Love The Words 356: Todd Murphy & Tom Priestley
Tue 4th Aug '26, 4:00pm
Writers Todd Murphy and Tom Priestley join Peter to debut and discuss their collaborative spoken word piece: The Male Loneliness Epidemic.
Programmes
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Why locals pubs are important
Tue 4th Aug '26, 1:00pm
Come join pub enthusiasts, Adam and Daz as they go to the Seacroft Local, The Cricketers Arms and ask its patrons what makes this pub important to them.
Vandal Factory 40: Local, Global & Vocal!
Fri 31st Jul '26, 6:00pm
We ask comedian Josie Long about hope and anger! Josie is a jester, activist and all round good egg.
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ProgrammeButter Popcorn 15: Only Lovers Left Alive
Fri 31st Jul '26, 4:00pm
This month Butter Popcorn is joined by special guest Tennae Maki to talk about Jim Jarmusch's vampire film, Only Lovers Left Alive.
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ProgrammeTHE CHAPEL FM OPEN MIC NIGHT, LIVE! July 2026
Fri 31st Jul '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.
Bashert: Av
Thu 30th Jul '26, 2:00pm
The sun is high and it's time to take up space. Join Bronya and Keziah to learn about the Jewish month of Menachem Av - a tale of love and desolation over a cup of tea.
The Irish Hour: Irish Sporting Events + what they mean to the Irish at home + those away from home
Wed 29th Jul '26, 8:00pm
This episode we talk Irish Sporting Events + what they mean to the Irish at home + those away from home
Love The Words 355: The Research Team at Skippko
Tue 28th Jul '26, 4:00pm
The Skippko Research Team, with Prof.Peter Anderson from Leeds University and Matthew Bellwood, talk about Wish You Were Here, a history project about British tourism in Spain.
Roll For Ridiculous: Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Tue 28th Jul '26, 2:00pm
Star Trek or Star Wars? What’s the best video game of all time? What's the deal with fanfiction? Jack and Bridie share a little wisdom for next generation of nerds!
Love The Words 354: Michelle Scally Clarke/Jaimes Lewis Moran
Tue 21st Jul '26, 4:00pm
Leeds-born poet, author and creative writing facilitator Michelle Scally Clarke talks about her new project 'Division', plus Jaimes Lewis Moran, Seacroft poet.
Sanctuary Diaries: Ideas about Poetry, Exile, Translation
Tue 21st Jul '26, 2:00pm
Listen to some highlights from our discussion with poet Kimberly Campanello about how poetry and especially the poet Dante might help make sense of exile and asylum seeking
Hot Flavours 110: Summer Sun – Nature’s Song
Fri 17th Jul '26, 10:00pm
Donald Byrd - Chick Corea & Gary Burton. The exquisite Julian Lage - Anita O’Day Peter reads, Norman MacCaig - Plus, Ahmad Jamal.
Left of Leeds 114: Prof. Nikos Stavropoulos
Fri 17th Jul '26, 4:00pm
This month discuss spatial acousmatic music, ambisonics, ASMR, culturally symbolic instruments and life with co-host Panos Kostiopoulos and Prof. Nikos Stavropoulos.
Moving Through Health #1: Derek Horton
Fri 17th Jul '26, 12:30pm
Curator, artist, and editor of "soanyway" magazine, Derek Horton interviews Kevin Lycett and Hannah Buckley and discusses living with a long-term health condition.
CZECH POETS AT THE CHAPEL
Fri 17th Jul '26, 7:30pm
As well as being vigorously local to East Leeds, Chapel FM takes great pride in its international connections, in particular with Leeds’s twin cities,
LEA RADIO: Dance, Friendship And Creativity
Thu 16th Jul '26, 3:00pm
This Week we talk to the LEA Empresses Dance group all about what it means to be apart of a team, friendship, creativity & the role that dance has in their lives.
2 Bob Jukebox: it’s the end of the term as we know it!! (and we feel fine)
Wed 15th Jul '26, 6:00pm
more fun and shenanigans from the 2 BoB Jukebox
Love The Words 353: plays from Script Yorkshire
Tue 14th Jul '26, 4:00pm
Award winning plays from Script Yorkshire's 2025 radio-drama competition. Teabreak-length tales from three writers, and a brace of the best repeated from 2024.
Poetry Unseen 10
Tue 14th Jul '26, 7:15pm
Chapel FM's new poetry programme in which poetry readers get a poem they don't know and unpack it on the spot!
Yorkshire Fringe Festival 2026 Preview
Mon 13th Jul '26, 11:00am
We explore the vision behind the first ever Yorkshire Fringe Festival and talk with Richard Rhodes, one of the organisers, about upcoming events.
Red Ladder Theatre Artistic Director Cheryl Martin
Mon 13th Jul '26, 12:00pm
We explore the history and future plans of Red Ladder theatre company and the joys and challenges of creating politically engaged drama.
Saturday Social World Cup Preview
Sat 11th Jul '26, 2:00pm
The radio broadcasters from Saturday Social preview tonight's big match of England vs. Norway.
Saturday Social – Summer Dreams & More
Sat 11th Jul '26, 3:00pm
Talking about great memories of summers past, plans for this summer, dreams of future summer, plus stories of hamsters and gerbils who met sad fates.
Love The Words 352: Chris Campbell/Hannah Stone
Tue 7th Jul '26, 4:00pm
Poet Hannah Stone talks to Chris Campbell, queer neurodivergent poet published by Broken Sleep Books, and two-time UK National Poetry Slam finalist.
The Dissent Dispatches 20: Anti-authoritarian Activism
Mon 6th Jul '26, 4:00pm
In this edition of the Dissent Dispatches, Pablo Kala discusses recent anti-authoritarian activism in the United States with activist Madam X.
Red Kite: The Work Experience Gang 2026
Fri 3rd Jul '26, 2:00pm
Come join our work experience group of 2026 live on the radio as they talk about all the things they did during the week.
Love The Words 351: Mick Jenkinson
Tue 30th Jun '26, 4:00pm
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery.
Conversations with Enisia: Relationships Under Pressure Zimbabwe Youth in Leeds
Mon 29th Jun '26, 6:00pm
Host Enisia Mashusha speaks with young people from Zimbabwe living in Leeds exploring relationships living in the diaspora.
Red Kite: Community Archaeology North
Sun 28th Jun '26, 1:00pm
Chapel FM's youth radio makers visited an archaeological dig and Hadrian's Wall Wetlands Recovery in Northumbria.
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ProgrammeButter Popcorn 14: Pulgasari and North Korean cinema
Fri 26th Jun '26, 4:00pm
This month, the show welcomes Lee Bentham (Leeds International Film Festival, What the Film Club) to talk about The cinema of North Korea, and the giant monster PULGARSARI.