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.

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'.

Leeds/Dortmund citizen Geoff Tranter talks about the shared history of Leeds & German city Dortmund & the value of city twinning. Plus street artist Stewy on his new wall portrait of poet Tony Harrison at Chapel FM.

Poetry magazine Pennine Platform has a flourishing subscriber list and international reach. Four poets from the current Issue read and discuss their contributions to this issue with editor Julia Deakin, and select their favourite pieces by other poets.

Barry Strickland-Hodge is the writer of ten books and numerous articles about medicine and pharmacology. He's also an expert on Thomas Culpeper and his classic Complete Herbal. Here he talks about being an Apothecary, about herbalism, about silence and tears.

John Irving Clarke spends lengthy periods gazing out of windows, convinced that Hemingway's "one true sentence" lies out there somewhere. He has a new collection of stories out, How The Northern Light Gets In. John was a co-founder of the legendary Red Shed Readings in Wakefield.

Lottie Sadd is a Leeds-based interdisciplinary composer-performer and workshop facilitator. She talks about her practice in sound, voice, and text.

Spike Marshall talks about directing the hard-hitting drama 'Hangmen' by Martin McDonagh for Leeds Arts Centre, opening Feb 26th at The Carriageworks. What's it about? And how does this play sit more generally within McDonagh's film and stage writing?