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    S2 Ep 6 | Does your curiosity feed your creativity?

    Reaching “hard to reach” audiences: what that work demands with Kenny Baraka and John Bernard

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    S2 Ep 3 | If I say I’m good, I’m lying.

    How disability shapes the work and live performance with Josephine ‘Realitie’ Rollins and Adrian B

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    S2 Ep 2 | Dust yourself off and try again.

    Artist wellbeing, self‑made spaces, and safeguarding boundaries with Be Manzini and Tanaka Fuego

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    S2 Ep 1 | Hey, How you doing?

    Starting season: turning care inward; setting your own boundaries with Be Manzini and Tanaka Fuego

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    Season 2 Ep 0 | What we have coming up.

    Season preview: what’s in store this time – with host Yomi Sode and sound producer Drew at Lab Studios

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    Apples and Snakes: The Podcast

    Tune in and listen up. Join Award winning British-Nigerian writer Yomi Sode for Apples and Snakes: The Podcast. You probably have heard of our host who regularly hosts our performance poetry night – Jawdance

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    Apples and Snakes X The Verb

    This week on The Verb we’re celebrating the birthday of Apples and Snakes, who’ve been pioneering spoken word poetry for 40 years.

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    Ep 10 | The importance of owning and telling our own stories Part 2: This space is therapy.

    Therapy in owning narratives; building platforms for younger poets with Francois and Reece Williams

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    Ep 9 | The importance of owning and telling our own stories Part 1: The great unlearning

    Owning stories, bravery, and unlearning silence with Kat Francois and Reece Williams

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    Ep 8 | Poetry in Education Part 2: It comes down to understanding the words and the lines

    Making poetry accessible when curricula exclude lived experience with Casey Bailey and Que

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    Ep 7 | Poetry In Education part 1: Man‘s a poet now.

    Education’s impact on poetry; unlearning and making poetry attractive again – with Casey Bailey and Que AKA Quethewolf

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    Ep 6 | National Voices part 2: Creating space for development and growth

    Regional voices and building development spaces to counter isolation with Khadijah Ibrahiim and Malaika Kegode

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    Ep 5 | National Voices Part 1: ‘But I’m a poet as well”

    Why regional and rural voices must be centred with Khadijah Ibrahiim and Malaika Kegode

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    EP 4 | Music Part 2: ‘When poets write we conjure worlds and cast spells”

    Music × poetry and dismantling page‑vs‑stage gatekeeping with Zena Edwards and Eklipse

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    EP 3 | Music Part 1: ‘Sometimes our stories need music’

    How music carries stories and frees poets with Zena Edwards and Eklipse

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    EP 2 | Publishing Part 2: ‘We do it so our community lives forever’

    Publishing now: pressures, expectations, and cultural stakes with Caleb Femi and Nii Ayikwei Parkes

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    EP 1 | Publishing Part 1: ‘I’m just tryna be like you bro!’

    Navigating publishing as a Black poet; challenges and change with Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Caleb Femi

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    EP 0 | Welcome to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast

    Series launch: centring Black British poets—why it matters. With host Yomi Sode and series producer Natalie Fiawoo

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    The Golden House by Ross Sutherland

    A secretive tech company decides to launch a podcast, revealing themselves to the outside world for the first time in 11 years. On the surface, the podcast appears to be a standard PR exercise, but all is not what it seems. The podcast’s presenter is smuggling secret codes into each episode— clues to a bigger…

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    Imaginary Advice by Ross Sutherland

    An award-winning podcast, Imaginary Advice by Ross Sutherland is a sketchpad for new ideas and new ways of telling stories. Some stories are true, some are fiction, some are closer to audio essays. Most episodes end up being a blend of all three. All episodes are written, produced and presented by Ross Sutherland and new…

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    Apples and Snakes: Assembly – Women’s Suffrage

    Apples and Snakes: Assembly celebrates the centenary of the first wave of women’s suffrage. Featuring Stockton-based women’s writing group Tees Women Poets, Hull-based collective Women of Words, and Sheffield-based collective Verse Matters, alongside Apples and Snakes’ North Producer Kirsten Luckins. Edited by Jay Sykes.

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    Apples and Snakes: Assembly – Windrush 70

    Alexander D Great, Antonia Jade King and Malika Booker perform pieces about Windrush

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