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FIRST STORY SPECIAL

Fri 1st Dec '23, 10:30am

First Story places writers in schools throughout the UK. Young people from First Story residencies in West Yorkshire talk about their love of writing.

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Writing On Air 2022: FIRST STORY

Fri 25th Nov '22, 11:15am

Young writers from West Yorkshire schools return to Chapel FM. First Story brings professional writers to secondary schools

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First Story

Fri 1st Oct '21, 10:30am

Young writers from West Yorkshire schools return to Chapel FM. First Story is a national organization bringing professional writers to secondary schools.

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First Story

Thu 21st Mar '19, 10:30am

First Story brings professional writers to secondary schools to work with pupils and teachers. The young writers return to Chapel FM to share their work.

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First Story

Thu 15th Mar '18, 10:30am

Young writers from schools in West Yorkshire present work they have created with First Story writers

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Love The Words #224

Tue 20th Jun '23, 4:00pm

Bradford-based Fox and Windmill is the first UK independent publishing company for British South Asian Writers. Co-founder Habiba Desai tells their remarkable story.

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Love The Words #172

Tue 15th Mar '22, 4:00pm

Episode 8 of In Our Element with Linda France; Molly Magrath from The Leeds Library on digital lit; and the very first Sgt. Grimshaw story from Bob McBurney.

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The Disabled Table #3

Mon 22nd Nov '21, 7:30pm

Join us for humour and stories! Discussing ableism in education, advice for going out alone for the first time as a disabled plus story-teller and artist Vickie Orton.

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The Leeds Irish Music Programme #9

Tue 9th Mar '21, 6:30pm

The first of four special Leeds - Irish Music Programme broadcasts for Irish History Month.

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Wordybirds June 22, 2020 – Part 1

Mon 22nd Jun '20, 11:00am

On Lady Lane, a story by Steph Shields; plus the first in a series of true stories titled Finchy, Tink, Skinner and Bub by Tony Abbott from a Yorkshire pit village in the 1950’s.

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Wordybirds May 18, 2020 – Part 1

Mon 18th May '20, 11:00am

Martin Thomasson, Bolton playwright, reads the first in a series of reminisences, The Lost Art of Conducting Buses. Plus a short story, The Surprise, from Linda Casper.

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Wordybirds May 12, 2020 – Part 2

Tue 12th May '20, 12:30pm

Crossing The Beck, a story by Pauline Kirk and read by ELFM Reader in Residence, Pam Hilton. And a story, Lover and Lass, from first time Wordybirds contributor, Stephanie Shields.

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Wordybirds May 7, 2020 – Part 1

Thu 7th May '20, 11:00am

Pam Hilton reads a wry story by first time Wordybirds contributor Joyce M. King about the underside of life in a residential home.

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Wordybirds April 23, 2020 – Part 1

Thu 23rd Apr '20, 10:30am

A story by Emma Storr about going on her first bird-watching expedition, followed by the latest poem in her Leeds series by Julia Deakin.