Love The Words 300!: Olivia Mulligan
Tue 13th May '25, 4:00pm Remind me
Olivia Mulligan is a poet & children's author. She performs her poetry on stage, runs poetry workshops for adults and children, & is BBC Radio York's Poet Laureate.
Love the Words
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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 299: Stiofan O Treabhair
Tue 6th May '25, 4:00pm Remind me
Born in Scotland, living in Leeds, Stiofan is a writer & multi-instrumentalist reinterpreting Irish and Scottish folk traditions. Here he talks about folk song & plays a few.
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Programme Love The Words 297: Laura Sutcliffe
Tomorrow, 4:00pm Remind me
Laura is a musician, poet & artist inspired by the connection between humans & the landscape, neurodiversity and biodiversity. She reads from her new collection.
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Programme Love The Words 296: Nicky Bray/The Maids
Tue 22nd Apr '25, 4:00pm
Musician Nicky Bray talks about her love of languages & the work she & fellow volunteers do to support language assistants from abroad working in Yorkshire schools, plus The Maids.
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Programme Love The Words 295: James Wraith
Tue 8th Apr '25, 4:00pm
James Wraith is a student of Linguistics and a passionate advocate for Yorkshire dialect. He talks here about the richness of local language and why we should nurture it.
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Programme Love The Words 294: Anna Aslanyan
Tue 1st Apr '25, 4:00pm
With our global theme, Anna Aslanyan talks about her book on the delicate art of translation, Dancing on Ropes; and poet Linda France presents Ep 5 of the powerful In Our Element.
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Programme Love The Words 293: Leeds/Dortmund plus STEWY
Tue 25th Mar '25, 4:00pm
Geoff Tranter talks about the shared history of Leeds & German city Dortmund & the value of city twinning. Plus street artist Stewy on his new wall portrait of poet Tony Harrison.
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Programme Love The Words 292: Pennine Platform (96)
Tue 18th Mar '25, 4:00pm
Poetry magazine Pennine Platform is flourishing. Four poets from the current Issue discuss what gives a poem staying power, with Editor Julia Deakin.
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Programme Love The Words 291: Barry Strickland-Hodge
Tue 11th Mar '25, 4:00pm
Barry Strickland-Hodge is the writer of ten books and numerous articles about medicine and pharmacology. He's also an expert on Thomas Culpeper and his classic Complete Herbal.
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Programme Love The Words 290: John I.Clarke
Tue 4th Mar '25, 4:00pm
John Irving Clarke spends lengthy periods gazing out of windows, convinced that Hemingway's "one true sentence" lies out there somewhere. He has a new collection of stories.
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Programme Love The Words #289: Lottie Sadd
Tue 25th Feb '25, 4:00pm
Lottie Sadd is a Leeds-based interdisciplinary composer-performer and workshop facilitator. She talks about her practice in sound, voice, and text.
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Programme Love The Words 288: The National Poetry Centre
Tue 18th Feb '25, 4:00pm
First heard in Writing On Air, an exclusive soundscape tour of the derelict Victorian church in Leeds which will one day be transformed into The National Poetry Centre.
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Programme Love The Words #287: Hangmen
Tue 11th Feb '25, 4:00pm
Spike Marshall talks about directing the hard-hitting drama 'Hangmen' by Martin McDonagh for Leeds Arts Centre, opening Feb 26th at The Carriageworks. What's it about?
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Programme 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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Programme Love The Words 285: Len Biran, Elegant Solutions
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.
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Programme Love The Words 284: I Want To Go Home
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.
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Programme Love The Words 283: Crossing Lines
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.
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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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