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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 on Tuesday and Friday evenings, and every 2nd and 4th Sunday.

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

  • 10:45am - 11:00am

    POETRY AND POISONS, Part 4

  • 11:00am - 1:00pm

    MISSING MUSIC

  • 1:00pm - 1:30pm

    GOREJA

  • 1:30pm - 2:00pm

    MISSING LINKS

  • 2:00pm - 2:30pm

    RAAVI, RIVER OF TWO PUNJABS

  • 2:30pm - 3:00pm

    THE GREAT WALL OF LEEDS

  • 3:00pm - 3:30pm

    BLACK DAISIES FOR THE BRIDE

  • 4:30pm - 5:30pm

    THE SILENCE OF ALONENESS

  • 5:30pm - 6:00pm

    IDEAS FOR A BETTER WORLD

  • 6:00pm - 7:30pm

    IN CONCERT: THROUGH OUR EYES

  • 7:30pm - 9:00pm

    THE DELI, LIVE!

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    POETRY AND POISONS, Part 4

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 10:45am 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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    MISSING MUSIC

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 11:00am Remind me

    Silent films selected by The Chapel FM Live Events Group. Audience are invited to provide the music with on-site instruments. Or bring your own!

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    GOREJA

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 1:00pm Remind me

    I am a woman. I am an immigrant. I am a cricketer. My life is too complicated to be confined in the neat lines of a pretty poem’. Home, passion, freedom. By Zainab Goreja.

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    MISSING LINKS

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 1:30pm Remind me

    A conversation with Chapel FM regular Phil Harvey about a life long-lived as farmer’s boy, oilman, china man, and woodsman.

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    RAAVI, RIVER OF TWO PUNJABS

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 2:00pm Remind me

    A Punjabi song about missing the river Raavi and the old province of five rivers. Audio poem by Jaspreet Mander.

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    THE GREAT WALL OF LEEDS

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 2:30pm Remind me

    Could it ever happen? Chapel FM young writers from 2017 on the theme of walls, physical, psychological, and emotional.

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    BLACK DAISIES FOR THE BRIDE

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 3:00pm Remind me

    A film by legendary Leeds poet Tony Harrison about dementia and memory, introduced by East Leeds MP Richard Burgon.

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    THE SILENCE OF ALONENESS

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 4:30pm Remind me

    Clare Wigzell and Hannah Stone present the fruits of their workshop inviting writers to adopt silence as a prompt for writing poetry.

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    IDEAS FOR A BETTER WORLD

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 5:30pm Remind me

    Hans Ulrich Heuser with writers both in Leeds and in our sister city Dortmund, Germany, reflect on what we need to make a better world.

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    IN CONCERT: THROUGH OUR EYES

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 6:00pm Remind me

    A resident Chapel FM ensemble that ensures musicians with disabilities have a place to make adventurous music. Featuring the premiere of several new compositions.

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    THE DELI, LIVE!

    Sun 3rd Dec '23, 7:30pm Remind me

    The Deli team round off Writing On Air 2023 with their first-ever show in the radio theatre. Expect original poetry, music, and zany humour.

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CLEAR OUT YOUR CLOSET

Yesterday, 7:00pm

A vibetastic night of spoken word, interviews, performance and open mic presented by the amazing CYOC collective with Michelle Scalley Clarke

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THE DELI

Yesterday, 6:00pm

New writing, music, witty banter from Chapel FM’s longest-running radio show and team of volunteer broadcasters, est. 2012.

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RED KITE LIVE!

Yesterday, 5:00pm

Chapel FM’s youth radio broadcasters explore what the world misses when trying to understand the lives of teenagers. Prepare to be surprised.

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MISSED STITCHES

Yesterday, 4:00pm

LS14’s famous Hookers knitting group reflect on socks, cardies, and the meaning of life in Boggart Hill, Leeds, LS14.

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GREY OWLS AND PICKLEBALL

Yesterday, 3:30pm

Two of Chapel FM’s resident music ensembles, one featuring inventive teenagers, the other made up of adults, present their original compositions.

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THE LOST AND THE LIVING

Yesterday, 2:30pm

Waymaker-General Harriet and her apprentice Vicky battle bad weather to bring a mysterious vessel in from the storm. Atmospheric audio drama by S.J.Bradley

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ONE OF OUR ACTORS IS MISSING

Yesterday, 1:30pm

Stumbling mess of a radio play that desperately tries to make itself happen despite the principal actor being absent. From poet/musician Jimmy Andrex.

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THE SLEEPING

Yesterday, 1:00pm

Experimental soundscapes from extraordinary East Leeds composer, singer, producer Alex Rushfirth.

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BICYCLE THIEF

Yesterday, 12:30pm

Young boy goes for a ride on his bicycle, meets a girl, loses his bicycle. Dramatised short story by Neil Rathmell.

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