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Love The Words #186

Tue 21st Jun '22, 4:00pm

As part of the Peepal Tree Press residency at Chapel FM's Local Writers' Library, Bermudian writer Angela Barry talks about her powerful new novel, The Drowned Forest.

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Love The Words #185

Tue 14th Jun '22, 4:00pm

Ira Mathur is an Indian-born writer and journalist living in Trinidad. Here she talks about her new novel with Peepal Tree Press, Love The Dark Days.

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Love The Words #184

Tue 7th Jun '22, 4:00pm

Stu Hennigan talks about Ghost Signs, a blistering first-hand account of delivering essential food and medicines Leeds during the first months of the pandemic

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Love The Words #182

Tue 24th May '22, 4:00pm

Tom Juniper is an autistic, non-binary performance poet based in South Yorkshire, interviewed by Juwairia and Henry for Disabled Table. Plus 2 radio dramas from Script Yorkshire

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Love The Words #183

Tue 31st May '22, 4:00pm

Lesley Sharp from Script Yorkshire introduces four brand new short radio dramas recorded at Chapel FM and edited by Rosie Parsons.

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Love The Words #180: 9 Displacement Activities

Tue 10th May '22, 4:00pm

Covid 19. Lockdowns. What actually happened? While we were dealing with it, we didn’t have time to process it. So, Chapel FM asked Jimmy Andrex to try.

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Love The Words #181

Tue 17th May '22, 4:00pm

A chance to hear the late poet Helen Burke with Phil Pattinson: their tribute to the words and music of Jimi Hendrix.

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Love The Words #179

Tue 3rd May '22, 4:00pm

Older people present highlights from their Writing For Radio course at Chapel FM, plus Venice, a short story by Melissa Wuidart Phillips.

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Love The Words #178

Tue 26th Apr '22, 4:00pm

Two punchy short plays from Script Yorkshire directed by Stefan Escreet, plus two episodes in Bob McBurney's charming Sgt.Grimshaw series.

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Love The Words #176

Tue 12th Apr '22, 4:00pm

Leyla Josephine (poet, screenwriter, facilitator) talks about her work, plus the final extended episode of In Our Element with poet Linda France.

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Love The Words #177

Tue 19th Apr '22, 4:00pm

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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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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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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Love The Words #172

Tue 15th Mar '22, 4:00pm

Episode 8 of In Our Element with Linda France; Molly Magrath from The Leeds Library on digital lit; and the very first Sgt. Grimshaw story from Bob McBurney.

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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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Love The Words #171

Tue 8th Mar '22, 4:00pm

Poet Emma Storr and photographer Bob Hamilton talk about their sumptuous new collaboration, Offcumdens, with Lydia Kennaway; plus Pamela Crowe on 23Press.

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Love The Words #170

Tue 1st Mar '22, 4:00pm

Argentinian writer and poet Liliana Lukin, on a brief visit to Leeds, talks about her writing life, plus Episode 7 of In Our Element with Linda France.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Love the Words #164

Tue 18th Jan '22, 4:00pm

Episode 2 of In Our Element with Linda France, A Poet's Response to Climate Change, plus Emma Wright of the Emma Press.

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Love The Words #163

Tue 11th Jan '22, 4:00pm

Philippa Geering talks about Sonderbug, her audio production company; Ann from Cards or Die & Ep 1 of In Our Element with poet Linda France.

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Love The Words #162

Tue 21st Dec '21, 4:00pm

Songwriter Ric Neale talks about, and plays tracks from, his new record, Connected Disconnected

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Love The Words #161

Tue 7th Dec '21, 4:00pm

Director/Writer Tess Seddon on her musical at Leeds Playhouse, poems from Christine Bousfield, Jack on the eve of his 98th birthday, and a message from Eleanor Snare.

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Love The Words #160

Tue 23rd Nov '21, 4:00pm

Juleus Ghunta talks to LTW from Jamaica about his moving new work for young people and reading, plus Leeds poet Susan Darlington with her new collection.

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Love The Words #157

Tue 2nd Nov '21, 4:00pm

Nigel Stone talks to a panel of comic afficionados, including Jared from OK Comics in Leeds, about comics: where have we been, whence are we going?

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Love The Words #159

Tue 16th Nov '21, 4:00pm

Sean is a writer, poet, and the UK's first ever Professor of Radio. Sean talks about his life in sound and The Sound Recordist, his new poetry collection.

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Love The Words #158

Tue 9th Nov '21, 4:00pm

Womb Stories: words and sounds from Charlotte Carrick and Holly Early; the Ilkley young poet Ella Sanderson; and writer/artist Jamie Scrutton on his new graphic art/memoir.