WHAT IS PRISON RADIO?
Today, 5:00pm Remind me
Sam Taylor and Verity Britton from Prison Radio talk about their fascinating work, broadcasting across UK prisons.
Programmes
Have a look through our past programmes to listen or watch again. You can even filter the results to find the kind of programmes you're particularly interested in.
EY UP! THE MISSING NORTHERN VOICE
Today, 6:00pm Remind me
Discussion between publisher Rebecca Kenny and four Northern writers on publishing in the North.
HIBISCUS RISING: THE LEGACY OF DAVID OLUWALE
Today, 7:00pm Remind me
An evening of discussion, performance and art reflecting on the life and tragic death of David Oluwale.
FIRST STORY SPECIAL
Today, 10:30am Remind me
First Story places writers in schools throughout the UK. Young people from First Story residencies in West Yorkshire talk about their love of writing.
I MISS YOU, SPAGHETTI!
Today, 12:00pm Remind me
Students from Leeds East Academy present work from Chapel FM writing workshops they took part in earlier this year.
PASS THE VERSE
Today, 1:00pm Remind me
Two poets, Gareth Rhodes and Jaimes Moran, exchange associated ideas, random phrases, and hallucinatory fragments in this freshly experimental work.
POETRY AND POISONS, Part 2
Today, 1:30pm Remind me
Are poetry and poisons related? Four programmes on past herbal remedies with a poet GP and a Professor of Prescribing Practice.
THE DIFFICULT CONVERSATION
Today, 1:45pm Remind me
Two older people sit on a bench. What are they choosing not to say? Intriguing audio dialogue by Mally Harvey.
WHAT IF’S AND MAYBES
Today, 2:00pm Remind me
Prison is a mystery to most, but what happens when you get out is the story no one tells. Drama from Writing On Air regulars, Standfast Productions.
ANITA AND AUNTY JI
Today, 3:00pm Remind me
Though very different, Anita and her employer have a common link: their missing husbands who they do not miss. Audio drama from Jaspreet Mander.
WHO’S MISSING FROM THE CLASSICS?
Today, 3:30pm Remind me
The British Library with students from Elliott Hudson College, Beeston, unearth absent characters and themes in classical literature.
WORDS LEFT UNSAID
Today, 4:00pm Remind me
Leeds-based literary affinity group, Bone Down, host an intimate session of secret sharing. Part poetry showcase, part discussion, hosted by Caitlin McKenna
A DELICATE PROPOSAL TO MR. KHAMENEI
Yesterday, 2:30pm
An impassioned plea for humanity in the treatment of women in Iran, from Jaspreet Mander.
EXTRA OR ESSENTIAL?
Yesterday, 3:00pm
People of Seacroft at a Chapel FM Health Awareness Day reflect on what would provide added value to their health and happiness.
LINGUA
Yesterday, 3:30pm
To have another language is to possess a second soul’ (Charlemagne). Nicola Good makes the case for the importance of language-learning in our education culture.
WAITING
Yesterday, 4:00pm
Will the boyfriend ever arrive? Suspicion takes her on a very disturbing journey. Dark audio drama from Sophie McWhannell.
A FATHER’S VOICE
Yesterday, 4:30pm
Jaimes Lewis Moran presents poetry, prose, and live reflection on the subject of fathers, both missing and present.
CHANGE, NOW!
Yesterday, 5:00pm
David Price OBE, with Elizabeth Powell, Fran Cairns and Naomi Roxby Wardle, discuss what we urgently need in our education system.
MISSING VOICES
Yesterday, 6:00pm
Whose voices are missing in our lives? Poets explore the experience of loss and grief in daily life and the necessity of calling it what it is.
INVISIBLE GIFTS
Yesterday, 11:00am
A panel of people from We Are Seacroft, organisations working to make Seacroft a stronger community have a lively discussion about what’s missing.
A PRESENT PAST
Yesterday, 12:00pm
In the fallout from the pandemic, some lives never went back to normal. Has living in the past become the new present? A prescient reflection by Rayyah McCaul.
LIT IN LEEDS
Yesterday, 1:00pm
Leeds City Council recently commissioned a review from New Writing North to develop a better understanding of the literature ecology in Leeds. What did it find?
FOUND
Yesterday, 2:00pm
Lyrical and other-worldly new short fiction from regular Writing On Air contributor, Melissa Wuidart Phillips.
Write Across the Lines: Poets From Kharkiv, Ukraine
Wed 29th Nov '23, 8:00am
Poetry and conversation with four poets from Kharkiv, Ukraine: Ivan Senin, Kateryna Khailo, Nataliia Marynchak and Svitalan Horbunova-Ruban.
From The Bandroom #56
Tue 28th Nov '23, 10:00pm
A former cow shed between Macclesfield and Congleton is the bandroom of Silk Brass, our band for this month.
Hot Flavours #83
Tue 28th Nov '23, 7:30pm
Tonight’s show is brimming with pace from Stochele Rosenberg & Mathias Levey - and continues with the Oscar Peterson Trio.
Club Dance #43
Tue 28th Nov '23, 6:15pm
Adam returns after the summer with club dance and some old school vibes
POETRY AND POISONS, Part 1
Sun 26th Nov '23, 11:00am
Are poetry and poisons related? Four programmes on past herbal remedies with a poet GP and a Professor of Prescribing Practice.
MISSING PIECES
Sun 26th Nov '23, 11:00am
Encounter the heart-wrenching voids replacing the once taken-for-granted everyday comforts in the lives of incarcerated women. With Pamela Bircumshaw.
LOST PASSPORT
Sun 26th Nov '23, 11:30am
Lost in truck, recovered at the next police station. Miraculous turns in epic journeys. One man and his motorcycle, with Geoffrey Huck.