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
Peter Spafford presents his love of all things wordy in his monthly shows Love The Words and Love The Words More
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Love the Words is currently broadcast at 5:30pm every Tuesday.
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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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Programme 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.
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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'.
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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!
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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.
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Programme 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
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Everyone always talks about TV but I’ve had so much fun creating poems for radio that now all my mates want to get involved too.
Sarah (age 13)
East Leeds Academy
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