ELFM’s Summer Broadcast 2018
Our annual summer broadcast festival returns with a smorgasbord of locally produced shows championing local musicians and exploring local issues
Shows: Spoken word
Have a look through all of our shows. You can filter the results to find the kind of shows you are particularly interested in.
International Women’s Day 2021
It’s International Women's Day on March 8th and we will be celebrating with a day of radio programs for women, by women! Let's celebrate women's achievement, raise awareness against bias and take action for equality.
Leeds City Walking Tours
Join geographer Rachael Unsworth on a series of lively explorations of Leeds' history and built environment. These treks into our city's past were created during the time of the coronavirus lockdown as part of East Leeds FM's "Keeping a Distance, Staying Close" daily radio broadcasts.
More information on Rachael and her tours can be found at LeedsWalkingTours.co.uk
Loudspeaker
LOUDSPEAKER is a Leeds based Spoken Word radio show co-hosted by Sarah Autumn and D3. The show explores the topics of our times through Spoken Word whilst showcasing talent from Leeds and Yorkshire.
Love the Words
Peter Spafford presents his love of all things wordy in his weekly shows chatting to novelists, poets and play-wrights.
Open Days
Chapel FM opens its doors to the general public to showcase what's been going on at the centre
Queens of Dawson City
A shabby, lawless shanty town. A shonky profit-skimmer. Drinking, violence, debauchery. Two fearsome B&B landladies straddle the wild west on the moors of Yorkshire. The Queens of Dawson City.
The Deli
Each month The Deli team choose a theme and pick it apart, showcasing lots of words, writing and wonderful original work
Writing On Air
Writing On Air is our yearly spring writing and spoken word festival that is headed up by our Director Of Words, Peter Spafford. This page contains all the broadcast output for the entirety of the Writing On Air Festival.
Writing on Air 2016
Chapel FM hosted a raft of great writing from across Yorkshire for four days during spring 2016. This was the first ever Writing on Air festival. All these broadcast are from our old website.
Writing on Air 2017
Chapel FM hosted a raft of great writing from across Yorkshire for four days during spring 2017. This was the second annual Writing on Air festival, with the theme being "Walls" . All these broadcast are from our old website.
Writing On Air 2018
Writing On Air 2018 was our biggest broadcast literature festival yet with 50 original programmes made by Yorkshire-based writers. This year’s festival took the theme ‘Borderlands’ which resonates throughout the schedule in different ways. You can listen again to any of them...
Writing on Air 2019
WOA ’19 is a broadcast festival of writing. It will happen over four days, 21st-24th March at Chapel FM Arts Centre, our beautiful state-of-the-art studio and performance complex in East Leeds set in a restored Methodist chapel. East Leeds FM, which started in 2003, broadcasts to an annual local and global listenership of over 35,000 people.
Writing on Air 2021 Part 1
A two and a half day festival with over 30 programmes of literature on the radio, all made by writers and readers in Yorkshire. This year's theme is Vision.
WRITING ON AIR 2022
Writing On Air is back! Writing On Air is a literature festival on the radio. Now in its 8th year, all programmes are conceived and created by upwards of 200 writers, readers, and performers from across Leeds and West Yorkshire, supported by the Chapel FM team.
WRITING ON AIR 2023
Writing On Air is back again for 2023! This years theme is MISSING.
Come listen in and join us live for our largest Writing On Air festival yet.
Spanning over 7 days and including over 80 programmes, live events and workshops.