Love the Words

Leyla Josephine (poet, screenwriter, facilitator) talks about her work, plus the final extended episode of In Our Element with poet Linda France.

Writer David Napthine interrogates Jerusalem: the city, the idea, the metaphor, the poem, the song, with poet Lydia Kennaway, researcher and creator of Leeds Black History Walk Joe Williams, and writer, politician, actor Roger Harington.

Writers in Barney Bardsley's WordPlay workshop read their work themed around Darkness and Light, plus an interview with Seacroft poet Jaimes Lewis Moran about his forthcoming collection of poetry, Sea Words.

Ep 2 of Sgt. Grimshaw by Bob McBurney, Ep 9 of In Our Element, and the first two short plays in a series from Script Yorkshire with more to follow.

Episode 8 of In Our Element with Linda France; Molly Magrath from The Leeds Library on digital lit; and the very first Sgt. Grimshaw story from Bob McBurney.

Poet Emma Storr and photographer Bob Hamilton talk about their sumptuous new collaboration (poetry and images of Yorkshire) , Offcumdens, with Lydia Kennaway; plus Pamela Crowe on 23Press, a community publishing project for Leeds 2023.

Argentinian writer and poet Liliana Lukin, on a brief visit to Leeds, talks about her writing life, plus Episode 7 of In Our Element with Linda France.

James Nash reads from Heart Stones, his new sonnet collection; Ep 6 of In Our Element, and Fiona Gell on Leeds Lit Fest 2022.

In memory of Prof. James Law, Huddersfield speech and language researcher Jacqueline Gaile talks about the power that speech gives us and what can be done by therapists to help children whose speech does not develop.

Translator Anna Aslanyan talks about her new book on the delicate art of translation, Dancing on Ropes; and poet Linda France presents Ep 5 of the powerful In Our Element.

Episode 4 of the powerful In Our Element (a poet's response to climate change) with Linda France, and Leeds playwright/actor Vanessa Rosenthal talks about her fascinating new memoir, A Life in Stages, themed around the idea of identity and its importance to a writing life.

Episode 3 of In Our Element with Linda France, a poet's enquiry into climate change; and Professor Jennifer Richards talks about the impact of Sir Thomas Nashe on language, in memory of her colleague Professor James Law who died last year.

Episode 2 of the Sonderbug series produced with New Writing North 'In Our Element' with Linda France, A Poet's Response to Climate Change, plus Emma Wright of the fabulous Emma Press.

Philippa Geering talks about Sonderbug, her audio production company; Ann from Cards or Die on this fascinating Leeds company that uses board games in all kinds of community and education settings; plus Episode 1 of In Our Element, A Poet's Response to Climate Change, with poet Linda France in association with New Writing North and Newcastle University - a Sonderbug production.

Songwriter, pianist, singer Ric Neale talks about, and plays tracks from, his fab new record, Connected Disconnected. From what seeds do songs break out? Joy, grief, tunes, harmonies, they're all in here - from a lucid advocate of the well-turned song.

Director/Writer Tess Seddon on her musical at Leeds Playhouse, poems from Christine Bousfield, Jack on the eve of his 98th birthday, and a message from Eleanor Snare.

Juleus Ghunta talks to LTW from Jamaica about his moving new illustrated book for young people about childhood trauma and reading; plus Leeds poet Susan Darlington with her powerful new collection about pain and healing, Traumatropic Heart.

Sean Street is a writer, poet, and the UK's first ever Professor of Radio. Sean talks about his life in sound and his delicate, passionate new poetry collection, The Sound Recordist.

Nigel Stone talks to a panel of comic afficionados, including Jared from the world-famous OK Comics in Leeds, Tony Macaluso, Johann (14), and Peter Spafford, about comics: where have we been, whence are we going?

Womb Stories: Words and sounds from Charlotte Carrick and Holly Early; the Ilkley young poet Ella Sanderson, as featured recently on BBC Radio 4; and writer/artist Jamie Scrutton on his new powerful new graphic art/memoir.

Poet and artist Pamela Crowe reflects on finding your voice and hitting the creative stride; plus Melissa Wuidart Phillips with a brand new story.

Phoebe Caldwell on her new book Out to Grass (challenging images of ageing), new work by Chris Fernie and Roz Kendall, plus a Balkan sound collage.

Seacroft poet Jaimes Lewis Moran talks about being a poet with autism, plus Eleanor Snare with the first in her series of meditations on art and life.

In the first LTW of the new season, poet and historian Keith Fenton reads poems and talks sport. Do sports books stand up as literature? CLR James, Arthur Hopcraft... What are his big recommendations?

In depth interview with theatre director Alan Lyddiard, Artistic Director of The Performance Ensemble, about the vital place of older performers and creatives in our culture.