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A warm welcome to new and returning listeners!

East Leeds Community Radio is a digital/internet radio station based at Chapel FM Arts Centre in Seacroft.
We celebrate the stories that we all have, encouraging people to find their own ways of sharing them through conversation, music, comedy, writing, sports and other skills.

We broadcast every second & fourth week of the month - we also have a few shows that happen every week. Check out our schedule to find out more.

If you want to contact the Studio during a live show, send us a message on WhatsApp to 07719924988.

When we are on air, there will be a Listen Now button at the top of the page. If it’s not there, check the schedule below for our next broadcast. All previous content from our many years of broadcasting is available on the show pages tab.

What's On

  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm

    Love The Words 358: High Wolds Poetry Festival/A journalist speaks

  • 4:00pm - 4:35pm

    Love The Words 359: Woodhouse Ridge & Sam Jencks

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    Love The Words 358: High Wolds Poetry Festival/A journalist speaks

    Today, 4:00pm Remind me

    The High Wolds Poetry Festival is an annual celebration of rural wordsmiths. Its director talks to LTW. And a journalist on a national paper talks about his profession.

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    Love The Words 359: Woodhouse Ridge & Sam Jencks

    Tue 25th Aug '26, 4:00pm Remind me

    Woodhouse Ridge Action Group (WRAG) started in the 1980's. They talk about the green space in North Leeds that they love. Plus writer/zine maker Sam Jencks.

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    Love The Words 360: Hilary Robinson & Rachel Davies

    Tue 1st Sep '26, 4:00pm Remind me

    An Altogether Different Place is a powerfully emotive collection of poetry about caring for a partner with dementia written jointly by Hilary and Rachel.

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    The Billy Myers Radio Show Episode 10

    Tue 1st Sep '26, 5:00pm Remind me

    Billy Myers presents his own unique brand of comedy, co-featuring Alan Partridge, Alan Bennett, Paul McCartney and many more Chapel FM stars of screen, music and radio!

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    Love The Words 361: Sean Street, Candlelight

    Tue 8th Sep '26, 4:00pm Remind me

    Sean Street, poet and the UK's first Professor of Radio, reads from and talks about his new pamphlet Candlelight, 'a journey from loss... to understanding and acceptance'.

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    The Billy Myers Radio Show Episode 11

    Tue 8th Sep '26, 5:00pm Remind me

    Billy Myers presents his own unique brand of comedy, co-featuring Alan Partridge, Alan Bennett, Paul McCartney and many more Chapel FM stars of screen, music and radio!

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    Love The Words 362: Beowulf, Treadlight Theatre

    Tue 15th Sep '26, 4:00pm Remind me

    Four storytellers. One ancient tale. A thousand interpretations. Live theatre performance of this thrilling, darkly comic retelling from Treadlight Theatre. A highlight of WOA26.

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    The Billy Myers Radio Show Episode 12

    Tue 15th Sep '26, 5:05pm Remind me

    Billy Myers presents his own unique brand of comedy, co-featuring Alan Partridge, Alan Bennett, Paul McCartney and many more Chapel FM stars of screen, music and radio!

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Love The Words 357: Czech Poets at The Chapel

Tue 11th Aug '26, 4:00pm

As part of our international drive, two Czech poets, Ondrej Hrabal and Simon Leitgeb, plus Scots poet Colin McGuire, perform Live in Chapel FM's radio theatre.

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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.

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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.

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THE 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.

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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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Butter 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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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.

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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

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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.

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