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Love the Words

Love the Words

By: Peter Spafford / East Leeds Community Radio
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Peter Spafford, from East Leeds FM, presents his love of all things wordy in his weekly show Love The Words, featuring new creative writing from Leeds and beyond.Copyright 2025 Peter Spafford / East Leeds Community Radio Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Literary History & Criticism
Episodes
  • Love The Words 297: Laura Sutcliffe
    Apr 29 2025

    Laura is a musician, poet & artist inspired by the connection between humans & the landscape, neurodiversity and biodiversity. She reads from her new illustrated collection, As The Flow Cries, and plays some tunes on fiddle and gouzouki.

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    46 mins
  • Love The Words 296: Nicky Bray, The Maids.
    Apr 16 2025

    Musician Nicky Bray talks about her love of languages & the work she does to support language assistants from abroad working in Yorkshire schools, plus Francesca Butler on the challenge of directing Jean Genet's rarely performed The Maids for Leeds Arts Centre.

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    49 mins
  • Love The Words 295: James Wraith
    Apr 8 2025

    James Wraith is a 23 year old student of Linguistics and a passionate advocate for Yorkshire dialect. He talks here about the richness of local language and why we should nurture our 'native twang'.

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    42 mins
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