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.
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Love The Words #131
Tue 9th Feb '21, 5:30pm
Making theatre during lockdown with the exciting new company Hitcher Encounters, musician Alex Rushfirth on his new single End Times and the Found Fiction podcast.
Love The Words #130
Tue 2nd Feb '21, 5:30pm
BBC location engineer Kiffa Roberts on reporting from Grenfell, Syria, Belfast; Jimmy Andrex’s Translation on Trial; and the full life of Half Moon Books.
Love The Words #129
Tue 26th Jan '21, 5:30pm
A Love The Word Burns Night Special: poetry, music, whisky with James Fernie, Mary Kalemkerian. Jo Brandon, poet, on her new collection 'Cures'.
Love The Words #128
Tue 19th Jan '21, 5:30pm
Interview with artist Lydia Catterall, Part 2 of Jimmy Andrex on Translation, plus short fiction from Jac Gaile.
Love The Words #127
Tue 12th Jan '21, 5:30pm
Jem Stuart on his new poetry collection, Jimmy Andrex: the perils of translation, Found Fiction with artist Rae Bedford. Image: Rae Bedford.
Love The Words #126
Tue 15th Dec '20, 5:30pm
Special Edition in which all the Six Line Poems submitted for Poem in a Box are read on air and the selected 8 announced!
Love The Words #125
Tue 8th Dec '20, 5:30pm
Found Fiction interviews the poet Joe Williams, Dalton Harrison talks about TransVerse, poems from Stuart Pickford.
Love the Words #124
Tue 1st Dec '20, 5:30pm
Interview with actor and historian Joe Williams, plus fiction from Stefan Grieve, poems from Tanya Nightingale read by Pam Wilson, and a chat with poet Adekola
Love the Words #123
Tue 24th Nov '20, 5:30pm
Young ELFM writers, poet Anne Caldwell on her new prose poetry collection Alice and The North, plus poetry/fiction from Tanya Nightingale and John Hepworth.
Love the Words #122
Tue 17th Nov '20, 5:30pm
Ellie Harrison of The Grief Series talks about art, death and celebration, plus Steph Shields on her debut novel about the Timble witches, The Strange Woman.
Love the Words #121
Tue 10th Nov '20, 5:30pm
Found Fiction podcast talks to Akeem Balogun, new writing from young ELFM writers, fiction from Pam Hilton
Love the Words #120
Tue 3rd Nov '20, 5:30pm
Andy Craven-Griffiths talks passionately about writing with young people, plus Madness with Jimmy Andrex, and music from Alex Rushfirth.
Love the Words #119
Tue 27th Oct '20, 5:30pm
For Black History Month, another chance to hear Studio 12 young writers with Khadijah Ibrahiim. Plus fiction from Pam Wilson and John Hepworth.
Love the Words #118
Tue 20th Oct '20, 5:30pm
Adrian Sinclair talks in depth about art, activism, and the intriguing Fellowship of Questions; a foretaste of Alex Rushfirth’s fantastic new album, plus a story from James Fernie.
Love the Words #117
Tue 13th Oct '20, 5:30pm
Found Fiction interviews Rose Condo, Peter interviews Simon Widdop about Poet from The Black Lagoon, plus Jimmy Andrew and Stanley Holloway. Variety or What?
Love the Words #116
Tue 6th Oct '20, 5:30pm
Artist/educator Eleanor Snare talks about Root & Branch, a project which taps the world of trees to inspire creativity; Christina Longden on her residency with Kirklees Libraries.
Love the Words #115
Tue 29th Sep '20, 5:30pm
David Price OBE, writer, educator, talks about his new book The Power of Us. Written at white heat during the pandemic.
Love the Words #114
Tue 22nd Sep '20, 5:30pm
Photographic artist Carolyn Mendelsohn talks about her extraordinary images, plus drama from Jane Oakshott, and Stanley Holloway’s Sam Small
Love the Words #113
Tue 15th Sep '20, 5:30pm
Look Closer, the 3rd Found Fiction podcast, plus Church Going 2020, from Jimmy Andrex.
Love the Words #112
Tue 8th Sep '20, 5:30pm
Matt Nicholson talks about his new poetry collection, Small Havocs, and Jimmy Andrex presents an acerbic but humane retrospective on 1970’s TV lodestone, Stars on Sunday.
Love the Words #111
Tue 1st Sep '20, 5:30pm
A special celebration of Yorkshire Day 2020 from Leeds Town Hall featuring a special lockdown performance by organist Darius Battiwalla and conversations about the Town Hall.
Love the Words #110
Tue 25th Aug '20, 5:30pm
Gallipoli, a radio drama about war and the dream of a more peaceful world, presented by Generation Squad, the drama group at Fall Into Place Theatre plus a new work by Jimmy Andrex
Love the Words #109
Tue 18th Aug '20, 5:30pm
TORRENT. Fear stalks Alice when she realises her home isn’t a place of safety. Discover how she escapes her trauma, finds friendship again and begins to build a new life.
Love the Words #108
Tue 11th Aug '20, 5:30pm
LTW features a report on Live Little Stories for Leeds, plus Look Closer, ep 2 of the new Found Fiction podcast.
Love the Words #107
Tue 4th Aug '20, 5:30pm
In fond memory of Geoff (Mohe) Reiss who died last month, we broadcast two of his Voice of Reason stories from Writing on Air 2019: Sleeping Beauty, read by Pam Hilton; and Aladdin
Love the Words #106
Tue 28th Jul '20, 5:30pm
Love The Words. Playwright Emma Adams talks about her journey in writing, her experience of lockdown - and a musical.
Love the Words #105
Tue 21st Jul '20, 5:30pm
Love The Words: Variety! Steve Clarkson talks about new Found Fiction projects, Irene Lofthouse on 26 Characters ,fiction from P..J.Quinn. and a monologue from Keith Fenton.
Love the Words #104
Tue 14th Jul '20, 5:30pm
Brand new Found Fiction podcast presented by Steve Clarkson, Anzir Boodoo with his extraordinary rendition of Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, and Radio Free Kinsley Ep 7!
Love the Words #103
Tue 7th Jul '20, 5:30pm
After the government’s announcement of a £1.5billion for the arts, what do we want: recovery or revolution? Plus Emma Storr, Pam Line, Keith Fenton, The Writing Squad, and more.