Love the Words

A Walk In The Park (Pt 1), a sonic stroll through Roundhay Park, Leeds, in high summer with A Quiet Word, celebrating the Parks's 150th birthday in a project supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund. Roundhay played a vital role for Loiners in the pandemic. Here visitors, poets, and Friends of Roundhay volunteers talk about their favourite spots, alongside historical notes from urban geographer...

Episode 200 of LTW, with 2 VERY contrasting pieces: a Radio Panto from ELDA (East Leeds Dramatic Arts) and The Future, It's a Fix by Caroline Noh, featuring the young people of Chapel FM's Next Generation scheme, plus poet Jaimes Lewis Moran.

Chapel FM resident storyteller Vickie Orton makes a very welcome return to ELFM to tell us two magical tales, including The Pedlar of Swaffham.

Simon Treen, of the podcast Working Hours about people in Leeds and their working lives, talks why he does it and what he's learning. Jo Brandon, poet, on her new collaboration with a composer.

Blind teenager becomes a poet after being mentored in jail by famous murderer. Incredible but true tale made into a best-selling graphic novel. This is the story, with Tony Macaluso and Matt Rizzo.

Rachael Unsworth is an urban geographer and founder of the fantastic Leeds City Walking Tours. Here she talks about her passion for the story of Leeds and showing how 'change is expressed in the city landscape'.

Sally Jenkinson, poet, reads from her brand new collection Pantomime Horse, Russian Doll, Egg, about the experience of giving birth.

Marg Greenwood talks about her delightful travelogue Return to Muck, and poet Susan Darlington reads from her visceral new chapbook Never Wear White.

Dalton Harrison reads from his new poetry collection The Boy Behind The Wall. Plus Jaimes Lewis Moran on his new book, Sea Words, and an interview with children contributing to The World Re-Imagined, an amazing arts project in the city.

Leeds poets Caitlin McKenna, Elijah East, and Poppy Jennings talk about the burgeoning new and diverse poetry scene in Leeds, fronted by Leeds Poetry Festival and other fabulous recently established events.

Leyla Josephine, poet, is performing at Chapel FM Oct 29th 2022 as part of her national tour. Here she talks about her new book and the range of work she does in education and community. Plus Mags Grinnell from LS14 Trust, Seacroft, East Leeds, on the challenges of communication.

By way of a trailer for the Home theme of Writing On Air 2022 (Nov 23-27), women from the Italian and Caribbean communities in Harehills, Leeds, tell their extraordinary stories of arriving - and staying - in Britain in the 1950's.

Pennine Platform is one of the north’s longest established and best-beloved poetry titles, in print for over 50 years. Writers from Issue 91 read and chat with editor Julia Deakin.

Suhaimymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, poet, educator and activist. In this LTW of the new season, she talks about her work to Peter Spafford and her residency at Leeds Playhouse.

As part of the Peepal Tree Press residency at Chapel FM's Local Writers' Library, Bermudian writer Angela Barry talks about her powerful new novel, The Drowned Forest.

As part of Peepal Tree Press's residency at Chapel FM, poet Samantha Thornhill speaks from Trinidad about her scintillating new collection, The Animated Universe.

Ira Mathur is an Indian-born writer and journalist living in Trinidad. Here she talks about her new novel with Peepal Tree Press, Love The Dark Days, a powerful book about 'accrued intergenerational damage between mothers and daughters in post-colonial worlds'. Chapel FM is delighted to be hosting Peepal Tree Press as our first Publisher in Residence.

Stu Hennigan talks about Ghost Signs, a blistering first-hand account of delivering essential food and medicines in Leeds during the first months of the pandemic. Warning: With echoes of The Road To Wigan Pier, Stu's readings tell a shocking story of poverty in our city.

Lesley Sharp from Script Yorkshire, this region's fantastic script development organisation, introduces four brand new short radio dramas by Yorkshire writers, recorded at Chapel FM and edited by Rosie Parsons.

Another chance to hear a programme from the late poet Helen Burke with Phil Pattinson: their tribute to the words and music of Jimi Hendrix. Helen was much loved at Chapel FM and East Leeds FM. Our local writers library is named in honour of her.

Tom Juniper is an autistic, non-binary performance poet based in South Yorkshire, interviewed here by Juwairia and Henry for our ELFM's regular show Disabled Table. Plus 2 startling radio dramas from Script Yorkshire.

Covid 19. Lockdowns. What actually happened? While we were dealing with it, we didn’t have time to process it. So, Chapel FM asked Jimmy Andrex to try.

Older people from a group formed by Age UK Leeds at Chapel FM present highlights from their Writing For Radio course, plus Venice, a short story by Melissa Wuidart Phillips.

Two punchy short plays from Script Yorkshire directed by Stefan Escreet, plus two episodes in Bob McBurney's charming Sgt. Grimshaw series.

Three American experts discuss the literature of Chicago in respect to a ground-breaking new book, Chicago: A Literary History. Expect lively mentions of Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandberg, Studs Terkel.