Leeds Voices

On the new podcast for University of Leeds alumni and everyone who loves the University… Labour MP Jess Phillips tells us how studying at Leeds shaped her life, her politics and her love of dance music. We meet the visionary planner behind Leeds’ world-famous modernist architecture, now celebrating his 100th birthday. We learn how Leeds researchers are turning the tide on climate change. And we hear from new students at the start of a new term.

03:22 Professor Julia Martin-Ortega, Restoring peatlands 10:25 Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley and Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, shares her Leeds memories 18:04 Geoffrey Wilson, Leeds brutalist architecture. 24:45 Students and recent graduates share their journeys to Leeds. 40:20 Footsteps Fund

FOREVER LEEDS is out monthly from the University of Leeds Alumni and Development team. Tell is what you think by tweeting @LeedsAlumni and find out more at alumni.leeds.ac.uk.

* Presented by Rich Williams and Alba Goskova. Music composed and produced by Japjisingh Valecha. Geoffrey Williams package by Tom Davy. Audio production by Alex Rees. Special thanks to Becca Morrison and Leeds Student Radio. Produced by Andrew Harrison with Mark Dorey. Forever Leeds is a Podmasters Production.

Welcome to FOREVER LEEDS, the new podcast for everyone who’s ever studied at the University of Leeds – or is thinking of applying to Britain’s most exciting university. On this debut edition we find out how Leeds is helping the W.H.O. to fight the next pandemic. We discover how BBC, Observer and Telegraph journalist Kamal Ahmed’s life was changed by his time studying politics at Leeds. We learn how a Leeds geographer mapped undiscovered Antarctica. And we meet the next generation of Leeds graduates.

FOREVER LEEDS is out monthly from the University of Leeds Alumni and Development team. Tell is what you think by tweeting @LeedsAlumni and find out more at alumni.leeds.ac.uk/foreverleeds.

* Presented by Rich Williams and Alba Goskova. Music composed and produced by Japjisingh Valecha. John Rothera package by Tom Davy (audio courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey Archives, with special thanks to Chris Eldon Lee and Kevin Roberts at the British Antarctic Survey). Audio production by Alex Rees. Produced by Andrew Harrison with Mark Dorey. Forever Leeds is a Podmasters Production.

Coming soon - the Forever Leeds podcast from the Alumni team at the University of Leeds.

The University of Leeds is one of Britain’s great places of learning, with a worldwide reputation for innovation, a vibrant student culture, and a thriving global alumni community. FOREVER LEEDS is the new podcast for everyone who went to Leeds, has children or relatives at Leeds right now, or is thinking of applying to study at Leeds themselves. Join us as we find out about new developments at Britain’s most exciting university. You’ll meet famous alumni with stories to tell, and hear from the Leeds students of today as they shape the future. Made by Leeds graduates and current Leeds students, FOREVER LEEDS is a podmasters production for the Alumni and Development team of the University of Leeds.