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Vandal Factory 33: Live at Manchester Punk Festival 2025!

Wed 28th May '25, 8:00pm

Henry & Nat return to MPF for another gobby live episode! We're joined by Millie Manders who talks about her musical influences and politics, as well as collectivism and hope.

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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.

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Pin Badges: Organised Gay-oas

Tue 27th May '25, 3:00pm

This month we discuss all things gender identity, share stories from our queer upbringings, and talk about queer influence in our lives.

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Left of Leeds 100 LIVE!

Fri 23rd May '25, 7:30pm

An evening of family friendly entertainment to celebrate 10 years of “Left of Leeds” broadcasting uneasy listening music to the nation on East Leeds Community Radio.

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Lille & Leeds Sister City Youth – Teenagers from Moulins & Seacroft

Fri 23rd May '25, 5:00pm

A special radio feature about a visit to Leeds Civic Hall by teenagers from the sibling suburb partership between Moulins in Lille, France and Seacroft in Leeds.

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New Eyes for Nidderdale: Interviewing a Giant Curlew

Fri 23rd May '25, 6:00pm

Chapel FM's "Red Kite" youth radio interviews Matt Trevelyan about curlews in Nidderdale and efforts to raise awareness about this endangered bird

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Teenage Daydream 137

Wed 21st May '25, 3:00pm

Another week of Teenage Daydream!

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Michael: A child’s globe connects to Nigeria and many other distant lands

Wed 21st May '25, 4:00pm

Stories about how a Michael has kept a sense of childhood wonder about geography and other cultures during his travels from Nigeria to the UK.

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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.

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Finding Our Feet: It Wasn’t The Plan But…

Mon 19th May '25, 2:00pm

From abandoned goals to new passions, we unpack how the best bits of life often come from the stuff we didn’t see coming.

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Left of Leeds 100: David Aldred

Fri 16th May '25, 4:00pm

The May 2025 edition features a discussion with Knaresborough based musician/academic David Aldred featuring music recorded live in Studio 2 at ChapelFM Arts Centre.

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The Stephen Tribute Show: Dire Straights

Fri 16th May '25, 3:00pm

Come join the Sultans of Swing for a brand new episode of The Stephen tribute show this time dedicated to Dire Straights

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Hot Flavours 100

Fri 16th May '25, 10:00pm

Hodges Blows ‘Blues A Plenty’. To celebrate our Centenary we feature: The Johnny Hodges Orchestra classic ’58 performance ‘Blues A Plenty’. Plus Yotam Silberstein from ‘Standards.

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Next Gen Leaders: Helping Hands

Thu 15th May '25, 11:00am

We hear all about the Helping Hands project from the 2025 Next Gen Leaders. Tune in to find out more about their initiative.

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Next Gen Leaders: Growing Minds

Thu 15th May '25, 10:00am

We hear all about the Growing Minds project from the 2025 Next Gen Leaders. Tune in to find out more about their initiative.

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Think Global Act Local 39

Wed 14th May '25, 8:00pm

We search for the Killingbeck Crocodile, talk with Incredible Edible about the right to grow food, and our young reporters spend Earth Day at an event in Pudsey.

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2 Bob Jukebox 46

Wed 14th May '25, 6:00pm

Join us for another week of chat with 2 Bob Jukebox!

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Teenage Daydream 136

Wed 14th May '25, 5:00pm

Tune in for another week of Teenage Daydream

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The Irish Hour: Making Waves

Wed 14th May '25, 9:00pm

Guests Jenny Moran and John Grogan of Leeds Irish Walking Football Club join Ant Hanlon, CEO of Leeds Irish Health and Homes to talk about different waves of Irish immigrants.

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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.

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The Deli 132: State

Tue 13th May '25, 7:30pm

The Deli team bring you state of the art, state of the heart music, new writing, deep thinking and frivolous chatting on the theme of STATE.

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Teenage Daydream #135

Wed 7th May '25, 5:00pm

Back again for another week of Teenage Daydream with Toby & the gang!

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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.

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Finding Our Feet: Alex Palmer

Mon 5th May '25, 2:00pm

This week we’re joined by director, creator, and tutor Alex Palmer for a conversation all about bringing stories to life.

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Mia Windsor

Sat 3rd May '25, 6:00am

Mia Windsor is an experimental musician who writes and plays pipe organ drone music and is currently researching making and improvising with a mutable feedback instrument

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The Hapless Child

Sat 3rd May '25, 6:45am

Celebrating his upcoming 100 episodes of “Left of Leeds” using audio samples from the programme and the jingles used over the years to create an improvised soundscape.

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osc~

Sat 3rd May '25, 7:30am

osc~ (pronounced "osk tilde") is a loose collective of musicians who have been performing together since 2010.

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Gloria Jeffries

Sat 3rd May '25, 8:15am

Regular open mic performer and Musicathon regular at Chapel FM, Gloria returns once again.

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Dini and Ruby

Sat 3rd May '25, 9:00am

Gu Zheng (Ruby) and Pipa (Dini) from the Leeds Chinese Community School bring us a selection of tradition Chinese music

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Alex Rushfirth

Sat 3rd May '25, 9:45am

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