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Love the Words

Peter Spafford / East Leeds Community Radio

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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01:03:52

Love The Words 301: Writing for Pleasure/Other Tongue

Love the Words ·

2025/05/29

Carolyn, Judy & Carol from the University of the Third Age Writing For Pleasure Group read their work and talk about why writing, & listening to others read, makes them happy. Plus Other Tongue Mother Tongue, a multi-lingual publication from The Other Side of Hope, presented by Mike Baynham.

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45:55

Love The Words 300: A celebration

Love the Words ·

2025/05/23

LTW is 300 episodes old! Peter Spafford and Agnes Leonovicz look back - and ahead, after a short mash of highlights, including poetry from Andrew McMillan, Helen Burke and Leeds East Academy.

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55:23

Love The Words 294: Anna Aslanyan

Love the Words ·

2025/05/19

With our global theme, Anna Aslanyan talks about her 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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31:12

Love The Words 298: Joyful Drama

Love the Words ·

2025/05/19

Comedy on the theme of Threshold from the fabulous Joyful Drama Group based at Heart in Headingley under the umbrella of Fall Into Place Theatre Company, Seacroft.

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38:40

Love The Words 299: Olivia Mulligan

Love the Words ·

2025/05/15

Olivia Mulligan is a poet & children's author. Passionate about sharing uplifting material with others, she performs her poetry on stage, runs poetry workshops for adults and children, & is BBC Radio York's Poet Laureate.

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46:21

Love The Words 297: Laura Sutcliffe

Love the Words ·

2025/04/29

Laura is a musician, poet & artist inspired by the connection between humans & the landscape, neurodiversity and biodiversity. She reads from her new illustrated collection, As The Flow Cries, and plays some tunes on fiddle and gouzouki.

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49:26

Love The Words 296: Nicky Bray, The Maids.

Love the Words ·

2025/04/16

Musician Nicky Bray talks about her love of languages & the work she does to support language assistants from abroad working in Yorkshire schools, plus Francesca Butler on the challenge of directing Jean Genet's rarely performed The Maids for Leeds Arts Centre.

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42:09

Love The Words 295: James Wraith

Love the Words ·

2025/04/08

James Wraith is a 23 year old student of Linguistics and a passionate advocate for Yorkshire dialect. He talks here about the richness of local language and why we should nurture our 'native twang'.

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45:41

Love The Words 293: Leeds/Dormund sister cities, plus...

Love the Words ·

2025/03/20

Leeds/Dortmund citizen Geoff Tranter talks about the shared history of Leeds & German city Dortmund & the value of city twinning. Plus street artist Stewy on his new wall portrait of poet Tony Harrison at Chapel FM.

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48:52

Love The Words 292: Pennine Platform 96

Love the Words ·

2025/03/20

Poetry magazine Pennine Platform has a flourishing subscriber list and international reach. Four poets from the current Issue read and discuss their contributions to this issue with editor Julia Deakin, and select their favourite pieces by other poets.

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41:21

Love The Words 291: Barry Strickland-Hodge

Love the Words ·

2025/03/15

Barry Strickland-Hodge is the writer of ten books and numerous articles about medicine and pharmacology. He's also an expert on Thomas Culpeper and his classic Complete Herbal. Here he talks about being an Apothecary, about herbalism, about silence and tears.

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46:49

Love The Words 290: John Irving Clarke

Love the Words ·

2025/03/05

John Irving Clarke spends lengthy periods gazing out of windows, convinced that Hemingway's "one true sentence" lies out there somewhere. He has a new collection of stories out, How The Northern Light Gets In. John was a co-founder of the legendary Red Shed Readings in Wakefield.

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01:00:46

Love The Words 289: Lottie Sadd

Love the Words ·

2025/02/26

Lottie Sadd is a Leeds-based interdisciplinary composer-performer and workshop facilitator. She talks about her practice in sound, voice, and text.

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47:23

Love The Words 287: Hangmen

Love the Words ·

2025/02/26

Spike Marshall talks about directing the hard-hitting drama 'Hangmen' by Martin McDonagh for Leeds Arts Centre, opening Feb 26th at The Carriageworks. What's it about? And how does this play sit more generally within McDonagh's film and stage writing?

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45:34

Love The Words 288: The National Poetry Centre in Leeds

Love the Words ·

2025/02/24

First heard in Writing On Air, an exclusive soundscape tour of the derelict Victorian church in Leeds which will one day be transformed into The National Poetry Centre. With Tony Macaluso, Jaimes Lewis Moran, Lenny Flint, Giulio Macaluso and members of the NPC team.

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25:01

Love The Words 285: Len Biran, Elegant Solutions

Love the Words ·

2025/01/27

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the fascinating and moving story of how Len Biran’s refugee father used his wits to keep his Polish Jewish family safe through World War 2.

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01:10:53

Love The Words 286: Sand House

Love the Words ·

2025/01/27

The eighth wonder of the world. In Doncaster. Buried forever. The true saga of the legendary Sand House, dramatised for radio by Peter Spafford and directed by Olwen May. Sand House was first produced as a stage play for Cast, Doncaster in 2018. This audio version is an independent production by The Sand House Charity.

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45:40

Love The Words 284: I Want To Go Home

Love the Words ·

2025/01/09

A gifted musician re-lives the time he contracted polio as a child. His recovery is dependent on finding his newfound power as The King of Sound. Uplifting drama for Writing On Air 2024, by Martin Riley and Jack Glover, plus Nobody Tells You It Drops When You Stop Chasing. Josh's gambling addiction has cost him his livelihood and his home life. Recovery’s going well. Until it isn’t. Impactful audio drama by Sam Lawrence.

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01:14:04

Love The Words 283: Crossing Lines

Love the Words ·

2025/01/09

Elite triathletes Becky and Natalie are prepared to give everything to be World No.1. But what if this affects their health forever? Riveting drama about sport and friendship by Jacky Burton, first broadcast as part of Writing On Air 2024.

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39:05

Love The Words 282: Dr.Gavin Francis

Love the Words ·

2024/12/17

Poet and GP Emma Storr interviews Dr.Gavin Francis about his best-selling book, Recovery. Do we give ourselves enough time to get over things? Whatever happened to 'convalescence'?

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