Love the Words

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Love the Words Podcast

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.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Love The Words 270: Script Yorkshire Presents

    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. Chapel FM is very happy to partner up with SY on this project every year.

    41 min

  2. 11 SEPT

    Love The Words 269: Poets Talking Bollocks

    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.

    52 min

  3. 9 SEPT

    Love The Words 268: Catherine Staples

    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/0881469211

    56 min

  4. 29 JUL

    Love The Words 267: Rob Cowen

    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.

    58 min

  5. 23 JUL

    Love The Words 266: Mafwa & Leeds East Academy

    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.

    1h 1m

  6. 23 JUL

    Love The Words 265: Orb Bus Stories, Melissa Wuidart Phillips & Phil Harvey

    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.

    59 min

  7. 8 JUL

    Love The Words 264: Anyone's A Green Thumb

    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, theatre, and music created by participants.

    48 min

  8. 8 JUL

    Love The Words 263: A Midsummer's Night's Dream

    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.

    37 min
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About

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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  • Creator
    Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    176
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2024 Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM
  • Show Website
    Love the Words

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