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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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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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44:31

Love The Words 281: Fiona Goh

Love the Words ·

2024/12/17

Fiona Goh is the Director of the SI Leeds Literary Prize, a biennial award for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women based in the UK. She talks about the prize which in 2024 celebrates its 10th year.

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51:14

Love The Words 280: Faye Marshall

Love the Words ·

2024/12/17

Faye Marshall is a poet and nurse. She talks about the privilege of working in palliative care, its impact on her life and writing, and the flourishing poetry scene in South Leeds.

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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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44:38

Love The Words 279: Vic Leeson

Love the Words ·

2024/12/01

Vic is a writer and therapist working throughout Yorkshire with groups and individuals. She talks about her love for the work she does, how it has evolved and about the influence on her work of her pioneering father.

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40:19

Love The Words 278: The Hawk's Garden

Love the Words ·

2024/12/01

A soundpoem from Writing On Air 2023 by Gareth Rhodes about seasonal and climate change in a Leeds garden.

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38:03

Love The Words 276: Alex Callaghan

Love the Words ·

2024/11/06

Poet Alex Callaghan talks about the experience of editing and compiling Ey Up 3 and working with Written Off Publishing, as well as the fabulous Bone Down.

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46:31

Love The Words 277: A Father's Voice

Love the Words ·

2024/11/06

As a forerunner for International Men's Day 2024, Jaimes Lewis Moran presents poetry, prose, and reflection on the subject of fathers, first broadcast in Writing On Air 2023.

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39:14

Love The Words 273: People's History of Leeds

Love the Words ·

2024/10/21

The People's History of Leeds: Tom Bailey talks about this exciting new project gathering stories about Leeds and its people.

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56:53

Love The Words 274: What Is Prison Radio?

Love the Words ·

2024/10/21

In anticipation of Writing On Air 2024, another chance to hear about the ground-breaking national organisation Prison Radio and why their work is a lifeline for its listeners.

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44:10

Love The Words 272: Eleanor May Blackburn

Love the Words ·

2024/10/08

Eleanor May Blackburn is a 27 year old neurodivergent, disabled, queer actor/writer/theatre-maker/poet from Sheffield. The tour of her show Does My Fanny Look Big In This? tours next year and includes a date at The Crucible in her home town. In this LTW episode, Eleanor discusses, with elegance & humour, sex education, sex slang, and the nature of consent.

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40:43

Love The Words 270: Script Yorkshire Presents

Love the Words ·

2024/09/23

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.

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51:34

Love The Words 269: Poets Talking Bollocks

Love the Words ·

2024/09/11

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.

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55:49

Love The Words 268: Catherine Staples

Love the Words ·

2024/09/09

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

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58:16

Love The Words 267: Rob Cowen

Love the Words ·

2024/07/29

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.

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59:17

Love The Words 265: Orb Bus Stories, Melissa Wuidart...

Love the Words ·

2024/07/23

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.

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01:00:31

Love The Words 266: Mafwa & Leeds East Academy

Love the Words ·

2024/07/23

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.

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36:35

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

Love the Words ·

2024/07/08

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.

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