As part of our ongoing series True stories from the forests of Leeds, we’ve been looking back at some of the historical figures who helped to shape the city we live in. Today we’re looking at some of Leeds’ connections to the slave trade. We talk about William...
In 2015 we put together Stories From The Forests of Leeds, a collection of short stories set in a fictional Leeds forest. To follow up we wanted to look at some of the real heroes and great stories that made Leeds the city it is. In today’s podcast Lawrence...
Simon Hall leads us through Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen. This is an edited down recording from one of our lunchtime conversations. Shadow of the Galilean explores questions around the search for the historical Jesus through a fictional spy story set in...
Simon Smith is an illustrator and artist based in Leeds and ‘How to Disappear Completely’ is a comic that was written for Lent and for Leeds. We sat down with Si to talk about illustration, music and Stanley Spencer. There is a shorter version of this...
For the 2016 Hook Lecture, (originally planned to take place last November) Lord Bhikhu Parekh came to Leeds to discuss the role that religion plays in today’s multicultural society. Lord Parekh has helped shape the British understanding of multiculturalism and...
It felt like a Monty Python event… and now for something completely different! With the help of the inimitable Rev Kate Bottley, a new network was launched; “Leeds Christians in Education”. Leeds Church Institute treated educational workers, paid and voluntary, to an...
