Left of Leeds 116: Fergus Quill
Today, 4:00pm Remind me
Anyone familiar with jazz + experimental music in Leeds should be familiar with Fergus Quill. This month we talk to him about life, big bands, Xero Slingsby, Steve Reich and noise.
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Programme2 Bob Jukebox: And In Other News…….
Wed 14th Oct '26, 6:00pm
Trev and Daz talk all the latest goings on and play some great music too, but what was the year??
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ProgrammePoetry Unseen 11
Tue 13th Oct '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!
Love The Words 366: Peter Okonkwo/Leeds-Dortmund
Tue 13th Oct '26, 4:00pm
Peter Okwonko is a Leeds-based Nigerian poet. He talks about his award-winning book Kwame Come Home. Plus news from our sister city in Germany, Dortmund.
Fairing Housing in Leeds: Rally for Same
Fri 9th Oct '26, 5:00pm
Sharing stories, speeches, and sounds from a protest for fairing housing access at Leeds City Council's Merrion Centre on behalf of Same and his family
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Movies – #2 Ghostbusters
Fri 9th Oct '26, 3:00pm
Our host Euan is back with a action-packed discussion of the 1984 classic Ghostbusters.
Butter Popcorn: Monkey Business (1952) with Film Quarry
Wed 7th Oct '26, 3:00am
This month we welcome Rowan from Film Quarry on to discuss the 1952 Howard Hawks comedy, Monkey Business!
Love The Words 365: Deborah Fox
Tue 6th Oct '26, 4:00pm
In 2025 Deborah Fox was diagnosed with breast cancer. So she began writing, documenting her journey in the hope that someone walking this path in the future might find comfort.
Moving Through Health #3: Design as shared language with Joe Hartley & Tony Macaluso
Fri 2nd Oct '26, 6:00pm
Designer, artist and co-founder of Altogether Otherwise and Yellowhammer Joe Hartley joins us to talk about how design can act as a shared language...
People’s History of Leeds – Volume 2
Tue 29th Sep '26, 6:00pm
We talk with two of the creators behind the second volume of the story-gathering, oral history project People's History of Leeds – Tom Bailey and Ruth Steinberg.