Five mornings, five conversations: LIFI26 on BBC Radio Leeds

Every morning of festival week, a different LIFI26 voice has joined Dixie on the BBC Radio Leeds Breakfast show to talk about the conversation happening at Leeds Playhouse that same night. Here’s where to catch up.

The best ideas don’t stay on the stage. They make it to the school run, the commute and the kitchen radio. This year, our partnership with BBC Radio Leeds has taken each night’s conversation to listeners across the region, hours before the doors opened.

At 7.50am each day, a guest from that evening’s event joined Dixie on the radio to talk about why the subject matters and what the audience could expect. All five are on BBC Sounds. Skip to around 1 hour 50 minutes in to find each one.

Monday: Martin Dickson
Festival Director Martin Dickson came in to start the week. He talked about the build, the buzz of getting into Leeds Playhouse, and what was coming across five days of the festival.
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Tuesday: Harriet Rose
On the day Louis Theroux launched LIFI26, Harriet Rose talked about hosting him that evening.
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Wednesday: Andy Airey
Andy Airey of 3 Dads Walking spoke ahead of that night’s panel on suicide prevention, alongside Roman Kemp and Professor Rory O’Connor, hosted by Amy Irons. It was an honest and important conversation to have on breakfast radio.
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Thursday: Dr Mya-Rose Craig
Birdgirl herself, Dr Mya-Rose Craig, joined Dixie before taking the stage with Chris Packham CBE and Juergen Maier CBE for The planet hasn’t stopped burning.
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Friday: Miranda Sawyer
Broadcaster and writer Miranda Sawyer closed the week, talking about “What did the 90s really do to us?” at Leeds Playhouse.
Listen back link – live at 10am Friday 9th October

LIFI26 runs at Leeds Playhouse until Saturday 10 October. All events are BSL interpreted and open captioned.

If anything in Wednesday’s conversation has affected you, Samaritans are available any time, day or night, on 116 123.