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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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A DELICATE PROPOSAL TO MR. KHAMENEI

Yesterday, 2:30pm

An impassioned plea for humanity in the treatment of women in Iran, from Jaspreet Mander.

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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.

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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.

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WAITING

Yesterday, 4:00pm

Will the boyfriend ever arrive? Suspicion takes her on a very disturbing journey. Dark audio drama from Sophie McWhannell.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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FOUND

Yesterday, 2:00pm

Lyrical and other-worldly new short fiction from regular Writing On Air contributor, Melissa Wuidart Phillips.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Club Dance #43

Tue 28th Nov '23, 6:15pm

Adam returns after the summer with club dance and some old school vibes

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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.

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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.

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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.