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Masato Jones was born in Saitama, near Tokyo, Japan and graduated from Central St Martins in Womenswear in 2009.  He is a designer, pattern cutter, tailor, tutor and artist.

He tells me about his own label Masato, how he designed the costumes for Beverly Knight's 2011 tour and his wonderful shop in Thornton's Arcade.

The featured track is the fantastic "Richard's Office" by the spectacular Leeds band Silverlode.

Check out all their links below:

https://www.masato.co.uk/

https://twitter.com/masato_jones

https://www.instagram.com/masatojones/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/masatoboutique/

Masato Limited 

5 Thorntons Arcade, 

LEEDS, LS1 6LQ

Tel 07799053329

http://www.silverlodeonline.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/silverlodeband

https://twitter.com/SilverlodeBand

https://www.instagram.com/silverlodeband

https://soundcloud.com/silverlodeband

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Buy Nowt Ls6 believe that everyone can make an environmental difference by borrowing and not buying. This reduces the creation of waste and allows people to come together and share resources.

The scheme was set up by Jed, Sarah, Lee, Mark and John.

I had a great time chatting to Jed about the ethos of the scheme and how they got started.

The group decided to feature the stunning track "Holly's Got a Ticket" by Peter Darling - a beautiful track with quite heart-breaking lyrics.

https://buynowtls6.com/about/

https://www.facebook.com/BuynowtLS6/

https://twitter.com/buynowtls6

https://www.peterdarlingmusic.com/

https://www.facebook.com/PeterDarlingMusic/

https://www.instagram.com/peterdarlingmusic/

https://twitter.com/pdarlingmusic

https://soundcloud.com/peter-darling

https://open.spotify.com/artist/03D1pfPUZBDoL3OSg0JgG2?si=8fIV2rutT62sXP73wDtvHg

I make no money from this podcast and all I ask is that you enjoy it, tell your friends and if you could leave me a review I would be most grateful.

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Dermot Daly was a very interesting person to chat to!

Dermot is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire. He has worked regionally, nationally and internationally in stage, screen and radio drama.

He has directorial awards for his film work and he explains to me whay he is so fond of the phrase "throwing the ladder back down".

Dermot voices The Guardian podcasts and tells me about the work he is doing with Red Ladder Theatre Company "My Voice Was Heard But Ignored" and with Freedom Studios on "Aaliyah (After Antigone)".

He chose to feature the fantastic uplifting song "A Club at the Edge of Town" by Jamie Fletcher and Company.

http://www.dermotdaly.co.uk/

https://www.freedomstudios.co.uk/production/aaliyah-after-antigone/

http://www.redladder.co.uk/whatson/my-voice-was-heard-but-it-was-ignored/

https://jamiefletcherandcompany.bandcamp.com/track/club-on-the-edge-of-town

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/jul/23/why-every-single-statue-should-come-down-podcast

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Phil Mellen was the Deputy Director of Children's Services for Leeds City Council.

He tells me about having to leave the role, contracting Covid and then long Covid, writing songs and his recording deal.

Phil lives in Cheshire, just south of Manchester and answers the three questions I ask every guest.

http://www.blacksheeplad.com/

https://twitter.com/blacksheeplad

https://soundcloud.com/blacksheeplad

https://blacksheeplad.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/blacksheeplad/?hl=en-gb

I make no money from this podcast and all I ask is that you enjoy it, tell your friends and if you could leave me a review I would be most grateful.

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It was great to chat to another Leeds Podcaster - Simon Treen about his podcast Working Hours.

Simon is aiming to record 1000 people over the course of the decade about their job and how they feel about it.

If you'd like to get involved please check the links below.

The featured song on this episode is the raucous "Sunset Claims" by Blue Orchid Reaction.

https://western-studios.com/

https://www.instagram.com/western_studios_leeds/

https://twitter.com/WesternStudios2

https://www.linkedin.com/company/western-studios/

https://www.instagram.com/workinghourspodleeds/

https://www.patreon.com/WorkingHoursPod

https://[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/BlueOrchidReaction/

https://twitter.com/blue_reaction?lang=en

https://www.instagram.com/blue_orchid_reactionband/?hl=en-gb

https://blueorchidreaction.bandcamp.com/

I make no money from this podcast and all I ask is that you enjoy it, tell your friends and if you could leave me a review I would be most grateful.

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Dr Kerry Harker remotely connected to tell me all about the East Leeds Project of which she is a founder and the Artictic Director.

Kerry tells me about the MakerSpace project, East Leeds Pavillion and KIOSK.

She was very proud to tell me about the launch of their newspaper "We Are Pioneers".

"We are a practitioner-led visual arts organisation based in Gipton, East Leeds. We work with art as a social action, which we understand as ‘employ[ing] the varied forms offered by the expanded field of contemporary art as a collaborative, collective and participatory social method for bringing about real-world instances of progressive justice, community building and transformation’. (Gregory Sholette and Chloë Bass, 2018) "

Kerry chose to feature the beautiful track "Some Things Grow" by Zoe Carty.

https://eastleedsproject.org/

https://www.facebook.com/eastleedsproject

https://www.instagram.com/eastleedsproject/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/leeds_east?lang=en

https://www.facebook.com/carty.zoe

https://www.instagram.com/zzzoca/?hl=en-gb

https://zoecarty.bandcamp.com/

I make no money from this podcast and all I ask is that you enjoy it, tell your friends and if you could leave me a review I would be most grateful.

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Philip Cumberland has written a fantastic book called "Killing Time in Cambridge".

He speaks to me about the book, how he got started writing and about Cambridge and the Fens.

The featured track is "The Sesh" by the brilliant Kirkcaldy musician PG Ciarletta.

https://fenlandphil.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20858356.Philip_Cumberland

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Killing-Time-Cambridge-Philip-Cumberland/dp/1916481779

https://www.u3a.org.uk/

https://whittleseywordsmiths.com/?wref=bif

Facebook – PGCiarletta  

Twitter –  @PGCiarletta  

Instagram – pgciarletta  

Youtube – PG Ciarletta  

Tiktok – @pgciarletta 

I make no money from this podcast and all I ask is that you enjoy it, tell your friends and if you could leave me a review I would be most grateful.

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I was so excited to speak to Dr Kate Lister who is a lecturer at Leeds Trinity University and who researches the literary history of sex work and created the online research project Whores of Yore - a digital archive for the study of historical sexuality.

Kate is the author of the A Curious History of Sex (which I have read and is a fantastic and fascinating read) and has appeared on TED Talks (links below).

Our chat is very frank and honest and if you don't like discussions around sex and the words we use for certain parts of the anatomy then this one may not be for you. I hope it is though because I thoroughly enjoyed chatting to Kate.

The featured song is "Love You Better" by Rob Chew - I love this track, it's so poppy and upbeat - see what you think!

https://twitter.com/k8_lister

https://www.thewhoresofyore.com/about.html

https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_lister_an_honest_history_of_an_ancient_and_nasty_word?language=en

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Curious-History-Sex-Kate-Lister/dp/1783528052

https://www.musicleeds.com/launchpadartistblog2019/2019/5/29/rob-chew

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0JaNIOrkb4nyEzDLa77QFW

https://www.facebook.com/RobChewMusic/

https://twitter.com/robchew?lang=en

I make no money from this podcast and all I ask is that you enjoy it, tell your friends and if you could leave me a review I would be most grateful.

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Sara Merritt was a brilliant guest and told me about her role as Leeds Museums & Galleries Audience Development Officer.

She and her colleague Meg are the hosts of the Museums n'that podcast.

Sara chose to feature the astoundingly great track "Cool Down" by Issac Saierre.




https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcasts/

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/museums-nthat/id1499083156

https://www.facebook.com/LeedsMuseumsandGalleries

https://twitter.com/leedsmuseums

https://t.co/m8SGP4VQTW?amp=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFXhU7QRiuE

https://www.instagram.com/isaacsaierre/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/isaacsaierre?lang=en

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=isaac%20saierre

I make no money from this podcast and all I ask is that you enjoy it, tell your friends and if you could leave me a review I would be most grateful.

If you know of someone you think would make a great guest, do get in touch - [email protected].

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I had a fabulous chat with Alex from Riptide.

As of 2014 Riptide have been making work that places audiences at the heart of the experience. They use innovative story-telling and digital technology to achieve this.

The featured track is the absloutely beautiful "Lost and Found" by the incredibly talented Carmen McClean. The single was released on 30th July - do go and support her if you can,

https://theriptide.co.uk/

https://twitter.com/riptide_uk

https://www.facebook.com/intheriptide/

https://youtu.be/iBCetd73t-s

https://www.facebook.com/carmenmcleanmusic

https://twitter.com/carmenmmusic

https://www.instagram.com/carmenmcleanmusic/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/02pG0Q00YJFbvmO82qVanX

https://soundcloud.com/carmenmclean

I make no money from this podcast and all I ask is that you enjoy it, tell your friends and if you could leave me a review I would be most grateful.

If you know of someone you think would make a great guest, do get in touch - [email protected].

Do send an mp3 or a wav if you would like your track featuring on an episode.