Shows
Leeds Book ClubFebruary 2018 - This month I have mostly been readingJoin 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
2018-03-1700 min
Leeds Book ClubEp 24 - Jan 2018 - This month I have mostly been reading...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...
2018-02-0100 min
Leeds Book ClubThe Quest for the Christmas Spirit@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!
2017-12-0100 min
Leeds Book ClubEp 22 - Book Elf Leeds Reading Challenge UpdateJess (@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!!
2016-03-2800 min
Leeds Book ClubEp 21 - MINIcine - Never Let Me GoAfter 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!
2016-03-1300 minLeeds Book ClubLBC EP20 - 2016 Reading ChallengeLBC 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!
2016-01-2400 min
Leeds Book ClubLBC EP19 - Conversations with MiniCINE!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!
2015-12-1600 min
Leeds Book ClubCulturally Minded EP03 - 'I'll edit that out' (and then I didn't)Tom (@ArtsMindsLeeds) takes Niamh (@LeedsBookClub) around one of the art exhibitions!
2015-10-1800 min
Leeds Book ClubCulturally Minded EP02Tom (@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!
2015-10-0600 min
Leeds Book ClubCulturally Minded EP01 - Structured yet nicely vagueTom (@ArtsMindsLeeds) and I say hi and introduce Culturally Minded - the new project from Sharing Stories!
2015-09-2300 min
Leeds Book ClubTesting Testing...Is anybody out there!!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!
2015-06-2400 minLeeds Book ClubTrue Love - A short story by Owen ElgieADULT!
Horror!
A short story by Owen Elgie, recorded as an audio tale by Niamh Foley (LBC).
2014-10-0500 min
Leeds Book ClubSharing StoriesLBC 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
2013-09-3000 min
Leeds Book ClubInterview with Ross YoungLBC 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!
2013-09-0300 min
Leeds Book ClubInterview with Claudia ChristianTo 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 a small fleet.
Intimidating?
Just a touch.
2013-08-2100 min
Leeds Book ClubSherlock Holmes - Leeds Best Kept SecretMark 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.
2013-05-0700 min
Leeds Book ClubTransform 13LBC 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.
2013-04-2400 min
Leeds Book ClubChat with Peter BullimoreLBC 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.
2013-02-1900 min
Leeds Book ClubInterview with Ruth F LongLeedsBookClub 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!
2012-12-0500 min
Leeds Book ClubInterview with James SchwartzLBC and James chat about his recent book - about growing up Gay and Amish, twitter, poetry, films and everything in between!
2012-10-0400 min
Leeds Book ClubChris Nickson - Book Launch!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!
2012-09-0200 min
Leeds Book ClubWorld Book Night - 2012LeedsBookClub 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!
2012-04-2200 min
Leeds Book ClubThe Hunger Games Book 1Where 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!
2011-11-1300 min
Leeds Book ClubLucinda Hawksley InterviewWe chat about writing, travelling, Lizzie Siddal and Charles Dickens!
2011-10-0200 min
Leeds Book ClubChris Nickson InterviewChris 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!
2011-09-1800 min
Leeds Book ClubPoddy goes FourthWhere 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.
2011-05-0100 minLeeds Book ClubPoddy the thirdLet'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.
2011-03-2600 minLeeds Book ClubPodcast the SecondWhere @BookElfLeeds and @LeedsBookClub discuss Deirdre Purcell's Falling for a Dancer, and the subsequent BBC adaptation.
2011-02-1200 minLeeds Book ClubIt's getting Dark in hereHis Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Dark is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - Michelle Paver
2011-02-1200 min