Light on Leeds

Chris O’Connor has just finished touring The Parting Glass with Red Ladder Theatre Company.

He is also the creator of Life is Sketchy.

Chris co-hosts Mantality with Stevie Ward of Leeds Rhinos - it’s …

I have lots of previously recorded podcasts saved up but obviously none of them mention Corona Virus or the lockdown we’re all experiencing in the UK. I felt that it’s important to acknowledge how th…

Erlend  Arnesen is a Norwegian student currently studying songwriting at Leeds College of Music.

He tells me how he ended up in Leeds, about his course at LCM and his Arnesen Music project.

Erland sup…

On Episode 27 I speak to John Boocock, historian, who tells me about the Leeds 1917 convention which was set up to support the first Russian revolution.

He tells me about Leeds alternative publicatio…

Sam Taylor, Adam Chase & James Benson host the popular Leeds podcast, Killer Rabbit. They tell me about their inspiration for beginning the podcast and were generally just great fun to chat with.

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James Rhodes came to tell me about his voracious love for Leeds facts.

He tells me about how the book “On This Day in Leeds” came about and he was so lovely he gifted me a copy!

It was great to hear Ja…

Carl Milner told me about his work with Igers Leeds (Instagram) and the epic photography meet ups he organises with Elaine Taylor and Bill Moody.

www.instagram.com/igersleeds

Music is this week provid…

Larry & Paul have a brilliant show on Saturdays on BBC Radio Leeds. They came to tell me all about how they got to where they are and about the exciting launch of their production company Northern Im…

Episode 22 of Light on Leeds podcast features Rachael Unsworth, an urban geographer whose company Leeds City Walking Tours takes groups of people on guided walks across the city.

If you’d like to lear…

Danika Priim is a rugby league player for Leeds Rhinos Women in the Leeds Rhinos Women’s Super League.

Danika told me about how it feels to be the current Women’s Super League Champions, her travels i…

I’m afraid I messed up in the intro with my numbering of episodes, but Cleve Freckleton was my amazing guest on episode 20 of the Light on Leeds podcast. 

Cleve talks about what music means to him, be…

Emily Carrigan was a brilliant guest and tells us all about her great work at the Rainbow Junktion Cafe.

Music provided this week by Chris Clyburn “Cherry Blossoms”.

Listen to his album “Life, Love an…

Lucy Meredith and Zoe Parker came along to tell me about all sorts of fantastic initiatives they’re involved with.

Apart from being real life mermaids, they run Bramley Mermaids, the Institute for Cra…

I really enjoyed my chat with Antony Butcher - he's a student education service officer at University of Leeds and he's heading off on an epic adventure!

Antony will be cycling coast to coast from New…

Kieran O'Malley is Beeston's best kept secret - he has been playing the violin since a very small child and now plays with all sorts of bands in all sorts of places. 

You can hear Kieran playing at th…

I was so excited when actual Father Christmas asked if he could be a guest on the Light on Leeds podcast - he wanted the chance to dispel some of the myths surrounding him and his helpers. It's a lot…

Lisa Holdsworth is a very busy woman! she is Chair of the Writers' Guild Great Britain. She's written for Emmerdale and Midsomer Murders and has an adaptation of James Herriott's All Creatures Great …

Taras Gorevoy came to Leeds all the way from Estonia and says that he chose our city because he loves football and beer!

Taras runs an Instagram page called Leeds.Life which has one of the largest amo…

Jesse and Jim from Blue Kubricks came and had a beer and told us about how they write songs, looking for the perfect drummer (when they already had one) and much, much more.

Check out their work on Sp…

It was wonderful to have Cat & Kate from Seagull's Paints as guests - I've been looking forward to meeting them for such a long time.

Have a listen to how they began, all of the amazing things they do…