Airplay
Thu 30th Mar '17, 1:45pm
Young writers working on an original radio drama about the Partition of India give us a flavour of the final piece.
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.
The W.O.A 2017 Archive
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Programme Secret Library
Thu 30th Mar '17, 2:30pm
Stu Hennigan reads winning entries from East Leeds Primary Partnership and Leeds Libraries writing competition The Secret Library.
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Programme Teachers Tell Stories
Thu 30th Mar '17, 3:30pm
Teachers at Grimes Dyke Primary School read out their favourite children’s stories and tell us why they chose them.
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Programme The Great Wall of Leeds
Thu 30th Mar '17, 4:15pm
Could it ever happen? Chapel FM’s young Associate Writers on the theme of walls—physical, psychological, and emotional.
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Programme Catching up with the Clichés
Thu 30th Mar '17, 4:15pm
Words cast in concrete can crush your creative vision. Scathe villainous style-stranglers with John Hepworth!
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Programme GD live at the Chapel
Fri 31st Mar '17, 10:30am
Children from local Grimes Dyke Primary bring us their poetry, thoughts and discussions on the theme of Communication.
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Programme WOA International
Fri 31st Mar '17, 12:00pm
Alicia Fernandez reads her poems, with Linda Loganathan and writers from Germany, USA, Holland, and Ireland.
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Programme Shout Out
Fri 31st Mar '17, 12:30pm
Presented by Space2, groups of young people from across Leeds read work inspired by experiences of mental health, mental illness and stigma.
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Programme Writing Friends
Fri 31st Mar '17, 1:15pm
Kindred writing spirits Jaimes Lewis Moran, Kevin Phillips and Alicia Fernandez talk about their love of words.
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Programme Through the Gate
Fri 31st Mar '17, 1:45pm
Radio drama from James Fernie, Linda Casper, and Sarah Cluderay. A flight from Milan is delayed and tensions rise in the Waiting Area.
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Programme Before I was Fabulous
Fri 31st Mar '17, 3:00pm
Stephanie Buick and friends share stories and music from times when they were slightly less fabulous than they are now.
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Programme Jimmy Andrex on Clive James
Fri 31st Mar '17, 5:15pm
A celebration of one of Britain’s (or should that be Australia’s) best-known but least appreciated writers.
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Programme Queens of Dawson City
Fri 31st Mar '17, 6:15pm
‘On’t bleak moors, the Queen, Tong, Musky Carol and Tamora eye Harker’s erection and Sebastian’s wicket’.
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Programme Town Below The Steps
Fri 31st Mar '17, 7:30pm
Half Moon Books presents this brand new poetry play by Matthew Hedley Stoppard and sixteen other Otley poets.
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Programme Ilkley Open Mic
Fri 31st Mar '17, 8:45pm
Join Mark Connors and Gill Lambert with the very best of Ilkley Open Mic from 2003 to the present day.
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Programme Goblin Market
Fri 31st Mar '17, 10:15pm
Anzir Boodoo performs this extraordinary Victorian poem by Christina Rossetti in a one-man tour de force.
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Programme The Secret Deli
Sat 1st Apr '17, 9:00am
The Deli team set out a groaning breakfast table of poetry, comedy, discussion and music on the theme of... ah, that’s a secret.
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Programme Hello Goodbye
Sat 1st Apr '17, 12:00pm
York poet Helen Burke and partner Phil Pattinson present poetry and music on the perennial theme of arrivals and departures.
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Programme Hoot Writers Present
Sat 1st Apr '17, 1:00pm
Hoot is ‘a creative arts organisation in Kirklees that normalises mental health, supports personal growth, and promotes social change’.
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Programme Origins of a Writer: Nick Toczek
Sat 1st Apr '17, 1:45pm
Jaimes Lewis Moran quizzes Bradford poet Nick Toczek about his writing, teaching, and forty year performance career.
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Programme Running a Spoken Word Event
Sat 1st Apr '17, 2:45pm
Helen Shay from ‘Poems, Prose and Pints’ chats with other organisers and offers handy tips.
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Programme Nothing is Meant to be Broken
Sat 1st Apr '17, 3:45pm
Rose Drew from Stairwell Books asks Mark Connors about his debut collection with this York-based publisher.
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Programme Holding up half the Sky
Sat 1st Apr '17, 4:30pm
Hannah Stone and Rosemary Mitchell give voice to women’s writing through time and across the world.
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Programme Around the Campfire
Sat 1st Apr '17, 5:30pm
Horror author Janine-Langley Wood and guests delve into dark childhood memories to see what narratives they inspire.
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Programme The Borrowers
Sat 1st Apr '17, 6:15pm
Hear what happens when Ilkley Writers team up with local authors to raid random texts from Seacroft Library.
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Programme Broken Biscuit Club
Sat 1st Apr '17, 7:30pm
Writers, biscuits: what could go wrong? A collaborative project with regulars from literary social night Fictions of Every Kind.
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Programme WOA Open Mic
Sat 1st Apr '17, 8:30pm
Local writers shake their wordy bootie. But don’t leave it to the locals; come and have a go.
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Programme Malika Booker
Sat 1st Apr '17, 9:15pm
Malika is a British Caribbean poet who is currently the Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow in Creative Writing at The University of Leeds.
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Programme Being Here
Sat 1st Apr '17, 10:15pm
Women from the Italian and Caribbean communities in Harehills tell their extraordinary stories of arriving in Britain in the 1950s.
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Programme Dawn Chorus
Sun 2nd Apr '17, 6:00am
Volunteers read extracts from English classics ‘Three Men in a Boat’, ‘The Wind in The Willows’, and ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
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Programme The Next 100 Years
Sun 2nd Apr '17, 11:15am
‘For the next 100 years, the sun will sigh, dream and waking life will fall in love and I will be dancing...’. With Alex Rushfirth and Rosalie Gardner.
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Programme A Turn of the Cards
Sun 2nd Apr '17, 1:45pm
Lucia Fella learnt these stories from her father when she was a child near Naples. Here they are read aloud for the first time since.
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Programme Flatpack
Sun 9th Apr '17, 10:15am
Live radio drama by Charlotte Carrick. Charlotte is on the young writers programme at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.
Full Programme for W.O.A - 2017
Have a look at the day-by-day programmes, click on the pictures below to see the full schedule.
