Love The Words #192
Tue 4th Oct '22, 4:00pm
Caitlin McKenna, Elijah East, and Poppy Jennings - talk about the burgeoning new poetry scene in Leeds, fronted by Leeds Poetry Festival and other recently established events
Programmes
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Love The Words #191
Tue 27th Sep '22, 4:00pm
Leyla Josephine, poet, is performing at Chapel FM Oct 29th. She talks about her new book here. Plus Mags Grinnell from LS14 Trust on the challenges of communication.
Love The Words #190
Tue 20th Sep '22, 4:00pm
Women from the Italian and Caribbean communities in Harehills, Leeds, tell their extraordinary stories of arriving in Britain in the 1950s.
Love The Words #189
Tue 13th Sep '22, 4:00pm
Pennine Platform is one of the north’s longest established poetry titles, in print for over 50 years. Writers from Issue 91 read and chat with editor Julia Deakin.
Love The Words #188
Tue 6th Sep '22, 4:00pm
Suhaimymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, poet, educator and activist. In this LTW of the new season, she talks about her work to Peter Spafford.
Love The Words #187
Tue 28th Jun '22, 4:00pm
As part of Peepal Tree Press's residency at Chapel FM, poet Samantha Thornhill speaks from Trinidad about her scintillating new collection with Peepal Tree, The Animated Universe.
Love The Words #186
Tue 21st Jun '22, 4:00pm
As part of the Peepal Tree Press residency at Chapel FM's Local Writers' Library, Bermudian writer Angela Barry talks about her powerful new novel, The Drowned Forest.
Love The Words #185
Tue 14th Jun '22, 4:00pm
Ira Mathur is an Indian-born writer and journalist living in Trinidad. Here she talks about her new novel with Peepal Tree Press, Love The Dark Days.
Love The Words #184
Tue 7th Jun '22, 4:00pm
Stu Hennigan talks about Ghost Signs, a blistering first-hand account of delivering essential food and medicines Leeds during the first months of the pandemic
Love The Words #183
Tue 31st May '22, 4:00pm
Lesley Sharp from Script Yorkshire introduces four brand new short radio dramas recorded at Chapel FM and edited by Rosie Parsons.
Love The Words #182
Tue 24th May '22, 4:00pm
Tom Juniper is an autistic, non-binary performance poet based in South Yorkshire, interviewed by Juwairia and Henry for Disabled Table. Plus 2 radio dramas from Script Yorkshire
Love The Words #181
Tue 17th May '22, 4:00pm
A chance to hear the late poet Helen Burke with Phil Pattinson: their tribute to the words and music of Jimi Hendrix.
Love The Words #180: 9 Displacement Activities
Tue 10th May '22, 4:00pm
Covid 19. Lockdowns. What actually happened? While we were dealing with it, we didn’t have time to process it. So, Chapel FM asked Jimmy Andrex to try.
Love The Words #179
Tue 3rd May '22, 4:00pm
Older people present highlights from their Writing For Radio course at Chapel FM, plus Venice, a short story by Melissa Wuidart Phillips.
Love The Words #178
Tue 26th Apr '22, 4:00pm
Two punchy short plays from Script Yorkshire directed by Stefan Escreet, plus two episodes in Bob McBurney's charming Sgt.Grimshaw series.
Love The Words #177
Tue 19th Apr '22, 4:00pm
Three American experts discuss the literature and unique literary history of Chicago. Expect lively mentions of Nelson Algren, Carl Sandberg and Studs Terkel
Love The Words #176
Tue 12th Apr '22, 4:00pm
Leyla Josephine (poet, screenwriter, facilitator) talks about her work, plus the final extended episode of In Our Element with poet Linda France.
Love The Words #175
Tue 5th Apr '22, 4:00pm
Writer David Napthine interrogates Jerusalem: the city, the idea, the metaphor, the song, with poet Lydia Kennaway, researcher Joe Williams, writer/politician Roger Harington.
Love The Words #174
Tue 29th Mar '22, 4:00pm
Writers in Barney Bardsley's WordPlay workshop read their work themed around Darkness and Light, plus Seacroft poet Jaimes Lewis Moran on his forthcoming collection, Sea Words.
Love The Words #173
Tue 22nd Mar '22, 4:00pm
Ep 2 of Sgt.Grimshaw by Bob McBurney, Ep 9 of In Our Element, and the first two short plays in a series from Script Yorkshire with more to follow.
Love The Words #172
Tue 15th Mar '22, 4:00pm
Episode 8 of In Our Element with Linda France; Molly Magrath from The Leeds Library on digital lit; and the very first Sgt. Grimshaw story from Bob McBurney.
Love The Words #171
Tue 8th Mar '22, 4:00pm
Poet Emma Storr and photographer Bob Hamilton talk about their sumptuous new collaboration, Offcumdens, with Lydia Kennaway; plus Pamela Crowe on 23Press.
Love The Words #170
Tue 1st Mar '22, 4:00pm
Argentinian writer and poet Liliana Lukin, on a brief visit to Leeds, talks about her writing life, plus Episode 7 of In Our Element with Linda France.
Love The Words #169
Tue 22nd Feb '22, 4:00pm
James Nash reads from Heart Stones, his new sonnet collection; Ep 6 of In Our Element, and Fiona Gell on Leeds Lit Fest 2022.
Love The Words #168
Tue 15th Feb '22, 4:00pm
In memory of Prof. James Law, speech and language researcher Jacqueline Gaile talks about the power that speech gives us.
Love The Words #167
Tue 8th Feb '22, 4:00pm
Translator Anna Aslanyan talks about her new book on the delicate art of translation, Dancing on Ropes; and poet Linda France presents Ep 5 of the powerful In Our Element.
Love The Words #166
Tue 1st Feb '22, 4:00pm
Episode 4 of In Our Element (a poet's response to climate change) with Linda France, and Leeds playwright/actor Vanessa Rosenthal talks about her new memoir, A Life in Stages.
Love the Words #165
Tue 25th Jan '22, 4:00pm
Episode 3 of In Our Element with Linda France, a poet's enquiry into climate change; and Professor Jennifer Richards talks about the impact of Sir Thomas Nashe on language.
Love the Words #164
Tue 18th Jan '22, 4:00pm
Episode 2 of In Our Element with Linda France, A Poet's Response to Climate Change, plus Emma Wright of the Emma Press.
Love The Words #163
Tue 11th Jan '22, 4:00pm
Philippa Geering talks about Sonderbug, her audio production company; Ann from Cards or Die & Ep 1 of In Our Element with poet Linda France.