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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 320: Ria Tocsin

Love the Words ·

2025/11/11

The Only High I Need is a new novel by Ria Tocsin out very soon. It's Darcy’s first story. Darcy's a recovering alcoholic and drug addict but, behind the addiction and bravado, she's a just a woman trying to survive. A funny, sad, shocking but cathartic read for anyone, providing useful resources for any readers who find themselves resonating with the story.

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01:03:27

Love The Words 320: Love Digitally

Love the Words ·

2025/11/04

Erin and Josh grew up together in Yorkshire and now are on opposite sides of the globe. Can their love survive? Melanie Taylor talks about her new novel, Love Digitally, and tells us why the genre of Romance fiction matters. Plus an interview with Isabella Gellis, composer of The Devil's Den, a new opera with Morris Dancing at the heart of it.

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48:55

Love The Words 319: Leeds City of Languages, Nela...

Love the Words ·

2025/10/29

A foretaste of Leeds City of Languages, a vibrant festival celebrating our languages and global connections, plus soundscapes from Czech artist based in Ostracva, Nela Bartova.

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51:29

Love The Words 318: Alan Smith, Jaimes Lewis Moran

Love the Words ·

2025/10/24

Poetry! Alan Smith has taught in universities & prisons. Now he's writing his own poetry. Jaimes Lewis Moran, Seacroft poet, reads from his brand new collection themed around hospitality. What is it about poetry? What can a poem do?

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25:39

Love The Words 317: Fish Shops & Giblets

Love the Words ·

2025/10/10

‘Eyes closed, deep inhale: the smell of freshly battered fish takes him back to his dad’s old shop’… Actor Rayyah McCaul on an evocative journey around Leeds with her father.

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49:12

Love The Words 315: Michelle Heighway, John Toolan

Love the Words ·

2025/09/24

Michelle Heighway has won awards for her documentary making and photography. But now she's published her debut poetry collection, Step Into My Flow. Why poetry? Why now?

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49:54

Love The Words 316: Inverze Festival, Ostrava

Love the Words ·

2025/09/22

Peter Spafford's audio diary of his visit to Ostrava in Czechia (Sept 2025) where he was invited to read poetry & talk about the perception of Czech writing in the UK. Interviews with Czech writers & organisers plus music from Dalava, a Czech/Canadian band re-interpreting Moravian folksong.

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50:40

Love The Words 314: Trevor Wishart

Love the Words ·

2025/09/20

Trevor Wishart is a composer based in York internationally known for his work with digital audio media. He has also written extensively about 'sonic art'. He talks about his work.

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39:28

Love The Words 313: Julia Sherwood, Slovak/Czech...

Love the Words ·

2025/09/01

Julia Sherwood has, with her husband Peter, translated a number of Slovak & Czech works of fiction. She talks about the rise of modern Slovak literature in translation & the delicate art of translating.

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52:49

Love The Words 310: Manthology

Love the Words ·

2025/07/30

Maz Sultan and three writers contributing to the upcoming collection of writing from Leeds, Manthology talk about this exciting new project and read their work. Poems from Joe Spivey, Huw Parlor and Paul Proctor and Maz Sultan.

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33:38

Love The Words 309: ThriddingsFest 2025

Love the Words ·

2025/07/29

The First Ever Yorkshire ThriddingsFest happens soon. A celebration of Yorkshire’s communities and their cultural heritage; poetry, folklore, Punjabi Dhol, Roma music. Learn more.

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56:25

Love The Words 312: Adam Farrer

Love the Words ·

2025/07/22

Adam Farrer talks about his critically acclaimed new book of essays, Broken Biscuits And Other Male Failures, published by Harper North. What do men really want? Or need? Adam's book Cold Fish Soup was the 2023 Readathon choice.

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42:15

Love The Words 311: Charlotte Carrick

Love the Words ·

2025/07/22

Writer Charlotte Carrick talks to young writers Seren Delahaye and Kiera Gibson about her writing journey, from The Writing Squad through Chapel FM to Emmerdale. If earning a living as a writer is challenging, where do you start, who advises and supports you along the way?

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49:22

Love The Words 308: Maia Elsner, Tallulah Howarth,...

Love the Words ·

2025/07/08

Poets Maia Elsner, Tallulah Howarth and Seren Delahaye discuss poetry and read their work. What does a young poet need? Is 'finding your mind' more important than finding your voice?

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35:19

Love The Words 307: Todd Murphy

Love the Words ·

2025/07/08

Todd Murphy is a writer living in East Leeds. He writes prose and poetry that twist the everyday into work that is tough, tender and often uncanny.

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36:23

Love The Words 306: Leeds Cornershops

Love the Words ·

2025/06/22

Created with the British Library, a radio documentary of oral history stories about growing up working in cornershops in Leeds, with music from Tower of Song.

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47:52

Love The Words 304: Carol Atherton

Love the Words ·

2025/06/22

Carol Atherton, author of Reading Lessons, Chapel FM's Readathon 2025 book, talks about the power of literature to change lives. Plus Leeds Lit Fest preview with Fiona Gell.

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01:07:39

Love The Words 305: Rob Cowen

Love the Words ·

2025/06/22

Rob Cowen talks about his critically acclaimed new book, The North Road: Walking London to Edinburgh through Nation, Time & Place', written over 10 years following Common Ground.

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43:34

Love The Words 303: Catherine Warr/Diliana Stojanova

Love the Words ·

2025/06/17

Yorkshire historian Catherine Warr has written a musical! She talks about it. And Diliana Stojanova is a Bulgarian poet living in Czechia and visiting Leeds. Diliana has a new poetry collection out in Japanese, Fiinnish and English.

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47:20

Love The Words 302: Natalie A. Davies/Creative Voices

Love the Words ·

2025/05/30

Natalie Anastasia Davies talks about being Writer in Residence for Brimham Rocks, plus her moving poem about the experience. Plus Madeleine Wuidart on her late autism diagnosis, and moving spoken word from older members of the LGBTQ plus community in Creative Voices.

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