Matching sky & rooftops…

Moon rise…

Friday night entertainment…

Boxed cute…

Cute…

Narblife…

What happens when people are given the time, space and encouragement to create together? On Spotlight on Arts, we speak with Francis Deepwell and Poppy Haritaki about creativity, community, music, making, and the value of shared artistic experiences.

Narb life…

Summer bloom…

Full bloom…

What’s on…

Hi-life…

It’s cooling a little now…

Worth its weight…

Rather knobbly…

Soothing before the dentist…

Listen to the Distraction Therapy mixtape on @soarsound.uk from 10pm this evening

Listen to Distraction Therapy on @soarsound.uk tonight from 9pm

What stories might be hidden in the sounds of everyday places? Join Radio Lear's Sound Scavenge & Weird Walk in Evington on 20th June. Bring your curiosity, listen closely, and help uncover local myths, memories, and overlooked stories radiolear.uk/listening-fo...

Disquiet Listening: Tunis on Radio Lear. A live radio laboratory connecting experimental music, radio art & independent culture from Tunisia. 19th & 20th June 7pm–10pm (UTC+1). Listen on DAB across Leicester, Loughborough and Rugby radiolear.uk/disquiet-lis...

Stairway to heaven…

Paper machete people…

Work station…

Small dragon…

Copper mask…

English garden fantasy…

Scattered poppies…

Big poppy…

Intense scent…

Calcified dust sprite…

Hunting in packs…

Distraction Therapy is on @soarsound.uk Each Wednesday, 9pm–11pm: two hours of reflective music, moods and listening space. Suitable for humans, cats, dogs and any pets who prefer their radio with atmosphere.

Looking for somewhere to park your bike?

What happens when NIGO’s world of streetwear, sound, collecting and Japanese pop culture becomes a half-hour journey mix? Distraction Therapy with Rob Watson, Wednesdays 9pm to 11pm on Soar Sound.

How does a room change when people are given space to speak? This week’s Distraction Therapy shares voices from Word at Attenborough Arts, reflecting on poetry, listening and the atmosphere of an open mic. Wednesdays, 9pm to 11pm on Soar Sound

What happens when a room is held open for people to speak, listen and try something aloud? Radio Lear shares voices from Word at Attenborough Arts: poetry, atmosphere and the practice of attention in an open-mic space https://radiolear.uk/?p=3980

When did “community” become a way to blur responsibility, rather than clarify relationships? Shouldn’t the death of an individual come before the defence of any abstract group identity?

Swan canal…

Overgrown memories…

Festival preparations…

What does the recurring image of the severed head tell us about modern identity conflicts? From Medusa to Jung's reading of Nietzsche, the question may not be spirit versus body, but how we understand the relationship between consciousness, embodiment and human wholeness.

Can a mixtape become the memory of a journey before it begins? Distraction Therapy Mix – Journey imagines the road, the cassette, the pause between places, and the mood that stays long after the route is forgotten

What does a mixtape do when it moves from a love song to myth, memory, signal, appetite and augmented reality? Can distraction become a more reflective way of listening?

When you listen to a mixtape, where do you feel yourself moving between temperamental and sentimental zones? How do we each experience the journey from fragile light and remembered places to apology, uncertainty and a return to sincerity beyond irony?

When music moves between guitar-band memory, lyrical unease and AI-augmented production, where does authenticity sit: in the voice, the lyric, the prompt, the edit, or the feeling that survives the process?

Croquette…

Mellon…

Can a gentle distraction loosen the mind and heart? Distraction Therapy values music, film, art and daydreaming as ways to step beyond the process-focused self and find a more imaginative, reflective state of being

What happens when one culture’s myths are not simply borrowed, but listened to? Can travel, music and drama help us sense another structure of feeling without reducing it to something we already know?

Home made sushi… aren’t I lucky…