Love The Words 276: Alex Callaghan
Tue 5th Nov '24, 4:00pm
Poet Alex Callaghan talks about the experience of editing and compiling Ey Up 3 and working with Written Off Publishing.
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Love The Words 275: Poets in Kharkiv
Tue 29th Oct '24, 4:00pm
One year on from the recording of this programme, another chance to hear poets from Kharkiv in Ukraine talking about their beloved & embattled city, and reading their work.
Love The Words 274: What Is Prison Radio?
Tue 22nd Oct '24, 4:00pm
In anticipation of Writing On Air 2024, a chance to hear a highlight from last year. How does radio in prison work and why is it effective & important for listeners?
Love The Words 273: People’s History of Leeds
Tue 15th Oct '24, 4:00pm
The People’s History of Leeds is a new project that tells the story of the city through the voices of its citizens. Tom Bailey & volunteers tell us how it works.
Love The Words 272: Eleanor May Blackburn
Tue 8th Oct '24, 4:00pm
Eleanor May Blackburn is a 27 year old neurodivergent, disabled, queer actor/writer/theatre-maker/poet from Sheffield. Her show Does My Fanny Look Big In This tours next year.
Love The Words 271: Vickie Orton
Tue 1st Oct '24, 4:00pm
Storyteller Vickie Orton tells us one and talks about her art and craft, in advance of Chapel FM's Tell Us A Story live event on Oct 18th. Plus Seki Lynch.
Love The Words 270: Script Yorkshire Presents
Tue 24th Sep '24, 4:00pm
Winning short dramas from Script Yorkshire's 5th annual radio drama competition, with the winners from last year, all recorded at Chapel FM. Comedy, spookiness and suspense.
Love The Words 269: Poets Talking Bollocks
Tue 17th Sep '24, 4:00pm
Keith Fenton, co-founder and presenter of the podcast Poets Talking Bollocks, talks bollocks to LTW about this ambitious audio project mapping the northern open mic scene.
Love The Words 268: Catherine Staples
Tue 10th Sep '24, 4:00pm
Catherine Staples talks to LTW from Massachusetts, USA, about Vert, her beautiful new poetry collection, an elegy for her beloved brother Paul Calello. Can poetry help us grieve?
Love The Words 267: Rob Cowen
Tue 30th Jul '24, 4:00pm
Rob Cowen's book Common Ground (2015) radically broke with the 'nature writing' genre. Here Rob talks about The Heeding, his collection of lockdown poems.
Love The Words 266: Mafwa & Leeds East Academy
Tue 23rd Jul '24, 4:00pm
Young writers from Leeds East return to read new work, plus Ethel, Maddy and Maffo from Mafwa Theatre on their extraordinary Kuluhenna Drama group for women.
Love The Words 265: Bus Stories
Tue 16th Jul '24, 4:00pm
A 3-item LTW: Orb present their mini-bus-dramas, plus another chance to hear Melissa Wuidart Phillips' story 'Found', and an interview with the wise & extraordinary Philip Harvey.
Love The Words 264: Anyone’s A Green Thumb
Tue 9th Jul '24, 4:00pm
Highlights from Anyone's a Green Thumb, an audio installation about green spaces & urban gardens in Leeds, feat. Orb (Knaresborough), The Lincoln Greeners: Home From Home 2024.
Love The Words 263: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Tue 2nd Jul '24, 4:00pm
Cast members with director Ben Hopwood from Leeds Arts Centre's new 'urban' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream talk about the joy and zest of Shakespeare.
Love The Words 261: Jamie Scrutton/Aberford Lit Fest
Tue 18th Jun '24, 4:00pm
Artist/poet Jamie Scrutton on his book The Vision of Storytelling, plus Chris Berry on the inaugural Aberford Literature Festival.
Love The Words 262: Gareth E. Rees
Tue 25th Jun '24, 4:00pm
Gareth E. Rees talks about Car Park Life, his epic exploration of Britain's neglected retail car parks, the book chosen for the Chapel FM/Leeds Lit Fest Readathon 2024.
Love The Words 260: Lydia Kennaway/Sh@nty
Tue 11th Jun '24, 4:00pm
Poet Lydia Kennaway talks with fellow poet Emma Storr about Sh@nty, her fascinating collaboration with folk musician Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and reads poems about betrayal.
Love The Words 258: Moon Palace & Blue Spaces
Tue 28th May '24, 4:00pm
A sound art documentary about Moon Palace, a social sculpture/working observatory touring with Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, plus poetry from the Canals & Rivers Trust.
Love The Words 259: Invisible Flock
Tue 4th Jun '24, 4:00pm
Ben Eaton of Invisible Flock talks about the company's recent piece This is a Forest for Leeds 2023 & the importance of sound in their acclaimed work.
Love The Words 257: David Price, in memory of
Tue 21st May '24, 4:00pm
Following his death last week, another chance to hear my friend & mentor Dave Price OBE talking about his life's work in music & radical progressive education.
Love The Words 256: Rommi Smith
Tue 14th May '24, 4:00pm
Rommi Smith talks movingly about writing the libretto of Cusp, with music by Roderick Williams, a piece about grief, for the Royal Festival Hall & The Bach Choir.
Love The Words 255: Sean Street
Tue 7th May '24, 4:00pm
Sean Street, poet, talks about and reads from his new collection, Running Out of Time, published by Shoestring Press. Sean was the UK's first ever Professor of Radio.
Love The Words 254: Emma Storr
Tue 30th Apr '24, 4:00pm
Poet Emma Storr reads from her new collection The Year of Two Winters and talks about the influence of her mother, writer Catherine Storr, author of Marianne Dreams.
Love The Words 253: Joyful Drama & Billy Myers
Tue 23rd Apr '24, 4:00pm
Comedy from the Joyful Drama Group based at Heart, Headingley, & another chance to hear the astounding Billy Myers voice all characters in Interviews Through History.
Love The Words 252: Leeds International African Arts Festival
Tue 16th Apr '24, 4:00pm
A preview of the amazing Leeds International African Arts Festival 2024 (July 6-12) and blistering new writing from young writers at Leeds East Academy.
Love The Words 251: Leeds Arts Centre
Tue 9th Apr '24, 4:00pm
Leeds Arts Centre talk about their new production of Caryl Churchill's radical play Escaped Alone, and Zodwa Nyoni on her new musical with Testament, Chisholm for President.
Love The Words 250: Seki Lynch
Tue 26th Mar '24, 4:00pm
Influenced by Rumi, T.S. Eliot, and Diane Di Prima. Seki Lynch's debut poetry collection, 'Under the Sun Our Hearts Are Beating' is an exploration of love, human consciousness, and
Love The Words 249: Jimmy Andrex
Tue 19th Mar '24, 4:00pm
A tribute by Jimmy Andrex & friends in words and music to a West Riding education pioneer whose largely forgotten legacy could save us from cultural poverty.
Love The Words 247: David Harmer
Tue 5th Mar '24, 4:00pm
David wrote his first poem in 1963 when he was 11. His most recent book for children was published in 2021. He still hasn’t stopped writing poems. He talks about his writing life.
Love The Words 246: Hannah Stone
Tue 27th Feb '24, 4:00pm
'Part threnody, part celebration of friendship' , Hannah Stone talks about her new poetry collection, The Invisible Worm, and reads from it. Is there a place for hope and healing?