Light on Leeds

Catherine Warr remotely connected to tell me all about her great passion for Yorkshire History and her incredibly popular YouTube channel.

The beautiful song featured on this episode is "Only Friends" by Beth Kilburn.

This episode was produced by Richard Hatton.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4EhKVJccvPDs5dF8hxQ3JQ

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=yorkshire%27s%20hidden%20history

http://www.catherinewarrshistorytours.com/

https://www.facebook.com/beth.kilburn.37

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Katie Hall remotely connected with me all the way from Vouleme in France to tell me how she got there, how she is coping with a French lockdown and about her very exciting plans for the future.

Katie chose to feature two tracks by the very talented Lewis Hall - do check out his work and Katie's Go Fund Me page (links below).

"Legacy is a project created in order to offer disadvantaged and/or city dwelling children the opportunity to spend time learning how to love and care for the natural world.

Set in the picturesque village of Vouleme, southwest France, The Hub will also serve as a community centre, including: a cafe serving vegetarian and vegan dishes, freshly prepared using homegrown and locally sourced organic ingredients; a zero waste shop selling eco-friendly products, organic food and drink products and locally made arts and crafts items; affordable family holiday accommodation beside the beautiful Charente river; an educational market garden, open to visitors and demonstrating permaculture techniques; various workshops including vegan and vegetarian cookery, zero waste cosmetics, etc.

Having privately raised the funds to purchase our amazing riverside property, set on 6500sqm of fertile land with a well and outbuildings, cafe, holiday gite and space for the new shop, additional funds are now needed to buy materials for the construction of accommodation cabins, composting toilets, solar showers and a large greenhouse, along with the renovation of the shop space.

Without these additional funds we could not bring this eco-socio project to fruition. Our initial target of 1000 euros will get the ball rolling but further donations will enable us to achieve faster results and help to subsidise the children's retreats once the works have been completed.

We are also looking into the availability of grants for the installation of solar panels and other eco-renovations, with the ultimate goal of becoming self sufficient and carbon neutral."

This episode was produced by Richard Hatton.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/c8fkn-legacy?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

https://www.facebook.com/HubVouleme

https://www.facebook.com/voulemois

https://www.facebook.com/LeBourgVouleme

https://soundcloud.com/user-13922959/downtown

https://soundcloud.com/user-13922959/you-got-it-right

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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Kenn Taylor is the Lead Cultural Producer North at the British Library based at Boston Spa.

There are over 170 million items stored there and in 2023 they will be celebrating their 50th birthday. 

Kenn tells me about the work they do at the British Libray and about their collaboration with Invisible Flock on "Faint SIgnals":

"An invitation to slow down, an opportunity to experience an imagined British woodland, densely populated with sounds of nature from the British Library’s archive.

Faint Signals is an ambient and slow experience of discovery, exploring the world one step at a time. With thousands of combinations of sounds, your constantly evolving experience will be unique to you.

Each tile scrolled past unlocks a narrative and rich vein of sounds from the forest, all of which are based on real life environments, with wildlife, weather and other nature sounds reflecting the diversity and complexity of ecosystems in the Yorkshire region."

The featured track on this episode is "Natural Force" by the brilliant Weathered Man and The Noise.

https://www.faintsignals.io/

https://invisibleflock.com/portfolio/faint-signals/

https://www.bl.uk/events/british-library-north#

https://ffm.to/naturalforce

https://www.facebook.com/weatheredmanmusic/

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

https://www.instagram.com/weatheredman/?hl=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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Archie Brooks remotely connected to tell me about Assembly House in Armley - an artist led studio housing 21 artists in an old textile mill.

Archie chose to feature the track "The Hunt" by Three Streets - it's certainly one to rock out to!

This episode was produced by Richard Hatton.

https://www.assemblyhouse.art/

https://www.facebook.com/assemblyhousestudios/

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

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

Archie's piece "Durations":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEFYG_MifT4

https://open.spotify.com/album/5735yVKx2wjE8aWpbHqs2T?si=y9A73DgxT9yFdvuivnZ3Sw

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 have known Augustus for quite a while, so when he told me about his project to raise money for a school in Ghana I asked him to  remotely connect and tell me all about it.

If you are inspired to help out and donate after listening to him speak, you can do so on the link below.

The featured song on this episode is the excellent  "Monochrome" by Introspective, a newly located University of Leeds band all aged 18-19 - it's a great track.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-school-project?qid=8eba470ef71da570a6400837471687a4

https://instagram.com/introspectiveband

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1LJGG1qT2s0kZYZYsWd1iK?si=bI5Y12QyQiC04CPkawokvw

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 catch up with Chesca Joy the Artistec Director of Imagine If Theatre Company (founded by her in 2015) and based in Armley Leeds.

Chesca tells me about her grandad who she based her play Jadek on, how she got into writing through getting into trouble.

Free as a Bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqL-1_S8ok8

Jadek trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK0KxRn3x5E

https://imagineiftheatre.co.uk/

https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/6701#!/DonationDetails

http://musicfromattic.bandcamp.com/album/see-what-i-can-see

https://bit.ly/MFTASWICS

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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Welcome to this new series entitled Light On - pretty much the same as Light On Leeds except in this series I shine the light a little wider onto people doing amazing things outsideof Leeds.

My first guest is a person I have known online for many years, Jane Badrock. Jane is an author and remotely connects to tell me all about  how she came to be writing novels and about her inspiration.

The wonderful Nicky Bray wrote, sang and recorded the brilliant theme tune for this series.

This episode was produced by Richard Hatton.

The song featured on this episode is "Settlers Street" by Adam and Elvis.

If you know of anyone outside of Leeds who would like to be featured on the new series of Light On - do drop me a line at [email protected]. Similarly, if you would like a song featured, do send me an mp3 and I will get you on an episode.

https://badpress.ink/authors/jane-badrock/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jane-Badrock/e/B07HZ2HD3Q%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Twitter: @janebadrock

https://www.facebook.com/janebadrockauthor/

https://www.facebook.com/adamandelvis/

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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Happy New Year Leeds (and beyond!)!

Boff Whalley is my guest on this episode that was recorded just before Christmas.

Boff is formerly the lead guitarist of Chumbawamba, is a playwright and the founder of the Commoner's Choir - amongst much else!

He talks to me about his love of fell-running and the play he has written the music for "The Hills are Ours" by Dan Bye.

Please check out the links below to hear the Commoner' Choir for yourself.

Boff chose to feature the brilliant track "Ferry Across the Aire" by Carl Puttnam and Alaric Neville.

This episode was produced by Richard Hatton.


http://www.commonerschoir.com/

https://www.facebook.com/commonerschoir/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf-C9LGhEcpdhtFrmlDKq4w

https://www.patreon.com/commoners?fan_landing=true

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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Tony Lambert was a blast to remotely talk to - he told me all about the fantastic project Bringing It All Back Home which is a mental health project using music as a resource - music recorded at Chapel Studios in Holbeck.

Tony and his musos  have created The Lockdown Album featuring 14 songs and is available on Band Camp.

He chose to feature a fabulous version of "Mad World" by Stoneblower.

Do go and have a listen to the album on te Band Camp page and donate if you are able!

BIABH is a project run on behalf of Leeds Music Trust (registered charity 1128587)

https://www.facebook.com/bringingitallbackhome.lmt

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/biabh

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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Colin Griffiths is a Store Co-ordinator at SCRAP - a wonderful and much loved resource for arts and play.

Colin tells me about his background in graphic design about being a "Reimagineer" and some of the amazing items that have turned up in the scrap store.

Colin chose to feature the song "The People" by The Music a Leeds band who have a loyal following (1999-2011) and are having a huge reunion gig at Temple Newsam in May 2021.


"SCRAP Centre of Creative, Reuse Play and Learning is a social enterprise based in a creative space at Sunnybank Mills, Farsley, Leeds. We were established in 2006 in a small unit in Leeds and have grown a great deal in size since then, developing from a funding reliant organisation to a self-sustainable not-for-profit social enterprise. Founder Louise Lucas, who has worked within the education and community sectors for many years, has always had a concern for environmental issues and could see the potential and need of diverting business waste as low-cost resources for art, play and learning. From our Centre we divert over a hundred tonnes of business waste per year from landfill to play, learning and community projects across the region. As a not-for-profit organisation we try and make our social enterprise as sustainable as possible. We achieve this mainly by running a shop which sells low cost resources that would have gone to waste. We also provide ScrapSheds to schools across Yorkshire, run environmental corporate days and training and craft sessions for adults and children. Every single project and activity SCRAP delivers has an environmental and social thread running through it."

https://scrapstuff.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/themusicuk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/best-in-leeds/gigs-clubs/leeds-band-music-return-huge-18877217

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.