Love the Words

In fond memory of Geoff (Mohe) Reiss who died last month, we broadcast two of his Voice of Reason stories from Writing on Air 2019, Aladdin snd Sleeping Beauty.

LTW features an extended report on Live Little Stories for Leeds, a summer festival featuring young people's theatre companies in Leeds, plus Look Closer, ep 2 of the new Found Fiction podcast.

TORRENT. Fear stalks Alice when she realises her home isn’t a place of safety. Discover how she escapes her trauma, finds friendship again and begins to build a new life. Tough drama from Peter Aveyard and Irene Lofthouse. Strong language and content.

Gallipoli, a radio drama about war and the evergreen dream of a peaceful world, presented by Generation Squad, the drama group at Fall Into Place Theatre plus a new work by Jimmy Andrex.

A special celebration of Yorkshire Day 2020 from Leeds Town Hall featuring a special lockdown performance by organist Darius Battiwalla and conversations about the Town Hall with Darius, local historians, and visitors to this iconic building.

Matt Nicholson talks about his new poetry collection with Yaffle Press, Small Havocs, and Jimmy Andrex presents an acerbic but humane retrospective on 1970’s TV lodestone, Stars on Sunday.

Look Closer, the 3rd Found Fiction podcast, plus Church Going 2020, Jimmy Andrex's wry and moving meditation on Larkin's poem of the same name.

Photographic artist Carolyn Mendelsohn talks about her extraordinary images, plus drama from Jane Oakshott, and Stanley Holloway’s Sam Small read by Keith Fenton.

David Price OBE, writer, educator, talks about his new book The Power of Us. Written at white heat during the pandemic.

Artist/educator Eleanor Snare talks about Root & Branch, a project which taps the world of trees to inspire creativity; writer Christina Longden on her residency with Kirklees Libraries.

Found Fiction interviews Rose Condo, Peter interviews Simon Widdop about Poet from The Black Lagoon, plus Jimmy Andrew and Stanley Holloway. Variety or What?

Adrian Sinclair talks in depth about art, activism, and the intriguing Fellowship of Questions; a foretaste of Alex Rushfirth’s fantastic new album, plus a story from James Fernie.

For Black History Month, another chance to hear Studio 12 young writers with Khadijah Ibrahiim. Plus fiction from Pam Wilson and John Hepworth.

Andy Craven-Griffiths talks passionately about writing with young people, plus Madness with Jimmy Andrex, and music from Alex Rushfirth.

Found Fiction's Steve Clarkson with artist Verite Hunter, Jimmy’s Weekly Pandemical, powerful poems from Stuart Pickford, and a mystery taster for Writing On Air 2021 Part 1 (Laura Potts meets Lady Chatterly).

Writer Beverley Ward talks about her writing life, poet Mike Farren on his new pamphlet Smithereens, and Jimmy Andrex’s 5th Pandemical.

Graham Browning from the duo Fowl talks about their new album out today, plus new work from writers in Word Play working with Barney Bardsley.

Billy Baggins, a narrative poem in medieval verse set in Seacroft by Jimmy Andrex commissioned by Leeds Lit & Phil, plus writing by Chapel FM’s young Associate Writers on the theme of Vision.

Steve Clarkson talks to spoken word artist Taiwo Ogunyinka in the Found Fiction podcast; plus voice experts Louise Gibbs and Jane Oakshott on World Voice Day and finding our voice.

Zelino Modesto talks to Maggi Stratford about her voice work with the Trans Community & the relationship between Voice and Identity, plus Jimmy’s regular Pandemical. Check out Zelino's regular podcast Why I Listen.

A preview of the third Leeds Lit Fest, writer and director Parvez Qadir, Jimmy Andrex’s Pandemical, poetry from David Annwn, Julia Deakin and fiction from Roz Kendall. 

Young people from Chapel FM interview Verity Watts of Better Songs, Swan Song’s collaboration with Funeral Director Full Circle, plus poets Judith Willson and Tim Brookes.

Jade Wright on magazine Beyond Words, a radio drama from Ed Foster Rocketman , Becky Cherriman on her commission from The Cultural Institute and Jimmy Andrex's Translation on Trial.

Making theatre during lockdown with the exciting new company Hitcher Encounters, musician Alex Rushfirth on his new single End Times and the Found Fiction podcast.

BBC location engineer Kiffa Roberts talk about reporting from Grenfell, Syria, Belfast and other locations around the world; Jimmy Andrex’s shares his "Translation on Trial" and the full life of Half Moon Books.