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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Programme Love The Words #266: Mafwa & Leeds East Academy
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.
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Programme Love The Words 265: Bus Stories
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.
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Programme Love The Words #264: Anyone’s A Green Thumb
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.
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Programme Love The Words #263: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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.
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Programme Love The Words #262: Gareth E. Rees
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.
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Programme Love The Words 261: Jamie Scrutton/Aberford Lit Fest
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.
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Programme Love The Words 260: Lydia Kennaway/Sh@nty
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.
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Programme Love The Words 259: Invisible Flock
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.
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Programme Love The Words 258: Moon Palace & Blue Spaces
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.
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Programme Love The Words 257: David Price, in memory of
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.
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Programme Love The Words #256: Rommi Smith
Tue 14th May '24, 4:00pm
Rommi Smith talks movingly about writing the libretto of Cusp, with music by Roderick Williams, a piece about grief, for the Royal Festival Hall & The Bach Choir.
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Programme Love The Words #255: Sean Street
Tue 7th May '24, 4:00pm
Sean Street, poet, talks about and reads from his new collection, Running Out of Time, published by Shoestring Press. Sean was the UK's first ever Professor of Radio.
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Programme Love The Words #254: Emma Storr
Tue 30th Apr '24, 4:00pm
Poet Emma Storr reads from her new collection The Year of Two Winters and talks about the influence of her mother, writer Catherine Storr, author of Marianne Dreams.
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Programme Love The Words #253: Joyful Drama & Billy Myers
Tue 23rd Apr '24, 4:00pm
Comedy from the Joyful Drama Group based at Heart, Headingley, & another chance to hear the astounding Billy Myers voice all characters in Interviews Through History.
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Programme Love The Words 252: Leeds International African Arts Festival
Tue 16th Apr '24, 4:00pm
A preview of the amazing Leeds International African Arts Festival 2024 (July 6-12) and blistering new writing from young writers at Leeds East Academy.
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