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Apples and Snakes is England's leading spoken word poetry organisation, with artists at its heart. Spoken word trailblazers, we exist to champion the development of extraordinary artists, amplify ignored voices and to challenge expectations of what poetry is and can be. Our latest audio project – Apples and Snakes: The Podcast, explores what it means to be Black, British and a poet or spoken word artist. Apples and Snakes: The Podcast was produced by Natalie Fiawoo, with audio production by Drew Horley for The Lab Studios. The Podcast will be available to listen to and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast platforms.
Episodes

Monday Jan 09, 2023
S2 Ep 5 | Let’s talk the tings
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
For our penultimate episode of the season, Yomi speaks with Kenny Baraka and John Bernard about the work that poets do when it comes to reaching those that are labelled "Hard to Reach".
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.

Monday Jan 09, 2023
S2 Ep 4 | This me being quite polite
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Welcome to the second part of our conversation with Josephine 'Realitie' Rollins and Adrian B. Earle talking about what it is like to experience the UK poetry scene as someone with a disability.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.

Friday Dec 09, 2022
S2 Ep 3 | If I say I’m good, I’m lying.
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
This episode, Yomi chats with Josephine 'Realitie' Rollins and Adrian B. Earle talking about what it is like to experience the UK poetry scene as someone with a disability.
How does it manifest in the work and what is it like during a performance.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.

Thursday Nov 24, 2022
S2 Ep 2 | Dust yourself off and try again.
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
We are back for the second part of the convo with with Be Manzini and Tanaka Fuego discussing personal and artistic wellbeing.
What does it look like when create wellbeing spaces for themselves? What can you do to create your own safeguarding boundaries?
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.

Thursday Nov 17, 2022
S2 Ep 1 | Hey, How you doing?
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
For our first episode this season, Yomi talks with Be Manzini and Tanaka Fuego.
Artists spend so much time creating wellbeing sessions for others but what does it look like when you do that same thing for yourself? What can you do to create your own safeguarding boundaries?
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.

Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Season 2 Ep 0 | What we have coming up.
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
WE ARE BACK!!
Welcome to season 2 of Apples and Snakes: The Podcast!
Have a listen here to find out what you are in store for.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.

Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
For this seasons final episode, we come back to the conversation between our host Yomi Sode, Kat Francois and Reece Williams
They talk about they therapy that exists in Black poets having the space and scope to tell their own stories and spend some time considering how we can make platforms for younger Black and mixed Black poets to take up the mantel and pass the traditions on.
Reece shares his poem 'The origin Story of Reece the Poet'
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.

Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
In the penultimate episode of season one, host Yomi Sode talks about the importance of owning and telling our own stories with Kat Francois and Reece Williams.
They discuss bravery, worrying about how people will receive your authentic voice, how it is a fight for Black poets being able to tell their real truth and how they have had to unlearn the actions associated with silencing themselves.
Kat shares her poem 'Tongue Tied'
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.

Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Back with host Yomi Sode and guests Casey Bailey and Que to continue the conversation around Poetry in education.
This time they talk about access points to poetry and how we need to consider, more carefully, how to make poetry accessible and relatable to audiences that don’t see themselves or their lives reflected in poems that are taught in school.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.

Monday Oct 04, 2021
Ep 7 | Poetry In Education part 1: Man‘s a poet now.
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
And we’re back!!
In this episode our host Yomi Sode talks to Casey Bailey and Que AKA Quethewolf about poetry in education and some of the unlearning that we have all had to do because of the way that we poetry has been taught to us. Has the curriculum made poetry unattractive to many children and young people and does that stay with them into adulthood?
Casey shares some of his journey to this point and Que talks about his platform Dope Readers.
Casey shares his poem 'Waking'
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.