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Find The Right Words is a poetry and rap night in Leicester which each month features two of the most exciting performers from around the UK. There are also 10 open mic spots to local acts and the challenge for an audience member to write and perform a poem based on suggestions from the audience. On this monthly podcast Jess Green introduces a selection of poems from the open mic spots and highlights from the headliners.
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Find the Right Words: Jasmine Gardosi and Adele Hampton
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Jasmine Gardosi likes to write about weird things in unweird places – kind of like her, everywhere. She is the current Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam Champion, last year’s Mix It Up Midlands Slam Champion and one of the winners of the International Pangaea Poetry Slam 2015. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, was shortlisted for Birmingham…
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Episode 7 Keisha Thompson and Ben Norris
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The final Find the Right Words of 2016, hosted by Jess Green. This is an edited but uncensored version of the night.Ben Norris is an actor and writer.In 2013 he became the UK All-Star Poetry Slam Champion and has since performed his spoken-word across the country, from Latitude Festival to the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. His work has been broad…
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Episode 6: Rebecca Tantony and Ben Mellor
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Ben Mellor returns to the same venue where he previously brought his touring show Anthropoetry, which as well as hitting the Edinburgh Frine twice, also toured Australia.In his own words: "I live in Manchester. I like cooking. I won the 2009 BBC Radio 4 National Poetry Slam. I no longer have a cat."?Rebecca Tantony is a poet, and performer, and pas…
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