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Pin Badges: Taking Pride in Pride

Yesterday, 3:00pm

Join us this month as we talk everything pride: our own queer pride, the various pride events we have been to & more.

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Love The Words 305: Rob Cowen

Yesterday, 4:00pm

Rob Cowen talks about his critically acclaimed new book, The North Road: Walking London to Edinburgh through Nation, Time & Place', written over 10 years following Common Ground.

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Leeds Poet Tony Harrison: On The Wall

Sat 21st Jun '25, 7:30pm

A special celebration of the great working-class Leeds poet featuring a screening of Harrison's controversial film poem "V"

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READATHON

Sat 21st Jun '25, 9:00pm

An overnight reading event- Reading doesn’t have to be a lonely hobby – Chapel FM Arts Centre is here to prove it!

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Red Kite: Life Online – Exploring Adolescence Episode 1

Thu 19th Jun '25, 6:00pm

In this episode we discuss the episode 1 from the series Adolescence & what we recognise in our lives online as young people.

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Red Kite: Life Online – Exploring Adolescence Episode 2

Thu 19th Jun '25, 7:00pm

In this episode we discuss the episode 2 from the series Adolescence & what we recognise in our lives online as young people.

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Red Kite: Life Online – Exploring Adolescense Episode 3

Thu 19th Jun '25, 8:00pm

In this episode we discuss the episode 3 from the series Adolescence & what we recognise in our lives online as young people.

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Red Kite: Life Online – Exploring Adolescence Episode 4

Thu 19th Jun '25, 9:00pm

In this episode we discuss the episode 4 from the series Adolescence & what we recognise in our lives online as young people.

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Love The Words 304: Carol Atherton/Leeds Lit Fest

Tue 17th Jun '25, 4:00pm

Carol Atherton, author of Reading Lessons, Chapel FM's Readathon 2025 book, talks about the power of literature to change lives. Plus Leeds Lit Fest preview with Fiona Gell.

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Finding Our Feet: Alexis Starke and Clara Carson

Mon 16th Jun '25, 2:00pm

We talk about navigating the messiness of graduating, identity, and what it means to push back against an industry that doesn’t always make space for everyone.

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Radio Rewind: May 25

Sun 15th Jun '25, 11:00am

Listen in to our radio highlights from the month of May with Love The Words, Global connections (Oral History Archives), Sister City Youth, The Grey Ravens and Nidderdale!

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Lost Leeds Corner Shop Soundscapes & Magical History Tour

Sat 14th Jun '25, 7:30pm

Sharing of a new radio documentary created with the British Library about corner shop stories, followed by a thousand years of British history through song parodies.

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TELL US A STORY: Storytelling Showcase

Fri 13th Jun '25, 7:30pm

Human beings have always told stories to each other. Around the fire or in the back room of the pub, it was a way of keeping the dark at bay. Perhaps it still is.

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Left of Leeds: Nathan Stewart from Space2

Fri 13th Jun '25, 4:00pm

We will be discussing improvisation and allowing people to make a noise with Community Development Worker from Space2 Nathan Stewart and our Head of Music Martin Berger.

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The Stephen Tribute Show: Squeeze

Fri 13th Jun '25, 3:00pm

This month Stephen gives us the hit tracks as well as some special facts about SQUEEZE.

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The Dissent Dispatches 11: Theatre of the Oppressed and Legislative Theatre

Fri 13th Jun '25, 5:00pm

Pablo Kala is joined by Katy Rubin, a theatre of the oppressed practitioner based in Manchester, England.

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A Little More Conversation: Friends with Kids

Wed 11th Jun '25, 3:00pm

Join us in this episode where we talk about our experiences of parenthood in our 20s, the biological clock and navigating comparison in female friendships.

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Think Global Act Local 40: Cycling Special

Wed 11th Jun '25, 8:00pm

A programme dedicated to cycling, and what's going on at the Seacroft Active Travel Hub.

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Teenage Daydream 139

Wed 11th Jun '25, 5:00pm

Back again for another week of Teenage Daydream with Toby and the gang!

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2 Bob Jukebox 47

Wed 11th Jun '25, 6:00pm

Another month of Daz and Trev.

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Interview with Leeds Council CEO Ed Whiting

Wed 11th Jun '25, 5:00pm

Chapel FM youth and asylum seeker broadcasters talk about the future of Leeds with CEO of Leeds Council Ed Whiting.

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The Deli 133: Connection

Tue 10th Jun '25, 7:30pm

Only Connect! The Deli team bring you new writing, old wisdom and music on the theme of Connection.

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Love The Words 303: Catherine Warr/Diliana Stojanova

Tue 10th Jun '25, 4:00pm

Yorkshire historian Catherine Warr has written a musical! She talks about it. And Diliana is a Czech poet visiting Leeds. What's the poetry scene like in the Czech Republic?

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Pretty Constrained: Beauty Is Pain

Tue 10th Jun '25, 3:00pm

This month we dip our toes into a few different topics: media, makeup, body hair - we discuss all things beauty, femininity and ask the question - is beauty pain?

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Bridges Not Borders: Alison Lowe, Deputy Mayor for Policing & Crime

Tue 10th Jun '25, 4:00pm

Eyob and Mimi sit down with Alison Lowe, who grew up in Seacroft and has gone on to be a Leeds City Councillor, director of Touchstone a now Deputy Mayor for Policing & Crime.

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Dave: A hat and cloth connect to a South Africa

Tue 10th Jun '25, 4:00pm

Stories about how Dave travelled to South Africa to teach in a remote village in the years just after the end of Apartheid.

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Nosheen: Radio microphones connect to Pakistan

Thu 5th Jun '25, 2:00pm

Stories about a youthful experience working at a radio station in Pakistan and how return to radio here in Seacroft links past and present.

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Talking Men: Connection and Celebration

Wed 4th Jun '25, 4:00pm

Join us for our first episode of our new programme, Talking Men. We talk to Lawrence & Megan all about the importance of men's conversation, The Northern Man Festival & more.

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Talking Men: The Northern Man Festival

Wed 4th Jun '25, 6:00pm

Listen in to a snippet of our recent Talking Men episode to hear all of the amazing events happening as apart of The Northern Man Festival.

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Yamana: A silver anklet connects to Bangladesh

Wed 4th Jun '25, 11:00am

Stories about a childhood gift, a silver anklet decorated with flowers & bells brings memories of the women in her family, the sounds & smells of her mother cooking & Bangladesh.