Love The Words 284: I Want To Go Home
Tue 21st Jan '25, 4:00pm Remind me
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.
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Peter Spafford presents his love of all things wordy in his weekly shows chatting to novelists, poets and play-wrights.
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Programme Love The Words 283: Crossing Lines
Today, 4:00pm Remind me
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.
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Programme Love The Words 282: Dr.Gavin Francis
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'?
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Programme Love The Words 281: Fiona Goh
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Fiona Goh is the Prize Director of the SI Leeds Literary Prize, a biennial award for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women based in the UK.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.
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Programme Love The Words #280: Faye Marshall
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.
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Programme Love The Words 279: Vic Leeson
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.
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Programme Love The Words 278: The Hawk’s Garden
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.
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Programme Love The Words 277: A Father’s Voice
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.
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Programme Love The Words 276: Alex Callaghan
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.
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Programme Love The Words 275: Poets in Kharkiv
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.
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Programme Love The Words 274: What Is Prison Radio?
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?
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Programme Love The Words 273: People’s History of Leeds
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.
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Programme Love The Words #272: Eleanor May Blackburn
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.
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Programme Love The Words #271: Vickie Orton
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.
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Programme Love The Words 270: Script Yorkshire Presents
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.
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Programme Love The Words #269: Poets Talking Bollocks
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.
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Programme Love The Words #268: Catherine Staples
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?
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Programme Love The Words #267: Rob Cowen
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.
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