Love The Words #183
Tue 31st May '22, 4:00pm Remind me
Lesley Sharp from Script Yorkshire introduces four brand new short radio dramas recorded at Chapel FM and edited by Rosie Parsons.
Love the Words
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 #177
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Three American experts discuss the literature and unique literary history of Chicago. Expect lively mentions of Nelson Algren, Carl Sandberg and Studs Terkel
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Programme Love The Words #176
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Programme Love The Words #175
Tue 5th Apr '22, 4:00pm
Writer David Napthine interrogates Jerusalem: the city, the idea, the metaphor, the song, with poet Lydia Kennaway, researcher Joe Williams, writer/politician Roger Harington.
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Programme Love The Words #174
Tue 29th Mar '22, 4:00pm
Writers in Barney Bardsley's WordPlay workshop read their work themed around Darkness and Light, plus Seacroft poet Jaimes Lewis Moran on his forthcoming collection, Sea Words.
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Programme Love The Words #173
Tue 22nd Mar '22, 4:00pm
Ep 2 of Sgt.Grimshaw by Bob McBurney, Ep 9 of In Our Element, and the first two short plays in a series from Script Yorkshire with more to follow.
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Programme Love The Words #172
Tue 15th Mar '22, 4:00pm
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Programme Love The Words #171
Tue 8th Mar '22, 4:00pm
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Programme Love The Words #170
Tue 1st Mar '22, 4:00pm
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Programme Love The Words #169
Tue 22nd Feb '22, 4:00pm
James Nash reads from Heart Stones, his new sonnet collection; Ep 6 of In Our Element, and Fiona Gell on Leeds Lit Fest 2022.
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Programme Love The Words #168
Tue 15th Feb '22, 4:00pm
In memory of Prof. James Law, speech and language researcher Jacqueline Gaile talks about the power that speech gives us.
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Programme Love The Words #167
Tue 8th Feb '22, 4:00pm
Translator Anna Aslanyan talks about her new 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 #166
Tue 1st Feb '22, 4:00pm
Episode 4 of In Our Element (a poet's response to climate change) with Linda France, and Leeds playwright/actor Vanessa Rosenthal talks about her new memoir, A Life in Stages.
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Programme Love the Words #165
Tue 25th Jan '22, 4:00pm
Episode 3 of In Our Element with Linda France, a poet's enquiry into climate change; and Professor Jennifer Richards talks about the impact of Sir Thomas Nashe on language.
A picture tells a thousand words
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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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