Love The Words 326: Lateral G
Tue 13th Jan '26, 4:00pm
Lateral G is an off-grid, travelling poet who lives on the road and writes about life, ageing and the strange things that happen in her weird world.
Programmes
Have a look through our past programmes to listen or watch again. You can even filter the results to find the kind of programmes you're particularly interested in.
Love The Words 325: Dortmund Revisited
Tue 23rd Dec '25, 4:00pm
Love The Words hears from a group of visiting youth workers from Dortmund, Leeds' twin city in Germany. How are young people faring in Dortmund? And where can you get a good pizza?
Love The Words 324: Bishop Young Academy
Tue 16th Dec '25, 12:00am
Young writers from Bishop Young Academy in East Leeds, with committed teacher Miss Abbott, share moving poetry on the theme of Threshold.
Love The Words 323: Vickie Orton, storyteller
Tue 9th Dec '25, 4:00pm
Storyteller Vickie Orton makes a happy return to Chapel FM to tell some seasonal stories and talk about her craft, honed after many years.
Love The Words 322: I Want To Go Home
Tue 2nd Dec '25, 4:00pm
Radio drama by Martin Riley with music by Jack Glover from last year's Writing On Air festival. A child with polio discovers his voice and presence in the world.
Love The Words 321: Ria Tocsin
Wed 12th Nov '25, 4:00pm
The Only High I Need is a new novel by Ria Tocsin. It's Darcy’s first story. Is this story true or is it just a tale? You decide. Ria talks frankly to LTW.
Love The Words 320: Love Digitally
Tue 4th Nov '25, 4:00pm
Erin and Josh grew up together in Yorkshire and now are on opposite sides of the globe. Melanie Taylor talks about her new novel, Love Digitally. Plus The Devil's Den.
Love The Words 319: Leeds City of Languages, Nela Bartova
Tue 28th Oct '25, 4:00pm
A foretaste of Leeds City of Languages, a vibrant festival celebrating our languages and global connections, plus soundscapes from Czech artist Nela Bartova.
Love The Words 318: Alan Smith & Jaimes Lewis Moran
Tue 21st Oct '25, 4:00pm
Poetry! Alan Smith has taught in universities & prisons. Now he's writing his own poetry. Jaimes Lewis Moran, Seacroft poet, reads from his brand new collection.
Love The Words 317: Fish shops and Giblets
Tue 7th Oct '25, 4:00pm
‘Eyes closed, deep inhale: the smell of freshly battered fish takes him back to his dad’s old shop’… Rayyah McCaul on a journey with her father.
Love The Words 316: Inverze Festival
Tue 30th Sep '25, 4:00pm
Peter Spafford's audio diary of his visit to Ostrava in Czechia (Sept 2025) where he was invited to read poetry & talk about the perception of Czech writing in the UK.
Love The Words 315: Michelle Heighway
Tue 23rd Sep '25, 4:00pm
Michelle Heighway has won awards for her documentary making and photography. But now she's published her debut poetry collection, Step Into My Flow. Why poetry? Why now?
Love The Words 314: Trevor Wishart
Tue 16th Sep '25, 4:00pm
Trevor Wishart is a composer based in York internationally known for his work with digital audio media. He has also written extensively about 'sonic art'. He talks about his work.
Love The Words 313: Julia Sherwood, Czech/Slovak literature
Tue 9th Sep '25, 4:00pm
Julia Sherwood has, with her husband Peter, translated a number of Slovak & Czech works of fiction. She talks about the rise of modern Slovak literature in translation.
Love The Words 312: Adam Farrer
Tue 12th Aug '25, 4:00pm
Adam Farrer talks about his critically acclaimed new book of essays, Broken Biscuits And Other Male Failures, published by Harper North. What do men really want? Or need?
Love The Words 311: Charlotte Carrick
Tue 5th Aug '25, 4:00pm
Writer Charlotte Carrick talks to young writers Seren Delahaye and Kiera Gibson about her writing journey, from The Writing Squad through Chapel FM to Emmerdale.
Love The Words 310: Manthology
Tue 29th Jul '25, 4:00pm
Maz Sultan and three writers contributing to the upcoming collection of writing from Leeds, Manthology, talk about this exciting new project and read their work.
Love The Words 309: ThriddingsFest
Tue 22nd Jul '25, 4:00pm
The First Ever Yorkshire ThriddingsFest happens soon. A celebration of Yorkshire’s communities and their cultural heritage; poetry, folklore, Punjabi Dhol, Roma music. Learn more!
Love The Words 308: Maia Elsner, Tallulah Howarth
Tue 15th Jul '25, 4:00pm
Poets Maia Elsner, Tallulah Howarth & Seren Delahaye discuss poetry & read their work. What does a young poet need? Is 'finding your mind' more important than finding your voice?
Love The Words 307: Todd Murphy
Tue 8th Jul '25, 4:00pm
Todd Murphy is a writer living in East Leeds. He writes prose and poetry that twist the everyday into work that is tough, tender and often uncanny.
The Deli 134: Break
Tue 8th Jul '25, 7:30pm
And a break is what The Deli will be taking for a while. Meanwhile the full-strength Deli team bring you poems, stories, wit and tunes on the theme of Break. Au revoir, le Deli!
Love The Words 306: Lost Leeds Cornershops
Tue 1st Jul '25, 4:00pm
Created with the British Library, a radio documentary of oral history stories about growing up working in cornershops in Leeds, with music from Tower of Song.
Love The Words 305: Rob Cowen
Tue 24th Jun '25, 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.
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.
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?
Love The Words 302: Natalie Anastasia Davies
Tue 3rd Jun '25, 4:00pm
Natalie A. Davies talks about being Writer in Residence for Brimham Rocks, plus her moving poem about the experience. Plus Madeleine Wuidart on her late autism diagnosis.
Love The Words 301: Writing For Pleasure
Tue 27th May '25, 4:00pm
Carolyn, Judy & Carol from the University of the Third Age Writing For Pleasure Group read their work and talk about why writing, & listening to others read, makes them happy.
Love The Words 300: A collage of LTW highlights
Tue 20th May '25, 4:00pm
LTW is 300 episodes old! Chapel FM team members look back - and ahead, after a short mash of highlights, including poetry from Andrew McMillan, Helen Burke and Leeds East Academy.
Love The Words 299: Olivia Mulligan
Tue 13th May '25, 4:00pm
Olivia Mulligan is a poet & children's author. She performs her poetry on stage, runs poetry workshops for adults and children, & is BBC Radio York's Poet Laureate.
Love The Words 298: Joyful Drama Group
Tue 6th May '25, 4:00pm
Comedy on the theme of Threshold from the fabulous Joyful Drama Group based at Heart in Headingley under the umbrella of Fall Into Place Theatre Company, Seacroft.