Peter Spafford, from East Leeds FM, presents his love of all things wordy in his weekly show Love The Words, featuring new creative writing from Leeds and beyond.
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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? https://www.amazon.com/Vert-Poems-Catherine-Staples/dp/0881469211Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Rob Cowen's book Common Ground (2015) radically broke with the 'nature writing' genre. Here, in this final LTW of Season 6 (returning in September) Rob talks about The Heeding, his moving collection of lockdown poems.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Love The Words 265: Orb Bus Stories, Melissa Wuidart Phillips & Phil Harvey
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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.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Love The Words 266: Mafwa & Leeds East Academy
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Young writers from Leeds East return to read new work, plus Ethel, Maddy and Maffo from Mafwa Theatre on their lively & uplifting Kuluhenna Drama group for women.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Love The Words 263: A Midsummer's Night's Dream
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Cast members with director Ben Hopwood from Leeds Arts Centre's brand new 'urban' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream talk about the joy and zest of Shakespeare.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Love The Words 264: Anyone's A Green Thumb
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Highlights from Anyone's a Green Thumb, an audio installation about green spaces & urban gardens in Leeds, feat. Orb (Knaresborough), The Lincoln Greeners (Mafwa Theatre) and others. This installation was part of Chapel FM's Home From Home 2024 project in which all our available spaces at Chapel FM Arts Centre were animated by a range of sound, the…
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Love The Words 261: Jamie Scrutton/Aberford Literature Festival
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Artist/poet Jamie Scrutton on naturism, being proud as a multi-form artist, and his book The Vision of Storytelling, plus Chris Berry on the inaugural Aberford Literature Festival.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Love The Words 262: Gareth E.Rees & Car Park Life
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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.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Love The Words 260: Lydia Kennaway/Sh@nty
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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, loss, and recovery.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Love The Words 258: Moon Palace and Blue Spaces
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A sound art documentary about Moon Palace, a social sculpture/working observatory touring with Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, plus poetry and refections on the blue spaces in our city from the Canals & Rivers Trust.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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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.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Love The Words 257: David Price, in memory of
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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.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Rommi Smith talks movingly about writing the libretto of Cusp, with music by Roderick Williams, a piece about grief and grieving, for the Royal Festival Hall & The Bach Choir.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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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 and has written extensively about sound and the history of sound.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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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 the extraordinary and disturbing novel, Marianne Dreams.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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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.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Comedy from the Joyful Drama Group based at Heart, Headingley, & another chance to hear the astounding Billy Myers voice all characters in Gareth Rhodes' Interviews Through History.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Rachel Vernelle from Leeds Arts Centre talks about the theatre company's new production of Caryl Churchill's radical play Escaped Alone, and Zodwa Nyoni on her new musical with Testament, Chisholm for President.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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A tribute by Jimmy Andrex & friends in words and music to Alec Clegg, a West Riding education pioneer whose largely forgotten legacy could save us from cultural poverty.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Composer, punk rocker, mayor, teacher and so much more. Tony Macaluso talks to Phillip Bimstein who shares stories and examples of his many music compositions that weave in oral history voices.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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David Harmer was in the original line up of Circus of Poets. His most recent book for children was published in 2021. Stu Hennigan, who came into Chapel FM for a meeting one week early, serendipitously joins David for a chat about writing for, and by, children.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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'Part threnody, part celebration of friendship' , Hannah Stone talks about her moving new poetry collection, The Invisible Worm, and reads from it. In the midst of grief, is there a place for hope and healing?Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Safiyyar Umar is a published writer based in Leeds and still in her teens. She talks about her debut dystopian novel, The Heart Crusher. Plus a repeat of the gripping Flight 93 by Caroline Noh.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Will Carr from Book Trust talks about their recent move to Leeds & the work they do with children and reading throughout the UK, as well as his own career in literature.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Poet & Performer Rose Condo returns to LTW to talk about her brand new show How To Starve An Artist and why we all need the nutrition of art in our lives, plus intimate relationships for older people - A Difficult Conversation - & Raavi, River of Two Punjabs, a beautiful meditation on time, water and the artificial boundaries humans create.…
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Four poets published in Pennine Platform Issue 94 read poems from the latest edition of this long-established poetry journal and talk to editor Julia Deakin.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Tim Brookes helps run a food bank and Getting Gobby in the Lobby spoken word night. He talks about the provenance of, and reads poems, from his new pamphlet Keep Taking 6 Away from 100. Tim speaks movingly of his recovery from serious illness and the role poetry has played in creating his new life.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Vivid highlights of Writing On Air '23 from Sparkle Menzies and other younger contributors to the festival, plus a moving story from Dortmund writer Linn Schiffmann about first love and summer.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Players of non-mainstream sports in Leeds speak eloquently about what they love doing. Unsung Sports was a Leeds 2023 giving voice to players, organisers and supporters of lesser known sports through poetry, song, film and photography.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Julie Walker works as a bibliotherapist using the written word – song lyrics, poetry, prose in creative ways to engage with people experiencing mental health issues. She tells us about Words for Wellbeing.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Sneaky preview of a ground-breaking report about the literature ecology of Leeds commissioned from New Writing North by Leeds City Council. What have we got already? What do we need more of?Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Poet and novelist Mark Connors talks about his and Gill Connors' new Yaffle's Nest initiative, and about what's he writing himself when he's not making it happen for other writers!Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Spike Marshall talks about Rope, Patrick Hamilton's dark play that he directs for Leeds Arts Centre, plus a compelling short audio drama by Seki Lynch.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Alex De Little is a sonic artist & researcher with bases in Leeds and London, UK. His practice encompasses installation, composition, performance and workshops. He talks about the extraordinary range of his work and about his recent artist residency in Bali.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Colin Speakman is a Yorkshire historian, poet, and passionate advocate for the North of England. Here he talks about the power of dialect and his plans for a big Yorkshire festival next year.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Vickie Orton tells a story, Jaimes Lewis Moran talks about his new poetry collection, Mechanism, & Oz Hardwick chats about Making A Difference, a selection of Neurodiverse Poets.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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At last! The special radio version of Save Our Stories, Chapel FM's community play, staged earlier in 2023 as part of our Home From Home project. SEA.CORP have plans to develop and 'improve' Seacroft. Will they succeed?Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Jamie Bloom's debut poetry collection, Change & Rage, is out now. He talks about managing iconic music venues like The Rainbow Theatre, meeting Marvin Gaye, and finding peace.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Writers from the WordPlay group led by Barney Bardsley return to LTW with poems & pieces on the theme of Missing, which is incidentally the theme of Writing On Air this year, Nov 24-Dec2.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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In this first LTW of Season 5, poet Ian Duhig previews Contains Strong Language, the UK's premier poetry & performance festival which storms into Leeds later this month, and talks about the hidden histories of Leeds.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Poets Linn Schiffman, Thorsten Trelenberg, Calvin Kleeman from Leeds' sister city Dortmund join Leeds poet Dalton Harrison for poetry and discussion. Poetry breaks borders.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Historian and film maker Catherine Warr talks about her brand new book on Yorkshire history, plus a feature about the amazing bellringers at St.James' Church, Seacroft. They're looking for new members!Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Bradford-based Fox and Windmill is the first UK independent publishing company for British South Asian Writers. Co-founder Habiba Desai tells their remarkable story.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Maddie Morris won BBC Radio 2's Young Folk Award and now 'leads the next generation of socially conscious songwriters' (Jim Moray). Maddie plays Live for LTW and talks about a fascinating new commission with Mind The Gap Theatre Company.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Two contrasting highlights from Writing On Air 2022: Grandma's Kitchen by Jaspreet Mander and No Place by Jimmy Andrex. Look out for Writing On Air 2023 in late November/early December.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Acerbic and funny poetic monologue about the body, through motherhood, menopause and paralysis, by Pamela Crowe.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Young writers from Leeds East Academy make their debut on LTW reading & talking about their own work and the books they're reading, plus Irene Lofthouse remembering her characterful Irish Mum with with and affection.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Seacroft writer & lecturer Geraldine Beattie talks about how books can make a home, whoever you are & wherever you live. Geraldine's passion for literature of all kinds shines through her every sentence.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Four poets from Issue 93 of Pennine Platform read and discuss their contributions to this long-lived & well-loved poetry title with poet and editor Julia Deakin.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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Volunteers on the brand new community newspaper East Side Story tell the remarkable story of its growing success, plus Zoe Freedman on directing Leeds Arts Centre's new production, Chicken Soup, at Carriageworks Theatre.Por Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
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