Love the Words

Poet Alex Callaghan talks about the experience of editing and compiling Ey Up 3 and working with Written Off Publishing, as well as the fabulous Bone Down.

As a forerunner for International Men's Day 2024, Jaimes Lewis Moran presents poetry, prose, and reflection on the subject of fathers, first broadcast in Writing On Air 2023.

In anticipation of Writing On Air 2024, another chance to hear about the ground-breaking national organisation Prison Radio and why their work is a lifeline for its listeners.

The People's History of Leeds: Tom Bailey talks about this exciting new project gathering stories about Leeds and its people.

Eleanor May Blackburn is a 27 year old neurodivergent, disabled, queer actor/writer/theatre-maker/poet from Sheffield. The tour of her show Does My Fanny Look Big In This? tours next year and includes a date at The Crucible in her home town. In this LTW episode, Eleanor discusses, with elegance & humour, sex education, sex slang, and the nature of consent.

Winning short dramas from Script Yorkshire's 5th annual radio drama competition, with the winners from last year, all recorded at Chapel FM. Comedy, spookiness and suspense. Chapel FM is very happy to partner up with SY on this project every year.

Keith Fenton, co-founder and presenter of the podcast Poets Talking Bollocks, talks bollocks to LTW about this ambitious audio project mapping the northern open mic scene.

Catherine Staples talks to LTW from Massachusetts, USA, about Vert, her beautiful new poetry collection, an elegy for her beloved brother Paul Calello. Can poetry help us grieve? https://www.amazon.com/Vert-Poems-Catherine-Staples/dp/0881469211

Rob Cowen's book Common Ground (2015) radically broke with the 'nature writing' genre. Here, in this final LTW of Season 6 (returning in September) Rob talks about The Heeding, his moving collection of lockdown poems.

Young writers from Leeds East return to read new work, plus Ethel, Maddy and Maffo from Mafwa Theatre on their lively & uplifting Kuluhenna Drama group for women.