Love the Words

Poet and GP Emma Storr interviews Dr. Gavin Francis about his best-selling book, Recovery. Do we give ourselves enough time to get over things? Whatever happened to 'convalescence'?

Vic is a writer and therapist working throughout Yorkshire with groups and individuals. She talks about her love for the work she does, how it has evolved and about the influence on her work of her pioneering father.

A soundpoem from Writing On Air 2023 by Gareth Rhodes about seasonal and climate change in a Leeds garden.

Poet Alex Callaghan talks about the experience of editing and compiling Ey Up 3 and working with Written Off Publishing, as well as the fabulous Bone Down.

As a forerunner for International Men's Day 2024, Jaimes Lewis Moran presents poetry, prose, and reflection on the subject of fathers, first broadcast in Writing On Air 2023.

The People's History of Leeds: Tom Bailey talks about this exciting new project gathering stories about Leeds and its people.

In anticipation of Writing On Air 2024, another chance to hear about the ground-breaking national organisation Prison Radio and why their work is a lifeline for its listeners.

Eleanor May Blackburn is a 27 year old neurodivergent, disabled, queer actor/writer/theatre-maker/poet from Sheffield. The tour of her show Does My Fanny Look Big In This? tours next year and includes a date at The Crucible in her home town. In this LTW episode, Eleanor discusses, with elegance & humour, sex education, sex slang, and the nature of consent.

Winning short dramas from Script Yorkshire's 5th annual radio drama competition, with the winners from last year, all recorded at Chapel FM. Comedy, spookiness and suspense. Chapel FM is very happy to partner up with SY on this project every year.

Keith Fenton, co-founder and presenter of the podcast Poets Talking Bollocks, talks bollocks to LTW about this ambitious audio project mapping the northern open mic scene.

Catherine Staples talks to LTW from Massachusetts, USA, about Vert, her beautiful new poetry collection, an elegy for her beloved brother Paul Calello. Can poetry help us grieve? https://www.amazon.com/Vert-Poems-Catherine-Staples/dp/0881469211

Rob Cowen's book Common Ground (2015) radically broke with the 'nature writing' genre. Here, in this final LTW of Season 6 (returning in September) Rob talks about The Heeding, his moving collection of lockdown poems.

A 3-item LTW: Orb present their mini-bus-dramas, plus another chance to hear Melissa Wuidart Phillips' story 'Found', and an interview with the wise & extraordinary Philip Harvey.

Young writers from Leeds East return to read new work, plus Ethel, Maddy and Maffo from Mafwa Theatre on their lively & uplifting Kuluhenna Drama group for women.

Cast members with director Ben Hopwood from Leeds Arts Centre's brand new 'urban' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream talk about the joy and zest of Shakespeare.

Highlights from Anyone's a Green Thumb, an audio installation about green spaces & urban gardens in Leeds, feat. Orb (Knaresborough), The Lincoln Greeners (Mafwa Theatre) and others. This installation was part of Chapel FM's Home From Home 2024 project in which all our available spaces at Chapel FM Arts Centre were animated by a range of sound, theatre, and music created by participants.

Artist/poet Jamie Scrutton on naturism, being proud as a multi-form artist, and his book The Vision of Storytelling, plus Chris Berry on the inaugural Aberford Literature Festival.

Gareth E. Rees talks about Car Park Life, his epic exploration of Britain's neglected retail car parks, the book chosen for the Chapel FM/Leeds Lit Fest Readathon 2024.

Poet Lydia Kennaway talks with fellow poet Emma Storr about Sh@nty, her fascinating collaboration with folk musician Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, and reads poems about betrayal, loss, and recovery.

A sound art documentary about Moon Palace, a social sculpture/working observatory touring with Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, plus poetry and refections on the blue spaces in our city from the Canals & Rivers Trust.

Ben Eaton of Invisible Flock talks about the company's recent piece This is a Forest for Leeds 2023 & the importance of sound in their acclaimed work.

Following his death last week, another chance to hear my friend & mentor Dave Price OBE talking about his life's work in music & radical progressive education.

Rommi Smith talks movingly about writing the libretto of Cusp, with music by Roderick Williams, a piece about grief and grieving, for the Royal Festival Hall & The Bach Choir.

Sean Street, poet, talks about and reads from his new collection, Running Out of Time, published by Shoestring Press. Sean was the UK's first ever Professor of Radio and has written extensively about sound and the history of sound.

Poet Emma Storr reads from her new collection The Year of Two Winters and talks about the influence of her mother, writer Catherine Storr, author of the extraordinary and disturbing novel, Marianne Dreams.