Love the Words

Peter Spafford presents his love of all things wordy in his monthly shows Love The Words and Love The Words More

Schedule

Love the Words is currently broadcast at 5:30pm every Tuesday.

Next programme

When: 14 Jul 20 at 6:30pm

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    Love the Words #102

    Tue 30th Jun '20, 5:30pm

    Interview with poet and dramatist Matt Black, plus new monologues introduced by Charlotte Carrick.

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    Love the Words #101

    Tue 23rd Jun '20, 5:30pm

    Steve Dearden from The Writing Squad, Matthew Bellwood with an eerie tale, and young poet Maya Allen.

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    Love the Words #100

    Tue 16th Jun '20, 5:30pm

    Angles of Light: Juleus Ghunta introduces Caribbean poets reading their own work in this 100th LTW.

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    Love the Words #99

    Tue 9th Jun '20, 5:30pm

    An interview with Sara Lee, director of The Irene Taylor Trust (Music in Prisons), a story about Old Boney from Martin Riley; the poet James Nash on Leeds and Life and more.

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    Love the Words #98

    Tue 2nd Jun '20, 5:30pm

    Seni Seneviratne conjures up her family's past in Holbeck, plus The Writing Squad under lockdown and Otley Folk Festival online.

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    Love the Words #97

    Tue 26th May '20, 5:30pm

    Francois Matarasso reflects on being a community arts worker, a new virus-inspired book by Joe Williams, poet Malika Booker explores Chapeltown and Radio Free Kinsley.

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    Love the Words #96

    Tue 19th May '20, 5:30pm

    An interview with innovative theatre producer Deborah Dickinson plus the Tenter Hook project, Boff Whalley on walking and singing, Matthew H.Stoppard, Grace Darbyshire and more...

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    Love the Words #95

    Tue 12th May '20, 5:30pm

    Love The Words. In depth interview with theatre director Alan Lyddiard.

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    Love the Words #94

    Tue 18th Feb '20, 7:30pm

    LTW with Jimmy Andrex and Lucy Marshall plus Leeds Lit Fest.

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    Love the Words More #74

    Tue 11th Feb '20, 8:45pm

    With crime fiction writer Ali Harper.

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    Love the Words #93

    Tue 21st Jan '20, 7:30pm

    Jimmy Andrex, Vickie Orton, Jaimes L. Moran.

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    Love the Words More #73

    Tue 14th Jan '20, 8:45pm

    A Voice of Their Own.

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    Love the Words #92

    Tue 17th Dec '19, 7:30pm

    Roxana Crisologo Correa, Vickie Orton, Jimmy Andrex.

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    Love the Words More #72

    Tue 10th Dec '19, 8:45pm

    With Steve Clarkson from Found Fiction 

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    Love the Words #91

    Tue 19th Nov '19, 7:30pm

    Jimmy Andrex’s Stupidity is Not The Problem and writer/academic Maria Bastianes.

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    Love the Words More #71

    Tue 12th Nov '19, 8:45pm

    Gail Bolland (crime novelist), Mark Connors (poet).

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    Love the Words #91

    Tue 15th Oct '19, 7:30pm

    Listen in to Love the Words, featuring Jimmy Andrex Outside Broadcast, Vicky Orton and a show from our Leeds Dortmund event LD50:Stand

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    Love the Words #90

    Tue 17th Sep '19, 7:30pm

    LTW with poets Bethany Rose and Zoe Carty, plus Jimmy Andrex.

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A picture tells a thousand words

  • 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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