman on her commission from The Cultural Institute, Jimmy Andrex's Translation on Trial.