Leeds Book Club

February 2018 - This month I have mostly been reading

March 17, 2018 12:57 - 51 minutes - 22.7 MB

Join Jess (@BookElfLeeds) and myself for a meander through our February reads. We discuss - Dream Lake by Lisa Klepas - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - Seasons of my Life - Hannah Hauxwell - His Dark Materials Trilogy and the Book of Dust - Philip Pullman - Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier

Ep 24 - Jan 2018 - This month I have mostly been reading...

February 01, 2018 21:31 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MB

Join @BookElfLeeds and I for a chat about what we've been reading this month. From slightly smutty novels to book club low scores to holocaust denial...we like to think we've been keeping it varied... Note - there might just have been a glass of wine involved in this production...

The Quest for the Christmas Spirit

December 01, 2017 12:40 - 50 minutes - 22.2 MB

@BookElfLeeds is back with a new reading challenge! Join us as we converse Christmas spirit and where to find it - books, movies, hallmark - we meander happily through all the seasonal tropes!

Ep 22 - Book Elf Leeds Reading Challenge Update

March 28, 2016 18:40 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MB

Jess (@BookElfLeeds) provides us with an update of her Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge of 2016. With 6 books read; she's at the halfway mark already! From historical fiction to librarian-readers-recommendations books (oooh, secret knowledge!) to coming-of-age to raunchy reading for teens - join us for a fascinating voyage of literary wonder!!

Ep 21 - MINIcine - Never Let Me Go

March 13, 2016 22:01 - 30 minutes - 28 MB

After the recent showing of Never Let Me Go (part of the Human Nature season) by @MinicineYorks, we held an after film discussion comparing the book to the film. The sound is a tiny bit hollow but the chat was ace!

LBC EP20 - 2016 Reading Challenge

January 24, 2016 14:29 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB

LBC and @BookElfLeeds join forces to discuss the Modern Mrs Darcy reading challenge. From book blurbs to stickers to authors to recommendations and must reads - it's our bookiest booky chat in ages!

LBC EP19 - Conversations with MiniCINE!

December 16, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 55 MB

LBC is joined by the fabulously funny Minicine team - Woody and Abi - for a chat about all things film, short film, social cinema and CAKE! We discuss the origins of Minicine, its exciting plans for 2016 and cat videos! Probably the most enthusiastic podcast you'll hear this year!

Culturally Minded EP03 - 'I'll edit that out' (and then I didn't)

October 18, 2015 17:23 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MB

Tom (@ArtsMindsLeeds) takes Niamh (@LeedsBookClub) around one of the art exhibitions!

Culturally Minded EP02

October 06, 2015 00:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MB

Tom (@ArtsMindsLeeds) and I meet up to discuss comics - the Movement, Look Straight Ahead, 2 Kill and Psychiatric Tales; books - The Girl on the Train; Tom's Recommendation - In and Out of the Kitchen and exciting events coming up soon!

Culturally Minded EP01 - Structured yet nicely vague

September 22, 2015 23:03 - 16 minutes - 18.6 MB

Tom (@ArtsMindsLeeds) and I say hi and introduce Culturally Minded - the new project from Sharing Stories!

Testing Testing...Is anybody out there!!

June 24, 2015 15:43 - 4 minutes - 3.86 MB

This is *NOT* a LeedsBookClub podcast! When Shona and Niamh get together, the craic is always mighty. So this is our first podcast together! We want to discuss all manner of Geeky topics from our own wonderful and wild perspective! If you like the sound of us/it - let us know by dropping us a tweet @EllieJayden and @Drneevil!

True Love - A short story by Owen Elgie

October 05, 2014 19:22 - 4 minutes - 3.85 MB

ADULT! Horror! A short story by Owen Elgie, recorded as an audio tale by Niamh Foley (LBC).

Sharing Stories

September 30, 2013 13:33 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MB

LBC is joined by Tom from @ArtsMindsLeeds - one of the genius minds behind the Sharing Stories campaign. We discuss fiction as a learning tool for mental health awareness and our upcoming book club chatting about Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

Interview with Ross Young

September 03, 2013 11:13 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MB

LBC is joined by Ross Young - the author of the Gloomwood Series. We discuss the first - Dead Heads - before exploring his writing style and the world of self publishing!

Interview with Claudia Christian

August 21, 2013 13:05 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MB

To hoards of SF fans, Claudia will always be General Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 - one of the greatest SF characters in one of the greatest SF TV series EVER. However - as you'll hear during our chat - she's a true renaissance woman, with a diverse range of activities and creative outlets. She writes. She sings. She enjoys food, travel and books. She's even written a few herself! All that on top of portraying countless memorable characters across tv and film. AND single handedly destroyed ...

Sherlock Holmes - Leeds Best Kept Secret

May 07, 2013 07:28 - 40 minutes - 55.2 MB

Mark Catley - acclaimed writer and proud northerner - joins LBC for a chat about Holmes, tackling Conan Doyle, writing for TV and theatre, the cultural landscape in Leeds and Buffy. Because what's a chat without some Whedon.

Transform 13

April 24, 2013 13:47 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MB

LBC chat with a WY Playhouse choreographer on the Transform 2013 - Burmantofts Stories project. We also discuss dance, dialogue and the importance of theatre engaging with the wider community.

Chat with Peter Bullimore

February 19, 2013 02:31 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MB

LBC discuss all sorts of everything with Peter Bullimore from Sharing Stories, to Hearing Voices, his children's book 'A Village Called Pumpkin' and the role society plays in mental health perceptions.

Interview with Ruth F Long

December 05, 2012 11:40 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MB

LeedsBookClub chat with the fascinating Ruth F Long about books, SF and fantasy, writing, publishing, some films and tv and we'd have happily gone on for hours if real life hadn't intervened!

Interview with James Schwartz

October 04, 2012 14:11 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MB

LBC and James chat about his recent book - about growing up Gay and Amish, twitter, poetry, films and everything in between!

Chris Nickson - Book Launch!

September 02, 2012 08:59 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MB

Chris and I natter about the latest in his Richard Nottingham series; his upcoming book launch on Sept 14th and the various projects he's juggling!

World Book Night - 2012

April 22, 2012 06:14 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MB

LeedsBookClub and BookElfLeeds chat about the world book night books, travelling suitcase library, Arcadia, White Swan, book swapping, buffets, buns and cakes. Giving away I Capture The Castle and The Player of Games on 23-04-12 7pm!

The Hunger Games Book 1

November 13, 2011 11:24 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MB

Where LeedsBookClub and mate J discuss the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Expect rambily giggily natter. Detailed look at the book (spoilers!) and some mention of the film!

Lucinda Hawksley Interview

October 02, 2011 07:24 - 45 minutes - 63 MB

We chat about writing, travelling, Lizzie Siddal and Charles Dickens!

Chris Nickson Interview

September 18, 2011 06:51 - 52 minutes - 71.6 MB

Chris Nickson - author of the Richard Nottingham Series (The Broken Token, Cold Cruel Winter and the Constant Lovers) chats with us about all kinds of everything!

Poddy goes Fourth

May 01, 2011 08:14 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MB

Where BOOKELFLEEDS and LEEDSBOOKCLUB discuss the works of Fannie Flagg - starrting with Fried Green Tomatoes, Welcome to the world Baby Girl, Standing in the Rainbow, Can't wait to get to Heaven & I still dream about you.

Poddy the third

March 26, 2011 04:39 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MB

Let's Get Classical! Where we go Bronte crazy, and Austen mad - discussing The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. And the film/tv adaptations are also mentioned.

Podcast the Second

February 12, 2011 08:21 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB

Where @BookElfLeeds and @LeedsBookClub discuss Deirdre Purcell's Falling for a Dancer, and the subsequent BBC adaptation.

It's getting Dark in here

February 12, 2011 04:40 - 57 minutes - 53 MB

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman The Dark is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - Michelle Paver

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