Raised by Writers: The Stories That Made Us Who We Are

This week, ahead of Empathy Day on June 9th, Paul chats to assistant head and English teacher Amy Willoughby about working with Empathy Lab and the hows and whys of teaching empathy in schools.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 07.05.20

This week Paul talks with poet Sadie Davidson about how she found her way to poetry as a new mother, her work to promote the work of the less privileged and her award-winning project Life Behind Bards.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 31.05.20

This week, Paul gets the chance to chat to old friend and comedy king Tiernan Douieb about writing stand up, working along side some of TV's favourite comedians and encouraging kids to get up and be funny.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 25.05.20

This week, Paul chats with school librarian and disco lover, Valerie Dewhurst.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 17.05.20

In this week's episode, Paul chats to Canadian performance poet Rose Condo about her work, being nominated for awards and her love of all thing Joss Whedon.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 10.05.20

This week Paul talks to young writers whose work has been selected to part of a new anthology, Poems For A Pandemic, along with the book's curator, Angela Marston.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 03.05.20

This week Paul talks to poet Neal Zetter about his children's poetry his love of punk and creating new superheroes and villains.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 26.04.20

This week Paul has the immense pleasure of talking with award winning children's writer Jo Cotterill about her early days in drama, why she loves writing for younger readers and the pleasures and pitfalls of writing new work for a beloved franchise.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 19.04.20

This week, whilst still maintaining social distancing, Paul talks award-winning professional poet, performer and educator Joshua Seigal

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 12.04.20

This week on Waffle, Paul chats to teacher, writer and vegan restaurateur Laura Chepner

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 05.04.20

This week, still interviewing via phone lines due to the Corona virus lock-down, Paul chats with Richard O'Neill about his writing, his love of music and being an advocate for Men's Health.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 104.7 FM on 29.03.20

This week Paul has the absolute pleasure of talking to fellow poet Dominic Berry about his work with children, being a Glastonbury poet in residence and how music and lyrics are some of his greatest inspirations.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 22.03.20

This week, Paul circumnavigates lockdown with a telephone interview with the Woolly Hat Poet and primary school teacher, Benjamin Guilfoyle. They discuss World Book Day, being creative whilst working in education and we hear some of his wonderful poetry.

First broadcast 15.03.20 on Rossendale Radio.

This week Paul celebrates world book day with the students and teachers of Old Hall Primary School in Bury and gets their feelings and opinions on what the day means to them and why they want to celebrate.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 08.03.20

This week Paul chats with Paul Davis of Uke Punk about his influences as a song writer and punk ukelele performer and he performs some of his original work.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 23.02.20

This week Paul chats to fellow Rossendale Radio presenters about their reading habits and their favourite books.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 16.02.20

This week Paul has the pleasure of working with Long Lee Primary School in Keighley doing poetry workshops. We hear from the teachers and the children themselves about how the workshops work and integrate the curriculum and what skills they are secretly learning underneath all the fun.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 09.02.20

This week Paul is back out on the road talking about fascinating new work from the Empathy Lab who are working with schools to encourage reading for not just literacy but also social awareness and empathy.

He talks to teachers in Wales who are integrating the programme into their curriculum and the team behind the project.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 02.02.20.

This week Paul talks to teacher Adams Chase about how to engage children with literacy and encourage them to with their own writing.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 26.01.20

 

This week Paul talks to Emma Speed about her long career working in radio, tv and the time she got to interview Princess Leia.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 12.01.20

This week Paul chats to Rowan Ardill about his serious fundraising endeavor of 202020 running 20 marathons in 20 days in 20 different cities in the hopes of raising £20,000 fin aid of homelessness,  as well as his work with Parkrun and Ramsbottom Running Club.

Paul also reads some of his own running inspired poetry.

First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 05.01.20