LOVE was held on 22nd Feb 2024 at The Jago, Dalston

A snippet of Art Laboe – the pioneering DJ who is credited with inventing the radio dedication – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDPocOkZlXA

An exploration of animal love in “Love is Sweet Among Non-Human animals” by @lizwason – https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/person/liz-wason. Find Liz here: https://lizwason.wordpress.com/

Old friendships flourish in @JesseLRadio’s “Good Company”, originally heard on @shortcutspod – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fw8t

And an early friendship blossoms in “Kindergarten” by @efriend – https://soundcloud.com/efriend/kindergarten-love?si=96a53bb8ec76453681af7c18773280d0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 

Pat Parker details the (almost) unwavering solace from the outside world that she finds in her relationship with her lover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFTb6Jh5cI 

A heartbroken woman sends a desperate audio letter to her love in this @tapeletters cassette – https://tapeletters.com/project/asma-mirza-cassette/

Rhiannon Parkinson unpacks her first relationship, and first heartbreak in “First Love”. Unpublished.

Leah Menzer breaks (it) down in Sad Sax Song, the realest break up tune of 2016  – originally featured on this episode of @bitchfacepod – https://www.bitchfacepodcast.com/revolution

@trufelman interviews Dorothy Wiggins, who has an unexpected path to love… https://www.tiktok.com/@dorothylovesnewyork/video/7315550214847384878

The limits of brotherly love are tested in @MaxJungreis’s piece “David and Ted”.

The feeling of searching for a lost loved one is captured perfectly by @redzi in “Searching”, first broadcast on @stories_pod http://tellingstoriespod.com/

Jacob Smigel perfectly lip syncs a 1985 love letter from a high schooler to his paramour who is moving away https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop &v=srX9DexCOXs

In Natalie Kestecher’s “The Lonely Animal”, two shunned snorers reflect on the impact that their ‘terrible night noise’ has had on their relationships – https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/archived/radioeye/the-lonely-animal—a-snorers-memoir/3200592

A field recording from the Palestine solidarity march in London, 11 Nov 2023, when thousands upon thousands of people turned out to express love and solidarity with a people under siege https://fieldrecordings.xyz/2023/11/12/palestinian-solidarity-march-london-uk-on-11th-november-2023/

A reminder from the inimitable Diane Di Prima that each other is all we have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3mI197fm3g&t=63s