Love The Words #129
Today, 5:30pm Remind me
A Love The Word Burns Night Special: poetry, music, whisky and tartans with James Fernie and Mary Kalemkerian.
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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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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Programme Love the Words #120
Tue 3rd Nov '20, 5:30pm
Andy Craven-Griffiths talks passionately about writing with young people, plus Madness with Jimmy Andrex, and music from Alex Rushfirth.
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Programme Love the Words #119
Tue 27th Oct '20, 5:30pm
For Black History Month, another chance to hear Studio 12 young writers with Khadijah Ibrahiim. Plus fiction from Pam Wilson and John Hepworth.
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Programme Love the Words #118
Tue 20th Oct '20, 5:30pm
Adrian Sinclair talks in depth about art, activism, and the intriguing Fellowship of Questions; a foretaste of Alex Rushfirth’s fantastic new album, plus a story from James Fernie.
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Programme Love the Words #117
Tue 13th Oct '20, 5:30pm
Found Fiction interviews Rose Condo, Peter interviews Simon Widdop about Poet from The Black Lagoon, plus Jimmy Andrew and Stanley Holloway. Variety or What?
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Programme Love the Words #116
Tue 6th Oct '20, 5:30pm
Artist/educator Eleanor Snare talks about Root & Branch, a project which taps the world of trees to inspire creativity; Christina Longden on her residency with Kirklees Libraries.
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Programme Love the Words #115
Tue 29th Sep '20, 5:30pm
David Price OBE, writer, educator, talks about his new book The Power of Us. Written at white heat during the pandemic.
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Programme Love the Words #114
Tue 22nd Sep '20, 5:30pm
Photographic artist Carolyn Mendelsohn talks about her extraordinary images, plus drama from Jane Oakshott, and Stanley Holloway’s Sam Small
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Programme Love the Words #113
Tue 15th Sep '20, 5:30pm
Look Closer, the 3rd Found Fiction podcast, plus Church Going 2020, from Jimmy Andrex.
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Programme Love the Words #112
Tue 8th Sep '20, 5:30pm
Matt Nicholson talks about his new poetry collection, Small Havocs, and Jimmy Andrex presents an acerbic but humane retrospective on 1970’s TV lodestone, Stars on Sunday.
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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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