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Full schedule

  • 4:00pm - 4:39pm

    Love The Words 348: Stacy Garrop

  • 7:15pm - 8:15pm

    Poetry Unseen 9

  • 3:00pm - 4:00pm

    Pretty Constrained: Beauty Is Pain

  • 4:00pm - 5:00pm

    Love The Words 348: Stacy Garrop

  • 5:00pm - 6:00pm

    Take A Bite Out Of This: Food Stories

  • 7:15pm - 8:30pm

    Poetry Unseen 9

  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm

    Stay Close #7: Getting the Covid Vaccine

  • 3:00pm - 4:00pm

    A Little More Conversation: Springing Into Summer

  • 5:00pm - 6:00pm

    Teenage Daydream 102: Weird Festivals

  • 6:00pm - 7:00pm

    2 Bobs Jukebox 54: different shoes different feet

  • 6:00pm - 7:00pm

    Bridges Not Borders: Reflection on our trip to Nidderdale

  • 3:00pm - 4:00pm

    Soundcheck: Benny Benack III

  • 4:00pm - 5:00pm

    Left of Leeds 113: Augustin Bousfield

  • 10:00pm - 11:00pm

    Hot Flavours 110: Summer Sun – Nature’s Song

  • 4:00pm - 4:48pm

    Love The Words 349: Juleus Ghunta & Solace

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    Love The Words 348: Stacy Garrop

    Today, 4:00pm Remind me

    Stacy Garrop is a Chicago-based composer whose work centres on dramatic storytelling. She talks to LTW about her fabulous new project, Glorious Mahalia, with The Knonos Quartet.

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    Poetry Unseen 9

    Today, 7:15pm Remind me

    Chapel FM's new poetry programme in which poetry readers get a poem they don't know and unpack it on the spot!

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    Poetry Unseen collage

    Today, 8:20pm Remind me

    A taster for Poetry Unseen, moments from the first 7 episodes. In Poetry Unseen, poetry enthusiasts respond to poems in the moment, as they come.

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    A Little More Conversation: Springing Into Summer

    Tomorrow, 3:00pm Remind me

    This episode we will be discussing the transition from spring to summer! Along with the guest we will talk about quintessential summer activities and play a fun mini game.

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    2 Bobs Jukebox 54: different shoes different feet

    Tomorrow, 6:00pm Remind me

    Trev and Daz discuss topic affecting local people alongside some great music, but what was the year???

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    Left of Leeds 113: Augustin Bousfield

    This Friday, 4:00pm Remind me

    A very entertaining afternoon with co-host Panos Kotsiopoulos talking Saint Etienne, ships wheel synthesisers, and the theme tune to “Deal or No Deal” with Augustin Bousfield.

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    Hot Flavours 110: Summer Sun – Nature’s Song

    This Friday, 10:00pm Remind me

    Donald Byrd - Chick Corea & Gary Burton. The exquisite Julian Lage - Anita O’Day Peter reads, Norman MacCaig - Plus, Ahmad Jamal.

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    Love The Words 349: Juleus Ghunta & Solace

    Tue 16th Jun '26, 4:00pm Remind me

    Juleus Ghunta is a poet based in Alberta, Canada. He talks about art, childhood trauma, and resistance. Plus a special feature from the Fall Into Place 'Solace' group.

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    Love The Words 350: Patrick Lodge

    Tue 23rd Jun '26, 4:00pm Remind me

    Patrick Lodge is an Irish-Welsh poet who lives in Yorkshire. He has read at festivals across Europe and the UK. His 4th collection, "There You Are", is published by Valley Press.

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    Love The Words 351: Mick Jenkinson

    Tue 30th Jun '26, 4:00pm Remind me

    Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery.

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Writing On Air: the First Ten Years

Sun 7th Jun '26, 7:00pm

To mark its 10th birthday, Chapel FM hosts a celebration of the festival with past highlights and casting forward to a bright radio future.

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Sanctuary Diaries: Talking about Poetry, Exile, Translation & Dante

Sun 7th Jun '26, 1:00pm

We are joined by poet Kimberly Campanello for a wide-ranging discussion of her project using the work of the Italian poet Dante to explore ideas about exile, migration, translation

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Finding Safety: Life in Refuge Episode 1

Fri 5th Jun '26, 3:00pm

Having lived in refuge herself 30 years ago and now a Team Leader at that very same refuge, Clare Sanderson from ⁠Leeds Women's Aid⁠ joins us to discuss her journey.

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Sanctuary Diaries: The Role of Hope When Seeking Asylum

Wed 3rd Jun '26, 11:00am

This episode we talk all about the part that hope plays when going through the asylum process.

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Love The Words 347: A Bright Room Called Day

Tue 2nd Jun '26, 4:00pm

A Bright Room Called Day is a rarely staged play by Tony Kushner. Produced by Leeds Arts Centre, it follows a group of friends in 1930's Berlin navigating the rise of fascism.

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The Irish Hour: Finding Home Away from Home

Mon 1st Jun '26, 8:00pm

Join us for a warm, lively chat about home, identity and the unspoken ways Irish people recognise one another, wherever they end up.

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Bashert Special 5786: Robert Cohen on Gen Z, Scorpio Stelliums and finding Jewish joy

Sun 31st May '26, 12:00am

You can hear more from Robert on X @RobertCohen2

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THE CHAPEL FM OPEN MIC NIGHT, LIVE! MAY 2026

Fri 29th May '26, 7:30pm

Come show East Leeds what you have got! Poetry, music or even juggling? Live on the Radio and Youtube. For full details, Check out the information below.

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Vandal Factory 38: Crochet on the Barricades

Fri 29th May '26, 6:00pm

Henry and Natalie discuss recent protests, the Bussing In installation, their gig with Bob Vylan and Nat's dog, Ivy, pops by.

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