163 episodes

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.

Love the Words Peter Spafford / East Leeds FM

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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.

    Love The Words 257: David Price, in memory of

    Love The Words 257: David Price, in memory of

    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.

    • 59 min
    Love The Words 256: Rommi Smith

    Love The Words 256: Rommi Smith

    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.

    • 31 min
    Love The Words 255

    Love The Words 255

    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.

    • 1 hr
    Love The Words 254

    Love The Words 254

    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.

    • 48 min
    Love The Words 253

    Love The Words 253

    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.

    • 44 min
    Love The Words 252

    Love The Words 252

    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.

    • 1 hr

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